VN - Ren'Py - The King of Summer [v0.6.2-full] [No Try Studios]

[0.6.2] (I played until the branching point for now).

Simply a masterclass. I see a lot of complain with Arato character, it means it's a good characters cause he is here to be straighforwardly annoying and that's what is better when the moment comes if you know what I mean. And let's be honest Kendo is annoying too, just in a less straightforwardly way. That's what a good NTR story is about.

Yeah Arato is annoying, but I just did his first let's say real sex scene with Mary and it was honestly better than with Kendo. All the build up before the sex with Kendo was great but once she fall she directly fell hard. So it's good to have a different approach with Arato with a more classic NTR approach.

NTR is about bastards, I understand Arato is annoying but Kendo is too. Author did a good job with Arato if peoples complain, you shouldn't really like the guy who NTR in these sorts of game, that's what it's all about, the more you hate, the better it becomes.
And with spoiler alert : at least Satoshi get something on this route.

On the bugs side, nothing majors just wrong name and sometime wrong synthax

This one is really all over the place, the pacing leaves a lot to be desired and I don't really get what the author is trying to do with Kendo and Mary. In NTR you can have a plot without a "bad guy" but the way things progressed here is just kinda dark for them to ever be able to be rehabilitated. The pacing is quite bad too with a ton of dialogue stretching things out. I get building up characters and whatnot but the writing just isn't very good, it feels like watching what a high schooler things people sound like on a first date, they just sorta talk about sports and drink beer but none of it really builds them up or anything it all just feels like filler. I think there's something good here but I don't see it personally, maybe if the whole thing was trimmed down a bit and reworked but I'm not really asking for that.

Renders were pretty good, esp Mary, liked the spin on Kendo's character, and Satoshi fulfills his role well, otherwise story is nothing much but serviceable, but not really engrossing enough to have routes. Which only serves to make Arato twice as insufferable; because Kendo's content is more or less complete all content updates boils down to more Arato stuff. And he's very unlikable. No real redeeming qualities and no idea why the author keeps pushing him.

Game was a solid 4/5 all the way till Arato was introduced. This character single-handedly killed this game, even without doing his route you still have to suffer with seeing his lame ass character constantly. Idk what the dev was thinking making this character but I've never played a game that was this solid take an absolute nosedive in quality due to a SINGLE character. Kendo should have remained the only ntr antagonist. Do not reccommend

I played the game and enjoyed it quite a bit at first, which is why it could possibly have received a 4 to 5-star rating. I was hoping for more scenes of Kendo and Mary where Satoshi comes close to finding them, but doesn't. Especially once Kendo and Mary finally go all the way, it would have been nice to have more scenes. Even the side girls were fun to see.

But what really drops the rating 2 whole stars for me is the
Arato stuff. I really disliked the character, and I'm guessing you are supposed to. But once he shows up, it feels like the game is less about Mary and Kendo, and more that Mary is just sleeping with every guy introduced. Feels like the game loses focus.

Just wish they had stuck with the Mary Kendo stuff with the chance of going after the side girls for more levels.

Im not too much into NTR games but still decided to give It a try

It is a bit long in order to finish all of it but if u just want get to the fun part you can just skip most of the dialogue at the start of the novel till the h-scenes start dropping like rain

The story is pretty ok, nothing really new but its enough to get you interest in it.

The girls are really good, the main one Mary is wonderfull (when It comes to her h-scenes) and Im fond of Rin and Hanako.

This is a solid VN, not something like a masterpiece but Its an ok one either if you want just to relieve yourself or if you want to read something to pass time.

Talking about the routes I just hated playing the Arato one, I just dont like this Character and I feel like hes not really needed (but maybe thats bc Im not really fond of this genre)

If you like NTR you will definetly enjoy It, If you dont, I still think It is worht It to at least see the h-scenes! Some of them are really good.

(I played version v0.5.14 might come back later if theres more content)

v.0.5.14-full

This is a very linear game with the most cliche porn logic you will find. I have to admit that i didn't get very far in playing this as i couldn't be be bothered to read through another scene where the girl cums just from someone groping her ass, but i had seen enough to say that the writing is uncreative nonesense. The characters are ok, but the graphics and animations are not hot enough to justify the plot.

If you are really into ntr and don't mind missing logic, then this might be good for you as there seems to be a lot of content. Otherwise, don't waste your time.

Leaving a review because I noticed this game just had ANOTHER update.

The King of Summer came out in November 2022, and is still being updated to this day. In my whole hearted opinion, this game should've been finished a year and a half ago. The author is deeply in love with his work and won't let it go.

Once the main girl got NTR'ed, more girls were added to the point where this puts highschool dxd to shame as a harem anime. It's like a never ending chocolate water fountain at a school prom, except you've been eating from this fountain for a few years.

Like I just read a review from another guy who said he has 25 PAGES of saves. At some point you have to realize that there is such a thing as too much content.

