VN - Ren'Py - The Assistant [Ch.2.9] [Backhole]

Review for Ch. 1.8

Played for about an hour, everything just felt a bit subpar to me. The MC is middle-aged, but talks like a teenager. 90% of his inner monologue is perving on every woman he sees. Since he's older it just comes across as creepy more than anything. That also about sums up his whole personality so far. The dialogue in general is just a bit plain and basic. It kind of feels like I'm watching a bad soap opera. Not any real depth, and most people speak like robots more or less. From what I understand English isn't the dev's main language so maybe it all reads better in Spanish, but regardless, it is what it is. I noticed some of the renders are low resolution or something as well.

All that being said, it isn't the worst game I've played. I do think the whole plot idea is interesting with becoming an assistant to a rich family. Besides the low resolution issue, the renders aren't bad. I wouldn't say they stick out as compared to other games but again not bad. The animations were good enough as well from the two I seen. I guess my biggest issue is that the MC is just kind of insufferable for me. If you're a person who plays games more for the sex scenes than anything else then you will probably enjoy this more than I did.

I'll probably still give this game more of a shot at some point. Maybe it gets better as it goes on, but for now the first hour led me to all of that above.

Well what did i find here... a hidden gem!

Dont know why i didnt find out sooner about the game...

Rating would be 4,5, but you cant give half stars, so it will be 5.

What is not so good, hm not that much... there are some things forced on the player where i think the dev could have found antoher solution like the seduction story of gwen ( and there is even forced intercourse in sexual way), but its not a big issue, but this issue is the one that cost half a star in my opinion.

If i look back, thats the only real issure i had with the game.

I like the looks of the girls and ladys, most of them have unique lookks that are not that common around here.

Okay the renders are not that good compared to the most excellent work around here, but they are decent and good enough to dont have a bad influence ont he rating.

There is some effort in the animations, but overall they are not good, but well enough to be a improvement to the game.

What i really love about the game is the character development... it has a huge effect youre a "bad" or a "good" guy, in multiple ways, how the MC is acting and how the girls are acting towards the MC...

Overall, as expected the "good" guy route is the one where you can gain love... and even spoiled brats turn out to be way better and getting very likeable (didnt expect Sarah to be such a sweet girl in the end when you constantly turn her down but be a good guy to her... it turns out to be falling in love)

Some Girls are meant to be for the "bad guy" and dont work out if youre going the good path and vice versa... so this gameplay is really well made and worked out to perfection. You want to be the perveted bad guy who fucks everything and turn most of the girl into sluts? Well do it... youre in search for love and romance and dont want to abuse girls and treat them good? Well do it... and BOTH ways (very important) are rewarded well enough... There are many games that offer you a "love" route but its not rewarding, you will get nowhere... and its clear that these games were meant to be corrupting games... not so in this case... every route is woirking very well and is rewarding. I like that very much.

The choices do matter, and you can turn girls entirely down (i dont like susan for example)

And there is a lot of varity in the girls too... from cute and innocent schoogirl, over to the sluty schoogirl, the caring mother, to the sex driven milf and even a nun... everything ios included and overall very well designed. Each and every girl is unique and is getting attention.

There are some Main Loveinterest so far i would say... Iris, Sarah and Beatrix. But i would say you can get a real love route with others too in future updates...

Btw i would strongly recommend to use the incest patch, otherwise Iris and Beatrix wont work...

What i also like is the fact that youre not the only guy in the whole game. It feels always a little strange if just NO male whats so ever is in the game... But the good thing about that too... no NTR danger. i dont like NTR at all, but despite the fact that there are many guys in the game, there is no danger for NTR.

But the guys are important to the story, thats a plus too.

Ah, the story... i like it, ok the russian mafia thing is a bit far stretched. But nevermind, it works...

There are many interesting things going on, is it the school of Sarah, or in between the family of the collins, or the family of the MC... every scene is kind of interesting and you want to know what happens next. And not just for the erotic encounters, no the story about the characters and everything whats going on is mostly interesting too... it just never gets boring, only the gwen "seduction" is annoying, but piper made it worth it.

