VN - Ren'Py - The Courier [Ch.2 v0.2.0] [SkyCatNovels]

This is a pretty good game at the current update (chapter 2). Both chapters have a lot of story content in them, and decent pacing with the story. There a lot of sex in the story yet, so it may be a bit of a slowburner which is fine. The humor is decent, the characters are interesting, and the lore of the story keeps you wanting more.

I'm docking two stars the following:

The graphics aren't the greatest, and while most characters don't look awful, Mel who is one of the love interests has an offputing face because of the low quality renders. The second reason for 3 stars is the lack of choices to this point. While I appreciate the amount of story, I would love more engagement with choices. Not every choice needs to be a story defining choice, but a little something to make this not feel like a kinetic novel.

There really isent much to come for yet in this one, granted theres quite a bit of content but its pretty much just text and no sex scenes with anyone, granted its very early in development so that will change at some point.

The story seems alright but its still early so time will tell once it really gets going.

There are some animations (not sex) which i personaly feel like is a bit of waste of time for both the player and the developer where time could be used for something else, they dont really add much and you can only either watch it all which can feel long or skip it totaly.

My main issue is realy the girls/LIs they just arent in my taste, most of them i find stright up ugly which isnt a good thing for a AVN, i hope there will be some hot and cute ones at some point and its the faces im talking about.

As for choices its only yes/no if you like a girl or not, i hope there will be alot more interaction for the players later on then just that yes/no but like ive said its early so alot of things can happen.

So for now ill give it 3 stars and revist it later once theres more meat on the bone.

Its okay so far. The story is good so far after a slow start but we are now starting to find some mystery and intrigue as the story gets into chapter two. This should be a four star VN however the LI's are not good looking at all, so this is basically a no sex AVN. Your stuck with cat girl, dracula's daughter, snow white with tats and grandma going on an adventure. They are all very nice to talk to but there's nothing appealing about any of them. Therefore it has to lose a star. Its weird to say but the best looking character is the MC!! The other four are just terrible. Even the horror cliché, scary woman in the white dress, was as ugly as f***! We could have at least seen her looking good before she attacked. Please , please, please dev give us some better looking side girls to meet and have fun with as we go onwards.

I felt obligated to give it a review as there is only a single one for now. The game has a lot of content even with it only being two chapters for now. The graphics are nice as expected and it already has sound effects and music. Storywise it is really interesting, there are elves and other fantasy stuff in this world and the mc together with some cute girls has to try to survive in it. Big plus for the milf which was a surprising touch that gives it that extra unique flavor.

Great start, a lot of content for a first release even if not much sexual content for now (a couple shower scenes and that is it).

There is an interesting story and characters here, we get to know them well and their motivations, they seem to be well crafted and behave like real people.

The writing is very good and the world building so far was fantastic.

The only two small points I didn't like are:

1.- the mentioned lack of any sex scenes (sure, I get that this is an intro to the world, but it would have been nice to see some action) however this is in my opinion a very, very minor problem to have. Many VNs lack proper story, characters... etc and this has those. I just hope that we do not have to wait too many updates for some sexy times.

2.- The animations. Don't get me wrong, they are well done, however some of them are a bit excessively long and since you can't click to pass them faster or else you skip the whole thing.... at some points I had to wait 15-20 seconds of just looking at the slow playing animation in my screen waiting for something to happen. I guess the dev uses some of them to build tension, but I prefer being able to click to skip parts of those (maybe some of the animations could have been broken down in smaller ones? for example that shower dream?)

Oh! almost forgot, I like that this also includes some horror/supernatural elements, and even though there were some tropes in that scene, it was well done and the timing and execution were very competent.

So yeah, overall a 5/5 start, hopefully it continues like this!