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

Pretty flat characters, stiff dialogue and annoying music. That's what I'm taking away from this, unfortunately. The renders are okay, the animations are as equally stiff as the dialogue and the pervy scenes are boring...also, why give us a 'choice' in dialogue options that's literally just ONE option? Is this to keep us from falling asleep?

Overall, I was not impressed with this. None of the characters are intersting enough to make me want to keep playing, and the payoff in sex scenes is just not there.

A slow paced visual novel, that's what i thought while playing this game.

I haven't really finished the story but could really tell that it has a good foundation for a well written one despite having a really slow storyline. Thought you have to know that it wouldn't work for this kind of game. I'm not gonna complain when a game have a lot of content but a shit ton of dialogue without any sexy scene in between then might as well just make a "normal" game from the first place. I also noticed that some scene just have like 3 frame with a lot of dialogue in it so it made the author seems lazy.

For the gameplay well it's just a regular linear one like the usual game out there. But that's also one of the problem as you were forced to follow the story, even pushing the button to skip doesn't really help because it had a lot of redundant dialogue in it.

Next is the lewd stuff, now it's good imo but yeah it's also not worth the wait because some was just regular shit and then followed by another stretch of boring stuff. Thankfully we got a gallery unlocker, it's gonna be a pain in the ass waiting and collecting all of those.

Lastly the sound, at least they put some sound for the lewd part and that's just it. It has like a music player that was kinda unique at first but then it clearly just didn't fit for some of the scene with how random it is.

So yeah imma just give this 2/5 star, it's not a shit game tbh because at least it still have a lot of sexy stuff in it but really it's not worth to play with how boring it is.

The good news is there is A LOT of content. The bad news is that it is unbelievably boring and terribly written. I'm convinced the dev gets money every time he include (Sigh...) in the dialogue because there's no reason for it to be practically every other sentence that it gets said. Honestly, I was hyped for this one as I'm a whore for harem/incest and figured this would at worst be a decent game that took up time while I waited for other games to update but honestly, the story is piss poor and the sex scenes are generally boring as well. It does have one of the worst LI ever written though so if that's your thing, you're going to LOVE Nicole.

Basically a yawn simulator.

CG by Mr Dots is miles better than 90% of the games here, but that's about it. Inner monologues and mundane dialogs will make it a torture to read. Story is unintersting, sex scenes are very venilla.

I hope this games ends soon because I do believe Mr Dots has the ability to create good games, this game just didn't do it for me.

3D models in this game are generic. All girls have the same body, it doesn't matter if they are 18 or 40. The only difference is the size of the bra. Faces are mostly cute. Facial expressions barely change during dialogues. Most of the time they have their mouths closed even if it's supposed they are talking, and look at the player like sheep looking at the sun. Zero effort in that.

In general, the writing is BORING and extremely GENERIC. I seriously think this game is being written by an AI. Really long dialogues and interior monologues with cero wit and fun. Uninspired scenes. Generic situations.

MC is a doormat without charisma. Not the kind of MC people could find attractive to play as. The other guys in the game are just cliché assholes. Generic antagonists: the church and business men.

Female characters in general have cero personality too. Most of the time, they seem to be the same character in different bodies. Some of them are more slutty, some of them are more naïve... that's all. In general, annoying characters. Apparently the dev thinks that the only thing a female character needs to be attractive is a pretty face and good tits and ass. The only moment that has given me real satisfaction has been to dump the annoying girlfriend.

Also, as happens with other games of this dev, some of the girls are "100%-real-no-fake-legal, wink, wink". Oddly, those are the less annoying female characters, but if you are not into l0lis (my case) you are not going to like them.

Maybe the worst think in this game is that the writer thinks that the way to surprise the player and make the game more interesting (according to him) is to make the romantic interests even less likable and the MC even a bigger beta male. Now, there is lesbian NTR and suddenly some characters are whores...

There was a time when everybody was waiting MrDots' updates of DMD. Right now, the guy is a meme.

