VN - Ren'Py - Completed - The Star Cove Incident [v1.01] [Smiling Dog]

>good art style with poor executed cg's, typical japanese shit
>there is no sound
>story goes interesting at somepoint but it is really a normal fapping story don't expect much
>it is just a novel game, nothing changes nothing, you gotta read wall of text

The individual parts are good, but the work as a whole is not. It lacks cohesion.

e.g. who is Ria. How Puru shows up when she's missing. Why is Zen behaving in an unusual way when you did nothing to her. And so on...

The game was made of short parts/scenes, all of good quality, and player given some degree of freedom to combine these and make their own story, with some replayability due to having more scenes in total than can be combined in a single run.
...Which sounds great, but execution was lacking. As a result, there are several contradictions in several points, and for a game which cares so much with its own story, is practically an unforgivable sin.

Not to mention the end scenes are very short, or very abrupt. "Instant ending to not mark as abandoned" degree. Still, better than leaving unfinished.

The art is good, no animation nor voicing, the story chunks (each scene separately) are good, but the experience as a whole is lacking. Given it was an experiment, I'll rate this as a 4 ─ but come to the game fully knowing that if your decisions doesn't coincide exactly with what the developer had in mind, you'll notice several "plot holes". An unforgivable design fail which may be a deal breaker for some. (By the way... Gallery also has plot holes. Some images unlocked without they being present in gameplay. Welp).

Final rating: 3.2 (rounded up)

The individual parts are good, but the work as a whole is not. It lacks cohesion.

e.g. who is Ria. How Puru shows up when she's missing. Why is Zen behaving in an unusual way when you did nothing to her. And so on...

The game was made of short parts/scenes, all of good quality, and player given some degree of freedom to combine these and make their own story, with some replayability due to having more scenes in total than can be combined in a single run.
...Which sounds great, but execution was lacking. As a result, there are several contradictions in several points, and for a game which cares so much with its own story, is practically an unforgivable sin.

Not to mention the end scenes are very short, or very abrupt. "Instant ending to not mark as abandoned" degree. Still, better than leaving unfinished.

The art is good, no animation nor voicing, the story chunks (each scene separately) are good, but the experience as a whole is lacking. Given it was an experiment, I'll rate this as a 4 ─ but come to the game fully knowing that if your decisions doesn't coincide exactly with what the developer had in mind, you'll notice several "plot holes". An unforgivable design fail which may be a deal breaker for some. (By the way... Gallery also has plot holes. Some images unlocked without they being present in gameplay. Welp).

Final rating: 3.2 (rounded up)

Completed 5/5 for all aspect but still i give 4 star
4/5 story line, decent, and not good enough for the ending,
4/5 render, pretty render not griny blur and decent quality
5/5 chara, damn i love MILF LoL
3/5 ui, decent , can be goood but its been completed and didn't know back then this game was release here till suddenly its completed or just me who forgot lol

I started this game because of Milf content.
The art is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING, especially with the housewife milf.
Unfortunately the game took a really dark turn quickly and made me feel anxious instead of just enjoying some really nice mind control corruption game..
I was thinking of giving it 3* but the art and the early game were so amazing that I give 4*

Pretty massive disappointment seeing as I enjoyed Nano-control and thought Jikage Rising was decent.

It has a lot of "Oooh there's sketchy shit that's going on ooh" that makes it hard to enjoy if you don't care about the story. The problem was, this made me decide to care about the story, but then the second half of the game ends in a flash and the story was shit.

It also generally falls flat as a corruption/mind control game where the progression is just extremely fast, again because the game is short and has to dedicate what little time it has doing world building and story that doesn't have a good pay off.

I'd rate it a 3 if I didn't have any expectations, but I definitely expected better and got mediocrity.

Heavy on the male dom stuff, so if you like that, it's a rec, there's some great fap value here. It's a short visual novel with some branching to the detriment of the plot imo, because the plot felt disjointed. Pretty much anyone outside the host family and the final girl felt tacked on.

This game is not that great but its good, but its short and feels incomplete, and i do not mean this positively (as "this game is good and i can't get enough"), i mean it in a negative way, the ending(s) of this game feels rushed, as if it was planned for more lore but something happened and the dev ended it this way.
The game typically by you having some kind of mind control powers, and you start using them, as the plot develops and other characters and villains appear, and as the game starts to get exciting, the game ends very quickly, you can go through the game in one setting.
Also this game seems to have some sequences out of place, for example a character will disappear according to the story but somehow in a morning you talk to him ? and then again you talk abt him disappearing, dev needs to get this sorted out.
Art is good, no animations, sound is aweful (those aweful sex noises you find in Japanese RPGM games), corruption is good but could be better, there is some early (even earlier) bad ends, there is not much of choice in the plot, there is fake choices, aka you get prompted but one choice will get you a bad end, or events you choose but all of them will happen eventually and the real choice is the order they appear in.
3/5 and i'm being generous, 3 stars are for the potential it had.

