VN - Ren'Py - The Singer [v0.75 Part 2] [IntensiveCareGames]

First and foremost this is a porn game. Forget about long ass talks about fee fees. Also don't expect years of slow burn nonsense to kiss your love interest. Perfect game if you don't want to waste time reading about angsty teenagers or the such.
You take control of a young couple trying to make their relationship work while the girl tries to become a singer. Temptation is everywhere and many hot scenes and corruption are waiting you.

I'm pretty satisfied with how this project has been developed: the quality is there, both in the graphic compartment (renders, animations) and in the way characters, plot, choices&consequences are designed.
More than that, we have a developer that little by little is bringing the game forward constantly, and I don't mean in terms of content but also quality. Good job.

This game isn't bad but it isn't good either, and it is deceptive. It has good looking characters but the story is all over the place. It is like a bunch of short stories pieced together which seem to correlate to the updates, as if the developer has a complete brain reset after each update. As for the deception, this game gives you the impression that you are making choices. You are, but they only matter in the smallest degree. So the deception here is that they have created a kinetic novel with a few choices sprinkled in that may add or remove an image or two immediately after the choice, but it doesn't change anything meaningful. You will be forced into things you want to avoid. I'm not talking about the NTR here. Being forced into those situations in a blatant NTR is fine. It's the narrow story that is the problem.

I don't get why there're such low ratings. Probably the developer got in a common trap when trying to combine NTR with non-NTR. Usually that just doesn't work well. Often it's the Non-NTR users who get bored (with lack or "secondary" content) or annoyed (coz they still stumble on NTR).

Since I went corruption/NTR path I can say - that's pretty good NTR game. Models are nice. Characters behave believable (well, "believable for a porn game" that is ). Plus it has a strong "male domination" aspect and gives MC enough action whatever path you chose, so you are not just a weak winy cuckold as is often the case.

Definitely recommend for those who are into MaleDom and NTR. As for "true love" path... well, I have NO IDEA what you can get there and doubt it would be of much interest.

If this game was only ~8 months old, I'd rate higher, but frankly its too short and too simplistic - minimal background variables for a 2 year development.

As others have stated, there's a shortage of choices on the part of the MC - almost like the LI gets more choices about what she does with people - and the MCs choices dont REALLY matter - yes they do as some pointed out, but trust me, ive played 4-5 routes tonight and you can have 0 corrup ria and 0 corrup mc and she still sucks off the record exec at end.

Art is pretty good, most animations are quite good.

I didnt get as hung up on the dialogue as others - there are many spelling errors, but the overall "feel/culture" of the dialogue is more or less on, as opposed to many games with immaculate grammar that still feel like you're watcing a dubbed anime ("teee heee hee you're soooo lewd!!")

Seeing others mention "oh i didnt play this as an ntr game" - just to clear it up for potential players - this is a cuck- focused game in its current state. Not neccesarily humilation, but definitely cheating-focused for both the MC and LI, and if you dont like those elements, that's fine, but I'd suggest then avoiding.

Could be 4 star if more paths were completed - like the "bad guy" intro manager never actually fucks her wtf? And then a personal pet peeve of mine in ntr-type or cuck games - where there are fantasies imagined - it ruins the whole buildup of actually doing something illicit if you've already seen the sequence beforehand - and there are several of these.

Still, if you find the theme of cheating hot, not the worst game to try.

edit - updated to 4 stars after seeing how thin the pickings this specific category has -i.e. cheating without the usual foulness and humiliation/ other forced genres mixed in like IR or incest, so for what this does, it does well - I can count these on one hand.

edit2 - last two updates have completely nullified the above paragraph, imagine the opposite.

Based on version 0.5.3
This is definitely horrifying.
Story is one of the worst I ever encountered in games. It literally have no sense at all (even by "porn game standards"), characters seems to be schizophrenic - otherwise it is not possible to explain their behaviour and decisions they make. Yes, they, because you, as player, have no decisions at all (except few minor ones, not so significant). You can't choose who you have sex with, you can't reject girls you don't like etc. It's choiceless fuck-fest where player is only a spectator, which is pure horror!!!
Renders are indeed very good, models are mostly nice looking, but it is not enough even to attempt to "nullify" all other dreadful aspects of this game.
If you are satisfied by reading illustrated book and have no problem with fact that you won't be able to reject things and events you don't like, than by all means go for it, but if you're looking for a game where you have freedom of choice than stay away from this.

I Actually love this game. There are some things here and there that make no sense but hey its a porn game which is what I came for and what I got.

Normally in these NTR games you have some crazy hot girl and average joe wimp bitch boy guy who just gets cucked left and right but this game is a bit different. Ria the female protagonist is your typical innocent beauty who wants to become a famous singer. You can guess what happens there. But the male protagonist actually fucks. He's a lazy douche the typical kind that steals the girls in other games .

I don't understand all the negative reviews this games gets story is nothing unique but the scenes are decent and main LI is hot looking forward to the next update.

