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

This game is so incredibly boring. The models are fantastic and I think the love interests are pretty interesting (and the models are great), but I just cannot get through all the dialogue/story here.

I remember not being able to get through DMD a while back for the same reasons, so I am not surprised this happened again.

I am not sure if the game gets better after you reach part 2 but I simply cannot parse through all this boring buildup.

This game is a great piece of art. The story is long, there are many different love interests, most with a solo ending, many with combination endings, 2 different kinds of collectibles to gather, and a huge amount of sex scenes to see/collect.

It took me a huge amount of time, nearly 180 hours on Steam, even with skipping many times at repeated playthroughs, to get everything in the game, and it was never boring.

The animations and renders are great, but in some scenes the background NPCs look really copy-and-paste, but they are unimportant and didn't lower the score in my opinion.

The hotel management aspect was never real besides the part in chapter 3 where you can get the bad ending, which doesn't even count as an unlocked ending.

As for the game, it was well done. Of course, it could have been better - but since I've played the perceived "pinnacle of the AVN world" right before that and completed the five major paths in it, it would be unfair to compare a game with - I believe that was still true (correct me if I'm wrong) - a strict two months release cycle to one of a single creator who has time and funds to release one big update per year.

Therefore I can understand that some cut corners are inevitable, like lots of repeating renders and a somewhat toned down story. It's also really meant to be played in "release sections" so those "flaws" are slightly covered (since you forgot about them two months later). However, when you play it as a whole in one go you will notice the repeats. I can't count how many "memorable nights that one will never forget" I have gone through; the usual complaint about "shortly" being their writer's favourite word stands, although I have modified the proposed drinking game of taking a shot every time one says shortly (I'd be in a drunk coma after twenty minutes) to shouting SHORTLY every time it comes up. (And I even modified that to toning down my voice as I would have gone hoarse.)

So let's talk cut corners:
* We manage a hotel. Great, hasn't really done before in the mainstream AVNs as far I am aware of. However, in 12 weeks, did we have any guests? IIRC not a single one has been shown. I would expect some interactions, dealing with complaints, being asked for special stuff and making them available or organising it. Making repairs, maybe in a minigame. Maybe the one or other female guest trying to flirt with the MC. But nope, a whole lot of nothing except being in reception watching Cousin, having dinner with Sis in the private rooms, fixing TWO rooms in 12 weeks and seeing the events hall once a week until functions have been suspended close to the end of C2. (BTW, out of the many hired staff members we also only see Receptionist Lyla in one scene.)
* Railroading: I have a feeling there is nothing you can do to not reach 4 stars. There may be a possibility that you can't get the fifth if Tylton loses the election.
* Svetlana: Why was she even in the story? As a spy, she accomplished absolutely nothing. Even during Sis' abduction by Lucas either MC or Sis strike him down while she appears after the fact. Other than that it's just one - missable - sex scene and a brief reappearance for the photo shoot. [Note: When stumbling into the room with her being semi-naked I didn't stare, so maybe something eventuated from that, but I doubt it.] And a short hidden end scene, of course.

Random stuff:
* Twins: It took me while in this playthrough (never found out in the one that's on the HD in the defunct PC) to figure out what the difference between Lily and Ivy was. Yes, it was very subtle. But also not very consistent, as it kept changing from one twin to the other.
* Cousin being not your cousin: I feel it's bad storytelling to do nothing with Chekov's Gun, read: The letter. Yes, it was used as a way to end Cousin's path, but since this is a fairly big development that may have consequences it doesn't make much sense to hide it away in a dead end. Yeah, I know, trust and such, but no, just BS IMO.
* Skipping text: That worked great most of the time. However, it did not if you were on a small variation of the chosen path even if it's the same damn text. Especially during the endings. It's tiring clicking through the same text over and over and over again. Yeah, I get it, yeah, I know what you're about to say, blah blah blah, let me skip. (Which brings me back to the amount of shortlys and unforgettable nights that you have to read about.)
* Collectables: Not much to complain there, liked the touch with "Oh, an Easter Egg", but it should also have been done with "Ooh, a Gingerbread Man".
* MC was dumb as ten yards of backroad. And that's insulting to the backroad. My favourite is still this gem, in which a twin tells him they don't look for a relationship and just want to keep it casual, and then he thinks if she wants to tell him that they are not looking for a relationship and want to keep it casual.
I guess Nicole says it best in one of the endings. (Paraphrased) "It takes him a while to get the hint. I already was in the bedroom for an hour before he showed up."

