Unity - Taffy Tales [S1 v1.0.35 Redux] [UberPie]

Note: I don't believe a complex opinion can be properly represented by a number but I do understand some people are impatient so I don't use the star system normally, my ratings are as follows. 1 don't recommend, 3 unsure please read review, 5 recommend.

Taffy tales is a game that pushes most of my buttons, it was incest, harem, corruption, porn and good art to boot. It also has some NTR content, which is a big negative. That content is avoidable though, which is great. But it's also kinda not depending on interpretation? we'll get there.

The story is about how a soy boy beta cuck becomes the harem king and has all the women trying to fuck him. Oh also there is a sub plot about a drug/sex trafficking ring that goes straight to the top of the towns leadership, or something. It is interesting to be honest, the way it morphs into a culty kind of thing where your involvement might be more significant that it would seem, but it's not all out yet and i don't want to spoil anything, point is it's a good enough that you can skate by with it and the porn side by side, as opposed to other games where you end up ignoring the story to appeal to the porn.

The art is in my opinion top tier, this style of massive accurately drawn titties and ass with a healthy mix of absurd exaggeration is my bag, Becca in particular would be waifu material if I was into that. Every character is highly unique and has there own distinct silhouette, The artist on this game should be extremely proud of themselves, they're really showing how much they understand illustration and artistry as a whole, like to the point where I wouldn't be surprised if they worked as an illustrator professionally for studios and shit. I have more to say about this game and not all of it's positive but if you like the art that alone is enough to recommend it for me.

The gameplay is where my negatives start, it's basically just a standard porn game you'd find anywhere on here, move between scene, click on the thing, experience some kind of dialog/monologue, and continue. But you can't scroll back through dialogue because this isn't in ren.py so some times I would get the gist of what I need to do skip through and realize they told me EXACTLY what to do in that last line but I can't go back, I ended up having to guess or find a walkthrough. There's a hint system but it's not always clear, with great hints like "where's character?" or "go to place that isn't on the map". There not impossible to decipher or anything but they can be confusing at times.

I think my biggest gripe with this game is structure, It's structured in such a way that in order for you to progress with character X, you need to progress with character L,M,N,O and P. Which would be fine except this isn't an open world game its a linear story so instead of reaching to a point with say Becca realizing "oh I need to progress more with Clara to continue", you just stop progressing with her at all for a while. I mean you start the game saving Becca from being raped by Darnell, then your sister starts to hang out with him, and you don't do anything about it until this patch. Like what? Are you telling me the MC of this game lets his sister hang out with an actual rapist for, at minimum, WEEKS in game before he does anything??!?!?! I guess time isn't real in this game anyway since a lot of the day specific tasks can be done whenever but still. I think the game would benefit a lot from a progress tracker for each character so you can see from that perspective how much more content there will be.

My second biggest gripe would have to be the main character, all 2 of him. I said at the top that he has split personality disorder so you actually play as 2 characters, there is blue who is the most spineless soy boy cuck known to man, he's also denser than an anime protagonist and deserves to get beat up. Then there is Red who is a psychotic monster completely and entierly obsessed with sex and depravity that HE TOO decides to commit a rape, the justification being that she ends up better off after it. Would some fucking middle ground kill you? Someone who who can train his girls without raping them? I hate him he's my least favorite character and I wish he would have his like anime change arc where he becomes this not completely insufferable cunt.

I think that's everything those are my big negatives/issues, OH I actually almost forgot the weird NTR thing. Okay so this depends on how YOU personally define NTR, I've basically equated it to anything cucky, either getting cucked or cucking someone else, the developer would argue it's ONLY "being" cucked that counts though. Because you do cuck another character in the game, one who is into it to be fair. I've said in the past that I'm fine if I am the one cucking so this wasn't an issue for me personally but you might not want it in the game altogether, so it's kinda dealers choice.

Either way that's everything, I do recommend this game and hope the dev keeps it up.

Edit: They done a redux and AI art

It's actually good, the story seems interesting the character arts are also on par with the summertime saga. The art I always remember Melkor Mancin when I see those shining skins. Overall this game is worth a try the MILF content is also good, the downside is there is a bit of a bug but still playable.