Really the only thing this game has are the top class renders.
Mc is a wimp who couldnt fight his way out of a paper bag.
LIS are awful except the two shortcake ones
_Awful writing that is loong and meadering to boot.
Dont waste your time playing this game.

the writing drags on and expounds on useless details. to the point that it's just boring and can be skipped. the main love interest is a painfully bland character that has nothing to offer apart from being nice and pretty.

the animations are high quality. the audio detracts from the game, but can be turned off.

The only reason I stuck with this game from the start is the long assed wait to get some lewd scenes with my fave LI's. If you have done the same, then we deserve a medal for this below average AVN.

Story is so boring and drawn out, not to mention convoluted. Eventually you just clicky click to get through all the inner monologue or retarded reasoning behind character decisions. Honestly, I'm a retard and I could write better.

Characters range from annoying as fuck (yes you Sis, Nicole, and Ivy/Lily) to some wholesome ones like Shortcake and Yuki. Nicole was an annoying cunt from the start but at least MC can ditch the bitch. Sis can be a selfish, condescending pain in the arse who you just want to skullfuck to death to shut her up. Ivy/Lily are the sexual predator twins just asking to be locked up for sexual assault on the player....

The saving grace is the smols. Shortcake and Yuki bring wholesome goodness and potential to be awesome girlfriends/waifus for your retarded MC. They look cute as fuck and have that sexy innocence going on that the others have lost long ago - although Kristina is another cutey too but remind me of the Dating My Daughter main LI too much (let's not go down that rabbithole)

Unfortunately there is very little lewd stuff with Yuki compared to the others (Sis gets lots more) which is criminal considering how gorgeous her model is. Uneven amounts of sexy time among LI's in a game that takes ages to actually unlock lewd content is never a smart move. Now we are in the end stages and the smols have been neglected big time

Oh and speaking of the retarded MC, this guy is your typical soy boy chump with a constant slack jawed expression. He looks like fucking Forest Gump on a bad day. There's a dodgy dude hanging around the hotel and if he confronts him physically he can't even land a punch...I'm amazed he can even hit Brodie but even then complains about his poor knuckles. No wonder Nicole uses him as a doormat at the start...then Sis takes over but with more of a passive aggressive slant. Yeesh.

Renders are the saving grace in this game. The girls for the most part do look pretty hot and have some nice scenes eventually...if you can hang on that long.

The latest update has turned it into a clusterfuck with the shit writing again. A bombshell gets dropped with the twins being involved in some really shady shit with their father and no matter your choice, the MC will stay quiet about it despite he could use the info to bury the church and Di Amico alliance..wait wut?

Then we have Vicky and Sis going full lesbo with Sis reasoning ah well fuck MC it's a casual relationship anyway so I'm going full on bi all of a sudden. This is to setup a throuple with MC, Vicky, Sis no doubt but it's handled so badly you just want to tell them both to fuck off.

Also Sis goes full bitch mode because well, she's worried that her feelings are one way and MC will be leaving soon (as we get reminded every few minutes) but wait, during the lesbo scene with Vicky she's like "oh well if he leaves I'll be fine..."

*sigh*

Please get a decent writer for your next game mr Dots!

I've decided at this point I'm picking either Shortcake or Yuki and the others can all jump in the ocean. Now a throuple path of Shortcake and Yuki is my dream ending....the sexiest smols...heh heh.

So yeah, if you have a LOT of time to kill and can't be arsed watching paint dry, give it a go....but as it is, there are much better games on here.

Very vanilla game, poor plot, (just talk couple days then bang all the chicks around and they all about you), primitive harem scenario which has no reality to real behavior of characters. Compared to previous games of this creator its really 2-3 out of 5.

I'm maybe jumping the gun here as I'm still in Chapter 1 (I recently played through Melody and Dating My Daughter for the 3rd time each now that they are complete). Thus, my rating is mostly based in comparison to those other two VNs.

