VN - Ren'Py - The Intoxicating Flavor [v0.11.7] [PixelsLab]

Very good VN with a lot of potential

Story: 5/5 very unique and interesting

Wording/
Dialogue: 3.5/5 For all the characters exept the MC the dialogue is really well written and doesnt feel off. Biggest problem is there are quite alot spelling and grammar mistakes which leave some dialogue with no logic to them which kinda pulls you out of the experience.

Characters: 4.5/5 The sisters are exceptionally interesting and very likeable although beeing polar opposites. For the other characters there is still not enough know to judge but seem to have also a lot to them.

Renders: 4.5/5 Renders are nice and all the girls look gorgeous. Animations are nice but nothing out of the ordinairy.

MC: 2.5/5 This is for me the biggest flaw. He is supposed to have a dark and twisted personality, but there is so much story going on and for a most of it he seems to be stuck in his character development. Even tho I like slow burns it feels like eternity since he made some progress in either direction (love, darkness, etc.) By now we made a lot of big descisions that should shape his character in a certain direction but it still feels like he is an unpredictable machine which is not so pleasent this far into the story.

OK, this one is loooong overdue.

I have been playing this game for a long time and have found it enjoyable, but confusing when I started it.

Then I gave it a bit of a break, played it again from the start a few months (year?) after. This time it made a bit more sense.

Gave it a break again for a long time and now replayed it again from the beginning. Now, everything is becoming crystal clear up to where the game is at this point, but with plenty of mystery remaining.

Unlike other stories, where there are lots of females, in this one, every girl seems to fit a specific purpose. Every one of them is a piece of the puzzle.
You might not know at this stage where exactly they fit in, but you can clearly see a well-defined plan with every single character in the game.

Technically, especially looking at the start time of the game, it still holds up well:
The girls are very pretty. 9/10
There is animation. 7/10 (Not it's string point, but enjoyable and not off-putting)
There is music: 7/10 Music is not it's strong point, but once again not off putting.
Sounds during sex: 5/10 Not to my liking, feels like a porno vibe.
Characters: 10/10 As per my game description, no character is wasted.
Story: 10/10 Not the typical story I would go for, but so well executed. The game could have no sex scenes, and the game and story would still be 10/10.
Sex scenes are sexy and frequent enough.

Can not wait to see where the story goes!

The Intoxicating Flavor (0.10.2) is a pretty good game. The story is interesting and characters are well created and solid. It's not the story with the most amount of sex, so if you're here for a quick fap it probably won't work for you as it takes time to build the relationships, it's own universe and mythology and so on. There are some errors, but nothing too important. The important error here is that I believe it should be labeled as a kinetic novel, since choices so far seem not to matter at all and only impact wether you see or not a specific scene.

Render quality is pretty high and animations are pretty decent. Played without sound so I can't judge that. And at least in my playthrough there were no bugs and there is quite a large amount of content so far.

So, all in all, so far it is a very recommendable game.

The visuals are okay, the dialogue is okay, but the story just goes around in boring circles from the second chapter. I'm pretty sure 80% of the story is dreams or flashbacks, which just isn't interesting as a narrative. Start your stories where they start. You could technically say the entire story is a flashback as the intro cuts to "3 weeks earlier".

It's just a boring mess currently, and you'll want to skip through half of it.

The story is absolute jibberish, there are some good images in this game, but the game is absolutely unbearable and insufferable. You lose all interest in anything happening, when you see things jumping from this to that.

Im assuming the people who rated this a 4 just used the skip button and skipped all the dialogue...the story is a jumbled mess of words and its gives me a headache just trying to figure out whats going on.

Yikes this was hard to play, My brain hurts trying to follow the story. Not to mention the dialogue doesn't make sense half of the time because the dev's first language obviously isn't english. All round an extremely confusing mess..

This game starts off slow, but once it picks up, I found myself completely immersed in the story. The visuals are absolutely gorgeous, and I genuinely cared about the characters, just like I would in a great book.

As many others have mentioned, the English translation in the first few chapters Is Meh, but I didn't feel like it detracted too much from the overall story. However, as the game progresses, the English did improves and becomes Great

I was curious to check out this game because it seemed like the dev put some thought into the story. But despite the grammar issues, the story still has not grabbed me to keep me interested in the long run. To be honest, I ended up skimming through some of the dialogue while trying to stick to the main plot, just so I could get to the scenes with the redhead mom, who quickly became my favorite. Although those sex scenes were way too short and basically felt like filler for the story.

I will say it is above average in relation to other games on this site, but it definitely needs a lot of work. Some scenes felt forced even with the choices I made, and that really took away from the whole experience as the game is more of a kinetic novel than a traditional visual novel with multiple routes. Right now, I'll give it this rating because I see some potential, but I might change my mind later if the new stuff added is better or worse than what is available now.

As other reviewers have pointed out, there's not much to review since it's nearly impossible to get into the game due to the atrocious grammar. Nearly every sentence contains a serious grammatical error that removes all immersion from the game making it a terrible slog to get through.

Some examples from the first hour of gameplay:

"...but I want to know why did you attack our driver, too"

"We thought we supposed to be the only people on the island."

"Wow! I feel like I'm under questioning."

"Lets meet each other since we're stuck here together."

"Now when we know each others names, we can rule things out."


On top of the poor grammar is the never ending cavalcade of non-choice choices where only one choice shows up. Not really a choice at all, and yet again serves only to break the flow of the story.

Not sure how I can give this any stars at all. With grammar this poor there's no immersion, and without immersion we're left with endless fast forwarding to get to the adult content, and if I'm going that far I might as well load up some porn rather than waste time fast-forwarding. Even worse, the adult content is barely passable. Very few renders with "animations" that are maybe two or three frames. Worse still, you bed everyone without effort. Even with perfect grammar the story makes little sense.