This game is just too janky for me. It's a sandbox where they give you a list of things to do, but don't tell you that you have to do six other things to unlock the scene you are trying to see.

In one extreme example, I was playing ball with a girl named Becca and she threw it into someone else's lawn. It took WEEKS in game for me to unlock all the completely unrelated stuff necessary to get the next scene that is supposed to happen minutes later after you lose the ball.

The whole game is like that. Early on it tells you when some events are Morning, Evening, etc, but pretty soon it stops giving you that information and you just have to wander around hoping it's the right time of day to find whatever the next step is.

The pros are that the art is fun and the story is villainously charming. But you have to waste SO much time wandering around to get to the good parts that it's not really worth your time.

Version 0.89b - Very well made game. Its a VN that pretty much keeps you on track, with a limited sandbox that isn't too irritating. Not any choice that I can see, lots of pretend choices but they all basically move you in the same direction.

The art is pretty awesome, very very well done and lots of characters to move through. Limited animations, and sex scenes are nice but only a couple of images and some text. Still well done.

Content - From the description I didn't really get the feeling that this was pretty much a male dom focus. (It is) The MC is a pretty decent spineless guy, but his alter ego is very much a dom, spanking, humiliation, slave training, abusive kinda dude. Treat them bad, of course they will come around and love it...ok. Apparently all women want to be treated like shit and if you do that they will turn into your personal cumpdump.

Done about 20 percent of the content, and long play time so far, and a couple of the LI's get a little more romantic, but the fucking is still a male dom fantasy. So if you like that, this game is for you.

So excellent art, serious amount of content. Decent (linear) gameplay and decent plot. Very male dom focused game. If you are into kissing, romance, loving relationships, ...maybe some of that might come later into the game, but I haven't seen it yet, so be aware.

Absurd amount of content for the version number, the game has high aspirations and actually seems to deliver on all fronts - as long as you enjoy the artstyle and can get on board with the split personality that is happening. Tough pill at first due to MC being a basic goodguy, however seeing the corruption and personality of the other personality has been a highlight.

The writing is creative, the story mysterious and delicious, the characters hot. Later on it seems like full animations are also added which will make the game even better as it nears completion.

The current version 0.89.8b took me 130 in-game days to complete.

The only cons of the game can be summarized as:

• More quality music and sound mood changes would fit quite well.
• Minor indicators on the map if there is some new intractable at the location could potentially be a nice QoL change.
• Able to go straight to your room from street view of your house by clicking on the window could save a lot of time, skipping 'hitting the sack' dialogue faster or adding a variant to it as well.
• The bimbo should definitely go blonde.
  

I think this is an average game, nothing so good and nothing so bad, but it's still fun. Now if you're waiting for an excellent game, I'm sorry to inform you, but this game is far from that with many bugs and many basic errors that persist in this game that have not been fixed, but this is not as bad as it seems, because this game has its own alma is not a generic game made in any way despite the problems it is still an interesting one to pass the time or for those who like cuck it is also an option give it a chance maybe you will like it.

I like UberPie and his work however Taffy Tales early updates were a little too softcore for my taste. But when update 0.82.4b came out in 2022 I think the game really came into its own gameplay wise and artistically. The whole update had a clear, crisp graphical style and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the game a big boost. UberPie has been compared to ICSTOR but I think Uber has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.

In October UberPie released 0.89.8b, his most accomplished update. I think the undisputed masterpiece is the Mary doggystyle scene. A scene so arousing most people probably don't even read the dialogue. But they should, because it's not just about a boy laying pipe in his own Mother. It's a personal statement about the game itself.

It is a unique game. The art is fabulous, the story is triggering, it has different genres for different players. So far it is still one of its kind game. So it deserves a high score.

I understand a lot of players may think the playstyle is confusing. But it is suit the game. The only thing that is still improvable is the update speed. but it is a must try category game for anyone who just wants to spend several hours on an interesting journey player.

Would be half decent if not for the fuck awful quest hints and the metric shitload of needless running around doing fuck all. "Talk to someone" is not a useful direction, who the actual fuck thought that was okay? It would be one thing if you had some semblance of freedom but you're railroaded into a specific path, which makes these useless ass clues even more offensive.

