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

i like it tbh. some people may not enjoy this game because it's somewhat lengthy (personally i didn't even notice it until i see some comments pointed it out). but i've always enjoyed reading in general, not just from visual novel games, but any kind of novels (online or printed). i actually think the long writings tell the story better. it makes the characters less shallow if that makes sense, because we get to know how they feel in certain situations or about certain decisions, how their thought process looks like, etc.

weirdly enough i'm more invested in the issue with the hotel (how MC and his sister is gonna make it successful, how they're gonna deal with the enemy trying to steal the hotel, etc.) rather than the relationship between MC and each girl lol. it's a good story, simple but still good nonetheless. hell i'll consider paying for it once the game is fully finished and is released on patreon (actually no i'll definitely buy it). i've always kept a list of which game is worth buying in the future once it's completed and which one is not, and this game certainly fits in the former category.

A game that is dressed up with the faux image of quality.

The story is dull, boring and written by someone who appears to have no idea how normal people actually talk to each other. If nothing else the game is worth trying to see how awkward the dialogue is. I cannot get over that!

Renders are well produced, but not nice. They've been too harshly made, too edited. Every character looks fake and plastic, like a sex doll. Speaking of sex dolls, they all share identical expressions. Anyone that's tried this game will know what I mean when I say: "Thin lips and a perked eyebrow." The dev uses the same few expressions for every single character (including the male MC) and (partly) because of this every character blends into the others. That's without mentioning that almost all of the women share an almost identical face, with minor tweaks like freckles, eye colour, hair etc. But they're all the same! I can't believe a dev with this much experience is so lazy and uninspired.

Oh, and for some reason there's a carbon-copy of the Dating My Daughter female lead. Not sure why, but whatever.

The music is a playlist that just runs through the game. Nothing is tied to scenes or moods. Easily the weakest implementation of music I've seen in a game.

The other tidbits like the "hotel progression" is a waste of time since it's automatic. Why make a popup about it if it'll happen without me doing anything? The donuts are nonsense.

I can't believe this game follows after Melody. That game had its share of problems, including the dialogue, but at least the characters looked real, the behaved like normal enough people. Sunshine love has none of that.

Truly one of the most disappointing games I've played on this site.

Review of v0.0.7i....

3 1/2 stars...

SPOILERS!!!

The first thing that should be noted is that this game is a very slow burn. I was playing it for a couple of weeks and probably sunk in 30+ hours (no joke) and only had a handful of sex scenes. I like a slow burn as long as the story and characters are good. I’ll get to this in a minute.

The writing is fine. Some spelling and grammar errors peppered throughout, but it reads fine. I liked the beginning where the characters start out as kids. It gave a bit of context and background to the overall situation and history of the characters. I like the world building, but a bit of the dialogue did seem repetitive and tedious.

The lewd animations are well done. Some of the sounds could have been done better. The knocking on doors sound is rapid and repeats itself. It got annoying before too long. The kissing sound should have been more simplified instead of the long moaning kissing sound that’s used. Most of the other sounds are done well.

The character models are hot. Mostly realistic bodies with various breast sizes. The scenery and backgrounds were all gorgeous. It’s a very pretty game.

I didn’t like the Peeping Tom and Doughnut modes. I thought they were frivolous and a distraction. You can turn the Peeping Tom mode off, but it’s set to enabled by default so you have to disable it every time you start the game. You can’t turn the doughnuts off though. It’s easy to ignore them though since I’ve forgotten many times that I was supposed to look out for them. I understand the devs wanted to add some extras to the game, but I imagine there were other less intrusive ways to do it. This is all just my personal opinion. Some people may like these modes and that’s cool. I just found them distracting.

Also, there is a mention of Danny Trejo and a minute later you see Victoria’s father and it’s a model of Danny Trejo. That made me cringe. The dev probably thought that was funny, but I thought it was cheap and cringe. There is also a running theme where all of the character’s fathers are dirtbags in one fashion or another. Sigh.

The MC is a bit of a beta. He internally sighs to himself all the time giving you the impression that he’s constantly irritated at every situation or conversation he’s in, but then goes along with it anyway. It becomes rather tiresome before too long. At one point the sister tells the MC that they need to take a break from each other, and instead of becoming rightfully upset at her for treating him exactly the same way his girlfriend did, he just says “Oh okay”.

