VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Snow Daze: The Music of Winter [v1.6] [Outbreak Games]

Enjoyable storyline, I thought the paths were a bit too punishing, I would advise playing with a guide and saving at the final choice (should be obvious).

The game doesn't overstay its welcome but all the girls have their own personality (even if the models are quite similar).

The game is unrealistically hot. I loved it. I especially liked the voices of the voice actors. They're even hotter than the characters themselves. I will certainly go through it again. This is really awesome.

Artwork
+Variety in character portraits - characters actually change clothes.
+/- Unique artstyle, though not everyone's cup of tea.
-Some scenes have oddly shaped parts (look at Jane's foot in CG), creases at the abdominal areas that doesn't make sense, weird body contortions, hips that ends up at the waist etc.
-Artwork is generally of sub-par quality, from lines that were erased in between scenes and then filled back (Kira's chin) to color that went outside the line (Jane's thigh). This is especially so towards the end of the game.
-Minimal background with just object outlines. Maybe it is a stylistic choice, but when the whole game is like that it gets dreary fast.

Literary
+Written in English with no errors.
+Simple writing and easy to read.

Music / Voice Acting
+/- Generic music, though serviceable.
+/- Voice acting varies in quality, some parts are great, others less so.

Story
+An exemplary implementation of the mind-control genre, as the control increases gradually and feels more natural.
+/-Linear story narrative with no branching options except at the end.
+/-The whole story is told entirely from the perspective of the main character, without exploration of the other character's mindset/thought process.
-Inconsistent plotlines:

• 'Musician' main character that never picked up an instrument, and is actually a genius inventor that created the mind-controlling device.
• Main character claims that Noelle searches his room every few days (hence he cannot have porn mags), yet is somehow able to procure items and outfits in later stages of the game.
• The whole deal with Noelle's ending.

-Very little in the way of story progression. Your mind control becomes stronger with every new day, and the family is none the wiser. With no challenges to overcome and no issues to work on, it is simply a question of "which scene will I unlock today?"
-Not much character development. The cast of characters barely interact with each other, and the main character does not show interest in any of the characters aside from sex.

Decision Points
+/-Wrong choices results in extra CGs. To unlock every CG be prepared to save and load often.
-Ambiguous choices. The decision points in a VN should communicate the intent behind the choices to the player, but here quite often you'll find choices that are similar in nature, resulting in a save-scum/brute-force kind of gameplay.
-True ending locked until you have gone through with every other endings. Since there is no NG+ anyway, I don't see the point behind the restriction. It just means loading a save file and picking a different option.

H-Scenes
+/-Scenes are relatively mild, and with the genre of mind-control it just feels like there are quite a few unexplored avenues. The main character can rewrite the very sense of logic of the subject, yet all he did was to make the subjects feel that it is natural to have sex with him.
-H-scenes are short, and does not take advantage of the fact that it is a VN. H-scenes consist mainly of moans, gasps and sexual dialogs, and rarely give exposition on the situation and setting.

Closing
Snow Daze is unfortunately riddled with unrealized potential. While it is by no means a terrible VN, it also feels lacking in quite a few aspects. It is relatively short and easy enough to read, so give it a go if you have exhausted other games in the genre, but otherwise I would suggest to go with other choices.

This game is the most mixed of bags. With it's flaws balancing out it's strengths. I'll alternate between flaws and srengths.

1.

The big issue is maybe the most important thing, the sex scenes...

The sex scenes are quite short, lacking in description or inner monologue or even some dialogue besides generic porn lines they feel rushed. I really wish they would take their time more. with no descriptions, you're left with only the visuals...and the visuals are inconsistent at best, and straight badb in the final days.

Inconsistent style, mouths not coming into contact with dicks, terrible animation, and in the final days? straight up poorly drawn. It ends up with some of the more disappointing sex scenes in a game.

2.

The biggest positive is, funny enough, the art style. The designs in this game are straight up god tier and elevate this game as a whole. The art may be inconsistent but when it's good, its amazing.



3.
Another flaw is the release schedule and amount of content. This is honestly speaking a super short game. SO many studios have made SUBSTANTIALLY more content in a lot shorter of a time WIth all the delays it's amazing that the game is as short as it is, with only 2 pentrative sex scnes in the whole
game.

4.

Another strength, the character writing outside of sex scenes. This is some of the best hypnosis I've ever seen in a game, with some...actually decent writing for the characters at times. At times this game legitimately impressed me with how we explore the personalities.

5. Finally, the biggest flaw...the stupid backstory. Everything involving"cat magic" was stupid. Everything the cat said or did, including being the father, was dumb, Some aspects of the characters backstories couild have been fleshed out too


Overall, yeah a mixed bag. The game could really use some fleshing out, but what IS there is good..a lot of the time I feel like this game could be really great with just a bit more effort put in. It ends up balancing out to a decent game with lots of potential. getting it an average score.

