VN - Ren'Py - The Inn [Ch. 2 v1.01.04] [Lykanz]

Review for 0.07.05

Welp, this one sure is special, isn't it?

Pros:

First thing: Probably by far the funniest lewd game i've played. The game doesn't take itself seriously (most of the time) at all and constantly throw memes, easters eggs, jokes, gags and all kinds of culture references. It was honestly really fun to play through just on that alone.

All the characters are really damn fun and interesting. They feel genuinely unique and while there is a few cliché bits (Younger sister in love with bro, mom who is secretly a horny ass woman with huge knockers, etc...), i think it's refreshing that the game doesn't try to shy away to it and embrace them fully. Also, i love their designs, coupled with a great care for facial and body expressions, which make them so much more relatable and alive than browsing between very basics inexpressive faces like we're used to.

I personally love that it focus on a substantially small crew of people (4 romanceable characters) instead of shitting out 30 different people that you're supposed to keep track of. Also, the MC isn't a clueless dumbfuck that somehow attract top models based on nothing but shitty writing.

And despite the overall very goofy and funny attitude of the game, it does have a few sparse, but important serious notes when it matters. I love this actually, as the contrast between the happy and sad moments, making each stand out more between them rather than being a single color all the way.

The dialogue is clean and well written, and doesn't drag out for years on end, wishing you to just skip through it like a father going for milk only to find out you missed the one important bit through the mountain of tiresome talk.

Graphically, the game looks pretty average as it uses Honeyselect models, but eh, it serve it's purpose well enough.

Cons:

By far the biggest concern for this game is the slow pacing for content, and the overall amount of content it has right now. For a game that came out in 2018, i was genuinely surprised how there is a relatively small amount of content in general. There is a few lewd scenes, but there is only one route that i'm aware off that's really juicy, with the other routes being in development and not offering much beside nekkid girls and maybe some foreplay. And even then, there isn't a lot of it.

To give you an idea, the current amount of events happens on a 10-day course.

This is mostly due to the choice of how the content is displayed. Like many lewd games, they use a story board type (meaning every single image is constructed, posed and rendered separately) which is notoriously very ineffective at delivering a substantial amount of content in a timely manner.

Then there are the gameplay elements, which are currently unnecessarily complex for the current amount of content and structure of the story. It's the classic "Pick this option for affection/lust points to get sexy time, otherwise fuck yourself" where the player really has to pick the obviously point related choices in order to make positive progress in the game. And the player can get permanently stuck points wise because they didn't make enough "good" decisions.

There is also the current mechanics where you can explore different rooms by clicking around, but what's the point when there is nothing for the player to explore, beside the already scripted events that you must go through anyway? The game obviously has a linear approach with branching points, so it's a useless system.

All of that combined means the updates, while frequents, are usually not substantially enough at all to make it worthwhile to return to the game. You're better off waiting a year or two before so that you can get a decent amount of new stuff to explore.

In short: this game is an absolute blast to play when it's your first playthrough. But sadly, you'll be let down by the overall small amount of content, which you can't expect to get larger anytime soon.

I was excited for the visuals of this game, nothing ground breaking, but better than most games on this site. But good lord the fourth wall breaks. The main character has entire conversations with the writer of the story. The game suffers from a case of "too much personality". Which is to say, it's all fourth wall and memes, and not any kind of real substance, at least for the thirty minutes or so of reading. Unfortunately the immersion killing jokes and fourth wall breaks killed all enthusiasm. I think the RE4 villager saying not one, not two, not three, but four lines from the game in rapid succession was the final nail.

Wanted to like it, but certainly not made for me. If the writing above sounds like your cup of tea, I'm sure you'll love this game.

Yeah, this is a classic ton of potential, all of it squandered situation.

Graphics? As far as the world goes, if this was a few years ago, I'd say good. Now? Out of date and vastly underwhelming. As far as characters are concerned, you have the classic pretty faced girls and troll looking MC who somehow gets all the girls. It's a cliché that I really wish would pass on. I mean, come on, it's no that hard to spend a little time making a believably decent looking guy.

