Ren'Py - Abandoned - SexNote [v0.23.0b] [JamLiz]

One of my favorite games. It has evolved over time very well, with ups and downs but I could call it constant growth. I have yet to try the new version 0.13.2 but I am not in doubt that it is a quality update.
I have replayed the story several times and find it very well done, my only concern is that the author falls into the vicious circle of "too many characters", which has destroyed and ruined so many chapters with potential. I believe that developing and completing the stories of the characters already present in the game is essential for a perfect success of this game.
Nonetheless, great work, keep it up!

Note: I don't believe a complex opinion can be properly represented by a number but I do understand some people are impatient so I don't use the star system normally, my ratings are as follows. 1 don't recommend, 3 unsure please read review, 5 recommend.

Okay so SexNote is a game where in a random highschool student finds a book that helps him fuck every female in his life. Bog standard as far as these games go but whatever.

These games tend to be samey but that's what the "boy fucks family seductivly" or "B.F.F.S." fans are into. Plus it's not like their aren't some unique elements to this game.

Gameplay for example, Ren'Py games are generally lacking in gameplay and in most contexts that would be seen as a bad thing but in porn games I'd argue it's the best possible thing. See porn games are unique in the games industry, There are games that focus on gameplay, music/rythem, Story heavy games, but in the mainstream there are few if any games that focus on graphics as in the art is the main and primary selling point. Porn games are those games, the art is the most important part, as Reggie would say "if it doesn't make me hard, why bother". So the gameplay in this being exactly challenging/tedious enough to slow progress without hindering the fucking and allowing the sex scenes to slowly boil make for a pretty good Ren'Py based fuck game.

The "Gameplay" so to speak is going to rooms and clicking bubbles until you've clicked enough bubbles to make clicking bubbles easier. Very riveting.

The art is almost certainly why you clicked on the game in the first place, very top notch, but not perfect. A couple of the characters particularly the best friends mom and the main MC both have the dopey face and resemble art from Big Mouth and it can hurt some of the scenes. The patreon for this game uses votes to determine which characters get love each update and it's no wonder why the friends mom has been largely avoided. But most of the other characters make up for it, MC's mom and sister, the aunt, the horny housewife *red dress in the banner*, the therapist of course and who could forget Hinata, just straight up Hinata from naruto. Never got into that particular show myself and even I could tell.

As far as the sound design goes, no Voice acting so it doesn't matter, there might be music of some description but I don't remember and no one cares enough, least of all me, for it to be worth double checking.

There is some over arching story about good vs evil and the chi-bi things in the banner are like faeries or something. My overwhelming lack of interest and passable at best writing made it difficult to follow. The over arching story and the character stories basically don't intertwine at all and I believe you'll find the story on trying to fuck your sister infinity more interesting than the one about fucking some fairy hoes/saving the world or something. Saying the world will end if the MC keeps doing what ever he's doing, and then nothing happening when the MC continues to do what he's doing does not a good or interesting story make.

But who are we kidding, it's not like anyone's here for that, you're here to live out the sick fantasy of plowing big titties bitties even if they're close realitives, and that is exactly what you do. While I'd like to see some more work on other minor characters like the Teacher and the nurse I would say right now it's in a decent spot and I'd recommend a download and a support of Jamliz pateron, I'd give a few bucks if I wasn't broke. It's High Quality art with lots of incest and lots of sex even for a fairly early build.

nice art but to be perfectly honest it did not really make me feel that much. The characters are bland and the mc is boring idk check it out if you want a quick fap but otherwise nah find something else.

This game has potential to be great, but right now it isn't. The artwork is pretty nice, but it is all over the place you notice a lot of differences in quality and style. The story is simple it starts out okay, but drops off after a while. You get introduced to some characters which don't server much purpose after the first few in-game days.

The game isn't finished yet but some major improvements to the gameplay need to be done in order to make it believable. Right now you just repeat some actions and have sex with all the characters eventually. You're not using the skills you can improve except for some random requirements in dialog. Therefore I give it a 2 out of 5.

So far this has been one of my favorite games aside from Summertime Saga. The art is exceptional, and I really dig the exaggerated style. Animations have improved as well in the last version. Regular updates as well. If you like 2dCG this is not one to miss.

Love this game! Not a lot of content with art this good and attributes this exaggerated

way to go, can’t wait for more. Why do I need more characters to submit this... why do I need more characters to submit this

A really nice game if you like 2d, a funny parody of the famous anime/manga/movie/videogame death note, but in this you fuck girls, you will have to get the energy for your succubus / shinigami that's what the game focuses on so far


Un buen juego si realmente amas los 2d, una divertida parodia del anime/manga/pelicula/videojuego death note, sol que aqui tienes que follarte mujeres, tendras que conseguir energia para tu succubus/shinigami es basicamente de lo que se trata el juego hasta ahora.

