Ren'Py - Completed - The Lust City [S2 v1.0] [Candylight Studio]

pretty good character models. nice animations. nice story. some things that could have been better are bugs such as gallery that appear when playing a scene, choice(s) are sometimes not stored thus doesn't/wrongfully affect the future scenes. but these are minor errors which don't affect me that much. vanilla, kinda wholesome, cute game.

It's been a while since I played this. I thought I would give it another chance, but what I found is one of the most boring games I've played in a while. Sex is a slog, and there are too many girls, which wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't such a continuous and repetitive task.
This game is a mess of misspelled words, poor grammar, and confusing navigation. Where is their professionalism/commitment to a high-quality game? It's basically a pretty package with low-quality ingredients—mostly show with little go. I would not recommend this to anyone.

SEASON 1:

Good Points
+ It has kind of interesting story even tho there are some nonsense and dumb stuff happening here and there. There was some plot twists here and there, especially details about past, Ferando & Jyra was interesting, and MC becoming a king in the end of season 1 was interesting as well.
+ It has lots of content to consume, for story and for the sexual parts.
+ Choices kind of matter, not every choice matters, but you can choose to have sex with some characters or not.
+ Some characters look really good, like Alyssa, she really gorgeous and has good character as well, she might be one of the biggest selling points of this game.
+ Sex scenes have different positions/angles along with animations for them.
+ MC's relationship progress with Arya was interesting and good.

Bad Points
- The story was enjoyable aside from some really dumb parts like MC going inside the hut after Jyra like an idiot. It got hit by a tranquilizer dart and lose all the artifacts he collected... Seriously how dumb can you be? He literally gave her the artifacts on a gold plate... And of course, things worked out in the end... BRUH...
- Sadly your choices are limited, sometimes you gotta choose between having action with one character or another and you can miss some scenes and even lock some future scenes.
- Dialogues are bit bad and even cringe sometimes.
- Most games give you a choice for where to come, even tho it's a small thing it still gives the illusion to have some control over the character and the sex scene, but this game gives you no choice over it.
- MC looks bad, has a quite common face, and looks even older than his ''step'' mother, and weirdly enough people sometimes call him ''young man'' even tho he looks at least 40+ years old...
- Some characters are straight-up b*tches and assholes, like Xyla or Jyra.
- Most side girls (girls you have sex mostly only one time, called Chamber Maidens) looks far better than most of the main girls, and that's quite wasted potential and annoying.
- Sex happens a bit too fast with no development at all, like the sex scene that happened with the ''step'' sister of the MC, they told it happened that fast thanks to berries they had eaten making their feeling stronger, but still that doesn't change how it looks.
- Every time you open save screen main menu music starts and it's quite annoying and unimmersive.
- Visual/Render quality looks low and old. Art style almost imitates the art style of 2015-2020 era, even tho the game will be released in 2022 it doesn't look like that.
- Some character models are assets you have seen a lot of times before and not unique creations for this game.
- Animation physics is kind of janky and weird.
- Most of the character models looks fine, like Alyssa, but some has kind of unattractive and bad-looking models like Elizabeth.
- The music/songs are a bit annoying especially how they have same annoying tone and plays over and over again.


SEASON 2:

Good Points
+ Animations looks bit better, but still janky and not good.

Bad Points
- Season 2 started with time-skip, then after learning Arya is pregnant another time-skip happened and 6 more months passed... Considering we saw General emerge from the ground and the throne has powers MC should learn, starting with two times from the beginning was quite a nonsense decision, and like dumb decisions made in Season 1 this one was done to make sure MC got f*cked by his enemies again! General attacked MC & Deshire while they are in the throne room and told he wants revenge and throne, he beat both Deshira & MC, heck MC couldn't even do shit against him and they had to flee.
- Render/Visual quality still looks low and old.
- Sex scene interface opacity button is always visible, that alone look bad, where it is on the screen makes it even worse, that should be on the main menu, not in the HUD.
- Even with sex scene interface and all that options we still can't choose where to cum! Seriously?!
- Animations are still bit janky and have small visual bugs as well.
- Even tho season 2 has a new sex scene interface it still doesn't let you choose where you will come...
- People still call MC handsome and young, etc, even tho he is not...
- Dialogues are still a bit bad and even cringe sometimes.

For The End
Season 2 is a straight-up downgrade from the Season 1 and is terrible, it's just weird how the game become worse rather than become better with the new season, it was soo boring that almost makes you feel like you wasted your time with it...

this game is kinda boring, you don't feel any connection with the girls, there is no fetish at all. Animations are nice but feels repetitive after a while. Not worth it, both versions (the first version is just lame)

I just dont get it.

