VN - Ren'Py - Shut Up and Dance [Ep.1-9 Ch.2 v1.2 SE Steam] [Boring Games]

A solid game that is well done and engaging.

Pros

• Good renders and visuals
• Good character models (overall)
• Plenty of hot girls in the game
• Good writing
• Creative writing
• Fun and lighthearted game
• Good lewd/sex scenes
• Good amount of lewd content
• Some choice matter with different paths

Cons

• Story has too much fantasy in it for my tastes and can be fairly unrealistic at times. For example, there are two girls in the game that aren't under the MC's influence yet as soon as they see the MC they pull out his cock and go to town on it??? There is literally no story or background given to cause them to behave this way.
• Character development suffers with all but the main characters - I still don't know much about a lot of these characters aside from their unique character model/appearance
• The MC's best friend acts like a boy/child most of the time
• Several of the character models have unrealistic body proportions (breasts, hips, and asses)
• Animations are all over the place in terms of FPS and quality. Some are good and others are below average with limited penetration (back and forth movement), 2 to 4 FPS, and robotic. This happens throughout the game and not just in the beginning.
• Some renders (old content that hasn't been redone yet) are very grainy and don't look good

Overall, I had a fun time playing this game and that counts for a lot! Despite the game's weaknesses it kept me interested and engaged.

If you try and take this game too seriously you won't have a good time.

I recommend the game and encourage others to give it a try!

This game and Megan model is one of the reasons i return to f95zone. Developer did a great job with animations and Storytelling. Teasing Story is something which differentiates it from other games.
I would do everything to support this game.My best wishes to developer to make a model other than white which is mostly present in game.

Easily one of the best games on here, Camera angles in the Lewd scenes are perfect, the girls are amazing and the Render Quality is improving after every remake.

The Story is good enough to make you at least read it and not skip ahead.
The Lewds are definitely the best thing in here though, maybe even the best in Lewd scenes among all games.

Well then, the supernatural assistance trope (=magical device, pills, etc.). For my taste, it draws out too much tension, titillation, and depth. The stars are for the graphics and animations of the remake and that I don't have to filter out bad English in my head, which always breaks the immersion for me a bit (I'm not a native speaker, so I won't realize all mistakes anyway).

The fistfights, the black friend, all other males than the black friend are assholes or psychopaths (dad is dead, so he doesn't count) - not really the first game with this. I also have to add that in the remake parts it sometimes gets almost a bit too stylish for me - the asset supermodels etc., there are reasons why I like wallflower girls for a change in games so much. If you are for quick sex and high polish, this is for you. Not really surprising why this game is so popular. For the graphical part hats off to the dev(s), I'll give them that regardless of anything else.

First (Good morning / Good afternoon / Good evening) to everyone reading this review. My first time When I played this game I thought it was like all the others. But I was wrong this one is practically different in everything The story is very well crafted has mystery about the Mc and his powers I really like this type of games and he is also full of decisions this is very important in the game so I'm already a fan of this one game has long deserved five stars I don't know what others think about this game but I don't see any flaws it's all pretty perfect apart from the amazing animations and the optional share tags That's great it's also something that pleases everyone who goes to play it's a very positive point that many games don't have is that I don't have much to say because the perfect game In my opinion and I want to thank the creator Boring Games very much for this great game that you created congratulations and thanks for the game again my favorite girl will always be Sarah ❤

The only good part about this game is the beautiful graphic of the special remake. The rest completely sucks. It has the same copy/paste storyline in the most basic way, yet it refuses to dig deeper into the perspective of Mind Control. The garbage part is that the writer does it in the sarcastic way of "They are my family". BRO!!!! You have the ability to MC, you have 2 lustful women at your home and you don't have any content of MC them?

Disclaimer: I have only played the REMAKE version, and will continue to do so as to not ruin my view of the game.
From what I have played, which is 3 episodes of Chapter 1, I can say that this game is BEYOND average when compared to other games. The remake has exceptional renders, the animations are good, and the story is moving at a good pace with enough going on for the player to understand what is going on.
SO:
If you're playing for the renders/scenes, this is a great game
If you're playing for the plot: this is a good game

I'll continue waiting for each remake episode even though the next one will release after the next regular episode.

Full rating... Why?

Because it delivers on interesting story, very very hot women, really great looking renders and choices that doesn't make me feel like I've missed out should I make one.

The story keeps you interested. Who was the MC's dad, why are we trying to find him via that machine and Emma is so freaking hot it hurts. Just waiting on some sexy time with her.

Onto render, they are crisp, good lighting and some very nice camera angles and then the animations are really well made and really crisp looking.

The choices are paths you can take but as i said you don't feel like you missed out not choosing another path. Of course you can go back and play those too but I feel if you are a type of player like me who choose a path and stick to it then you'll feel satisfied.

Lastly the mo... I mean Landlady is freakishly sexy for me. Yes her boobs are big and ass but it lends for me towards her sexiness. Then the landlady's daughter " a chip of the ol block" as they say. Very saucy and sexy little kitten. Of course there are other hot women like the Doctor, oh boy and Emma of course and definitely more.

