Ren'Py - The Bum [v0.7.5 Beta] [JTStudio]

Don't understand way people can't focus on the good side about THE BUM. for me this a excellent game, it is difficult without passing, but this is just a game, and not a mindless gag, as in the novels, of answering dialogue options. The game is unique in that all the heroines are very beautiful, made by hand, and not just minimally altered from other games. Special thanks for the scenes of girls in pantyhose and stockings. I don’t see any disadvantages for such a game in beta status.the story and the new updates maybe one of my favourite games of all times with GORDON. I hope more update this year with better mechanics.to be honest giving it less than 5 stars its just not possible. and the thing that I didnt like is that the game doesnt have enough anal its just the thing that makes the game little bit not that enjoyble.do not forget that the game is still in development and with each new version it improves, so stop suffering and be patient. The developers are doing a great job, look at the updates are coming out stably, other developers take several months to update one and sometimes they just postpone the release and everything is stable here. Yes, you have to start over every time, BUT this is due to the fact that the developers improve the game every time so that we can have a great time.
Pros : excellent graphics, interesting events, stable release of new updates
Cons: start from the beginning but it's not fatal and in the end, join the developer's discord there you can get a walkthrough that will simplify the passage of the game. there's one thing that the MC is not going to get some from Bridjet and only Nestor its gonna tuck her, now tour gonna sah than dont do it its option but the thing is that i want to see sex scenes with Bridjet but not with nestor fucking her at least if its NTR the one thats gonna do it at least its gotta be Enrique and there is not so many new characters some we already seen in gordon.
more the thicc milfs on the game, the story fit a lot with the theme and the role of each character on it, the only thing to me is a bad point, is every each new version you need to start a total new game, the old saves never works, so meaby is that a point to fix, but the other things on the game are really good.
anyway bestluck for you dev and keep good working. by a way Bella and Licinia is SUPER HOT MILF!

This review will be about the mechanics, the designs and the scenario:

Firstly, I like the mature and big bodies. There are no other alternative games with these designs. There are at least 4-5 of them. Hence my "5" score for the character designs.

Secondly, the mechanics are very bad. Driving by car was a big update for this game. I liked that but not these:

-Slowly skipping times (there should be an option to "skip day" or "skip 12 hours")
-Unsupported old saves (if I want to play the new update, I can't use my old save; I have to start over)
-The fighting mechanics are very difficult (if you can't click fast to "kick" you will probably lose).

Thirdly, the script is not bad. I don't care about the script. I'm on the job . One thing:
-There are not enough sexual scenes. There should be more.


I know the developer is only one person, it's very difficult. But he can do it. That's it!

I just can't do it man as much as I wanted to play this game I can't get passed the annoying game play in this sandbox.

Story is ok for a porn game nothing special didn't get hooked to play it and the grind is not helping either.
Renders are good though.

+ The theme is interesting, renders and character design are above average.

- "The Bum" - "A Little While Later" flashscreens that take nearly 5 seconds after every fucking thing.

- The game design is completely destroying everything good about this game. It's just unplayable at the moment.

Advice: Try to create minimal gameplay, remove "the bum" screens, weird cinematics that takes too long, and it will be a decent game.

- Game story in itself is ok like drugs and politicians and their power that they hold but the thing in MC is too normal for this kind of setup , I mean don't give him power, money, or some powerful mysterious people or organization backing him but come-on at least make him cunning, MC is just a normal thug.
- Car issues: Dev just introduce car for mission mode and not to travel fast and less time consuming, you still have to take public transport for travel far places.
- I don't know but looks like Dev introduce HotShot game, Drunk and Happy Mood system and a wasteful time skipping system to lengthen the gameplay because game in itself is not big. stretching the gameplay without captivating interaction is just getting boring after few hours.
- using cheats or not the day system for missions are too much inflexible with not so much useful time skipping system.
- using walkthrough while playing games like "what to do next to move forward when hint system is not clear" is like read read and read, walkthrough and dialogues.
- some dialogue are not skippable and if you accidentally skip something you can not go backward to read some useful info again.
- fighting system is not good you can't dodge, counterattack like stuff and the punch and kick marks sometime do not appear for longtime, I need to load game for a single fight for like 10 to 12 times with even 90 like energy.
- I do not know what to say about NTR in this kind of setup but it is not even NTR and the sexual scenes which do not include MC are kind of ok for a story ( I don't not support any kind of violence against anyone in any form) I mean people who hold power in game are not good people and their is some sort real life similarities too.

