VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Sunshine Love [Ch. 3 v1.01i Extras] [MrDots Games]

Another great game by Mr dots games! This is the third game of theirs that I've played now, having already played DMD and Melody and now this.
The storytelling is great, and really draws players into the story and makes them want to be self-invested, even though a lot of conversations aren't necessarily important.

As for the graphics, they are pretty darn good. I've been noticing improvements from the first game up until this game, and this game by far is the best yet from them. A lot of the lighting effects in some scenes are above and beyond with my most memorable one's being when you're with sis on a date at night or just talking to her, such as up at the top of the lighthouse or sitting out on the hill by the hotel how the moonlight glows on their faces. Another decent effect I've noticed new in this game are suction dimples on some girls cheeks when performing BJ's that I hadn't noticed in the previous two games.

I absolutely love the constant cameos of characters from the previous two games speckled in everywhere in this game. Between these cameos and all the other pleasant Easter eggs of movie references or even thinking of ways they can constantly use the word donuts in the game makes me happy. I just wish I knew why the developers had an infatuation with donuts and how that got started in the first game even naming a city in the first game called donutistan or whatever that was

No game is without its faults though no matter who makes them and here are a few of the things that I wish could have been better just so the developers might take it to heart and improve in future games:

1: this one might just be me, but I wasn't too fond of having the search for donuts gingerbread men and Easter eggs as it's too much of a distraction from the game.
2: anal sex scenes are too scarce, as are deepthroating BJ's. So many times in the game the story is showing text about how NC suggests that a girl is deepthroating him but when you look at the scene the girl has no more than half a penis in her mouth. The anal and deepthroating dilemmas I'm speaking of have been a problem in all three of the first games so far. In the first 2 games there were at least one or two deep throat scenes which were great and I'll give credit there, however in this game I haven't seen a single one even after finishing all three chapters. The closest that deepthroating ever got was with and even she only went 3/4ths of the way down.

At any rate the good far outweighs the bad in Mr dots games so far and this is the first game of theirs where I was actually interested in seeing all possible endings. I've done about a third of them already as I speak and will be continuing to try to get the rest of them.
A big major thank you to the developers for making it as easy as it is to see all the endings without playing all three chapters for each ending. I very much appreciate the fact that in order to see every ending it is only necessary to replay the last chapter twice, with only one ending needing the second playthrough of chapter 3

My only other wish with Mr Dot's games is that they keep Android players in mind when the games and walkthroughs are posted to this site as we can only use APK files.

I would give it a 3.5/5. Giving it a 4 because of the quality of renders and models. The animation ranges from mid to great. it gets way better after a while, but there are still some lazy scenes towards the end. Overall the animation gets a thumbs up.

The story and writing were not for me. I think one of the issues is that the MC has so much inner dialogue that goes nowhere, and he almost has no agency, stuff just happens to him. Why would I want to listen to what the MC thinks when almost nothing comes out of it?
I did like the premise, but they do little with it imo. There is a lot of setup, and there are a lot of hot scenes, but ultimately it all felt kinda empty in the end.

I know there is no harem tag on this game, so I shouldn't be too mad about the direction of the game. But it did seem like it was heading towards a harem game, but in the end, you just choose the girl you wanna end up with and get a short cutscene with them. I know the dev probably thinks that's more realistic or whatever. But the MC had a summer where he slept with 15 girls while in an open relationship with a cuckqueen. Choosing 1 or 2 girls after all that was kinda disappointing.

One of my favorite games, which I was waiting to see how it would end. It is a very good game and I would recommend it to others. It really seems that the author took great care in every detail. For me personally, the quality of the animation was a little underdeveloped. The characters in the game are all good, and the development of the story is also good.

Review of [Ch. 3 v1.01i Extras]

I don't like the game, it seems too long...too much meaningless text.

After failing at your job you leave your girlfriend and go to live in Sunshine Bay where you meet your Sister.

The story is interesting and you live in the MC's past.

There you meet your sister who little by little you like more and different girls.

It's a HAREM GAME.

It has good renders and decent animations with a good story but I personally don't like it because it is VERY VERY LONG.

