VN - Ren'Py - The King of Summer [v0.6.3-full] [No Try Studios]

I was very pleased when the game first started off but the storyline seemed to spiral out of control as it progressed, going from a decent NTR game to a mess.

One of the biggest violations of any game, is unrealistic body proportions on the LIs. I've said it before, breasts come in four sizes: small, medium, large and stupid. Anything above a C cup is considered large and its easy to make breasts "too" big and this is the case on several of the girls IMHO. This includes "curves" becoming borderline too fat. I really don't understand how many devs continue to fall into this trap. Normally, I would give kudos to having a variance of body types except there weren't very many. Pretty much every female in the game was overly and unrealistically endowed.

The lengthy dialog was my next biggest gripe. If you are going to have a long conversations with nearly no change to the background or renders, it is imperative to keep the dialog interesting or at least pertinent to the main story. Paragraphs of meaningless and mindless drivel (how is your day? Isn't it a beautiful day? You are absolutely right, it is a very beautiful day, isn't it?) don't make a good story and I found myself fast forwarding over half the game with little consequence.

The "MC" Satoshi was just sad. There are some diehard true NTR fans out there that demand certain aspects of NTR. I have found that the best NTR games are those with choices of Netori, Netorase and Netorare. Simply put, with a few choices early on in the game, you could easily give the player what they want (sharing, cuckold, cheating, swinging) and still keep the game interesting as perhaps the antagonist(s) try to change the rules of engagement (stealing the girl, trying to get the girl to secretly cheat etc.) Also the "MC" Satoshi, I think, could have also enjoyed a few nights of reckless abandon while his girl was out getting plowed if he didn't have a needle dick.

All in all, it seemed that the Dev developed the NTR aspect of the game too quickly between the uncle and main LI. I think if he had sprinkled the other girls/guys in earlier in the game instead of later as an afterthought, the game would have not only been much more enjoyable with different LIs and stories to pursue but also much more interesting.

To start off, let me say that this is not a bad "game".

And, with that being said...


Art: 1.5/5

- It's Koikatsu, and it uses very basic models at that.


Story: 2/5

- An attempt was made at having a story, and halfway through that attempt, it was given up entirely. The story is basic and repetitive... It could have been passable, had the dev not decided to introduce so many characters that detract from the "main plot" of the MC and his GF.

All in all, the dev decided to make this game's story and dialogue ridiculously long, slow paced and full of completely pointless interactions, just to make you click through meaningless blocks of text before you can get to anything remotely interesting.

It sort of feels like what devs from mobile cashgrab games do in order to artificially increase playtime, but here it is made sort of like an attempt to make the game seem better than what it actually is... Maybe?

Characters: 1/5

- Character's are bland, uninspired and mostly feel like objects to move the "plot" along. They have no soul and feel brainless most of the time, even more so for the MC and his GF. There are TOO MANY characters! That's not how you go about making an NTR game! You can't just start introducing characters who are 100% unrelated to the MC, most of which he didn't even know before, and still call this an NTR game! At this point, this is a game with ONE character being NTR'd, because the MC's girlfriend is just one among a large roster of characters.

Gameplay: ?/5

- This is a Ren'Py based VN, there is basically no gameplay to be had here... Which, in most cases, is good if you just want to see the "action". However, this game drags and makes you go through hours of meaningless interactions to try and make you like or relate to the characters, who are all pretty much unlikable. It also makes a sad attempt at, and wait for it, being a clickable sandbox.

To sum things up, an attempt was made at making an NTR game, then along the way, the dev decided to change directions and make it some sort of harem game (for the MC's uncle, of course), and completely lost the plot of what actually makes an NTR game good. The way the plot goes all over the place, switching between characters, most of which are unrelated to the MC, just so the uncle could fuck them... It feels weird, out of place and even irritating at times. The way that the story's pacing drags at times, then suddenly feels rushed, only to start dragging again a few minutes later... It's irritating, and detracts from any sort of good points you might have found along the way.

Why, then. do I not call this a bad "game"? Because there was at least an attempt at making it good here. It didn't work, but at least there was an attempt made.

