VN - Ren'Py - Sinful Summer: A Tale of Forbidden Love [Ch. 2.5] [Ruykiru]

An excellent game if you are into incest since so far it only focuses on that. The game takes time to set up the characters and the diferent ways they deal with the taboo of incest. Really looking forward to see how it continues. It also has pretty good animations and the game switching POV works really well, especially given the subject of the game.

With each update the game getting better and better, no disappointment.

The slow build up gives more meaning to the story well for my taste.

I really like the small audio cues, the camera angles, especially when showing the scene from the character perspective, feels immersive.

I'm really interested in how the story unfold given the fact what we already seen.

You hit the sweet spot for me, with less characters and more detailed intimate moments.

I'm wondering whether we getting a harem or we have to make a painful choice. Lets hope fore the first one

As far as chapter 2.3 this one is great.
Visuals are beautiful and tasteful. Script is engaging, touchy and fun. Models are hot, especially mum
I hope dev would keep doing what he is doing and this one would be one of the best on the site.

A very nice gem of an incest game in an ocean of diluted, milked, and abused genre. Truly focusing on the important bits:

• Immersion: You can easily get in the head of the characters, and it does not give you the whole story of their lives. You are witnessing a life-changing section of their lives.
• Art: Visuals are not hyper-realistic renders, which usually takes unnecessary amount of effort and focus in many other games. Yet, the graphics remain to be highly erotic, as they highlight exactly the what needs to be highlighted: The angles, sometimes smoothness of the skin, the expressions, etc. Not to mention, finally some unique renders other than the standard models of some known 3D software.
• Easy flow: The story and the dialogues flow naturally, and entertainingly. I did not have to skip any lines, which happens quite often in many other games.
• True taboo: I cannot put into words the feelings the game gives the player when it comes to the naughty pleasure of corruption into the forbiddenness of twincest and incest. While playing, I did surely feel excited, afraid, happy, nervous, heart-broken, etc. The whole point of taboo games, stories and porn should be the emotion-cocktail that it offers, not just slapping "sister" on a random female render.

In summary, looking forward to the further development of the game and highly recommend any true enjoyers of taboo games.

Download this game because of high ratings and suprisingly whoever high rated this game seems to be a well known member with at least 2k+ post.
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Well, whatever I download the game, played it to the end, ok I will be honest I don't have any preference like which type of game I like but one thing for sure I don't like ntr/sharing, and this game doesn't have any ntr/sharing scenes, now it's enough for me to try.


1st. I don't like designing of the characters, definitely poor designing even if you used default AI Shoujo models, it will look better than these ugly characters but ngl graphics is good, oh and why I'm saying characters looks ugly? Let's see.....

2nd. In this whole game the annoying, ugliest character is MC's sister, honestly I starting to think she's think her brother is trash (which honestly true in some way) but by the story progress I relieved a little bit at least she gives a tiny bit priority to her brother(MC).
Oh and I read somewhere she's hot and sweet,.......really?
*An annoying gift from hell*

3rd. Did I said anything about MC? Well now is the time, MC is.........truly *PATHETIC* if you want to know how to describe a pathetic men then I think you can learn from this game I guarantee you! Everything about MC shows how can someone so pathetic, let's stop here I don't want to spoil everything in my review I already spoiled too much.

4th. Cringy and dramatic dialogues and scenes like I mean why tf Lyanna push herself to MC while she knows she can't handle her lust? I mean what an airheaded she's.


5th. Honestly when I read the title I thought story might me interesting but story is really boring I only played this novel because my wifi was gone, and still gone for 1 week, and I was pretty bored I saw this game with low mb and I download it, I'm pretty sure I ain't able to continue this game if only Lyanna haven't shown a lil bit of affection towards her pathetic, simp, wimpy, sissy brother.

Well, I'm done here i don't think I'm gonna try this game anymore, only if these accident happen again with me.

My whole review says game is Poor, play only if you have a courage to see this pathetic MC suffering to his dick.

For now I'm done good luck to those who's gonna try this game.

some find it hard to swallow a female mc pushing foward the Wincest, but it feels belivable and interessing. after tons of cest games this one is hot as fuck with the right buildup. m/d m/s is not my cup of tea but is working with the purpose of 'family unit' without a father to not alienate some players with two male leads, still Lyna is a ball of energy and hormones that kept playing with my emotions. people just are sleeping in this game because the hs ish renders, if it was daz3d peope would be putting Lyna photos in portraits already.