Lacks consistency on when and where you can talk to people which only confounds it even further. How the fuck can someone be in four locations at the same time of day?

Even further, no way to tell if a particular conversation wastes daylight or not, potentially even wasting more time by precluding you from doing what you intended. It feels like you spend more time wasting time to try finding which instance of a person you're supposed to talk to than playing the game or interacting with the plot.

I played through a much earlier version than the current 0.89.8b and do not remember it being nearly this unbearable, no idea what the hell happened.

Art is about all it has going for it, it's stylish and unique but is not nearly enough to make this in anyway fun.

Give this a hard pass.

It's good for what it is but ultimately the terrible grammar, spelling, and malapropisms (kept forgetting that word until I read another review, thanks) just destroy this game for me.
All the question marks at the end of sentences as well as overuse of the word "though" frustrate the hell out of me as well. "I wonder though?", "I wonder blah blah?", "Maybe blah blah ?", or something passive-aggressive/stupid like that.
I don't really have any problem with the common complaints:
- NTR is pretty easy to avoid. Just don't get rid of "Red" and then from there, just use common sense to "not watch" something or to " intervene".
- not really a sandbox since you have to progress with each character but I'm okay with that since the story's interesting enough
- Red is indeed a psychopath but so is almost every other character. Not an excuse but I just see it as an extreme overreaction to the games with spineless MCs who have 2 brain cells.
- I haven't played since version 0.68.2a but it looks like most bugs have been eliminated (Edit: except for maybe one or two). Not entirely sure so don't quote me on that.

Things I didn't like however were:
- Obviously the poor English. It dramatically improves at random times and that's all I can say. There doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason I can guess as to why that happens other than maybe there's more than one writer. I'm not even asking for "adequate". I'm just asking for basic grammar and spelling that doesn't remind me of the two vaguely Scandinavian guys from Family Guy who almost get an American phrase correct but are off by one or two words.
- Most of the body types just aren't for me. I like milfs but I'm not really into "thicc" milfs. At some point, everything just looks like blobs of flesh which is pretty gross.
- I don't mind that the quests just seem to railroad you into doing whatever the overall plot dictates. It's just that I wish the hints/objectives weren't so vague. When I first played this, I remember going back and forth from the game to this thread to search for explanations to a lot of quests. I still had to do that for a few quests. Unclear instructions that require constant browsing of a forum full of people who already played the game is a sign of a bad game. (Shout out to Count Morado the MVP, single-handedly fielding all questions and concerns.)
- Map design seems kind of meh. Everything is either at the Mall or I just buy everything from the "Shop". Although, I'm not crying over it. I'd rather development of the story continue and not get sidetracked by things like expanding on map assets. That'd be such a dumb move.
- Not a fan of switching the player character around. It's not a big deal and I think it was interesting to try it out but overall I just don't care about playing from other characters' perspectives when you can already just read their inner monologues anyway.
- More and more characters are being added when I just wish the more underutilized characters had more content. (But if that's what Patreon supporters want then it is what it is.) Still, it feels like I'm going to be dead before I see anything besides the Mom and Clara taking up what feels like half of the game's content.
- Sandbox features like quick travel within a location would be nice to have. Especially when at some point, you're just having to go do one thing then going back to bed for several days to a week. Shit, even just a bed icon at the top of the screen would make sense.
Edit: I forgot one more thing. The assets that already exist seem to be underutilized or sometimes really fucking random. Everything is either "click the bed" or something even when it'd make more sense to use the laptop or check the chest. It just seems non-intuitive or lazy. The random parts would be suddenly having to check the stairs to the roof when if you explore at the beginning of the game, it basically telling you it's pretty much closed off and not to bother checking it unless specifically prompted. (It could have prompted me but damn, I was so fed up with the broken English that I just hit "skip" for most of it.
- That reminds me. "Skip already read" doesn't seem to work as intended. There are some points I know I didn't see yet but the dialogue was still skipped. I even checked to make sure I didn't have it on "skip everything". Not the actual terms used but you know what I mean. So that might be a bug.

