VN - Ren'Py - Taboo University [v0.6.15] [ViNovella Games]

It's a pretty good intro, I'll highlight some of the issues I have with it:

- video angle changes that not only take far too long, but are really unnecessary.

- club video (that's 150MB) that could be cut down in run time (or even removed) by 80% and nothing will be lost.
- Training video should probably be cut into multiple segments with some interaction in between by the player. It's 2 minutes long.
- All the video segments could be sped up to get the point across without losing anything (I would argue it would in fact be a big improvement)

- Where the water flies and the angle it lands on the MC don't match up, he could step in and it should land on the right shoulder/chest area. (and drip down to the pants so he would still have to go nude while changing).

- The hair grows from short to pretty long over the course of a month for the MC and MC's current GF.

Overall a promising premise with a lot of potential. Looking forward to what they will do with this.

I'm not a fan of fetish locator but this game shows quite a lot of promise! The renders and the cinematics are top notch, the characters look pretty good and the plot seems to be going somewhere interesting.

Only complaint is Josie's whole car crash face surgery thing which just sounded kinda unrealistic since she has no apparent scars or signs of surgery as most facial reconstruction patients usually show.
Edit: Just realized Josie is a trans woman and I got that dialogue because I chose to call her Josephine lol.

Still a 5/5 game and I'll be waiting on the next update!

Pretty good first release. Seems like there is a good story going on. Animations and visual effects are nice. But MC face looks like a douchebag he seems like an antagonist than a protagonist. His attitude is also kinda like that playboy attitude. This one more like an introduction to the game. Introduced main characters of the game. Compared to fetish locator this one contains a solid story plot don't know how they execute it in the future. There is sound effects it's good and it gives more ampience to the game. But voice effects are annoying like in sims voices like haha, heh, ooh, it's really annoying it doesn't do well with the game. So muted it.

+ Good renders
+ Visual effects and animations
+ Sound effects
+ Story plot

- voice effects like in sims it's annoying
- MC look likes an antagonist than a protagonist

The little that this game leaves us, I already like a lot. It promises great things if the story remains a big part of this game. The character models are really cool, the backgrounds aren't bad either. I hope in the future a lot of impactful choices in the dialogues and maybe learn more about this protagonist.

Fetish Locator is one of my favorite VNs and I had high expectations when I saw a new game from Vinovella. They managed to exceed those expectations and managed to make a what seems a like an excellent mystery VN. It's not groundbreaking, but it is extremely well done.

The MC is the typical VN protagonist but all the other characters seem interesting. The missing persons premise, if executed well, can be taken in very interesting directions and I'm looking forward to it

I'm an amateur 3D artist and the opening cinematic blew my mind. It's not only technically impressive, but the way they edited it made an excellent first impression.

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.