I hope Dev make a breakthrough progress in the future updates and wish him for his future projects.

Looks good, but this is a painfully dull, overengineered unintuitive, boring chore to play with messy, annoying mechanics. Add a skip day button or make it less of a bother to do...anything. Have some lorem ipsum for char count.

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Dear Reader, beware! This software, for it should be a capital offence to refer to it as a game, is a giant digital middle finger to the concept of game design. Every aspect of it seems to have been explicitly constructed to waste the player's time and sanity. Do not be fooled by the large download size or the teaser images in the Overview: I spent 3 hours in the software and didn't see one teaser image. In fact, I didn't see any scene at all post opening cinematic.

The software's intention to waste your time is made clear from program start when it takes 5 seconds for the unskippable Patreon and socials slide to progress. It takes 10 seconds (!) for the main menu to display in a cinematic, 10 seconds that you can't click through. In total, from window opening to me clicking the Load button, it takes 20+ seconds.

This impressively pathological desire to waste the player's time extends to the main game. You are dropped in an alley, with no guidance on what to do or where to go. The player would naturally start exploring their environs to get some hint of the objective. You don't find any. You then exit the alley and enter a large sandbox with over 15 locations. The player, in search of some clue, clicks a location, but is then greeted by a cutscene where two thugs intercept the player character, spout some nonsense and off him.

That's it. Game over.

The player thinks, 'OK, unexpected. I'll use RenPy's awesome feature and just rollback. Oh, it seems that the developer has blocked any rollback functionality. I do hope I've got a recent save!'

The player will soon realize that the thugs appear at RANDOM when a player is traveling to any location in the sandbox. The developer is actively punishing the player for attempting to explore in their software. And without any objective, what entices the player to leave the starting alleyway? Nothing.

Another example of prodigious time wasting is when the MC knocks on a door. The developer makes you wait 5 seconds for someone to answer the door, if at all! You can't click through the scene to speed it up, you have to wait the 5 seconds.

The other baffling decision is the skip time button. The in game clock tracks 24 hours, with character locations and availability being determined by time of day and day of week. You want to wait until 10 p.m. to be able to buy something from a vendor? Press that skip time button and despair that it only skips between 10 and 30 minutes.

I don't usually review games (or software) that I don't like because I know the effort it takes to get something even mediocre together. However, this software was such a cock and balls slap in the face of common sense and decent game design that I had to say something. It seems to be created to disrespect the player and their time. I didn't even cover the grammar or the narrative - mainly because I didn't get to see the latter. Though, judging by the design philosophy and the developer's previous game, maybe I've dodged a bullet.

To all reading this review, avoid this software like the plague. Do something more meaningful with your time, like me. I'm counting the grains of sand at my beach.

I appreciate the art and original stories of this dev, but, like many others, I abandoned it due to the ferraginous gameplay, which was difficult for him to manage considering the countless and sometimes unmanageable bags encountered during development.
I think that if this dev, take into account the opinions and reviews of the thread, in a near future project, he could easily achieve significant success, abandoning this even worse game logic than Gordon.
In short, countless wasted potentials involving: art, stories and technical skills ; that this developer demonstrates he possesses.

the story looked interesting to me so i tried to game but damn this game is bad. Terrible grind with stupid rng which will get you killed where ever you click. You will need more than 1 hour to even start playing the game. Even after that you will mostly roam around without a clue what to do. Game has less than 15 minute content but the grind will drag the game into 1 day game. not to mention the weird transition on every screen swap

This game is horrible from a game play prespective, shit like barber being closed on Sunday and the random coin flip between travel points is literally made just to waste time. Art is nice but the creator forgot that games are first and for mose supposed to be GAMES, not this cluster fck