PROS

• Good Story
• Good Renders with good quality
• Attractive girls
• Good MC
• The animations have sound but it is clear that they are taken from a porn scene.
  

CONS

• Too Long and to much Text
• Animations are Mediocre

RATING :

Content: ⭐⭐⭐
Sound: ⭐⭐⭐
Renders: ⭐⭐⭐
Characters: ⭐⭐⭐
Animations: ⭐⭐⭐

Final conclusion: ⭐⭐⭐ OK GAME

I love the quality of this game. The renders both characters and environment are top notch. This game was one of the first of it's kind that I ever played, but it has stuck with me.

Of course, Patreon makes some of the relationships between the characters a little muddy. I will never blame a creator for taking that route to get paid for their games, but I can't deny that some of the dialog will end up bumping me as it tries to toe the line between that types of relationships that I am interested in seeing, and the ones that Patreon will allow. IYKYK

Can't go wrong here with Sunshine Love. It's isn't a game that goes all out, but for what it is trying to accomplish it does an excellent job.

I've been playing this game for months, or rather been trying to. Everytime... I start it up, play, get bored, then don't touch the game for days or weeks. I try to make it a habit to get a good grasp of something before giving a final opinion, but I've reached the end of my patience -- time passed, and other games I'm excited for have piled up. I think I'm near the end of chapter 1 (of 3), so that's what this review is based on.

The negative: Dialog lacks charm. Not only do characters overexplain (which is fine), but something will happen, then we get a glance at MC's drawn-out thoughts, and then we often retell the whole shebang to another character. One moment is visited 3 times and that's bad storytelling.

The positive: Graphics are decent. Characters are decent and varied (I'll simp for Trisha any day). The whole setup with the hotel and a bunch of side characters, who actually have personality unlike a lot of harem games, does deserve a compliment for its ambition.


Summary: This deserves a looksy, because while the dialog lacks oomph the rest is average-to-good. Just know that it's a long game, and if you feel like tapping out before the end that's perfectly okay. (I'm consoling myself with that last bit)

After liking Melody and being unable to get into Dating my Daughter, I was hopeful that this game would be a return to form for MrDots.

First, credit where it's due. This game is actually finished, and is the third full length game to be done by this developer which puts it in the top 0.1% on this site. The renders are also really well done and the characters are as well.

Unfortunately, in my opinion there is a lot of bloat to this game. It is a very long game and much of it could be cut back. I understand that as a creator being supported through development, certain plotlines were created or abandoned based on community involvement, but even without that the game could have been trimmed down a lot. The plot was largely meandering and repetitive (we're planning another weekend event at the hotel!!) and got stale fast.

Concerning the Love Interests, I found that the ones that I liked the most were the ones that I saw the least. I think this is a byproduct of the bloat where being constantly around the sister for example, my least favorite, kind of turned me off the game as a whole. It's an unfortunate byproduct of this game that you are forced to spend most of your time around the one character, and I found her to be annoying and unreasonable.

But overall the game was still very good overall. If it was half the length of what it was, more streamlined, and maybe cut the cast down a bit it would probably be a top game for me.

If i would have to describe Sunshine Love with only one word, that word would be: disappointing.

