VN - Ren'Py - Completed - The Edge Of [v1.0] [Hangover Cat]

It was alright at first.... Sam (the MC) is a total asshole though... makes you just wish she cheated
I haven't played the female perspective yet but after that ending my hopes aren't high... I will be doing the female ending very soon though and will update my review accordingly,
[EDIT] So I've played a little of the female side of the story now and things do seem to make a bit more sense,

This is a fantastic NTR game! The criticism in some of the reviews below is understandable, but I think the game deserves a higher rating nonetheless. Just read the two warnings below if you are in doubt whether this game is for you.

1. The male MC is jealous and paranoid. The thought of his wife cheating on him slowly drives him crazy and as a result he starts to act like a jerk towards the people around him. It's not the easiest character to identify with, but this turns out to be a crucial part of the plot.
2. This game is a classic visual novel, which means the story is linear (no choices), there's a lot of text and relatively few images.

If this is a dealbreaker for you then you might want to keep looking, but I found that this game had all the ingredients for a good NTR story.

First of all, the writing is superb. Even though there's a lot of text it never gets boring. Because the MC is so paranoid you're constantly in suspense if the wife is cheating on you or if you're just imagining things. The first part of the game only has a few lewd scenes and mainly builds on this mystery. That's a crucial part of NTR that most games lack in my opinion.

Second, it feels like the dev put a lot of thought and work into this game. It's not just your average 'slutwife fucks the whole town' story. The plot is very strong and the characters (especially the wife) have a substantial and realistic personality. There's a good build-up in the story, the artwork looks gorgeous (even though animations would've been a nice addition) and the use of English is flawless.

In summary, this is a great NTR game if you aren't opposed to the two points I mentioned above. The first part (husband's POV) mainly contains story and suspense, the second part (wife's POV) contains most of the lewd scenes. It's also possible to play both parts simultaneously, but I'd strongly recommend not to start the wife's POV until you played at least the first week of the husband's POV.

Like Voilsh said, imo, the MC is hard for most normal guys to identify with. The game spends way too much time in his thoughts which are extremely paranoid from the get go of the story. I found myself not liking the guy before I even saw the wife. Granted, his paranoia ends up being correct, but I found myself not liking the guy long before this even came to light. I managed to make it to the part where he first finds out about her infidelity, but that's only because I stopped reading many of the screens and was just clicking to the next one.

On a bright note, the art is pretty good. You can tell effort was put into the different scenes to include the camera motions. But I just can't get over the flood of text of the MC just rambling on and on and a lot of unnecessary descriptions of details that you can simply see in the pictures of the scene. If this were a text only game, I could understand some of the verbosity, but a lot of it in this game is unnecessary, and the MC's thoughts just make me like him less and harder to identify with.

It could have been such a great ntr VN, with a dense mc and his wife progressively being stolen in a mystery setting, but the mc is so damn horrible.
Instead, it feels like entering the mind of a completely paranoid dude who should take some medication, and who honestly is awful with his wife. That makes all the ntr well deserved, and thus kills the point of ntr itself. It's not ntr when you wish for the girl to end her relationship with this toxic mentally ill dude ASAP.
I wish he was just dense and normal, not so crazy.
Too bad, the writing is good, the wife is really hot, and the dev knows what he's doing, even understanding the power of mystery ntr.
Maybe next time? Really hoping he doesn't make a psychopathic mc in every VN he makes, supposing he specializes in NTR.

Excellent story telling and great art . cant remember a better story than this . there was a lot of suspense and confusion going on . it was handled amazingly. this definitely deserves support . Looking for more great stories and art from him . recommending this to every ntr lovers .

The game is a mix of NTR with a detective story in a kinetic presentation, meaning you don't have any control over the story and are just a passive reader.

The game starts off by allowing to pick a character, the cucked husband or the wife, great concept for a game, if it wasn't for the completely different takes on the story. You need to play both of them to understand what really happens in the game.

Pros:
Good art
decent sound effects and soundtrack
Beginning of the game is interesting

Cons:
Too many plot holes
Several characters don't have an avatar
Most actions in the game are done through imagination without graphics
Too many walls of text
Very little H content compared to text
Game overstays its welcome

Feels like you're inside the mind of an individual who was bullied and is imagining the worst possible fate to his bullies, but you the player play as the bully being punished instead of the bullied seeking revenge.

Very poor execution, but the story had potential. Art was a strong point but it was all over the place in terms of quality, there's one good scene that is animated, the rest are all mediocre.

Oh my it started so good...

The tension when MC first becomes suspicious is great and the thoughts are believable and I really dont mind the slow pace and much to read, if it is well-written. However, it goes down south fast from there. He becomes an asshole instantly, without any real evidence and has no respect for his wifes feelings and only cares about himself.
For me it makes the MC totally unrelatable and what started great with his self-doubts immediatly turns into disgust for the MCs behaviour, especially because his wife seems so nice and caring.

2+1 * (2 for the MC and +1 for the general quality of the presentation)

One of the best ntr kinetic novels I’ve read in a while. The mystery of whether or not Beth was cheating was very well written.
The goods:
- Excellent writing
- Excellent art
- Excellent sound design. The sound effects used in the game is used greatly to convey tension.
- Slow-burn type of story, if you’re into that.
Cons:
- The art is anime-inspired, with the background art being Japanese-themed. But the story has some western themes that is very different from what Japan is like i.e. smoking weed in a cafe, which kinda throws off the story a bit.
- Update 0.5 ends in a cliffhanger.

