Ren'Py - Completed - Toro 7 [Ep. 7] [Tora Productions]

Played version 7: summary: average game made worse by having to play it multiple times to get all the content

Pros:
-the love interests are sexy and pretty, but not great
-you can play as a man or woman (straight or lesbian) which is an interesting feature
-the sex scenes are good but not great

Cons:
-there is no seduction, no romance, the LIs give themselves up to the MC after a couple of conversations
-instead of building relationships and seduction the game tries to tell a sci-fi story of mediocre quality

Huge cons:
-the MC can only romance a single woman/man in a play-through
-there are 9 LIs in total, so one needs to play the game 9 times in order to see all the content/sex scenes

The main problem of this game which makes playing it very frustrating is that one needs to play the game 9 times in order
to romance all the LIs and see all the content/sex scenes.

This is obviously a waste of time especially since the game offers only a bottom of the barrel sci-fi story.

If all the content/scenes were easily accessible in a single playthrough I could give this game 3 stars.
However, since it requires playing it 9 times in order see all the content, it's at best a 1.5 star game rounded down to 1 start since it wastes the player's time.

A 5 star game is one I cannot stop playing. This game I had trouble finishing: stopped playing it for weeks and found it really hard to go back and finish it.

As a final recommendation: there are hundreds of games much better than this one so don't waste your time on it.

Amazing renders, good sex scenes and a really good story. I fuckings hate the open deep dark ocean so this was more a horror then thriller for me, but I was actually more invested in the story then the porn for once. Not a whole lot of fetishes or real gameplay, but if you toned down the sex scenes this could be an actual Netflix series or something

Tight, well-crafted sci-fi detective story (It's like this game was made for me). Artfully weaves elements of corporate intrigue and overreach, questions of ethicality within science, classism, the effects of isolation and inclusivity into the narrative.

The sex stuff is just an added benefit. Scenes are decent, models are unique and attractive in a real world sense. Bonus points for a game that's not afraid of the bush. Found Oriana's romance particularly enjoyable as I found that version of MC the most relatable and found her personality and backstory the most intriguing.

The art is fantastic

The only complaint is how short it is but only because I enjoyed it so much.

I hope this universe is explored more in the future.

Overall, average. The writing is good, the story is meh, I like that it has straight male/straight female/gay female protagonist options, but the sex scenes are underwhelming. And, for some reason, it feels especially empty because it doesn't have sound.
I'm not keeping it on my hard drive, but I'll probably try their next game.

An amazing story that keeps you captivated from start to end but might make you miss the few sex scene present.

Story
The action take place in a not so kind future, people being forced to accept whatever the corporate job give them. An interesting SciFi for sure, quite original looking around the site. The event flow smoothly, the interaction between the characters do not seems rushed or forced.

Girls
The girls presented in the game are good looking. I found the shape of their tits a bit similar and weird, but it might be just me. While the game (and Tlaero) excels in building emotinal and romantic connection the sexual part was mostly left aside which is a shame.

Gameplay
The game present itself as a sandbox but we are not using that too much which it is a shame (you can go with Sumalee for run regardless, some info have to be obtain for a good understanding of the story). Also, while I am not interested in this part it is nice to see that the Tlearo adapted the story and characters so there content for girl-girl or girl MC boy.

Ladies and gentlemen, here we are presented with a rare case, a proper sci-fi story! No, not chasing after chicks in a space ship. The story takes place deep beneath the icy sheets of Jupiter's moon Europa. It is interesting and though I could guess some plot points, it still has a few surprises to keep the tension up. The crew of the deep-sea station Toro 7 consists of a mixed cast of characters with their own backstories and personalities. Romance takes a back seat. Nevertheless the devs included something for (almost) everyone.
There are far too many high school, university or family dramas and corruption games/vn and far too few interesting stories. Even less good sci-fi stories. Therefore the devs' effort should be applauded.

Great game, story is well madeand so are graphics, game has multiple love interests to be fucked but only 1 at a time so to see all needs multiple playthroughs and some are only available if plays as female protagonist.

This is sci-fi but not that sci-fi since everything happens inside submerged station besides 1 short trip outside that.