I was enjoying Sunshine Love during chapter 1. There is a well enough story background regarding the MC job, family, girlfriend and going to help his half sister run her hotel for summer. There are some antagonists, actual villains in the story and the relationship between MC and her sister is done pretty good. Chapter 1 is pretty slow with progression, not that many scenes, only at the very end we finally do the thing with our sis. There are some other girls we can romance, and with some of them we can have sex a bit quicker. Unfortunately not all of those girls are interesting and some of them seems just to be there as plot devices. But nonetheless, i was enjoying chapter 1 quite a bit. But later, with chapter 2, i don't know what happened. I'm honestly not sure if i just lost interest in the game, or chapter 2 is just so much worse than chapter 1. Everything feels very bland, with no depth, just boring to play. Main story runs in circles few times over, most of the dialogues are skippable and relationships with the girls feel rather flat. I know most of them are supposed to be casual, since the MC is only there for a summer and after that he'll be gone but still. This whole premise of strictly casual relationships, summer flings could be an issue itself. Thanks to this, neither the MC, neither the player have a motivation to actually get closer to those girls. I mean, if we're going to left them in 3 months time so what is the reason to actually engage with them emotionally. Those "main" relationships with your half sister and with her cousin are done quite well, and in those cases there are definitely some feelings involved, they look like a proper romantic things but the constant threat of leaving the place doesn't help. Many times MC thinks about not wanting to get closer because he'll leave soon, especially if he's still with his girlfriend back home. This "open relationship" thing with his gf sounds good on paper but it doesn't change anything. Either we have a permission from our gf to romance other girls during this summer visit, or we dump her at the start and we're free to date whoever we want. But regardless of this, we'll still be going back after summer so this doesn't mean anything. Only some different dialogues. And since our gf is not really an interesting character, i see no reason why we shouldn't end things with at the very first occasion. We can romance all the girls without any negative consequences but there is no harem ending, only some stupid dream. That's so bad, so whats the point of romancing all the girls if we still have to choose at the end? Games really should stop doing this. There is a fairy decent number of endings, solo endings and with some groups of LIs. Honestly? It's quantity over quality. Those ending are rather short and just uninspiring. They don't offer enough new content (seriously, most of them don't even have any new proper sex scenes, only short montages). Same scenes and dialogues are happening in different endings sometimes. This feels very rushed. Overall they're just disappointing and unsatisfying.

Visual quality is ok, but nothing more. Renders are solid, but too colorful for my taste. It fits with the summer theme but it just doesn't look realistic. Backgrounds could be better, especially outdoors. Many times things in the background, like some objects or even floor are pretty low quality and it just looks bad. Models in general look fine, but inconsistent in quality. Even on single girl model you can see that some body parts are worse quality than the others. And this is hilarious since the main girl model have better quality neck than breasts. If anything, it should be the other way around, right? Speaking about models i have to mention that the MC dick looks like it was made from plastic or something, like it's just an orange dildo. At the beginning of the game there are two scenes with different, much better model but after that it got replaced for no reason. And now we have to talk about sex scenes. Honestly, they're boring. They feel completely lifeless. Whats worse there are many repateat positions and animations during different scenes with different girls. This is just lazy as hell. For the 70% of the game every blowjob looks exactly the same, with the same camera angles and the same animation. Animations and scenes are only getting better in the second part of chapter 2 but even after that, in chapter 3 and even during the game endings some scenes are still the worse ones, with worse animations. This is such a letdown, when you think all the scenes will look better now, its just so disappointing to see thats not the case and only few scenes are indeed better. Music is there but implemented in the worst possible way, as a music player we can control. This is no good, specific music should be implemented and changing depending on what's happening currently. Tracks themselves are ok, but their implementation is lacking. And sometimes where there is some event specific ambient, our music player still plays so we have two different tracks playing at the same time. There is sound during scenes like moans etc. and they're fine.

Ultimately, Sunshine Love after rather promising start turns into very disappointing game, with bland and flat LIs and relationships, disappointing and lazy adult scenes and even more disappointing endings. From chapter 2 onwards game just becomes boring to play. It took me more than 30 hours to finish the game and see 15 endings, and i can say that it was not worth it.

Overall Enjoyed but things could have been different I guess. Characters look nice and the scenes were great. Story was lacking sorta and the last chapter seemed slightly rushed. Way more ending opportunities than I expected when I reached the end. So yeah 4/5 stars for it, hope the next game is on par or better.

In the end just a disappointing mess. The game sells itself as a harem game throughtout but that is not the case here . What could've been great just wasn't. The final chapter of the game also feels rushed and underwhelming. This review would be a 1 star but it is saved by some of its animations and sex scenes.

Just another MrDots game that fails to pull the trigger when it matters the most

Excellent master piece of a game that everyone needs to try if they love VN with an amazing story. The story is a heartwarming tale about rekindling with loved ones, while discovering whom you choose to love along your journey. By no means the story is short, its pretty long that would could take up at least a week of gameplay if you play roughly 1-2 hours a day. The only downside to this game is that the whole game is split between separate games that you have to download individually. The animations are pretty good and top tier compared to other VN games out there. Plenty of characters to go around and not boring at all. 10/10

This visual masterpiece is a real tear-jerker the closer you get to the end. However, it also drives you crazy because, unfortunately, you constantly want to smack the MC for his stupidity in the way he sees things.
But don't worry it comes to a happy ending. Important to mention for a game with more than 20-30 hours of playtime.