Well as you see, i dont have much negative to say about the game... in fact i really love it and will look forward to a new update.

A one thing that is kind of "negative" the english ist not that good... of course the dev is spanish (or portuguise? slipped my mind) so it is to be expected that its not perfect... as far as i know he has a translator, and he is making his job decent, there are some misused words and grammar issues, but its no bother. The dialogues are overall good... what i miss is some humor. Game could use more funny scenes. But i know that its not an easy task to write good humor. Not many games deliver in that part, so no offense and not a thing that influences the rating in a negative way, i just which there would be more humor in the game... so passages to laugh would be nice.

Well... really good work overall, love the game, and its a recommendation for nearly everyone, even if your a one who likes to abuse girls... yeah this game can deliver that too, this game has a really wide range and invites you to play mulitple playthroughs.

I must say school girls every where and more redheads than ancient Pictland, milf's too for those who enjoy the more refined things in life

The story seems to be expanding but it does it slowly as it doesn't seem overwhelming with too much info all at once.

Renders are good and animations too for the most part, Sarahs animation in particular are fantastic

Give it a chance it is very enjoyable

I wasn't sure what to expect at first with this game, but the female characters are all very sexy and hot. Anyone can find the type of girl they like best,, both teens to milfs. Great writing, great renders and animations, and a great ride for those who choose it, so excellent overall in my opinion

One of the best VN I have ever played. The story is good and there are many different ways to go about it. Definitely worth playing. Put the story aside and you have awesome visuals which is what you need in a good VN. All the character designs are amazing and the cutscenes are very exciting

This game is more original than 90% of the games on this forum. All the girls are hot and have their own personality. You, as MC, can choose to be good or bad boy with each of them. The animations are smooth and well done.

A true masterpiece. Very special. The story is original and very well told, the dialogues are good, as well as the construction of the relationships and the characters in general. Good renders, the animations are great, each girl has different paths. A truly amazing experience, and one that only gets better with each update

Im kind of dissapointed in msot games lately, and well, this game has a couple of good things, a couple of bad things. I will try to explain and see if this results in a short review:

The girsl look decent, a little weird cause renders coul have more quality, but thye look good.
The sex scenes i can not say, cause most of them are performed by sidecharacters that are mostly one sided and empty and since i dont care, i skip if i see the scene is not interesting.
But the ones that I saw are quite good. As usual, what is being shown is pretty much the same that others show, but a couple of renders showing a couple of emotions and just a bit more, like a couple of shots that lok intersting and that maks the difference.
I played focusing on the bad guy choices, and well, there is a lot of "peeking" choices that at some point almost make my good guy score reach the bad guy score (that happens when you decide not to peek, that you get good guy points) but on the other hand there is i think wnough pay off to make up for it. What is this payof in ym opinion?:

There are 2 Main female Leads, and one offers a kind of Romance story, nothing that hasnt been invented, but it has a small taste of spicy, at last playing as a bad guy, and that is enough to not having a cringy hyper sugary and cliche story.
The other female is the opposite, and focuses on last and kind of power play, pretty sexual overall. And its pretty basic i would say, everything is invented at this point,but as i said, just small details make the difference.
I can not detail everything cause my reviews are already too long, but the feeling is good, at least palying the bad guy cause this bad guy MC is not a fucking douche. Maybe he has way too much talent to read people, but i guess it works for me.

The game could be better, definetly the renders as i said could need more passes, they are kind of grainy.
There quite a lot of female sidecharcters that have little to no characte development and they are there fr fanservice sex release, and that i dont like. I would prefer to have more focus on the 2 or 3 main girls that at least have some sot of dinamics wiht the MC, even if its something pretty vbasic, rather than having these faservice scenes that dont work for me like grace, or Trix trying to use the MC even if you reject her multiple times.

Thats it, i can not say that is a 4 stars, i would say its like 3,5, which is a little better than average, but its hard for me to find something that interests me, specially this blackmail thing which is usually not my thing, but somehow i enjoyed it, so i want to think that is thanks to the person who designed it, and thats why i round up.

