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

(0.09)
I'm keeping the 3-stars because the animation and art quality improved an awful lot. The starting speed of the animations should be cut out, it's too damn choppy. The rest is just (almost) flawless. Hoping that some of the earlier scenes will someday get that love and get redone. But the writing/story...welp. "muh, it's a porn game, what do you expec-It's a porn game, but still a game. And, it's a visual novel, so almost no gameplay, what remaisn it's story (and the porn part). We had a glimpse of the main story, but the polls for the next updates say that it'll be getting first a handful of fucking with npcs (and it's kinda awkward how fast it happens), before the fucking in the story. The patrons are fine with this, so I'm too because I'll stop checking it out. Apparently this is one of those games that have some potential to have a good story AND good H-scenes (like another certain VN, but one that makes a fuckton of money per month, so no comparations because it's fucking unfair), but apparently the patrons are okay with just new jack-off material every month (and bigger and bigger tits). And the devs need to have a income, so...fine.
Good luck with the game. Maybe I'll check it out again next year (maybe then it'll be an 0.5v).

(For 0.08) I honestly think people are being a bit harsh on the game. It's got a pretty art style, a just right balance for the mechanics and although the characters could be improved a bit, i think the game offer a pretty good selection.

Now there is some good critism points such as the animations that i would agree could be better. Others complained about the grind, which yeah, i think could also be improved and shortened (The skill that allow to pick up mana automatically could have a lower price, that could fix it). These animations were improved in 0.08 for the new characters and will probably set the way in the future.

But the main reason why i think this game can have a good success is to ability of the dev to respond and take criticism and act upon it. I made suggestions a few months earlier that were well received and taken into account and can actually see them in the game. (The comments : https://f95zone.to/threads/sexnote-v0-08-jamliz.31991/page-33#post-2378324 )

My personal note to the dev: It is crucial that you keep the good work you have been doing regarding the critics. I know it can be hard to face it sometimes but when you know when to admit mistakes, you know how to be better and deliver a better product as well.

My main suggestions would be to make minor changes to the grindy parts of the game (Mostly the mana thing where you collect bubbles) by perhaps lowering the requirements to buy the new perks (Or perhaps the one that allow automatic harvesting).

I also think a few improvements could be made regarding some characters to have more opportunities to learn about them as well as perhaps explaining some of their behaviours and such. I never liked people being assholes for no real reasons or for people to be shy without some kind of backstory for it. Some dialogues could be improved too.

But for real, it's a game with a great potential and a solid improvement since last time i've seen it.

Awesome game. Simple enough yet needs a bit of work. Shame we cant have sex scenes with all the characters in the game. The puzzle sometimes bugs out , even though its finished correctly it wont exit the scene. Great art and scenes, one of the rare games who's story i read and it was awesome

Review for [v0.069]
Game looked soooooo promising, but it fails on so many levels. The animations are horrendous, there are inaccessible characters/unavailable content present in the game, poor grammar that isn't intelligible, mediocre/unoriginal plot, etc.
The only thing that this game has going for it is the art, which ironically also fails in regards to h-scenes. The h-scenes' art is LAZY... the stepmom's asleep sex scene was likely rushed, mom's bj scene shows only her face, the list goes on and on...
Literally 95% of the h-scenes are hand jobs and the MC jacking himself off...
The game is waaaaaay too buggy aswell. I couldn't go 10 minutes without encountering parts of 1 place appearing in another and other bugs that took away from the immersion.
Last, but CERTAINLY NOT LEAST, is the griiiiiind. Spent an hour grinding for magic points just to get a skill you never use in order to advance the plot, which results in the most disappointing scene with the step mom; the scene on her bed looks like it was sketched and colored in with crayons within an hour. Enough with the grind. There's a difference between earning a scene by doing some semi-difficult tasks and missions, and spamming my left click button to advance through text lines I've read 50 times already, waking up in-game just to run around the map to collect magic points just to return to my bed to repeat the process another 20 times to get a skill you use less than 5 times THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE GAME, and being forced to receive a hand job from the mother every 3 in-game days. Dev, you seriously need to play your own game and ask yourself, "What are the problems, where are they, and how can I solve them?" and "Is my game, at large, enjoyable?"

I can see that you're trying Dev, and I truly appreciate that, but as of right now this game a cookie clicker to me because of how grindy and unrewarding it is.

Between Okay-Likeable artstyle but contains some terrible shaped faces/heads . Story feels that its rushed and is sloppy . I also must point out the fact that this game HAS-NO-ANIMATION . 2 drawings for one scene isn't an animation and i wouldn't appreciate nor respect "animation" tag to be ruined by these kind of misleads . Game has potential but needs tons of work to be something great .

update:
Thanks to devs for taking notes and update the game by making it better.
Positive Points
+ Decent story line
+ Great artworks
+ characters look well detailed and balanced
+ Good amount of animated sex scenes.
+ Good amoung of well worked characters
Bad Points:
+ Less Sex scenes variation at any specific place

I am giving it 5 stars to motivate devs as I think this game has one of the best art style and has potential.

Good Points
+ When it first relased this game plot and story was so empty and honestly DEV done pretty good job about adding new content, plot and story etc...
+ We have hot looking girls.
+ Renders looks good and has own style.
+ We have animated sex scenes.