(reviewing v0.5.3)

This game revolves around cheating and corruption. I don't care about NTR so it's not an issue for me and the story I found is rather well thought and believable for a porn game (a bit tropey of course but serviceable: boy gets horny and cheats, girl wants revenge, singer gets taken advantage of to make it in the business, ...).
Although spelling and grammar are not the dev's forte, it doesn't prevent understanding what is going on (should still try to improve though).
The models are pretty good. Both Ria and Lilly are great looking, although at times suffering a bit from a "chibi" syndrome. But not enough to be detracting. Ria's tan lines are the cherry on top.
As for the sex scenes, this is the best part, with a decent amount coming frequently enough. There's even very different scenes for different paths, without having to keep hundreds of saves to play them all. And although some might have preferred full animation, I find them to be long and good enough as they are. They even often have multiple ending options. And the renders are always really good.
So far the scenes have included mostly vanilla sex, one short orgy, and multiple creampies. I don't doubt this will escalate in the future and add more variety (e.g. anal is already hinted as coming next).

Overall, a very enjoyable game.

Alright, I'll be the weirdo who gives this game five stars. I do love it. It's far from perfect, but if you want some good NTR, this should be on your play list.

PROS

* To the person who said your choices don't matter, they absolutely do matter, they just don't pay off immediately. NTR is unavoidable, it literally says that on the first page. The choices are more about how corrupted Ria will become and how far the MC will fall.
* I love the idea behind the game. I love corruption games and the plot for this game does set itself up very nicely for a naive young girl to be corrupted in (it's basically Weinstein-esque only swap the movie biz for the music industry).
* The character models look great (everyone has a big dick, but not obnoxiously huge and the tits look like something a human would actually have).
* The animations are pretty good, some scenes better than others, but they're definitely serviceable.
* The choice based system, as referenced initially. I've played this game in basically every permeation and I still love it. If you corrupt Ria in the right way you can see the path that that's heading towards, the wrong way might take longer to pay off. If you choose the love route you're still headed towards corruption and it's unclear how that will pay off. The bottom line is that Ria will be corrupted, what's uncertain is your part of it. I'm down for both the journey and the destination here.


CONS

* The PC is absolutely railroaded into doing things you may not want them to do. This is in service of the plot, for better or for worse. I appreciate that instead of the dev needing to devote time to managing all of these spiderwebs. There are points where he is like, no, this needs to happen so the rest of the story can happen. I hate it, but I get it at the same time.
* Too much time / animation devoted to people no one should give a fuck about. The bartender scene being the most egregious example.
* While I love the setting, the story is kind of dumb and you need to put your brain on sleep mode to fully enjoy. The MC's girlfriend is a popular singer who's about to sign a significant contract. Her boyfriend barely has a job and cheats on her and she's still like, "You're a douchebag, I'm a slut, we can make it work!" rather than kicking this piece of shit to the curb. They've literally been together a month. For this to really work they should've been together since they were teenagers. This is the biggest issue with the game, for me.
* English isn't the best. It's far from awful, but there are times where you're going to focus on the grammar more than the story, at least if you're not a fucking idiot and an English speaker..

NEUTRAL

*The game makes the most sense if you opt for the love route. Ria will eventually cheat, but it's to further her career which makes more sense than if she's just cheating for revenge (which is the way more fun option).
* The MC is a bit of a Chad. Every girl seemingly wants to fuck him, but at the same time it seems like there's someone who's going to take those girls away, which I actually like, because if I wanted to play as a Chad I wouldn't choose a game with NTR as one of its tags.
* Very little audio, which I don't care about, but is worth mentioning.

SUMMATION

I don't get the poor reviews by anyone who likes NTR. Yes the story (as it pertains to the MC) can be dumb, but this is something we're meant to jerk off to not fucking Manchester by the Sea.

+ Good story
+ Well-designed character models
+ Selective NTR (optional)
+ There are different ways to develop the plot
+ Beautiful characters
- Poorly crafted animations
- Too short story
- Very rare updates

I will wait for the continuation, I hope updates will come out more often and more

The only reason I did not give it 1 star was only due to the good quality of the sets/characters.
The story was atrocious and as a consequence I could only be bothered to progress as far as the 'real' main character white knighting the MC's girlfriend.

Nice artwork.
The story is a bit boring so far, and the girl has yet to be taken advantage of by the bad guy.
I thought that would happen at the bad guys party, where she was the entertainment.
She just got groped by a drunk grandfather.
That happens at all parties, so nothing interesting.
We are waiting to see how she gets exploited so the bad guy can make money.

Just 2 stars from me for the nice artwork .

Played a lot of games and this one is clunky at best and overdone at worst. It has potential sure, but a lot would need to be changed.
Positives

really the only thing I can think of is graphics are nice and the characters look good

negatives

the story just feels uninspired and half the time not interesting, funny, or exciting. Boring.

not really an original story ether so ehh

God this one is bad. Besides the girls being cute and all there's not much else.
Choices are meaningless. Dialogues are bad. English is awful.

I would give it 2 star but since lots of people gave 5 star for no logical reason I decided to give 1.

Thank you and the best of luck.