I mainly play games that are sandbox or with a lot of choice, but this one makes no sense.

The models are mainly great and the environments too. The sex scenes are fairly well done too, although it falls into the common trap of focusing 'towards the holes' and not showing off the actual beauty of the figure

The quests are ridiculous though, it just says to follow the markers and then you just repeat the same conversations over and over and over with the same sex scenes (everyone throws themselves at you, but at least in this case it is explained)

In the end i made only small progress at the time and found it boring

In line with my current approach for reviews I try to refrain from catgories like good or bad because what I like other people may not like and vice versa.

What I liked
- plenty of pretty girls and they're all pretty except for MC's stepmom, she looks creepy
- setting looks nice even though there are plants and animals that don't belong to South America. Lighting is a bit off in scenes, e.g. the whole face is bathed in bright light when a pipe is lit or solid shadows cast on jungle shrubs. Still overall nice to look at.

What I did not like
- story is not very engaging
- magic cock syndrome gallore. Also the magic cock changes size throughout the game and I don't mean the one scene where everything gets bigger and it actually makes sense
- descriptions and visuals don't match. Also items like rings and medallions disappear for no good reason during sex scenes
- no buildup whatsoever, you can bang anything and everything that moves due to magic cock

tl;dr not the worst game I played and visuals are nice but don't expect character development or relationship buildup

To be frank there is not that much story development or character development here. Even though I completed S1 but S2 is mehh... Now I dropped this one. There are many dull moments which I didn't even bothered to read. Renders are okay. It would have been nice if it's more adventurous and there's more blood. Most of the girls of MC's crew are not upto my liking. Girl of the forest are the reason I played the game.

I dropped this one. I would advise you to play and judge this for yourself

I loved season 1, the scenes were great and the story had potential, it started off meh but got better and I was looking forward to season 2 but now I dont even both downloading the updates for awhile.
I have no idea why they decided to change soo much about the game, I mean the sandbox is just flat out annoying, it wasnt bad in season 1 because it was here and there but now its the entire game. The scenes are now just decent animations with a bunch of buttons to change angle and position, at least ion season one they had ok dialog and would pull ya in alittle more. Now it just feels like I went to PH and searched interactive porn

Story 1/5
Story is just bland and theres no romance or relationship build up, you pretty much start the game and can fuck every girl you see which makes it feel empty and with no emotions, its just a mindless fuckfest which just feels absolutly pointless, you know nothing about the girls or anything why even make a "story" might as well just show the animations and be done with it.
Girls are just there to be fucked they dont have any personality and you just pick who to fuck first and who to fuck next, i just dont see the point.

Sex scenes are also boring theres no real dialogs doing sex, you just click whatever you want to see, like doggy or feet or whatever and it jumps stright to fucking again no build no nothing just meaningless sex.

Its clear that this is just a pure porngame where story means nothing and i find those type of games just a waste of time, if i just wanted to see animations i could hit a pornsite.

Also wondering why MC pulls out 100% of the time when it has a creampie tag? as the player your left with no choices its all just meh.

Another thing is it ask you if you want the standard VN or sandbox, i picked VN and its still sandbox style? makes no sense.

Girls 2/5
They are aimed for people with big tit fetish so i dident really find any of them even remotly hot, even their faces looks prett old and ugly really, there are maybe one or two i liked with more normal builds but game is still meh.

Animations 4/5
They look good as they should since thats really the only thing game is about.

Music 1/5
I give it one for having a few mouns in sex scenes but other then that game is silent.

Choices 1/5
Most girls are forced and its a fuckfest, the one point is due to being able to say no a few times not that it matters in anyway.

Would love to have seen a game from this dev where the story matters and its choice driven instend of just a fuckfest.

I had to drop a review after playing season 2, the difference between the two seasons is night and day. This mostly all stems from the reworking of how the dev portrays all the sex scenes, they started in S1 being hand crafted and filled with dialogue that fit well and added to the experience. Now, in S2, they have been reduced to a bunch of different angles for each scene with throwaway dialogue inserted. It completely kills the sexiness of the scenes and makes them all bland and boring, I would have given S1 4 stars S2 turned it into a generic 2 star for me.
(Would have given it 1 star for the forced change to a sandbox, but it seems VN finally works in most recent update)(Edit NVM still forced sandbox)

Season 1 was pretty good. 4 stars, I'd say. Season 2 is so bad that I almost didn't give the game even 2 stars.

First, it asks you if you want visual novel or sandbox and then proceeds to put you in a sandbox either way.

Second, the animations are terrible. Their pacing is awful, slow then fast slow then fast. The dialogue has basically been cut out of them altogether, with just some meaningless words for each angle.

