Unity - Abandoned - The Comeback [v0.69] [-GNES-]

Review of The Comeback v0.69

While I do believe it has a lot of problems in the game, I think it has a tremendous potencial...
I always loved the freedom of 3d games that no ren'py game can ever give you, and this game doesn't disappoint in that area, sure there aren't many things to do and the car is kinda slow, but you can go to wherever you want and it's a great point that few games have this.

So I'm gonna point what I think are the problems and what I really enjoyed:

-I think the game wastes a lot of our time going there to do this, then go there to do that... how and why: first, the cars need a bit more speed and there are too many girls in the game, which all it does is not focus on any of them. Maybe if the game was focused more on the family we could have gotten a lot of scenes with them which to me personally would be amazing and why I decided to play the game in the first place (the incest tag).
- The plot of game is kinda simple... to not say other words, like - Many people already mentioned that the game is slow in the sense that takes time to do anything and can't skip much of stuff, so I'm just repointing this.
-We don't really have any choice at all in the game, if this was a novel, it would be a kinetic one, which I hate...

Now about the good things: -The real sandbox freedom of being able to go anywhere.
-The family and some of the girls are really hot and have good quality assets
-The start is kinda slow, but after a point you start going places and know you are getting another scene, what I mean, is that it has a lot of sex even if it's 2 scenes with the character and kinda optionless.

So, if it focused on the family and the rival/enemy it could be an amazing game with a lot of more content due to not splitting the attention too much on a sister's friend, on a ex and a son, on a teacher... basically just eliminate the side characters and focus on the main ones... the game would get a 5 star from me, and maybe not get abandoned... but I still played to max amount of content there is atm...
This is my opinion and I maybe I forgot something, hope it doesn't offend anyone.

While the game is far from perfect, I really enjoyed the ability to actually walking around in an open world, instead of just clicking through text and images. It is refreshing to see someone trying to make something different, I just hope this doesn't get abandoned like some many games before it, because I would like to see where this is heading.

This is my first review and I'm only reviewing because when I downloaded this it had a deceptively high score.

For potential players: It's simply not good. The animations are stiff, slow, robotic and repetitive. The textures are so bad it actually sometimes makes it hard to navigate. The gameplay is dull and uninspired. I often found myself asking, "Why can't I do X thing? It seems obvious or like it wants me to do that thing." Then after fumbling about I finally trigger whatever requirement there is to do the thing that should have just been available to do. Finally it keeps crashing on me. Just avoid playing it unless you really want to play a GTA style game and help this dev out.

For the dev, if you see this: I realize the review is harsh, but that's because your game is bad. That's not a bad thing though, everyone starts somewhere and you've clearly put in a lot of effort into this, so keep putting the effort in. One day you could be the guy I log in hoping to see an update from. Cheers and good luck.

This review is for v0.4w:

I love the concept of this game: dynamically-rendered, 1st/3rd-person 3D playstyles, driving, shooting and hand-to-hand combat, open world, and of course sex. I've only played 2 similar adult games and they were on a smaller scale and the models for the MC and girls weren't nearly as good.

Unfortunately, the execution is broken in pretty much every way I can think of. This game is literally painful to play. What is so painful is that, except for a small percentage of the 3D models, games with similar play styles were MUCH better than this in every way 15 or even 20 years ago.

The user interface: Has the W-A-S-D movement controls which is great, but everything else is inconsistent. The ability to switch from 1st to 3rd person isn't always available. Most of the UI (phone, map, hints, etc.) isn't available at all when the MC is in an "indoor" location. There's a feature to "spawn car" because the game doesn't allow fast-travel while driving the car nor does it automatically spawn the car at the destination when fast-traveling. There's no ability to control sound volume. There seems to be only one load/save slot. No way to skip scripted scenes. Moving backwards does different things while walking vs. driving and neither are what players expect. Aiming a gun is 3rd person only.

The performance: The word is SLOW. Everything about this game is slow, but it has nothing to do with machine performance. Walking, running, driving, scripted animations, conversations... Literally everything in this game just seems like it moves in slow motion.

The graphics: Quality is all over the place. There seem to be some reasonably high-quality assets, but some things look worse than the original Wolfenstein. There are many places where players can see collision problems as well as walk through walls, get stuck, etc. The animations in the game look so mechanical. The cars driving around, the way characters walk, and the sex scenes. They all look like robots.

The story is shallow and the dialogue is littered with "Engrish". As stated before the animations are very mechanical-looking and generally, the lewd scenes aren't very erotic.

I assume this game is from a single developer and while I admire the ambition, I think he is in so far over his head he can't see it. I have doubts that this game will ever be completed unless it continues to be the painful mess that it is today, because it would take a team of developers multiple years to fix all of the basic things that are broken in this game.

In one and only aspect, this "game" manages to suppass the other similiar games i played in here. And that is the quote i find myself using often that goes like "great idea executed in the worst way possible". It definetely feels like that this whole story and setup didn't start as a refined idea, but an experiment of sorts with free assets and ready meshes smashed & blended together at first, then the uhh... "dev" said "Hey, why the hell not? Lemme open up a patreon first." and went with it by adding a "story" on the go and uploaded here and there to see how it would fare. At least that's what i think after playing/enduring it for an hour. Everything feels so out of place and unatmospheric. I'm aware that this isn't a completed "game" yet, hell, i can't even bring myself to call this a game without putting quotes on sarcastically. What it promises now is obvious enough to tell me the common fate like many before it fell to. How it'll go and how it'll end up at the end of it's road. Honestly, I wasn't expecting miracles but damn, I can't focus on what's going on in the game to take it seriously even for a second. Looking at the tags, I really want to like this game. This is what i'm crawing for, the tags. But it was impossible for me to subject myself to it in it's current state. And if i know games similar to this, my spider senses tells me that there is a 99% chance that the bugs, horrid graphics, the clunkiness, terrible writing will stay as it is or only gonna get worse and this little experiment will be abandoned after a long hiatus by the "dev". I hope im wrong though. In conclusion, don't waste your time or your bandwith with this "game". You can do better.

This project is by far one of the most unique games hosted on F95 in the last few years.

Most games we have are 2D+ with recycled assets and railroaded progression - some being nothing more than glorified slide shows. Now, theres nothing inherently wrong with visual novel style games - my only point is that its pretty refreshing to see something like this being made.

The Great
I can't remember the last time I played a western porn game with fun driving? I would say that this element sets the tone of the game for me the most. The game is a hybrid of early 2000s Newground dating sims meets GTA.

The Good
The character models are good, they're not great or anything quite as unique as the game itself - but they work well enough.

The Bad
When I mentioned the game is a mashup of GTA & early Newgrounds dating sims, what I mean by the latter is that the UI elements (icons, chat window, map) are (to put it politely) pretty amateurish. Honestly, this isn't a big deal. The scale of development I assume that has gone into this game is pretty immense, so this tiny caveat isn't something worth detracting many points for. In fact, the rudimentary style could just be a placeholder as the game is in early development - and if not, at the very least - its functional.

Overall, while there is still much work to be done, I'm giving the game 5/5 stars because it deserves recognition for the effort put forth so far.