VN - Ren'Py - The Last Challenge [v0.2.0] [LustyDonkey]

  1. 3.00 star(s)

    Jakeace

    The game starts off well and then does not follow through the bus ride but all of a sudden wake up on the last day after 10 years. The flashback clips are only when they were kids... I am sure this is not going to play a big role in the future as the game ends with a dead city ... Where is uncle and the others going to come in?. It looks like they are going back or start some kind of settlement... Not sure.
    Flash- back should be based on the 10 years they spend together rather that just stories.
    The other thing is the retenders memory should be reduced as some times it stops ... with unsuported GUP cards. and also the game is almost 10GB. If it continues after the next update it will add another 5GB, Dev has to think about the long term effect, Otherwise its pretty a good start and the protencil is there dispite some stupid charecters ,,, the fat guy.. .
  2. 5.00 star(s)

    Morgana Le Fay

    In the past I've tended to play mostly female protag games but then I realized that due to the limited quantity and story content, I'm missing out on a lot of great AVNs. This one reinforces that and as it is, I'd give it a spot in my top 5 ratings.

    It just checks the boxes for the stuff I like in an AVN. It takes place in a dystopian setting and the story manages to tease enough that i really want to see more of this world, it's inhabitants and more importantly, what happens to the characters I've grown fond of and how our choices will impact them.

    This dev pulls off some crazy branching and it's real branching not fake choices/dead end paths. Everything you do can impact who you become, the effects on your friends and rivals, love interest paths opening or closing. It's worth re-playing a few times to find where other dialogue choices lead to.

    The dev has really excelled at creating a good sized group of friends with their own personalities, likes and dislikes. Like our real friends, they banter, laugh, insult, argue, console and comfort each other. Add to the mix your MC and his actions can effect relationships.

    For example; My fave path is to play MC with a dangerous and violent underside...he takes no shit and resorts to violence easily. He will choke the asshole jock Murphy, threaten him, intimidate Naomi when she fucks with MC's ex-gf Lexa. In the words of Brenda "Your a nice guy and all but a times you can be extremely terrifying.". I rekindle his relationship with Lexa as she is also a dangerous and very capable gf. Both of them can lead and protect the group against the upcoming dangers of the apocalyptic life. They will do whatever it takes...

    I hope the dev adds a Yoona path in the near future as she is so sweet..also hot with the whole South Korean goth look which I loved! hey! us goths stick together... :devilish:

    The dev has done well in only 2 episodes to establish so many characters and show glimpses of their personalities. He also has a great sense of humour! so many times I was giggling like a demented schoolgirl! while the sidekick Donnie is a fat, repulsive moron, he provides a lot of the humour...I can never unsee his fat butt after the shower scene...really need some therapy for my PTSD after that...

    The visuals are about average I'd say and the dev was rendering on an old gfx card before getting a new one and improving the renders. They are certainly fine enough to enjoy the story. I'd go a bit easier on the sweating skin though..they look like they've oiled up for a bodybuilding contest!

    As it stands for episode 2, there's probably about 3-4 hrs of content depending on your reading speed and choices. A big part of the fun is choosing the multiple dialogue options to see what the consequences are with MC's friends.

    Would I recommend this? fuck yes! it has an intriguing storyline...great characters...comedy...drama...romance (a little)...even some violence delivered righteously!

    Oh my...:devilish:

    Well worth 5 stars at this early stage and I cannot wait for more updates.
  3. 5.00 star(s)

    WhyUgh

    Great humour, non-loser-non-irritating best friend and a very different setup! Definite recommend for now!
    The setup allows for a rather large group of young people that might normally not hang out together much to know each other quite well, like some sort of forced found family. Very interesting and looking forward to seeing how it goes.
    While it has serious potential it indeed seems very hard to pull it off properly though, so the developer is taking some high risk high reward approach, hopefully they can handle it.
  4. 5.00 star(s)

    Sovereign

    This game isn't perfect, but I can't give it anything below 5 stars.

    Renders are a quick 5/5, good looking models that are easily distinguished from each other visually, the animations are really good, the only thing that's problematic is the fact that the developer seems to be rendering them in 4k, which makes the assets heavy and development slower (and personally I don't think it's worth the extra pixels).

    The plot is pretty solid, cast stuck on college island for 10 years with comms to/from the outside world jammed due to a pandemic, restrictions finally being lifted and them returning home. Might become a survival story, which I am not opposed to.