This is 5 lbs of game in a 10 lbs bucket.

Premise:

Extroverted girlfriend and introverted boyfriend who can't meet her needs. They go on vacation to his extroverted uncle's resort.
Extrovert girlfriend hits it off with uncle, they begin to mess around.
Cue tension.

This game falls into the same trap as a lot of NTR/infidelity games- they don't know how or are unwilling to write a break-up. The entire scenario hinges on pushing boundaries and rationalizing "lesser" indiscretions, but there's always the looming red line that means the original relationship is over. The girlfriend, about halfway through, has enthusiastic, balls-slapping, all-night, sweaty sex with the uncle. At this point she's "corrupted" fully, so that tension is released. So now it's just a cheating game where the cheatee boyfriend has to suddenly become a barely functional human to not notice, so it feels like a cheap budget porno. It'd be more satisfying if they just wrote a big blow up fight, and the boyfriend left the story. Or he accepts his role as a cuck. But the story has no climax outside the obvious ones lol.

At this point, the game expands the cast of characters, where the uncle just seduces them, but the stakes are low, and its like... who cares? The main story is resolved and these characters aren't amazing enough to stick around past the initial tension, so I dipped.

The "gameplay" is a typical bit of annoying visual novel faffing about. There's no puzzles or things to figure out, just choosing the right character who has a scene available to play out.

The graphics are bog standard koikatsu. No points there- it's just premade assets.

Rating King of Summer is tricky. For a while, it was definitely one of my top games. These days, though, I don’t really keep up with it. I feel like it’s starting to overstay its welcome and should have wrapped up by now. Initially, I was really into the story, even though the developer has a tendency to drag things out. The plot and slow corruption arc were enough to hook me, but over time it became more tedious. The progression is extremely slow, and there’s a lot of repetitive looping, especially with Mary, who’s incredibly indecisive.

It’s hard to rate this game. Right now, I’d say it’s a 2 or 3 because it really needs to end, but for the first several hours, it’s a solid 4. The character designs aren’t the best but are mostly good. The scenes are generally above average, with sound and long animations from multiple angles. However, the mouth animations during blowjob scenes are poorly done, which is common in 3DCD games. They look like the “tooth-toot” thing that pengu does, look it up if you don’t know what I mean.

At first, I was very invested in Mary’s corruption arc. Some of her outfits look outdated by today’s standards, but overall she looks great. My issue with Mary is that she becomes annoying the longer the story goes on. Her constant back-and-forth indecision drags out far too long. A bit of turmoil is fine, but it becomes excessive to the point where she just grates on you.

Erina is cute, but her story isn’t what I’m looking for in this type of game.

Natsuki is fantastic—one of the best girls, no complaints there.

Hanako is alright. Like Erina, she doesn’t really match what I’m looking for. Her design is a bit off with exaggerated proportions. She's not the only one with them, but hers are definitely the most extreme. That said, she does look better once her bangs are fixed. Overall, she’s okay.

Rin is great. A hot, tanned girl? Sign me up.

Kaoru is okay. I’m not a fan of her hairstyle, but she has a good body. Story-wise, she’s alright. I’m more interested in Rin, and since Kaoru is often paired with her, she becomes interesting by association.

Shizuka is great. She makes the MC’s route with her more compelling, which is a big achievement considering how weak the MC is.

The uncle fits the story. Big guy, even bigger cock, confident, but can get annoying after a while. Is he trying to cuck Satoshi, the only family member he seems to care about, because Mary reawoke his sense of manliness, even though he’s surrounded by attractive women? Is he genuinely helping Satoshi? Is he actually a nice guy? Is he a bastard? There’s a noticeable lack of self-awareness in how Kendo is written that makes him borderline annoying. The big, strong older man always gets what he wants seemingly without ever being portrayed as the bad guy. I wish he would embrace being the jerk he truly is. Like Mary, he started to wear on me as the story dragged on. I almost felt bad for Satoshi, which is saying a lot as an NTR fan. I even found myself rooting for him to get with Shizuka and hoping Arato would mistreat Mary once they’d switch partners—that’s how frustrating it got.

