VN - Ren'Py - Sinful Life [S3 Ep.11] [BoomX]

Boring life - Bored me to death

The story - Seemed all over the place and was very confusing

The writing: confusing and uninteresting

The renders: Seemed okay

The models: models seemed okay

To summarise: I played through most of the content and was bored by the end of it, story seemed confusing and uninteresting. I'd rate this a 2.5/5

The game starts with a strong premise and solid UI work, Really the UI really stands out. But then it quickly falls apart

While some individual visuals are fine the graphics overall feel off. The characters dont look appealing, which is rare considering so many of the same generic things have been used in the game in terms of environment. If everything is going to be generic nothing wrong, just focus on better story telling.

Actually I went through the game again, it is the subject and background colour in a lot of image, not only is it not pleasing it has an aggressively unconnected colour palette used.


There are way too many characters and most are not particularly attractive or memorable Also the story wastes its potential by falling into the same tired guy with three women setup Dialogue is overly repeating itself and rarely adds value dragging down both pacing and character depth What could have been unique ends up feeling generic in a bad way and forgettable

One time play, if you have patience!

There are so many inconsistencies in this game that it’s hard to focus on the main story. Furthermore, everything is forced on you, you have sex with a lot of women without any kind of build-up, you f*ck almost all them the first or second time you meet them, no place for romance, the MC comes, empty his balls, and leaves. It’s a harem game but still, a bit of feeling doesn’t hurt if you want to make a good story. And the dev must have Alzheimer because some girls are introduced and then they disappear completely from the story, like Lana, who is pissed because MC never visited or contacted her again after having sex with her, and he never visits her again anyway. Or Leah (introduced in episode 10), who he was supposed to have a lunch with the next day but it never happened, so why introducing her in the first place? One girl, Kim, even totally changes appearance and attitude the next time we see her, going from a cutie to a slut, physically and verbally.

Anyway, there are too many wrong things in this game to list them all, and it’s a shame really, because the foundation is good and would make a great game if the dev was consistent, include a bit of romance, and would offer more choices so that we can reject some of the girls. Btw, be aware that even if you want to reject the dean Quinn in season 2, the variable is still set to ‘iwanther’, you have to change it yourself to ‘idontwanther’ and do it again in season 3 because it’s back to ‘iwanther’. Apart from the 2 shemales, Katie and Valeri, Quinn is the only woman you can reject so feel free to do so, especially since she’s insufferable.

This one is poor, IMO. First of all, the story has no interest and soon lost my attention. Together with that, the girls aren't that interesting as far as character and personality and lot of things just seem to happen "because". There are plenty of choices, but none of them matter at all, only those marked as "harem" or "share" put you on a specific path which modifies a few sex scenes but that's it.

Render quality is decent, but not great, and so are character models. Animations are done decently as well, but a bit basic and short. And the use almost exclusively of the POV camera means there are lots of things you can't see and things get a bit repetitive (and it makes no sense with the amount of kissing there is). There is no sound (might be music, I always turn it off so not sure) and at least in my playthrough up to S3 Ep 11, I found no bugs.

There is quite a decent amount of content between all seasons, but it's just poor. Probably better to dedicate the attention and time to other games.

Sinful Life [Ep.10] I want to give it a 3 1/2 stars the story is pretty interesting and there are a ton of girls. The dialog was ok and I found the sex scenes kind of boring at the beginning to be kind of boring but the further I went the better it got. I'm looking forward to see more of this.

I enjoyed every minute I played. Its just perfect. The still renders are amazing and lively.
Yes, the animations are horrible but I'm sure if the dev manage to replace them with good ones, this will be one of the top 10 games I've ever played.

English:..........7/10
User Interface:...6/10
User Experience:..7/10
Art:..............5/10
Dialogue:.........5/10
Story:............3/10
Opinion:..........2/10................
Avg:...........5.0/10 [2.5/5]

I really have to say this, I'm getting exhausted playing and reviewing games that are pretty much just carbon copies of each other over and over and over again. It's also very taxing being one of the few people that don't just give a game a perfect rating because the girls are hot. I understand the "adult gaming" space is a very weird place, but the fact I can read a game's description, look at the previews, and instantly know what's going to happen in the non-story, as well as the most frequent reviews, is pitiful. It feels like EA/Ubisoft type games out here. No innovation, effort, or soul. Just "Here is this framework of a game and story that you paid for before, but again!!" All that being said, this boiled down to another big business/corporate espionage/mafia story. MCs dad uncovered the wrong thing, he's dead, son wants revenge. But only AFTER he makes vivid cringey notes of every woman's tits and asses. You know, all the thoughts YOU, the player, should say to yourself? Nah, the writer will tell you what to think about every female on screen at all times. There's plenty of issues with this though so let's get through this.

