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

So many games on here have potential. "Ahh this would be so good, if only for X, Y, or Z." If only they hired a better translator. If only they updated the models. If only they took out the frustrating minigames. And we often rate these games higher than they should, holding out hope that someday, these flaws will get fixed, and the potential will be reached.

This game, however, cannot be fixed. The assets are wonderful. Poses are well thought out, expressions are decent. The story is well paced, with new characters introduced at the right moments. The story appears to be in English from the get-go, no translators needed. The only real issue is that the game is absolutely no fun to play.

The story is dull, character motivations are dull, the dialogue is dull and spends an inordinate amount of time going nowhere. Any moments of intrigue or excitement are told in flashback or dream sequences. This is honestly the first game I ever turned on Skip Unseen Text for, and things still took too long! My breaking point was the second ever sex scene (the first one with your gf as the game starts shouldn't count, but whatever I'm counting it) after who knows how many countless pages of dialogue, THE GAME THROWS IN "30 MINUTES LATER..." IT SKIPPED THE SEX SCENE! WHO IS THIS GAME FOR THEN?

So anyways yeah even though on the surface this game is far more professional and polished than most games on here, I'm giving it 1 star because it is unsalvageable. Brevity is the soul of wit, and this game is soulless.

Finally, here's some sample dialogue, presented without comment:
"Your eyes. I never realized how blue they were until now."
"Well you know what they say about people with blue eyes."
"No, what?"
"Those that possess them are quite knowledgable, and they have a calm and peaceful personality."

So, lets begin with things I liked. I liked the girls, for the most part. They're nice looking, some are interesting, others kinda dull. And while slow, I did kinda like the beginning of the game. I like the idea of trying to figure out (as the MC) what you want while having a girl friend you loved. It was an interesting start to a game you don't see very often on here, that you're actually with someone at the start.

Now to stuff I didn't like. Sadly, they went absolutely nowhere with the beginning and that you were in a relationship. It just quickly gets shoved to the side and then ends. Doesn't really feel merited, for it to just end like it did. That said I didn't like the girlfriend very much (I can't remember her name). While I did like some of the characters, who had more interesting background, like you're sister, or Shortcake, some of the others were so one sided and flat they became boring so fast.

If that was all, this would be a 4 star game, but sadly, that is not all. The 2nd biggest problem I have with this game is the MC. You play as the MC in every game on this site, it's super important to like them. This MC just sucks so much. He's a pushover, seems dumb as a post sometimes, can't seem to catch even the most obvious things. He's just infuriating sometimes, a huge step back from the 1st person MC's of Mr. Dots first 2 games.

However, the worst part, by far, is the writing. The English is perfectly fine, good spelling and all, but it's like it's written for a 10 year old. There is no subtlety in anything. The MC and other characters have so many inner thoughts - its as if the dev thinks we, the player, can't understand anything that's going without telling us 5 times! It's so bad. A lot of the dialogue is also just very simple, and childish. I played through the whole first episode and when the 2nd one came out, just couldn't be bothered to play because of having to read it all.

I'm someone the enjoys a good story, I like the slow play, love great characters, this game is just lacking in so much of that. Mr. Dots is/was at their best when making personal 1 on 1 budding romance stories. The first chapter of DMD, and first part of the 2nd chapter, were very good as you build your relationship with Dee. Same with the first half of Melody. Sadly, the writing and storytelling start to drag those games down after that. The problem in SL is there is no personal 1 on 1 relationship to build. It could be your sister, but you spend much of the game hunting others. The time spent with your sister seems very shallow compared to other efforts of relationship building they've done.

In the end, it's a nice game to look at. If it was a movie, you could mute it and just watch, it would be fine. Sadly, that's not the case with this. Oh, and the music, it needs to be set to each scene, instead of just playing on a loop, it takes away from some scenes big time. Play this if you like to see pretty girls and nice renders, but don't expect much depth or storytelling.

This game is blue ball but that's not only it....the story is painful it's a waste of time invest on this game I want all hours back....
It's so unreal what female thinking is in this game totally out of the blue gf propose "open relation" it's the only arguement that writter come for the best to give mc green light to fuck all the characters without "cheating gf", Really? I suggest to hire some girls in his team they can help out how the girls think and work...bcs it's clear the person who write the story it's a beginer young guy without any experience of girls.