The MC is your typical NTR protagonist. Timid, clueless, has a pencil dick, and a plain personality. But this is one of the rare times where I almost wanted to root for him by the end of the story.

Overall, I’d give this game a 4. The developer has clearly put a lot of work into it, and giving it a 3 just because it’s gone on too long feels unfair. Yes, I’ve burned out on it, but it provided plenty of enjoyable hours before that. It’s a good game with a lot of potential that just drags on longer than it should.

King of Summer [0.5.1] is fantastic Harem game... with NTR elements.

Now, what exactly does this mean? Well, to me, an NTR game should be intimate - focused around a small cast of characters, of whom the protagonists are the main couple. The NTR experience is only complete when the husband's "faults" are slowly exploited by Chad, seducing the wife away, piece by piece.

King of Summer stars off that way, but it is not slow, or methodical. Your girlfriend begins giving & enjoying regular blowjobs to your uncle after only several encounters with him. And the final "barrier" - sex - is reserved for a big mid-game turning point, where she completely gives in to him and they start banging. No, seriously, after that point (the "first time"), the GF and your uncle just keep banging away like rabbits, while the protagonist is laughably clueless (too clueless to make a compelling NTR story). He does have suspicions, but they are almost always cleared a few sentences later with some lame excuse. Now, the MC does eventually get too suspicious to make excuses anymore, but at that point the story just stops being an NTR story and turns into a Harem story, where the Uncle is the protagonist now - and your GF is his concubine, ready to help him achieve that harem. From that point on, there would barely be any NTR elements in the story if the GF somehow still couldn't properly let go of the protagonist, and if the dev didn't introduce a fresh new couple to spice things up.

The game is overall still great, plenty of cheating action, all the sex scenes are animated (but they are 80% the same positions, just different locations), and the models are, for the most part, amazing (given the art style, though I was never a fan of the overblown breasts - and only a few girls are modest enough to qualify as realistic)

As most NTR games tend to, the exposition and dialogues are too verbose. Yes, the dev needs to portray that inner turmoil through words, but I have yet to find a true NTR game that didn't go overboard with monologues/dialogues to tell that story. You will find yourself skipping a lot of text, if you're like me, and just wants to see the NTR action without the characters freaking out about "being caught" for the 15th time. In conclusion, the writing is decent, but nothing to boast about.

And of course, the MC has a pencil dick. while every other male is at least bigger in that department - even if they are not in general. A true NTR story isn't about the woman being enchanted by the biggus dickus, it's about the excitement of cheating itself - and the attention & pleasure she is getting from someone other than her husband/boyfriend. That's the crux of the real NTR experience that many 'NTR' games fail at.

The corruption in this game is pretty much non-existent. If it wasn't for Satoshi, this would be a straightforward harem style romance game.

The gameplay loop is decent, and the writing is good, but the story is pretty uninteresting to me.

It was all great in the beginning, I like the MC personality, he's not a good guy and he's fully aware of it. The lewd scenes are okay, some are great.

Until the dev suddenly introduced Arato. I really don't understand why would you have to put Arato in this story. He's worse than characters from typical NTR games. Kendo is what makes this game great, really should have focused on Kendo instead of creating one other route that nobody likes.
overall still a good game tho.

This is an alright game, with some hot scenes, I would give it 3.5/5. I will focus in the review on most obvious flaws that make the game worse.

1. Mountains of text, excessive chatter that you have to go through easily becomes unbearable. The worst part is not the bloat/excessive amount of dialogues, but the way it is paced around. You click a button you get 1 word, you click a button again, you get another word. Game turns into never ending clickfest, which will make a lot of players not willing to sit for 20 hours, to press skip button, and skip most of the story content.

2. Hypertrophying of a cuck, which turns this more into a satire. "Cuck MC" has like a 8cm member, when his uncle "real MC" has like 30cm member. Same or even more with other dimensions. This does not make the story better, it just makes it more comical, less believable.

3. Models. While some models seem to be fairly decent (Erin) e.t.c, some are incredible annoying. Blue haired, 2 massive tits, no eyes, it just look ridiculous.