He also seems a bit inept at times. A lot of the girls, especially Ashley and Trisha, try to seduce him throughout the game. It’s plain as day hat they are doing, but the MC monologues to himself wondering about intentions. Like a virgin whose never talked to a woman before.

I’m not sure how much I like the sister. She brought the MC to the hotel under false pretenses, she suddenly disappears on the MC after the wedding for four days (which is something she hates her mother for doing to her before), and whenever the MC tells her something she always wonders to herself if he’s telling her the truth. It’s almost like the sister is bi-polar.

Ashley is the sister’s mother. The situation after the initial “early years” part is the result of her leaving the MC’s father. I wasn’t sure how much I would like her at first, but I start to warm to her when she finally explained the situation and the circumstances surrounding her leaving the nine years earlier.

The rest of the characters I liked for the most part. I liked the idea of a rival business owner that you had to deal with constantly causing trouble.

I'm seen other reviews mention the slow updates. I sincerely hope this game is completed.

I would say give this game a try. Especially if you don’t mind a slow burn.

In general, everything is good, the animations are pleasant, although not the best.
The characters are also quite good, although I did not like many of the girls externally. But after going through version 0.07 I decided to finish there.
I can’t say exactly why, but the game didn’t catch me at all. I didn’t even find a certain girl for whom I would like to play further, well, maybe only Ashley, but this is because I have a fetish for mothers :3
Nevertheless, for some reason this was not enough for me. Actually, that's why I'm drop this project.

One of the best games I’ve played in a very long time and certainly in my top five. I love everything from how each character is unique and has their own story and personality that is not just the same used cliche that many games use. The story is phenomenal and makes you want to read every line of dialogue.
You really love the characters and find yourself wanting to help them rather then just see the lewd scenes. This is not a quick spank game as each plot and character is highly developed. I love Tara the most o must say

There is much to praise in "Sunshine Love." The art and renders are well done, the animations are minimal, but fluid, and the broad story is compelling enough. Unfortunately, the game suffers from many small flaws, which make my final review 3 stars instead of 4 or even 5.

The biggest flaw is the poor dialogue. Characters spend a lot of time talking about things completely superfluous to the story or themselves. When talking about relationships, their feelings for each other, or anything substantive to the plot, it tends to be very juvenile.

This brings me to the second flaw, which is that the MC and several other characters act like adolescents. For example, in version 7 the MC finally has an opportunity to have sex with his "friend's" mom or aunt, depending on which path you chose. Despite having made out a few times and seeing her naked, the MC still has an internal monologue asking if she has lewd intentions. Of course she does, you nitwit!

On the plus side, I really enjoy the dialogue that happens during the lewd scenes. The MC is not a sadist (I know it's a kink some people like, but I hate games with an MC who talks to his sexual partners like a serial killer) and the back and forth is good ol' fashioned dirty talk.

I also don't get the "tasks" the game provides regarding the hotel. The game throws up these big splashy graphics whenever a new task is added to our checklist, but given that the MC later completes them automatically, I get no satisfaction or feeling of accomplishment from it. It seems that the dev wants players to feel like they're making progress in something without having free roams or sandbox-type events, but it doesn't work, at least not for me.

too much meaningless dialogue, not enough action, very few actions and very far between. The only decent thing is the graphics and the motions, as few as there are. I couldn't find myself enjoying this the majority of the time.

A breath of fresh air in a time where most of what devs push out these days is an absolute mess. I've missed following a project like this and being able to get excited for, and look forward to, every new update. It's rare I find it this hard to choose a "main" love interest to pursue - a testament to just how great these characters are. Anyone that hasn't at least given SL a try yet really ought to.

Amazing renders, amazing display, amazing system and amazing multiple characters.
Everything looks as good as It seems and it's one of the most valuable games in this genre. You have different kinds of lyfestyles: religious girl, milfs, youngers... and dialogues with a good plot.

Bravo!!

love the game, love the story line. It's also very interesting how the DEV involves other games of his into this story. Melody was obvious but DMD very subtle. Beautiful characters, from cute, sexy to and attractive slutty. Can't wait for updates.

Game pretty good so far but I would have liked another kind of MC. The dude is a bit boring and every main characters seems a bit too perfect. I think a hung and ripped/stud like MC with a tougher personality would have been better, a MC that brings more contrast with the female characters without being a fuckboy or an asshole.

