VN - Ren'Py - The Shrink R&R [Season 2 v2.4] [OneManVN]

ver 7-11-2023
I don't know if the remake improved the initial version, as I didn't play the old one. That said, the new one is oddly endearing. It's honestly better than it really needs to be. There isn't some in depth story that is plumbing new depths here. Its a game with a rich young MC that is a horndog, but maybe not for the reasons we think. And suddenly everyone around him want to jump on the magic dick, and maybe there is an unexpected reason for that too. Silly plot. But it works here.

The dev has a type. If you think that thicc girls are gross, you might want to stay away. But that said, the girls are all adorable. And curvy and thicc, but in an actually realistic(-ish) sort of way. There is plenty of trans content if you are into that, including the options to top OR bottom one of them. That content is entirely optional though, so don't be scared away if that isn't your thing.

The renders are average-ish but not bad. Animations ... exist but are breaking no new ground here. And there is sound which I promptly turned off. Its technically above average across the board with some lewds. Not tons yet, but I'm thinking that eventually the lewds will be frequent. The game is trending in that direction anyways. At this point there is one or two for most of the girls (not the "landlady", the chef or pizza delivery girl though).

tldr- Not bad! Well worth playing imo.

Not deep, but light and fun vn with great chemistry between MC and his "roommates". It lack buildup and just throws new girls at MC great speed. And there could've easily been couple of hours of gameplay before the official start of the game, dedicated to the development of relationships with "roommates".

The fact that a player can't skip certain scenes, with Brenda, for example, may be called " a minus". At the same time you must chose only one of three "roomies" at a movie party. Weird.

Still the game is great thanks to the humour and girls kinks. It's a solid 4 stars but I am marking it as 5 stars in hope that Aiko will keep having that agressive attitude and maybe some femdomish scenes later on.

The models look not bad, but not super either. The plot was probably written by some schoolchildren: the main character wakes up on his birthday and for some reason his sisters or "neighbors" immediately run naked in front of him and are in no way ashamed to even chase after him when he easily slaps their ass. Without any explanation or prelude, they almost immediately all jump on him and want sex. Against this background, a childhood friend met on the street, who invites herself to a birthday party and for some reason stays in the house without any reason and is also immediately naked - is not even surprising.
Yes, in some places the rapid development of events should be for intrigue, but at the same time there should be some kind of script, as usual in games, and here the events are immediately like in a porn movie. Either too many of the same actions to achieve success with the girls, as in some games, then immediately debauchery without any backstory, as in this case. There should be some balance, it would be more interesting for both sides of the coin.

The initial writing for this game in the early development were lacking and the whole reason to follow the story was that it was getting in some direction. While being goofy and kind of trying to go for some kind of "Sex Zombie due so some genetic modification creating addiction to sex" it got out of hand.

Since Early 2023 there's been a re-writing and while I was mad to restart the whole thing I thought it was much better made and the storyline makes more sense. The scenes are well done, very explicits and there's a little of everything for everybody and I'm into it. I only wish there was a little bit more storyline each update in light of the large amount of storyline/materials that were pre-existing but this is a full redone of the game so it will take some time until we have more than 1-2h of gameplay.
TBC.

I want to love this game so much, but the storytelling needs work.

Starting with the good, The Shrink has many interests that aren't available in many games of its art quality. Interests like D/S where you can be dominant or submissive, trans content where you can be top or bottom, and some S/M. I love it when games explore these, so I want to love The Shrink.

However, the storytelling in this game lacks engagement and immersion. Because you're dropped into the story at the point of, "It's your birthday and a dozen love interests are in their underwear throwing themselves at you from minute zero," it's hard to feel connected to or invested in any of them. I wish we would've had more time to connect with the characters outside of sex or a sexualized setting. This is the foreplay of smut, and foreplay is just as important in smut as it is in real sex.

What's especially sad about The Shrink is that some of the sex scenes actually have some very spicy storytelling. The author has some good dirty talk between characters and spicy narration of what's happening inside the characters that I wanted even more of. However, again, because of that lack of connection with the characters you're having sex with, that spiciness feels depersonalized and diminished.

Overall, I think there's a very hot story in The Shrink, I just wish we hadn't been rushed to the sex, and that maybe there were less characters to focus on.

It's not terrible, but after a reasonably strong start the game takes fucking ages to get anywhere. After the first half hour or so it just develops into repetitive and boring sex scenes combined with a variety of story choices that don't seem to mesh well with what's occurring on screen.

Wow lovely remake, love both the remake and original version, the character model is just perfect for me really love the game, hope for the dom/sub with the eldest like in the original but I just enjoy the game very much

the best thing about it was the alices model, now thats been butchered for some reason... Why? No one knows, and whats the point of remastering it either if you dont add anything different, the og has far more content, but no, every word needs to be milked twice, i hope the dev wakes up and restarts work for the og version, but perhaps keeps the new render light and female "transes"

Game was good. Now game is not good.

Dev 'reworked' game to be worse than original. Should be called a downgrade rather than rework.

I'm just confused about what this dude was thinking.

Play the old version and just pretend it got abandoned.

Trans and futa girls are great. This game is one the only games I keep up with.

Is it the best? Not currently.

Is this the game that go to for some futa fun? Yes. I always come back to this particular game for some reason.