I tried to like this, but every time I fired it up I got really drowsy. The sister is a complete psychopath. It's written almost like she is going to turn into a yandere, but I am sure at some point the shy wimpy brother will start to submit to her manipulation and scheming and confuse it with love, or a real relationship. If the brother and sister's roles were reversed this would be a rape tale about a psychotic brother abusing his mentally ill sister. I am not sure who this is supposed to appeal to.

The dev is very talented with writing, I am just not certain of the story they are trying to tell. Renders are unique, sometimes they look good, sometimes they look like one of those ultra closeups they would do in nickelodeon cartoons. The dialogue is a cut above the standard run through a translator that many people have come to expect. Lore building is pretty strong too, with establishing the familial bonds and relationships.

tl;dr if you like shy boy stories and aggressive/dominant women you may like this one.

Quite a rare incest game with three main characters: twins brother and sister and their mother. if someone came just to jerk off, you better be patient for a little while. but this game is worth reading!

The story is very atmospheric, and at same time and slow tension, the little sister spends more time teasing the withdrawn and shy brother, but you will have fun playing and following their plot!

The twins have a forbidden taboo desire that is becoming increasingly difficult to contain, the game partly has drama and it is connected with the main character (Erik), the guy never expected to see the playful side of his sister, and is increasingly trying to push her away from him, partially hurting her( but can we blame him?) so it’s not for nothing that the game is called “Sinful Summer”, that’s the very beginning of their forbidden desire, now that mommy is back, a hot adventure awaits them.

Story: very interesting, melodious, tense and beautiful story with sexual accumulation

Music: singing was very beautiful, also the different soundtracks

Renders: very high quality, I would not rush to conclusions yet, dev still has a lot of work to do and at the same time it looks very high quality, especially these bodies and their sweaty movements are too hot!

Animations: oh yes, it was quite normal, especially during training and the smooth movement is very well done. the night bringing two taboos closer scene was also great.

For those who want something quiet incest game without any other characters, I advise you, you will enjoy such a colorful game

One of the most detailed taboo games you will be able to find, with big emphasis on the relation development and inner thoughts.
There's not much content yet, but the game just released 3 months ago.

The only thing I feel it falls a bit short is in terms of visuals.
Specially the 3D models and the shadowing/ ambient occlussion.
But it is very clear that the dev does all in his hand to counter these limitations by detailing everything else as much as he can.

Very excited about the future of it.
Will for sure follow the development and seriously consider supporting, as he's a new dev that will very much need it.

(((This review is only my opinion about the journey while palying this game, I have very unique views that most of the people wont have, So this review is pretty much for myself. I think the good points still apply. As for the bad points I mention, those can be subjective, they depend on personal tolerance and expectations from each person. If you are lucky and you are not like me, this is a very in the high tier of all the stories of this site. If you are like me, you will aknowledge the parts that are awesome, and also the parts that are not. I rate the actual content of what I played, not the future or what I believe it will become. That will come later when it is released and re-reviewed)))

But bein so picky is still 4/10, and I never got so lucky durinf my academic years, cause when a teacher was picky about my works, he would rate me 2/10 or 1. Take it into account, and play it, a normal person I dont think could have many complaints.

The story in this one is very well told, very very, that whould be out of the way,a dn if the game/story kept its higher quality threshold at all times, this would be massive masterpiece.

But this guy is way too retarded, and the girl in some plot convenient moments also gets retarded and inconsistent in her behavior without a decent explaantion as to why. There there are moments that dont have payoff, like the over under bed scene, and it was done in a very retarded and tropy way. The usual thing where someone comes inside a room, touches an adult and the adult has very poor sight, no sense of smell at all, and very poor hearing.
I mean, I pretty much can tell when my neighbour is leaving the house if I ahve the windows open, cause there is a thing called perfume that has a very strong propagation. I hate when something well written falls into this shitty stuff, and i ahte it more when it doesnt pay off.
A lot of moments that dont have much logic, clearly constrained by the plot, and a lot of stretching in this drama.
At some point after certain scene the story pushes the breaks, the writing quality falls massively, the drama becomes repetitive cause the characters also have always the same strength in their reactions, it becomes flat and repetitive.
And the end of CH5 is another thing without logic that also fell flat, where you clearly see the design of someone carefully guiding the decisions of the characters and their actions, and not the actual behavior of human beings acting according to the rules previously established and the context.

Cause 2 people attracted to each other, with pent up emotions, and drunk, I asure you that they won't take turns to perform stuff to each other and be done with it, but a developer in early stages of a project will sure limit them to that, that being the tropy sex milestone book.
Once again, the creator of this novel, made a scene focused around wine and used it as a tool to make them open up under the stars and all that, but only to open up, the wine only affects what the writer wanted. But doing that fucked up the payoff, there is not another chance, so the story has been ruined.

