Ren'Py - Super Ville [v1.00] [Train Ride Games]

  1. 3.00 star(s)

    RandyPhoenix

    PROS
    + Even tho it was bit poorly-written it's still interesting to have a story about MC who gained new powers, and gonna be trained by super heroes, and become part of the hero team he always dreamed to meet, went missions with them, progress his relationship, and become friends, and even more, like Glaciaris content we had with first version.
    + Another plus about the story is that the game says it will give players a choice to: become a superhero, vigilante (anti-hero), or villain. We didn't see anything good for this yet, but since it was told I guess with the next updates we shall see some progress about it.
    + The game gives you the option to activate or deactivate certain kinks, etc, which is always a PRO.
    + We have given options for which powers we can choice for the MC, which are; Laser Eyes, Pyrokinesis, and Energy Control, aside from these chosen powers MC can fly, etc, as well, and even tho it's nice we given choice about it, hope it won't backfire with low quality production since it means more work.
    + There are a couple of types of gameplay that exist. The first one is turn-based combat, the second one is QTE events, and the third one is button-mashing ones. Turn-based combat has some static animations and skill effects. QTE events have some pictures, and rarely static animations. And button-mashing events have mostly nothing or one picture, and it's by far the worst part of the gameplay. And even tho they are average, and not bad, especially the first two can use better animations with more FPS, and better effects, etc, for sure, especially turn-based combat can be fun to play if it gets improved well.
    + Despite it being only the first release the game has a good amount of content for both story, and sexual stuff, even tho the content was about the prologue, and only one girl.
    + Sex scene animations have decent physics, and average quality, with below-average facial expressions, and they need some improvements, especially in facial expressions. And we need more different angles for the sex animations for sure.
    + Even tho some of them look bad, still most of the women/girls look good.

