Ren'Py - SexNote [v0.24.0c] [JamLiz]

Full disclosure, I got about half an hour into the game before I gave up.

So, in short, a rather pretty game (except MC who has a remarkably punchable face) with some gorgeous women... but held back by some of the worst writing I have seen that's still mostly grammatically correct.

I can only assume the writer isn't a native English speaker because the prose is noticeably wooden and stilted... Even for a porn game! It doesn't so much "flow" as "dribble". It's basically impossible for me to take any of the characters seriously with how "unreal" the dialogue in general feels. The constant, perpetual stock guitar music in the background did not help either until I muted it.

I don't usually care too much about the quality of writing in my porn games, but this was just too distracting to ignore. Now, again, I only got about half an hour into the game, and it's entirely possible that it gets better later into the game, but I just couldn't make it that far.

If writing quality is basically irrelevant to you, this is a pretty little gem of a game with some gorgeous art. If like me you just can't make it through a game where every piece of dialogue sounds like it comes from Google Translate, you should probably move on to something else.

This game has a lot of promise. Obviously you'll recognize a couple characters in the game but the animations, art and even the gameplay is really good. There's a good amount of side quests and events for the game even though it's still in development. There's some replayability in this game and covers a lot of different fetishes and characteristics you may be looking for.

I absolutely love this game, it has a great story and amazing fresh artwork that the develoer should be proud of, and the fact that new characters are being added all the time makes it even better as you can keep coming back to it, WELL DONE

Good game. The art style is very nice, the animations are great and the tits are huge. And that's all one really needs in the end. The gameplay is the usual renpy sanbox clickfest, but it doesn't bother me. There's some fun dialogue here and there, but the plot isn't exactly the reason to play this game.

Amazing game! Love the girls, love the animation, LOVE THE BOOBS!

I would love to give this game 5 stars, and if I could give 4.5 I would, but I have one small gripe: I feel like the MC progresses into sex with the girls too quickly. Personally, I prefer a slower progression and a little bit more plausible story behind it. Maybe some sneakiness... some peeking... she catches you in the shower and, much to her dismay, can't stop thinking about the cock... etc. However, many of the girls seem willing to just go straight for it.

Again though, love the game and look forward to more stuff from Jamliz!

Love the story, art and progression through the game. With a good in game progression system you never feel stuck. One of the few games that I found early in the making and have kept comming back to for every update. Now the creator is going to start a new game and I am excited for whatever they make.

I remember playing this years ago, and its come a long way. I have a lot to say about this game but I'll try to make my points as streamlined as possible.

Good:
-Art is really good and animations are smooth and fluid
-Lots of characters and locations
-Interesting story and premise
-Sandbox type game
-Hints make the story and what to do next very simple to follow
-Incest trope
-Features like rollback, gallery, skips, hints

Bad:
-All characters are big boobs, big ass body type, would be nice to have more diversity of bodies like small chested or smaller booty women
-Skills are kinda useless apart from being progression gates.
-Only 1 footjob scene in game and it is very bad.
-Not enough feet in view sex scenes
-Missing content for characters that have been there forever
-You progress with the mom too quick/ not enough scenes with her
-Body proportions are pretty ridiculous in this game
-The main story basically dissapears
-Writing can be pretty flat in parts.
-Some of the character faces are ugly
-Some women have big masculine type of bodies

Review written as of the 0.19 update

Beautiful art. Great interaction variety. I enjoyed the little minigames for some girls, except the camera focus one... It's the only game of this type that doesn't kill off the protagonist's dad. You get to fuck Hinata, Billie Eilish, and Belle Delphine in the same game, which admittedly isn't for me, but someone is probably overjoyed. Now for the issues...

Tutorial not restrictive enough. From the get-go I was tasked to go meet mom. I kept stumbling through the random doors in the house since I have no idea where she is. I accidentally left the house and couldn't find it again on the map. While looking for home, I accidentally stumbled into a random scene. And when I came back home I got into a different scripted scene. At the end, it took 3 in-game days to finally complete my first task.