This game must be one of the best games out there and in my opinion heavily underappreciated. The game contains an interesting storyline with fun gameplay. But it is an adult novel so what about the romance. The romance is absolutely amazing, good progression (not too fast) that is leading to amazing and somewhat heated moments. The models are looking very good with amazing graphics as a whole which is something we can all expect form Mr. Dots. I must warn you that this game is more focused on the romance and progression not necesseraly on erotic scenes. There is one risk to the game and that is that there are too many characters. With too many character is hard to create good/realistic romance and i dont like to turn people down and having to replay the game. All in all the game is in my opinion an absolute masterpiece

Update Ch. 3 v0.02i
Wow, my opinion on this game has changed a lot. Nothing meaningful is really happening in this game. The progression at the beginning of the story was quite fine but after that it became an absolute mess.

First of all, the MC is pretending to be some good dude. But actually he is just cheating on everyone and he just does not care. The fact that the MC can just have all these girls and romance them without consequences is literally crazy.

The story as well is not as exciting as it seemed to be at the beginning. The progession of the general story is very slow, while the romancing goes extremely fast wich creates an weird mismatch and a unnatural flow of the story.

I wanted to lower my rating to two stars but kept it at 3 because of the decent animations and good graphics.

The story behind this game is kind interesting , but the way the make this game is kinda dull and boring , the changes that i would do, to make this more interesting is : free roam opcion and inside of that free roam opcion we can decorate the roams/hotel and any problem that the hotels have (minigames maybe),with the phone we can arrange meetings with different characters and future costumers or famous people and also have in the phone a social media account of the hotels that helps you gain more reputation and with the good reputation you have famous people or normal peolple calling you to make the events ,we can do the arrangements of the events.

The renders and models are top notch , the soundtrack is good.

I don't know how long this game has been getting made but I know its been over a year at least, there is very little content so far, which is a shame as it promises to be a good game but considering how sporadic the updates are for the game, with little in the way of story development I can't rate it above average as I said it does look like it may be a good game eventually, has great animations & renders but little in the way of content sadly

EVEN THOUGH I GAVE IT 4 STARS ...

I still think this is bad. In fact I didn't even get to the end of 0.6 because the game was just giving me an aneurysm with all the mundane bs dialougue.

I don't want to be unfair though. The amount of detail and the amazing renders and scenes and fleshed out plot and dialogue show that there is obvious effort and quality present. If you see other reviews from people who like it, and think you align more with them, then it's probably a 4 or 5 star experience, for me it was more like a 2 (blue balls anybody? lmao.)

Firstly in this game YOU are not the MC. There are some very inconsequential decisions that you make here and there, and most of the decisions you might actually want a say in, you aren't even given a choice. Not only that, but the MC is such a passive, wet noodle with the charisma of a wet sock to boot. You are just going along being a pussy about everything, not even just towards the women in the game, but about everything and every decision. To add to that there are so many third person shots of the MC, that I am totally taken out of the immersion. This isn't a POV story where you are self inserting. This is a story about the limp-wristed nice guy that is the MC.

Every character in this story is a bundle of anxiety, low emotional intelligence and awkward conversation skills. IT IS DIFFICULT to bear through some of the patches of dialogue in this game. It is written fine enough grammatically, but it is like a joke without a punchline. Everywhere in the dialogue I am reading thinking I might be missing some substance, and yet line after line after paragraph there is none to be found. It actually drives me insane. (and there is barely any sexy stuff to break up the monotony).

The peeping tom and where's waldo (the donuts) hide and seek game is so fucking distracting again. If it's going to be story driven, can I at least not be pestered to try to look for things or constantly clicking on the peeping tom thing? It seems like a cool idea at first but goddamn does it just rapidly become a chore and a distraction. Not to mention the hotel ranking feature and tablet icon in the corner that don't really do anything at all. The creator seems to have one foot in the door of self-insert open world game, and one in 3rd person narrative driven VN, and neither end ups being very good.