Overall, this was a game I enjoyed more for the story than the sex scenes, which sadly has become a recurring thing with the Tlaero/Mortze line of games. To clarify this, I don't mind story-centric games, but in the past Tora Productions managed to do both, in this way it is a letdown.
But more about that later.

The renders as usual are fine, as is the writing. Tlaero excels in showing the emotional and romantic side of her characters, that has always been her strength.
It is here as well.

The universe is explained mostly in short excerpts of the characters actions, words and thoughts, all the while we don't get a lot told directly about the world, most of it must be inferred.

But I like that, certainly better than drowning us in exposition.
And I like the story and setting, it is in fact very much right up my alley.
ANd if ratings were just about the story or the renders the game would certainly rate higher, but there are other issues here.
Namely, two things, while Tlaero's strengths lie in the emotional and romantic sides of relationships, as well as the sex, in this game that falls a bit short, probably because of the many possible love interests.
It all ends up being rather flat here. So many LIs, that most of them don't get enough story and development. It might have been better to reduce the possible LIs and then give us more story and time with each of them.
Which leads directly into the second shortfall this game has.
While storywise, we get a relatively satisfying ending (with enough left open for possible sequels). The romances don't go anywhere.
If you like Tora Production games, you probably came to expect that at the end of the story, the romance is at a pretty good point and that we get a conclusion to the initial problematic situation.
Instead, here the story is resolved and basically not a word is spent on the relationships. At most, we get a single image, without any reference to it in the text. And it's not like a lot of it is shown in the final episode in general. On the contrary, there are just about 3-4 renders with dialogue that basically is the same for all the LIs

And I'm sorry, but that is just not enough. One of the relationships has begun so late into the game, that it basically doesn't go beyond fucking once or twice.

You can play this for the story, you can play it for the sex scenes, but don't play it for the relationships, they are one dimensional and cut short.

Another problem is that there aren't a lot of things to decide here.
You get options, but most are cosmetic and there is really only one way the story can end. You can decide which partner you choose, but since that doesn't play any significant part in how the story develops or ends, that's basically just cosmetics. In most ways, this handles like many newer RPGs, making it appear as if there are options, but really only one way to play out the story exists.

I have to address a personal problem I have with the last few games,


TL, DR: This game looks good overall, has a good setting and premise, falls short on the emotional part of the relationships, offers too many relationships, which are all shallow and one-dimensional and offers no satisfying wrap-up or conclusion to those relationships.
There are also no significant choices to make, because there really is only one story path.
That doesn't make the game horrible, and you should absolutely play it for the story if you are into SF, but it is definitely a reason to detract 1-2 stars.

And if you really don't like hairy pussies, this might actually be a reason you might not be able to really enjoy this game.

The game has nice hairy pussies which is great.


The story is well written and unique with a Sci-Fi setting taken place underwater, the only issue was not enough sex scenes and not animated.

The game is not really long so if you only have a couple of hours and want a good story with decent sex scenes play this.

Sex. 7/10
Characters. 8.5/10
Art/renders. 9/10
Story. 9/10

This is a pretty great game, honestly. The story is intriguing (love Sci-Fi/futuristic/foreign world stories) and the characters are diverse and feel like real people. They also develop and grow based on their interactions with the MC, and I like that about the plot. The twist (twists?) was (were?) really cool too once I got further into the story. I had some inklings about what was going on, but I was wrong. Well, I was right in my thinking, but wrong about who/what/how it was implemented. This is one of those games that you come for the premise and stay for the story. I also really like that it gives the player options as to the sexuality of the MC. I tend to only play straight male protagonist games, but seeing this dev team being not only inclusive to others, but letting them have more than just an "arc" was really cool to see.

I do have 2 criticisms for this game, however. If I may be so bold as to think my lowly opinion matters.

1. All the girls/guys/whomever are not available on every MCs path. I mean, I love Sumalee, and Stephanie (Oriana scenes are my favorites), but I might have wanted to try out Mali as a straight man. It's cruel to make me a gay-woman just so I can sleep with her lol. Also, might want to bang a mystery character that I shall not name that may or may not like talking to dogs, just for the heck of it hahaha.