So why no force mc to be a cuck and to force agree to the "open relation" it's horrible the story goes down and down after this events, not to talk about text so much useless text in this game it's wow I think this game will win in term of so many useless detail on every piece of crap of action, I never thought it will beat the japanese vn in term of craps detail useless text.

Even the graphic it feel plastic all the characters it's like a dolls all gloomy and shiny they look to "perfect" for me personally, even the older woman look like 20 years instead of 40+, and all girls with 20 years look like 15 years girls fresh of high school, if you put biggers tits that's not mean it not look to young.
I feel sorry for patreons who support this kind of crap jesus how they stick to this game I would never know, this game is 5/5? hell fck no it's far from 5 stars it's all a joke reviews with 5 stars, It's terrible this game left me with bitter taste in my mouth. I was expecting something good from creator of dmd but sadly it's worse game ever I play.

the game is just very cool everything is done very cool and the end of the first part and the beginning of the second part of the game drawing characters and landscapes the game is very cool a lot of work has been done the developer has done let even more fans and subscribers and a lot of health to him

Review for CH1.

So I'm not going to write a super long review here.
The game is good enough and all the things you'd expect from a MrDots game are there.... BUT

HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!

The MC is just terrible.

He's a massive asshole in the beginning, he's whiney, unpleasant and a dweeb. To make it worse he complains and thinks too much. I've seen NTR protags with more spine than this guy.
No wonder they booted his ass from that law firm.

Mr Dots was never a Shakespeare with his dialog but this game feels like a definite downgrade.

I give this game a score of 2.5

If you like MrDots games this might be worth checking out otherwise stay clear. There are far better options.

Every single 18-year old in ALL of his games look like 12-year olds. It's just starting to bug me that not a single 18-year old looks like a damned 18-year old! Hasn't MrDots ever seen a real 18-year old before? All of his girls look like they've barely entered high school and it's starting to really annoy me. I don't know if it's a lack of DAZ Studio models or what the deal is, but I have dabbled in DAZ Studio and I know for a fact that there are teenager models in their catalog. I'm no pedophile but with all the "18-year old" models in his games, I feel kinda like a creep-o whenever I interact with one in his games because there's always some kind of relationship with them the story is trying to push upon me, and it's starting to get to me.

I have no issue with the models that look the age closer to the MC flirting with the MC, but when these obvious 10-13 year old models start kissing the MC, it kinda feels just wrong IMHO. I don't know what part of Europe that MrDots is from, but here in the States, it's kinda illegal, ya know?

I love the quality of the stories and renders that MrDots produces, I just wish he would take all that money he's been receiving from his sales to buy an actual 18-year old model or two for his games.

While the story can be somewhat long-winded, there are no real surprises in this plot.
The renders are all top notch though,
The story just seems a little dry, and feels like you're just goiung along for the ride with no real consequences to your actions. The story will always unfold the same way every time, only the love interest may change entirely based on your decisions.

Finally 100% completed the game, including all doughnuts and peeping toms.

My general review is that I'm very much looking forward to chapter 2. A lot of care and consideration went into chapter 1, with plenty of twists and turns that makes the wait for the second chapter excruciating.

General complaints would be that some of the writing is a bit corny. Never met anyone who uses the word "keen" as much as the people in this game. Some of the dialog suffers from over explaining. Being highly specific. The writing goes back and forth between natural feeling and overly verbose. This doesn't detract from the game in any meaningful way, but it's something I noticed from time to time.




Overall good job. Like I said I'm looking forward to the next chapter. And as a comparison to your other work, I like it better than DMD but haven't finished Melody to give a good enough comparison.

The author tells but does not show. VNs and any other visual medium should “show and don’t tell” whenever possible, hence the word "visual" in visual medium. Unfortunately, if you play this VN, you're going to be clicking through walls upon walls of expository dialogue where each character goes into minute details about everything. The writing does not flow naturally.

I suffered through about an hour of this before I decided to give up and delete the game from my hard drive. The premise is fine, but the execution is dreadful. There is waaaaay too much unncessary expository dialogue, awkward scenes, strange rationalizing, and bizarre phrasings. It feels like the author is making it up as they go along without doing the proper research and pre-planning to make the world-building realistic and believable.

Review for Chapter 1 V1.0.0

“Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick” - Kevin (The Office)

Dialogue is longer than it needs to be. Try to say what you need to say with as few words as possible. Especially in a porn game. Let your character models do some of the talking for you. Take advantage of the visual medium.