Solid VN with gorgeous art, an accessible gallery, and a straightforward progression map to unlock scenes and endings. Roughly 2 hours to complete if you're reading it for the plot - which there really isn't much of, but at least it's content to keep the plot barebones instead of weaving an utter tangle of porn-logic plot points.

Holy shit I never thought it'd be this good.

Definitely a 10/10

The way the storyline progressed is interesting, it's took such a small amount of storage at that.

I just wish they didn't end the game too early, it really has a lot of potential.

AMAZING. One of the better written and well made series out there. Highly recommend this game to anyone into mind control.

The art style is well made and polished. I really like the details included as well, such as the proper lightning and polish put into the game.

The translation is also well done, with hardly any grammar errors to spoil it. This game is a gem and Im surprised on how underrated this game is

Great game, with an interesting plot and extremely hot scenes hope to see more soon. So, far your choices do matter and they'll probably become more important as the game develops with each character actually having a different personality from one another. Also, something to appreciate is they know what they're making so the sex come quick and plentiful

(v0.11) A story-heavy VN, but neither the story nor the visuals are particularly engaging.

It's not a bad game. Effort was clearly put into the plot and world-building, and maybe when the game is finished there will be a payoff. But at the moment, there's merely the potential for interesting content; there was really nothing here that held my attention.

The art is nice enough, but not note-worthy, and never quite seems to match the descriptions. The writing is on the long side, but never really fun enough or interesting enough to justify its length. The sex scenes are ok, but again, nothing special; all rather by-the-numbers. The characters are the weakest point; the main character basically immediately turns into cliche sociopath hentai protagonist as soon as he gets his mind control plot device power, with no real justification or introspection or anything. This would be fine if it was played for comedy, or if the game wasn't so plot heavy. But as it is, it feels like the writers just wanted the easiest, laziest way to jump straight into porn scenarios.

On a related note, there are a few dialog choices, but it feels like it's the MC making all the big, important decisions, rather than the player. Given how questionable many of these decisions are, he was neither an effective avatar, nor a sympathetic character in his own right. I just wanted him to stop talking so I could interact with the other characters.

Overall, has some potential, but outside of its fetish appeal and slightly more story focus, there's not a lot to recommend here.

Decent game. Quality of renders is good, let's say average. Story is interesting but for me quite rushed. I'd appreciate more development between characters, but that's my personal opinion. It definitely doesn't harm the game. I enjoyed it and can recommend. Well done. 7/10. [v0.10a].

The start of the story is quite slow but it is picking up in the latest updates with the introduction of the newest character. The game has good potential.
The art is also quite good. If you had told me it was a japanese vn I would have believed you.

I like art and the story has a good Frame. i dislike the MC look and the clunky Dialoge here and there BUT it has GREAT potential gonna keep my eye on it for sure depending on the work ethics of the creator i may Support this one

Im going to give it 4 stars for now the artwork is hot, but the story is pretty strange. It's actually pretty jarring, its like you never really understand why this mc does anything he does, and nothing is really in your control. Even that bug thing that follows you around is like "wtf you doing"?? lmao

Disappointed.
I just downloaded game try and it is laughable.

Where to start :

Description is most laughable ever, it's like dude who's mistaken a National Geographic TV not knowing this is porn site with erotic and porn games.

A 400 ppl lives there...unless you gonna create every single person from those 400 , who cares how many ppl live or die near sea,

Rendering is ok. It deserves 3 stars maybe 4.

Story is shallow. Not that we didnt see it yet.

Characters and that X-ray vision are very bad designed.

I mean, its ok if you have sick wish to see some1's womb inside.

Whole concept is naive like some under age kid with no life especially any sex knowledge.

I tho bout 3 stars but 1 for now. Maybe later updates will fix things.

A very promising start and the author smiling dog has already created some great games.

The art has improved from his past games, the english spelling is fine and no crazy mess as with many other games and the premise of the game is a classic.

I'm positive that the developer is going to deliver an amazing game.
Lots of potential in this release, but not much contend.
A techdemo, but one that makes me look forward to future releases.

for a demo, its been rlly goood, the art and many.
just hoping that the story or should i say when the fap scene begin, its need a lil bit of something, like, i know its like being corrupted or what, but adding some lil foreplay is kinda nice imho xD