Third, auto-pullout for every sex scene. It's lame.

I just do not know what this dev was thinking. He took gold and turned it into shit.

English:............8/10
User Interface:.....4/10
User Experience:....7/10
Art:................7/10
Dialogue:...........4/10
Story:..............3/10
Opinion:............2/10................
Avg:..............5.0/10 [2.5/5]

It's very clear this is not a game made for someone like me. The MC is a walking avatar for an inferiority complex. I'm a little surprised they didn't use the other guy's model for MC instead. All the women look like a poster child for plastic surgery. The "problem" that happens is literally because someone that's supposed to know about plants, picks and feeds toxic plants to everyone. MC is considered "The Chosen One" for finding the literal only thing a person could find, in a cave they threw him in. And it all takes place in a village full of women that can't decide if they love or hate men. Cool. I started a review of this the last time I tried to finish this game, but one, couldn't finish the game cause it was giving me a headache. And two, essentially, I clicked away and lost all the stuff I was writing. You can imagine my frustration. But if you're reading this, you're one of two people: Someone who didn't like the game and want to see if someone else had the thought, welcome brother. Or you want to make an informed decision before downloading the game. If that's you, this is a fap fest trying to be like indiana jones, while everyone who's an "expert" in their field makes constant mistakes and MC solves all problems with his penis. Do with that what you will. If that's not enough, I will provide a detailed synopsis along with my colorful commentary. Spoiler is, I don't like it, if you haven't caught on already.

The story starts out trying to push as much Nathan Drake as possible, MC reminiscing about how everyone met. "The hole crew." Whole is the word you're looking for. Unless this is a story about them becoming mindless sex slaves, the first few lines have a big ol' spelling mistake. Or, I can be generous and think "The Hole Crew" Like they dig holes, but since this is never returned to, it's just a spelling mistake. And any notion this could be possibly thought of as anything more than a fap fest, simply look at the top left corner of the screen for a giant button that shows the same render without characters' clothes. It's bright pink too, to distract you from the less than stellar writing below it. Immediately moving on to the "DEFINE YOUR RELATIONSHIP" section. Because this site has collective brain damage and needs to see a doctor about an Oedipus Complex that has gone out of hand. You also meet Damon, the other guy, with the facial structure and temperament of a disney villain because red herring. And right before Fernando disappears into the aether, he says "How do you think the men in my village disappeared, little lady?" Which just sounds like he's saying the jungle is dangerous, don't doubt it. But White Knight MC comes in and yells "You treat her with respect!" What the fuck? "Little lady" is neither derogatory or demeaning, if nothing else it sounded like a jab at her being obviously new and nervous. But MC has to tip his fedora the hardest at all times, I guess. Sadly. Then the dumbest thing I've read in a while happens. After they make shelter and look for food, Sofia goes to pick berries to eat. She KNOWS THE LOCAL FLORA so she should know what's edible and IF NOT to avoid it. So this whole story kicks off due to someone not knowing how to do their job. It's one thing if disaster strikes and they couldn't perform, but no, they just go out and happily pick poison mushrooms to trip on because an expert is not an expert. And you 'get' to see a stiff and slow-mo sex scene. They get marginally better, but Sofia's dead eyes, interpolated frames, all the motions looking like they're floating in gelatin and you can see where the loop restarts. I'm kinda tired of scenes with these issues. (Also all the nipples look like baby bottle nipples instead of human nipples. Minor gripe that I have with most AVNs these days)

After the night of the flowerchild, they all get separated for unknown reasons, MC also lost his memories because of the berries. Fun. Arya gives MC the grand tour. And MC is sure to chime in constantly with "Interesting" or "Fascinating" As the comely huntress spills their entire history to the outsider she's not supposed to do that with. Leading to the "Chambers of desire." Where you choose dom, sub, or both. But the joke is, none of them are truly sub, because the "Alpha males" that play this would not be able to handle it. It's either a normal sex scene, one where MC is chained up but still just receiving pleasure(sure his dick is slapped, but that really doesn't hurt..?), or the dom one where MC leads the sex a little bit more. So all very vanilla. I will say the animations are a bit faster now but you still see where the loops are and the camera does that weird "Imma follow one thrusting body part for some stupid reason" thing. After, MC meets back up with Arya and she said "I was worried I threw you into the lionesses den" This bothers me quite a bit because how would she know what a lion is? And why is everything gendered in a single sex tribe? Especially with their history. It just seems odd because there wouldn't be a need to distinguish that, but whatever. Here I am, thinking critically about a porn game, AGAIN.