Why is the map so realistic? I'd rather have ultra exaggerated icons but I could at least tell the houses apart. I'm 6 hours into the game, and I still visit my classmate instead of my grandma. And way too many areas are available from the beginning. Easing into areas one by one would work better as an introduction and also help with getting lost.

Overloaded afternoon. Like 90% of the game happens during afternoon, meaning you can usually only do 1 action per day and the rest of the day is just skipping to the next afternoon. Most buildings are locked for the weekend, so all of the weekend is another dead period you gotta just skip through. The dev seems to have realized this as well, since later events are more spread out, but the early game still feels uneven.

Even with a quick bed button, skipping time is quite a chore. The game should have definitely allowed skipping time through the map. I currently have to either chat with a girl in hope her dialogue actually skips time or crawl to bed just to go back to my objective 10 seconds later.

The unlocking requirements for advancing with girls can be obtuse. This is more of a nitpick, as the hint system is just wonderful. It would be nice to unlock the list of girls more gradually as to not be overwhelmed, but it is what it is.

The skill system is awkward. 3 skills are just for grinding, which is a slog in the early game, and then hits the breaks midway through the game where you can forget about these skills completely. Makes the grind feel very uneven. The 4th skill is a dialogue skill check, which is only used once, in an admittedly nice scenario, but as it never shows up again, it feels like a waste of the dev's efforts.

The 1st skill also works as a nude filter, which is great, but I honestly feel like we hit the ending too fast. We get access to full nudity early, and get bored of it quite fast. A suggested spreadout from me would be clothed -> semitransparent outer layer -> clear underwear -> semitransparent underwear -> nude. And on unlocking nude, the nude vision and all other visions should be possible to set permanently for everyone instead of selecting each character one by one for a 1 second line.

Cum button is moved. When you go through any sex scene, the game allows you to enjoy different animation speeds before allowing you to watch the nut. The choice order is always Faster -> Slower -> Repeat. These are great. You then have to gradually speed up in order to nut and advance. However when the nut button shows up, the order becomes Slower -> Nut -> Repeat. And as I click through, I always pick the slower option, having to then speed up again, and maybe repeat a few cycles before actually advancing. I can't imagine this being a purely me problem, and I do believe the game would benefit a lot from the options simply staying consistent.

Admittedly the positives heavily outweigh the negatives, but the negatives come crashing into your gameplay experience so much, it can be unnecessarily frustrating. Will keep playing, but also keep complaining.

Very solid, quality hand drawn art and fun premise. Patreon seems consistent with updates as well. If you are a fan of anime and some Japanese games this might be for you. Check it out, this review was done on the .18 version

This is a good game with great art.
Unfortunately, I have two issues with this game.
1. Too many events take place during the afternoon
2. Almost all the morning events take up the afternoon slot also making it become the evening instantly.

UNAVOIDABLE FEMDOM ruined it at the end of the update for me. I was enjoying till the end, i was hoping the tables will turn any moment now when interacting with stepmother but nothing of sort happened.
MC as the game is progressing acting like a mega bitch and i ain't lying, not that he was any different at the beginning but now apart from having 15 feet dick he doesn't have that kinda personality to back it up. It's like he's one walking dildo and I'm getting the impression that game was supposed to be all female game so that they can use him however they wish.

review based on 0.17.5a version
i also played 0.10.5 before
PRO:
- art
- animations
- some story presents
- hints presents, so no wt needed
- good content amount
- good content addition since 0.10.5
- almost no grind (full skills leveling take 10 mins)
- no bugs
CONS:
- unavoidable puzzles. dev, plz make it optional...
- doc have some problems- some pic missing, in some art doc have piercing in different nipel, in some animations that piercing in not a part of body
- terrible font in book. plz dnt say- "its magic/rune like", that font almost unreadable, make plz option to change that font.

good game with solid 4.7 stars. if u like good art, some sandbox and huge xxx scenes amount- my recomendation

The game is definitely good.
Gameplay is fine. Animations are good and the art has it's own style.
What I really dislike about games like this, that developers are milking Patreon.
The game is in development for years and a lot of Content is still missing.

