VN - Ren'Py - Taking Advantage [v0.06] [SSHGAMES]

[v0.06]

Writing:
⠀⠀⠀I genuinely tried to enjoy this game but the writing here is so porn movie tier, that it's nigh impossible. I would expect something like this out of a Brazzers videos, not a visual novel, where the writer has to spend much longer than their lunch break time to figure out ideas and ways to execute them. Btw, pretty sure this is also ESL as grammar's often lousy, a bunch of typos too.
⠀⠀⠀The story starts with MC getting into a car crash and then we are introduced to his brother and brother's wife. Right off the bat the brother is exposed as a bit of an asshole and a complete moron. Now you can make his wife suck you off and we get transported to a flashback section where we get to see how this affair started. Immediately two visual issues arise: first, MC and Audrey (brother's future wife) are like 20 years younger but the brother's model itself is left largely untouched, so he's still old for some reason, and the second is that Isabella (Audrey's friend) claims that she's Indian yet her model's clearly white, so I call cap. So all these "young" characters meet and you can accuse your brother of being a player/fuckboy right in front of his newfound girlfriend and it's not subtle in the slightest, I'm surprised he doesn't get angry at all. Then you hug her for like a whole minute like a creep and say the corniest shit imaginable and what's unbelievable is that she genuinely falls for it. Then you hug Isabella in the same creepy way and even openly flirt with her sexually and what's dumb is that she responds in kind, to a complete stranger no less. Then these four go shopping and this is where this whole thing's getting dumber. So the reason brother wanted to introduce his GF to the MC in the first place was to show off his house in order to impress her. So they all go shopping and now suddenly he acts like he doesn't give a fuck about her completely ignoring her and even silently leaving for work without warning while she's dressing in a cubicle. Unless he's actively trying to get cucked, this shit just does not make sense. After a long and boring yapping session at a cafe, several hours later MC already takes Isabella's virginity but not before several minutes of awkward begging to do it without a condom. So we get to our first actual sex scene and see two animations, one is terrible, likely made by the dev, and the other is an asset flip shown from as many angles as possible. No sound effects, oh wait, the entire game is completely silent, right, whatever. And the dialogue is some of the most cringe and corny on the market, it's just: "let me show you how much you mean to me", "you're everything to me", "you're the only one that matters to me" and "you're the most special person in my life" on repeat, all of which sounds especially hilarious considering that they've met literally a few hours ago. Then he walks into Audrey passed out drunk on the couch and takes advantage of the situation by casually raping her. What's funny is how not only she's totally fine with losing her virginity in her sleep to someone who's not even her boyfriend, but also how easily he convinces her literally the next morning to become his "secret wife" within just a few lines of dialogue and has sex with her again, now consensually. Now back to present day and Audrey's daughter (who's actually MC's daughter too) somehow walks up point blank close to them having oral sex completely unnoticed (is she actually Solid Snake?) and author likes to use this trick a lot to create unbelievable scenarios, like MC stealthily walking onto his middle daughter masturbating while she's looking directly at him, or him walking up on elder daughter to eat her pussy somehow mistaking her for her mother (is he fucking blind?) and her mistaking him for another guy (she could not be bothered to open her eyes?). He then commands Beatrix (older daughter) to become his exclusive woman and forbids her from seeing other boys, which is super autistic, because they were a normal family up until literally a few minutes ago. You can't just eat someone out and immediately claim them as concubine, that's just stupid. And ofc after their first ever intercourse, she's already a slave to his cock, how banal. Some time later we are transferred to MC's office where he offers his legal consulting services to a married couple going through a divorce and what happened next kinda blew my mind. So this guy cheated on his wife and she's had it and wants a divorce. On top of that to spite her husband she also offers sex to the MC, because of course she does. Next, secretary's niece (Elsie) barges into the office complaining that she's been stuck here with her aunt instead of celebrating her birthday. MC offers to take her out for the birthday and she jumps onto his lap like a fucking 6 year old girl jumps onto shopping mall Santa Claus. Here Elsie confesses: "now that I'm finally an adult" she wants "to have a boyfriend and get married". With "finally an adult" it is heavily implied that she turned 18, but this is mega cap, she talks like a 10 year old girl with stuff like "pee pee hole" referencing her vagina, completely oblivious towards "adult" stuff and what boyfriend and marriage actually are. So MC suggests to become her boyfriend and "play marriage" by fucking her here and now. What's more disturbing is that her aunt just allows MC to play boyfriend and "deflower" her *totally 18 y/o* niece for a promotion and a big money bonus, so she basically pimped her niece out. WTF, he's like 50, woman, are you out of your mind? Oh yeah, I almost forgot, the female client (divorcing wife) seeing how our MC is lusting after this young girl also offered her own daughter in addition to herself whenever he decides to vising their home, because why wouldn't she? I don't know man, the entire scene was just one big fever dream. The rest of the narrative is of the same bottom of the barrel quality, so no need to repeat myself.
⠀⠀⠀So to summarize, protagonist is being a creepy sex offender and quite frankly a psychopath and all the women for whatever reason find it very hot. The women in question have incomprehensible motivations and the teenage girls have the mentality of literal children (hella sus ඞ). Finally - men: they are not only utter imbeciles, so that MC can effortlessly cuck them, but they're also jerks, so that we as audience don't feel bad about it, and there is a guy who literally faints or freezes whenever his girlfriend makes sexual advances on him, which is so dumb, it's funny. Maybe there is one exception - Oscar, he kinda neglects his wife, but is otherwise okay, not retarded and not an shitass (he still gets cucked).