    CONS/SUGGESTIONS
    - Writing is a bit on weak/poor, and cliche side, for example like how MC gained his powers from going into a very dangerous place like an idiot, literally walking into his, his friend Emily's death. Or how cringy he is with the heroes since he is a fanboy. Or how MC's ''not-sister'' having classic naive ''not-sister'' who goes after bad guy (in this case he is a dude selling drugs, and she is not the only one, seems like other female characters like Glaciaris has exact same problem since she dated with a villain named Serpen as well), not listen her parents, or MC, try to go the party he organized, etc. Of course some of the weak/poor writing comes from the translation being bad as well (typos, grammar problems, or weird word uses like dick/penis getting called ''friend'', sexual acts called ''tips'', ''tricks'', ''massages'', etc), but main details are the biggest reason for it.
    - For his mission MC meet with gangsters with his normal self, shown his face, didn't wear any glasses, etc, or done make-up, etc, to hide his face, and that's straight up stupid, what's the point of hiding your identity, and wearing a costume, and mask if you gonna do stupid stuff like this with your normal identity...
    - Some of the characters are kind of hard to like, especially before the MC gets a relationship development with them. For example like Regina Huffman, she straight up threaten the MC he will be faced with lawsuit when they first meet if he lying about the information he have about the villains, then she suspuciously wanted to take MC's powers without even thinking about second option, and wasn't happy when she learned his powers can't be taken away, or he wants to join the team, even tho later she was impressed when MC performed great with Hero Test, and told ''I'm sorry if you felt offended, I was fool to doubt you, I'm proud of you.'' still all of her actions remains quite suspucious, in fact she could even be the secret villain behind all of stuff happened to the MC, for now we have no evidence about it, but we will see. Glaciaris is another one with attitude issues, she is way too rude against the MC for no reason, and even tho their relationship got better because of the MC not giving her what she deserved, and tanking all the rudeness she gave, and going after her, it still doesn't change those scenes. And lastly, and sadly MC is one of them as well, he constantly acting shy, embrassed, doing those weird posses, or closing one of his eyes for no reason, etc, especially when someone act rude against him, or other situations are really annoying, and cringy, his character writing needs some changes for sure.
    - It seems we have one of those classic ''I decided to move in with my mom's best friend, and started living with her, and her daughter'', ''Oh no I caught my mom's friend masturbating.'' etc, cliche to avoid problems with Patreon, which is lame.
    - Most women/girls in the game are not really suitable for being love interests.
    - Hero, and Villain points given by dialogues seems quite poorly-made, for example at your first mission you have option while interrogating a criminal, you either treat the criminal nicely, and let him go, which gives you Hero point... Or you can threaten the criminal badly, and send him to the prison, which gives you a Villain point... This literally makes no sense at all, in fact, it feels like it should be given opposite points, since when treating criminals harshly, and sending them into prison is a Villain act, and treating them nicely, and letting them go without even bringing justice against their actions Hero act? And this is not the only one doesn't make sense, one of hero choices involves convincing a ganster to talk by using Glaciaris to show her tits to him... And when you choose to hurt a gangster by twisting his arm to talk Glaciaris tells if Regine knows MC do something like this she will kick him from the team... For what? Doing his job? Seriously what kind of writing is this? Being a little bit rough with criminals doesn't mean you are a villain, that goes without saying...
    - To use your skills you need to recharge your power in two ways. First one is the natural way, and every time you recharge your power you gain +2 power, and lose one turn, And for using one skill you need 8 power, which means losing 4 turns just to use one skill. The second one is using the Power Booster you bought from the shop for 35$, which gives you 6 energy, This method is better in the book since you don't lose a turn because of using it, but since it's something you need to buy it makes the game kind of grindy. Either way, the system is terrible, and needs a rework, MC should start with 8 energy, and should regain 2 energy at every turn without needing to skip a turn.
    - Turn-based fights have a couple of problems. First of all in whole story we have been told, and shown MC is quite powerful, yet when it comes to fighting with your enemies his punches only gives 10 damage, and his skills gives only 25-55 damage, meanwhile enemies has 100 health, and their normal attacks like MC's punches giving 10 damage as well... You telling me enemies with no powers at all are giving the same damage with their normal attacks as our MC? How is that even logical at all? Secondly, even if you see 3 guys on your screen before you're about to fight in fights you always fight against 1 enemy, and that's just nonsense, Why not just let MC fight against those enemies, but with 1/3 power of a normal enemy instead? Or something like that? Or don't show he is about to fight against multiple guys maybe?
    - Translation is really bad, almost every sentence has typos like wrong pronouns, or has grammar issues or some lines are completely in Spanish. The game for sure needs better translation and proofreading.
    - All text in the game is uppercase, which is a bit confusing since uppercase text is used for showing characters are shouting, probably the font they are using is only uppercase, and that needs to change.
    - MC got ripped after he gained powers, but when he wears a shirt he looks exactly the same They are simply using the same models/vectors, and that's just terrible, especially with people keep saying he looks bigger, etc Meanwhile, he looks literally the same with clothes. Along with this his costume design is not that great either, many of the female heroes have way better costume designs than his, and it even has some clipping issues like this.
    - This game has some problems with the HUD size. First of all sandbox HUD takes up too much space on the screen, they should change it into a less space-taking HUD, and some of those stuff should be hideable, The combat HUD is almost the same as unnecessarily big HUD icons. Secondly textbox is not so much different either, has menus on the right, and a big place for portraits on the left, and both are unnecessary, either there should be an option to remove them, or they should be completely removed. Not to forget when you use the ''hide'' feature it doesn't even hide the portrait of the character on the right side of the screen, probably another bug.
    - Visual style and quality of the game is a bit rough, even tho at certain parts it does look average or good, at certain parts it looks cheap, basic, and low quality. This was especially visible in the prologue scene where the MC was talking about heroes & villains, and on their costumes. Along with these normal clothes does sometimes look basic, cheap, and low quality as well. And in some scenes, even the faces of characters look bad, like some scenes with Nancy, or P-J3RA (in fact she needs some other changes on her design as well, she looks too basic, and like a plastic doll). Not to forget for some reason MC looks weird/cringe AF while he is flying, like bringing his knees together, etc. Another thing about visual style is women/girls having a certain style, and they are a bit lacking variety, so maybe adding some new women/girls with little different portions, or facial features than the ones we have could be a good idea as well.
    - Most dialogues happens while we see a background, and characters vectors, vectors are same for most scenes, like MC has a vector where he flex his bicep while blinking (which is cringe BTW), and same vectors are used on alot of different dialogues feels like they are getting spammed, we have the ones with unique pictures as well, but that doesn't change the fact of how bad those spammed vectors looks.
    - Despite the sandbox design in a lot of stuff you have almost no freedom at all, or can avoid things you don't want, like Riley's content, or choose who is going to be MC's first, etc.
    - More music/songs needed, currently almost always same one keeps playing, and change or remove that cumming sound... Seriously, it's terrible.

    VERDICT
    It's a newly released game, so I don't wanna be harsh on it, but with all CONS considered it's a bit poor, but since it's first release I'm gonna give 3 stars, and hope with new updates it will become better, and fix some of CONS, especially translation.
  2. 3.00 star(s)

    Dan009889

    Well... The art is incredible and the lore WILL be nice. But overall, out of the more than 15 characters, you can’t even talk to any of them — only with one heroine (and only two short stories).
    So the game looks great, but it feels more like a version 0.1. or just a DEMO.

    The 1.0 version must be a complete game.