VN - Ren'Py - The Lost Love [Ep. 5 U1 Hotfix] [SpeedPostX]

The Lost Love [Ep. 5 U1 Hotfix], I'm conflicted on this one. The story is just all over the place, it has secrets in it that supposedly the MC knows about, but you the player do not know about. At one point the MC talks about one girl being a his bully and the next they are working together as crime fighters. I actually went back in to see if I got maybe season 2 by mistake, but nope there is just the first season. There are a ton of women and truth be told maybe too many he flirts with maybe 20 girls and instead of sex scenes they shoehorn another girl to flirt with but very little sex. You need a scorecard to keep track of all the girls and some of them look the same . The dialog is a little incorrect in places probably because the writer in non-english speaking but not too bad. I'll keep this one on my radar to see where it goess.

I don't normally write reviews but Im writing this review after seeing this game not getting the praise it deserves, I really enjoyed this game and I hope the dev finished the game. Its been a while since i played this game so I don't remember much of it but it is unique on its own and if you are into milfs this game is one of the best ones with story.

The MC is just to all over the place. he is an aloof moron one minute next he is getting a call from a woman that bullied him and they are a crime fighting duo, but she loves him but not really unless she can sleep with his FWB. MC openly hates this woman when she is first introduced and then he answers a phone call from her in the middle of the night no questions asked i don't know many people that would give that kind of concideration to someone they hate.

This isn't a harem game. its a polygamy game there is a supposed LI who has been in love with mc supposedly since they where kids but wont tell him without having a relationship with the "main LI"

Don't even get me started on the main LI she is putty in your hands one minute and the next she is being snappy and sharp. She is supposed to be some sort off cuck queen but acts more like a femdom bossing the MC around.

Random flash backs of the mc's dead gf and then she randomly pops up now and then to throw a jab about you being a pervert.

i know this is meant to be constructive criticism but it seems that if you openly voice your opinion on how things work in this game you get shouted down and told your opinion is wrong. This is supposed to be a harem game, this isnt a harem as there is relationships between the girls simple as that. The dev has picked his (or her) hill and is willing to die on it that it will not be changed and that is fine but remove the harem tag as this will only generate more reviews like this. I wouldnt have even downloaded this if i knew

A. It isn't a true harem
B. the MC character development is just bonkers, aloof pleb to cristian grey in 5 seconds and back to pleb just as quick

How many times can people say something dirty or sexual in front of the MC and he just replies ''huh'' and it just accepted that they said nothing. not to mention the amount of lying and shit in almost every single scene is too much. It seems every single character has secrets from the MC, not one person is ever honest with him and constantly lie to him about everything, god forbid people should actually explain their feelings to MC. Halfway through episode 4 ( no idea why I'm still playing ) and the MC is as clueless as a little child, for an ex solider or whatever he is, he is clueless about picking up hints about stuff going on around him, in some scenes he's this super tough dominating man, the next he can barely put an sentence together when he's talking to a woman. the story has no real consistency at all.

Yet another story where 99% of issues could be resolved if people just spoke to each other. It baffles me how this game could be sitting at 4 stars at the time of writing this. I'm only giving it 2 stars because work has clearly been put into it. The LIs are rather varied and the models are well made.

The MC is by far the biggest issue with this VN. He alternates between this super domineering man, choking his partners are calling them sluts...and a guy who stutters when talking to a woman. While I'm certainly not saying he should be behaving like that towards people he doesn't know well, he should at least be able to make it through a conversation without stumbling over his words because of a pretty woman. He's also supposed to be this super secret cold-blooded killer on a path for revenge, and yet he routinely underestimates his opponents, leading to him losing fights. He also apparently stopped training. This is a man who is obsessed with finding a woman and killing her, yet he stopped his combat training, training he would need in order to take her out. It just doesn't make any sense. He also doesn't pick up on any hints that people he cares about are having serious issues, while also NEVER pushing on topics that should be of great importance to him.

It's a story that wouldn't exist if people could be adults and communicate. If stories like that infuriate you as much as they do me, give this a hard pass.

There are good sides on this game, but also bad ones.
The good are the Love interest, which I feel diverse and intriguing. The story is, at the start, quite interesting, but I feel that it can go wrong fast so not judging it yet.