2. There aren't any animations. While the scenes that are included in the game are pretty hot, especially the straight-male MC paths, I know for a fact they would be even hotter animated.

Other than that, I got no complaints. I played all the paths anyway just to get the extra unlocks. And as I said above, I came for the premise and stayed for the story. The sexy LIs definitely helped, and animations would be cherry, or icing, or both! Really good game. Really good story. Really good twists/resolutions/use of plot points to advance the narrative. Already added to my watch list.

It's good overall.
Things I didn't like:

• There wasn't enough sexual content. Even after seeing the bonus gallery scene I was left wanting more. Just adding re[eatable activities with your partner would've been nice.
• A lot of choice screens when getting to know individual characters in their assigned work areas are pointless. No player chooses to have a less sophisticated character, and the "right" choice is dead-obvious each time.
• It felt patronizing and preachy at times. I'm not a fan of leftist gender ideology and the MC is. In a way the game itself tries to teach you a lesson about affirming gender identities, which I believe contributes to confusion in children, some of whom end up mangling their bodies permanently. I'm not conservative but I'm also not a libtard.
• The MC isn't very relatable to the vast majority of the game's players, including myself. I'd rather play a character with average looks and sex appeal. It's frustrating when AVNs have MCs that are either incels or chads.

Very much a story first and a sex game second, but the story is straight out of classic movies like The Abyss. It's told pretty well, has very solid writing, and does a great job building atmosphere and tension.

The game knows what it wants to accomplish, accomplishes it, and does it pretty well.

Only CON is the walking scenes moving from one location to the next. It's not bad, it's just entirely unnecessary.

If you're looking for a breath of fresh air in terms of characters and story, then this is definitely a must read. The setting and lore are also quite different from a majority of games on this site. Although I felt at least one important plot point wasn't explained properly at all, I did enjoy the whole mystery of this VN. It almost makes it seem like this game could be open for a sequel. I played this more for the story rather than the sex. I found the sex scenes not too interesting.

CGI 7.5/10: the lighting, camera placing and the ambient are really excellent, while the bodies and their posing, especially during the sex scenes with nude bodies, are a bit weird and sometimes really bad (totally deformed and unreal faces during blowjobs, for example). That contrast with the normal clothed scenes where the quality is high.
The setting is better crafted than the people.

Plot 7/10: there is an effort to write an original story, but the result is very linear and short. There is no real branching, apart from the choice of the sexual partner (forced monogamy, you cannot have sex with multiple people in one path, with an exception for a singular scene). The scenario is interesting.
The ending feels rushed. The ending is only one, your choices do not influence it (even the dialogues are the same).

Re-playability 6/10: Dialogues mostly remain the same, only the sex scenes change from one path to the other.

Fap value 6.5/10: 3 sex scenes for each play-through, a single partner per play-through. 3 partners (+1) for each base scenario (hetero male, lesbian woman, hetero woman). Sex scenes could have been better in the dialogues and the poses. Eroticism is frankly lacking.

Other things: there is no sounds (a few ambient sounds could have been a nice feature in that scenario). There is no animations (that's fine for me, I don't care at all about them, seeing the low quality of animations in the other VNs and their high cost in development time).

Final vote: on a 1-10 scale, it would be a 7-.

I'm give this 4 stars overall, it's something like a 4+ but not enough to get to 5.
The plot is interesting, although maybe the ending feels a bit rushed, the setting is nicely crafted.
Renders are very good. The ability to choose sex and orientation is interesting and uncommon, while it's nice the replayability to get to see all the scenes isn't that fun because everything in the story is basically the same, so you basically skip everything to see just the new scenes.
Overall it's a nicely made game which relies a lot on the plot and less on the sex scenes.

I'd give this game a 3.5 if I could, but with that option absent am choosing to round down when left to personal preference.

Note: I primarily played the "lesbian female" protagonist, with a bit of male to compare things.

I want to say first that I appreciate the developer giving gender options to the player.

I'm less of a fan of the orientation exclusivity of characters as I personally feel I got shafted - both the characters I found attractive and had any interest in were unromanceable for a lesbian female, while I distinctly disliked 2 of the 3 available and didn't really like that third.

