VN - Ren'Py - Tangled Bonds [Ch.8] [Naughty4Life Games]

This is just a weird one, your lead to belive you have choices in this game but no matter what you do or if you even leave someone hanging like Eleanor she is still forced on you for reasons?.....i wouldent want to touch that ugly saggy bimbo with a 10ft pole, but your given 0 choice in that, even when your going after someone else.....

The huge flaw in that is that this is not a harem game? so why the fuck is some idiotic ugly bimbo forced on you? what is the dev thinking doing shit like that in a none harem game......it cant make sense to anyone...
Next time you get a choice to say your not in the mood for sex? so why force her to start with? it wasent even needed for story reasons, you could just have easily turned her down instend of forced sex scene..... so yeah this game is utter shit.

As for the story it feels very bland, its about the Mob and MC being a tuff soldier but none of that really shines through and it dosent feel like a mobster story

Girls has no real diversity since its big or huge tits, theres no normal or small sizes, so cant say i found any one of them hot, i went for Juliette since she had the ones somewhat close to normal, also everyone seems to have a fat ass for whatever reason.

Animatons are way below average, they are short, they have 0 dialogs since just a single click stops them, no clue why some devs think thats a good idea, to me having some dialogs while its going is about a million times better but like i say game is piss poor in so many ways.

As for choices its to idiotic, you can reject pretty much everyone except one which is 100% forced which is so stupd since you can then turn her down some time later making the forced sex scene pointless and just to annoy players not into forced shit, which you also wouldent expect in none harem games.

Great models used in the story. The story itself is pretty straightforward not bad but nothing extraordinary either. So far I have not completed the game but there seems to be very few sex scenes. Also very few options to choose how to behave so the game is almost behaving like a kinetic novel. Wish the dev would add more choices and more scenes.

The renders are decent, the story is a bit lacking, but the MC is one of the stupidest "highly trained operatives" in existence. Talking to people about your mission... being overly curious... doing everything you can do to draw attention to yourself... basically everything the MC does screams "please mob boss make sure I do not see another sunrise". I made it to the library and was done.

couldn't get past the first freeroam event, bugged kept going back to the main menu. I tried all the different ways.

Played when chapter 5 released and got to the freeroam event and clicked the end event, and went back main menu. Fast forward to Chapter 6 release, and still can't pass that broken freeroad event.

Tried restarting 3 different times, still bugged at the same location.

For the rest of the game was okay; it wasn't good and it wasn't bad.

edit: got passed bugged, from another players gave me a save.



Story:
Basic story with mob boss and MC blends in, nothing interesting or exciting.
(Note sure if it gets better because can't proceed past broken section.)


Character:
MC: He is supposed to be a badass elite soldier, but I have not seen it. Bad at awareness, not very good at fighting, and shooting, becomes a Sub to girls, and acts like a man-child.

Boss's daughter: She has a boyfriend and loves him, but gets jealous when MC talks or flirts with other women, and also has seven different personalities randomly. Random scene, the boyfriend groping her naked and wanting sex.
Just a turn off for me.

MC ex: I guess she's okay, but controlling and likes to be dominant over MC, and forced sex/ dildo scene on you.

Coffoe shop lady, I would says better one out of all of them.

Giving 0-1 star due to being unable to proceed past the event, and the dev still hasn't fixed it from the last 2 updates.

If it wasnt for the bug, then I would give it 2/5, just because it feels basic and similar to other games.

Overall a mediocre story that gets stranger and stranger the more you read it.

The MC shifts from simp to creep in seconds. He looks okay, speaks strange and acts so often without player input that it hurts. All his training is good for nothing, he fails everytime it counts (so far at least).

The LIs range from very interesting to unbearable. Some you get to know both as MC and as player, some are old baggage. I would've been fine with concentrating on the ones I like while being able to ignore the other, but that is not the vision of this dev. One major LI is the typical "technically not NTR" trope with an absolute disgusting "boyfriend". Hard pass for me, but the cake takes Eleanor (the Ex): unavoidable dildo-scene, even tho I declined every encounter with her. Which shows how much value your decisions will have when it comes to LI.

The dialogue hops from ok to robotic, but all in all the interactions are fine and there were a few cute moments.

On one hand it could be redone to get rid of obvious bad decisions, but seeing that this is already a remake and the Juliette/boyfriend trope seems to be a fixed part of the plot, I doubt there will be meaningful improvements. So if you are ok with forced sex scenes, a somewhat unlikable MC and a LI that shoves her boyfriend in your face, this might be worth a try.

This AVN has taken a early bad wrap. At its core, it's a pretty solid little AVN. Sure, the writing is middling at best and there are some odd things happening with the "investigation" and the way things unfold don't really make a lot of sense.

There were a few questionable story decisions, like being able to call someone who had never been mentioned and who could instantly disable a security system he knew nothing about. And the whole doppelganger scene was laughable. Then there is one LI, Elanor... forced sex scene and I could not freaking stand her. I would cringe every time she came on because something ridiculous was about to happen and she is butt ugly to boot. Speaking of butts, all the women have butts the size of Texas, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but they are bimboesque and look out of place. The renders are getting better and the H scenes are pretty good, but they still need work, specifically with lighting decisions.

Despite all of that, the dev is producing a lot of content and seems to be all in on the story and we should always support active developers. At the end of the day, I enjoyed the playthru and while I would like to give this a higher score just to pump up the ratings, I think "Average" is a pretty solid rating.

Keep your expectations moderate and give it a download. It's worth a playthru.

LI's are attractive despite model changes/looking different in certain scenes

Lewd scenes are good

Story starts ok devolves into meh

MC looks like a toolbag

Free Roam scene cannot get past.

I've tried a couple of times to like this one but I just can't

I just wanted to increase the rating a little because while this VN has a lot of flaws, it shows that its developer does everything he can to make it look good. And to be honest, for a first VN, it’s really not bad and shows progress with the last release (0.3).

The writing is the biggest issue here as the dialogues are quite bland, very generic, and the worst are when the MC is thinking, and he thinks a lot, most of the time of useless things.

Renders are getting better with time, but the dev should focus more on the lighting, it needs improvement. Animations are just ok, not fapping material if that’s what you’re looking for.

The story is good and is a welcome change from the thousands of VNs featuring a teenager attending University/College for the first time, those get very quickly annoying, unless you’re a teenager yourself and I’m far from being one. But once again the writing is at fault here, it could be much more interesting with a better writer.

The love interests are all beautiful, with each their own character, but one of them already has a boyfriend and looks happy with him, while still lightly flirting with the MC, so I don’t really see where the dev is going with this (well, I’ve decided to avoid her in my playthrough until I see what the endgame is).

To be 100% honest it deserves a 3/5 at the moment, but I give it a 4 to motivate the dev.

I had to come and update my review. I really had not planned on coming back to this one but I was curious to see if the dev had made it any better. And to my surprise it has improved. There is still unnecessary dialogue but I guess that just how he writes. The story itself has gotten better. I am digging the internal conflict happening with the MC as he gathers Intel to take down the "bad guy". Lewd scenes appear to have improved slightly as well, still nothing to write home about. I brought my rating from a 2 to a 3. Hopefully the dev continues to improve.

There is so much unnecessary and uninteresting dialogue that just goes on and on and on. The premise for the story is actually not bad. If the characters actually had something interesting to say it would be a lot better. The animations are halfway decent.
I don't think I'll even come back to this one. It's just boring due to the constant jabbering about nothing important at all.