VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Through Spacetime [Final] [Empiric]

Right to it.

Writing is good. It grabs you and pulls you in. Even though the MC is as dumb as a sack of hammers.

Renders are pretty good also. The girls are pretty hot.

The bad to this is due to myself. I don't share my girls with anyone. Not even with a VR dupe of myself.

I will not trash the game or the dev over this. It's worth playing. I'll just wish him well and move on.

So good renders and very nice artwork. Fully cared GUI environment. Use different camera angles that enrich the narration. Well designed characters. Well designed environment.
Well told history.
Correct rhythm in the narration, and very dynamic.
I miss "rape" a little more, but that's a matter of taste.

Totally recommendable.

[Ep. 3]

Heh, this is a better VN than what it appears to be at first glance. The first episode is a bit of a flop. A short segway into how he ends up in that pod at the beginning would have been cool. It's a bit of an abrupt start to the journey. You go around and meet and bang some of the crew members. The sex scenes are incredibly short and lacking at first. The initial plot set up and tone kind of pointed towards a last stand of a man against the feminist overlords (which I thought would actually be pretty funny lol).

Anyways, as you get into the second episode and beyond, the plot picks up quite a bit and we begin to see that the game isn't all about mindless romping though space. There is actually a plot brewing and the characters do have some depth which wasn't apparent at first glance.

It's not high art or incredibly epic storytelling, but the game starts to form into a decent little space opera with nice bits of humor thrown in. I found myself laughing during some of the scenes and plot developments. At the risk of sounding like a snob, I think my sense of humor is quite refined.

I mentioned the very lackluster scenes on the first episode, but it really seems like the dev is improving in this regard. We got some longer scenes with decent sex dialogues, so there is something to work with here if they refine it a bit.

Not bad at all.

PROS
Story is entertaining
Renders are good
Characters are interesting

CONS
Tiny typos here and there

Overall

Quite the entertaining VN. The story is good, and the characters are well developed. The amount of sexy women is nice. I hope there will be more introduced in future updates. The dev has put a lot into creating this. I highly recommend giving it a play through. Keep up the great work.

Story: Starts off with Last man on earth set up and slowly transitions into a save the universe scenario. A little bit messy but a good try nonetheless.
Dialogue is a bit strange at the beginning but as each character is well written I find myself gravitating more to the personality than the looks.
5/5
Art: Not amazing but the sheer amount of good looking women and well designed characters overrules that. A few more aliens and a little better shot composition would be great but its pretty much the cream of the crop when it comes to the designs.
5/5
Gameplay: Choice based VN but choices matter more in the individual level which I respect and accept. Otherwise nothing groundbreaking.
4/5
Overall: Play it! 5/5

actually read/enjoy the story. great pacing in the context of it being a sex game. dialogue actually feels relevant to the sex scenes and not just something to get thru. love the content and character/story dynamics. really promising. even for a first version feels satisfying. looking forward to complete game

Wow. This is a great game. Let me break it down. First off, love the setup for this story. With your OC being on a spaceship and picked up by a group of explorers, this opens up tons of unique and interesting situations. You can find a planet of plant women who are struggling to survive because of their limited gene diversity. A planet of amazons who are constantly at war with each other (This could even be played as a way to clue in the audience that the future is not perfect) . So many opportunities not even including the main crew.

Though my favorite part had to be the end with the mysterious alien. We don't know her backstory yet even with the picture perfect spaceship with all the crew members getting along and humanity in a golden age, their was always a feeling of unease. The way crew members described how Earth was united in only two years with no conflict just felt fishy.

The only reason I am not giving 5 star is because it it clearly a game in development. To the author, I hope you give us the audience small clues about what is really going on in the galaxy to reward players who are patient enough to read the dialogue.

The game is a little too... Hasty, in my opinion.

It takes the worst part about the porn movies, and extends it to everything. It doesn't take the time to like, do everything properly. To explain things. To have a real, nice sex scene, with foreplay, with time taken during the intercourse, with time taken after. To have an actual dialogue, where characters just talk like they normally would.

It doesn't even take time for the "show, don't tell" rule - it tells us everything we need to know, but some things are much better shown instead - show us the scene where the girls receive the distress call. Show us the ship, show us the shuttle. Show us how each of the girls reacts to the distress call, show how each of them reacts to having found a man. Have MC talk about Star Trek with Morgan, show how disconnected he actually is from the world. Show how much of a technological shock he experiences in this new world. There is just so much to explore in a story like this!

Alternatively, go the naughty route. Keep the story to a minimum, but explore girls' bodies, show them off from every angle, let MC explore them. Have Eve feel excited about sex with a real man, have Samantha be inexperienced on sexual matters and unsure of herself, let them take time having sex, and focus everything on it. In general, just take time.

Instead, it feels a little like rapid fire mode. Within 10 minutes, you are told all of the backstory already. All the character building scenes are over before they really had a chance to begin. MC's such a one pump chump that it feels like a personal attack.

Don't worry, author. The players are not gonna run away if you take a dozen screens for a dialogue/exposition, especially if you keep giving them visual treats and teasing them, or tell them something interesting, or engage them in other ways. Take your time. Your game deserves it.