Very enjoyable MC too which is always a bonus. Seriously great game, fun and I enjoy it a lot. Great work Dev....

EDIT: Playing Ch3 now and the renders look like it's either compress hellavu lot or sd quality.

Review Ep. 3 Ch. 1 Special Remake, 3.2GB Filesize
There is content until Chapter 7.2

TLDR: Download this one if you're interested in the tags. It has an original storypremise and sexy girls, enjoy!

The story is fun. The overall plot to delve into the memories of the dead father while uncovering more ways to use and abuse the power you get from the pills has some captivating elements to it. The powers itself are nice and deliver on the mind control tag, which is nice.
The women felt a bit overly generic and bland in the beginning but took up speed rapidly, after their storyarcs began. As of Chapter 7.2 the characters have received satisfying amounts of developement and progression and feel like people that belong in adult novels.

There are real choices with different paths to them, but you dont feel cheated out of sexy content (in this game you don't feel like an idiot who has to choose between spending the night with girl A or girl B)

The remade and new animations look very good and refined, an eye-pleaser for sure.
This goes for all the new and remade content, the renders, lighting and models are very beautiful.
The game delivers on the kinks adervtised in the tags
Realistic erotic story progression considering the mnd altering abilities of the MC



I'll end things with a small nitpick and input for the dev:
This goes back to the core idea of why I (and persumably most) play adult games: masturbation or erotical satisfaction. If one takes a look at how long an average Pornhub visit lasts (10min28sec according to PH stats) and how much and frequent masturbationable content most VNs have, the desparity is jaw-dropping. The sex scene in "lable ep7ch2_faith_lovepath" from where Faith takes of the MC's trousers to the scentense "huh, my pleasure take about 5 mins on a reasonable auto text speed and clicking the fast option once in every animation. Compared to the scene with the ass shaking to blowjob finish from Dr. Stone in the very beginning with 3 animations and 12 images which takes about 4min 30n The quality of the renders and animations went way up but the duration per image/video went down somehow. Which is weird since the Dr. Stone scene feels more like an appetizer, an outlook to what is to come in the future while the scene with Faith feels like it's there to be the or one of the masturbational moments of the update. This should not lead you to the conclusion that sex scenes should be needlessly prolonged to reach a set time goal, but a nudge to think about how they could be fleshed out.
As a fan of the not messed up stuff from the anime&black lilith games, I'd take them as an example of games that have very long and dialogue / voicing heavy sex scenes. Compared to Shut up and Dance ,which has both better animations and models as well as more renders for the sex scenes, those in a black lilith game are way longer and in for example Taimanin Asagi franchise mostly relevant to the story and directly linked to character developement. This model would be completetly not suitable for Shut up and Dance however, since it would not fit the narrative. But maybe steal some concepts
As a non-game dev, but person with some knowledge of coding and Dax 3D & Honey Select, it looks like you could deliver more sex content if some of the images would be re used while presenting the characters thoughts / words. For example an idea to put an image of a womans face in between a doggy animation, show us how good she feels, give us some of her thoughts and then continue. If you take multiple angle shots of the same scene or just change the facial expressions of the woman before retaking the shot , you'd have much more material to work with to reach my insignificant idea of pleasurable lenght for sex scenes.

Anything less than a 5/5 for this game must be considered a crime.

Seriously, have you ever seen a Ren'Py lewd game with an animation for a girl getting a drink? This game has renders in such a high quality that I actually wanted to play it in full screen to enjoy it better, which has not happened with any other Ren'Py game I've played.

The art, renders and animations are so great I can't even begin to describe. Yeah, there is still content with older art but the dev is remaking these.

Gameplay is not grindy and there's an easy walkthrough mod with you don't wish to bother yourself with choices.

It's seriously among the best lewd games I've played here. I'm really looking forward for the next releases.

+
Hot Characters
Sexy and different types of Outfits
Good Rendering and animation

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Boring Story, Writing, Dialogue
Poor Corrution, Mind control

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Characters are very hot and even their outfits are very sexy and different.
Material is little cliche but definitely effective, overall Plot is also Okay as well.
But the Stroy is Boring. You can fuck your M easily in early of the story and the ways of corruption or inner conflicts of character are poor.

This a good game. Before the remakes, I would likely have given it a 3 star rating. But the episodes that have been remade warrant the 4 star rating.

The remade episodes add higher quality renders (I'd say lighting has been improved too), the animations are much better (not jerky, now smooth), and I believe some music has been added in the remade episodes. The music isn't particularly great, but its decent and adds to the experience.

On the downside, the new animations have a speed option, but I don't find the option all that great -- I'd prefer that as the action heats up, the speed goes up for each consecutive animation, at least in general. Being able to change the point of view on the same posed animation would be a much better option.

Also, no sex sounds in animated scenes. So no moans, no skin slapping, or anything like that. It's possible to do that in Ren'Py if the effort is put into it.