Overall it’s a great novel if you’re willing to read it. This is not for people who want to have a quick jack off session.

Not a great ntr game, no choices and the MC acts like a fucking idiot throughout the entire game. The dude really trusts a guy that he put through hell and only has one person in mind that he thinks his wife is cheating with. It's literally painful to watch the stupidity of the MC, I guess you are suppose to hate him or something because he treats his wife like shit too.
Edit:
Some updates later I checked back to see the wife's perspective and I had no idea that it could get worse like this. The wife has to be in the top 5 of dumbest bitches in the world or she has some kind of mental disability. I have no idea how anyone can say this is good writing even though I can admit that there was some suspense at the beginning, it all just crashes and burns fast. I hope the dev can ignore the harshness of my words and make better characters in the future.

Very very well written.
Its a slow burner and its really really good.
I have never experience a nice writing and art style in one game like this.

I guess people who rated lower, where just in it for a quick fap

In it's current state (version 0.3), the game isn't fun (you read and... well you read) nor does it provide sufficient fap material (two-ish scenes that are pretty short lived). The images are great, which bump it up a star, but they are so few and far between it's the equivalent to a boob flash in a movie.

If reading erotica is something you enjoy, you'll enjoy this game, and frankly you should consider this game 4-stars. However, reading a novella of erotica is just not my thing.

This game has a lot of potential and I'll try it again after a few more releases, but as of now, if you're looking for any sort of interaction that you control with the characters; look elsewhere.

The good:

--Excellently written story
--the MC is his own worst enemy
--Beautiful readers, though there is a lot more text than images

The bad:

--This is a kinetic novel. It says so in the tags, but I had to watch it to be sure
--Everyone keeps talking about what a great game this is when it's not a game. It's a well-written story.

Final thoughts:
Though I lean hard on the good with my final thoughts, I dinged it a star for not being a game in the game section. I stopped reading it though. It's just too painful. I am really curious about the 3 fingers; I believe it isn't what he thinks. But, rather than simply asking her and observing how she answers, he starts treating her in a way that will definitely ruin their marriage. He's very much pushing her away. Sadly, I find that just too real and too depressing to torment myself with.

If you want an excellently written NTR story where the MC literally destroys his own marriage, this is it.

Good luck with the game.

I don't post much, but this game is pretty good. Writing is on point and the characters are fantastically drawn. The plot is believable and I love the mystery that surrounds the characters day to day. People complain about the lack of choices (which, to be fair is justly appropriated) but I like the ride that the game takes for you and it doesn't lose sight of the main task at hand. Looking forward to the next updates from HangoverCat!

Hopefully (if possible) this game could got so many branches along its updates to get in, each one leading to their endings; so the MC could like/dislike that his wife get laid with others but do nothing or could gain back his wife or even could got a divorce (all depending on player's choices). . Playing things are little rushed, but narrative hold your attention so well. Wifey's really hot and has that cheesy inocent vibe (..umm, suspicious) that makes you on guard. I think DEV puts a remarkable effort on this project..

i would give it personally a two star rating but i have to objectively say that this game has too much quality for that.

+ ntr
+ very nice art
+ curvy and nice girl
+ very professional looking icon and menu
+ nice sound


- way too much text (should write a novel and not a porn game - still appreciate the time spend into writing everything but way too much)
- too much sex with the husband who u dont even see
- only pretty guys as options no old or ugly guys

and for the amount of text and (even really great drawn) boring images you have to click through its definitly not a game i expected and hoped for and wont be for many which is sad since again many things look like quality and kinda professional

NTR is my favorite genre. That said this is nothing but text. Literally 3 cgs and they're all marital sex, which kind of defeats the purpose. The backgrounds are all generic as well and don't fit the art style. Not worth the time investment if you ask me 2/10.

Has a really slow burn and so long as the corruption goes at the same pace this should be a classic. This is one of the only novels where I've actually read all the lines because the writing is superb.

The only advice I would offer the dev is please make the corruption slow burn as well (too many corruption type games have the female give her first handjob and then 10 pages later she is getting DP'd by 2 black dudes). Obliviously the sex needs to happen but the closer to the end of the story the better.

EDIT OCTOBER 2021 - Started off well but just went downhill once we get the wife's view. The MC is paranoid, but the wife starts cheating on him almost straight away, which ends up justifying his paranoia. Would have work better from the wife's POV if she only started cheating on him at the very end due in large part to his paranoia.

Very promising and very well written. In a world of MTL and horrible cheesy Japanese garbageware, NTR rarely gets the kind of attention it deserves as a genre. HangoverCat seems to have made it his mission to fix this, and I think he's doing a pretty good job. Greatly anticipating the finished product here, and hopefully more VNs in the future.

Classic VN NTR in alfa stadies. If you love classic VNs and are tired of waiting for translations for Japanese games, then you will definitely like it. Nice drawing, a standard plot for this genre, but fans will like it.

Good new Ntr game after so many bad and failed ntr games. Many hate this genre but i feel this new game is going to be the next big game in the ntr tag. Love the slow burn in this with the mystery. Art is amazing as well with great character model and design. Hope this game gets more traction so the author may make it longer.