Ren'Py - Starstruck City [v0.1] [Desire Dice Games]

This one in its initial release is looking good (0.1), not game changing but definitely above average. The story has nothing special, but it's told well and the events and characters are relatively believable and have personalities of their own. There are choices with clear outcomes in points you gain or lose and things like that, and for the open exploration parts there is a counter with how many secrets you have left to find and so on, which is nice.

Characters are looking good, render quality is pretty nice and all that. There are a few sounds which add to the atmosphere, not sure about the music though since either I turned it off or there was none. And at least in my playthrough there were no bugs.

So, all in all, definitely worth playing, it's a good solid experience on this initial release, let's see how it all evolves.

The Pros:

- Renders
- Some of the models
- Free roam was simple enough
- Bj scene looked well made
- A lot of content for a first release


The Cons:

- Dialogue
- Had some overdone cliché moments
- Some of the models weren't attractive to me


I honestly think this has potential to be a good AVN. I would first address the dialogue and try and smooth it over. Then make a separate path for players that loathe forced content. Some of the Gen 9 out just don't look attractive to me, some have the same exact face only different mats. That's just not realistic to me. There are some beauties like Yerin, Haru, Emily, Sophie and even Sarah. But I wasn't head over hills for the others.

Then you have to wonder how all of these ladies will get decent screen time but I guess I'll let the devs figure that one out.

Please try give the MC more of a personality will you?

Good luck

Not much to say, I liked the first release, but one things that bothers me about a huge cast is a a lack of relationship map.

The developer has provided great biographies of each female cast, but considering the size of character introduced in the first release it might help provide a relationship map of students, musicians, co-workers, sororities, influential, school club members and other clicks to manage the relationship dynamics as the story progresses.

Review as of version V0.1

Not bad but not amazing kind of average. Girls are pretty renders and animations are good so far. Not much to really say about the story as of yet. Other than there are alot of girls out of the 12 or so girls so far only 2 of them made an impression on me.

The only negative I have so far is sometimes the pacing feels a bit to fast. Instead of inserting some dialogue to get to know the characters more , the conversations end rather quickly and move on to the next. I will say it isn't like this for all the conversation but a decent amount it's why the pacing feels a bit to quick to me.

But overall I like what I see but it's a case of let it cook more to see how it turns out.

VERSION: 0.1
SUMMARY: Good looking models, simple story that has been done before a few times.

PROS:

1. Good looking models, almost too nice (if you know what I mean)
2. Written well and structured well, simple and straightforward. (No brain required)
3. Premise and story is simple and filled with things we seen before, but things that work also.
4. Not a sandbox in the traditional sense, which I prefer.
5. Choices are nice, however (see CONS)

CONS:

1. While some choices exist, there aren't many yet. Stats however don't make much sense right now, maybe in later updates.
2. Game does feel a bit pointless, story is really not there, its just hormones, humour and drunker debauchery (typical college scene) Been done too many times IMO and here is nothing of substance in terms of that.
3. Lewds is very limited, but we can forgive that depending on the next updates. Will this game be a slow paced or fast?
4. Indication of what TAGS can be expected would be nice, as always, I am a big fan of more kinks, keeps it interesting.

TLDR: Decent start with good looking models. Story is non-existent and looks to be like every other college bound young adult story. Lets hope it becomes more interesting

This is a very good first chapter. The renders are great, the university vibe is right on, the girls are hot. I mean, this game is obviously highly inspired by Being a DIK, but if you're gonna be inspired by a game, what better choice?

I'm really looking forward to the next update. This is near the top of my watchlist now. Keep it up, dev!

enjoying the game so far
all female characters look smokin hot , the renders are also really amazing ,
the free roam, mini game and stuffs are all well-made , overall an 8/10 AVN. The game still at the very beginning so not thing to say about the story , im looking forward to see how the story will go, so far the prolouge is okay