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

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.

This one is beautifully crafted without sacrificing the fun energy of a game. Drawing skill is crazy good, animations way more sexy than some porn stars live cam shows. I know it's like a recycled version of Summertime Saga, but better - far better.

Couple of things tho...

There's no pregnancy-giving-birth mechanism, a disappointment. Adult games with that mechanism are always is demand, since the feature adds more satisfaction for male (players) sexual psychology.

And, humongous monstrous tits... they're just getting out of hand (figuratively speaking). I mean, this isn't early 90's anymore when men drooling all over the place watching Pamela Anderson jiggling her plastic boobs inside their TV bulbs.

More naturally-healthy-jiggly tits, por pavor...

The game almost completely lacks a plot - after a short introduction, the global plot is completely forgotten and it seems that he will not be remembered until the end of the game. I understand, of course, that for a porn game, the plot is an atavism and plays a completely secondary role, but a good, well-thought-out story can serve as an ornament for the game. In the same way, there are no separate storylines of girls, they do not cause any sympathy, you do not become attached to them in any way - you just perform a sequence of boring, monotonous actions to open their sex scenes. Even those girls who could be potentially interesting are shown very faded and boring. The gameplay is a dull grind. Dialogues are stupid and not interesting. All this could be forgiven if the developers would release updates often enough, but they constantly break their promises and delay the release of new updates. The only big plus of this game is the animations, they are really good. But personally, I would not advise wasting your time on the passage of this craft, and even more so to support the developers financially - just use the code to unlock the gallery, watch the sex scenes and that's it.

-Pros:
-a LOT of content to explore
-10/10 art
-story is good
-feel good game
-Lot of girls to interact with
-there is a gallery to replay scenes
Cons:
-low replay value because of linear story (doesn't matter to me because there was hours of content to go through anyway)

Not a big fan of the art. I really don't get the point of the grind but it's a very minor thing. the developing story failed to capture me in any way, or to entertain me at all. This game feels very bland to me.

SexNote might have been one of the first porn games I started playing. I remember my first playthrough as quite difficult to understand and not really interesting animations wise. But now the game as A LOT to offer, animations are getting redone, art is more and more different every patch and it feels great playing a game that knows how to update itself.
Gameplay is becoming clearer and now we know that following a path is worth the time and effort.
This game is great and I'm here for this type of content !

Played V0.15.5a, and I think this is definitely one of the best adult game out there. The story is unique with quirkiness to it and of course with a lot of sex as well. Art and animations are top tier quality getting better with each update. Overall I can have definable see myself playing again and again in the future. It's just one of those games that keep getting better and better with each update.

This game has lots of hot moments... There are some celebs involved too. It is an excellent game if you are fan of Summertime saga you should play this. Animations are great, i think it's even better than summertime saga.

As of version 0.15.5a, SexNote is a solid game. Far from perfect, but not the shovelware a 3.5 rating usually indicates.

It's a standard sandbox without diverging branches, like a third of all games made since Princess Trainer first came out. It doesn't revolutionize the genre or its mechanics, but it's got an interesting premise and a distinctive identity of its own.

The art is probably better than what you'd first imagine by looking at the thread: the sex scenes have a nice meatiness to them, and there's a fair amount of actual content. It's even animated, though in a very basic manner.

The game works. It's just renpy and it's competently coded. No game breaking bugs or performance issues, but you have to manually enable the rollback.

The main weak point is the grammar: while the writing is perfectly functional on its own, the author should really pony up some cash for a native english proofreader.

If you think Summer Saga would benefit from a bitchy stepmom to cuck, SexNote will probably get you off a few times.

Version: 0.15.5a

Loved this game when it first came out. the premise is enjoyable and I am a sucker for games that feature a pc with a comically large member. The artwork is fantastic, but limited. Just like the gameplay. Just like the story. If all you are looking for is a bunch of bimbos with interchangeable faces on interchangeable bodies, then this is the game for you. I was almost immediately drawn out of the game by the only gameplay element, which is clicking as many bubbles as possible on your screen before time runs out. Then you have an over convoluted map/location system which is where you will spend 99% of the game. Navigating arrows to switch between 10 different rooms that all have individual connections and 1 way pathing. And the game does ask you to go back and forth between locations A LOT! Which is always the first thing I look for in my adult games. Then at the end of it all you are rewarded with the same girl's body with negligible differences and with slightly altered facial features, or like a rouge element to serve as a distinguishing feature like a belly button piercing or a hat. The game boasts like 20+ characters... but really only delivers 1. Huge boobs, asses that change size based on perspective, thin waist. That's it. And the interchangeability doesn't really end at the physical level. The characters are caricatures of like the traditional one trait per person troupe. Your sisters a slut, your stepmom is a cunt, Not Billy Eyelash is crazy af, etc. Basic. As. Fuck.