Choices:
⠀⠀⠀There are two types of choices: either behave yourself and get no bitches, or be an absolute sleazebag and manipulate or coerce your way into woman's panties. There is nothing in between. There are some exceptions, like with a "truth or dare" game, but 90% of the choices are as previously mentioned.

Graphics:
⠀⠀⠀Visually the game looks very dated, I would expect something similar circa 2020, but in 2025 this VN looks like ass. This wouldn't be much of an issue and I'd forgive many graphical shortcomings if the writing was good, but it isn't. Character models aren't particularly attractive either. Btw why does Alice have anime-sized eyes. while everyone else have normal ones? It looks horrible.

Lewds:
⠀⠀⠀I've already mentioned everything in the previous section but to summarize: either horrendous stiff animations where bodies move like barbie dolls or asset flipped ones, which you've likely seen before in other low quality VNs, no audio whatsoever, because animations are so limited they're savored from like 10 different angles to make it appear like something's going on, and the dialogue is the textbook definition of cheesy. There are quite a lot of scenes, yet no gallery. I don't know, there is really nothing redeeming about this VN's erotic content apart from it's unique context of rich bastard seducing and cucking his own family members, too bad the writer's not good enough to execute this setting properly.

Conclusion: this could have been hot, there is potential for it, but unfortunately terrible writing in tandem with dated visuals, low-effort animations and complete lack of sound all together detract from the experience too much for me to properly enjoy it.

v0.06

holy, very hot netori game.

the game dont even have a cheating tag, yet the first romance you can have in this game is an affair, and it's a good one. the netori elements are actually have consequences, not just a one-time thing which i like it a lot.

sadly there is no sound in the game which can be a bit let down but it is quite okay for me.

5/5, hopefully the game wont be taken down because of some "questionable" things in the game.

This one was just confusing as hell and didn't make that much sense. MC is an asshole and just pressures nearly everyone in the story until he gets his way. Honestly Oscar is the smartest one here but got fucked over by his wife. Timelines don't really make sense and relationships were not consistent. MC looks 20 in his flashback with Audrey but then also looks the same age in the flashback with Clara, but she's supposed to married to his ~20 year old son? Make it make sense. Also please make everyone's ages at least relevant to each other so that when you set the first one it automatically updates everybody instead of trying to figure out ages based on looks which feels next to impossible in the Ren'Py engine. Also Freya de-aging about 5 years from one scene directly into the next scene was jarring.

There is some ok dialogue but goddamn it just kept repeating sometimes. I know you're trying to increase the playtime but when you have one line of dialogue on once scene, and then a slightly worded differently line of dialogue on the next scene just ended up making me mash through it a lot.

I'm usually pretty generous with scores on these games but I don't know about this one. MC having absolutely no redeeming qualities really puts a damper on things. The girls are cute though.

Renders 3/5, sometimes even worse
Story 1/5, just porn level plot
Characters 1/5 the mc is an asshole and a cuck, the women are mentally challenged and the other characters too, there's no romance I'd say, just a dude doing anything to fuck some bitches.
Writing 1/5 horrendous, like please, get another writer or help.

Game was mediocre to bad feom the start, now as it is usual with bad and mediocre games that don't have succes for how vad they are, they try to appeal to the cuck crowd, with sharing/nts scenes that come out of nowhere, which point out how the game doesn't even have a direction anymore.
Tldr: Avoid, not even worth to jack off because the renders and sex scenes aren't that good

This kind of storyline full of complex plot connections, combined with rich action-movie content, is my favorite. If the animation part could be expanded a bit more, it would be even more perfect. Haha, of course the art style depends on each person’s taste, but I can accept it. A great work!

Excellent. Love the brats. Dialogue during sex scenes is hot. This might be a new favorite of mine.
More of this please

Pros: Brat dialogue is probably the best seen on this site. Scenes are mighty hot.

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.