Ren'Py - The Bum [v0.8.4 Beta] [JTStudio]

As of version 0.4

Pros:

1. Good animation.
2. Developer is proactive with updates.

Cons:

1. Game overs when switching scenes (getting killed, or arrested).
2. Poorly Translated.
3. You're on your own even when looking at hints. Ex. hint will tell you to talk to maria and you do but nothing happens because you didnt do something else that isnt in the hint.
4. Bad mechanics.
5. Models IMO look terrible.(yes they have big tits and ass but their faces look like they had botched plastic face surgery)
6. Developer tries to make the game be more complex than it needs to be.

I wouldn't recommend the game in its current state but I believe the developer will fix the issues with this game and it will be great in the future or not.

Awful game, with random deaths, while walking around the map with no chance to quickly save it before, weird plot, no quest tab like in Gordon and many many more downs. In Overall poor experience, 2bad cuz few characters look really good and would love to see at least scenes with them

Don't want to talk bad about a game I haven't played. BUT I CAN'T FUCKING PLAY THIS!
5 times i tried to load it up, and perpetually get stick on th Warning intro page where I can't see the Yes/No and randomly click, then the guy in the chair either gets the shit kicked out of him and the game closes, or gets the gun pressed under his chin then the game closes.

I don't know what the FUCK is going on and I know the game is free, but when the game is near 3GB this sort of shit shouldn't be happening!

It's got a lot of promise, and I really dig the atmosphere, but I'm gonna gonna be able to get anywhere in this game without a really good walkthrough. If you see this, and someone makes one, please let me know.

This does need to be said btw. This game is very poory translated.

Edit as of version .47

I think I'm done with the game for now.

I got 2 big issues with the game:

1. You're given no direction at all. I thought that the walkthrough would help, but it's so disorganized, and doesn't help you start off, and feels like it's aimed at someone that's put over 20 hours into the game and is replaying it.

BTW, the way the walkthrough is is written, it's clear that either the creator is writing it, or someone that works for the creator wrote it, so this is totally a valid complaint as it's part of the whole package.

2. I was able to get further in the game with the walkthrough, and it led me to a horrible realization. The translation was already bad in the beginning, but it was coherent and interesting enough for me to be able to enjoy it. Whoever is tranlating the game really started half assing it.

I still think that these problems can be fixed however, and I have a little faith that enough people make it clear that this a promising title that has a lot of issues that need to be worked on, it could be something great, so I'm only dropping it to 3 stars.

At the moment it is in beta but it has plenty of content and being a sandbox that simulates "real life" because of the needs of your character such as showering, eating, grooming etc... . They make it an incredible game and at the same time it detoxifies you from all the other visual novels. Because it makes you think about how to survive, time management, decision making with the other characters, problem solving etc... . Well built world and it seems to be a future that can expand in size and options within it. The renders are of high quality as are the animations. Finally, whether you are a wanderer or a normal person you will discover great things.

If you have never played his previous game, the beginning of this one will seem like dark souls or escape from tarkov because its learning curve is much higher and more realistic than most games out there. Take your time and think.

Completely incomprehensible gameplay mechanics, I didn't even get to the main content in the game to see and evaluate something. If you want to feel humiliated and that you are nobody, play this game, it is impossible to use any services here, you are kicked out from everywhere, if you need to skip time, you need to press the time skip a huge number of times, because it skips in 20-30 minutes at a time, and if you need to skip time from Monday to Saturday, this is hellish torment, why complicate everything so much?Is not clear what to do, there are a lot of marks on the map, but they are completely useless, in the walkthrough it is said to go to the banker during the day and talk to her, but they kick me out of there. As a result, it is not clear what to do, I already used cheat and looked through all the cracks, but this game turned out to be stronger than me. I gave up.

Good game, busty/curvy/thick models, nice story, good animations, the attention to the details in the graphics (objetcs, streets etc) is a nice touch, but god damn is it frustrating to play this stuff.
Would have been perfect 5/5 game if it had the skip day button, if it was possible to roll back the actions/choices, if they were more/clearer hints, if it had a gallery so we can go back and watch the scenes or at least know how many scenes are available and how many are we missing or haven't achieved yet.
Many of these issues have been brought to the dev many times by many of his supporters, and he did come up with some few changes and ameliorations regarding the gameplay and other small things here and there but there's still many things to improve about the game.
I'm giving it a 4/5 because it deserves more than a 3, but Joutento if you're reading this, please try to make some serious changes about your game, it deserves to be great.

I liked the game. At first it was difficult, but then I understood the aspects of this game and after studying the game world and characters, I was able to go through to the end by opening all the events.
From the advantages of the game:
+ I really liked the graphics in general (animation and picture)
+ It is worth noting the efforts of the author when creating characters. They are all different and all sexy in their own way.
+ The game world itself is quite logical and worked out. To give an example of at least buying drugs, or a relationship with any of the characters. Everything is interconnected and in order to finish off the location of one girl, you will have to try, and not just select the desired dialogue and click "skip" to the scene.
+ Each character has its own character. And I really like the sexy mood of the game. She holds you to the end.
Of the minuses of the game I want to note:
- It is not always clear from the hint what to do. But it's good that there is support in the discord.
- I would like to add a more improved "time pass"
I give the highest rating because many people who wrote the most negative review are people of small mind. The developer tries and communicates with the audience. He is neither silent nor inactive. My respects.

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But seriously this game is terrible. I'm not exactly sure what the percentage is but its gotta be above 80% chance of you getting a game over scene just from leaving to different areas. Idk why the hell your character is so excited to tell two thugs that "yes that is my name" you would think your character would be a lot more cautious, but no, which leads you to dying over and over. I would give this game 0 stars until that's fixed also the constant camera shaking is really obnoxious.

Do you need more frustration in your life? Try this game. It's the perfect blend of tedious clicking and stat management sprinkled with awful gameplay mechanics (Hidden waypoints? Really, dev?)

Even GORDON was more playable than this.