EDIT: Just noticed the author liked my review so looks like he does read these reviews. I wanna say I really did enjoy this game even though it sounds like I'm tearing into it. Thanks for all that you do.

what a fucking game

the girls, their body, the sound effect, the moaning, the kissing, the animations, the plots, and i didnt expect the switch from kendo to arato, which means even more plots!
personally i like how its very easy to navigate around with arrow keys, which means its one handed friendly
i currently have 25 pages of saves, not sure how many more spicy scenes i will have to save
thank you for the game No Try Studios! i am definitely going to try out all the other 3 games of yours!

Let's read about delusional liars justifying their gross behavior, proudly showcasing a 375:1 dialogue-to-picture ratio WITH LINEAR SANDBOX ELEMENTS!

This one is like My Girlfriend Is A Blue-Collar Worker, but without all the hassle of making the characters likable or their motivations unselfish in order to believably redeem them in later arcs. Fuck these insufferable characters, especially Mary and Kendo, but most of all fuck the time I've wasted.

It just doesn't know when to stop.

If this is your first experience, then it's easily a 4/5.
If you follow the project since its inception... It's too much and starts crumbling on itself.
TKoS is a great NTR game. One of the best you can find on this website. So, why 2 Stars ?

Well, this game, at first, was a perfect sized chocolate cake. I love chocolate cake.
Then, it became a family size chocolate cake. I'm a gourmet, so I tried to eat it whole, but felt sluggish afterward. Yummy tho.
And then, it became an XXL ++ Over Chocolate cake.... I can't eat anymore man. Just give me another dish, it's overcooking at this point.

The overall plot is fun and entertaining for a time, but after a while, it's a chore to keep going.

Side characters get so much content that there could be a spin-off around them.
The main story with Mary could have been ended multiple times. There are, in fact, early endings available, but it's clear the dev doesn't want it to stop, and it was just a halt to add more content.

Look, I really enjoyed this game, but sometime "less" is better than "more".

I just can't eat TKoS cake anymore. It's too big for me.

Could you bake something else, pretty please ?

King of summer is a very good game, it has tons of h-scenes , great animation , good cast and alot of NTR

This games has good buildup before the real sex starts but when it starts it goes really heavy on all types of position'
There is a huge cast of charachters and many routes to choose from and each route has its own endings to choose from.

I do like most charachters, you have standard MC Satoshi which seems both clueless and care for his own interest ( that hits kinda close to home ) , so the reason for his cucking is not just standard having small dick and girl find bigger dick........ well its half of that but other half beeing his own inability to meet the girl halfway. He also has points where he learns from this and try to better

Kendo the nice older Uncle with a big dick

Arato beeing the rich kid with a medium dick

The girls are the best part , Mary beeing the main focus and getting the most scenes she has huge breasts , high libido and tiny bikini. She also is quite cute and is really nice

Shizuka is one of my faves, she is both inteligent, cute, and very seductive alot of routes is with her in it and we get alot of swinging and NTR from it which is the best part of game to me.

Other girls is also quite nice but the review would never end if i where to comment everyone

TLDR

Hot sex, Many girls , NTR , Swinging, More hot sex

Drawning the players with the text in a pathetic attempt to make them like the characters.

Another garbage tier choiceless NTR.

MC has no use to for either the plot or the player. Give him a role already. Make him a cuck, make him brake up with girl while watching his ex girl embraced by others, get him killed, make him loose his mind, turn him into sissy or even transform him into a full blown female and make him join the bulls harem... Do something with him man, or remove him already.At some point i started to consider uncle as the main protaganist.

Couple hours of patiently reading, i started to hold ctrl.

Uninteresting, bland koikatsu models with clipping issues. H-scenes and animations are barely enought to be middiling.

Completely and utterly useless sandbox. It serves no purpose other than having the tag. Without choice and any kind of action why bother with sandbox. Tag it with KN and all will be well.

I gave this game multiple tries. I really wanted to love it but cant. Unlikable characters and insanely boring writing making me sick whenever i launch this game.

And lastly i have a personal problem. I like NTR games with a competend MC. This is way more satisfying imo. Dumb MC plots are destroying the realism elements of a game soo much its not even funny. I aint expect %100 realism ofc. But i need some sense of resemblence, heavy effort to make it more and more real. But no. A very dumb MC with small dick and can only fuck his girlfriend a single round before passing out. Like, really? Dude, this guy is very young person. Cmon. We are not DUMB, dev. Dont dare to tell me a young boy like that cannot go second, third or more rounds with how horny and full of energy they have. OFC the bulls can go alll night despite their ages, level of stamina. Dont care they were delinquets in their past. Do dumb, so unrealistic.

The points above makes NTR aspects of the game soo cheap. Bulls arent even trying. The hate towards that MC model, sluttiness and overyle naivety of heroines adds up and you got yourself a very easy pick for bulls. What is the point of stealing a candy from a baby. Unsatisfying. Not a ounc of figting back. Too ez for it to have any kind of impact.

Well, im ranting rn. Im sorry but that was the last time i gave this game a chance. Hoping it to change but i dont that will happen.

Dont reccoment it even if you are into NTR genre.

