VN - Ren'Py - TableTop BornStar [v0.75] [Basilicata]

Beautiful hand-drawn art with some creatively sensual shots and angles , meaningful choices, a bit of resource management and a minigame that is properly written into the story . What more do you want?
The board basically represents passage of a day or two in the starlet's life, and what she manages to do with her time - this feels like a creative way to step away from the boring menus of usual "trainer" VN(because this is "essentially", a trainer VN, and not a bad one at that)

Also props about fun pop culture and show business tidbits from the 90s , you can feel the love in such detail.

If what you read on the box and see in screenshots don't turn you off - I highly recommend a try .

Best of luck to the dev

v0.41
I've been following Basilicata since Goss_IP. At first I admit I was sceptical about the tabletop idea. Before the autorounds, the game was slow. But, now I really can't complain.
The art that I loved since Goss_IP, got even better. The animations, although, kinda rough, are very impressive considering they are traced on by hand, frame by frame.
The music/sounds/voice are excellent.
The story is a slow burner, as every corruption themed story should be.
The plot and the dialogues are smart, funny at times and the MC is portrayed nicely as a cunning,manipulative player but not a scumbag.
MJ is lovely. I trully like her and the rest of the characters are very hot.
The choices really seem to matter so far and MJ is slowly changing in character and career.
In conclusion, great game. Looking forward 4 more.

The game is decent and the renders are even better. Unfortunately this is a slow burn game, which inherently are not bad but this seems to be one of the super slow ones. The secondary females in the story are far more like pornstars than our main "bornstar" character and are basically just thrown into the mix so that you can have content while also beating around the bush for far too long. The story is meh, better than most but nothing to write home about.

Solid game with unique characters dialogues and art. Personally I'm not huge fan of such art style but for sure it's refreshing. Scenes are hot and that's all that matters.
Art 3.5/5
Story 4.5/5
Gameplay 4/5
Fapability 3.5/5
Originality 5/5

The game's graphics are very good, just like the MJ story, each update makes you look forward to the next one and see what new adventures are.
The female characters are very beautiful, the humor of the game is excellent, apart from the fact that you can choose how you want to take MJ's career, as well as your actions that affect the character both in a "positive" way and in a more" way. neutral" or "submissive". This is definitely one of the best 2d games I've ever played.

I like the animations, artwork is excellent. Story is so interesting and well planed. Not fast and not to slow. Real and very good speed of events. I see sequel of this game in the future,and very successful one like the present one right here

Legitimately fun to play as a boardgame (kind of Monopoly-esque) as well as having good writing and good art. Hot and fun. The gameplay choices and having some control over what stats you get from the boardgame part make it great.

I really like this game because its not a cut and paste training/corruption game like most, the tabletop and rng element to it makes it different enough to feel like you're playing something new.

Pros:
-Has a unique feeling to gameplay
-Story is pretty decent
-Characters are varied
-Pretty decent art and animations
-Gameplay loop is easy to get into
-Game has rollback feature

Cons:
-Shading in some animations can be better and more consistent
-Animations could use more frames
-RNG element can be a bit frustrating
-Gameplay loop can be repetitive
-Limited number of rounds
-Some storylines lack content

I came into this with a some trepidation about the board game element of this but i ended up really enjoying it. I really love where the story is going, the artstyle is memorable and the game made me want it to keep going. It really is worth your time.

Review version .36

Everyone is raving about the board game but this is actually just a generic training a girl game.

The game it is still lacking at this point. You roll dice and sometimes reroll hoping to build stats and money. Sometimes there are events or description of a day. When playing you will mindlessly reroll until an event occurs which slowly become more sexual.

At this point the game design just hides the lack of actual content. What is there is good and a bit interesting. Game ended at about 4 hours.

Very good game, beautiful visuals, interesting story. Story is mainly slow corruption focused
table top board game is a good and refreshing idea,
90's theme is also a pros for me
can't wait for more. Keep it up.

positive
- Fun and balanced gameplay. Not to hard but also not that easy (and you will need luck, damn you dice, always screwing me )
- Engaging story. Having two protagonists where the actions of one influence the other is the cherry on the top of the cake.
- Has the right amount of humor
- Choices, lots of choices. And apparently they matter.
- Bug free.

negative
- I'm being honest. I couldn't find any negative points.