The next chapter opens to MC being thrown in a well. Where he's then regarded as a hero because... He went the only direction possible and found a cloak on the ground? If I remember right, this section used to be a maze you had to choose left and right directions for? But all those alpha males could solve the puzzle.. Poor little guys. And Jyra is actually fully in the right, MC wants to tell the world of this tribe that doesn't want outsiders. But because the plot demands Arya be smitten with MC, she wants to tell all their secrets and MC would invite everyone to come to this place. And they act like it's been days since MC was pushed in the well, but it was like at best 20 minutes. Add to the fact MC finds Alyssa in this random place it's still day one of this 'adventure.' And Xaya greets MC like an old friend, but she was the one giving him death glares in the beginning? Consistency is not here. She calls him wise for retuning the platitudes she gives him? What is wise about that? Sister scene, wow cool. Then meeting with Arya, where she turns from badass hunter chick to docile subservient sex thing. What is the point of making a character strong only to make them these docile lambs? And MC being a hero is a total joke. Walking in a straight line is not a death trap. There wasn't even a scene where he stops and says "Hmm, this must have been a trap" They also show weird in-between frames like when MC washes his face? Why? What does that do for the story, narrative, or anything? To make idiots clap their feet together and say "HAHA I do that too!!" We don't need relatability in a story about ancient jungle magic fueled by sex.

The ENTIRE opening section of chapter 3 does not need to exist. They stand there talking about nothing. At all. They're going to find the others but stand there and talk about the fact that they need to leave immediately, but never leave. Then they stop, right after leaving, to talk about nothing again. I'm all for character building, but this is NOT that. They stand there and talk about what they do, or that MC's ancestor(?) robbed graves. Who cares? There's three idiots lost in the jungle high on amnesia berries. History lessons and how people act should be reserved for late night conversations or never. I can't tell if Xaya and Xana are supposed to be funny or dead pan? Obviously neither because none of the small bit of humor are at all funny, but also no one emotes unless it's sex and/or MC related. And I have to chime in with the grammar of it's "make due" not "make do." They get lost at this statue. And when MC finally DOES get away from it, you're not even told how he does it, just that eventually something works. And they find Elizabeth. They couldn't even solve their own riddles, nice. And MC is greeted by another "puzzle". Which is PUSH THIS GIANT BUTTON RIGHT HERE. RIGHT HERE! THE BIG ONE. Truly a harrowing experience. Leading to miraculous inflation sex. and you find Sophia, the useless sap she is.

Then Chapter 4 opens to.... Dream sex. This moron only needs to walk to the next tent over, why are we getting meaningless dream sex. "It's the call of the goddess" you might say. No. It's "Thank for waiting for this update, here's instant gratification." And he wakes up from that "nightmare" because Arya said he is hers. Something she already said. How traumatized by strong women are you that a woman saying that makes it a nightmare? It's also at this point I realized they swap between "Sophia" and "Sofia" They don't even know their own characters' names. My god. MC even gives her a minor compliment and she calls him a charmer? He called her beautiful, he didn't recite hymns regaling her beauty to the village. Chill. Then right after he starts saying how he's never met someone like her. ALL they know about each other is their job title, name, and gender. Why are they acting like lovesick teens? "mYsTiCiSm" Shut up. And every time he shoves his finger over her mouth I want to cut it off. Let the woman speak, my guy. He has NO IDEA what meddling in their temples mean to them. Are you serious? He's been here for Three days. At most been with her for 12 hours. What is this? Then, finally, sex with Arya. But it's floaty and disjointed. The first animation is grainy as hell. And still at it with the jerky camera. A shame. And MC comments about her pussy, but he's in her ass? Come on now, is this real? It's also annoying that MC calls Alyssa by whatever dumb title you giver her but Elizabeth is Liz or Ms. C. You have to pick a lane with this stuff.

By the end of chapter five, I've checked out mentally. The story is not great. The characters don't exist. the sex isn't even captivating. It really just devolves into "Choose which girl to have anal sex with next." And there's nothing for you the player to actually do. It's just "Redhead or blonde" type choices. And the second game has the AUDACITY to ask "VN or Sandbox" And put you in a sandbox no matter what. Along with eliminating the players name. I just don't understand. Well, I guess I do get that MAKING a sandbox is enjoyable. But playing a sandbox that is a sequel to a VN with no story and no need for a sequel, feels like a joke. You do your victory lap around the village that looks completely different and talk to all the women that look completely different and it ends. What an experience. If nothing else, now I know I don't need to try Part Two anymore.