It may sound cruel, but this game has no redeeming qualities. I can't recommend it to anyone.

I love the Game and i can defenetly can tell is a beautiful game and story so far.and i hope it will be continuew in the future and i hope that everyone is willing to try it and review it and tell everyone about it.

Might I suggest you look around for better english proof readers. That's assuming you even proof read the written portion of the novel (Which I strongly doubt). Think the story would make more sense if it was in braille or in sign language.

It's a shame really, because I could see this having plenty of potential, only to die in darkness due to the poor english.

I have no idea how this game can have 4 stars, I cant bring myself to rate it above 1 star since Im not even able to comprehend the story because the English is so bad you'd think an illiterate goat wrote it.

This is just stupid kinetic novel, where you are forced to choose between 1 option like 1000 times.
WHY?????

This game (v0.9.2 at the time of this review) is a slow burn, but once it gets going I found myself completely invested in the story. The game looks beautiful, and I found myself caring about the characters in it, as I would in any good story.

As many have mentioned, in the first few chapters the English translation is not great, but I've seen worse and I personally never felt it took too much from the story. As it goes on, though, the quality of the English improves to essentially perfect.

I think the only kind of real complaint I have, and it's more a complaint of expectation than a critique of the product itself, is that this is almost more of a kinetic novel than it is a VN. There are some choices in it, but they don't really feel like they matter very much. I like KNs, but it's always a bit of a disappointment to play a VN only to find out your choices don't really matter that much. I will say that at least there aren't single-option choices thrown up just for the sake of clicking.

That being said, I really got invested in this game and can't wait to see future chapters.

The Intoxicating Flavor [v0.9.2] review-
Great renders with stunning female models with different personality and good story though English could use a proof reader but I don't mind it much . Likeable main character and no annoying gameplay and nice background sounds which feels nice while playing game . Sex scenes are animated and well done . Overall 5 stars looking forward to next update .

Cons:
This story will bother some people for how linear it is. Not all sex scenes are optional, and the story largely dictates that you get into the romance and other situations. I saw some complaints about the author's english, but it's only a problem in the early chapters, and not impossible to read. The author could always go back and fix it all, but I don't think it is worth slowing down progress on new chapters.

Pros:
If you're here for the sexy, the girls are hot. If you're here for the narrative... this is fucking awesome. It feels very run-of-the-mill for a chapter or two, but stick with it as it gets wilder and wilder. Each character has a distinct and diverse personality, with demons and secrets in their pasts that unravel slowly over time. The MC is an intelligent figure, but is held back by memory issues and a dark, twisted personality forged by a troubled past, but new acquaintances have him changing for the better. This is an awesome story that I'm really excited to see more of.

The models are GORGEOUS and that is something I give the dev credit for.
The writing/English wasn't great, but I managed to ignore it to pay attention to the story... but then it became a chore. It has waaaaaaay to much text without saying anything in concrete, an idea that could be said in fewer words gets unnecessarily extended.
I liked the potential it showed at first, but as it continued I realized the story doesn't appeal to my taste. I won't say it's a bad story, but it feels like it goes in circles and it's too fantastic for me and gives the illusion that, at some point, it stays stuck.

In the start It looked like to be good, but it just become more boring after each update, might as well been a text based game, the hottest scene is in the start, which is not even sex but only grinding. I keep hoping for something good with each update, but I realise now, it's never gonna happen...
Just feels like a milking game... I give 2 stars for the renders and models... The rest is just dragged out boring...

OK... So I tried to like this story. I really did but it was just too long and has become circular in its progression.

The premise is original and if you have managed to get very far into it, you eventually begin to see what is happening and why, or at least you think you do? The problem however is that it takes forever to get to that point and yet it still doesn't completely answer any questions. You end up with a "vague" idea of what is going on but you are never quite sure.

The translation is appalling at first. It is so bad that it gets in the way of your understanding of the dialog in many cases. It does improve as the chapters progress and becomes fairly easy to read but there are still times when you really have to read a sentence multiple times to figure out what is being said.

As the chapters progress the dialog gets long... VERY LONG!! There are multiple scenes where you end up in click hell in a single scene. One scene in particular had me at 500+ clicks solely on a single conversation between the MC and the antagonist. I gave up counting at 500+ mind you! This isn't the only time it happens either. Chapters 5 forward are so dialog heavy that I simply couldn't endure it anymore and found myself speed clicking through scenes just to get to a point where I felt the story was actually moving.

The renders are fine. Nothing we haven't seen before and nothing unique but you really lose all of the visuals because of the slow and arduous reading that goes on and on.

Folks, I get it! So many fans are fawning over this story and using lots of big words to describe just how deep the story goes but here is the ultimate problem however. All of the "depth" of story hides the glaring fact that the story is as of 0.8.8 nothing more than a dialog heavy story that goes in circles. You have sex, you walk around the island, you swim alot and you have these strange dreams that "try" to bend the lines between dream and reality and just become confusing. Then you wake up and do it again, and again, and again.

It's one thing to tell a story that has depth. It is another thing to bury that same story in character dialog that says so much but means so little. Visual Novels are just that. They are visual in nature. The problem with this story is that someone forgot about the visuals and just started writing a novel. After a while It began to remind me of the TV show Seinfeld.

A story about absolutely nothing.

Dropped this game after finishing Chap. 2. I don't mind "bad" English translation, mostly because I'm not a native speaker myself. But the story itself is quite needlessly convoluted and difficult to follow from time to time, and what further bores me is the fact that you are not given much meaningful choice to make: it's just tons of dialogues and narration in order to expand the storyline. If I'm not given the chance to "play" an AVN, I'd rather just read a printed book instead.