VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Shaping Her Future [v1.0] [Ellaraia]

One of the most boring AVNs in recent memory. There's only two people in the whole game. You and her. That's it. There is no story whatsoever. You just fill up a bar at the top of the screen to see a boring new sex scene. That's the whole game.

Sometimes the dialogue is about some interesting stuff that happened in the past. If the game showed us all of that instead of just mentioning it in text, this might have been good. What we have instead is some kind of very boring epilogue to an actually good game that doesn't exist.

Sadly, this game is pretty mediocre. It takes basically a week to level up, which is fine. If you skip past all the text, it's not like it takes that long, it's just tedious. The real problem is that it's neither fun getting to the sex nor once there actually is sex. The characters talk about sex right away, so there's no feeling of progression. Supposedly, she's really self-conscious about her sexuality, but it really feels more like what it is: she's waiting for you to level up to let you do the next thing with her. It doesn't feel like the wait made her more comfortable or anything (time feels completely arbitrary, so it could be two days or two years as far as they're concerned), it just feels like they woke up one day and decided that it was okay for him to eat her out now.

Worst of all for a porn game, and maybe the only thing most of us care about, the sex scenes are really jittery and robotic. The camera is the worst part of all. On the mutual masturbation scene, I literally started to feel motion sickness from the camera moving back and forth.

Consider supporting the dev on their future work, but maybe skip this one entirely.

The concept is interesting, but there is not story, time doesnt matter, nothing matters atually cause from the beggining the 2 are already talking about sex. You know how its gonna end in every game, but starting that way is like everything lacks value, its given to you from the beggining.
There is a fixed number of things ou can do, some kind of safe environment of possibilities, and thats it.

Its a grindy game, which its nothing more thana scene collector. The story is just exposition through stories about the past.

The amount of Grind could be literally HALVED by DOUBLING the amount of XP you gain from activity, and it would still feel Grindy. That's how stupidly grindy this game is.

Beyond that it's... slightly below average.
It has above average amount of content, however most of that content is lacking. You don't feel any character development or plot. It just feels low quality. The dialog doesn't even progress properly. They make a big deal about getting a peak at their undies while you eat her out on the regular. She mentions that you don't like her blowjobs, before she has even given you one.

Overall, I would rate this a 2 or 3 star, but the amount of grind coupled with the below average feel of the content shrinks it down to 1 star.

Its an alright game. It is a little to grindy if you don't use cheats (but, imho cheats are never a justification to make a game super grindy.)

Maybe this is just me but the game felt really bland and so did the characters. I didn't feel any sense of uniqueness from them. It wasn't a bad game overall though. I felt like the scenes were pretty hot and the story was "okay" if you can really call it that. But, everything they said just felt bland and they were bland themselves.

This creator seems to be wanting to be the person that can be justly and easily used as a example of rushing unfinished work and leaving it unfinished to work on more.

-> had this seemingly not been case woulda been 2 stars (but given ratings of his future games seems so).

"Story" aka memories on couch don't match the "story" of the game (talk right before sex scene that also repeats on clicking that sex scene again instead of skipping at least) And those story bits also don't match with work and with themselves at times....

I really wanted to knee her if she sucked me off 1 more time after I looked in mirror also .... I mean it the lamest simplist sex scene I think or least top 3 and never changes acts like it first time and happens non stop might have been nice to least change it eventually to maybea wake up 1 for "revenge"/try after all the times you do stuff to her in her """""drunk"""" (not at all but says she is) ko state on couch.

Animation is bare minimum but appreciated I suppose and girl looks good (guy used plenty in other games).

Grind 100% skip just use cheat mod to xp / level however you want I think you can miss out on her masturabte scenes if you level to fast as it replaced with dildo that about it.

1.4/5
ummmm ya good example of a justified left before finished and rushed ending to make it pretend finished that many people claim games do here and often is not the case but here is... so there that and the fact she looks good enough and minor animation.

There are good parts to this game however what kills it is the grinding, which progressively got worse and worse as the game development continued. The cg's decent, the concept is good!, it's just grinding that isn't fun, maybe if it was cut by half the game would be a 4 but as is, it's a 2.5 but I round down because excess grind sucks.
[Edit: I'm rounding up to 3, reading the cheat mod thread it apparently can still work with the final version so there's a way to cut the grind a little at least]

Though its a bit grinding its an amazing game
You live with a hot teeny woman and bang her though the whole apartment and the best thing is you have to deserve further activities

the cons are the grinding and there could be more activity with her she is really hot and hot fab material

When I first played this game (early beta), the girl had a base personality, and, as the title suggested, my actions shaped her and how she reacted. This was interesting. It was unique. It made the game stand out from the hundreds (thousands?) of others here. When I played it later, it seemed like that was a bit more down-played; but the manager of the bakery I worked in seemed to have a sub-plot developing, so at least there was some variation.

Now it's just...wake up, go to work, sit on the couch, talk about some incident from your youth, and after a while unlock a sex scene that just kind of...happens. Nothing you do really has any impact whatsoever. There was so much promise at the start and now it's just...repetitious.

