VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Three kingdoms story: Conussia [v2024-04-26] [Kamti Games Studios]

I don't want to put 3 but the average rating is a bit low, for me it's at least 2 or more. Gameplay is interesting, but the UI is a bit sloppy on the action side: talking to characters and/or moving to other rooms requires multiple clicks on the same icon. This makes the grinding incredibly more frustrating as you need multiple screen changes between steps from farming materials to crafting scrolls, or visiting catacombs/city to do some quests.

Using a scroll to see your progress is frustrating. Also you can lock yourself out of quests and there's no information about this, forcing the player to do useless loops.

There should also be information on how to complete the game aside from looping eternally by defending the castle.

There's a bit of inconsistency as well on when time passes (catacomb with amulet, passage spying actions, etc...).

Not much content on the image side, it's almost text-based (although the text is somehow interesting).

Not a fan of this series and the design choices. Art is nice if inconsistent. I'm sure there's people who might like it, but overall I'd say look elsewhere.

Personally I don't like this pretend porn to mask femenist propaganda stuff or subversive nonsense whatever it gets understood as. Adding fake choices so the author can browbeat you is also a big annoyance so that's why it gets 1 star from me.

A terrible game where you have to click a million times until your mouse breaks down to see some erotic pictures. The developer seems to have put a lot of effort into the background and artwork, but the gameplay is so bad that I would have to be paid to put up with it. Adult games should be simple and immersive. This game offers none of that. It was a horrible waste of time.

great visuals, and an excellent deep complex game with lots of branching choices . fantastic.
takes a long time time to learn but that makes it more rewarding ; )

some people here I think play these games too much and have become impatient to "just get to the sex" which isn't the point.

for me a good renpy game is one that is complex / varied and has lots of replay-ability.

also I fkn love the the middle ages / castle / princess theme

Great art, terrible engrish, and confusing, grinding gameplay as a result. Maybe it would be better if the translation wasn't so bad, but as is it makes trying to play this game a chore that's not worth it for the CGs.

the only western medieval game like this (except the sequel book of bondmaids). I also like how it has different paths to take and there is much to explore. at times it can be tricky to figure out what to do but that is also part of the fun for me

It twice crashed when saving and the english is unreadable. Half the sentences contain twice as many words as necessary - as bad as talking to an indian customer service agent and the other half of the sentences dont mean anything even after reading four times.

I try to be understanding about non-english speakers making the games, they are after all doing a difficult thing, but this one made me switch off the game at the third npc (after it crashed). It just needed a proof-reader

The english problem is compounded because the interface is so bad, needing to click a tick between every sentence or wait for something to blink frustrates you more, so you notice every mistake

Lastly the heroes of the story are north korean and chinese, which makes everyone very paranoid that the game crashing is caused by spyware in the executable

Rarely have I ever been turned off a game so quickly without it hitting a fetish that's an absolute no-no for me (and that doesn't happen because I don't even try games in that category). The gameplay design and story layout is just EXECRABLE. As soon as you start you get dumped into the middle of the story with no context or explanation, and the game is inexplicably both aimless (you have no idea what you should be doing) and limiting (you try to wander around and talk to people to learn who they are and the PC just refuses to talk to them because he doesn't feel like it or they refuse to talk to you) at the same time. With no introduction and no tutorials this feels like it's in early beta, except this is supposed to be the finished released game. At least they eventually managed to fix up the English translation to a readable level, but that just makes it possible to truly grasp how badly-told and disconnected the story is. Don't care how good the porn art is, I'd end up chewing my arms off with frustration before I got to seeing it.

Version: v2.0

Im having a hard time reading the english here, the authors native language is obviously not english, but if you just cant write in english, then find a proofreader or maybe just find someone who can translate from your native to english, anything at this point would be better then this jumble mess of sentences.
But even if you ignore the God awful english, you cant ignore the gameplay, i have no idea how to play and what to do in this game and quite frankly i have no desire to figure it out.

Couldn't figure out how to even play this shit! Don't waste your time trying it, the gameplay is awful and there isn't any guide or walkthrough. It's impossible to know what to do next. Regret even giving it a try.

Really too bad there is no more information than that. We discuss with the characters the second day and after: nothing more ... A quest log indicating the next step would be great (especially on a game allegedly finished). Without that it's too boring. We can only make a little money and visit the catacombs to hope to go to level 2. Personally it's been 3 hours since I'm on it for 18 gold coins?

I stop there, I liked the concept but when I play I don't like to take the lead as much. Maybe I'll come back to the next update ... with a Quest Log or at least a Walkthrough!

Update: Now that it is complete, I've got to reduce it a star to 2. The lack of guidance in the game, the engrish, the game play experience over all, things that can be flaws in a game in progress, were never improved to a final product level. While the art is still nice, it falls under the poor category of 'games' that would have been superior as comic or kinetic novels.

The previous review of this game covers much of what I would have said, I differ primarily in that I survived the engrish longer and I found the art positive enough, especially in the sea of generic render games lately, that I'll give the game a slightly better ranking.
... and I do mean slightly. I find this game to be average as a combination of it's feature, it definitely has room for improvement especially in it's translation, and while I like to give points for quality and unique art there are just limits to how far I'll go just for that.

I do find it a tad, well, lazy that the dev couldn't find someone to improve his translation. Help with that is much easier to find than quality artists and skipping that step is questionable at best for a game you're taking patreon money for.

The art is as good as the English is bad, and man, the English is -bad-. I got about 10 lines in and just had to say, "NOPE!" and headed right out of there. I didn't even really get to any of the art. There are machine-translations that I've seen that do better.

And yes, I realize that the creator's primary language is not English. But until they get a dedicated English-fluent proofreader, there's not much here for me. There's a million places one can go online to find good-looking "adult themed" artwork. What sets a game apart is the ability to actually interact with and move around in it.

But when every people talk in tone oddly and language stilted, with big tyops in all over... it just ruins it all, at least for me. Hard pass.