Version 0.5.1B

Good renders, good looking characters, decent animations, decent story, choices matter, you can corrupt both of the protagonists. If you like corruption games, this game is for you. If you hate NTR don't even try to play. You will give it 1 star like some of these people here.
I would give it 4 star but since lots of people gave 1 star for no logical reason I decided to give 5.

Nope... thats a No...

First of all, the good... the only good... the renders are decent. Not Top Notch, but good overall.

Thats it with the good things... everything else is really bad.

The Animations, just dont do them at all if you cant do them properbly. Only annoying in this game i would say.

The writing... uff... engrish at its best, if you cant write in english in a proper way, look for people who can help you.

The story... ah well, there is none i can tell.

NTR, so... yeah... i dont like NTR, but i DO LIKE games that include NTR if it fits the story and your decisisons. To be more clear... if you act like an asshole to your girlfriend, i dont mind if she starts cheating on you, cause you are the one to blame... so that would work.

Or, if the Girlfriend is a cheating bitch, give me the option to dump her.

Neither of the two options are in this game... the girlfriend is cheating on you... cause... the Dev decided it, thats it. You cant avoid it, your decisions doesnt matter at all, and youre still stuck with the girlfriend and has to "endure" her cheating all the way. You cant do shit about it. Just witness.

And on top of that, it makes no sense that the girlfriend is cheating... the other guys dont seduce her or anything like that... she just see some cock, and is on it... thats it... she isnt even talking to the other guys, just saying "hi" overall, and thats it... come on, thats really bad.

Write NTR the right way, so it makes sense... let meet the girlfriend another guy who is many ways "better" than the boyfriend, or let her be frustrated in the actual relationship, or or or... but just meeting another guy and go for it? Why? For what? and why cant the MC boyfriend react in any way to that? Cant understand this kind of writing...

Ah... yeah... writing, the dialogues... uff, no humor, no banter, no nothing... the dialogues are more or less like this "hi you" "hi you too" "i have wet pussy you have hard cock, lets do it" "oh yeah" "by the way i am a singer" "aha" "do you like singing" "hmhm" and so. At this niveau overall... but with really bad grammer.

The dev really puts effort in his renders, as i said they are decent, but way above average around here. But all the rest about the game is just bad... especially the writing and story telling.

If you are going to make an NTR game, at least make it decent.
I get that we don't have a choice and the girl is going to jump on every PP she can. But does that need to mean we don't get any choice in anything else?
Brutality and violence for the sake of doing something "different" but add nothing to the story, which makes about as much sense as the flat earth theory.
Multiple protags are just a gimmick and does nothing to help the game make sense or explain characters bizarre reasonings.
Some decent, if overused renders and no other reason at all to play.
Waste of time.

The renders are average at best but the real kicker is the story and the characters.
The characters' choices and behaviour make no sense and are not organic or genuine at all. There is no rhyme or reason as to why a character does what they do except that it fits the narrative the dev is trying to sell. The actions of the characters don't even make sense in the world of the game itself. Feels like Ria just woke up one day and said I'm gonna cheat on my boyfriend cause the dev said that they're making a cheating/NTR game. There are better and more interesting ways to make an NTR than just saying that the girl has a limp dick boyfriend.

Also the choices are practically useless caused whatever you choose there's practically only one path.

This is mostly a kinetic novel masquerading as a choice based one. There is no real choices in the game . I love NTR when done right, with seduction and temptation, but here there is no such thing. From the moment the girl meets another guy she starts to think about cock before he puts 2 words together.

My biggest gripe as I said is that there is no real choices. You play as two protagonists but you are a spectator to their action, with some flavorful "text" choices that change nothing, basically. False labeling of the game .

Pretty girls, that's the only positive thing I find here.

The reason is because the story is almost complete linear. You have decisions but most of them don't have a weight in the story.

If you choose the Love Route, the MC can reject girls aproaches but after just one reject decision, he is forced to fuck or recieve a blowjob from Lily/Lizzy. I don't understand why you have the option to stay faithful if the game will still make you fuck the girls like if you where in the Corruption Route.

It doesn't make sense that Ria fantasize about to fuck a guy she just meet, with a guy that she barelly had a short conversation.

Like don't make sense that the MC being in the Love Route fantasize about fuck Lily or Lizzy when he is having sex with Ria.
The story is really poor, a fantasy story has more realist things than this game.
This clearly can be a kinetic VN, wait, it is already a kinetic VN because your decisions doesn't matter.

Edit to make an statement. People don't give one star because they hate NTR, I love NTR, but the way is implemented here, looks like a kid write the story, the girlfriend wants to cheat just because she want it, that's it.
There aren't meaningful decisions, all ends in the same place. If you choose that the MC don't cheat her girlfriend, you can't, because the story force him to cheat. So the first decision about the boyfriend being faithful is the first lie of thousands.
If you like the game, good for you, but don't try to up the ratings saying that people is giving bad reviews because they hate NTR when thats not true.
You can read those reviews and will see that all of them give real reasons for bad reviews, and is not for "hate".