As far as bodies go, it's like 50/50. Some girls look good and have realistic/attractive bodies, others not only need to find a gym but suffer from the incredibly unattractive trope of having beach balls for breasts. The MC isn't perfect either, his body is nice, but his dick is ever-changing, and it's kind of off-putting. In some scenes, it looks normal and has a decent size, in others it's randomly a lot smaller, and in some it looks like it was put through a roller made for metal pipes with how exaggerated the curve is on it. It looks gross.

Animations? Not only lacking in the overall quantity, but the quality and variety leaves something to be desired, as well.

Writing? Definitely not my cup of tea. The constant fourth wall breaks are immersion shattering, cringy, and just plain annoying. As far as memes go... Jesus Christ. Look, I can respect a well-placed meme in a game here and there. This game, however, is 50 percent memes, 50 percent everything else. It's - to repeat a word I just used - cringy as hell and feels like a teenager wrote it. For a game that claims itself to be adult oriented, the immature writing style is just really off-putting.

Also, it's funny how just before the game starts, you are given a little popup explaining what a nukige is (basically a story focused on making the player cum, not on actually telling a story) and telling you that this game is not going to be like that, yet not even a couple of days after meeting the first heroine in Linda, you're getting sexual with her. Great way to stick to your guns, author, the 'plot' has been thrilling thus far. Who needs relationship build up in a nukige game, right? Let's just get right into the action! Oh, wait... this isn't supposed to be one... well shit.

You're also given a huge house and lots of money to be able to help renovate it, yet for the first while you're just locked in Linda's house and are forced to follow her around like a lost puppy, it's really annoying. Like, don't tease a management system and free-roam/sandbox gameplay then hard lock me on rails right after.

Look, I think the game has potential, it just isn't for me. If you like high school level humour and writing with instant sex gratification and no story/character development whatsoever, then this game is for you.

I'd say the game is pretty good and the art isn't bad. The only critique would be how hard the MC seems to work to find his Lis girlfriends of their own. The threesome vibe is too central as girls who love you start throwing other women the MC's way and never worry that it might backfire. Fetish works in moderation not when you can see it coming from a mile away. The game works better especially when the one on one scenes are happening and make up for the silliness of the rest of it. Worth a play for sure.

Redhead.Countrygirls.Freckles.

Not convincing enough?Pff, amateurs.

Anyway, the main selling point of this game are the animations, they're crisp, they're clean.
The plot looks very basic, but I'm no plot guy so whatever.
The game looks very promising, the HS shader looks nice, it's not going to revolutionize the adult game genre, but so far it does its job and it does it very well.
Good speed to the dev.

I remember playing this game even when it hadn't remastered yet, it was good time, I love this game since then . And now seeing it getting better and better, I'm very hype about that.

Good story line, great sense of humor , I laugh my ass off a lot.
Beautiful girls, each of them have unique characters, although I don't like big boobs lol.
Nice renders, especially the gallery in extra.

I would love to see more of this, wish devs best luck in the future.