The game opens up to MC narrating his deepest personal trauma to himself in an old car on a dusty road. Apparently, his dad was killed by someone with a pentagram symbol on their arm for unknown reasons. And, since that moment in time, MC has done NOTHING with that information. Why he's just now trying to get revenge, or even looking for information? Who knows. So MC moves in with a surrogate mother type, Scarlett, as a base of operations in "Sinful City." Couldn't call it sin city, or just anything else, there is a city with the actual name Sinful City in this universe. Right. So you do the typical meets of: Mom, younger daughter, older daughter, neighbor, neighbor's mom, coffee girl yadda yadda. All the tropes you've seen before because originality is dead. The first girl MC meets, not in the house he's staying, pretty much says "Let's date, make sure to fuck other girls!" All while all the women act like virgin-esque pure maidens by day and cock goblins by night, soon after the writer has exhausted their one personality trait. Anywho It's all idle nothings for the first few chapters, all MC learns is Scarlett had a shoebox with three items in it that had the pentagram from before. Also, the dean of the school looks like a comically evil woman and her picture was in the box. So suspect number one. So far every chapter is structured like this: Story exposition, N O T H I N G that matters for the rest of the chapter, then it ends on a story beat that is continued in the next chapter. Sure, you get a minor tidbit of information here and there, but if you separated the sex from the story, neither would be impacted and both would probably do better on their own.

So, skip ahead a few contrivances, MC is alone at the spa he works at with no interview, training, or help of any kind. Scarlett's girlfriend shows up and SOMEHOW, at a spa, that would need trained professionals, MC dumbly just says "Sorry I'm the only one here." WHY is there no one there? Why did she accept a massage from someone not trained to do so? Does no one realize that place could be sued for this? Why does MC go along with it because he 'gave a massage once'? Why am I thinking critically about a dumb porn game? WHO KNOWS. MC also gives her a happy ending, you know the woman dating Scarlett? The one she just confided in MC for having troubles with? MC is a dick. Violet is a dick. She also laughs off MC sneaking on her gated property to spy in her window on them with "You're one curious boy." Even IF she's part of this conspiracy, that we DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT YET, that was a dumb set of events. Also, MC now has TWO jobs, about to start college on a whim, and trying to learn any iota of evidence about his father's death. All while romancing 12 women. Where would any human have the time or energy? Luckily this is a porn game and jobs only last as long as the plot requires, I guess. And piecing what little you get together... The whole upper class is a devil worshipping sex cult trying to summon the two devils to earth. Right. And everything MC does is hilariously blatant and if this were remotely real, he'd have been caught as he went to the college the first time, I would wager. I also find it funny that Emma disappears for more than a whole chapter, already tired of her?

Eventually, the detective FINALLY tries to get more information with MC. But they go to someone's house and the girls start having sex. So, instead of hiding and waiting, or using that time to sneak in, or just not staring into a brightly lit GIANT bay window, they sit right outside the giant brightly lit bay window and describe the sex they're having? Then, when they stop, Angie just says "Welp we did nothing, sorry for wasting your time, bye." What was the point of that? For her to say "Get to know Olivia more"? That could have been the whole phone call. And MC's reluctance to talk with Lexi about his dad's death is odd, considering he told one of the other girls when they first met. Why is it a secret to say "My dad died and I'm sad"? He's being weird avoiding the question as much as it is odd she interrogates him. It's even dumber when her and her frog mouth walk in on MC in the comical satanic room that's hidden in the school. They're about to be caught, so what does MC do? Grind his dick on her while risking possible death. This man is the reason grading on a curve was invented. Then, because no event can happen on its own, just about every LI MC meets is mad at him for one reason or another. Lexi? He forgot to meet her. Allison? He asked what she got in the mail? Lana? Shows up to the coffee show with Lexi and she assumes it's a date, but MC thinks he deserves that even though she hasn't been in the story since chapter one. Every interaction MC has is beyond dumb. Every advancement of the plot makes no sense, in terms of how it happens. And everyone involved is a moron. Leading to the cliffhanger at episode six. Big shocker there.

In the second game, I will say the renders noticeably improve, but it just kinda looks like every other DAZ game out there now. The first game, every sex scene looked almost worse than the one before it. If it wasn't grainy, the lighting would be terrible, or there would be a bunch of artifacting, or just plain blurry. And the stills weren't much better. The backgrounds would just randomly move around render to render, inconsistent lighting, or poor composition. And if I have to watch this idiot look down at his crotch in his tidey whities one more time, I might scream. WE, the players, that are 99% male, don't need to see him look at his crotch as he wakes up, sit on the bed while still looking at his crotch, stand up while still looking at his crotch now in sneakers and underwear, have him move to the bathroom then look at his dick again in the shower. Same as him going to bed. A black screen with "The Next Day" would suffice. Who are these renders for? I'm genuinely confused. And in part two, I think MC picks up TWO more jobs. My god, it's like a joke at this point. And I gotta be honest, story-wise I kinda checked out. The sex scenes aren't even good and depending on the character that was on screen I knew when I could just skip everything. So the story's not compelling, the sex scenes aren't sexy, and the dialogue is boring as sin. Why play this game? And after this point, MC just sexually assaults Quinn every chance he gets, so on top of being a dick and complete moron, he's a rapist. I really couldn't be bothered to continue this.