* Plots being dropped:
- Nicole complained at one point that MC did not contribute enough to the agreed payments - MC went on to buy Cousin her surfboard and could afford to send even less money, never came up again.
- Speaking of the surfboard, Cousin doesn't even use it in her ending montages as far as I've seen.
- Faith +1 being involved with the threat to the Burlesque Festival. Never been mentioned again.
- Ashley insisting on calling her "Mom" from now on during sex scenes and otherwise. MC did so once.
- Twins being Pimps. So it may be legal in SB to lead a prostitution ring with your father, but why are you bribing the MC with a threesome to never mention it again and are so hellbent that it never comes out? I mean, you're doing nothing wrong. But hey, at least you made a stand when Daddy Dearest wanted to bring in the younger sister as the latest whore. Connected to that, am I really supposed to believe that you declined clients if they were paying for it and made special requests?

Endings:
In just my presumptous, important opinion (just kidding, of course ) there were only three endings that made sense. 1) Honouring the deal and staying with Nicole, 2) ditch Nicole and sail into the sunset with Sis and 3) convince Nicole to move to SB and work as a lawyer there while having both her and Sis. The rest are nice additions, and you can see where the "dev's love" has gone in, meaning, the Sis and Cousin endings. They had the most PTs, Donuts and animations. Nicole only was a tad bit short. (I feel that sweetheart did deserve better. Yes, she got a lot of flak early on, but I always felt she had a point, and in her endings it showed what an adventurous sweetie she really is.)
Some endings did not make sense to me, like those upending your life to sail away with an "18-year-old" loli. In one case we barely interacted with Connie even when on her path (and Mrs. D'Amico didn't get to say anything about it), in the other we move to Japan. Yeah, right. Other than that, yeah, they were nice to have, but not essential. No solo ends with Trisha (guess she's occupied with the Mayor) or Twins (too busy with the hotel?). When you're doing Ashley's solo ending Sister never finds out. Also, this is the only ending in which we will see Gerald. (Who was suspiciously abent throughout the whole story.)

Positives:

1. The adult women have good models (except for the textures). Some of these women are truly hot!
2. There are some hot scenes that include anal, swallow, threesomes.
3. The setting of managing a hotel in a seaside town is, at least in theory, somewhat charming.

Negatives (some, there are too many to list) :

1. The story quality is horrible. It's extremely stupid (in a bad way), it's totally incoherent, super frustrating, and seems written by a teenager. It's like a caricature with cheap comic-book villains.
2. The dialogue quality is some of the worst I've seen in an AVN. Well, at least there are no spelling mistakes etc. but still, after a while you'll either ragequit or just skip everything.
3. The dialogue quantity is overwhelming and totally unnecessary. The most mundane exposition and repetition. And annoying phrasing.
4. The MC is a total idiot, extremely weak, insecure, riddled with self-doubt despite women constantly throwing themselves at him. Constantly second-guessing both himself and his girlfriends.
5. Frustrating interactions during sex scenes in several ways. For example, the girl is naked on all fours and begging over and over for the MC to fuck her and the only response from the MC is to think for 10 minutes with long dialogue, then asking the girl three times if she's sure, really really sure, etc. Also, during scenes the text will claim things that aren't shown, such as deepthroating which doesn't actually happen.
6. Few sex scenes compared to the length of the game.
7. Few options during sex scenes, oftentimes no options at all.
8. Some girls have an anal scene (nice!) but then that's forgotten about and every scene afterwards is just vaginal.
9. In the scene gallery not every scene is included (despite unlocking everything possible).
10. The models of the *wink wink* 18-year old girls *wink* are honestly disgusting and I wish it wasn't allowed to include that. I had to try to reject these girls over and over.
11. The railroading of the story and the weak illusion of choice. You're forced into so many interactions and relationships no matter what you choose.
12. The models of the men are terrible. The model of the MC looks almost like a child (except for the huge dick).
13. The "harem" aspect is really weak.
14. The ending is terrible. It's almost impossible to get the ending you want even when cheating and following a walkthrough. And the replay is just super frustrating because of this (and all the aforementioned reasons).
15. After using a gallery unlocker to see all the endings I can tell you they all basically suck and are extremely similar. There's a couple of hot scenes, but still not worth your time.

In summary, I don't really understand how quite a lot of people rate this game highly.

Well this game ending in a fizzle vs a bang. Major disappointment. The game isn't bad per say just worse than the previous outings by the developer. And everything feels like it took a step backwards instead of improving from one game to the next.

This series was a downgrade from their other games. The sex scenes were less interesting, more samey (within the game) than I would hope. The pacing was meh. I think it suffers from too many choices. There seems to be more women you can romance than the previous games combined, and I would say the writing suffers because of it. The animations feel like another downgrade. I had hopes this game would find its legs but it never did and it just fizzled out for me.

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.