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

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.

So, I don't usually write reviews for games but this one has me wanting to.

The graphics are good, the girls are pretty and have their own characters, the hotel story is interesting, I don't know about the H scenes because I've only been playing for a couple of weeks and all I have are one domestic with the gf and some dream sequences which I loathe on principle.

My only complaint is with the script. The story is interesting, the script is turgid, slow, repetitive and meandering. I don't need to know what a fridge is used for in a kitchen. I don't need people to explain three times the same concept or emotion they're feeling. While all in good English, it seems MrDots has forgotten the value of brevity.

Otherwise, I'm learning so much about how to make a good taco, in detail, and chaacters are being pebble dashed with great speed into the story so I'm feeling at the moment like I'm getting flashbacks from WVM, but overall I'm hopeful this turns out to be a good game.

I kind of want to like this game. And I kind of succeed. I kind of like this game. But it also rubs me the wrong way a lot. By which I mean a lot.

To start off, I had high expectations. Mr Dots made one of my all time favorites with Melody, and DMD's first two chapters were good. Let's just pretend 3 and 4 did not happen just like there never was a sequel to The Matrix.

To start my review off with the standards: this game works. There's no bugs, no hundreds of typos in a single line, the renders are professionally done, good lighting, you get the idea. The story has an overarching goal in saving/growing a hotel, so you're not just hunting down girls just to hunt down girls, which is a huge plus in my book. I could go into all kinds of details about the central mechanics but the bottom line is: it just works, nothing to complain about.

There's a couple of typical MrDots quirks which I do not particularily like, like the introduction of character sheets and a "hotel development" page which feel like your decisions matter on this but will just go forward in the usual style of a VN so there's not much more information than how far you went along in the story. There's a "task list" but unlike in a sandbox you cannot do anything to advance specific tasks, it just happens by continuing the story, so in essence is meaningless. Well, this is not unlike the "corruption meter" in DMD or the "still a virgin" character sheet entry in Melody. Not too bad. But it is more of it than in those games, which brings me to my main criticism, and I would have written it earlier if I could have pointed my finger.

This game is "overproduced". Most of it is just too much of whatever it is. It isn't bad individually, on the whole however it just doesn't flow for me. Posing of characters often does not feel natural but seems to be done for the "camera". Texts are unnecessarily over informative. You don't say "I'm gonna ask her whether her mother will come over", you will say "I will use the messaging app on my computer to ask her, Shortcake, whether her mother, Trisha, will come over to this location, which is here." (Not an actual quote but an amalgamation of three. Yes, the "messaging app on my computer", the unnecessary names, and the explanation of "this location" all do exist in the game. Within 10 lines of dialogue or so.) Every render, every line of dialogue is trying to grab your attention. Of course they should somehow grab it but it feels too obvious here, it's just not natural.

This pattern continues with the music. Since the game is overproduced you have skip forward and back or choose your song of around two dozen songs. But they're not chosen to complement the mood of the scene, they're just on a rotation, often attention grabbing as well, especially when they include actual singing. That's not game music, that's a greatest hits album running in the background of a movie without care about what the movie is about. (Edit: the tracks with singing were removed in a later update for this reason)

The next thing is the characters. None of the girls has any major depth. They get some backstory and some characteristics, so it is not all bad. Then again, there's not much beyond some cardboard cliché. Innocent virgin (including all kinds of overdone "No that cannot be" reactions by MC). Self confident helper who "has been around". MILFs and 18 year olds galore, rarely inbetween. Every girl serves her purpose - but that is all she does. There's nothing unique.

Similar the MC. Some have described him as a weak simp or other non flattering remarks. I tend to disagree - for his backstory and similar he performs reasonable, he isn't supposed to be some alpha gorilla. However, that is all he does. If he gets challenged (talking like he is an actor here) he is out of his depth. When confronted with the personal background of a girl he is cringeworthy. His (justified) breakdown in one situation is acted out in a way that would make regular porn actors decry the lack of believability. He is incredibly stiff and whenever shown has the most artificial smile imaginable.

Yes, a lot in this game is right. There are choices which matter and it's not just scoring points, it's also "Do I want to go route A or B?" stuff. And it is logical. But in the end it just doesn't gel for me. For months I have been loading this game, playing a bit, and found me tabbing out to read the news because I couldn't bear the plastic artificiality of it. Just as I am writing this review right now out of the need to get away from the game. I want to like the game. Some of the girls tick all the boxes I want. And yet ... it always is off, in an uncanny valley kind of way. It just doesn't feel natural.

Then of course there's the "Peeping Tom" hunt and the "Donut" hunt, where you can get extra scenes/images by finding the correct spots. Which are a nice idea but distract from the actual proceedings. Also they will give you lewds of girls you haven't lewded yet which I consider a cheap cop out. And to unlock all, well, let's just say there are twins in this game but you can only date one of them - with identical scenes apart from the dress color and the name. But you'll have to play through both of them.

It isn't a bad game and I see myself continuing my pattern of loading it up and playing for 15-20 minutes only to save because I've had enough. This game does everything a VN needs to do, but it lacks soul. There are a few games out there with bad renders, loads of typos, unlogical stuff happening, but they have a certain je-ne-sais-quoi which makes you care. I don't feel it here. It is extremely polished but it is lifeless.

(Should be 2.5 stars, but rounding up to three)

I'm going to keep this simple and hope this helps people to decide whether or not to invest time in this game:

Do play if -

• You like playing games in the "Mr. Dots" universe
• Your primary reason for playing games is to see well-rendered sex scenes with attractive models

Don't play if -

• The quality of the dialog matters to you
• The story matters to you
• It bothers you when none of the characters behave the way a normal human would
• It bothers you that the MC is a wimp that starts almost every sentence with "uh"

The thing that puts me off the most is that the MC doesn't even remotely behave like a normal human male, even a really shy guy that doesn't have a lot of dating experience. His behavior is more high-school sophomore than law school graduate and, while I don't expect him to act like Don Juan, he often seems to be pathetically resigned to the cruel fate of having hot women want to fuck him.

It's tedious, it takes people like me out of the immersion that the game should provide and it's just not enough fun to justify wasting time on.