Playing V 0.0.6.10

First things first, let's get this out of the way. This game looks great. Seriously, the presentation and animations are stellar, some of the best I've seen, and all the characters look great. Just enough variation between them to help differentiate, while also giving them all a consistent style.
The story itself is a little standard, classic down-on-his-luck dude gets randomly chosen to inherit a house by a old plot devic- I mean, old gentleman, and then wacky hijinks and naughty situations ensue. The humor in this is what kept me interested and laughing throughout, even if some of the jokes don't land, and the 4th wall breaking was a little too much at times. And it seems to have been used less as I got later in the game, so hopefully this is a nonissue.
My only real complaints are
1. There's not enough!!! Just as I was getting really invested into the story, the content ends! Considering the game has been out for almost 4 years now, I felt like there should be more, but at least what game there is is great. Don't know if this is due to life problems or a lack of motivation on the creators part, but while I don't want things rushed, it does feel a little too slow for my liking. This is more a personal complaint than any measure of the quality of the game though, so take it as you will.
2. I hope that we don't just keep getting girls thrown at the MC, until suddenly he's trying to bang so many chicks that it takes forever not only to play though it, but make in the first place! Feature-creep is a real problem in any game, and I'd rather a tight cast of really well done characters than another game where you bang 15 different women, with personalities as deep as a puddle.
3. Lastly, there's only one animation I thought was extremely weird, That was the only animation I thought could use some tweaking.
Overall, I really enjoyed my time with The Inn, and only wish there was more of it for me to enjoy!! Keep up the great work Lykanz, and I eagerly await further updates to his game!

If you are looking for a game with the dumbest amount of shit to make you laugh constantly, infinite amount of pop culture references and parodies, you are in the right place.

The renders are pretty smooth and the game constantly breaks the 4th wall. Even when its not breaking the wall its gonna be making snarky remarks about visual novel cliches. Overall a solid experience.

Graphics - 1/10 Dated very poor quality graphic style.

Animations - 2/10 Animations may be smooth but there are few of them.

Story - 3/10 Nothing really creative about it. The usual MC bangs the female side of the family story. This one does go rather fast on that part.

Writing - 5 /10 There is some humour, although there are errors in the writing. The usual did not look over the writing before putting it out to the public.

Overall Feel - 4/10 Not that it is completely uninteresting, or no effort is put into the story/game. It just feels cheap and rather amateur overall.

It's about time this style of graphics went the way of the dinosaur, it is not appealing, looks very messy and cheap. There are better styles, if this game was redone with one of these better styles it would likely be more interesting.
More effort should be put into the quality of this Story/game, then it would likely attract more patrons.

I dunno what i can say. There isnt that much story yet, The Inn itself is not done, but the story so far has been reaaaally good.
I like the personalities of the characters, i like how there is more than one layer to them. "Big fit lady stereotype? almost breaks into tears when she is alone with MC because keeping that "everything is fine, im here" attitude is emotionally draining, even for her."
Same with others, but i don wanna spoiler here, since i know some people check the reviews first.
There seems the game is gonna have a lot of mechanics, so looking forward to see what the dev is gonna make.
So far.. YES, give the game a try and bookmark it, seems its gonna be a big game!.

MusicFruit said it best in his review- the 4th wall breaks, meme references, and overall bleh humor bogs down the writing a lot, and on a visual note, the main character looks like a sleep deprived frog on anesthesia. I know OP probably didn't make the models, but it's so out of place when the female characters look like anime girls (likely intentional with the Re:Zero and Initial D references) with their pointed jaws, big eyes, and cute expressions. I can at least praise the decision making despite the relative linearity, as it feels natural in most situations as opposed to the usual VN morality system of "slap stranger's ass (evil)" vs "ignore slappable ass (saint)". Sometimes the consequences (stat-wise) didn't make much sense, but overall it's a pretty alright game that could use a fresh model, a lot of writing tweaks in the introduction, and a bit more meat on its bones. All said, I can't wait for more updates to improve the game that much more.

good characters art and story. It doesnt take itself too seriously and thats honestly one of the best parts. Also its the best humor iv seen in a porn game but that entirely subjective.

as of writing this their is a medium amount of content, but thats due to the dev still working, so not really something to complain about.

The sandbox element is a bit pointless as of now, but as the game continues i assume it will matter more bouncing between the refurbished inn ops original home etc.

I unironically want Luana to sit on my face.
That's it I said it, I unironically want to renounce life for good, and accept the sweet and warm embrace of the abyss, I want to smell her entirely until the only thing that clouds my coomer mind is Luana's sweet ass.
Lykanz I really don't know how I managed to go this far in life without gunning myself down, thank you for delivering the overweight gamer memelord GF that I've been needing for this entire timeline.

