VN - Ren'Py - Taboo University [Book One v1.03] [ViNovella Games]

Not a whole lot to go on yet, but seems like an interesting premise. I will not spoil anything here, but I liked the ideas the game was bringing forward to at least make this university setting different from the myriad of other games also set in college.

Visuals are good, like their other game, Fetish Locator, and the animations not connected to lewd stuff is a nice touch. Nice way of do storytelling as well by using slides and short animations, rather then making you read some text. A good screen writing tip is also show don't tell. So nice in that regard.

The only reason I didn't give it 5 as I need to see where the game is going, get to know the characters more and so on before I can say it's 5 stars. Also not totally sold on the MC, he seems kinda like a bit of a douche, but again time will tell with that too.

So all in all, a nice beginning, looking forward to seeing more and seeing where this one goes.

v0.1.4, ~20 min read
Cool intro. Undercover rookie cop investigates a missing persons case. Of course that leads him straight into the stereotypical university realm. From there it's your standard meet students, flirt shtick.

There are audio voice snippets on every line (yay, yes, hey, hmm, uhuh, giggling, sigh, etc). Was unexpected, but after a few lines it annoyed me, so I muted voice audio.

Quality is pretty good, you even have some totally unimportant scenes animated/rendered as bullet time.
Transitions are pretty good, too. The only sex happens in a past recollection memory.

MC is a typical Gary Stu. Buffed, good-looking, charming everyone, star rookie, mega-shlong, etc.. don't like him at all (personal preference).

Writing is fine. I like the implementation of an "investigation board" which serves for viewing character profiles.
There was 1 "choice" in the game (as in changes something). Optional trans content seems to be coming.

Bit stereotypical in many aspects, so I hope to see more of the stuff that isn't (e.g. make us do actual detective work).
Overall, pretty good for an introductory episode.