VN - Ren'Py - The Rest of Our Lives [v0.2.09c] [Giandalf The Tall]

As of v01.25.1a:

Okay, so... decent novel, I suppose. Nothing that stands out. But let's get more detailed.

Artwork/Animations - 4/5

Probably the most redeeming quality of the game. The models are cute, and the scenes are pretty good. No complaints.

Storyline/Dialogue - 2/5

So the story is nothing special, even a little cringe. Not really a fan, but it's bearable. But man... the DIALOGUE! The most unredeeming quality is normally a dev not spellcheckng themselves or bothering with grammar. This game is sadly a culprit. Like I said, NORMALLY this is my biggest peeve, but this game has one worse...

Gameplay/UI - 1/5

Dev. Please. For the love of everything, please... WHY do you have choice options throughout the game with NO choices. It is incredibly annoying to have to stop and click the only choice available. It is completely pointless to do this, and you do it throughout the whole game. I get to a small extent why (I think anyways - maybe acting on behalf of the characters). but this is obnoxious. Choices are meant to have meaningful impact or affect dialogue; your singular choice options have none of this. It is so pointless. Please remove this.

Overall, the game is playable, but there is better out there. The dev needs to put some effort into the text of the game, and seriously consider removing these pointless one-choice options.

Cheers.

Radical Dreamer

It was alright i guess. A little boring with the constant talk about the parents, realistic but still boring. Didn't care for the spanking scene with Emily and Norah. Norah should have been a virgin, also sex scenes could do with better angles, like full body views from side. Also hope this doesn't go down the "Every Li is Lesbian/Bi" route. Kinda getting tired of that is every Harem story. But other than that it was pretty good it has hope of being better. I'll check back on this when there is a lot more content.

Like others say, the renders are nicely done. The girls are cute.
The animations are simple (mostly morphed cross-fades), but there are lots of them (kisses, eyes, etc), which is great.
That's what earns the two stars.

The difficulty is with the dialog.
Well, two difficulties:
1) The writer (like many on this site) seems to confuse realistic novel/movie/game dialog with how we talk in the real world. In real life, even great conversations wander, hesitate, and repeat. In fiction, these have to be refined to their essenses. The writer has to learn how to capture the key features of the communication, logical and emotional, conscious and unconscious, etc in a far shorter form while still making it sound natural. This is (one of the reasons) why fiction writing is hard. The conversation in My Parents Case constantly wanders, repeats, turns inane, and bores the reader partially because it reflects *too much* how real life conversation moves.
2) The more obvious fault, and one I could overlook if the writing was interesting, is the horrible grammar and spelling, which are often very distracting, and sometimes incomprehensible.

The combination of all of the above first creates the effect of cute sexy robots with comically awkward disjointed speech, and then, as the MC's thoughts kick in (which are just as badly written) , a sense of joyless slogging through the prose, hoping for a pretty picture.

I played it to the end of the January 2025 version, and recommend that you don't bother.

I recommend that the talented visual devs find new writing talent, or their images will be forgotten.

Yeah, this was a weird one to judge.

Pros:

1. The characters are cute
2. Okayish Renders

Cons:

1. The repetitive writing
2. Gameplay
3. The cringe dialogue/Grammar


Story Overview:

The MC learned to his parents allegedly killed themselves so he spends all but... two weeks? Mourning before he's ready to start back living his best life. The writing is cringe at various moments but one of more critical moments it gets exposed is during the convos with the ladies.

He bonds with Emily who apparently have an abusive father and there's this weird conversation about her father spanking her while wearing a thong or something of the sort. You start to wonder if she's being abused or "abused" by him. Fast forward to Norah who is supposed to be the ultimate crush of the MC and vice versa. Emily even states how obvious their attraction is but the scene goes left when the bed pillow talk ends up being about her other sexual experience and how much bigger the guy was lol. I laughed at out here almost dropped my PC. It's just not realistic for a woman to spout off this sort of thing during or after sex unless they're swingers or in a cuckold relationship.

Hell, most women don't want to hear about their partners past sex life either so this was very weird and definitely written by a guy lol.

But due to the MC's parents dying he gets to inherit his father's company. There's other characters but that weren't interesting.

The gameplay has meaningless choices and I feel that Devs purposefully do this to avoid the KN tag.

Dialogue and grammar of course suffered but what else is new. *Side note*

I used to PR my own reviews but since you guys butch the English langauge why shouldn't I?

Renders was decent.

Animations was average.

Overall:

Best of luck.

Decent renders. That’s about it. The story makes absolutely no sense at all and a lot of the dialogue is ghastly. I mean laugh inducing without intent at humor. Yes, by all means boldly make your “No fucking NTR” statement and then proceed to produce a turd pile of a harem game. Yeah, no one else wants to NTR your LIs because the entire town already had them. While most harem games strain the porn logic - this one breaks it, burns it and buries the remains. If harem is your jam, there are numerous other games out there.