I think I covered all my thoughts about this game. Overall, there are things about the game that make it not for some people but there are things that make it interesting and I appreciate the different art style. However, there's still a lot of room for improvement even though it's been around for a while now. It's an "okay" game but could be better but at the same time, it's been this way for so long that I don't think "better" is ever going to come along.
Although, to be honest I'd be satisfied with the devs just hiring a good proofreader and giving more attention to characters with little to no content. If I was a more skeptical person, I'd think it was on purpose to egg on supporters to keep them donating to maybe one day see their favored characters. In reality, I'm thinking I'm just the odd man out and the characters with the most content are who patreon supporters actually want to see.

In love the huge penis art. Bigger than any other game! story is fun and characters are all good and interesting . More games need nice hand drawn art like this is gives them such a more distinct style and look. Definitely worth playing such a great game.

Gave this a try since I love the art style. Seriously, whoever does the art for this is phenomenal. The varying body types was exceptional, and my attention was hooked from the bush on Mary. Sometimes, the art seems like it varies a bit from itself, but it's mostly fantastic.

Storyline's decent, but the two people in one body thing isn't my personal cup of tea. Not a huge fan of how much of a loser the main character is, or how much of a scumbag the alter ego is. It's like they're both extreme opposites of each other and it's not really enjoyable to play as them.

Gameplay is typical sandbox stuff, which is kind of a mixed bag for me personally. There's just a bit too much going on on-screen that is functionally useless. There's so many doors and objects on the screen that are clickable, but do absolutely nothing. It doesn't make the world feel more alive; quite the opposite.

Honestly too cucky for me though. It says it's optional, but it seems to be screaming in your face at every turn. Vast majority of the lewd content is cucky in some capacity. To each their own, but it takes me out of it. First sex scene I saw in the game was Darnell railing the redhead chick. And from then on out, just about every girl in the game is in his orbit, heavily implying that he's railing them too or just shoving the threat of it in your face.

I see some reviews from fans of NTR who insist it's optional, but it's implied throughout the game and you still wind up in those scenes without even realizing you're entering them. You could theoretically load game if you click into a scene that turns into it, but there's no toggle to turn it off so you don't have to load game. You have to walk into it in order to walk out. So, sure, maybe you can load game, but I think people are missing that it doesn't change the visceral disgust still being activated for people who don't like it. It's like if there were scat in the game and you could

[Rev @ Taffy Tales [v0.89.8b]

Art's nice, like the variety of character design instead of all being the same render software teen trying to pass as a MILF.

Writing is all over. Scenario's trite (basically Mom + 2 Hot Sisters Minus One), but narrative is unique enough. Voice wobbles a bit and there're typos and malapropisms aplenty but characterization is well done and the whole experience is overall enjoyable.

Porn's fine. Too much anal and traps aren't my thing, and I wish there were more group scenes and preggo stuff. I do appreciate the girl/girl and having love interests who take an active role in corruption.

Gameplay is my main stumbling block: it's presented as a sandbox but gates things off in a way that feels railroad-y. I don't feel there's any choice in which love interests to pursue; you wind up with all of them just in slightly different order maybe. Unrelated events seem to gate each other off weirdly; you'll have events that say 'tomorrow' or 'next saturday' that you can trigger the very next turn, and some seeming emergencies that persist for ingame days as you either trawl around looking for the next event trigger or spend a few days fapping for cash. The character select feels vestigial and time-wasting as well.

TLDR: Nicely depraved but a bit clunky.

Great game. First and foremost, like in most of my reviews, I'll preface this by saying that one of the reasons this game gets a high grade is because the focus is squarely on the NSFW-content - there's no baiting or lengthy, boring lead-up. The writing sets up interesting, somewhat believable kinky scenarios and plays those out. Like any good NSFW-game should.

That said, the writing is decent, the art is great (if not perfect) and the kinks are diverse and excellent.

The reason this only gets four stars is that the game can get a little repetitive and doesn't linger enough on individual scenes. As well, the amount of choice feels very restrictive - there's very little wiggle room with regards to just how much of an asshole you want the MC to be.

That said, this is definitely one of the better games of this site.