Story? I like the story, it is not just the MC fuck everyone. You get some interesting back story about the world they are living in. All of which will get you hard one way or another.

v1.7 part 1

visually this VN hits a lot of kinks and will please a whole ton of people who are not even slightly fussy about the visuals beyond 'show me something i can fap to'.
they are not great but average enough to hit those buttons

as with writing and story well, this misses the buttons by so far that its on another dashboard.
an intelligent life wrote this....apparently, yet if aliens ever do land, they will find no evidence here.

just like the games design itself, this just seems like a throw-together, without any planning, with on-the-hoof writing.
it has a premise it loosely follows, eventually, but no signs of any real effort.
a little thought into the writing and this could easily be better.

how anyone can rate this amongst the best VN's available on this site, i will never know

I feel that this game deserves a lot more spotlight and hype around it. I can understand why the previous version got low ratings, since the storyline wasn't really going anywhere, and interaction with all the girls wasn't possible. But arguably the characters, their designs, the hot scenes with them and the fetishes and genres in my opinion gave the game a higher rating......
Since the remake I feel that the game will probably bring back those who might have previously given the game a low rating. Purely based on being able to interact with all the characters and also having more of a fluid story.....
I have high hopes for this game and look forward to see where it goes.

A well-made porno romp where the MC is gifted with a fantastic set of models surrounding him; a small measure of diversity in the body types is present, but without straying far from a clear dedication to T&A. Every girl is distinctly curvy - and the developer clearly recognises that the best asses are often found on tgirls - essentially, the man knows his audience.

Progression is a little slow but we're rewarded with numerous scenes of as much emotional investment (that is, development or clarification of the relationships between the MC and the women) as eyecandy, which together enhance the eroticism of what we're seeing. Looking forward to more updates!

i will rate the remake, everything is better, the models, story etc, one of my favorite women models game, curvly shaped, its restarting but for now its a great promise, and i hope the dev continues his work

I played the first game this dev created up to a point, before it became so bad, I couldn't stomach it anymore.

New game, new chance, I thought, and tried again.
And for the first one or two versions I played, it was alright enough, just like before, but then it rapidly took a turn for the worse and from there steadily dove deeper.

The story is inane, the writing is a convoluted mess (with that I mean it just meanders from here to there and back and jumps over there etc.. it also veers completely into a new course at least two times) and without any nuances, the characters are not even two-dimensional, they are one-dimensional.
The dialogue, oh man, the dialogue. Just horrible. So completely unnatural and ridiculous. It almost hurts to read.
And the renders, while not horrible, are also nothing great. The hair colours and cuts are probably the worst and as usual with this dev, the butts of certain characters are ginormous. If you like that, great, if you like a certain ratio between breasts, hips, butt etc.. this might not be that great.

All it amounts to basically is some ridiculous, nonsensical reason for the MC to have a lot of girls living in his house, several actually being maids/almost slaves, and having sex with all of them, including his own family.

It's just too much and nothing really makes up for this basic bitch of a plot.
If the other factors were good, you could just take it in stride, but since dialogue, characterization and even renders are either average or just as bad, this has become quite the clusterfuck.

I have my thoughts as to why this happens with so many games, but they aren't just specifically related to The Shrink, so I'll put it in spoilers, read if you are interested:

I do feel tempted to give this just one star, but if I compare the game to some of those I rated like that, at least this one can be halfway understood and if you just want porn without the excuse of a story, you can probably even have some fun with it, so I'll leave it at two-stars.

I didn't like the first few versions ,
I find this work is getting better and better as the version is updated ,
The plot and setup are less and less unflattering ,
The progress of the work deserves a five star .

Everything in this game scream below average

Story? below average
Randers ? below average
Comedy ? below average
Fun? what fun?

This game is big mehh and waste of time.. I would not recommend anyone playing this AVN. There are much better things to dedicate time this this mehh

Pros :

Alpha MC
Alot of girls with different body types, personalities
Full of fetishes
Interesting story
Great graphics

Cons

Some choices can lock you , have to use multi mod
Women are abit easy to seduce

This game has more straight guy fucking Tranny content than any other game I have played on here. Left it on because usually its only one on the game and its never been anything serious and once you know who it is you simply severely limit contact with them during the game. No can do on this one buddy. If you don't want tranny contact turn tranny off at get go. If not be advised it will be almost unavoidable as the game pushes you into it. Almost like the psycho liberal lesbian destroy all men villain in the game. Very irritating content.

The animations actually suck badly because they are poorly done. There is more animations here than usual so that should have been great but these stunk royally.

For such detail written into the man hatred part of the story you would think more detail would be there for the family members he is pursuing, Sadly I completed 4 gb of content and still don't know much about the MC's messed up ass family.

Pregnancy huh? Well there are certainly plenty of creampies for it but sadly no one has said they are confirmed pregnant and certainly no one looks it either.

Wow it went from men with shrunken dicks to dead guys running around with raging boners quickly enough. Somebody couldn't figure out what the hell they were trying to do for a plot apparently. Lots of wierd insane shit written here. I think I may need to see a Shrink after having played through this game.

I do see this game continuing but unfortunately I do not see it improving. Its a complete cesspool the way it is written at already 4gb of content how do you fix and improve that without using a match. This is my opinion and yours may be entirely different.

Nice art, Nice concept.

The models are beautiful

i love the brenda render and wow what an ass!

i hope there's a slow corruption as these girls haven't seen you in years and know your past well enough. other than that looking forward to see what's coming

I look forward to seeing more as well. The characters looks cute, and I'm always in for some corruption and Futa. :evilsmile: