Ren'Py Abandoned Shuttered Memories [v0.1] [Adults City]

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After playing i can say, that this game needs big amount of time and effort to run correctly. Missing option to talk, move around the house are annoying. There's no possibility to finish one task [i.e. sunlotion in male path]. Graphics looks not bad, but little bit to pale. And language - too much mistakes.
 

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I was going to rate and review this, but it's a V.01 and at this point, without giving any room or time for improvement, I felt like that would be a shitty thing to do. I give the developer credit for doing something I haven't. They've got the balls and the drive to start a game and put it out for the world to judge, so for everything else I'm about to say, that shouldn't be forgotten.

Positives:

Some of this is pretty ambitious! There's multiple characters to choose from and play as. You can play, very minimally, as Jennifer, and choose (I guess) between two breast sizes at the beginning of the game. You can also play, more substantially, as the brother (at the moment this is also the only playthrough where I was given the option to name the characters). At some point you will be able to play as Ashley, the bitchy sister with a dark past, as well. That's three different playthroughs. Nothing to shake a stick at or dismiss outright.

There are many, many locations planned for you to be able to visit. Currently you can stop by the-

* Police Station and talk to a supermodel charity worker.
* Local Park where you can avoid a supermodel jogger.
* Grocery Store where you can briefly get involved in a dispute between a supermodel cashier and some local hoodlums, before the cashier's mom steps out with a shotgun. (I was stunned to find the cashier's mom actually has wrinkles in her face, preventing her from being a supermodel, but she more than makes up for it with giant tits, no bra and deep cleavage.)
* Clothing Store where you can bayed clothes from a supermodel cashier who may or may not be involved with Ashley's dark past.
* Computer Store where you can bayed a copy of Windows from a supermodel cashier with resting bitch face.

There is an inventory system that works, there is a Progress Tracker for every girl in the game which will track Love Points, Lust Points, Mind Control Points and more!

This is not a one-star initial release. You may have detected a note of sarcasm in some of what I listed, and yes, I'll admit it, the number of perfect 10 hotties everywhere was a little obnoxious. I've been spoiled by games like Mid-Life Crisis and Light of My Life. But hey, Parental Love also only had exclusively supermodels in its roster, and that's one of my favorite Adult VN's of all time, so fuck it, I'm game if the writing, grammar and spelling drastically improve, and if the story pushes me to continue.

Another positive? Every member of your characters family looks like they could be related. Yes, they all look plastic, but as a lover of the incest genre, and having a deep-seated, burning hatred for the pussy-footing, cop-out 'step-family' genre, it matters to me that I can look at the characters and go, 'Yeah, they could be related.'

Finally, there are things hinted at in the story that could actually be interesting and/or erotic. Whatever happened with Ashley seems dark and mysterious, and the MC brother has a good rapport with his mother, who seems to have her hand permanently stuck in the downstairs sink (a little Jodi West, anybody? Eh, eh?). This game has the potential to go interesting places and keep me entertained, despite my general aversion to sandbox VN's. Seriously, if it's not Time Loop Hunter, I hate sandbox, but with this one I'd be willing to give it a shot.

Negatives:

Okay. Please keep in mind everything I've said before this. I'm not going to go over nine thousand here, but I'm not going to beat around the bush either. Pre-patch, if you download this game right now and choose Jennifer as the playable character, here is the first line of the game you'll read.

"Years ego I was a simpel young girls with a simplle dream. I had a lovely parents and a happy life. Untill one day, my parents died in a car acciden't"

This is not, 'ooh, entitled gamer douchebag fuckboy mocking a dev for a couple of misspelled words and a missed period'. This is a trainwreck. If a poorly-worded sentence with several misspellings is just a dented fender, this game is the opening of Final Destination 2. Maybe the Dev is not a native-English speaker and is having it translated, which is why some sections are better than others, and I can accept that, but for God's sake, some of this is just nearly unintelligible.