Went in expecting sexy muscle girls and cute freckled redhead and wasn't disappointed. What I wasn't expecting was to find tons of tasteful memes and a new chubby weeb waifu.

Excellent visuals, story and UI.

But now I have to live with the fact that I chose a girl wearing an aheago sweatshirt over a hot MILF, and that's something I haven't came to terms with just yet.

10/10 life changing experience

Do you like memes? Do you like 4th wallbreaks every 3 minutes? Do you like choices that are nothing else then points, which are clearly labeled, so it makes any redundant? Do you like stupid faces and bland low level humor? Then is this game absolutely for you!

I don't even know if there is what kind of gameplay there is, because the writing was so horribly that I didn't come so far, but other people mentioned there is no grind. Therefore I assume there is gameplay.

The graphics are really good. The animations not so much. Yes they are smooth, but you can see that there is no contact. The handjob looked like she was stroking the air around his dick.

Also everything is in your face. You've met a girl, she is instantly into you and gave you a handjob in under two days of knowing each other. It's also incredible on the nose that every female family member you is into you. Yes, it is an 'not'-incest game, we all know that they will come along, but it is so obvious it takes all the fun of an build up and takes the satisfaction away. (to be fair, I didn't come that far, but I already lost all hope for that.

Honestly I would like to give just 1 star, because I think this game is horrible, but that would be unfair. I can see that people could like it, even with it flaws if you share the same humor as the author. So, maybe still give it a try.

The game builds a great premise by the aspects of graphic, story, relationship and fun gameplay with no grind. But while it has a great premise it has very little content.

The amount of content would be normal for such a quality game but the sad thing is, I could write this review 2 years ago and my conclusion still would be same, good premise with little content. I commend the developer for not giving up and I hope we start getting some content soon.

I really enjoyed the game and it would be a shame if such a gem joins the abandoned ones.

While I am still relatively early on in this game, I can't help but give it nothing but compliments. Some of the lines and situations thus far have made burst out laughing in a good way.

Fair play Mr. Lykanz... Fair fucking play

For me when it comes to Honey Select games there's no real middle ground, either they're low effort trash or they're amazingly fun and addictive. By now I've tried quite a large number of HS games and I can safely say The Inn not only falls on the latter, but is one of the best I've played.

The thing that immediately stands out as soon as you begin are the renders. The developer is clearly very skilled with HS and knows what he's doing - from animations, to lighting, to poses, to hand gestures and character expressions, the attention to detail is nothing short of super impressive - in fact, you'd be hard pressed to find another HS game with better renders. I'm not going to comment too much on the story as I'm still in the early stages, but so far so good - it's well paced with decent writing and the humor captures quite a few laughs and giggles. The characters (girls) not only look great, but most importantly they all have well written personalities that is skillfully expressed through a combination of well-timed, exceptionally rendered scenes and quirky dialogues.

So yeah, despite minimal time spent with The Inn, it has already left a good enough impression on me to come here on this forum to give a 5 star rating and write a positive review (which I rarely do). Like other HS favorites of mine such as Once in a Lifetime, Now & Then, Depravity, and Ripples, this is a gem I'm willing to put on hold for a while till it's complete.

This is easily one of the best Visual Novel i ever played and i can swear i played a lot of them: it's very clear the developer it's experienced and has some skills. Judging by the averange level of other visual novels the technical department is top notch: renders are very good and i really liked the animations; probably the only downside is the story: this game doesn't shine with originality, i've seen other games with very similar plot (i can't mention them, forum rules). Anyway for me it's still 5 stars and probably it's woth doing a subscription since the developer seems to work consistently on the game.

The Inn delivers a packed and engaging amount of story content, which while might come off as over the top at first, grew on me and at the end of my current playthrough, left me wanting for more.

Overall an interesting story so far with visually appealing characters and a good choice of music with jokes and scenes that made me laugh. I look forward to future developments of the Inn.