Look, It's a fapfest. If that's your thing, that's your thing. I get bored of that in these AVN's. The Enlgish seems good. There were some grammar mistakes and only a couple times I questioned if they speak English. But it's not distracting. The UI has a custom menu. That's it. Part 2 has sandbox exploring but still defaults everything else. And the UX is standard too. Art is good. The animations aren't amazing and Part 2 has better lighting. But it very rarely isn't slow motion or jerky. The Dialogue and Story are both nothing. Goes to fabled village, finds village, has sex. They don't talk like robots, but no one really SAYS anything you know what I mean? And my opinion is low if you can't tell. Sorry. If you want a game you can tape down the CTRL button and just do your business, this is probably gonna do it for you. But there is no shot you're going to be invested in this. And I say that having seen the giant wizard battle in Part 2. It's just not for me.

5 stars for the visuals, the gals are hot and the UI is great. The story is fairly engaging too.

Minus 1 star for the weird mechanic of imagining everyone nekkid, and the fact that most of the "choices" seem to have zero effect.

Excuse my English but it is not my main language. About the game ... it's not a bad game ... the pictures look good ... Animations also well done .... but .... the story .... I can't give the game 5 stars because the story is just boring. If you're looking for quick fun then you can certainly enjoy the game ... but are you someone who, like me, is also interested in the story .... and do you want sex with the girls to feel like a reward? Then let other people play the game, it's not for you. You can't run away that fast ... you can't avoid having sex with the girls ... and that makes it boring.

Presentation 5/5
Story 1/5

makes 3 stars for me but no more

Review of v1.0 (Steam)

An enjoyable game. The story is a little unrealistic (only hotties in the tribe) but fun.

Pros:
+ Women are beautiful. Scenes are varied and hot.
+ Graphics / facial expressions are good and the animations well done.
+ BGM and moanings are a plus.
+ Some word games are funny (spear, essence...)
+ One of the best part is the "naked vision" to admire the panorama.

Cons:
- The MC looks older than his stepmother
- A few typos
- I noticed issues in the replay gallery:
Page 1 : Arya's thumbnail pics are inverted for the 2 scenes
Page 2 : A scene with Lapis in chapter 3 is missing
Page 2 and 3 : Error messages for the replay scenes with Elizabeth
- I encountered a script error in chapter 10 (when Deshira ask MC to take her to Sha'wa).

Anyway, I had a good time. I recommend it.

An average game with no complications. Formula is simple really, a cheapskate Indiana Jones harem edition plot with sprinkled average sex animations in between. Could have been a 4 star game if was made 5 years ago but now the expectancy is generally much higher and I would offend other games if I were to score this game higher than 3. It is like a bland takeout food, not that superb but does the job.

+ awesome ending for first season
+ renders & animations
+ story is simple, but interesting
+ no cockblocking
+ no jealousy "drama"
+ mc is ok
+ girl-girl action, but there is no kissing

this seems to be a harem avn, I hope dev will remove choices in the next season and we can see all scenes in one playthrough

REVIEW FOR V0.82
Well, this was a interesting experience. This s typical porn game, romance and storyline feels not the most important for some reason. Personally, I'm not the biggest fan of porn games as quite often they try to be realistic but fail miserably. However this one is an absolute masterpiece.

When I started the game my initial feeling after five minutes of playing was that this game was going te be another cheap, easy, soulless porn game. Music didn't really match the scenes imo and u could choose the relationships of the LI's. Choosing the relationship is basically an indicator of incest and most of the time choosing any other relationship does not really match the dialogue. Because eventually the dev writes the dialogue with a certain relationship in mind. Kinda a pointless choice imo. But as the graphics are really good I decided to be more patient.

This game eventually completely changed my mind. First of all, this game is fantasy (which I didnt realize in the first five minutes). The only way u can make porn games not feel sleazy is if fantasy is used or if the MC is like the greatest guy ever or something. As this game is fantasy, the quick romance does not really bother u. The game does its job very well, exotic and exciting women and many animated lewd scenes to get through. The storyline as said in the intro is not the most important, but I shouldn't undersell it as it actually quite a good idea for a story.

So, as said before not a story/romance focused game but an absolute great and surprising porn which I really recommend playing. Have fun

To be honest, this game, regardless of it's flaws, should be considered as one of the better games out there.

Why you ask ? I will be straight to the point.

Gorgeous models and sex scenes: I mean, this is the reason you are playing a porn game in the first place and this game is above average in terms of sexual content.

Story: Tbf story is generic and isn't god tier but it does it's role pretty well that is giving us a good background for the scenes.

There are flaws yes but amount of quality scenes easily outweigh them. As this game is new, I am giving it five stars for the time being otherwise it should be 4 stars from me. And that's the rating of a decent game.