What I found most disturbing is some girl visuals: good but weird. I can't describe in what I found them disturbing.
Some girls are very beautiful, some relationships feel diverse enough.

I hope the bad sides are corrected or just temporary and wish the game's developper good luck since it can become very good.

Okay, I still remember this game from the early days. Now a lot of aspects of the game are being perfected. From the amazing renders, and exciting scenes to great writing, full of intrigues. The awkwardness from the early days is still there though, especially the MC models. But I'm kind of touched to see this game still going well.

Ill just say the the models is the only reason this game gets two stars. The character relationships are just confusing and made playing this game a bad experience. The writing is just the worst and made this game terrible right from the star. I didnt enjoy even one character is this game and I soon deleted this game. As for the female characters there were at least 3 that I thought were the same character. This game needs a lot of work. I probably wont give this one a second chance. I should give this game 1 star but I was trying to be kind.

English:..........6/10
User Interface:...4/10
User Experience:..7/10
Art:..............7/10
Dialogue:.........7/10
Story:............4/10
Opinion:..........4/10................
Avg:...........5.57/10 [2.79/5]

I want to say this game's DEFAULT name for MC is "Aiden Black." How much more of an edgelord could you possibly want to be? Sounds like the diary of a delusionary emo kid wanting to be a vampire. Chill out. And when this first came out, the description was not in the best English. So here's hoping they took time to fix more than just that. And after you finally get to the sister barging in the room I remember... I've played this before. Sure, they "reworked" the opening scene to tell YOU, the player, MC is ACTUALLY some secret agent super-assassin that comes out of nowhere later in the game. Legitimately the whole game is a bunch of day-to-day nothings about a guy, his girlfriend, and a couple other women. Then BAM! For no discernable reason he fighting cyberpunk enemies and killing people. When people say "they want more action" in a game like this. It does NOT mean add fighting that comes out of nowhere. It means "Get to the sex, these characters are pretty boring." Which is true. There's one decent character and maybe two decent relationships that create alright back and forths. But other than that, it feels like characters just get added to add a trope someone mentions. I also think I started a review of this, but closed a window or something and lost it, so who knows. But one thing is very true about this game, as soon as the character drama finally starts to get halfway decent, MC becomes Rambo and suddenly the whole story just feels like nothing up to that point matters in the slightest.

The story opens to MC dreaming about a woman that is barely ever mentioned again. I'm assuming she's dead, but he misses her. Then it cuts to the most half-assed intro/backstory read that SCREAMS "We redid the intro because our story takes a jarring turn to MC becoming a psycho super soldier." The he's woken up by his [INSERT RELATIONSHIP HERE], Ashley. She lieterally can't be more than his step sister considering he's white as paper and eventually someone says she's black. Even though she just looks like someone that's been tanning since the dawn of time. Anyway, she's moving in with MC for REASONS. She won't say why, but she's having trouble with her fiance, and wont go back home. Never elaborated on. Then you meet Lily and Maya. Obsessed coworker(?) and boss respectively. MC helped Lily with something in the past and she's some elite super hacker that likes to watch MC. I guess. And Maya has Androphobia for everyone except MC. Lucky him. They do BUSINESS things and are a BUSINESS. Beyond that, I don't think it's ever stated what they do, however that's from current memory, so if otherwise stated, it was for sure not part of the story for a while. Moving on, you meet Cynthia, a tenant of MC because he also owns a building. Right. You also meet Mikayla and learn about Jen, that is hastily mentioned in the intro, she's in the hospital. Then the chapter rounds out with Cynthia masturbating to MC as loudly as possible and he... Acts like a creepy preteen and sneaks in to jerk off to her? Does NO ONE see that the sudden genre change later on was not planned in the slightest? You can't start a game with this creeper MC but he's also a disciplined elite soldier. That just doesn't work.