For the most part, the storyline is so by-the-numbers incest it's bordering on parody. As the brother, within three minutes your dad is dead (RIP incest game Dad #9842208, we hardly knew ye', and that looked like a hell of a slide presentation you were giving), your mother has received bundles of forever-money and moved you and your sisters to a McMansion estate, and you all proceed to walk around the house in bras and panties and tighty-whiteys while slapping each other on the ass and eyeing everyone's genitals. It's not particularly invigorating.

And there is a major problem with the dialogue beyond often being borderline incomprehensible and broken. In conversations there are blank spaces between every line of dialogue, so instead of pressing the spacebar or M1 once you have to do it twice. For every line of dialogue. In a visual novel.

I'll give you an example, both of the broken dialogue and of the additional spaces. Here is Jennifer and her brother discussing where their sister is (this is the actual dialogue):

MC (Brother)- "I don't know wish one is her room yet." /Press Spacebar to continue

BLANK SPACE WITH NO DIALOGUE /Press Spacebar to continue

Jennifer- "So am I." /Press Spacebar to continue

BLANK SPACE WITH NO DIALOGUE PLEASE TAKE THIS TIME TO PROCESS WHAT YOUR SISTER JUST SAID /Press Spacebar to continue

The extra spaces need to be removed.

*Side-quibble: Why are Jennifer and her brother's storylines so different? In Jennifer's story, your brother is away and won't be home for a month, and despite having four bedrooms her mother makes her and Ashley share a room. But in the brother's story, he's never left home, and Ashley, he and Jennifer all have their own rooms. It's feckin' weird, man.

*Side-quibble 2: Quibble Harder: Mom says she's going to make Jennifer and Ashley sandwiches, so you go downstairs and the only thing on the table is three GIANT-ASS CHEESEBURGERS, each with a single slice of cheese. What fucking radioactive site are they living next to? And how are those monstrosities sandwiches?!

*Final side-quibble: Oh, and I couldn't make progress in Jennifer's storyline very far at all. I don't know if there just isn't any content beyond teenage mutant cheeseburger breakfast with mom and Ashley, but I couldn't find any. Finally, in Jennifer's story the game will CTD when you try to interact with the shower in the bathroom, so be warned of that.

Back to main story (the Brother's path) problems. The first thing you do when you take control of the brother after finding out you need a copy of Windows for the new computer mom bought you with forever-money, is go to your sister's room and get an erection staring at her in her underwear. Naturally. The serious, 'WTF' problems with the story begin when Jenny chastises you for your boner.

Brother's explanation for the boner, and more importantly, why she should feel bad for him and his boner, goes like this. So the brother asked a girl and out she said no, so he went NOFAP. After that, he had erections all the time (because he wasn't masturbating) so their mother took him to the doctor who gave him some pills and instructed him to have a 'normal sexial life'. So he goes to a friend's party and his friend takes him upstairs to a bedroom and inside the bedroom is a naked girl on a bed. And his problem with this is, he can't get it up.

All of this is explained through dialogue only (no images, no flashback, and remember those double clicks for every line of dialogue!) to his sister, in her bedroom, while she stands in lingerie. And his sister's problem with the story is that he didn't fuck the random naked girl on the bed. We don't even know if the girl was conscious or passed out or knew him at all.

As the main character puts it, "Yeh. I can't had erection when I'm nerveus or unconfrontebal."

But GOOD NEWS! He doesn't feel "unconfortobal or nurves" with his sister, so maybe she could "help him masturbation on." Because he really needs help from a girl that he feels "confortebal" with. This is not me mocking the developer by making up random misspelled words. These are the actual words used, in quotes. Every time certain words are used, they are misspelled differently, as if a word pops into the dev's head and he just throws caution to the wind and spells it however it sounds at that moment, consistency and little red squiggly lines be damned.