+ I like the models a lot. Nice renders
> I wish there was more variety of models; so far it seems Yuki is the only one with some variety and the only model that isn't big tit, big ass and a different race.
- Ashley looks nothing like a 40-something or even a 30-something MILF. She looks just like the teen/20's something models. At least Trish looks older.
- A couple of scenes the girls are commenting or swooning how the MC works out and is fit/muscular...he has no such render. No abs. No chest or biceps. He's just slim without a gut. C'mon man. If it's part of the story let the guy have spent a few months in the gym and actually have some definition.
+ Better use of music for immersion
+ There is a lot of text and to somewhat "keep the reader's interest" we get these occasional scenes where we can "undress" the girl while talking to her (topless with or without nip covers).
- This feels like too slow of a burn as relationships with the different girls is being established.
- The MC is a lawyer. 98% of lawyers are Type A personalities and not this soft, effeminate, passive MC. Give him some balls! He's completely unlikeable.
- Brodie's dad is typical B-movie villain stereotype. The writing could be a LOT better here.
+ I like the idea of a quest system, though simply working through the VN will accomplish the majority of the quest items. It seems I do have some relationship choices. For example...once lost on the hill and you call Yuki or Ashley:
a) relationship points with Yuki if you go with her. Duh.
b) Ashley gives you two choices for relationship points.
One path is Ashley only points making my points above 15.
The other path is Ashley or Trish. If you go with Ashley my relationship points with Trish dropped to 1. If I selected Trish I guess I may be now on the Trish route...in addition to Ashley...as Trish points were 6.
+ I like how there are connections to the other games and/or actual characters from the other games show up.

As a first impressions review...
I'm interested as there are some things I really like about it, but I'm not in love with the VN.
I will return once it's developed more, since right now this is a filler VN if I had nothing else to read/play through.

I don't like being just another making critics about the game, but... it has such amazing and breath taking art, being used in a boring way...
I don't want to extract the images and watch them plain and raw, a good context is what makes the image really exciting.
So I always feel frustraded when I play a new version of this game...

This game would really be good if it weren't because the f*cking dialogues seem to be created by an AI with severe mental retardation and if the mc wasn't the most soy mc in all the AVN stories, and they are not expressions that I really like to use, but the dialogue and the story of this game is really insufferable and desperate, a lot of boring and useless text that makes you lose the desire to play, it is one of the most beastly overexposures I have seen in a game of this class, really annoying, and it's a shame because the game has potential, the renders are great and the settings are very good, but with those problems that I mentioned it's impossible to enjoy and it's a shame

The only good thing about this VN is the renders really . and the animations are decent enough.
Plot is mainly unoriginal as most of it we have seen before in many other VN's
The big problem with this one is that it's a lot worse written as in script and dialogue's .
Conversations are dragged out to the point that it becomes unbearable .
Conversations are more like a written thesis which make them unnatural .
Nobody in the real world would have a conversation nor talk to each other like the way this is written .
His previous novels suffers from the same issue too which is a shame .
I'm sure that people who gave this a high score still skip through a lot of unseen text .
3th game in and this still hasn't changed yet unfortunately .

The game while it have good renders has a boring story sex is vanila and the player must endure a sea of text for some action whom does not worth the trouble

Renders:5/5 Good rerders
Story:1/5 Boring as hell
Sex Scenes:1/5 most of them are vanila and boring if you also pursuit certain characters...yeah good luck with that
Characters Debth:1/5 Many characters and only 2 or 3 have some depth

An enjoyable story. The characters are interesting (familiar faces from Melody) and well done. Music and scenes are a massive step up from the previous games. Looking forward to how the story progress. Recommended without a doubt.

I tried to get through this one but I couldn't get past the writing style and the lack of personality in the characters. There were to many logic hiccups that I couldn't wrap my brain around. The dialogue and monologues are written in a style that makes it seam like they know the future or things they shouldn't know which lends to the lack of personality.

Really enjoyed it, I don't care for incest content so never enjoyed DMD, but I can appreciate MrDotsGames is a top notch developer. Melody was a fine game, and Sunshine Love is fantastic too. Really can't understand why it is only rated 3.5 stars by the community.

A great game! Nice renders, interesting characters, lots of different paths, good story...
Well written, interesting and very compelling. Keep it up, dev!

to me, the story is meh. sadly its way to confusing, renders and models look good but its not easy to play the game if the story is not that well. the font that is used in game gives me a headache. my opinion is:
Renders/models : 9
story: 1

the story is really good I managed to get hooked from the beginning, I hope they continue creating additional content with Connie and don't leave her aside I think she is a character that can be removed Much benefit and well I have no words how good this game is