The English is almost there. It was obviously written by someone that doesn't speak it natively, but it's not Engrish levels of terrible. The UI/UX was heavily customized, it's still just renpy with a twist, and they switch back to the default textbox in the second part, but good effort. The art is woefully inconsistent. Sure, it got better, but a lot of the previous version should be silently touched up. The dialogue and story are boring. If they're not boring then the events are actually just plain stupid. It's kind of a shame, really. Could I imagine a world where this is better? Sure. A devil worshipping sex cult with a murder mystery could have done great. But the MC and every decision that's made are laughable at best. If you liked what little story there was in the beginning, I share your disappointment. Even the minor conflicts with Lexi made this somewhat interesting, but it becomes "MC walks room to room to have sex with the woman, whether she wants to or not.

Not really a fan a forced sex scenes and it happens here all the time. Most of the choices dont really do anything and annoying characters are just being forced on you.
Some good things are there, like the milfs and futas, but otherwise its just click, click, click.
Didnt really pay much attention to the story, as the lack of choices triggered my ocd and most of the time i was just skipping.
in Episode 8, what i feared happened. Sex with an annoying character, who i would have preferred to ignore. Wont be playing again after this.

PS - went through the script as well and dont see the choices setting any persistent variables, so looks like they are just for dialogue.

Sinful Life is a story that at first, seems like a murder mystery on the surface but becomes much more as it goes on. After getting through chapter 6, I really was disappointed with it. Not so much with the plot and premise itself, but more in the how it is put together.

The plot line really isn't anything new. It has the typical tropes that you see in most other stories. Mom dies at childbirth, Dad is murdered by some strange organization and surviving son seeks revenge. There is also a strong Harem element if you choose to go that route. The good thing about the story is in how it is setup. Although it really isn't unique, it does use a unique approach in that you are slowly fed information as the story progresses.

So why two stars?

The visuals, while rendered in high resolution are full of artifacts. There are many areas where the lighting and shading are poorly implemented leading to shadows that wash out the characters facial expressions and cloud the eyes. There are times when the renders are spot on and others where they appear blocky in places. There are alot of blank screens that are used when there isn't a need for it. They are often used in areas where you really what to see what is going on and almost always happen during a kiss or other intimate activity which is very annoying.

Ultimately the things that make this story worthy of 2 stars is the writing. There are inconsistencies that are just ridiculous. Just to highlight a few.

MC steals a key to open a secret door. He then returns the key later. During the same scene he is with the keys owner when her mother knocks on the door. The mother asks for the key that the MC had just returned. She then explains that the key is no longer needed because a keypad lock has been installed. The next time the MC tries to open the door, he does so WITH A KEY! There is no keypad on the door of any kind. While in the secret room another character enters through the open door and confronts him. He later tells the girl that he saw someone enter the "combination" on the keypad and used it to get in. As I said earlier, he uses a key and there is not keypad!

The next inconsistency and perhaps the worst one in the whole story thus far was a decision that you make while the MC is visiting another character. One decision leads to a sex scene with a character, while the other decision has the MC refusing to give the character any answers to her questions causing her to storm off out of anger. Regardless of the decision you make, the next scene has the MC talking to another character as if the decision was made to have sex with the first character. The dialog is exactly the same. EXACTLY.

The character building is just all over the place. You have one character that cant stand the MC and yet, for 6 chapters you have no clue whatsoever as to why. You aren't given a single clue about it. The dialog between the MC and that character and their banter is just stupid and like the other characters is just all over the place. You have another character that from the first time she meets the MC, has issues with him yet out of the blue, she rips of her clothes and has sex with him out of nowhere.

I could go on and on, but the plain truth is that this story as a whole is just all over the place. The inconsistencies kill the flow and leave you scratching your head as to what is going on.

I am hoping things will improve with the story and begin to work better but after 6 chapters I really do not see that happening

Animations - 3/5
Renders - 4/5
Story - 4/5
Models - 5/5
Music - 2/5
Overall Gameplay - 4/5

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Sinful Life is a game with excellent story but the choices does not matter much. The choices make little to no change at all in the story plot. The renders are okay but animations need some more work. The models are great. The background music is not at all good or incorrectly synced.

I thought of giving 3 stars to this game. But the story is still incomplete and renders can be improved. So I'm giving 4 stars now.

The review will be updated once again when the game is finished.

Good Points
+ Prologue starts kind of interesting with some kind of revenge story.