There are also some pacing issues where you get long periods of time without a porn scene then several porn scenes in a row

Exposition is longer than it needs to be. Only include what is necessary for the plot to advance.

Leave some of the story up to the players imagination. Again, only include what is strictly necessary to move the plot forward. Sometimes its ok to let the player decide what the MC thinks of a situation rather than spelling it out for them.

“Nice guys finish last”
Write believable characters. MrDots games suffer from a problem that a lot of porn games suffer from. The MC is written in such a way that you feel like you’re playing White Knight/Simp Simulator. In almost every possible dialogue choice all you have to do is think “What would a White Knight say” and that is almost always the correct choice. This is fine if the fantasy is that you can be a simp and still get the girls but I like characters that are more realistic. IRL women often respond positively to a guy that is kind of a jackass because he is bold and assertive; even more so if that man is attractive. The other side of this is the women responding positively to you behaving like a White Knight instead of being turned off by it. It takes me out of the story because it’s so completely the opposite of how women think and behave.

The pursed lips facial expression if used often and incorrectly. Why? This is a problem in DMD as well

The overarching story is actually pretty good. The characters are interesting and have unique personalities for the most part.

Grammar and spelling are good. This is a huge plus and probably worth at least 1 whole star.



I would also like to echo the sentiment expressed in other reviews that the Donut mini-game is an annoying distraction. It takes me out of the story trying to scan every single new screen for a Donut and it's frustrating that you can’t even get them all unless you go back through the game trying every single different story path. Maybe a Patreon code could be added for people that want to not bother with it and still see the Gallery Images?

The peeping tom mode is almost a necessity because of the story pacing but it could be more interesting. Maybe have them wearing sexy outfits more often or sometimes have body writing on them or something to make it more fun and interesting.

I first decided that I didn't like this game when the MC thought his sister/childhood friend wanted to kiss only for her to be disgusted by the very thought. This wouldn't be a problem if the game hadn't spent the entire prologue and first third of the game setting up the sister's supposed crush on the MC. In an attempt to make her character more "realistic", the game diffused any romantic and sexual tension very quickly and refused to be a straight-forward romance. Instead the game continued to circle the drain of their relationship happening in order to drag out disgusting amounts of useless dialogue and end up with them fooling around anyway.
The dialogue is terrible. Everybody's talking and most of it's useless. There is so much talking and so little fucking that the game does what every boring game with no real sex scenes does to string you along; in place of real sex, the first half of the game is filled with fantasy/dream sex that is all in the MC's head, stuffs the gallery full of useless collectible still image pin-ups that you have to scavenger-hunt through the actual scenes, and even implements an entire "peeping tom" mechanic to look through characters clothes just to keep you paying attention during the massive amounts of time the characters don't actually fuck and just stand there talking to each other. It has many different forms of distracting you from the fact that the main character is not actually having sex but it's still supposedly a porn game. This is an attempt to make relationships develop naturally by easing you into it, but instead it means the main character does minimal physical contact with a woman for six or seven scenes of "flirting" and then they eventually decide they want to fuck anyway.
I remember early on in development somebody else said in a review that the choices were worthless, so this time I enabled the in-game walkthrough and chose every wrong answer. I had negative relationship scores with every character it was possible to get a negative value with, and I still had every romance route available to me. The only real choices of consequence were opting in to scenes/routes. Nothing was unavailable unless I explicitly picked it not to be. My main character could be as rude, openly hostile, or just plain disinterested in each of these women as he could be and he still had most of them wrap their hands around his dick.
Sunshine Love is not a good game, nor is it a Visual Novel worth reading. I will continue to keep up with releases simply to skip through to the sex scenes because at least it looks nice.

Characters and scenes are fine. Story had potential, but it might be taking a nosedive after few last events.


Fun game to sit down and relax a bit.

Do find it funny character can be rude to everyone except the two people who caused the whole mess in the first place, his dad and step-mother. He just listens to insults from one of those and acts super friendly towards another. What a weird guy.

Really fun game, with lots of choices. Didn't know I was going to enjoy it as much as I did but it was really fun. Played through a few times now and still enjoyable with all the choices. You can pursue as few people as possible or try for all for some major fun.