Oh yeah, the voice acting is hit or miss. Jane's VA is AMAZING, Everyone else sometimes fucks up their lines but for the most part, fitting enough...it definitely adds to the game in some parts

Snow daze is a very good corruption game.
Premise is you are a young guy with 3 sisters and a mother. After a snowstorm you start to hypnotize your family into submission.
I'm usually not a mind control fan but this game surprised me. The corruption was slow and nicely done. Plot is standard but the dialogue is excellent.
The 4 female leads are al voiced, which is amazing. Voice acting was very solid.
Art style is nice enough. Sex scenes are hot but very short. All 4 females have different fetishes.
There are choices in the game but no multiple game paths. Bad choices lead to bad endings. There is an ending for each girl, a neutral ending and harem ending. Personally, I feel that the game should have gone a little longer after you have brought one (or all) of the girls into submission. The endings were kinda abrupt.
But all in all a very nicely made mind control and incest VN.

the art and the voice acting are amazing, it's honestly hard to find games that compare to this one tbh. The story is actually pretty interesting, as these things go, and the "true" ending is hilarious because of the music they used.

I'm huge fan of incest game. And also brainwash thing.
When I searching for adult game, My No.1 priority is always incest game.
Than No.2 is brainwash game. And Snow Daze has both of them! I love it!!!
But it's really hard to find even decent incest game.
I can count a good incest game I played in 10 years with my one hand .
However This GAME. Snow Daze is a perfect! It's easily rank in my Top 3
incest game ever I played.(Including Japanese adult game. cuz my Japanese
level is middle-high.)
The artwork, plot, dialogue, sound, voice, everything is wonderful!!!
Of course there are few minor complains. But It's just small complains.
If you are a big fan of the incest game? You must play Snow Daze, you should.
And If you are not a fan of the incest game? Don't play it. That's it.

The replayabilty value for this game is insane for me. I keep coming back to it and playing it over and over again and its as good each time. This is one of my favorites for sure. Up there with four elements trainer.

Incest VN with four individual paths of mental corruption through hypnotism. Slowly turn your mom and sisters from mean bitches to sex slaves. Amazing english voice acting that adds so much to the experience. Simple 2D art, no animations. All girls are thick (big rack, tits and thighs) which is a big plus in my book. Additional star for a thighjob scene. The art style is cool, unfortunately there just isn't much of it. One or two sex sprites for each of the four girls that's just disappointingly too little. Sex scenes are the worst part of this VN and it's a big drawback since it's an adult game after all. This VN promises a taste of chubby chaser but doesn’t really deliver and leaves too much to imagination.

Good game, nice animations, images and story. Would've love to see a bit more naughty scenes in the end since it felt like the game ended a bit too soon. The voice of mother/aunt or whatever she is was throwing me off a bit but I loved the other voices.

The game is a simple and short story that focusing to 3 fetishes: mind control/hypnosis, submission and family taboo.

Lets start with the good. The best thing of this game is the acting voices for all the 4 female characters of the game. And the second good thing is the decent writing. When I say writing I mean the separate text, dialogues and the English language. Not the story as a whole.

As I said before the story is short and very simple but if the dev wants to make a simple story and just focus to certain fetishes its ok for me. The problem here is that even that is not implemented well and the built up is not good at all. Also the dialogues are a lot of repetitive. Personally from one point and after I felt a bit frustrated and just await the game to end. And speaking for endings they are not so good either.

And now lets go to the visual part. Reading some reviews I was a bit surprised by people praising this part of the game. I don't know maybe we have other kind of standards or playing a different game. For me the visual part of the game is very poor. Lets start with the female models. I'm not going to say that they are bad and the appearance is somehow subjective but I have seen better at other games with similar kind of models such as summertime saga, the manor, a town uncovered, etc. But even then the base models for the characters is not the the problem here. Where is the problem ? Everywhere else:
- The environment is almost non existent. It's just a hut covered with snow and 2-3 colorless background images for the rooms.
- The game has limited visual action. For example the text may describe 4-5 different actions like kissing, cuddling, etc. but you never see something like that visually. You just see the characters at the same position in front of the background image and just read the text.
- Weird or wrong positioning of the characters in some cases.
- Lewd / sex scenes. I must say that the result in most cases is disappointing. Aside from the relatively low quality or uninspiring of the lewd / sex scenes there are also some things that are unacceptable for me. In many scenes there are cut off body parts of the MC such us the cock and hands. Yeah the MC suddenly transforms to a cut off dick or cut off hands! Also the female bodies become unnatural big and fat at these scenes.
- For animations I'm not going to say anything because practically they are not existent.

The only thing that keeps me playing this game until the end was the acting voices and some good dialogues. But overall is a poor game.

Great game. Loads of content. The voice-overs were great and it's a rare element when comes to these types of games. I think the creator is making a sequel to the game. In any case, I look forward to the creator's future projects.

the story, art, ritm of narrative this ame have all, for a simple story with the hipnosis argument, have the best development, and the most best justification of a arem ending, and the detal of voices become this game a pice of art in the wolrd of erotic games,

Oh, oh, oh. MAN. There is something about totally not 3d or however is called, im sorry im not sciencitifyc; that get me into it to the most immersive level, is extremely enjoyable, and simple. Plus it looks fucking awesome.
The story may not be the biggest thing but... we dont come here for that do we, and everything else it just suits so good. Man, i didnt know voiced games could be this good before, good shit, good shit, there is no need of science to explain this goodgoodgood shit.

