VN - Ren'Py - Taking Advantage [v0.05] [SSHGAMES]

The game feels lacking in content for now. There are only a few hours of gameplay. There is also no sound or music and the animations could be better. Another problem I see is that there are too many scenes with filler dialog. It would be better to have fewer of these scenes.

A very good amount of charecters and nice option of choices. All the best to the developer this is coming a long really good. One of the best out there.
The game length is okei already but I cant wait for the full game

v0.05

A lot of words and pictures but nothing of substance because the dev won't focus on any character for more than a single update.

You play a rich guy who's so good at sex that women fall for you after one (often dubiously-consensual) encounter.

Every scene so far introduces one or more new women for you to have sex with or start having sex with before inexplicably abandoning them and moving on to someone else.

There are some very spicy netorase scenes of you having sex with people in front of their husbands, aunts, boyfriends, grandparents, etc. and I really enjoyed those.

Unfortunately, the lack of any plot beyond "I'm still horny, better find a new random girl to have sex with." dragged this down for me.

2.5/5

[Review for v0.05]

If I'm being completely honest, this game is probably worth 2 stars, but some of it plays exactly to my fetishes, so it's getting an extra star.

Still, its flaws are evident and may very well ruin the entire experience for the average reader, almost did for me, and the biggest of these flaws is the sheer amount of text there is. I have never seen such a cluttered, over-inflated writing style before: you could cut half the lines written and the story wouldn't be affected; in fact, it'd make it a much easier read. The first scene exemplifies this perfectly, just count the amount of lines every person has while literally in the middle of a high-speed race. Doesn't feel like they're in a high-stakes, fast-paced competition, they're talking like they're in the middle of a friendly game of cards. It happens all the time, people are in a situation that should be developing quickly but they have full-on conversations. The sex is especially egregious, it takes a lot of the eroticism out of the sex scenes when the participants never shut the fuck up and just enjoy it.

What makes it worse is that the bulk of the writing (dialogue and monologue) are written in a very stilted, robotic manner. People don't express themselves like this, so most moments, be they sexual or not, fall flat because the characters keep talking instead of just doing.

Subtlety and innuendo are alien concepts in this world, people explain exactly how they feel and they talk like they're trying to fill a word quota. Nothing is left unsaid, there's no mystery, and the characters are paper-thin so everything being so extensively explained means there's not much to look forward to.

TL;DR: If this game had an editor, it could be an actual 3 or maybe even 4 star game.

An interesting, but short AVN. Giving it a 3.3 rating for now, as it has a lot more development time it needs to go through.

The MC is clearly written as a highly libido-driven and successful individual, which I didn't mind at all. Incest and conquest seem to be his priorities, and why wouldn't they be when he has little left to accomplish?

+ Good renders
+ Interesting characters
+ Multiple families, and outside love interests
+ Choices actually seem to affect scenes/relationships (unsure if they affect the story)
+ A nice, lewd overtone throughout (MC rarely strays from his desires). A kinky overtone surrounds everything the MC does, but there aren't many kinks in scenes (yet?).

+/- Has animations - some are decent, some are frame flipping. Fully animated scenes tend to change framerate from good, to poor, which can be off-putting.

---- Absolutely banal writing, which continues right through most sex scenes. There are no sexy overtones to it, no "ooh" or "aah", and very little focus on the actual fucking going on when full conversations are had during sex.
-- A very short AVN, something like ~4-5 hours total depending on text skipped.
-- There is almost no plot other than "find pussy, conquer pussy, rinse/repeat"

The game does have promise, but a lot needs to happen for it to improve. A plot needs to be injected in to keep the reader staring at hours worth of boring text. Smoother animation needs to happen for all scenes. A lot more progress with the love interests needs to happen, which also means accelerated development and more frequent releases.

Would I recommend it? Sure, if you lower your standards for writing for the ~4-5 hours you might spend playing it. You can essentially skip all the "thought" text and just focus on the white spoken text, and not really miss anything.

I wanted to like this one. Started it twice. The quality of the visuals varies from decent to actually really good. Total incest fuckfest is an easy sell for me.

However, I just found the protagonist so utterly unlikable that I couldn't stand it. He's behaving like a morally bankrupt asshole, while he himself and half of the cast are constantly singing his praises. There also is any lack of self-awareness.

A complete rewrite (ideally by a different writer) could turn this into a gem, but with this MC, I find it unplayable.

Taking Advantage [v0.04] Well I guess I'm going to hell . This is so taboo and so up my alley that I had to subscribe to it. Most of these are slow starters but not this one it immediately gass. The renders are pretty good and plot is kind of cliché with horney adult guy who wants to have sex with everyone of his female realities. You always have to be careful with these because sometimes the renders make the girls look too young but he does a good job of making them look at least 18 so I didn't feel uncomfortable. I'm really looking forward to V0.05 to see what happens.

The writing in this VN needs help. Father/daughter stories are the trickiest to write, too often dad comes off as just a creeper. This one is an example of that.

You play as an MC who is morally bankrupt. There is no semblance of romance or any real emotional attachment, it's just a guy willing to do or say what ever he has to in order to screw pretty much every female he sees including naive daughters who certainly don't come across as 18.

There is no real story to speak of and it also suffers from more characters than needed making things convoluted.

Not one I would recommend.

The visuals are fine (not great, a pass), but the writing is clearly the biggest issue. Adding the ability to pick the age doesn't work when you write these characters as clearly meant to be much younger, but at least you can choose whether to have the scenes or not.