    Where this game really shines is with it's characters and worldbuilding.
    The characters have their own desires, motivations and backstories, and playing every path shows the characters reacting in a believable way to your varying choices and their conversations (even the ones that aren't about/with you) feel quite real, they don't feel like NPCs, you can immerse quite easily into their world. The dialogue is really well written, believable, the jokes can be hilariously funny, the tragic backstories are... tragic, the expositional flashbacks are good and really give a good look into the relationships of characters.
    There are a few cartoonish stereotypes that break the otherwise fairly realistic mold:
    -Murphy (cartoonish levels of dickheadedness and ignorance)
    -Kelly (cartoonishly stupid)
    -Ariana (cartoonishly whorish)
    -Samantha (cartoonishly elitist/snobby)
    -Donnie (cartoonish in general, love him to death though)
    And this isn't necessarily bad, it can play to the strengths of these stereotypes to generate humor or raunchy scenes (usually both).

    There is a fair bit of branching that typically plays to the effect of girl A, girl B, or more dialogue (and honestly, the dialogue paths can be so damn rewarding that the porn sometimes feels like the wrong choice).
    Every H scene either has to be opted in, or can be opted out entirely which is awesome. A lot of characters will only show interest if you either act in ways they like, or if you show interest first, and will show their distaste to your choices if they don't like what you're doing.

    The only complaint I can see someone reasonably having is the about the fact that for a porn game, there can be a lot of reading for little H payoff, but overall, I think this is great so far, haven't been excited for a game with 3d renders since Dreams of Desire.
  5. 5.00 star(s)

    emma5132

    Very high quality game.
    To me, the most outstanding is the dialogue. The conversation is smooth and sounds normal. It has great humor and MC's fat friend is funny as hell.
    Great renders, hot girls.
    Sex scenes is good too.

    The only thing I "dont like" may be too many branching. Sometimes it just feel it is not necessary to have so many options and some of them are not that important. Having so many branches slow down the progress a lot and it may led to abandoned in a few years. I genuinely hope this would not be the case as this game is already great and has huge potential. I would not mind to have fewer options in exchange for faster progress and completion of the game.
  6. 5.00 star(s)

    sananajo

    Gotta give the dev credit where credit is due. This game seems very polished and gives you more freedom than expected when choosing how you want to play your game. You can be a good or bad character and your choices do seem to matter, apparantly you can kinda freely chose which girl to get and how to get her. Really good. F. ex. the first possible LI/ sex scene is with a cleaning lady and there are multiple ways how that encounter can end. There is both a great seduction and rape route which are fully fleshed out and really well done as well as many other ways that encounter can end, both in a failure as well as encounter without targeted sexual intercourse. Really cool and if that game can keep up that quality, then it will be a great ride. Also all the characters introduced are slightly different written and have their own motivations and relation to the protagonist. A bit to much dialogue and flash backs (which arent interesting at all, at least to me) but with a bit of skipping the talk you still feel like getting the full experience and can use your choices how you want. I love these games with a protagonist that can be freely chosen to be morally good, grey or bad and this one seems to be especially well thought out. Great stuff.
  7. 4.00 star(s)

    Kapycs

    Review of [v0.2.0 ]


    HUGE POTENTIAL GAME

    Quite an immersive game that looks very good. Good detail and good atmosphere with a post-apocalyptic scene.

    The game is still in an early stage of development but I have loved what I have seen so far. Very good story, great characters and very funny.

    PROS
    • Great Story
    • Good ambient and Sound
    • Great and detalied animation
    • Very good sex scene with multiple angles and good audio
    • Your decision make the game
    • Your Fat friend is very very funny
    • Very attractive and realisitc girls
    CONS
    • Little content

    RATING :

    Content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
    Sound: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
    Renders: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
    Characters: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
    Animations: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

    Final conclusion: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ VERY HUGE POTENTIAL GAME HIGHTLY RECOMMENDED (can't wait for more UPDATE)


    :coffee: Thanks for reading my analysis. The analyzes I make are based on my taste for the game I have played. I try to be objective although there may be parts that Im not. What interests me about these games is that they have little dialogue or interesting STORY (I don't like absurd stories just to read) and the SEX scenes. If there are good animations and good sound, for me it is already a GOOGD GAME. Of course the last decision is yours, whether to play the game or not. SORRY FOR MY BAD ENGLISH!
  8. 1.00 star(s)

    DIKHammer

    Concept is terrible its Under the Dome to start then time jump. Then hey secret ending game over and everyone clapped because that was the right way to end this game.

    LI's might look attractive but the concept is so bad I can't continue. I've tried 3 different times to get into this game and I just can't do it.
  9. 5.00 star(s)

    Unglued

    Fantastic animations, great and interesting story! I will definitely be watching this and if updates are consistent, I'll be subbing, no questions asked! One of the few games where I want to explore all the avenues of decisions.
  10. 5.00 star(s)

    Quibble Bubble

    This is a five star game, certainly A tier, but needs a little more polish to really launch into that upper level of games.
    The user interface is excellent. As good as if not better than any around.
    The story is engaging and interesting.
    The love interests are varied and nuanced.
    No one should hesitate to play this game and support the dev.