Let's start with the writing. Overall, Toro 7 thrives on its setting, which is quite good and narrated very effectively. However, the worldbuilding to establish that setting is, in comparison, very poor, and often at odds with the dialogue. While the sentence-by-sentence writing is always on-par, the sum of it tends to fall short.

Visuals. They're not bad, but there are some issues. Starting from the beginning, I noticed some clipping with limbs and clothing. There aren't too many instances of it, but it does happen often enough throughout the game to be distinctly noticeable. The appearance of the characters are all pretty good - with the exception of, oddly, the protagonist. It's the case for both the female and male protagonists, but their expressions just always seem lower in quality than the others.

Lastly, the characters. Toro 7's characters take a back seat to the setting, an odd decision given the nature of the game. It's very easy to see who the love interests are for your character, as they're the only ones with any substantial dialogue options...those dialogue options being, of course, "Agree with this person to increase your score with them." This is perhaps the largest reason that all the characters end up feeling very hollow, with the limited exception of the three it chooses to shove in your face.

Toro 7's strongest point by far is the immediate setting of the story, and the writing that applies to that setting. I almost feel as though the game may be worth checking out just for that, and seeing if you can work with the rest. Past that though, I don't actually like it very much at all.

Sometimes I have to admire the lone author who publishes H-games in order to maximize the audience in order to tell the story they really want to tell. Short, to the point, no bullshit. Good art, good scenes. Excellent story

Pros:

The game has decent plot. Good atmosphere - underwater station, DNA experiments and other stuff, a bit of suspense at the start as well.
You can play as male, female straight, female lesbian.
I played as a male straight - there are 3 LI for each route. The girls are great, the scenes with them are hot, well Sumalee is probably the hottest, and least liked is Oriana, since I am not a fan of anal.

Cons:

About replayability - well, you'd think that for each girl path something changes in a game, but no, only lewd scenes change, the plot is pretty straight, like a kinetic novel, you only can choose your LI and after that some of dialogues during the game will change a bit and that's it. With all that said - replaying the game through different LI paths is not rewarding at all, you will only see few different renders and that's all.

Ending (prologue) is a bit rushed, and again, whoever you chose during the game to be your Li - nothing changes, even dialogues.

It's a sci-fi movie, a good sci-fi movie. 3D modeling, lighting, camera shots, script, dialogues in several languages, living the experience with three different characters in genre to get the whole story, rhythm, intrigue, everything is superb.
"Tora Productions": thank you so much for putting so much effort into making something so good and sharing it for free. I wish you all the best.

Review for Toro 7 Ep.7:

Overall: 4/5 - It's a great story with stunning visuals, but the gameplay design is to replay the game from the beginning with different choices to see different scenes. The main choices are choosing the gender and sexual orientation of the protagonist. If you only like one of those options, then there's a lot of scenes in the game you'll never see.

Story: 4/5 - The story is Sci-Fi and it's far-fetched, but it's pretty good. It does gloss over a lot of things, though. Players will be able to fill in the gaps only if they've watched a lot of movies with similar themes. It seems like it was rushed to completion as there are several key plot details that were just kind of left hanging.

Writing: 5/5 - Some of the best English VN writing you will encounter. No Engrish. Few typos. Great style.

Renders: 5/5 - Excellent resolution and detail. Beautiful female models. Even the men are nice-looking.

Animations: N/A - no animations here and it's really a shame because VN players expect it.

Content: 4/5 - Quantity of content will depend on the player. If you just want to play as a straight male, there's not a lot of lewd content you will see, but if you go back and replay and make different choices, there's a lot more content. The quality of the lewd content is pretty hot, even without animations.

Gameplay: 2/5 - Gameplay is basically replaying the game over and over making different choices to get different lewd scenes. I find this play style extremely boring since you've already seen most of the content, but I suppose some players like it.


Other feedback:

• The text box is annoying. You can't always tell who is talking and the mix of narration, thoughts, and dialogue is tedious to follow.
• I find it weird that none of the girls bother shaving/trimming their pubic hair, but the hair on their head is styled to perfection every day.
• The overuse of the term "the Company" made me want to vomit. It's a stereotype and it's a cop-out.