I love sandboxes, that's why I paid attention to this game. But alas...
One of the few pluses - yes, it's a game, not a VN.
But: the game mechanics are just something indecipherable.
It's impossible to get through the game intuitively. But the walkthrough is written in such a way that it is of little use.
Models - not for me. Giant breasts and asses cause me only disgust, although yes, many people love it.
The immmersion 0 out of 5. I could not bring myself to sympathize with the main character, what is happening on the screen does not evoke any emotions. Potentially interesting plot just killed in the development process. Yes, the developer tried to make characters with a certain background, but alas, it is impossible to sympathize with them.
From the positive elements I can only highlight a relatively good user interface, easy navigation through the locations.
As a result, a potentially interesting project turned out to be a complete failure.
And the development of the game has gone too far to seriously rework it, at least so that the sandbox elements would not become a mockery of the user.
Thanks to the developer for trying. But I do not intend to return to this project.

I' m sure this game must have redeaming features but I can't get to them. The UI is painful to use. Events are often hard to spot as they're not highlighted and if you miss an event which is hidden you're killed.

First impression: starts interesting ....
Second impression: the game is garbage ....

The game mechanics are simply TERRIBLE.
Sandbox all well and good ... but you can also make sandbox playable.I can't even tell you how many times I've run GAME OVER ... Sorry DEV but that's just shit.
Partly terrible dialogs and a badly written walkthrough put the crown on the whole thing.
In my opinion, the game is only recommended for masochists ....

The game is a mess, over complicated and with too much transition scenes, without walk trough you don't do shit, and the walk trough is badly written.
Models are pretty good but sex scenes are a damn weird loop with 2 seconds, for me isn't worth the effort to play it in the actual state.
To make matters worse, DEV doesn't like being criticized and thinks the choices he made for the worse sandbox ever are good in a game.
It's a shame cause the history is original and had potential.

Great game with some random bug but great renders and good animation , like the story and the new updates maybe one of my favourite games of all times with GORDON. I hope more update this year with better mechanics

It is very boring. the drawings seem to be of good quality, but I could not play enough to see them all, I got bored and deleted the game. such boring games should have a gallery mode. or not too precise rules for opening a story and not too random

In the first hour of playing I had to charge about 40 times. This game is garbage.
It has no rollback, it is not intuitive.
I like the renders, but not everything works for a game.
This game is not for me.

V0.6

i spent 10 minutes watching overused zooming scenes with terrible dialogue. this was followed with even more zooming scenes (dev is clearly a fan of that windows movie maker effect), constant reminders of the games name being splashed across the screen, until finally drooped into a sandbox that lets you do almost nothing but hunt through bins for food, wash in the toilet from hell (a.k.a london) and sleep in a corner.

there are cheats attached to max out most stats and even fill your pockets with money but you cannot do anything with it until something has triggered, which i never found. apparently there is a hint system? but i never found it. one icon did nothing at all and one was for patreon, which is as useful as a chocolate hammer.

i went and played something else instead. this was just a miserable player experience

This is an excellent game, it is difficult without passing, but this is just a game, and not a mindless gag, as in the novels, of answering dialogue options. The game is unique in that all the heroines are very beautiful, made by hand, and not just minimally altered from other games. Special thanks for the scenes of girls in pantyhose and stockings. I don’t see any disadvantages for such a game in beta status.

The dev overcomplicates things.
"Do you want to take a shower?, Do you want to search the trash? Do you want to take the bus?" Of course! That's why I am clicking there!!
Adriana stage 2. I keep giving her drugs and nothing happens.
Martha 6. Way to much mind boggling. No progress. Just talk about the husband! How hard is that?!
What's up with Jennifer in the gym? Does she have content? If not why is she is in the game?! Sometimes she bugs out and I can't interact with her.
Make the damn bodyguard spawn everyday at the apartment! I have yet to see that scene.

Write a simple requirements for Maria NTR scenes. Should I have her get railed in the ass during the drug party or not? Don't make us, second guess ourselves about decisions that could happen "100 hours into the game". Just have the MC tell Maria he's into NTR and that's it. "You want to bang other woman behind my back? Good, I will do the same!" DONE!

THere are literally no possibilities for us, to earn enough money as the bum. All things considered it's like the dev wants us to use the cheat mode. I guess if it means he can concentrate on making more story and sex content, instead of an interactive "open world" I'm all for it.