Writing: 1/5
Art 3.5/5
Gameplay: 3/5

Writing:
I can't bring myself it enjoy this one. The writing is a struggle to get through. The easiest way to put it, is there is a lot of fluff. Your basically told a situation, and then the writer continues to try and convince you of what they just told you on the situation, then concludes it with something like, "So its suffice to say," and then just repeats the original line of the situation. This happens EVERY single time someone is introduced, or any route unfolds. Its begins to drive you crazy cuz your just reading a bunch of nothing, so you start to skip the text little by little, when you suddenly passed something that's actually important to read in along with all said fluff, and because you can't go back to previous text, your now lost.

So you are left with two choices, either read a bunch of nothing that attempts to convince you its nothing, and catch the few bits you actually need to know, or skip it and be completely lost as to whats going on, cuz nothing else explains it to you.

Art:
It's decent enough. Although there is a lot of repeating body types, so this doesn't really rate higher due to a lack of diversity when it comes to preferences. If you like all girls to have huge boobs and butts, with tiny arms, and shoulders, and they all look like they haven't slept days, then this is your art style.

Gameplay:
It's your average gameplay loop for these sort of games. Nothing really good, or bad about it. In the past the quest log was an atrocity, but its been resolved enough that if you don't care about the text, you can still stumble through the game.

Overall: Its hard to recommend this game, as the writing is incredibly redundant. Characters personalities are overshadowed due to this. When someones introduced, you initially like what your reading, but then it goes on to "convince" you, and you quickly lose interest.

Unless your an insane speed reader, you will have a hard time getting through the story with this one.

It has a lot of potentials. The art is wonderful, painting like 2dcg are best for building dramatic imagination while not too cartoony. Animations are good enough. Surprising, candid, or voyeurism element is the power of the game where we can't find it irl. Yet, it still has some flaws, especially when it played on Windows tablet PC. Text can't move on whatsoever with only touch mode. Seems like it doesn't recognize touch as mouse clicks. Need "Auto" mode reading. Sometimes the resolution changes by itself. Just played it for in-game few days though. Not too comfortable continuing to play on Windows tablet.

Amazing game. Such a nice wank. Loved the gameplay, the art, the story and the babes. UberPie is just amazing in his work. I hope this does not get abandoned. Looking forward to playing more games from UberPie

Love the art of this game, the story and the girls, I think it's a great game. What I didn't like is that some items are hard to find and can ruin your experience.
But it is a game that you enjoy more than once.

Well... This was more dissapointing than what I thought I was going to be. Taffy Tales has the essence of many other games that mixed a VN with a sandbox which normally results in a very interesting game; not this case tho. We will see the MC fight against his own demon in a extremely brutal difference of behaviours battle as the MC is the kinda of boy who will reject something so simple as an invitation of a hot girl to the cinema, while his inner demon has the very weird desire of rape every single woman in his way. There's many mini storylines all around the game and the most of them doesn't bring you to any interesting point. The main plot of the game seems to be the struggling of the MC against his demon, but again, there's no evolution at all and you eventually get tired of watching always the same scene but with different text. The art of the game is not bad at all, I would say is the best part of the game. Every character is very well designed and presented, with their own and unique appearence. The personality of every character in the game are very good and also their roles are somehow unavoidable at one point, which forces you to interact with them, and I actually liked that because any of them seems to be there just to fill an empty place, no.

The principal problem of the game in my opinion is the lack of decisions. Everything what you do is the only choice that you have. Normally you'll have the chance of picking between two options and with the way this game is presented it screams that, but don't happen. You can't control the MC screwing moments with girls as you can't control the MC's demon just being mean with everyone. There's poor rewards after completing storylines that makes you want to quit this game after going from place to place, buying things and waiting days for the shortest scene ever. There's a lot of effort in this game. Is just bad organized, and more than made thinking on giving to the player, is made thinking in giving to the game itself, which at this point I guess the only ones who'll keep playing it will be their true supporters.

Pros/cons

Pro
+Visuals
+Story
+Diversity of content
+the girls
+sissy/cuck content
Cons
-Confusing how to progress at times
-Easy to miss content
-Hard to find certain items

Overall I really enjoyed this game, it has a lot to offer to a variety of tastes especially if you are into harem and dom/sub content. I also greatly enjoyed this girls in this and especially the one subby boy. You should give this one a try for sure!