Anyway, after his sister refuses to give him a hand-jammy he goes downstairs to talk to his mother (who is also just wearing panties) and gets an erection while hugging her. She reminds him that he needs to get a girlfriend because of his medical condition. His medical condition of... getting erections because he went NOFAP.

This is currently the incestuous thrust of the plot. The main character got turned down by a girl and refuses to masturbate, so he gets erections. That's a medical condition (requiring pills?!), apparently. And the only way to solve this 'medical condition' is to fuck that fam. Are you as turned on right now as I am?

On the bright side, you can eventually go out to the pool and have your aunt try to hire you to take high quality pictures for her lingerie line or something. Perhaps that plot thread might wind up feeling more grounded in reality, once the text gets cleaned up.

I told you I wouldn't go over nine thousand. I won't. I'll end it here for now. But I will say that this story, currently, is an erotic tale as told by a sexually vanilla linebacker who took one too many hits to the head and then kept playing for three more seasons.

For Christ's sake, the name of the game isn't even "Shuttered Memories." It's "Shutteder Memories."

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See! Where else would you find a game that gives you so much entertainment? :rolleyes: That it was not intentionally funny is a different matter.

I'm more bothered by the coding errors. Tasks have to be done in a rigid sequence, but there are no hints on where to go and what to do. Certain areas get blocked depending on what you have to do next. Even the arrows on the map don't always work. That's not free roam.
Hovering over a door or a map location should show a label.
Trying to go to the wrong room or location is a good place to show a hint - "I need to do this first." There are a few hints, sure, but not always where they are needed.

This is probably the dev's first attempt, so let's not pound on him too much. He'll get better. The Engrish is atrocious, but we were able to understand what he meant, so fixing the grammar shouldn't be too tough.
 
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See! Where else would you find a game that gives you so much entertainment? :rolleyes: That it was not intentionally funny is a different matter.

I'm more bothered by the coding errors. Tasks have to be done in a rigid sequence, but there are no hints on where to go and what to do. Certain areas get blocked depending on what you have to do next. Even the arrows on the map don't always work. That's not free roam.
Hovering over a door or a map location should show a label.
Trying to go to the wrong room or location is a good place to show a hint - "I need to do this first." There are a few hints, sure, but not always where they are needed.

This is probably the dev's first attempt, so let's not pound on him too much. He'll get better. The Engrish is atrocious, but we were able to understand what he meant, so fixing the grammar shouldn't be too tough.
Agreed on all points. The crash to desktop in the bathroom bothers me more than the sunscreen lotion. It's one thing if there's legitimately no more content available, but it's something else if there's a leak that's been left unplugged. I don't enjoy getting unceremoniously kicked out of a game.

But yes, minimal pounding. I really was trying to be fair, and I really like the promise shown with the multiple points tracking. If I'd outright hated this I would not have written anything about it. And I'd love to play a visual novel version of that old Jodi West sink-scene in the kitchen. But that writing has to be fixed at some point in the near future if this is going to find its legs.

I really should have taken a screenshot of the breakfast scene in Jennifer's story. The image of three supermodels sitting at breakfast table in an otherwise barren room with just monstrous cheeseburgers for each of them, speaking in broken English at each other. It would have summed up everything wrong and entertaining with the game.
 
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Overview:
After untimely death of the father, the family moved to new town to start a new life but will it be that easy?​

Thread Updated: 2020-06-15
Release Date: 2020-06-15
Developer: Adults City - F95zone
Censored: No
Version: 0.1
OS: Windows, Mac, Android
Language: English
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In 99% of the incest games the father always dies.
Why the father cannot be part of the game
after all in all games MC always has sisters?
This is an idea not a criticism
Apart this, the characters are interesting
 

Faptime

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In 99% of the incest games the father always dies.
Why the father cannot be part of the game
after all in all games MC always has sisters?
This is an idea not a criticism
Apart this, the characters are interesting
Because if you have another related male in an incest game, the thread gets dominated with terrified questions about NTR content.

