VN - Ren'Py - The Higher Society Illustrated [v0.24] [xxerikxx]

Good amount of content, i thought it would be way less in terms of character and story build up. I like the most scenarios that evolve during the conversations. In terms of sexual scenes, im always a sucker for long drawn out diferent positions and more thant just 2 moving scenes back and forth. I appreciate most of all the intensity of the female side. Its not over the top and reasonable still i like to see woman cum more often than not, instead of 1 scene move to Man orgasm. The more pleasure for woman the better.
Keep it up i hope you get more attention. You deserve it with this project.

Review v0.2:

This is a game with a story that is not exactly new or original in itself, but it seems quite rare as a Ren'py game.

I'll give a short overview:
The MC, a movie actor, get's involved with a secret society where they train sex slaves. The MC is quickly assigned a young new slave to be trained. The MC is happily married, his wife is reasonably on board with the situation. His daughter, who is more or less the same age as the slave, also develops feelings for daddy. At work, the MC is shooting a movie with a young actress who is playing his daughter, there seem to be some feelings developing there as well.

What I like about this game:
- Relatively limited amount of love interests, all of whom are pretty well developed characters. They are not sock puppets but have their own feelings, ideas and goals which may or may not always align with the MC.
- Even though the subject seems a bit outlandish, the story is realistically written.
- The story telling strikes a really good balance between the story parts and the erotic parts, so that the story parts are enhancing the sexual tension between the characters.
- The BDSM part of the story, which is, perhaps surprisingly, not the majority of the story and so far involving only 1 of the 4 love interests, is more BD and less SM. Although I am not an expert on this topic, I feel this is really well done as well.
- The renders and character models, are, although not ground breakingly gorgeous, doing their job in supporting the story very well.

In short, in terms of story, this game is one of the best, in my opinion. The renders perhaps do not make this game extraordinary but they don't distract either, so I'll give it 4.5 points, rounded off to 5.

It's worth to notice that the dev has a rather "innovative" policy with this game. The text-only version (which I did not play) is being updated regularly, while the illustrated one is released for Patreons only. This may put some players off, but I am happy that I played this one up to this point and I will await the final release or other periodical releases when leaked or released by the dev.

I really feel like this game is getting too much of a bad press for all the wrong reasons.

The content is great. The story is lewd, kinky and mysterious. The characters and art are beautiful.

Worth supporting if you ask me.

Certainly not worth bitching about pirated copies of the latest versions being available super promptly.

IMHO etc.

I wish the dev all the very best.

The good:
- the writing is pretty good most of the time
The bad:
- story (quite nonsensical even for porn games standards)
- art/models
- renders (discount Dating my daughter quality, it would be maybe passable 5 years ago)
- "animations" 3-5 frames, i have seen worse only once twice on this site
- music - i have no idea why he used this garbage when there is a ton of non-copyrighted music out there, this is beyond bad
- so far every female character other than your wife looks like 14 years old teenager, that's around 70-80% of the game
- from what i've seen in the comments - only checked 1st and last page (5th at the time of writing it), the dev is kind of an asshole towards any critique or comment, while it's not part of the game it still managed to diminish my "enjoyment"

It would be 2/5, but all the characters other than wife look like little girls, which is a major turnoff for me. If you are ok with it, expect 2/5 or 3/5.

This is an illustrated version of a VN (The Higher Society) that started out with no real models--just static pictures of the characters. Now, instead of cut out doll pictures flashing on the screen, that never change whether the person is inside, outside, dressed or nude, you get a changing 3D person, and real backgrounds.
The story follows a movie actor who is a member of a secret society, and his interactions with his mentor, a trainee of the society, and his family.
The story is captivating even without the visuals. With this illustrated version, you understand the saying "a picture is work a thousand words." This version is way behind the non-illustrated version, in terms of the amount of DAYS released.. It would be much better when (if?) the visuals catch up to the written story already released. There is plenty of sex scenes, but no actual incest. The MC has sex with multiple partners (and his wife is OK with that!) There is some light BDSM (consensual).