Sex scenes are skipped over, locked behind 5-6hrs of reading dialogue (I'm not even sure that I am exaggerating.) or simply not even sex scenes, but more like 2nd or 3rd base. There doesn't seem to be any sort of rhyme or reason or escalation to the scenes either. Like, I've just finished reading 1000 lines of mundane conversation and, for a few scenes and three lines of text there is an erotic or sexy scene. No buildup, little tease, and little substance. I'm sorry, but you can't jerk off to this game. It's impossible.

If you can't tell by the wall of text for a review, I really wanted to like this game, especially given how phenomenal it is visually. It's just after enduring literal hours of it I had to stop. To much time spent getting headaches reading the dialogue while my peepee is limp and cold.

Amazing game, with some of the best story telling and art there is. I highly recommend anyone to play this game! Why?

Art 10/10
Animations 10/10
Girls 10/10
Sex Appeal 10/10
Story 7/10 (sorry but its a bit rough)
Gameplay 5/10 (not much of a game)

If Jigsaw made adult games it would be something like this.
"How much are you willing to endure for your release?"

I absolutely love slow burns.
I absolutely love world building, story, lore, fleshed out characters.
I absolutely love tension building through teasing and good pacing.
This though, honestly, this game is just painful to play.
An absolute chore of endless nonsense, nothing, fluff dialogue, full of repetitive exposition, roundups and absurd levels of just inane, trash-filler-chatter that just goes on and on and on about absolute, complete and total pointless nothing.
From the importance of kitchen grease trays to the full 5 step programme for a successful event planning company to endlessly repeating the same details about your history, career, relationships to 87 different people.
Absolutely world class levels of mind-numbing tedium.

As for the teasing it's just bad. In lieu of well timed teases you get these jarring "Peeping Tom" X-Ray vision moments which in my opinion actively hurt payoffs; the polar opposite of what teasing should provide.

All of the above just leads to a incredibly frustrating pace to the game.

It's such a shame because everything else is amazing. I know that sounds crazy after my ranting but it really is a superb game otherwise.
It should be a 5 star game.
This is what makes this so hard to review because whilst the greatness is there you have to be patient and willing enough to endure this absolute ball-ache of a Visual Novel Tome to get to it.
Whether that's worth it or not is debatable, hence the 3 star,
For me I continue to play on (for now) with with my heart saying yes and my brain unable to say no because it's just mush at this point.

I like this game and I don't know why. The dialogue (and inner-monologues) in the earliest parts of the game are repetitive and tedious, seeming like extra text was added to give it the feel of slow burn. In reality there are a load of hyper-specific descriptions of really mundane actions and details that do nothing to advance the story or character relationships. The language is stilted and awkward, vocabulary choices are odd, and most of the characters's personalities are defined by self-description and exposition without any real difference in the way they interact with the the MC or each other.

For a story driven game, the continuity is all over the place and murky. Meaningless details are very specific while major plot devices and timelines are vague and in flux. There is at least one instance where a character casually mentions a major event that will take place long before the event is set up in the story. Some motivations make no sense even after the context for their actions is supposedly explained. Actions and reactions are inexplicable in a lot of places, conflicts between characters early on are contrived at best and seem to only go that way because the script demands they do.

Certain choices have consequences but don't appear to alter the course of the story yet (as of ver 0.6), only lock out certain scenes or play alternate ones. Some sections are referred to as mini-games but are just a set of choices to path your way through. These could be left out and not be missed.

Other than that, models are good, renders are high quality, and animation loops are pretty smooth. If you're familiar with other MRDOTS titles, there will be some familiar faces and cute callbacks, including using the word "eventuate" several times even though normal people don't talk like that.

Objectively this is not great unless you're here solely for the fap. But again there's just something about it. There's a charm here that I can't put in to words. It's at least worth a shot. I mean, you're reading this which probably means you've got nothing better to do.

Good wel rounded game/novel, where the Dev toke the time to setup a solid base backstory, Its also about that story and not just a fuckfest, art work is very nice, as of this writing v0.0.6, Looking forward to the rest of the story.

Gorgeous female models and decent environment work with average-ish story (so far) and passable MC. Atm (v0.6) we're deep into early development (I hope so) and after the "real-no blue ball-deal" starts rolling, we're hopefully in for a treat.
(P.S.: Imho there is/was no reason to slow this game's development with 4th (!!) DMD as that story could've been wrapped up 1, if not 2, games ago. Then again, DMD is decent game itself, so can't be too mad about that anyway ☻)