Damn, what a milftown...
This is a great game. It has it's own unique style and very good-drawn hot characters. There isn't really a story but I don't get, why you need a well written story in a porn game. Despite all, I really like it. Good luck developing, this is really cool!
btw, this game giving you opportunity to own well known characters or even real persons. this is funny

The animations and the art are good but the músic is awful only have one song but i can pass that, the only thing i cant pass is the game dont have sound effects in the sex scenes (english is not my first lenguage sorry if use bad grammar) for the story i don't have nothing to say is porn game

Godlike art ruined by terrible story and gameplay.
That's how I'd like to judge this game in a TL;DR manner.

Story-wise and gameplay-wise this game is a torture, it is boring a repetitive and doesn't really give you the sense of progress through something that matters. I guess the premises are pretty simple but they could've been developed better.
As for the game mechanics even the sex scenes are bad, keep spamming "faster" "faster" "cum" and repeat for every single scene.

The only thing that saves this game is the GORGEOUS art, props to the artist for such a nice choice in the character design and in the animations too, I love the goofy/cartoonish look and it really is the only reason I gave this game 3 stars.

There is for sure hope for the future of this game, if the dev does the right choices for it, maybe a fresh start, who knows.

I'm going to be honest the graphics are beautiful every girl is beautiful that's all the good things about this game.
The bad thing is that the story is bad beyond all else, it is very boring and above all it does not attract anything, then we have the protagonist, an ugly and idiotic being, as I said, if the story would be good, that would help, but this is not a story without a soul.

It's hard to give a bad review on this game when you see the effort of the artist. The blame is for the story teller.
We could just pick the images and animations and do a far better game, a lot of developers are skilled for that.
I prefer sandbox over VN because the feeling of progression is a part of excitation, and this sandbox is very very repetitive and very weird. Sometime you talk a little and get straight to sex and sometime you have to grind stupid things without progression, ans suddenly hard sex. And almost everything happens in the afternoon, so the pattern every day is waiting for the afternoon, do a progression, sleep, and do it again. It's so artificial and get you totally out of the game, it's like seeing a movie and you see the technical team on image.
This game clearly need a scenarist and a game developer. The art is very good, the game is very bad.

10/10 Graphics
7/10 Story

Some of the best art I have seen around. Glad to see some older art is also getting updated to animated and always looking forward to updates. Great game and always good updates.

The story is more comical vs others which I do enjoy but you do find moments of just skipping copy. The game play is pretty simple but I feel that adds to it.

Amazing art and animation but outside of that this game is an absolute mess. Genuinely one of the worst clusterfucks I've ever seen.

- Crazy poor game design. Skills do virtually nothing other than to pointlessly level themselves up. Instead of being equally dispersed, most events take place in the afternoon. Something that's aggravated by morning events often skipping afternoons. Character progression is usually gated behind entirely completing other characters storylines, which makes the game more like two very long questlines instead of several concurrent ones. And these questlines often have you nonsensically repeating the same exact clunky minigame over and over again for no reason, without any change to the task.

- Story often makes no sense. One second MCs getting along amazingly with his mother who claims she never would have even hooked up with women had she been with him. The next she's apparently suffering from massive depression from missing her abusive former lover. This is somehow aggravated by money problems that MC for some reason cannot solve. Despite having by this point been required to help at least 3 lucrative businesses often with explicit promise of payment. The game is riddled with such baffling inconsistencies. Another is needing to pretend to be the priest for sex even after the nun has professed being mc's slave.

- Buggy as hell. Despite the linearity, the game fails miserably to stop you from interacting with things in the wrong order creating all kinds of wonky behavior. People thanking you for things you haven't yet done, getting randomly teleported to the bathroom for simply talking to the friend's mom, being able to wander and advance time before the intro even plays out, etc. The game seems to also refuse to use event tracking flags to fix text as game progresses which often leads to weird dialogue.

*This review is for version 0.16.0e.