VN - Ren'Py - Abandoned - The Intoxicating Flavor [v0.10.6] [PixelsLab]

Well gotta say you guys proved me wrong, was thinking its another gone case but last few updates were better than expected.
MC being 18 and not behaving like pussy hungry wolf is nice for change, adding to that has nice character development and metahuman angle is somewhat intriguing.
Nice render quality, unique yet very much relatable relationship with female protagonists.
Definitely one of my top 5. Great job

Ok so just to get it out of the way the dev's first language is not english so expect frequent engrish especially at the early parts of the game.. BUT the engrish is not horrible enough that you can't get the major idea of the conversation from context clues most of the time. The character models are great with the exception to the youngest sister (the one with white hair and the leftmost girl on the game banner). She looks incredibly doll like with the eyeliner and exaggerated proportions because in game she is supposed to have mutations or some kind of experiment making her look like the way she is. thankfully i have gotten used to it. the characters are complex and have good characterizations the best part of the game and the overall plot involving the mc is decent if not good.

Closing:
If you can live with engrish and the looks of all the girls then go try it out at least and learn more about the characters the selling point of the game

Highly recommended, a mysterious and interesting story, it always leaves you wanting more, renders are excellent, my favorite character is Katie, the older sister, her model is realistic and perfect, I want to know more about her story.
You are great Pixelslab, no matter how hard life hits you, you always get up and continue the story, it is incredible that you do it all by yourself, thanks for making my favorite story from the visual novels, if I could give you ten stars I would.

Really liked the update ..Inana character has been given a wonderful base..and now we can get a hang of the story, beautiful renders, hoping it can has a harem ending. Waiting for the next update..


The dev has worked quite hard for this one and I hope the story gets more interesting ..

Kinda nice game,played v0.4.5.
The models and the enviroments used are detailed, Animations are fine(could be better), The background sound effects are a nice addition(wouldnt say the same foe the moans tho) and the scenes are set up nice.
Storywise i'd describe this as a rollercoaster.Linear story with not many choices so far (not a bad thing tho).You start abruptly knowing nothing about the MC's situation other than some hints and it slowly starts to reveal wtf is happening on this hole world , i like it. The plot is unravelling nice so far and its goodpaced except from the start.
I noticed 2 bad things so far. One there is some engrish,some minor and some major,major like the severe displacement of the tense was/were.Im not a grammar nazi or anything but out of all the times its been used only once it was correct lol.And two the moans.Idk if the compression is making them sound shit or if its just a bad sample.I usually get startled instead of aroused when they occur .

Definitely worth playing,lots of content to see and the story is quite interesting.But, If you're one of those that need to know everything about wtf is happening wait,we need more (im one of those ,fuck.. ).GL devs

Freaking great game/story, really glad that i stuck with it because it had kind of a ruff start.
But boy it was worth! The renders are freaking gorgeous the Story is getting more and more interresting.

I can´t wait for more content! Great job Pixel on improving not only your renders but also your writing and spelling!

Very great game. The plot is constantly surprising twists and turns. Well-written characters. Nice graphics.
One of my favorite games.
Personally, I do not have enough choices in the dialogues, but this is not critical.

Easily one of the best looking games I've seen. Right up there with the best I think. The story is also very unique is all that I can say. There's just so many layers to the story and you just don't see stuff coming. I'd highly recommend this game to anyone. The girls are great, MC is kind of a jerk but he still does the right thing when it matters, which I think is great. Makes him more likable I'd say. Instead of just a straight up g"goody 2 shoes". Very mysterious story and I'm always disappointed when the update ends because I can't wait for more.

This game is still really good, but I would like to share my thought.

My problems with the game are:
1. too many texts, too many boring dialogs...I really don't like skipping text, but usually they are boring, and because I skipping I cant follow the main story.
2. not enough sex or hot scenes.
3. Katie and Alice don't get enough attention.

If you make less writing and more interesting dialogs, if you start focusing Katie and Alice, If you put more sex or erotic scenes This game gonna more popular. Katie and Alice are well made characters, You don't need more, just use them.
Hope you wont abandon this game, you are so good, just try write less boring filling dialogs

The story is at times quite intricate, which I find to be a great plus in games like that, because at some point easy sex is not just that interesting anymore.
Animations are great, really love the renders, they are well done and the episodes are all quite lengthy and offer substantive possibilities to make choices. Hope is high for even better episodes in the future.

wow..

This is not youre typical game where characters are set in the first few minutes of playing, i reached the end of chapter 4 now and i am still not sure i know the characters or why they behave like they do.
The story reminds a lot of a Steven King story, where you have to read untill the last page inorder to know what the heck was going on in page one.
the mindsets of the chaaracters are realy complicated, with a lot of backflashes which reveal the story graduatly (atleast that i was i think they are for)
somehow characters are conected to eachother, althaugh i am not quite sure how or why.

mystery.
this game and the characters are a mystery to me up to this point, everytime i thaught i got it there is yet another curveball in this game deepening a character even further, or deepening the connecting between characters.
All in all i get why some people dont like this story, everything has a purpose, missing a line will make this story verry weird.

yup i dint mention the two ghostlike characters in this game yet,.
Simply because i havent figgered that one out yet.
other than it seems to be good and bad, althaugh i aint to sure about this statement either.

conclusion.
this game sure isnt for anyone, you will have to be prepared to do a lot of reading and thinking.
but when you like a good mystery, and dont mind to read back now and then i would say this is a game for you...

