VN - Ren'Py - Tune in to the Show [Ep. 6] [RobertDeadth]

The premise is more interesting than the execution. The writing is... Fine. Just bland. The lewd scenes in particular feel very formulaic, they all hit pretty much the same beats with no real variation. Also the animations are off-puttingly wooden and jerky, for the most part.

Game version: Ep. 6

It's kind of sad to rate this game with only 2 stars, but there's so much potential getting wasted, it's completely deserved in my opinion.
First of, the story is boring af. I found myself skipping through the most parts of the game, because the dialoges are so bland and even feel redundant at times. Just like somebody here else wrote already it feels like all the text lines are just an excuse for the lewd stuff in this game.
And while the still images/ renders are great, the scenes/ animations are not. They are stiff, anything but smooth. You can easily recognise the end of each loop, there is no transition.
So if even the "rewards" for trudging through the lines of boring text were unsatisfiying, what other reason would there be to continue? Nothing.

Ep.6
I see a common consensus in the reviews saying the dialog is bad, and while it's nothing special it's no where near how bad dialog can get in these projects. If this was the worst writing a VN could have I wouldn't be so picky about them. Honestly, the worst thing about this VN is that it is a harem-ish focused story. While it would take waaaay more effort, I think choosing favorites and causing drama/jealousy would be infinitely more compelling than having every girl just collectively agree they want to fuck and be okay with sharing. After all, that's what the opening pitch was. Sex and drama.
The girls are varied and hot. The renders are good. Most music isn't distracting. All around a pleasant playing experience!
Now, the part I found the most interesting was the mystery in the story. This is again hampered by the harem/porn style of plot, but I love me a good conspiracy mystery especially if it's got a lot of moving parts. This is, again, where more work would result in incredible results. Not only being able to choose who you want to actively pursue, but choosing who you actively suspect? In a reality TV game show? This would be a five star game no questions asked.
The idea for this game is so solid and the execution is pretty good so overall I think it's one of the better VNs! I enjoyed it a lot.
(I don't hate harem for the record)

This game's overall story is like old school porn - an excuse to show the private parts. After reading several comments, I actually had somewhat moderate expectations towards this VN. Unfortunately, instead of interesting reality show game, I got a n uninteresting story about a guy who is put in a house with 6 super nice girls and all of them want to be part of his harem just because he is the only available male in the house. Furthermore, there are 2 virgins in the house and they also cannot wait to jump on the MC after just a couple of days.
Pros:
+ The only reason I gave this game extra start was because some of the characters are interesting
+ Renders are good
Cons
- Story is as an excuse to show lewd scenes
- Dialogues are mundane and make you through them
- Some of the choices are an illusion. You can tell every girl that you are not interested in poligamic relationship and still it is forced on you. The choices between girls are: I will do some lewd things with you or I am not interested in you completely. Are you sure? I am sure, I am not interested in you... Who wrote this?
- Locations in the game don't make sense. Underground library with the church-like windows is a cherry on the pie
- Animations

Short summary:


This game is average and inconsistent. Some models are great, some are plastic dolls. Animations are bad and unnatural, but a couple are nice. Interesting fresh premise, but a bad story. Writing isn’t trash, but not good either. Girls are generally not very memorable.



Good Things

• Several hot girls
• Some renders are nice
• A couple of animations are good

Bad points

• The story had an intriguing start, but it’s not used well
• Writing is not good, though not complete trash
• Inconsistencies in the story, setting, actions
• I don’t like the overblown post-processing look on the faces

Pretty good harem game with a unique setting for a VN. It's basically just a big brother tv show except you are there to make a harem. The writing and exposition is pretty good, it definitely brings you into the setting before it starts off with the girls, however I have to deduct a point here because there is SO much dialogue. My god sometimes it just goes on and on and on and even skipping past it there is just so much. Yes I get it, we are supposed to be introduced to the girls, their backstories and so on before we get into the meat of the game but there's just too much. The story is interesting though because instead of it JUST being a big-brother harem game, there's basically a hidden agenda going on and things are not quite as they seem in this house. It's hinted at that there's more going on behind the scenes than just a big brother tv show, and that's quite interesting. If it's done well it could be quite an interesting mystery thriller mix. Also, the girls all look good, if generic. Overall, it's a pretty good game with an interesting plot, just way too much dialogue and not enough action.

This VN is boring, I can sum it up by saying that.

It's a harem without conquest, the women are there for the MC and that's the end of it, there's no real flirting, the conversations are super boring and irrelevant, the characters seem like they talk just to keep up appearances, but they're just waiting for the conversation to end for them have sex.

I doubt any of them like each other, they jump into sex so easily and so quickly, that seems to be the goal of these girls, to have sex with the MC, not get to know him better or maybe fall in love with him, that doesn't even cross their minds.

There are different girls, different appearances and maybe personalities, but any personality these girls could have disappears when their only goal is to fuck the MC as quickly as possible, what we have here is the worst romance and the most boring sex in F95.