4. The stat model feels a bit wrong, as to grow MC "manliness" stat you have to F everything that moves. It does not make it possible to skip interaction with annoying ugly girl you don't want to deal with, and when you add that those interactions have tens of thousands of pointless chatter lines, that take a dozen of minutes to skip through and you are forced to see all that it is all worse.

5. Animations and art for most part are below average for this day and time.

If the game was meant to be a harem style with many heroines, then a choice should be made available.

If you're into NTRI and harems I highly recommend this game. However, I personally am a NTR fan and it does not appeal to me.

Story:
It's a very slow burn, but I don't think it pays off in the end. There's too many girls for this story to be fun. It leans closers to harem type game rather than NTR and it lacks an overall emotional masochistic payout that I look for in most NTR games. I think each girl had their own game or chapter, it might be more enjoyable, but I can't enjoy it like this.

Gameplay:
You click to go from different places on a map. None of the characters feel like real people, and it's kind of exhausting having to initiate every relationship on your own. I wish there was a cuck mode where we could instead maybe find FMC getting fucked rather than us fucking everyone.

Overall:
Game is still good, art is nice enough, I feel like a lot of the FMCs' models are reused which makes it a little repetitive. The uncle is supposed to be this old man stud, but I'm not entirely sold on that based on his model.

The game is everything you really want from an NTR themed game, the story is having fun stealing women, and is very straight forward you take what you want and that's the end of it. Sometimes simple is perfectly fine. The art and animation although I am told it is done in an engine where that kinda stuff is basic and "easy" still looks great and goes hand in hand with the great sound, and the themes are obviously everything you really need. Swinging, cucking and cheating with different MC bulls that have fun with the main women, along with some side characters as well. I have no faults with this game there are plenty of scenes, a gallery if you don't care about the story, and full conversations and lengthy scenes if you do. One of the best cheating games out there for sure. 5/5

edit: The story is starting to dip for me now that I am paying more and more attention to it. From the bull(s ) taking turns cucking each other, to the ladies of the game taking major 180s and changing completely for the males they take an interest in, it's really starting to feel like porn plot with no build up and suspense. I personally think the game is pretty much done and the current "plot points" are what if scenarios, where bulls get cucked, cucks pimp out their "partners" and swinging is everywhere. Still really like the game, I guess its faults are becoming more glaring for me now.

edit 2: It's getting back on track now. The story is done it's simply more and more cucking scenes Arato the other bull no one likes, getting at least one plot line sex scene every update. I'm loving it either way, even though the cocks keep getting larger so the guys can have 14"s and that is insane porn logic since that's basically impossible for anyone giving or receiving. It's a great time and breaking women and stealing them for yourself is always amazing, just try to remember Kendo is the favorite here, not some millionaire asshole that has no redeeming qualities.

First thing that comes to my mind is "Overstayed its welcome". The first 20 updates were pretty decent. Generic but passable characters with a generic but passable story and good art and animations.

Now the only thing that has changed are the characters and story, both of which are worse than they were. Art and animations are still good, but as a VN it has become really stale.

Only worth it if you unlock the gallery and avoid everything else.

I love this game. It has much content and is a very slow but satisfying burn.
Only critic I have is that it takes your girlfriend and uncle wayy to long to actually haxe sex.
itd been awesome if they did it for a whole while behind thesatoshis back.

I've followed this game since it first released many moons ago and have seen it grow from strength to strength, now that it's nearing it's end if feels like the right time for me to give some thoughts.

Firstly, I appreciate that NTR is a divisive genre and not every game is going to go exactly as you imagined it, but I don't think that merits giving a game as strong as this a 1 star review.

Anyway, enough with what others have said, this game has one of the biggest galleries I've seen, it's packed full of scenes that, in this mans opinion, hit every NTR beat you could want. The characters are hot, the scenes are hot and the dialogue... you guessed it, hot!

Can the story be silly at times? Sure, but lets be real, this is a porn game not war and piece. Personally I've felt the writing has gotten better as the game progressed and clearly the Dev feels the same way as little tweaks have been made in the early game to help sell the story.