The story is okay, a little bit of science fiction added in to make the plot work. I think there is some inconsistency, like when the MC drinks alcohol it can really mess him up, but during dialogue he was told there would be a problem only if he drank within two hours before or after taking the pills. So why does he get so messed up when he takes the pills in the morning and then drinks in the evening? And then when he drinks heavily on another night, he has no issues. So obviously the dev just wants certain events to happen, and the sci fi element is just used to make those events happen. Unfortunately, the focus on wanting certain events to happen seems to have led to not paying attention to the rules of the sci fi element he introduced. So inconsistencies.

The dialogue overall is fine, though once in a while I catch a misspelling, the use of a homonym instead of the right word, or a grammatical error. I wouldn't say the writing is particularly engaging, but it gets the job done and isn't jarring.

Once the middle episodes are finished being remade, I believe this will be a great game. But the story telling is just okay, the writing is standard, there are no sex sounds, and as improved as the animation is, it still has a ways to go in some respects, so I can't give it a 5 star rating, even once the middle episodes are remade.

You should still give it a shot though, as it's worth a playthrough. If you play before the middle episodes are remade, just remember to make save points for the lewd scenes in the middle episodes, cuz they won't show up in the gallery until remade.

[Ep. 7 Ch. 2]

This is a GOOD game, specially the remastered content.

Renders 4/5: They look very good.
Animations 5/5: Excellent animations, some of them get funky on the faster settings. The remastered ones look masterful.
Cast 4/5: Varied enough, the mother is specially rambunctious and a turbo milf. Then there is something for everyone (Bad Girl, GF Type, Posh Girl, etc) in the rest of the cast.
Writing 4/5: The main plot is intriguing without being too silly or too brainy, which is perfect for an adult game. This is a corruption/mind control game done well, so don't expect deep emotional connections.
Sex Secenes 4/5: The strongest suit of the game, the remastered scenes look amazing and are quite satisfying. Might need a but more dialogue tho in some.
Audio 3/5: The game is properly orchestrated which adds a lot of flare to it, could use a little more variety and sound effects.
Overall 4/5: I would give it a 5 once its fully finished and remastered, I do hope for there to be several more chapters (twice as much at least) since otherwise the game would feel a bit short.

Milf in this game is one of the best I have ever seen.
And the animations are brilliant.
Other characters are also awesome.
Usually I don't give ratings and reviews of a game and there are only few games which I liked a lot and this is from one of them.

+++graphics, with nice animations.
+Not too linear, several choices that have long term consequences on the sex scenes quite early in the game. Replayability is good as a result.
-Average dialogues.
--The story is a bit dull and not exploited enough. Many improbable outfits and situations.

tl;dr: good for fapping, not much for the story 7.5/10

I have only played the remade part so that's what I'll review.

Great renders and animations, super hot models, super hot scenes and finally a game with a sharing route (at least for our friend's mom).

Only minor, I think the relationship with the mother and sister is going a bit too fast, like they forget they are actually related.

5 stars because this game manage to achieve perfectly what a porn game is made for: fapping to super hot scenes with super hot characters

The animations are amazing and I like the branching paths. I cant wait for the other chapters to get their touch ups!

Pros:
Renders are beautiful
Story is well written and the English is great (probably native)
The animations in chapters 1 and 2 are top notch.
Chapters 3-7 are still really good and i believe they are being retouched to match the quality in 1 and 2
No grind and branching paths for replay-ability

Cons
This is tough because honestly I loved it but if there was anything I would change is would be to make some of the boobs smaller. Not like small but just not as massive. I know that some people are really into that and honestly its a pretty minor complaint.

Absolute gem 10/10
Second best female model after Nicole from The Tyrant.
It's got some music, sound effects, good UI, etc etc but what really makes this a hit are the animations and the scenes. Mind blowing stuff.

When I first played this game two years ago I would have rated it 5 stars. Then, as updates came, I would have lowered it to 4 stars as the plot started to get stale. I stopped playing for a while and just came back to it...

The later chapters don't have a conclusion so it seems strange seeing new versions of the first chapters. The the last few updates almost only include new renders of previous chapters. The original renders were very good to begin with. The worst part is that the game has been losing content as part of the updates. The later chapters make less sense without the removed content.

Two years ago this was a 5 star game that looked like it could be classic. It is currently a 2 star game split between the remade first chapters and the older chapters that seem out of place.

This game has some top notch renders but very stale and boring sex scenes that you cant skip with most characters, you have choice and its more like a kinetic novel then anything else and the plot seems decent at first glance but personally I feel the forced content and sex scenes take away from what could be a better tailored experience. (Not everybody has mommy issues, want to bone their sister etc) So being able to exclude certain aspects would be a big +.
The other thing that stood out like a sore thumb in the eyesocket was the ridiclous dialogue.
The game could easily have been 5 stars if one had the option to pick and chose some content and if the interactions was somewhat realistic, I get that the whole medicine/powers might not be up that alley, but I feel it was just way over the top.

Something I discovered after going abit further into the game, it doesnt get better as you progress only worse and theres forced sharing, then again everything is forced in thos game amd choices are there to make you think you have any control.
The story progression is so bad that I'll stop here, I dont see the bad writing ever being redeemed.