V0.5.8
Pros:

Cons:

• Extremely flat and boring writing, you have to try really hard to suspend your disbelief in order to not cringe at the story.
• Character bloat, walking tropes with no personalities, basic KK models with no memorable appearance.
• Meaningless sandbox that don't develop characters or set up for scenes, doing nothing but adding padding to the game.
• Recycled animations copy pasted to different locations, models clipping during scenes.
• Scenes have no build up or payoff, despite being a sandbox.

Fantastic game! Great job devs! This is a long game, it goes into a lot of detail, does a lot of introspection and it explores character's thoughts quite thoroughly. The writing is my favorite part of this game. It has all kinds of NTR, cheating and some other fetishes but the main focus is NTR. It's a slow burn story and it's fantastic. Easy 5/5 for me. I know this is hard to ask considering how fragile people are about this genre, but I can only wish there was more cruelty, and it explored some more hardcore fetishes (around NTR) but alas, my dick is happy!

This one is... confusing? I really wanted to like this game since it has almost everything i like in NTR: smol pp loser mc, ugly bastards, giant dick bulls and doesn't rely on stuff like alcohol, drugs or mind control to corrupt the girls, but unfortunately the story telling is just so bad that it almost completely ruined it for me.

The girls all have really cute models and have different and cool personalities, dev did a really good job on that regard. The scenarios are simple but have really a cozy vibe imo. The scenes are good but a little too repetitive and dev doesn't really explore lots of possibilities, like 80% of the game is just bj into balls deep sweaty sex, which is good and all but could've been alot better.

Now for the story... oof. First of all, Satoshi is the most annoying, delusional and straight up childish character i've ever seen(not that the other male characters other than Kendo and Yoshi are any better), he is the worst type of loser, the one who can't accept that he is one. I really like the loser mc type cause they're usually very honest and try their best even tho it's not enough or just straight up accept their role as inferior and find joy in that, they are pathetic losers but in a cute way to me. Satoshi on the other hand is the complete opposite, he is type of loser that barely puts any effort into anything and expects the world to be at his feet and his gf to be his personal maid attending to his every demand and world view, otherwise he throws tamper tentrums, it's absolutely pathetic, which is made even worse when the dev seems like he is scared to make him face the consequences of his shitty behavior and this also brings me to my next point: NOTHING EVER HAPPENS!
Like, dev relies way too much on the characters being mentally 5yo to keep the spice going in the story but he relies SO HEAVILY on it in fact that it ends up making the story extremely predictable and really boring after a while, you already know Kendo is gonna fuck whoever he wants and nothing is ever gonna come out of it cause there is always an excuse like

''Ohh, he sees someone that looks just like his gf but his pride gets in the way, since there is no way his gf would be fucking an old man''

''Ohh, it literally looks like her fucking someone else but no way she would make those sounds''

''Ohh, he is seeing it right in front of his face but his mind is trying to protect him so its like it never happened''

It's fine using this in the story here and there but holy shit after the 50th time relying on the same thing to keep the story going it gets so fucking frustrating, nothing ever has any real implications or weight to it, cause the male characters are dumber than a rock, which in turn leads to horrendous pacing with the same things happening over and over again: build up > into build up > into nothing > repeats.
Also it's nothing major but the girls could've used more screen time outside of just fucking the male characters, they really are super cute and save this game alongside gigachad Kendo (Rin is such a fun and cute gal), would've made them even more likable, like just talking, having fun, or just playing pranks on Kendo after every single one of them knew they were all fucking the same guy, would've added more variety to the sex scenes as well.


Like this is a good game, but the story really makes it so much more frustrating than it needed to be, like im not even gonna go into Arato's horrendous timing for being introduced into the story, after you've already got attached to Mary's and Uncle's relationship and that it absolutely makes no sense that at that point in the story Satoshi has any sway over Mary to make her do what she did there(and Arato being inferior to uncle in every single aspect except money + being a closet cuck himself), if i went into this and more stuff (Takumi lmao) this review would be 5k words long.

In short, it is worth giving this game a try just for the gals alone, just don't expect too much from the story.

Meh, just kinda boring.

The story is too drawn out and too many characters are added.

The writing is boring.

Music generic.

Models average just boring with few exceptions.

Sex scenes buildup is mostly too quick, animations are almost good, they often look weird, NTR/Cuck/Netori aspect is pretty weak, mostly just generic Netori.

Characters are very shallow, I don´t care about the cucks, they have too little screentime and are mostly just annoying and unlikeable, the uncle is okay a bit too friendly for a Bull but I still liked him, and the girls are all very uninteresting too, which makes the NTR aspect weak too because it´s a important part to actually care about the characters.

Gameplay is weak, the sandbox just feels tacked on.


Wouldn´t recommend, maybe if you are new or want to try fetishes like, NTR/Cuck/Netori this could be a good starting point, but if you want the emotional part of that fetish look elsewhere.

I'm mainly a H-content guy (I don't have the NTR hate boner or the very specific requirements people here have for the plot) and this just has so much content and isn't a slog to go through. I like the way this studio does H scenes too. Current rating is crazy low for the "enjoyment" you can get out of this if you're a fellow H-content guy.

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.