    But, if I'm going to nitpick (and only in the hope that the dev can work through any issues to make it even better) the renders need a once over. Artifacts and clothing issues happen a few times.
    Likewise, the dialogue could be streamlined a little to up the pace, and the typos and grammatical errors could benefit from some proof reading.
    But, these don't really take away from the enjoyment of the game. I hope it lives up to its potential!
  11. 5.00 star(s)

    Mupecat

    v0.2.0

    First time commenting on the game:
    In terms of gameplay, each option will affect the subsequent plot, the animation is smooth, and the modeling is also great
    This game has achieved everything I wanted to do, it's too perfect!
  12. 5.00 star(s)

    salamista

    v0.2.0.

    Great game so far.

    + Easy immersion into the game world
    + Wide variety of characters with a realistic and diverse personalities
    + Humor
    + Great girl models
    + Renders, animations

    - Game aims to be very complex which may cause long development periods

    The Last Challenge has huge potential, start is perfect and I am looking forward to next episode. Hopefully the author won´t overwhelm himself and will keep development time in sensible time frame.
  13. 5.00 star(s)

    braiden

    I have to be honest, I'm pretty floored by this game. First of all the choice and pathing already this early on is extremely impressive. The themes in the game are also very mature in an emotional sense, I didn't expect myself to be feeling genuine sadness over a game like this. It's also handled extremely well, it's not like the end of Acting Lessons.


    The premise of the game is extremely cool, the characters are obviously overtly horny but it kind of works in a lord of flies like setting. I'm very excited to see where the story goes.

    My only cons of this game are honestly the sex scenes are pretty basic in terms of animation. The models are great, but I really wish the protagonist wasn't build like a 7'4 slab of muscle.

    Also bonus points for the first scene having stockings.
  14. 3.00 star(s)

    |ForShame|

    Lots to like about this and I wish I could rate it higher. For the positives, writing is good, artstyle is nice and the concept is interesting. Negatives: I don't like Donnie at all. He actively drains my enthusiasm for the game. Writing has a tendency towards angsty too.
  15. 5.00 star(s)

    ArpiNine

    Damn, it feels like I’m playing BG3 or RDR2 because of how immersive it is, like a living world where the characters really have feelings but its in fucking renpy

    A pleasant surprise!! Waiting for next updates
  16. 5.00 star(s)

    cptJudgeFudge

    Ok so wow did not expect much from the title and brief description. Lets go over it.

    Pro:
    Lots of good models
    Very funny humor and nice jokes
    well written plot twists and sorry narrative
    Game gives you alot of freedom of choices with small hints on path it follows

    Con:
    Music can be a little annoying
    See of the same body type among the female characters so far

    Summary: Its really fucking good even the music itself is only a minor issue and even the models is not to much of a issue with how new this is. The game has really good bones with what it can become along with the serious tones that do not subtract from the character interaction.
  17. 1.00 star(s)

    holy_cat

    Version 0.2.0

    I did not want to submit a review, as I had no intention to spend any time more on the game after I lost one hour of my life on it. And then I noticed the ratings… Unbelievable. Close to five stars.

    People never cease to amaze me. Yes, I know that there's no accounting for taste, but I still don't understand why so few people notice that the emperor has no clothes. The story is stupid, the dialogues are clunky, the visuals are subpar (at best). Maybe it was supposed to be a parody of the college type of game… but the result is not funny at all. If I had to sum up the game in one word, it would be: cringe.

    Gosh, I wasted an extra 15 minutes of my life on this game. But at least I bore witness to the truth. Amen.
  18. 5.00 star(s)

    Draxo

    [As of v0.2.0] Solid game so far, I like how the dialogue between characters actually feel genuine, in that the conversations always somehow manage to derail and switch topics really quickly (similar to how younger people in groups talk). Great work so far!!
  19. 5.00 star(s)

    breadstick03

    Exactly the kind of game I hate!

    Renders look good, intriguing story with great comedic elements, and a lot of promise.

    I hate it simply because it left me wanting more, than what's currently available.

    Definitely a fun play, eagerly awaiting the next release. Nice work Dev!
  20. 5.00 star(s)

    brisketsNbiscuits

    Great start! Looking forward to future updates!!
    There are some things that happen in this that a few fuckboys may consider NTR but that is certainly not the case. There are a couple of females that get passed around like a bottle of Crown but they are yours. They are clearly community property lol
    Story is starting off fantastic. Renders are damn good quality. The moisture from sweat looks more like beaded grease on a cast iron skillet but I was able to look past that.
    This one is a lot of fun boys with lots of different paths to take. So much so that it definitely needs a walkthrough available for those of us that don't like playing blind.
    Already anticipating the next update.