This game peaks at everything.
The sandbox fits very, well character designs are unique and fitting while the animations are as clean as my grandfathers glasses.
The Playtime isn´t huge but fitting for the content,
The seasonal updates so far where very adequate.

I started to follow the development of this game in the early stages and I was really into the story(not that special, but still enjoyable) and the amount of possibilities to follow.

Unfortunately release after release I began to notice how far the devs are moving from the original story. It's all reduced to a new bangable chick every x months, the same kind of route for unlocking 2-3 scenes and that's it.
I really hope to see further updates and especially a step-back in quality as right now I can't even follow who's working on the art part, as sometimes it seems made by a specific artist, the next one not. Details are sometimes also not very tidy.
Moroever the quality of writing is still the same, even after many suggestions made here by several players and on patreon.
It's a fresh project, but after all this time I was honestly expecting more.

Pros:
- Good CGS, hot girls
- The story involving the ghosts-spirits, sadly no further developed
- Several kinks and possibly pregnancy in the future

Cons:
- Pointless grind, as it's basically almost useless and Agamoto's eye is as well nonsense, or personally I don't like the "Zoom" effect. A free camera would be way preferable
- Story is really basic and not improved, probably won't be for a long time. Characters are as well soulless
- Artstyle: con and pro at the same time. A regular one would be nice, as well the animations are sloppy and some details(see the latest anal scene) seem really made in a hurry

(UPDATE v0.13.0.9b):
I was expecting a little more from the development of this game, but sadly it turned out how I thought, that is stretched releases, several changes in the art-style(mostly in worse) and not a single improvement in the story. Where's it? What's the point of grinding every single skill?
There's basically a lame guy roaming around a town we don't know more about, the school has been totally abandoned in the story and without reasons he clicks with busty chicks even when there's not a single tension between them. The main co-protagonist(the first pixie) has also no more a role in the game. At this point I prefer STS(the old one), because there was at least a little story behind every character. I don't get at which direction the devs are pointing, or if they want to keep the situation like this. Honestly I have this feeling. Remaking a game is also not bad, but 3-4 months for a remake seems quite silly. There're other devs, sometimes 1-man-teams, who manage to release a solid plot, new scenes AND a remake at the same time. I won't spoil names, but I support some who admit when they cannot reach a goal in time, when they need a break, differently they don't come up every single time with excuses or act hurt.
I'll check the status every now and then, but I doubt I'll ever support them on Patreon.

UPDATE v. 0.18.0b: well I tried the game after a long while and I'm quite disappointed and I'm not going to change my rating. Red nose apart the animations seem really poor, I mean it's basically few frames stretched to let them look like a normal animation, but the result is quite superficial.
I also disliked the change in artstyle of some characters. They look the same and the gameplay or the mc have as well no improvement so far. It could have been a 4-5 stars game with the right directions, but it seems it'll stay as something easy to forget, at least for me. 2/5 instead of 1/5 as I'm a big tits lover, but apart that I won't play it again.

EDIT: giving 1/5 because they're really scammers having 2 different patreons for 2 different projects and not even the 1st one is completed. TRASH!

I was skeptical at first, but the game surprised me very positively.
Waiting for more versions ^^
Art: 5/5
History: 4/5
The complexity of the game: 3/5

The number of characters is enough to play for a while, but with blonde Mama, the amount of papers delivered to work is quite large and boring in total,
could use a plot with this character in the office at work.
GJ !

Really love the art style and animation, also the spells are interesting and how you gather mana is different from others I've seen, Definently recommended.
Would love to see some anal, bdsm and some other scenarios adding to spice things up even more. so far though its one of the best ive played.

Been following this game for a while now, it started off really well and semi original but the last few updates were just lazy, boring content, no real story, animations looking like they took a big hit in quality too. Also has so much repetitiveness visiting the same person 5 times for small badly animated scenes.

✓ A distinguishable and incredibly sexy art style, one of my favorites.
✓ Plenty of fappable content even in this early stage of development.
✓ Good animations.
✓ Atypical and dynamic sex positions.
✓ It has mechanics! The spell system is very promising but nothing we haven't seen before at this point.

✗ Characters are plain and dull, lifeless. Let's hope it improves cause this game has an amazing potential.

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sexy game.
all the busty characters are unique as our hero explores their bodies.
thanks for making an awesome game

Review as 0.10.5

Game seems quite good. The gameplay system is not grindy, and the game itself is fluid enought to avoid making it a slog to go through.

The setting is nothing unheard of, you are a virgin wimp that gets a special power, you have your loving mum and your bitchy older sister, with the addition of a hot step mom in a relationship with your mum, which im looking forward to see how it develops. Also some other tropey characters like the shy friend, the male friend's hot mum, the nurse, the slutty teacher... all are here.

