VN - Ren'Py - Sinflux Chronicles [v0.35B] [SnappoX]

VERSION:v.35B
SUMMARY: Mediocre on most fronts.
RATINGS: (out of 5): ⭐⭐

NOTE: The following categories and scoring method are my own criteria and may require more context. Additionally, scoring is based on the state, and what is in the current version and not what may or may not be introduced at a later point.

1. Character (Model) Visuals......... : ⭐⭐⭐
2. General (World) Visuals........... : ⭐
3. Animation Quality................. : ⭐⭐⭐
4. Character Personality(Persona).... : ⭐⭐⭐
5. Story & Dialogue.................. : ⭐⭐
6. Writing & Grammar................. : ⭐⭐⭐
7. UX/UI, Game Type & Mechanics.......: ⭐⭐
8. Playtime & Pacing..................: ⭐⭐⭐
9. Music & Sounds.....................: ⭐
10. Adult Content & Fetishes.......... : ⭐⭐⭐

Average: X of 50 possible points giving a X% rating i.e. X stars.

PROS: - See my opinions section for details.

1. Animations/physics look OK, not bad, but a bit much in some cases with jiggling. In other cases, the animations look actually decent, but again inconsistent quality throughout the game.
2. LIs look generally rather good, bit on the voluptuous side of things and that's me being nice, its actually out of proportion by a large margin.
3. Writing isn't bad, it reads and is structured fine enough.
4. Story is semi-interesting, but completely disjointed.

CONS: - See my opinions section for details.

1. Inconsistent lighting, complexion. First place I noticed the MC on train, skin colour change from a more pale to yellow almost like he has jaundice.
2. Renders are not really great in terms of quality, they don't look polished and are often grainy and show a dated or low level of design quality. Colours are oversaturated and bright. There is also a dullness to many renders. MC hair looks like weeds sprouting on his scalp, over all poor lighting and just not nearly enough polish.
3. Per above, this applies to animations also, jagged movements not syncing up or flowing nicely, short animations that don't loop smoothly.
4. Animations jiggling is a bit much, like someone is debuting jiggle physics. e.g. the train ride and the girl jiggling when we all know trains do not shake that way, the developer can learn to be a bit more subtle and tone that down please.
5. Story is a little abrupt and can use more context and background, set the stage damnit.
6. Beyond that the flow and how the story/plot unfolds, interactions are so erratic, you don't know if you coming or going. Like dealing with schizophrenic characters. The MC goes from 0-200 and in one slide previous and LI is not interested, in the next she is...WTF
7. No sounds, not any I could hear anyway. Pity as it gives more immersion.
8. UX/UI has no dialogue box setting or font size which can be nice for those bright scenes where text blends in too much.

OPINIONS, SUGGESTIONS & FINAL REMARKS:

NOTE: The following remarks are my personal opinions and thoughts, which may provide more context and could be useful to the developer. (Read them or don't)

• Per the sudden story and context, the woman kicks the MC out for being being NAFI (No Ambitions and Fuck-all Interests) sure I get that, but give more context, what did he do or not do, give some background to their relationship and how it got to the point it did.
• Per above point, clearly there are some supernatural elements in play, its in your face at the very start, why not give this some more context. Like creating an intro, setting the stage to suggest to the player that the world they are in is not as it seems, there are forces at play that defy the natural or are simply inexplicable as the MC is about to learn the hard way...or something to that effect, instead of just dropping you into it.

TLDR:

Not sure how to rate this really, its premise seems to be actually OK, renders are passable and writing is also, its the flow, execution and how things are done/play out that do not fit and gives the player whiplash. You need to be smoking some strong shit to keep up with the "erraticness" of this AVN... its an inconsistent mess that requires more revision before releasing anything else...frankly this game is such a mess that I would say that there was no plan with its development, it was a matter of "what bullshit can I add today" type of development.

Animations are 10/10. This game is a 10/10. Don't listen to the haters and play it. Only problem is that it's not finished yet. This game is AWESOME. This game is AWESOME. This game is AWESOME. This game is AWESOME.

v0.03

Story idea is very imaginative. Idea of MC living same days multiple times should work well with AVN games where people like to check other options anyway.
Sadly the execution is really bad. You need to skip long parts of the game multiple times and that does not make the reading experience natural. Minigames, powers, etc. make it more like a puzzle game, and less like a story driven AVN.

Positive about writing is that it is good clean English.
Negative is that it does make the MC as a person who has no idea how to speak or interact with the women. He talks to them like they are his buddies in high school and like they are made for him to be his playthings. Groping a woman until "No!" turns to "Yes!" is not done with good taste. How the women characters behave to MCs harassment is not believable and makes the situations just weirder.