And this thing really stands out, cause when the writer was in the arly stages of the story is clear that he pays attention to many details, I dont believe that he failed with the logic of something so simple, and that is when my suspension of disbelief couldnt take it anymore.

TLDR
Absolute masterpiece of writing, when the writer wanted it to be that way.
Masterpiece of visual storytelling, the same case as the above.
Absolute trash of Mc who is constantly rejecting every single thing, making it very hard for the reader to relate to him.
MC is abusive many times and passive aggresive, he even dares to throw tantrums, when it is the girl who is clearly being phisically and emotionally hurt.

Anyway, the plot doesn't move forward after the big scene, it gets back to what it was before, so instead of having a scene that could move the plot forward, we got an oasis of a scene that didnt change the characters at all, and in the end it became a fan service scene. After that al the scenes that we previsouly had of them exploring feelings and stealing glances at each other, are swapped by just fanservice shots, so there will be still panty shots and perky tits shots (cause of course every 15 20 30 and 40 year old have perky tits), butt shots and all
It pains me seeing the wasted potential, but the story has beein the exact same since CH1.2 I think, with only scenes that in the moment would make you think they were moving thigns forward but turned out to be just fanservice, cause one of the characters is completely dismissing their existence,a nd continues to being an asshole and shouting at the other, and it has been the same since that bathroom "incident", that character hasnt moved an inch, only to get his dick sucked, to later continue with his attitude. I dont know how can I root for this mf and enjoy this story really.
What I am sure is if that attitude and behavior are considered "love" it should definitely be forbidden.

If the dev tells me that he wanted to write a manipulative, hipocryte and abusive psychopath, I will eat my words and give this game 5 stars, But so far I think that he did it unintentionally

As a recomendation, you can play untill the bathroom incident, and that will leave you wanting more, but with a good feeling, an almost masterpiece feeling. If you continue playing, I can not guarantee your satisfaction. Personally I will wait until it is completed, and hope for the best. The dev is way more cool than I am, im horrible, so I wish him luck and inspiration


Sorry, it is what it is, and that is how I think

This game have been a breath of fresh air in a genre oversatured with low-quality shovelware. The dev was able to take a generic yet inherently interesting premise and transform it into a captivating and equally entertaining storyline. This is not another cheap, meaningless incest smut piece but a very well-crafted love story centered around
family drama and taboo. Character development was handled spectacularly, respecting the necessary time to establish the characters' personalities in depth but without prolonging it to an unnecesary length. The chemistry between the three characters is enthralling, especially the developing intimate relationship between Helga and Lyna.

With its focus on narrativity and plot continuity over non-stop or out of place sex scenes, the game have a pretty unique tone compared to other exponents of the same genre and is a very enjoyable experience overall. I recommend it without a second thought.

A cool incest game with an actual slow burn/buildup and not the usual lazy "Let's do Yoga!" -> immediate fuck, that many shovelware games do.
While not perfect, It actually has the potential to become a complete game.

Some Pros:
-Good backstory
-Good models
-Has music
-Slowburn/buildup
-Believable actions (taboo "resistance")
-The cast is not a bloated mess full of forgettable characters
-Good animations

Some Cons:
-MCs can be kind of too "extreme" (girl too pushy, boy too wimpy)
-Kinetic format (I like choices)
-While the main relationship is vanilla (which I like), threesomes and GxG scenes are gonna be unavoidable due to the Kinetic format
-Main female MC is fully shaven while main male MC is not. I'd prefer if she wasn't.

In conclusion, this is a good game with a believable scope and a clear finish line. Something that is quite rare on this website full of abandoned games. Will keep it on my Watched list for sure.

Excellent written story. Slowly build up. Empathetic pictures and story.
The characters are described sensitively and their feelings can be understood and recognized. I´m looking forward to all new updates. The story is not written in an A-typical way, in which the son or brother wants to make out with the sister or mother. Here it’s the sister who seduces her brother at the beginning. The same applies to the mother. She is the driving force with her son. I really like this differentiated approach.

Reviewing Ch. 2.1

Short Version: This game is another uninspired cash-cow, but without any real bait aside the incest. If it's your first VN ever, i may recommend it, but only if i not-so-secretly hate you. Avoid it: The characters are ugly, their personalities are just boring, the plot is a cheap copy of every incest-story ever and yet the biggest flaw of the game is how the narration describes situations and characters, in a way that doesn't match what we (players) see.

Pros

- The premise, (if it was true), announces a great game already.
- How the characters look in the family photo.