Character design is alright. A few characters being too inspired on people or characters felt odd at first but its easy to get used to. On the other hand, i feel the worse design by far is the MC. For once, the enormous cock seems kinda excessive, although it matches the overall voluptuous character design, probably what I'd improve the most would be the face, as it looks quite off.

To finish it, im looking forward to future updates and really hoping for them to add some progress to the characters that barely have any content as right now.

I'm a fan of this one. Early versions were a little rocky but it's grown into something solid. The developer seems willing to step back and take a hard look at their games, and their passion shows through.

Artwork - Great and unique, definitely nothing like it on the site. Probably not gonna win any awards but it more than serves its purpose.

Gameplay - This is where the greatest strides have been made. They've avoided the traps of subsequent playthroughs feeling grindy by improving the early game mechanics & progression-cheats. Solid hint system. Progression feels natural. Unlocks feels satisfying. Great work here.

Characters - Very interesting. This is a light twist on the standard "boy and his harem family" trope with the second mom & a magical companion. The big supporting also helps keep things fresh.

I'm going to mention the x-ray here since I've never been a huge fan of that trope. Content always feels the best when you earn it, and it often feels like a lazy cop out for lack of content. But this is one of the better examples of it, gradually unlocking it over time and giving you at least SOMETHING to do with the characters who have no scenes and the powers that have no other use.

Overall I like it and look forward to future content updates.

This review contains some spoilers, so be warned. It's also pretty critical, but rest assured that I stand by my 4 star rating.

Gameplay - There's not a whole lot of it. There's a thing where you have to turn on magic-vision and click bubbles, but it's trivially easy and becomes obsolete soon enough. There's also a part where you have to click at the right time to take a picture when it's not blurry, which is mostly just annoying. I ended up just clicking really fast immediately to get it while it was clear and before it got blurry, and rolling back if that didn't work ( I enabled rollback with unren). Besides those two things, it's basically just a matter of following the linear story, which has a hint guide if you go to the second page of the sexnote so you can't get lost. I've seen some complaints about the grind. I didn't think it was that bad, though Jane's story in particular was kind of tedious, with Hinn's a close second. It felt pointless for there to be multiple segments of the day, when 90% of anything that started during the day would take the entire day, whether it needed to happen at morning or noon. Jane's also required going home to get a job from her (always the exact same job), then going to the office, going up the elevator, etc. etc. Hinn's was at least a little more streamlined. Both of them could probably do with fewer repetitions.

Story - Nothing wrong with the premise, but I have to be honest: the writing is bad. Very unnecessarily wordy at times, and at the same time full of very awkward phrasing, to the point that it's laughable and kind of takes you out of the game. The characters also seem to swing wildly back and forth. The mom character gives the MC a handjob like it's no big deal almost immediately, but then way later, after she should be a lot more open to things, he feels the need to use his magic command voice to rub his dick on her feet? There's several other instances of characters being implausibly slutty, or of the MC using magic when he doesn't seem to be meeting resistance. Implausible sluttiness is fine, but inconsistency is jarring.

Art - This is what kept me playing. The art in this game is uneven at times, but when it's good, it's fucking fantastic. Lisa's later scenes in particular were really great. Some characters did seem to look too different between their portraits and their scenes, which was disappointing (I thought Kylee looked really hot, but most of her scenes I thought she looked weird. The therapist looked weird to me in portrait, but hot in scenes), but the high points absolutely make the game worth playing, and even most of the more questionable art was A) Interesting in its own way B) Probably uneappealing to me mostly due to personal taste.

Overall - Like I say in the art section, the scenes really carry this game very effectively. Personally, I find scenes more enjoyable when I've actually gone through the game to get them in context, but I see why others would prefer to just unlock. I hope at some point the writing gets edited, and Jane and Hinn's questlines get streamlined, especially given how unrewarding Jane's feels currently.

Wishlist - Kind of suspect the devs aren't fans of anal given its total absence so far, but I'm hoping it will get added at some point. I'd also love some more explicit cum-swallowing, etc. and more cases of the girl still having cum on her post sex scene like in one of Anastasia's yoga scenes. Finally, more risky scenes like with Sue while Jane's there would be cool, ideally with at least one where the MC gets caught, there's some drama, but then it eventually results in a three-(or more)-some. Other games I've played just have characters eventually acknowledge that they kind of guessed, and brush it off, which is underwhelming and undercuts the tension.

Very nice game loved it, nice graphics, nice animation, very intresting and fun story line. Great ex scenes I would love to play the full game one day props to the developer! I would love to see the story expand more and more i can not wait!!

The art is good (and the later art is better than the earlier art). Everything is hyper sized, so if you don't like that... But the dialogue is bad, it's wooden and full of typos and grammatical errors.