Animations are really good and specially physics look amazing. This looks like it is done with virt-a-mate.
Weird shadows sources and lack of shadow quality do make the game look unnatural and rough. It also has stock assets feel overall. Everything else looks like shit, when comparing to women body quality. Limitations of the game engine do show.

I have played hundreds of adult games, and I have to say that this game has great potential and is underestimated. The very hot Milf appearance is almost original.

The rendering may not be top-notch, but it is of standard. The most unexpected thing is the animation. The movements and swings of various details of the body are very natural and close to reality. It is not a general stiff moving animation. Therefore, the outstanding animation completely won my heart. Please continue to update, I am looking forward to it!

This is to all the one starers! This game is worth no less than three IMO! It has flaws But The physics and animations are second to none. It follows a "groundhog day" approach, Were the story unfolds each time you replay it Please Dev Don't let the doubters put you off And keep up the good work..

Bus Girl - Rides the subway ?

Story 3/10

The disconnect between visuals and text is insane. The story is boring.

Art/Renders 5/10

The characters look good, the physics are decent, the loops are terribly bad.
This really takes me out of it, they're obviously 1 second gifs on loop (a chopy loop).
The backgrounds are absolutely terrible. Overall feels really dated.

Gameplay 3/10

No gameplay whatsoever. You can replay days for different content, but it doesn't really matter in the long run.

Amount of Content 3/10

Almost nothing here, 2 days with a few loops thrown in.

Overall this has potential but all the scenes have to be redone (looped properly) and rewritten. I'll revisit this game, and this review will most likely go up to a 3 if some of the issues are fixed.

Turns into a clickfest almost immediately since there are only 3 or 4 words per image....

Not sure why you define relationships with the characters if you are still just going to call them by their first names.

Poor/silly writing. Probably a good one for the old skip pile....

Grainy annoying graphics considering it's over 2Gb.
Poor lighting.
Hasn't been proofread.
The backgrounds can change multiple times during a scene which doesn't make any sense.

Annoying things like all of the mc's clothes get lost during a move yet his new bedroom has a closet full of clothing that fits.... Not sure why, that just seemed ignorant....lol

Didn't seem to improve as it went on so I deleted it pretty quickly. I accidentally downloaded this game again and it's still just as bad.

Not afraid to do some hard core fets and good choice of render program, some titillating scenes already, will be keeping an eye on.
Unfortunately it has branching choices with little guidance, would benefit from some streamlining, and on occasion single choice "options" which just stall the action.
It's 3.5ish so I'll round up to 4 since it's relatively new and will likely add adult content and patch up the renders some,and hopefully streamline paths some or allow going back to try other choices and fix the odd bug or dead end as it progresses.

V. 0.01c

The game is a confusing mess of one scene following another, with almost no time to grasp the story or whatever just happened. It seems to be about rape, supernatural powers and some sort of succubi- that is what I understood without any help from the game (because it still hasn't explained anything to me).
Because of that the "story" is almost non-existent, the dialogues are stupid and very flat ("Don't grab my tits!" - "Chill out, it's nothing"-style)

The renders and the engine are solid, but not detailed. At least, there are physics, and it works quite well.

I will follow the development with high doubts and hope for a better progression of the game.

Love the story-line and models that are shown except the mc's ugly mug,
The renders are good but the lighting is off and the UI is just terrible everything feels clunky ,
Giving it a 4 stars in hopes that the dev can improve upon things.

There is misspelling and incorrect grammar in some places but nothing to distracting. The story is interesting and is different. It would be nice to see this followed up with by the developer, but it has the feel of being an experiment but will see. Definitely earned 4 stars.

Sinflux Chronicles 0.03

I forgot to update my review. In some ways, the game is getting worse. The dev is always changing stuff. One thing that I don't like is the changes he made to the train and the girl at the very beginning of the game. it was so much hotter before. Before it looked supernatural, scary, gritty, and extremely sexy. Now it is a cleaner, more modern train, and the girl looks a lot worse. Still a a good game though. But I'm going to drop the rating to four stars because its not a perfect game that I can't get enough of. Its just a good game with some hot milfs.

I will add more to my review later.

Sinflux Chronicles 0.1b

I previously played v0.1 and there was a lot that I did not like about the game. I gave it a harsh review. The developer actually redid the entire game within a week (version 0.1b) and improved it drastically. It looks like a promising game. I'll write more on this later. But at a glance, the first girl on the train looked great. The lighting looked good on the train. One thing is that the game could use some sound. Like music and other stuff like walking, breathing, footsteps, etc.

Very nice animations. cool dialogs. But not enough rape stuff.
Renders are good too,

unusual plot, it seemed like I saw it and fucked it, but it didn’t seem like it, in short, the developer came up with something new and I liked it. The moment with forced sex, the desire is reflected in a really cool way. I wish we had more developers doing something like this. But again, in my opinion, there are not enough moments of forced sex.