For something that is clearly designed just to be sexual, the fact it pretends to have any semblance of a story is utterly ridiculous. There's no reason to have so much dialogue when every single character is extremely empty and there purely for porn.

This one is what I'd call a 'mixed bag'. Some VNs have a deep story, with characters you can relate to and scenes that are relatively plausible. Others, they're clearly a porn game attempting to include various kinks. This leans very much towards the latter but tries (and frankly fails) desperately to be the former. And people aren't lying about it being wordy. Like SUPER wordy. Like LOOONG conversations where they say the same things 4 or 5 times over, just with different flowery words. Not to mention most of those long conversations, including right in the middle of a sex scene, is a bunch of over the top mushiness.

However, redeeming qualities is that the characters are all quite appealing, the animations are pretty good, UI is pretty typical and thus good. It could also use a better english proofreader or translator but it's not an absolutely terrible story (for a porn game).

So to sum up, it's not one you'll regret having a playthrough but its definitely not one I'd consider top-tier.

Version 0.03
Pretty good one: nice renders, amusing story, enough of "content", a bit raw animation however.Also there quite a bit o choice so anybody can trim some staff or choose alterative paths with some small consequences. Still looking forward to how it will progress.

I've played games that were shallow and poorly written before and still enjoyed them. That's because they knew what they were, they were porn with mild setup for the sake of sex. This on the other hand is shallow and poorly written but it tries to pretend it isn't. The writer puts 4 paragraphs back to back saying the same one sentence over and over in different ways. The characters are all contradictory, "He's/She's so caring and family oriented" seconds later that character is cheating and doing awful things to family members. Every aspect of the story telling is bad; I can't even describe it all.

There's one single upside, there are plenty of sex scenes, just skip the dialogue cause this one isn't just written poorly, it also drags on and on and on and on and on.

TL;DR: I play these games because there's a story. If I wanted immediate fap material, I'd just watch porn. This ones a hard pass for me.

Kinky and pervy game that is brought down by way too much dialogue. It's not just that there's too much dialogue, but it's heavily repetetive. Full blown conversations during sex that really takes down the mood. Good amount of sex scenes so there's no blue balling going on. Other than that, MC doesn't have much of a personality other than fucking everything on two legs.

I really like this game and wish I could give it a higher review. I like all the girls and the story, so far, has kept me interested and engaged. There are a few things that lower the rating. The first is that there is too much dialogue. I don't mind devs trying to flesh out the characters with dialogue in games, but this was just too much. A conversation is stretched too long by repeating the same thing in three or four slightly different ways. During sex scenes there can be literally a full on conversation that repeats the same thing over and over. Also this game is a bit confusing on how they want to characterize the MC. At first, it seems like he is the type to take charge and just fuck women.
Then he literally has a long (useless) conversation asking repeatedly if he can fuck and then cum inside a girl, while he was already inside her. There was no point to that and it contradicts other parts where either he wouldn't care about asking or just ask once and then pressure them into doing it anyway. The dev needs to either make multiple routes or decide how they want the MC to be.
I do really like this game and it actually has a decent amount of choices. It just makes it kind of tedious to be going through conversation after conversation where the same question is asked over and over or the same statement is said in multiple different ways for no reason. The more it's done the more it seems like it's only to pad the game and make it seem longer. Scenes that should only be 3-4 minutes on average go on for like 5-6.

This is fun. I almost didn't play because of the reviews and lack luster description. There's a lot of content for a 0.3 .

This starts off seeming like it's going to be netori and milf heavy, but quickly shifts focus to the younger characters.

MC will change between charming/creepy/rapey without warning. The game suffers from too many characters syndrome and no direction, but the the side characters and distractions have been fun. There are signs of a larger story, but that feels forced and unnatural and I don't want to judge it yet.

story 5 (I don't read most of the dialogue but I like the general idea)
characters design 3.5 (I prefer big tits over lolis)
animations 4
kinks ? (the story is still short but if possible I hope the developer add more threesome scenes, anal, lesbian, bdsm (punishment) and armpit licking)

Definitely has issues, as described in the thread - dev could use a dialogue editor - and not everyone's cup of tea due to the nature of half the LIs. But some solid scenes despite all of that. Worth keeping an eye on.

Excellent cast of characters, writing, and plot. The differing levels of corruption add a nice variety to it as well. The tension building done during certain scenes is expert level and keeps the reader engaged throughout. Also the realism of the life situations adds to the surprise element with choices.

Animation: Solid, nothing crazy model wise and they animation are fairly fluid.
Story: Light hearted, direct, fun. No need to take this seriously just go along with it.
Scripting: Not too bad, a little robotic at times.
A crowd pleaser game. This isn't pushing boundaries but it's fun to enjoy. I hope the creator continues with the plot. Loving it so far

Good game with alot of potential, still not a fan of silent games which is why i cant give the 5th star, it would need some music to set the moods in scenes for that one.

Right now its still short but whats there is good, and story is fine so far.
there is one weird thing about MC, when ever he thinks about the "brothers" kids he constantly thinks of them as hes nieces and him self as uncle, even though he knows it really is hes own daughters, it feels a bit idiotic.

Girls looks good and by the picture it shows alot of promiss if they are all planed to come in to the game.

Story 4/5
Might become better or worse we will see as the game comes along.

Animations 3/5
they arent the best but not bad either

Music 0/5
Well there is none

I will update my review once this game gets more updates.