Bad Points
- Recently DEV started remake game render style and its literaly killing this game whole amazing render style... While we are getting 60fps animations he just makes every drawing pretty bad... Human noses looks weird, he literaly changed most hot looking girls to ugly allien like things and even animation physics looks bad now... This game was so good before this remake thing but DEV literaly kills his game now... Thats so sad to watch...
- With every update that well written plot and story starts feeling worse and worse... Dont know what happened but this cant be same guy which written that plot and story from the zero...
- He added some new things without adding tag or adding avoidable paths like FENDOM content of v0.14...
- Despite of gaining more power MC character development not changed at all.. He is still weak perverted boy from the begining and after that much power gain and content its feels pretty poor...

For The End
This game used to be pretty good game but with every update it became poor... It was one of my favorite games but... Its just lost that all quality with new updates...

Great picture. A game with great potential. A good balance between battles, craft and sociality I very much hope that this game will be actively developed and will attract the attention of a large number of players.

Hello i m Loutre.

The thing i love the most in this game is the graphic. All the women of this game are fine for me.

The story is not so bad BUT i don't know wich one is the mother... i though it was the brunette lesbian girl but in the game she says the blonde one is the MC mother. But she look like she hate him...

The translation is bad.

This is as bad a game as I've played.

Confusing relationships, no way to go back, unlabeled map, no way to replay mini-games without advancing the time, and a ridiculous hat on the "demon". I like the renders, but the rest of the game isn't for me.

Rated version - [v0.055]

Pros:
- Good art-style.

Cons:
- No story.
- No sex scenes. Played the game for about 4 hours and all I could get were few handjobs.

Conclusion:

If EA were making porn games then this would be it. It is terrible unless you're paying the creator monthly; as anything good in this, is hidden behind a pay wall.

I don't understand how so many people gave this game a good rating, but honestly, as of now, this game is a big waste of time.

Game looks awesome and especially the characters, who are so well designed !

I gotta admit, the sister is the hottest of the women and really gets me going ( think getting hard as soon as i see her )

and as always, the gameplay is interesting with the involvement of the 'note' and the magical charcter behind it.

hoping for a steady flow of content and monthly updates, i do think the dev is doing well so far !

also, great to see that the feedback has been taken very quickly by the dev, so that's something to look out for in this game !

lots of potential in this game.

i urge you guys and gals to try it out at least once.

i can't wait for the next update !

Great improvement from the previous update. Art is also improving a lot. This is with regards to changing the main characters look to a more likable guy. Story so far has also been improving though he still has a few errors with grammar and punctuation. But at the very least he is evolving with the times. This game would be fun to watch as it grows.

One of the best games here.
The art is amazing
It doesn't have a lot of content now but it has a ton of potential and it's getting a lot better whit every update.
The story is unique
The characters look really good.
2 Moms and a hot sister

SexNote has a lot of potential. The artwork is well done and simply further content and some minor changes are needed. I will love keeping track of this game's progress and have followed the discord. Stay on the Grind Jamliz.

so far so good. Simple Story I can see the potential of this story can be , wonderful art, hot characters really hot i love it I don't know why people rate this game 3 stars or less it just the third update. me personally, I will be waiting for future updates.

I'll be keeping an eye on this one, I could see it going either way but I've got hope there's a 5th star coming in the future as there are some things to recommend this game already.
It's got solid art, if this is the style of woman you like (it's one I like) you won't be disappointed. It's not the default renders we all get numb too either so, here's a point for that.
The last version was buggy but it's been improved with the most recent. It's still lacking a lot of sexual content but it's early so that should keep increasing.

So far, a game worth keeping an eye on.

Update: I've got to go with 5 stars. The art, wow, and the scenes keep getting better, naughtier, and more plentiful. There's even a great gallery and ways to cut the grind, although playing it isn't bad either. I'm not sure I'd call it the best 5 star game but, it's definitely in that tier now IMO.

I'd say the art in this is very good. All the females look the same just with different hair or eye color, but on the whole its very well done. Thats about all I can say that's good about the game.

It's otherwise a total repeat of every 2D VN where boy want to fuck the busty women in his family. The progression is very unsatisfying. Very little in the way of character development, and the "gameplay" is some of the laziest I've seen in a Ren'Py game. I don't think this game has a whole lotta wheels and predict will be dead very soon. Writing is just too terrible.

I'll be judging this game based on v0.02 and I've got to say that the game does have potential. The 2D art-style is refreshing after all the 3D model games that seem be to saturating the adult gaming space currently. The premise of the game while only at the initial stages currently has a smaller cast of characters which is good in my opinion as it can avoid the trope of adding to many characters and then having to try and come up with content for all of these characters. As for the gameplay itself I do have a few gripes, namely being the amount of grind that it takes for a person to unlock and improve a spell. However, given that this is v0.02 I'm willing to give it a chance as it can change. The other concern I have is the matter of narrative progression on the matter of there being narrative consequences for taking certain actions. Other than that I'm honestly rooting for the devs, and I'm hoping that they can deliver.

I'm really digging the artwork CoperTeam. I think your game is going to become a strong contender in the incest ( or in patreons case, stepcest) department if you keep developing it.

A few things you need to improve though are the room trancissions of the game. It gets really old fast because the players have to wait for a second or so to get to another room.

Plus, I had no idea what to do during my first playthrough. It would be nice to have a "tasks" menu up on the screen so that we could track our progress and quests instead of just randomly doing shit until something new happens.

Anyway, that's enough of that. I have high hopes for this game. It's a nice death note parody It was a good call to make this game.