Chapter two opens to the conclusion of that event. Turns out, she knew he was there so that somehow absolves him of being a weirdo. It doesn't. So he goes home to jerk it in the shower after having to sneak away, and Ashley watches him. THAT is what this story was originally supposed to be. More proof. There's also a point where they're talking, and suddenly the background just completely changes, so it looks like they're on a flying couch. Then they decide to sleep in the same bed because logic doesn't exist in porn games. When MC wakes up.... He buys Cynthia a sex toy? Okay. Then goes to see Jen with Mikayla. You get the backstory of MC and Jen, then meet the only person you don't name, Jill. She's in love with MC but teases him too much so they still act like bully/victim. Even though it's later retconned that they fight crime together all the time. She also likes Jen, but mostly just to get to MC. And he still acts like a gradeschooler forced to interact with his bully by his mother. It's pretty stupid, frankly. Then, after getting to Jen, they "reconcile" by him getting her naked and fingering her. Probably because people were saying something like "I hate that MC is a creeper and not a peak alpha male like I, obviously, am!" So he is a creeping peeper and sexually dominant. Two very different mentalities, but whatever. Only to find out Jen's in debt(later revealed to be because of Mikayla) and is too stubborn to ask for help. Which almost rounds her out into a semi-decent character. Leading into meeting Tara, a new tenant that I'm pretty sure is MC's biological sister I guess. She disappears for most of the rest of the game.

Chapter three is... Nothing. MC talks to most of the girls again and tells everyone he's in an open relationship with Jen. That's it. Oh and MC miraculously grows hair, he was bald the first two chapters. Anyway, Chloe is a scientist doing science stuff. Funding it with OF, and, being her Landlord, when he requests the rent.... He sexually assaults her? Not only is all of this section completely disjointed, it's completely stupid. The last thing I want to see, playing a visual novel, is a fake, forced camgirl stream. And he notices someone else was cheating so... He wants to get with her too? What is this game? He already has at least 4 women frothing at the gash for him. Chloe makes no sense. bUt sHe dOeS sCiEnCe sTuFf fOr hIm lAtEr. is what I'm sure you'll say, or they could have called it in off screen. It just feels so cheap and undeserved. Then he's 'blackmailed' into sex with a virginesque nurse due to an underground blackmailing ring? And just after the camgirl stuff and domineering Jen, he acts like a bumbling moron with Sally. Every scene feels like it was written by someone else. What a laugh. What's even funnier is MC's penis CLIPS THROUGH HER ABDOMEN during the sex, my god. Then right after this and ALMOST learning about Jen and her sister, the game suddenly shifts to super assassin turbo cop mode. You start getting a bunch of lore, backstory and all this extra shit for something that was never even hinted at. Why? Why suddenly change to this? It makes no sense.

The bumbling idiot thing makes even less sense when Chloe appear again and he suddenly has a gaze that makes her unable to breathe. Come on. Am I the only one reading this? Enter the "noir cop" story about druglords and gangs. The English starts TANKING here. And DO NOT tell me "She let her niece to had a gun?" is anywhere near proper English. And after all that fighting and stuff, you get no proper nouns, no information, no reason to care what's going on at all. With a hard cut to Maya's nightmare. And a long winded scene about how Sam and Deja also want to have sex with him. And the skeezy uncle showing up. But still no details. Then he starts calling everyone baby girl and pet names like some dumbass "Alpha dom" there is no consistency in MC. And even still, I don't think I like ANY of the million sides of MC. The only thing of note that happens through to the end is a fight with Andrea, she's crazy because drugs. Wow, fun. And by the end YOU STILL KNOW NOTHING. A year and a half, and all you know is the story suddenly changed. Rough.

The English gets pretty laughable near the end. At first it was okay, but little by little verbage, tensing, wrong words, missing words, it's not great. The UI/UX is 95% stock, do something about that. The art is okay, constant clipping, wrong backgrounds being displayed, but its DAZ. The dialogue, for the most part, is actually not terrible. As long as MC isn't talking about sex, then I want to turn the game off. The story is schizophrenic. It can't decide if it's just a horny landlord or super soldier mafia story. Pick a lane, and fast. Either way, both stories are kinda meh. Maybe it's just because the other competing storyline keeps popping up, but I got whiplash out here my guy.