Cons
- Despite how pleasant was reading the overview, i can tell that it's pretty much where ALL the dev's effort went, but not because what it's written in the overview doesn't happen, it actually does, but the quality of the writing sinks down the moment you start the game. The overview is a little masterpiece, compared to the actual writing in the game.
- I personally loved the screenshot of the family photo, the characters look so alive, so natural, actually looking good...and then i started the game where characters look like they're struggling with heavy drugs and losing that battle every day. I can't tell if it's the lighting or anything else, but i can assure you, the sister is the most ruined character of the group. In the family photo she looks pretty amazing(despite the use of low-level HS2), but in the game...just nope(but i'll explain soon).
- The writing in-game doesn't match what i see, for example during the first day, we get a lengthy description of the sister while she is leaving the pool, the narrator describes a small goddess or an adorable girl, but what i see...doesn't match, i see a little gremlin who suffers from anorexia, with her tits that can be used as ramps for skateboarding(or ski-jumping) considering how they curve upwards. Her face is so bad, and she looks even worse when she makes facial expressions. Her mom at least looks human.
- "Demoness wrote a long review about how bad Sinful Summer currently is, and everyone agreed" ⇽ This is an example of what happens in the game: So much narration about indirect dialogues, like 80% of the time, basically "skipping" dialogues or moments of introspection that may have been a good idea to actually flesh out, the narrator is also very biased apparently, definitely not neutral and, apparently it's not one of the characters narrating, otherwise they would speak in first person not in third, and they wouldn't be able to know how every character is feeling or what they're thinking, and this issue is what i tried to convey with my "Narrator tells what Demoness is doing"-joke: an omnipresent/omniscient narrator that gives biased opinions that some players may disagree with and we can't justify it as "the narrator is one of the characters, so of course they've their own opinions" because like i said the narrator is capable of reading minds, knows things that a normal human can't know unless someone told them but there is no hint of that.
- Nitpicky one: The space between the nose and the upper lip of the character, is absurdly big, it's like their mouths are slowly falling off.
- The dynamic between the sister and MC is just weird, she is too pushy, and he is too restrained(for a good reason), it wouldn't be a problem if the sister backed it up at least, or went with it with some consistency, like how in Day One(i count them arriving at the mansion as Day Zero) she confesses that she likes being looked at by MC and wants more of it but in Day Two she grinds on MC, but runs away the second she feels his boner...can be embarassing, YES totally, but isn't she the one who initiates this whole thing? Where is the courage from Day One? Is my belief that both characters should be more balanced(i mean at the beginning), but so far MC is the only rational one, after all we're talking about incest, and not cousin-incest(in some nations is accepted, cousins can even get married, or get away with it because the family is so big that you've a distant relatives), but bro/sis incest, which is considered immoral and disgusting in most of the world even when legal. If this was a RPG MC would begin at level 1, while the sister begins at level 10, and it's too unbalanced, and then the game would demand MC to do things that only a level 10 can do, while trying to nerf the sister so that MC can have his cool-moments.(hard to explain, sorry for the many metaphors)
- Lack of a dialogue box, meaning that during some scenes, the narration/text is barely readable, and other times is just unreadable, due to the brightness of the scenes.
- I changed MC's name, played for a while, stop playing, next day, i load my latest save, MC's name changed to the default one, no idea what happened.

Conclusion:
This game seems incredibly liked, so many reviews one after the others, with such a great ratio...only ONE negative review before i wrote this one. Talking about the game, i like the premise, the struggle of a family dealing with their own forbidden feelings for each other, it's a thing i love, the problem is the execution, and how often this kind of plot has been made. The things i recommend to focus are the graphic (seriously, Lyna is described like a gift from heaven, but she isn't and her personality only makes her worse) and to improve the writing style(adding a dialogue box that can be darken would save half of this game). MC is pathetic as a man, but understandable as a brother. Everything looks ugly or mediocre at best.

+ music
+ nice idea for the game
+ dev almost got me - i really thought Lyna would lose her virginity to a fucking dildo.. maybe she should?

- pathetic fucking wimp MC called Erik, who literally panic all the fucking time. One of the worst in this genre, i really can't stand him
- lewd content is not so good, Erik's behavior ruin most of the scenes
- future lesbian content will be unavoidable.. (it's also a perfect opportunity to make that idiot a good cuck, where Lyna tired of being rejected, finally give up on him and go full lesbo)
- in a lot of conversations between MC's, Erik go into panic mode
- unnecessary drama caused by some trivial things, literally situations like taking shirt off or simple kiss on the cheek
- Lyna is a manipulative bitch

This would be a decent avn, but it's hard to enjoy, if you are forced to play something like "this". 1 star from me - mainly because of Erik

[ Review for Ch.2.1 ]

TL;DR: Just finished the current release version of Sinful Summer: A Tale of Forbidden Love. Really good stuff! As far as kinetic novels I've seen on here it is certainly a cut above. The music and sounds are great, and the visuals mostly fantastic!