Conclusion:

The game does have some fun moments and it tries its hand at some slice of life content but it quickly becomes repetitive and uninteresting in what I consider to be an unreasonably short amount of time. There are no real obstacles the pc has to overcome, there is no goal outside of making it with as many women as you can, who all also need to make it with you for some undefined reason. Or at least that's what I assume, because magic is one thing... But my god all these woman are thirsty as fuck. Gameplay is one mechanic and getting bogged down in moving to locations to see the same girl you just left but with a different lack of personality and this one has a nose ring. Creatively bankrupt but has a unique and awesome art style (+1 Star) and has an absolutely stacked PC (+1 star). I played the game, got a couple good rubs out of it. And then nothing. I don't remember any of the characters (outside of Billie eyelash), any of the scenes, and I can vaguely recall the premise of the game. Overall all severely unimpressed, and without a rework to travel (either implementing more interesting and diverse locations that are alive themselves or just super streamlining the process), as well as adding more variety and/or complexity into the game would go a long way. If your looking for cheap and easy with a moderate gaps in "time to fap", this game is for you. Just get a gallery unlock and skip the game, you aren't missing much.

Is my first time playing it, and I didn't play it much because the map and wander in a house are a nightmare, you don't know where to fuck go, you have to go to the garage, you don't know where the fucking garage is, when I was trying to find it, for accident I leaved the house, then I had the problem that I didn't know what was the MC house because none of the places in the map has a name, so I entered the first house I saw and a quest started automatically, a quest that I think it shouldn't started because I don't know how the fuck use magic because to learn that first I should go to the garage. And that the rollback is unabled doesn't help at all either.

I'm gonna be short, as i mainly want to give this game the stars it deserves.

I'm fond of 2dcg (Taffy Tales, Summertime Saga, etc.), and this one is my favorite.

+ Art is perfect, and newly made "60 fps" animations look gorgeous
+ Models curves are over the top, and i love it.
+ Great quests diary to know what you need to do

- Some art inconsistencies, with faces a bit different from a static image to another. I think of Lisa specifically, but it seems to be reworked progressively.

TLDR: 7/10. It isn't perfect. It isn't the greatest game of all time, but it's still a fun and enjoyable game worth of your time. It gets 3 stars because it's closer to a 6 than 8.

In depth review for v0.14.5b

Story: I haven't seen Death Note so I don't know how much the parody factor applies here, so I wont rate it. The overall story is totally enjoyable, but a lot of times the story feels like it didn't read itself...

Writing: The way I see it, these games can have one of two type of stories:

• Attempting to make a well thought and developed story that makes the game as interesting and enjoyable as the sex itself.
• A silly and fast but funny story mostly focused on finding reasons to fuck.

This game is one type at moments and then changes to the other type. It mixes both types but at the end of the day it's just a big inconsistency, and not in a good way. When it tries to be serious it's just not a good story, and when it tries to be silly and funny it's just not fast or funny enough. I guess that there are 2 or more people writing for this because inconsistencies are everywhere and they can't even decide on how to use the incest codewords. Sometimes Kylee will refer Sue as "Sue", then "mom", then "your mom" while talking to MC but still "Sue" when talking herself as if Kylee and Sue weren't related. The writing isn't trash but it's probably its lowest point. Writing: 4/10.

Characters: There are 3 types of characters: RL people, not RL and OC.

• RL People: This is hard because it parodies a lot of characters that most of the times aren't supposed to act like the original characters or it wouldn't make any sense to do it. I mean, sure, how the heck you do Billie Elish in a porn game outside her look? How Billies's personality should be?
• Not RL: Here you have Hinn (the only not RL parody I think) which can be easily parodied because you know what personality she should have.
• OC: I wonder how many of these are parodies of people/characters that I don't recognize so I think they are OCs. Since these are OCs, it's completely up to the dev to make this characters feel as themselves.

Overall, the RL characters can feel generic and totally exchangeable while the not RL and OC do have their own charm, personality and development, but they still feel out of character or "not themselves" at times. It works for a porn game, but not for a story. Characters: 5/10.

The game itself: It's a kinda disproportionated sandbox, but it's still a great implementation of it. It's disproportionated because sometimes you'll have absolutely nothing to do and then have 4 events at the same time during the afternoon and some events take the entire morning and afternoon for some reason which makes no sense. It's a good implementation because the map and different locations do feel like they have a purpose, it has an in-game WT so you won't get lost or stuck, and the whole "collect magic power" does a good job working along the map while you need to level up.

Drawings/Art:
I will separte them in 2 parts: Sprites and Sex Scenes.

Sprites: All of them are good and unique, not to mention fuckable. You can totally tell who is who from the parodies while printing some adult vibes on them, and the character design for the OCs totally represent the personality they are supposed to have. Maybe more variety would be good? I love big tits everywhere but I understand if that's a problem for others. Spirtes: 9/10.