Version reviewed: 0.4.0

The worst sin one of these porn games can make is to be boring. This is not a problem for The Intoxicating Flavor. The storyline is basically a Greek/Roman tragedy where some god comes down and impregnates a mortal and then neglects their offspring while their trickster siblings mess with their child's life combined with the pacing of a fever dream.

There are moments of lucidity where the game is kind of making sense and then the scene will change to something completely different that may or may not make much sense.

The MC talks a big game about not being a flavorless doormat like most of the MCs of these games, but at the end of the day he's pretty passive and allows himself to be railroaded at pretty much every opportunity. Unusually for a porn game he is devoted to his girlfriend, even though she might be dead or he might be dead or something. To be fair though his girlfriend does appear randomly in ghost form to taunt him for some reason.

The renders look very nice and the sound effects are decent. The sex content is still fairly mild in this version, with supernatural cockblocks preventing the MC from really getting it on with the ladies.

The length is a couple of hours and there's no grind. The dialog isn't completely tedious which is really nice. It doesn't usually crush you under a wall of text as well.

Overall I recommend this for people who are tired of grindy sister-fuckers. The storyline might be a bit too weird and confusing for some people and it's probably going to end up being a dream of a dying character who failed to save his GF and got stabbed or something but it's still more interesting than most every other game.

Not a big fan of daughters' models, especially the younger one, but the story is pretty well written (though a bit confusing so far). But I'll give it 5, coz Liv and Maria are rather hot and I would like to know what's coming next...

The game is very cool and I enjoyed my time playing it. There were some major issues for me though. The story was a bit confusing and there was just sooo much dialogue from dreams and what not. I felt it confusing and I wanted to skip through those parts.

Other than the continuity issues I mentioned, the game is very interesting. I like the dynamic of the girls on the island and it makes for a decent story line.

The girls look unique for the most part and the renders are pretty good. I don't know if the story was too dialogue heavy for anyone else but that really detracted from my enjoyment of the otherwise good game.

Definitely worth trying but I imagine some other people may share my concerns about that heavy dialogue in dreams/visions/memories.

v02 Translation was orgasmic. Found it stashed and didn't play the game. Checked up on it and it's already 0.3.9. Since I speak both languages I can understand some idioms that make no sense in English. However, I haven't played the Russian version to compare the content.

I want to give this 5 out of 5 as I am reading this story and not just clicking through it. But the translation quality drop since v0.3 is apparent. I hope PixelsLabs will find this review helpful and scrutinize the translator. From what I understand it's hired help.

Текст следует переводить, либо хорошо, либо никак. Печально, что смысл истории иногда теряется в переводе. Но, в принципе, я не могу дождаться продолжения. AффтР, дафай истчо!!!

Good

Renders
story

no grind

hot girls

cute little sister

choiches dont really matter that much

Bad

Stupid minigame

its to frustating time goes down so fast somtimes it doesnt recognize the keys
Pressing the right button it doesnt accept it

For the rest game is really great

Some reasons why I like this game.

This is truly a visual novel.
the choices you make, make the characters react differently towards MC.
Not like rpg like games where you'll have to accomplish certain things to gain a level...
The graphics are amongst the better ones around.
The SOUND is very important. Haven't seen sound used in this way before.
And last nut not least. The story is what really captivated me... It takes some time to get the meaning of things, but all will get clear in the future.
Also, the 'Dream State' might just turn out to be not so dreamy after all....
But that's for dev to show in future updates.
My suggestion for this game, Put autoplay on. and just start from the beginning and read.
make some choices and develop.
See different outcomes? you could save and do the other choice. But, in autoplay, on the right speed, just go through the game again... and see how the story changes... It's really different.... you'll see.

Why have I been helping dev somewhat?

This is such a solid game, that I found the english somewhat taking away from the game. And, after reading the dev had to go through some personal things, and me not being able to support him through patreon, thought I can fix some thing. Make the English better readable and correcting some minor other things, to make the story be told correctly.

All in all, You guessed right. A 5 * from me.

Let's start with easy stuff..beautiful renders,good character models(I absolutely adore most of the models) and an interesting plot.The game was on hold for abit but now it's back.Props to the dev for continuing to work on the game eventhough he was in a bad situation.I will recommend you to try it

A difficult game to understand in the beginning, but it pays off if you stick through it and get into the plot of it.

The game is really just a Visual Novel with next to no changes in it, but the story it pretty good, the renders are nice and the game will keep you anticipated for discovering the relationship between the MC and the family he is with on the island.


I was really about to leave the game in the first 15 minutes of it, because the story seemed weird and kept throwing the player around into scenes that wasn't explained, but I kept playing and now I can't wait for the next update.

[Review version v3.0f5 Windows]
(Posted in view of this game's imminent return after being marked abandoned)

This is a good game with a distinctive story and well worth trying. Renders are good, scenes are good, models are good and the MC is an interesting character.

In many ways the game actually has a JJ Abrams - ish style to it. (No, not because the MC is stuck on an island with supernatural elements - there are no Smoke Monsters or polar bears...yet ). It's in the way that the dev plants mystery boxes to be gradually unraveled, in the way he lights many renders, and in the heavy and frequent use of flashbacks as a narrative device.

Now we know Abrams doesn't know how to resolve his mysteries very well, but PixelsLab has woven an intriguing enough tale for me to want to follow and find out if he can do better than JJ.

Recommended.