What's great is that the characters, especially your sister, all wear something different every day. Really, big thanks to the developer for such details. I miss that in many other games.

Visually beautiful, constantly changing scenes. Large selection of LI and many endings.

I wouldn't consider the music a success. It just doesn't fit. My tip: Just search YouTube for background music, maybe jazz or something atmospheric. The soft sounds convey the mood of the game much better than the cheerful, funny clown music that comes with the game. But music is a matter of taste, right?

However, it doesn't change anything about the game, which I can absolutely recommend!

I got mixed feelings, the very good point of the game is the scene animations.

The scenario is mid tier, but the writting is really bad.
I found the small talks and little introspections pointless, on the verge of annoyance.

Give it a try, but if after some time playing you ask yourself "is this rly worth my time", the answer is probably no.
At this point either skip dialogues or quit.

I really Enjoyed this 3 Chapter VN.
Pretty faces, hot bod's and some creative liberties. All I was looking for.
You'll never please everybody, but you did please me with this VN.
Well done, I'll keep watch for future projects

Good game with good graphics and story (of course it had some sillies), plenty of characters to meet (mostly females for obvious reason) and each having their own interesting personalities.

Game has plenty of sex if is after that and story should keep player occupied otherwise.

Game has replay value in that sense that needs to play game 1 girl/woman at a time to see all endings or cheat a bit.

I decided that I'll write a review as soon as the game is finished, but still was pretty surprised it finished anyway.

In this masterpiece of a seemingly generic harem game, MrDots fully unleashes his bag of smoking hot characters of all types. Story-wise it's still you basic MrDots - the story is sort of like a coating on a candy (sex candy), IMO in many ways it's even better than Melody. It won't sweep you off your feet (probably will make you yawn at times) but it works perfectly for an AVN.

Endings are ENDLESS in this game, to the point that there are ones that are surprising even for me.
Overall, a great addition to MrDots' collection of good games, now 2 and counting. Now that he found the formula I hope he keeps 'em coming, but by the time the next production cycle is finished, I'd be out of this place already.

Cozy. That is the best description of this game and of the author's works overall. This is a long novel with decent writing and world building. All characters have dimension and you can choose the relationships you want the MC to build. This is the first game where incest is an option that I opted out and went for the 'childhood friend' route. I am glad I did because it was much more believable. The models are kinda doll-like (but come in most shapes and sizes) and while some animations are superb, some are only so-so. If you are tired of the fuck fest (although this novel gives you that option too) and want to invest a little more in a slice-of-life story with some decent character development, this novel is one of the better ones. I could feel the love the author has for his/her work.

This is a slow burn game, with a long story (that will not win a literature prize any time soon), lots of girls and a decent to good gameplay.


Models
I have mixed feeling in regards to the models: on one hand I really loved some of the models finding them appealing and attractive (Ashley the MILF, Kristina boobs, the sister), especially variety in bodies (petit, normal, milf) and different type (european, asian, redhead, black). Even so I feel like the petite is more underaged.

Story
The game present a good story, with ups and down and something to keep your brain busy between the wanks. Your actions will bring you in the arms of one or more girls so there is quite a bit to explore to obtain all endings. That being said given the high number of love interests, even if it is harder for the developer it will be great if it will be possible to have avoidable interactions with some characters to be able to achieve kind of a "true love" ending.


Gameplay
As always I am not a fan of splitting a game and having to download and play each part. The interface is lovely with a good first impression. Even so the gallery mode is missing. The animations are nice and fluent.

Still one of my favorite games. The individual and group storyline possibilities are great. The narrative content, potential issues, and love interests all make for and engaging read. Plus the lewd scenes are very well done.
Excellent work.

After DmD this was quite disapointment. The characters are quite appealing and attractive, the graphics is good as well. But the overal story and build-up of tension and so on did not feel right. Too much focus on some hotel managment, which you cannot alter anyway.