Others - Tales of Home [v0.2.1] [Tales of Home]

Is it enjoyable? Yes. Is it playable? As of v0.1.6 it's a mess.

Art is nice, I don't mind AI if it's good enough, but the game seems to have been coded by AI too, it's buggy and barely functioning most of the time (other times it breaks).

Not recommended in current state, wait a few months for the dev to hopefully get it to work properly.

The lack of effort using AI CG is acceptable; but not when the mini games are those annoying as hell puzzle match minigames which sends everyone to look for codes to bypass them.
Literally nobody looking to have a wank wants to sit there doing these these tedious waste of time filler content!

Art is unbelievable good, and the story is a bit fast and abrupt at the start, but really good. The only problem why I did not give 5 stars is that the order in which things are happening can be confusing. For example, I was encountering the mom in the kitchen in the morning really happy and the MC talking about a flyer, even though I did not find the mom in the hallway during the night before, only a few nights later.

Tales of Home v0.1.1

The game is not playable in its current state. Also, it is boring.

When you first start the game, you are greeted with a custom UI interface. I like it. I like how we input the character names. The Load and Save screen doesn't look bad either. However, one complaint here is that there is no way to delete a Save. You can only overwrite Saves. I wish that developers would quit removing good core features from Renpy games.

Once the game started, I was severely disappointed. It was so boring. You go into the kitchen. You see a static image of the mom there. You can select a dialog choice like 'You look nice.". Then you can offer to help with breakfast. But there is no content. You don't actually see yourself making breakfast with her. The images of her disappear and you get a single line of dialog like "You made breakfast with her", and then the event is over. Not only that, but every single day after that is the same exact scenario. Wake up. Go to kitchen. See mom standing there. Offer to make breakfast. One line of dialog letting you know that you made breakfast. The end.

Then let's talk about how broke this game is. You received a medallion. It is in your inventory. If you click it, you get teleported to a Succubus. She doesn't say or do anything. She just sits there. You click her. There is no option to return to your home. If you click 'Return', it just closes out of the menu and you are still standing in front of the Succubus. Not being able to return is a game breaking bug. If you select 'View Powers', well the game gives you 10,000 errors. This developer can't even test a game with this little content before releasing it?

The graphics are crisp and clear but nothing to be excited about. I mean they are just very static, single images. Like cardboard cutouts. You don't see multiple renders with their body positions and facial expressions changing. I bet if there are any sex scenes they probably consist of one or two images. This game is not fleshed out at all. It needs various renders and poses and dialog. To sum this game up, I just need two words: "buggy" and "boring". But good job on the UI.

Extremely disappointing.

The gameplay isn’t fun at all and quickly becomes tedious due to an unbearable grind.

The scene navigation is probably the worst I’ve ever encountered: you first have to click on an icon, then select the desired scene, with no indication of character presence. You end up clicking randomly, hoping to find someone.

Even worse, several bugs can block your progress: absolutely avoid the gym, where you can get stuck, and don’t try to access power information after activating the medallion, or the game will crash.

As for the erotic scenes, they boil down to a single static “animation” with no camera angle changes… utterly boring. For this type of game, the developer has done the bare minimum.

The only positive aspect is the quality of the illustrations and 3D models. The problem is that they all feature large busts, which makes them feel less unique…

In the end, this game seems designed to lure players in with pretty visuals, only to trap them in a tedious, bug-ridden grind.