This was an absolutely amazing game. The story was a wild ride! I actually was thrown into so many different emotions in this game that I didn't think I could feel in a porn game haha.

The beginning of the game actually made me do a lot of thinking about how people act and how little decisions can really send people spiraling into different paths of life. Almost made me cry ngl.

I really liked the art style and thought all of the girls were beautiful. I wouldn't even be able to tell you who my favorite was I actually liked all of there personalities.

This game is hard to do though without a walkthrough. There are so many decisions that could cause you to take a wrong turn. That or use the save system and back tools to really help you push through. I wouldn't let this stop you though from trying. (Though I will say shockingly it might have actually been interesting to try it without a walkthrough. The girls actually give you all the answers to there desires and a lot of your responses correspond to those desires generally the idea is to select those desires.)

Giving this a full star rating and can't wait to see the next one.

I played this game some time ago but sometimes I keep coming to its excellent ending. It is excellent in so many ways. Art is great, the characters are fun and the theme just ticks all the right marks for me. The voice acting from the girls is amazing and adds soo much to the experience. It has to be one of my favourites and I will likely replay it soon.

Solid 8/10

It kind of pains me to rate this game so low. There was a lot that was done well. But the polish wasn't as good as expected.

Gameplay 5/10

Standard VN gameplay. Click through text. Multiple choices. Very vanilla.

However with multiple choices should come multiple outcomes. This just wasn't there. This game was essentially a hallway simulator or a kinetic novel. There's choices, but the choices only lead to failure events.

I get it. Branching paths is difficult and it leads to an exponential amount of work. But that's what makes a 10/10 game.

Story 10/10

Incest. Yep. With that out of the way.

The hypnotism was quite fun. Each hypnotism session is like a little mini-game of multiple choices which lead to an outcome. The text for each sessions was also quite enjoyable.

Each character is unique in their own way with their own personalities. You hypnotize them through their personality quirks and that's what made the game really enjoyable.

Corruption 11/10

Ahh. The shining gem. This is one of the best corruption games I've ever played.

Instant hypnotism is boring. Instant submission is boring.

Slow and deliberate corruption is where it's at. And this game has it in spades. Four individual paths of mental corruption.

Voice Acting 9/10

Fucking. English. Voice Acting. Wowzers.

I've never had English VA in a VN before and boy is it awesome. I've heard plenty of Japanese VAs and it's always a plus but English VA is really something else.

With Japanese VAing, the voice is nice to put to a face, but really, you just skip the VAing once you've read the text. But here, even after reading the text, you wait to hear the English VAing. Just wow. I can't believe what a difference it made.

However, I rated this 9/10. It's high because of the novelty of English voice acting. The voice actresses were... novices. Sarah talked way too fast for some lines. Kira's VA sometimes deadpaned a line, just kind of read it instead of voice acted it. Noelle's voice fluctuated from authoritative voice to non, which can be argued as intentional.

Art 5/10

It's not my style. Might be yours. In general, the art was mediocre.

However, the art was inconsistent. High quality here and there, lower quality strewn about. Consistency is important.

Then there were just some weirdness like Noelle's hair. It would be up/down within a single scene. Either not enough art assets or laziness.

Overall 8/10

Again, it hurts to rate this so low. I greatly enjoyed my time playing this game and would highly recommend it (barring you don't have problems with incest). But the lack of choice and the art brings this down to a mere 8/10 from me.

Definitely one of the best western porn games, being voiced, and actually quality voiced is such a rarity this immediately stand outs, it's not perfect and won't appeal to everyone's fetish but it's one hell of a ride for those of us who are in that kind of stuff.

The art is really good, it is kind of inconsistent in the way that the model look from conversation to when they are in sex scene but that's trivial, in general it's great, all girls have big tits and are thicc as fuck, not really any diversity between the design but that's not too much of a problem as this game is all about the porn anyway.

The writing is um......something, so many lines are hilarious on they're own but the fact that they're voiced made me laugh a few times. The girls have they're specific personality and quirk, all starting of as bitch making it very easy to actually want to hypnotize them and turn them into sex slaves.

Overall a must play for western porn game fan, undoubtedly recommended !

The game has voice acting! That is so cool. I

The story is OK, its a bit cliche but then this is a porn game so whatever. The characters have their own personailities and quirks which is nice. The voice acting is pretty spot on for the entire game, there are maybe one or two lines here and there that are a bit bland but still, very impressive.

The art is fine, but a bit more attention to detail could have helped.

Overall, a well paced well voice acted game.

Kudos.

Phenomenal game! Voice acting is great overall and makes the game what it is. The writing is ok, and does its job with some good comedy, and characters that feel unique, cute, and desirable. The art is fantastic and is a definite plus as well!

My biggest issues were that the game didn't build up much of an emotional attachment to the characters. Sure the sex scenes were amazing, and the voice actors pulled their weight in droves, but I felt like having a bit more empathy for the girls would've made these scenes all the better. Although if you're someone whose only here for the sex, then this is 100% and 5 stars for you.