I'm not a massive fan of Satoshi, the games protagonist (if you can call him that). I'm fairly sure your not meant to really like him anyway it only makes it that much more enjoyable when he gets NTR'd.

I think my only real criticism is that the corruption of characters maybe happens a little too fast but at the same time, this game isn't trying to be a slow burn NTR game, it knows what it is and does not waste time in giving you the good stuff with enough story to add flavour to it's scenes.

I personally don't know of many sandbox NTR games but this to me feels like something different, a glorious ensemble NTR melodrama that will scratch whatever NTR itch you might have.

The King of Summer [v0.4.21-full]

It was pretty good game with passable story, but it's overstayed its welcome.
"Too much of" that it got boring and drawn out, "mish-mash" of many things. It wasted ALL good fate I had for this one. If you really want to see the scenes, it won't be easy with these dregs of sandbox, just skip everything and don't bother reading. It's so f dumb.

Story - 1-2,7/5. Whatever.
Choices - 1.5/5. Sometimes you can chose "do or do not".
Gameplay - 1/5. Almost fully kinetic sandbox. ugggghhh...
Characters - 1.4/5. Who cares at this point. They were flat, they stayed flat.
Models/animations - 3/5. Pretty good
Grammar - 3/5. Eh, whatever.

Game was so good in the beginning and mid way through. But just like any NTR series, they start add things that throw off the original main plot. The shoe horn of the unnecessary villain that takes away from the uncle and the nephew complex just so out of nowhere. Why can't it just be the uncle and the nephew. The uncle is already the original villain, bad guy or anti hero. Now this new villain gets a full path? Might as well give the MC a full path too. Just stupid and completely defeats the plot. Waste of time and resources.

The side quest are sub par but some thing fizzle out become kind of dumb too. Cuckold is cool and all but the wife runs back to the husband and the uncle doesn't keep the girl in the end? The daughter just goes on like nothing happens and continued to be around the dad, and the uncle doesn't keep her either. The workers all go back to their boyfriend. Nothing else happens, uncle no keep. So much for this king collecting his group of girls. Completely loses the original plot doing too much stuff but not exclamation marking anything.

And what is this anticlimactic ending. At no point is their a scene where at the Uncle bust a nuts and proclaim the MCG her pregnancy. At least give us a hot scene where he does, and the girls says I am not on pill, proclaiming she wants to be impregnated, beg to be impregnated or something like that. Just a photo and here I am pregnant to MC. What? That is it? Come on man. Ending was weak as heck.

However the animation are god tier and some of the best. 4 out 5 solely on the Uncle and Nephew plus the better part of the side quest. Literally a 3 out 5 with all the extra BS not really needed in the game taking away from the Uncle and Nephew overall. And a 1 out 5 with the force villain that was not needed. That needs to be remove from the story and game all together. Because of that, this game is a 2.

I´ve played this game since it was in an pretty early stage. If you came here to fap, well, the game has over 100 scenes, i´m sure you will find what you´re looking for. It has a decent amount of characters, not too many and not too little all of theam with their own unique traits.
If you have some more free time and try to read, then you will realize that all the mc are complex characters, There is not a 100% good and a 100% evil character, each one has their past, ther way of seeing things, their goals and their own personality. So a single action of one character may have positive and negative consequences at the same time, there is not a pure good or bad action. So it may be confusing to understand the characters if you try to find a guilty or responsible for the things that happen

I must add; The game is ntr focused, it´s the main plot, it is UNAVOIDABLE and you´ll see it a lot. If you have a personal grudge with infidelity , If you tend to emphasize a lot with the characters and feel bad with injustices or non ethical behaviour then you should reconsider playing this game. But know that you will find those things, so don't be shocked when things happens

I believe the thick part of the game has already been developed(just my opinnion). Most of what´s left are the endings, You could say it´s 85% completed.

