Ren'Py - Completed - Summer with Mia [S1 v1.5.2 Steam] [Inceton]

First of all i just want to say how glad i am that this game got a Ren'Py remake,now it's the way it should always have been.The game itself has a good story,very simple gameplay which i simply like,no grinding or anything,just a scene after scene.It has amazing rendering and i have not experienced any bugs of any sort so far.So far,so great,keep it up!

The following review is based off my personal experience with playing this Game/Visual Novel... I try to be as brutally honest and detailed as I can, and these are my own opinions and thoughts, from one or more play throughs...


(01/15/2018 - Original Review - v0.1)

It's an ok visual novel/game, but I'm unsure about it right now... Plus, it's yet another Family Sex themed game...

The visuals for the characters are decent, but the Mia character model looks a lot like a modified version of the DMD daughter model, which is a bit over used... The backdrops are ok, but nothing special for the few that currently exist...

The script looks good with only a very few spelling/grammar errors... The plot is very simple, with another male protagonist student, living at home with his parents and his sister... In the current content he gets left home with his sister while his parents go out of town for the weekend... Of course, he lusts after his sister (and she has no real love for him, or at least that is what it seems, which is once again an over used theme) who he convinces to take sexy photo's of her... He also lusts after his mother as well... Beyond that his school year is up for the summer, and that is where we pretty much end the current content after a brief conversation with his sister about the night before (the photo session)...

This particular story dynamic is so over used, so it begins to lose it's flair, since thus far there isn't much uniqueness to this story or it's visuals (i.e. the sister's model)... Of course, this VN/game is early in it's development, so we don't know yet what story elements or plot paths it may take beyond this version... But for now it seems rather bland and been there done that...

Overall, I'm currently unsure about this VN/game... Only time will really tell, as more content gets added... But for now I get the feeling this is just going to be another Family Sex porn game without any meaningful plot or deep story... Just lots of lusting and sex, maybe some corruption elements, with maybe a tiny bit of plot... Only time will tell... I may or may not revisit this one later on, but have to wait and see what sort of content gets added...


(03/04/2018 - Review Update - v0.2a)

The prior content looks pretty much unchanged, but it does look as though it's had some additional proofreading done, as I didn't run into any spelling/grammar errors this time around... There wasn't a whole bunch of content added in this update... Mostly just focusing on the protagonist attempting to peep on his sister as she goes to take a shower... Followed by his being asked to leave the house for the first night while his sister has her boyfriend over... Not sure if that means there is NTR in this VN/Game or not... For the time being that is about all the new content there is...

The protagonists sister still looks like a modified version of an overused model used in lots of other VN/Games, but at least she looks like an adult in this one... And as there wasn't a lot of content added in this update, I still think that it's an average Family Sex based VN/game... We'll have to wait and see how the story progresses... I'll check back on this VN/Game sometimes several content versions down the line, and see if it's progressing better, and do another review update at that time...

(03/25/2018 - Review Update - v0.2b)

I know I had planned to wait a while before a revisit, but the update notes showed this release supposedly had a lot more content updates then the last version, so I thought it fair to give it a revisit to see if there were improvements...

This update does make all former save files cause errors when playing, because there have been some fundamental changes as to how this VN/Game operates... You can now select the relationships of the main household members as well as the titles of how they refer to both the protagonist and Mia... This is obviously the developers attempts to move away from a hard coded Family Sex theme to abide by more recent rules of some patron based crowd sourcing sites... But because of those changes, all prior save files will cause errors during play with empty parameters... Unsure how future content will sound or feel with these changes in place if folks opt out of the Family Sex vibe... Hopefully the story text will still make sense, as long as it's handled correctly...

As to new content, there is a short amount of new content added, mostly revolving around the night that Mia has her boyfriend over and basically kicks the protagonist out of the house for that night... With several things occurring that perhaps might lead into possible blackmail material for the protagonist... The current content ends with the introduction of the sister to the protagonists friend... And she seems to be taking on the role of the very open minded and sexual deviant female in the story... And shortly after she meets up with Mia at the protagonists home, the current content ends... Not a huge amount of new content, but more then the last version I played...

The text for the new content was proofread pretty well... I can see this VN/Game improving it's over all quality, but the jury is still out on if this VN/Game will just be a porn fest or go with more meaningful and deep story... Only time will tell... I went ahead and updated my rating for now, but future content will dictate if that ends up changing... I will most likely wait for several more content updates before checking back on this one, to give it some time to mature and grow...