I know it's a very low bar, but these are probably the best voiceovers I've heard in an adult game. It's actually the first one I didn't have to mute sound on to continue playing. Most porn game v/os are recruited from really bad amateur actors on reddit. Where in this game, the v/o actually adds to the experience. Great mix of innocent, a little dumb, sweet and easily malleable detected in the voice of MJ that fits the character very well. The few other voiced characters so far are great matches as well. Not perfect by any means, with a few stilted throw-away lines or mechanical ones that sound like they could've come from a voice simulation program. Plus the actual voiced parts are few and far between and only come in small snippets. But still a big improvement over the average voiced porn game and the dev strategically places and utilizes them well, adding to the immersion for a net positive.

Traced art is simple yet effective and with the comic-book style, differentiates itself well enough from Eva Kiss's games style, which traced-art games more often than not tend to copy.

Engaging enough story and lewds, with a bunch of replayability.

Great 90's theme, if a few minor inaccuracies most no-one will notice.

One more point: Despite some of the extreme and obviously exaggerated sexual circumstances (I mean, it is a porn game after all) these characters and their interactions feel real and fleshed out enough to allow the player to connect with them. For my personal enjoyment at least, all story-based porn games need this key immersive element, but very few actually have it. I mean, it's not Shakespeare, but it'll do.

All in all, very worth it. Looking forward to updates.

Impressed, fun to play and definitely a game I'm looking out for! Keep it up!Definitely multiple ways to play this game is great. Lover's route, corruption et cetera. Also different from other games! Love that several routes seem to have an influence on your character

The board game mechanic is a refreshing new way to move the story forward, and as with Basillicata's other game, the artwork is quite good. I love the comic book feel of it and simple mechanics don't get in the way of the story. It rarely feels "grindey" to me and I kept playing until I ran out of content.

TableTop Pornstar v0.30 does not just roll a dice and fuck a girl per round, this is a Gem with choices, routes, and side histories, nothing too complicated, of course.

The traced art doesn't bother me. Mary Jane, your client, is cute and 80% of her Cgs are well done. For management mechanics, you can have control of what she can do. The MC can have sex with the other LIs, three for now. MJ can too, not implemented yet, but only if you allow her.

90's theme is a plus, so many memories, and references. Thank you, developer.

This is a very mixed review. I think the game mechanics of the board game are very good. I love the 90s theme. The problem I have is that the sex scenes are pretty rare and they are not hot.

If the developer dropped in more pictures with hotter scenes, I would make this 5 star.

Loving this game so far! The tabletop idea is quite refreshing, of course the RNG factor can become a bit too relevant at times but it's also part of the game.

The art is great and the characters have good charisma. The story is ok but the whole '90s atmosphere and references make it really fun and enjoyable.

There's not a lot of sex content yet but those few scenes are very good. Personally I hope to see a healthy amount of lesbian content in the future as all the female characters look absolutely gorgeous!

Definitely a 5 stars game in the making, looking forward to next updates.

The tabletop concept is unique and mostly well implemented, as is the 90s theme. My main issue is with the isometric perspective of the board. Sure if we were playing a boardgame irl that's how we'd see it but we're not. I'd prefer a top down view with more details included in the various squares. Since the gameplay isn't the primary function of this lewd game, it's not that big of a deal.

The story is interesting but not overblown, and complements the porno stuff nicely. After all what better framework for sleazy action can there be, than being a sleazy Hollywood agent! It's also somewhat believable. At least, outside of the triggers for the lewd scenes, but that's to be expected from every lewd game whether "story-driven" or otherwise. Anyway, the writer knows the subject matter and the writing in general is decent.

The art seems to be traced drawings. Nothing wrong with that, and the colouring goes well with the 90s theme. However, it looks a bit too MS Paint imo and could use more prominent shading. Still, it stands out from the usual cartoony/hentai styles. I liked it overall. Most/all of the lewd scenes feature good animations and that's a big plus.

Despite the minor issues, and the complete lack of Nirvana references (wtf?!!) I had fun playing it.

I'm in love with the drawings, done by creator since Goss IP game, and always with anticipation wait for the next updates.
As always - great, "tasty" drawings, interesting idea and cute embodiment of it. Never supposed, that, using Renpy, possible to create such types of gameplay.
As always - amazing work, and so much already was done! Thank You very much for sharing with us this pleasure!)