I am a huge fan of NTR games. I love the corruption aspect of a woman cheating on their significant other, of being seduced and enticed into giving into their desires, of doing something they know is wrong because it feels too good not to. So I downloaded this 4.5 gb monster of an AVN and sat down to give it a go. Here's my experiences playing it.
Story: 0/10
What can I say about King of Summer? It is the timeless tale of the seduction of a mentally handicapped, green-haired woman by her boyfriend's uncle during a 7-month stay at a beach resort. I know what you're thinking, how can someone seduce a mentally handicapped woman? Easy! By lifting her up in the pool once per day for 2 or 3 days in a row! That's all it takes to get her to bring you back to her hotel room and start handing out bj's like they're after-dinner mints. (No, I'm not joking. Yes, that's really what happens in the game).
Mechanics: 0/10
There's nothing like a good old sandbox to make a player feel like they're immersed in a world where they can decide what happens! Unless, of course, that sandbox consists of the same events repeated over and over to 'grind' your arbitrary manliness stat up to the level needed to see the next scene. That would just make the whole sandbox thing a pointless time-sink designed to do nothing more than stretch out content to give the game the appearance of having a lot of content without the actual substance.
But whatever, I play video games all the time! I once spent 30 hours leveling my party in Final Fantasy! What really matters are the choices. I get to decide the course of the story, that's what VN's are all about, brah!
Yea... yea, in theory that's true. But have you considered how much better it would be to have the illusion of choice? Just think - I'll give you 3 options, and 2 of them will do nothing but loop back to the same 3 options. You can choose your own path as many times as you like (until you make the singular choice I want, which will move the story forward). Isn't that way better???
Totally, brah!
(yes that's really how the game works. You can spend the equivalent in-game of a full decade of choosing "take a nap" and never see a single new scene. I guess the universe blinks out of existence whenever the boyfriend closes his eyes. Ironically, if that were the case, it would have improved the story greatly)
Visuals: 5/10
I can't create art for shit, so I don't bag on the graphics unless they're truly eye-gouging. These are fine. Anime/manga characters aren't particularly hot to me, but I don't think they are grotesque.... except for the penises, which let's be honest, look pretty silly in real life, too, so who among us has any room to talk?
Overall: 3/10
This game misses the mark. There's next-to-no build up. You never have the sense that the mentally handicapped girl cares about her boyfriend at all. From the very beginning, it seems like she's only with him for the free trip to the beach, so the whole "NTR" aspect doesn't land at all. The supposedly 'old' uncle looks younger than I did when I was 25. There's is nothing at all in this plot that makes you interested in seeing what happens next, because the mentally handicapped girl isn't intellectually equipped to have any cognizance of being corrupted. The boyfriend is given no personality and almost no screen time, so there's none of the 'agony of loss' NTR is meant to evoke.

So, right off the bat, this game is great. It's pretty top tier with this animation style, the content is enjoyable, and it's earned a plethora of nuts from myself alone. HOWEVER there is extreme amount of unavoidable clipping in the animations which is fairly off-putting and some of the deformations are nonsense like when blowing how women's lips deform in a weird duckbill. The game is comedy gold in some of the animations, like when someone is fingering a woman and their hand moves a foot while their fingers clip into the pussy, or when people are just jumping comically up and down on a dick in a way that looks like a game from Newgrounds circa 2004.

It's not bad. Definitely has some ramp up before all the fuckin', but the animations don't use Kplug and seeing a penis go into closed vajajas is not hot. There's a lot of content and some scene hunting which adds mystery but overall the story needed to slow down the scenes better. Worth a fap, but the NTR isn't that great, i thin the uncle is too likeable.

i been looking for a good koikatsu NTR game since i played that SAO NTR game, thankfull i found this game.... Goddamn this is a really good NTR. if you into thit shit you need to play this one.
Is not slow but is not an immediate fuckfest either. The tension and the NTR build is really good between the gf and the ntrman.
Good scenarios , some scenes have a great POV perspective of the MC as he is about to cath them fcking but something gets in the way, great animations and the H-writting is pretty decent.
If you want a good NTR but not one that fuck your soul and scar your brain then this one gets the job done.... besides a FCKTON of content. i dont really care about the sidegirls but the FMC content is fcking fantastic.


Btw special thanks to Yamakasi20 down here on the reviews section becuase i was about to pass on this game then read his review and give this hidden jewel of a game a chance. Thanks man.