Reviewing ver.1.0 (COMPLETED)

Story: A couple(with incest patch: a couple of siblings) that meet each other after a separation and they're already horny(with a good reason)

Originality: Different from other games(the story i mean) but not so much 2/5

Renders: Good but i've seen better

Sound: Meh...nothing worth mentioning

Playability: It's a grind-festival -5/5

Performance: what does even mean performance?It mean if i can run it good on my pc? well duh! Google Chrome eats more RAM,CPU and GPU than a visual novel...

Bugs: I didn't find it...but maybe i have low standards

Animations: Meh...it's like watching a cartoon from the 30s(like Steam Boat Willy xD) it an animation, something between "I don't mind it" and "I hate it"

Voice Acting: There Isn't.

Grammar: It's readable.

Amount of content: I think the devs got bored to developing this game and just ask to put the [COMPLETED] tag and probably began to work to something else...if there is extra content the grind-fest stopped me to go finding it...

it's a good game even if a few things like the order or happens the events is a bit too "soft", i mean the scene doesnt happen in the order or it should be, it's the freedom to choose what we do but on this game we should be more "guide" to be forced to follow a rythme imposing that unlocks the scene in a most stricter order

the girl she's realy charming
i like mostly games with female protagonist and girls with small tits
with shaping her future i'm well and happy
a good renpy very easy can be too easy, a small world, short but very pleasant to play

I discovered this game today and I started without a priori. I was a little surprised when I saw that from the first days I could masturbate next to the naked lady. Without any affinity woven between the two. Then it was necessary to increase the relationship by dressing, helping to do homework and new scenes were unveiled. But the story has never really evolved and the relationship no longer in this small world too narrow. The gameplay was ultra repetitive and passed level 11 I was fed up and I moved on something else ... too bad.

Make it 3 1/2 Stars for a very decent effort.

What is there is working and well enough done. GUI, mechanics etc. all sound.

But this is not really a completed game. It feels rushed over the finish line. The grind is a bit too much, considering that there is not so awfully much to do and there is not really enough variation. Especially the weekends are very much unfinished and could be basically skipped over.

To really be a completed game, it would need a real intro and be tightened a bit all around, the weekends must be worked over and stuff like the morning fashion show looked at.

Still it is a decent little game and I very much hope the Dev will go on and work on another project. I prefer a game with a small scope that actual gets somewhere over one more of those sprawling, overly ambitious games that get abandoned halfway through.

So kudos to Ellaraia for a respectable game!

When I firstly came across this game it wasn't worth 5 stars, but now when it's completed - it definitely is! There aren't many games with that many options where you can do sexy things with one specific girl.

This game had some potential at the begining.
Renders are very good and the girl is cute.
But the story is boring ( for me) and the gameplay so repetitive.
I had been watching this one since last june hoping it to be better in future but the things i didn´t like exceeded the good one. So sorry about that, maybe the new game of this dev will be better i will give it a shot.

Really Great Model
Animated Sex Scenes, some of them really good.
Grindi gameplay, that I like ,but there you have to repeat the same thing. That's just get boring after a while.
After every level up, game could say which options opened.

Based on the comments i read, I was looking forward to this game. On the positive side, I like the female model used. I like the story line that is revealed for her. The basic game mechanics of having different outfits she can wear, relationship building, and tasks to complete I also like in concept. I also liked the writing for dialogue although I don't agree it's as amazing as some people seem to - for me it's simply good, not great.

The main problem for me with this game is it is simply tedious. The story may be of some interest but it's revealed slowly, which is ok on it's own, but there is little to do between it being revealed. It's a slow moving grind fest. And not even a challenging or interesting grind or even any variation. It moves slowly and is the same tasks over and over.

The game has potential and it has a number of elements I like including the model and the basic story premise. In the version I played though (10.02-pc) it is mostly a boring grind toget to some decent parts (good not great). I view this as a game in its alpha stage that while it might some day be good, right now needs too much polish to be enjoyable. I would recommend passing on playing it for now but to revisit after it gets a fair amount more development.

This game had some potential in the original format where some interaction would lead to the female character to becoming a lover or a loyal or fearful slave. As v.0.10.02 has the game now it's nothing more than a grind fest for a couple of free not so rewarding situations. All of them are sexual interactions unlocked by experience (you even get exp by sleeping) and outfits (work each day for $40 to get the money for the outfits and toys). The game had a decent idea in the beginning, but now it's nothing more than a (poorly rendered) sexy slideshows. It's basically a doll simulator. There are many out there that are much better at earlier stages of development. Big disappointment for me.

very nice game.
with official mod.
where you can choose what relationship you want with the girl.
best thing is that you can repeat the scenes.
just don't understand why there are so less number of reviews and ratings.
looking forward for the next update.

I like the user interface and the progression system are intuitive. The art, direction, and writing are all quite good. And I like the fact that you can pick the relationship path you like the best. The best thing about it is that the female character is charming. The relationship is surprisingly tender and cute. This is something a lot of games of this genre lack, actual humanity in their characters. My opinion.