Excellent game. Really surprised how much I enjoyed it. Kind of had low expectations, but there are a lot of subtle elements to the art that make it stand out. Just changing the facial expressions during conversation make the game feel more "alive". The writing of the scenes is really erotic. The story is building to something and in a sensible way. We don't get to home base with everyone right away but that's okay. I will probably patron after another update, but definitely on the watch list.

The story is ok, the art is good and the animations are well made. The game is good overall. Give it a shot. .

Well done renders, creative kinks, dark sides everywhere. The domination and submission ideas are psychologically convincing. The story keeps the interest.


I'm not attracted to some of the older motherly type characters, and so, I skip through some of the material. You can (I think) reduce some of these interactions with your choices.

Overall, it's better than good; so I give it an excellent rating.

As of Chapter 1.5 it is amazing VN with a nice story similar to the dev previous game but without the Grinding Sandbox which is the only con in that game which makes this game 100 times better . This game has lots of female characters and we have different choices to progress the story with them . I don't mind playing the bad guy route to get some extra scenes and move along with the story even though I prefer romance in the games . I don't know whether this is going to be a Harem game or not but certain LI are okay with MC being with someone other than them .
Overall it is pretty good start with nice story and characters , looking forward to future updates .

The Assistant (chapter 1.5 version) is a pretty solid game. For starters, it's nice to have a story where the MC isn't in university, or moving to another city, or has amnesia. So, even though the story is not perfect (all girls get the hots for the MC since the start, which is a bit offputting) it does feel like a decently new one. Choices matter but sometimes not as much as I'd like (and, at least in one occasion, the dev actually tells you which option is recommended, which I find is a mistake). And, so far, the writing is pretty decent even though both languages sometimes get mixed.

Render quality is pretty nice, though a couple renders had minor glitches. Animations are not the best, not the worst, and are improving as the game advances. I played without music, so I can't comment on it, but there seemed to be no other sounds around. And a few minor bugs did happen but nothing too serious.

So, all in all, a game worth your time.

This is the first "kind of" high quality in models and animations that includes the topics that it does. Loving it. Its not a perfect story or anything but its worth it all around. And THANK YOU for not having the overly huge boobs and worked out models in it either.

Cant wait for the next updates!

Mixed feelings and understandable due to early stages of development. No objection regarding renders, models or animation. Like few others pointed out how the choices are more or less predetermined and i get it sometimes story demands but more often than not most choices until now are just for good boy/bad boy points and sometimes to act like creep. I would like choices to have actual substance to it, like they determines the extent of either success or damage to the course of the scene/story and not the character most of the time. Other than that the direction is pretty good and thankfully you guys didn't use sandbox mechanics unlike previous project so chin up. Can't wait for the next update.

Game is good, not bad things to point out but then, out of the blue, the MC accepts a deal, without giving the player the choice, to seduce a woman in exchange for money and sexual favors from his employer... and no, he's not blackmailed. There's a lot more but I think you get the point. If that's not your thing, Stay Away.

P.S. I was in the Good Guy route 14-1 with the bad choice being a subjective one...

Pretty good Ren'Py VN. Resolution is good, writing is OK, and the animations are reasonably smooth. For how short it is at the moment (1.1) there are a few of sex scenes, so if that's what you're here for, you're in luck. Honestly I look forward to where it goes.

Poor and forced dialogue.
Models are really nothing to write home about, especially in this day and age and facial expressions are a noticeable weak point.
Story concept would work in a game but execution is not up to par here.
I don't think that this has enough promise for me to be following the development any further.

A very promising start. Beautiful girls, an interesting plot and I guess most girls will fall for MC's charms.It's still early to assess how the plot will develop, but I'll keep an eye on the development of this game and, of course, support this dev in Patreon

A very nice initial offering! Very nice artwork, lovely renders, a wide assortment of beautiful babes, interesting story, and good clean writing with very few typos (created in Spanish I believe....nicely translated). Some animations as well, and those are nicely done. Some excellent slow burn subjects, as well as some quick to the bed gals as well. Really enjoyed this initial version, and hoping to see much more very soon. Think I'll be checking out the Dev's patreon page as well.