So, aside from the good renders and great sex scenes, this game also has a really neat path maker that lets you choose your paths in the game. This is a pretty unique feature that I feel deserves to be mentioned right away. It also has an included walkthrough which also deserves praise. I absolutely hate games that make you fish around and guess to pick your path instead of just letting you play how you want to play. That problem doesn't exist here thankfully. Now, getting into some of the negatives here is the english. I understand the devs first language is not english and that's pretty apparent here. The broken english and poor grammar isn't so much that it ruins the game but it's definitely an obvious and can drag you out of the story if you are observant to such things. The story I personally don't feel is very strong so I don't see that as a huge problem, but for immersion it might be an issue, YMMV. I also want to mention that there's a lot of sharing here, and I don't mean with other men. Basically, there is a lot of lesbian sharing. Almost all of the characters have some type of girl-girl-MC relationship and not just for sex. I don't like to share my women, even with other women so that's not cool. You don't really get a choice about that unless you want to pass over a lot of the girls. The only choice you really get is whether or not you want them to do stuff behind your back without including you, or only when you are included. You don't have an option to say you are uncomfortable with it period, so I feel like that's a huge negative and enough for me to deduct a star. I mean it's definitely better than having to share with other dudes but I don't want to share at all but it's kinda forced. In conclusion, it's a pretty good harem game but with forced lesbian sharing and an interesting path maker and included walkthrough, so if you are tolerant of the forced lesbian sharing it's definitely a must play for the harem.

Writing an adult game is like walking a tightrope, too much text and it becomes uninteresting, too few sex scenes and it becomes unappealing... but this game somehow never misses a single step.

The writing is simply outstanding! I didn't click thru a single line because I was so interested in the characters and story line, and I can't remember the last time that happened in an AVN. It's even funny!!!

There aren't a ton of sex scenes yet, but those that are there are so well written that even something as simple as foreplay is incredibly hot. It's pretty obvious that the writer is an experienced adult (not the horny teenagers that usually writes these games) and has probably written an erotic novel or two.

I don't write many 5 star reviews but this game absolutely earns it and I can't wait for the next update. I couldn't recommend it more!

Very interesting!

Very nice graphics.
Very nice girls.
Pretty good characterization.

Very nice buildup.

One peeve. I played the special as I heard that was where the first official creampie was.
Given the buildup, I apologize @SpeedPostx . But the buildup gave me perhaps a little too much anticipation for how the penetration scenes and the creampies would be.

I believe I've seen improvements in the game so I still have high hopes. I apoloize man, the awesome circumstances have lead to me expecting more overwhelming sex scenes plus creampies. I suppose I have been spoiled by some of the loads from timestamps, tftuv, (surprisingly) simple days, and others.
I don't mean to be unreasonable. But yeah. Particularly when the MC was going to make Mrs. Claus his woman. Something about sex with the fire and drive to claim someone felt lacking in that scene. That felt like more domination than staking and marking ones claim.

Good luck!

I am sorry ... I really am.
And that because there not enough games like this one !
This one is a masterpiece !!! in any way.
When we talk about models , chararter building, story ,plot and sooo many more aspects of this Vnovel.
Just perfect !!!

This was a surprisingly good find. It hits all of my favorite kinks and with the exception of some light incest, there is hard to find fault... but it is far from perfect.

The first problem is the number of LIs. There are just too many of them. The dev focuses on one and then when they switch, it takes forever to get back to the one you really want to follow. For me, I don't want to see more than 3 or 4. I don't like harem games much, but for me to be on board, we have to have to limit the numbers.

The second problem is the story. I feels like the dev was taking certain elements of the story on one direction and then switched directions late in the game to add an entirely different element. Specifically the Jill story line. I won't spoil anything, but the late shift in plot line with her seems like it wasn't originally planned.

The worst thing, for me, however, is the silly blocking of the MC's face. I can handle it sometimes but when the MC is the focus of so many scenes, his head is chopped off. This is so distracting and every time I see it, it takes me out of the story in a kind of shocking fashion. I understand why some devs do this, but at the end of the day, it really doesn't make sense. If you are going to do it, then there should be more POV shots and less shots with the MC in the scene IMO.

Finally, English does not seem to be the devs first language as there are times the grammar is way off. I can put up with some, but much like the half a head problem, when the grammar is bad enough to take me out of the story, it's time to focus a little more on it.

Regardless, it's a fun story and good kinks. The dev has put a TON of work into it and it is paying off. Looking forward to seeing where it goes.