Bad Points
- Prologue, story or main character is not well writed and we could even say they are kind of poorly writed...
- We have literaly zero mattered choices can effect things...
- Render quality looks bad, i mean yeah we have some characters have potencial to look good but poor quality of game and bad art style destroys that potencial.
- Sex scene animations are not good. Their quality looks bad and their physics are meh.

For The End
Its pretty much terrible...

The Renders are GORGEOUS.
The Story & Characters are SOLID.
The ONLY downside is that this is a non-interactive visual novel.
This could be one of the greatest pieces of the Adult Visual Novel genre, but I'm deducting 1 star because fails as a game.
There are numerous points in the story where the player could be given choices (even if it was just YES I want sexytime now or NO I want to skip that part) yet it doesn't happen. So, for all the praise I want to throw on this "game", I find myself getting weary and even a little bored while playing it.
Version 0.5 (Episode 5) 2022-02-28

+
Renders are good
-
Its an KN! you have NO realy choices.
The MC must fuck all girls no matter what.
All girls jumps on the MC dick. (No building up.)
"Story" is bad and boaring.
Its like "Bimbo high" without bimbos...

Sinful Life [Ep. 4] review -
PROS -
Average renders , Few good looking females - Added 1 star for it .
CONS -
Poor story in general and Main Character lacks personality .
Writing is simply horrible . There is not even a single choices in the initial chapters - You can't even choose which girl you would like to pursue or say anything back to the Scarlet daughter who acts like a bitch towards you in the first few chapters , dev only wants the game to go in his way and in the later chapters there is no meaningful choices - Eg . Truth or Dare choices , Tease her or not .
And all female characters want to jump into MC with no reason who didn't have any sex experience before coming into the town .
So not worth playing as a whole ,in the end I skipped all the dialogues which is plain boring and played only for the sex scenes .

I reuse part of my posting in the thread ...
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Sorry, but the story and the writing are laughable - yeah its a porn game, and for that it might work for some ppl - but not for me.

After the visit of at the school and the dean I just skipped thru - there are very few choices and up to the point I skipped all sex scenes were forced and you had no choice to avoid them.

The renders are serviceable. But especially backgrounds move and change a lot. The girls are solid - nothing special.

Skipped thru the content. It seems you dont have much say in the story. You can enable a shemale character (or she will be female I guess) but if you do that you cant avoid her so be sure what you pick. Then there are several girls and not much what you can do to avoid them it seems.

So just a bad written cruise-missile-pussy game where every pussy is jumping on the MCs cock.

When you dont want more than some solid rendered walking pussies that get fucked, then I guess you can have fun with the game.

But when you want well (or even solid) written characters or dialog and a believable plot, then you wont find it here.

It's a good game with a good background story and a MC that's OK! The girls are pretty and different and there are some lewd stuff happening. The build up could be a little better and the animations are not top notch, but OK!

The last two things, build up and lewd animations is why I end up with 4* of 5 possible! Still, I'll continue to play it and there was no problem to go on with the story after waiting some time for the upgrade. (Some games I've stopped playing if the continue of the story doesn't feel natural!)

good game

A story with some evil side and some dark secret quiet good
Render and caractere's are good but can be developped a little be more.

but for me it miss some shemale, thats pity we cannot choose genders of some female caractere it will be more interesting..And not only with exagerating cocks

Also the choice we can made in path story are so binary with yes / no
question
A developpement of this is really needed for the interest of game..

let see in futur up date, i fallow this one for now

lets see in futur up date

So, I would like to be generous give it a bit of opportunity to grow. I will be listing the pros and cons of the game:

PROS:
1. Renders are good;
2. Models look nice;
3. The game has many choices;
4. The story is paced well;

Cons:
1. Writing needs improvement;
2. The characters lack personality;
3. The story is kinda meh sometimes;

Games like this tend to have problems and there is room for improvement.

Fun game with lots of beautiful women to choose from. The story of the Main Character looking for an ancient symbol. Quickly become one of my favorite games. Worth checking out. The only knock is that some of the animations seem to stutter a bit.

Sinful Life [Ep.3 Final] review -
Downloaded the game for the nice models in the overview , loved how the game stared and story set up with revenge / dark path finding the killer of the main character father . There were little to none choices in the beginning of the game and continued the same till the end .And I was disappointed with lack of choices and sudden change in story direction in the middle of the game when I was playing where Main character encourages other NPC to pursue one of the love interest to gain information / advantage and I have no option to say no or yes in that matter . And the game seems to filled by errors and dialogues are a bit boring . It would be nice if the planned tags are added in the beginning of the game as dev notes / spoilers so those who don't play those game tags can avoid those games .
Overall very few choices with no freedom of story progression a VN and errors and story direction been a huge downfall to this game .
( Note to myself read reviews and thread before trying any game )