The Good: Incest! I'm obviously biased here since it is a favourite tag, but this game does incest really, really well! The taboo actually matters. The story is also good, and so are the character personalities.

The Average: It is a kinetic novel with multiple protagonists. It divides attention and development of characters, but you get a more balanced perspective of all character's current mental state. Good, but not for everyone

The Bad: The male protagonist, Erik, deals with the taboo in a rather venomous way. I understand his conflict, but sometimes he is too resistant to the point of harmful.

Thorough Review:

Story: Great!
Brother and sister reunite at their island retreat for the summer holiday and will soon be joined by their recently-divorced mother. Brother and sister are twins and have had romantic tensions between them since early days, and that is now turning sexual as they are adults. The mother, feeling alone since the divorce, is also looking for validation and intimacy, but where will she seek it out?

Characters: Great!
The characters are beautiful, and they have great personalities and internal conflicts that they need to resolve. The brother a sister are convincing portrayals, and the MILF's arrival was super great! I love the pampering mommy vibes, and I absolutely love the sexual tension between the mom and the sister! Mommy and Daughter rivalry dynamics are heavily under-explored in 'cesty novels and games!

Gameplay: Competent
It's a kinetic visual novel. You just click to progress. There are, however, some rather cute music videos to watch during playtime. There is also a gallery, which I greatly appreciate.

Visuals: Great!
The characters and environments are for the most part amazing at setting the scene. Some commonly used assets will be found here, but that's to be expected from VNs these days. It like how the dev made the most of them, though. There are also some really gratuitous camera angles being used, which I also appreciate!

Summary: Great!
I love these 'cesty tension dramas, and I feel most games with 'cesty elements try to leap past the taboos as soon as possible 'to get to the good stuff', but forgetting that the journey to get there is also really important. In that regard I feel that Sinful Summer nails the narrative and draw of the taboo, but I really struggle with just how venomous the brother can get in his resistance of his feelings and desires - though I've mostly myself to blame since I changed his name to my own making the difference in our personalities add friction. The current release chapter ends on a high and exciting note, so consider me roped in for the long-haul.

Wishlist:
> Helga and Lyna kissing! A lot!
> More hand-holding, head-patting and hugging!
> More mom and daughter rivalry (but in the cute way it is happening now)
> More of Erik being a good boy.
> More of Helga being a doting and pampering mom.
> More aggressive advances from Lyna - I love a go-getting woman.

An excellent game which without a doubt was the best incest VN/Game I've used ever I think.
The buildup is intense and long so it's not a quick fap game which I initially thought as most incest games are.
I didn't read the whole description of the game either, which was both good and bad, because it spoils much of the experience.

The characters are great both in their presentation and 3d model.
The story is one of the best I've read, I even had to re-read some parts to be sure I got every bit of it in place. I studied the scenes very carefully and concluded that "The Swedish interior design gadgets from..." was a very popular book in the house hold!
The music is great and should NOT be turned off, because if you do you miss out!
I also liked that yet again this game surprised me of who initiated the sexual tension

I had my doubts about this game, first off because of the HS engine but the developer/designer of this game tried their damnedest not having them look Japanese and I think they did a good job.
I also kind of expected as I described above that it would be a "OMG incest, lets fuck my sister/mother and they all accept it!" game as about all others, but it wasn't.

I hope the consistency and buildup remain and the VN/Game doesn't turn out for all of them fucking like rabbits, i.e. become just like most other incest games.
The grammar at some points were flawed but otherwise it was a great experience!

This is going to rank among the best incest visual novels ever made. The quality on offer here is astounding. The pacing is excellent. Its whole focus is on the moral dilemma that results from incestuous love and passion.
The visuals look amazing. The way the lighting, camera angles, focus, and face emotions are all used is really superb. The writing is excellent. Memories of his sister's naked form, of her bare skin against his own, scorched his conscience like a searing mark. Guilt, shame, desire... A chaotic symphony, a longing so profound it defied all rationality. I did not skip any lines. The fact that this unique gem has been bestowed upon us is truly blessed.

This game is amazing if you want a slow romance incest. The buildup is really good and makes the wait worth so far. Chapter 2 will definitely be more spicy (according to dev). Can't wait to see what happens next.