Sex Scenes: I started with v0.14 and in v0.14.5 they re-draw and animated some old ones. Animations are good, are sexy, do their job. If you start looking you can find "animation fails" here and there like random lines/marks floating around the scene and the body parts "breaking" from the rest of the body, but that isn't a major issue. Some animations may feel "absurd" for a sex scene, but it's still sexy so it works. Sex scenes: 8/10

Gameplay: The whole "collect magic power" is well implemented at the beginning but then it becomes too easy and leveling up isn't required for a lot of things to begin with, so it works for the sandbox factor and as part of the story but it falls apart in itself. It's just too easy, but I read complains about the game being too grindy on release so I guess the devs changed that and it's better if it's "too easy" instead of "too grindy" so I totally appreaciate that. The minigames are fine. Gameplay: 7,5/10

Codding/Bugs:
I had a few issues, but nothing worth of mention. 9,5/10

If I were rating only the h-scenes with the 'landladies' it'd be a 5/5. Excellent art style mostly done very well, not hand-animated but smooth and realistic (and sexy!) motions. More or less vanilla, but that doesn't really matter to me if it's good and in 2d. However, suffers from having too many side (ie non-landlady) characters who have inferior h-scenes both in terms of visuals/anims and detail.

Lewd scenes are somewhat interactive, ie you control how fast, slow etc. the action happens and then cum. Normally I'd put that down as a plus but the way it's done is annoying. The interactive options appear as choice boxes right in the middle of the screen, blocking out the action. Sure I can press 'h' to hide the UI but I shouldn't need to. Make a better h-scene menu, please.

Not much to say about the story other than it isn't infuriatingly full of itself and pretending to be a serious work of literature, so doesn't get in the way of enjoying the porno. In conclusion, 4/5.

The visuals are amazing, there's no debate here. However, it tries to accomplish several things but in my opinion falls flat. The animations, even though look amazing, they still haven't figured out a way to make the interaction as clean as the art. I don't know, such great art deserves a better system.

The story is not particularly interesting and doesn't make much sense to me, but I appreciate the character references.

Overall, great fapping experience (could be better if they improve the scene system). However, not much of game in other aspects.

Been playing this game since really early on and I never thought it would make it past the second build, but here we are like 19 updates later and still counting. The game obviously has a few problems but what game doesn't. Kudos to JamLiz for sticking with it and making it into a fantastic game.

Overall a really good game. The art standard is high, and where it isn't as good as it could be, it's being revamped. The gameplay is good and has a decent story with good characters. Good variety of H-scenes as well.

Really on the fence as to whether this deserves 3 or 4 stars. (pro's are marked "+"/ con's are marked "-")

Gameplay:
+ Free-roam, so you can actually pursue who you want to, but...
- A lot of characters require you to progress with other characters to continue to progress with the ones you want, which kinda sucks.
- Not enough time in the day (you can usually only do 1 or 2 events in a single day: some events skip a lot of time, and most events take place during the afternoon). Gets annoying always having to go back to your room to sleep between every other event.
- It looks like a lot of future content will be locked behind progressing with Jane, which means you'll be forced through femdom scenes even though she's the only femdom character (personally, i dont really mind this, but i'm sure others will).

Visuals:
+ Unique art style
+ 2dcg (which i prefer) and animations
+ Characters look unique from eachother
- There is a lot of variation in quality (however, there is an in-game disclaimer that they are woking on improving the quality of older content, which is a plus
- While characters look different, they all basically have the same body type
- MC looks like a younger version of the dude from Initial D, and if you can't tell, that's not a good thing.

Writing:
+ Characters are all unique.
- Really feels unnatural:
- I dont like waiting forever for sex scenes, but the speed we get to them in this makes me feel like every woman in this universe is just super sex-starved.
- Usually the reason incest is considered hot is the taboo of it, but none of them seem to focus on that fact.
- The MC ... if you're wondering what exactly was wrong with how he was written, well... i dont know a single positive thing about the way he was written and im not going to waste my time quoting everything he says, so you can just experience it for yourself.

Sound:
+ Has music, unfortunately...
- Pretty sure it was like one song on loop the whole time, dont know, i eventually muted it and played my own music.

I feel like i ripped on this one a lot, but trust me its not that bad, and id recommend you give it a try. If you like femdom, i personally found Jane's content to be some of the most enjoyable, so theres that for ya.

"Some Things on This Game Is Just a Miss"

It has good art for the female that is, the sex has a lot of good key scenes.
Character interactions are more of straightforward porn games.
The MC design is straight up trash, they gave like this -_- face the MC and boi it just doesn't fit well with the scenes it's in. I could see the devs going full parodies with a-certain-summer-game with his design but everything about him was just inferior and the giga cock is pretty bad. The MC took away so much from enjoying this game ngl and talking about parodies, the Mom route is just such a poor man's version of a-certain-summer-game and I hate that I got disappointed and keep comparing this game with it.
Using that music for everything and on all the scenes is also bad.

Rating Distribution:
+1: Obligatory
+1: An Actual GILF Route
+1: Nun Gimmicks Is Always Good
+1: The Red Head Is Hot
+1: Great Key Sex Scenes
-1: The Fucking Music Ends up Annoyed Me
-1: Everything About the MC

This is the third game i could fap to it and finish it completely (and i have tried like +10 games). I love the artsyle. Blowjob faces are good. I also love Jane's femdom content. Writing and gameplay is not the best but its okay