What is there not to like?
Beautiful girls, lovely personalities, gorgeous models, and an MC that is likable. And the icing on the cake is a full-fledged harem.
Highly recommended if you like harem games; you will be delighted.

I don't understand the high ratings.

The game is a year and a half into development, and is painfully short.
Characters are thrown at us without telling us who they are. There are all manner or relationships (not just familial kinds) that we are not told about, so when we find things out later, they make no sense.

The story, as short as it is, is all over the place, with exposition dumps to explain that aspect of the story, but not any background we need to understand the current context.

It is as if the dev has a crystal clear view of who every character is, and what every aspect of the plot is, and has utterly failed to convey it in a way that means anything. As if we should go into the game already knowing who these people are, what their relationships are, and what the backstory of everything is.

I may be phrasing that awkwardly. Let's try another way. The game feels as if it is chapter six or seven of an existing game, where the first few chapters were there to set up characters, plot, and provide backstory and context, and now we are finally getting into the chapters that should introduce the main story to us.... but instead of releasing those first chapters, as it were, it is as if the dev said "no, I don't think they'll need this," discarded them, and released what we have as the starting point.

The game feels like you are jumping into the middle of a story you SHOULD know something about, with characters you SHOULD know something about, and then just blazes forward, with awkward writing and jarring jumps between scenes, characters and plot, leaving a contusing mess in it's wake.

This game I'm rating at a two, because it simply makes no sense and there is not enough to grasp and hold on to to give you the context it needs. However, I am not rating it a one, because I BELIEVE the dev knows who the characters are, knows what the story is, and has a worthwhile plot to convey.

But unless there is a re-write to some scenes to make them make more sense, and some sort of exposition or alternate opening scene to help us know who we are, were we are, and what is happening, the whole project, and story the dev wants to tell, falls flat on its face.

Grasping at the pieces, I see there is a design. And a story that could be interesting. But it's like a beautiful pieces of glass art that the dev made, dropped on the floor, swept up, and then is trying to show us, like "look at what I made!"
I can tell it was SOMETHING. I can tell it might have been something great. But all I see is random shattered fragments.

If you want to fap, you can. Models look good, content is there for that. If you want a story, and to be blunt, I believe the dev WANTS us to want the story, and has put great effort into building one, the sad fact is, as the game stands right now, we are not given enough to work with to know what the story even is. We're just sifting through that pile of broken glass, and wondering what we're supposed to do with it.

This CAN be fixed. It CAN work. It COULD be worth, genuinely, 5 stars and high praise.
But if, and only if, the work is put in to give us the context we need for anything to make sense. We don't live in the dev's head. We can't understand what is happening in what feels like a random, disjointed mess, just by magically extracting the background and context we need from the devs mind.

One of the best and probably one of the most underrated games on the site . After the 4th chapter update the overall playtime is quite decent and worthwhile you wouldn't get bored by reading as it does not have very long fillers. There are a lot of girls though in the game so sometimes it gets confusing who's who and what relationship you have with them . The harem is being built but most people don't know about each other yet . Overall a great game and if it continues like this it might become one of most recognized on the site . just hope there were animations and updates were a bit faster.

I always provide good ratings for the games where developers seem to know their shit well. This game is well structured has amazing renders and high potential. So yeah, All the best dev.....
Forgot to mention it Is a harem+incest game combination made in Heaven...

This AVN is worth my time
Most common reason i like this AVN cus it is Harem based game ( and u can choose if u don't want Harem ... But for me i it's a plus point ) ... Even not only that ... It has pretty much other good elements... That is character design, thier story and thier relation to MC ... It is Awesomely handled ... Visual and models are also cute and likeable ... Adult scenes are also worth fappable
I am pretty satisfied with this Game ... I hope dev keep this up
Waiting for next update
That's all thanks for reading

TL;DR Hit or miss avoid if you hate liars and drama. Otherwise its good.
So this game is very hard to rate. On the one hand I acknowledge that I am done with this game. On the other it's actually good if you can get past the horrible characters that are Jen & Jill. The renders, and characters are compelling. Plus it's a harem game. However, for those of us who just want to relax (i.e. not deal with the drama aka work) this game can be a rollercoaster.