For me this game hits all the boxes. Choices in way to say and plenty of PC inclusion. I good amount of background on all characters and an excellent storytelling. Most of the characters are believable and the player is made to feel invested in the story as a whole.

It looks good, but everything else about it is mediocre at best.

The dialogue will make you dumber coming out than when you went in. Seriously, this isn't me throwing shade at it. If you took all of the dialogue between the characters out, and were only left with the character thoughts in parentheses, you'd call this game Brain Death Simulator.

The way these characters think is fundamentally flawed. They're about as far away from a normal person as a billionaire is. This game is perfect for illiterate people seeking a picture book, but you really gotta click to see the next picture.

TL;DR: Turn on unseen text and skiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip if you really gotta keep your hands busy.

Good job making the MC a potential cuck with this open relationship nonsense. Would've appreciated a choice to straight up break up with Nicole. The sister is not that appealing as well. The only two likable characters so far are Victoria and the cousin.

When I first played this game, I loved it. Great images, good story, lots of options... nothing earth shattering, but still it was a good time.

After finishing chapter 1, I just can't help but be dissappointed in the story. If you want the MC to fall in love with your childhood friend, then it's a pretty great story, but if you want any deviation from that, it's just awkward. I tried a couple different paths and one of them was to stay faithful to Nicole but no matter what choices the MC makes with his childhood friend, he always ends up messing around with her. There is no way to opt out of those scenes.

The other relationships are also kind of awkward... especially with Ashley and the chapter end with her was just odd... but all the relationships are that way. On one playthrough, I ended up with Ivy and Lily... which was a great scene, but the hookup didn't make any sense. Again, there was no way to opt out of it. Basically, you can chose to fool around with other girls with Nicole's permission or you break up with her. Regardless of the decision, there is very little impact to the story.

It's like it's a harem game but it's not. It's like a true visual novel but it's not. It's like a love story, but it's not.

It's unfortunate because the dev is clearly talented and the story started out great, but somewhere it lost it's way and now it seems to be fragmenting at the edges and has become a little messy.

Anyway, I will continue to check it out, but will probably wait for a few more updates.

I will briefly explain why from my note the truth that the game only has great graphics I repeat GREAT GRAPHICS only that since at the level of history it is poor and at the level of characters it is also poor, especially the protagonist, a rock has more charisma.

I'm gonna keep it short. The game is not bad, the renders are good, the animations are good, there are no bugs, the choices are fun and some do matter but the story is just very very weak, dull, and boring. The biggest problem I have however is the mc. My dude doesn't talk like a human being, starting every goddamn sentence with an "uh". It really kills the immersion for me. I didn't like the game in the beginning and I was hoping that something would change but no, even after so many updates the story is still very weak and boring af.

Another gamer from MrDots definitely shows improvement when it comes to models, although there are still problems with facial expressions looking exactly the same.
Player can chose to romance plenty of nice looking girls and women that thankfully differ from each other physically (body variety should be encouraged in all games) and somewhat emotionally.
Plot is sadly pretty average. MC is suppose to help his half sister relaunch a hotel - one would think something that complicated would call for mini game inside actual game but instead there is a table with tasks which are purely linear with no meaningful choice whatsoever. The whole relaunch plot comes of like a childish game of make believe - MC just happens to meet attractive girls who happily join his hotel crew. Maybe this could work if plot was about some small restaurant joint, but huge hotel that has to compete with less than fair competition? That is just silly.
Of course one could ignore credibility of this plot but then comes the matter of MC and the whole cast of characters. MC is, simply put, a clueless idiot. He cannot read obvious sings of girls being into him (then player has to read this painfully naïve inner monologue where MC wonders why a girl wants to spend time with him, over and over ad nauseum) shows little drive, emotion or ambition besides the the beginning of game. Wooden plank with a smile on it could play the MC role.
The other thing is that characters are almost all friendly with MC and show immediate interest in him. I get this is porn VN and this element is a part of the whole fantasy but again, as with hotel plot is just boring. You have standard arbitral point system which determine if a girl with continue hanging out with you but that's just basic stuff with no depth. This is certainly not something that one could expect from developer that has two (well, almost) full games behind his belt.
Play it for an eye candy but nothing more.

The game is spectacular in every aspect, be it the models that are great and the unmatched sex scenes I hope the game is long-lasting and it will not end soon the last scene of chapter 0.8 was great I hope the MC has more scenes like that with the same model and stay that way without being selfish with the other models.