Also, if the Father is removed from the game, it leaves the door open for the son to become the "man of the house" and fuck his Mom.
 

Specter2470

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Oh, God, another broken English game! Makes it painful to read, let alone to try and get into the "story" (loosely referred to as a story - it's the same fucking trope over and over again).
 

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Here's a brief translation list of the dev's broken english into actual English for those who need it.

confortebal = comfortable; bye = buy; bayed = paid; vegetabel = vegetable; neirby = nearby; relly = really; tolk = talk; body = buddy; custumer = customer; steppen = stepping; ow = oh

I get it - he, like most Dev's here, is not a native English speaker. But the majority use some sort of translation software; this guy is sounding it out like a 4 year old.
 
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Here's a brief translation list of the dev's broken english into actual English for those who need it.

confortebal = comfortable; bye = buy; bayed = paid; vegetabel = vegetable; neirby = nearby; relly = really; tolk = talk; body = buddy; custumer = customer; steppen = stepping; ow = oh

I get it - he, like most Dev's here, is not a native English speaker. But the majority use some sort of translation software; this guy is sounding it out like a 4 year old.
i think he is writting them how he hears them
 

ontach

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Here's a brief translation list of the dev's broken english into actual English for those who need it.

confortebal = comfortable; bye = buy; bayed = paid; vegetabel = vegetable; neirby = nearby; relly = really; tolk = talk; body = buddy; custumer = customer; steppen = stepping; ow = oh

I get it - he, like most Dev's here, is not a native English speaker. But the majority use some sort of translation software; this guy is sounding it out like a 4 year old.
bayed = bought
 

annubis39

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I don't mind the bad English and poor grammar but I just cannot accept the fact that the saving mechanic is broken and the sunscreen quest is not even a quest.

For example: I save in the living room and when I load, I entered the phone shop!

The sunscreen quest just makes the stairs arrow icon disappear, so I thought the dev might want me to try the poolside windows but it is not usable either..

Need to wait for more updates to see the bug fixes and the content.

Did anyone see the phone shop having some cool equips? Drone, Camera and Phone? It is also buggy

Overall a good v0.1 but I have seen better. Keep it up! (English is not the utmost priority at this point :) )
 

middo91

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I'm a few minutes in and the spelling and grammar are terrible, Not sure how I feel about the story because I'm too focused on the spelling. Images look good though
 

JZimmerman

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Well, the graphics look great and its not a visual novel... so far so good. Hopefully there will be some good mother son content!
 
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I mean on the one hand, I guess kudos to the dev for publishing their spin on "keeping it in the family" for the world to see.

Even simply rewriting some dialogue for shits and giggles can take its sweet time, let alone creating renders yourself, writing the entire dialogue for a game, creating some consistency of what you can buy where and when etc. I also like the idea of having the ability to play different characters and seeing the story unfold from their respective povs.

But fuck me man, have someone proof-read your dialogue or use the yandex-, deepl- or whatever translator is more suitable for your mother tongue. Heck even the google translator would at least avoid spelling errors ... I knew it was going to be a ride from the other comments, but how the fuck do you even mix up "mind" with "ming"? Not getting a "This is the end of v0.1!" message can be chalked up as something that'll be ironed out later on, just like saving in the kitchen as the male protagonist when there's nothing left to do and starting back at the electronics store when loading the save.

But I'm just going to have to ask for a big #oof for these lines concerning chocolate in the init.rpy:

$ choco0 = True
$ choco00 = False
$ choco = True
$ choco = 1
$ chocoo = False

Yes, you have to somehow keep track of the items available in the store, items in the player inventory and items "delivered" to whoever wanted you to buy something, but this just screams headache for when you have like 20 different items later on, that are buyable on different days and different people want you to buy different amounts. Give them some speaking names before you end up with "$ choocoooo000217 = Maybe" or something like that.
 
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After talking with aunt, i can not go upstairs?? Ihad to get sunscreen?