Do I recommend the novel? No, I'm not going to recommend it, I waited a long time to see if this VN would be interesting, and it didn't, and now the DEV seems to have announced a new game, so this one must be about to end, and there wasn't even a single interesting moment, it is completely tasteless.

Great original story. Harem construct totally different from other stories/games. MC didn't seek and/or was not given permission to build a harem with each members approval. Also, the dialogue flow is easy to read and file and keeps the story flowing.

The girls are beautiful, thats all the good thinks I have to say about this game. I played until the first day when the MC is paired with Maya, I beared some of their conversation, I found it weird, unnatural nor engaging I didn't enjoy it, so I quit the game. I came to the forum to read the reviews and I saw that I wasn't the only one that felt that there was something wrong with dialogues, so clearly the game has a big problem there, if people can't play more than 30 minutes your game because the dialogue is bad, you are in big troubles.

Review Up to E.4

A wonderfully written game than manages to strike a perfect balance between the comedic and the erotic which a present in nearly equal measure.

The game is very grounded, with only the opening scenes standing out as perhaps a reminder that this game contains explicit sex and nothing more or perhaps being related to a degree ti the greater story being told. What I mean by being grounded is that everything makes sense, or doesn't, in accordance with how it should. It is often remarked as a complaint how easily in harem games the love interests come around to sharing the player character with other women, there is a reason for it here. So while you go in expecting and accepting certain tropes of the harem genre, you progress until you see the hows and whys of the game and everything clicks into place as a solid reality. This extends to the behaviors of the cast too, everyones personality and history are so interwoven that even when a character surprises you, it never feels out of character.

An, in my experience, unique aspect, that greatly increases the eroticism of the game is the inclusion of active consent in all the sex scenes. Consent is sexy, and it is beautifully illustrated here in every sex scene with the active ongoing consent gently and unobtrusively guiding you every step from beginning to end and after. There is no question that the sex is happening with the other person not to them.

As for the overarching story, it is as yet unclear where things are going to go, but the world building and characterization are so solid and rich that you can help but want to follow all the threads to their end.

This is a great game with nice graphics and interesting storyline.
The girls look nice and the sex scenes are hot too.

There are some minor issues. MC-s pajama for example was so horrendous it totally killed any excitement I could have felt during the scene. MC already looks much older than his supposed 25 years but that pajama easily adds another 20 years to it.
The girls are sexy and have diverse personalities. The only one I had problem with was Maya. Her calling MC old, her fixation with the wine they found or how she jumped on the magic room theory was too over the top for me. As if dev was trying too hard to make her cute and show her youth and naiveté.
Hopefully she will behave more believable later on.
There are some inconsistencies in the story, and I don't mean the Basically every participant joins the show knowing that intimacy is strongly encouraged and they are also willing to have sex in the house knowing that anything they do there could be rerecorded by cameras and later shown in the show.
I think this is inconsistent with Maya's background and Da-Eun's and Ayaka's jobs. They both said they wanted a vacation from their jobs, but neither of them acknowledges that it would be hard to continue where they left off after being shown having sex in television.

On the other hand I like the slowly emerging harem and how until now each of the girls had their own personal reasoning why they are ok with it instead of trying to force the same explanation to every woman or avoiding the topic like some other harem games do.

If the mystery plotline turns out well and there won't be too many things which break my suspension of disbelief my rating could go up to 5/5.
At the moment (Ep.4) because of some weaker parts and minor errors it is 4/5.

I played til the beginning of Episode 3 before I decided to drop it and wait for it to get better first. It's good but it could be a lot better with some much needed tweaks.

For the positives, I have to say that the renders are absolutely gorgeous, and the lighting that accompanies it. When we see Maya for the first time I actually audibly said "oh wow." The other characters are beautiful as well. And all in all it has a laid-back, lowkey, wholesome vibe which I did enjoy.

Now for the negatives though: the dialogue and the sex scenes are bad, and the quick fade to black transitions are absolutely terrible and headache inducing. Like, please. I can bear with the dialogue and sex scenes but for the love of god do something about the transitions. The screen going black at the change of the slightest poses etc really breaks immersion, and the fact that it happens every other frame is genuinely unbearable and makes me nauseous.
The sex scenes, I can't say too much about since maybe it's the bad transitions making me not enjoy those as well, but honestly they don't do anything for me. They make me feel nothing and they just aren't enjoyable. Maybe they feel too unnatural or quick or whatever but yeah.
The dialogue; it drags too much. There's many instances where I've felt the conversation could've hit all the same points and established the same connection and information they do with half the words. I often feel that the characters say one thing, get the same thing being said to them in reply, and then once again say the same thing with different wording.

All in all, did I enjoy the game? Yes. Would I recommend it? Also yes. But it feels like it could be a lot better.

Ep 3 Part 2 review -
Excellent game with great renders and stunning female charecters with diverse personality and interesting story with some mystery in a tv show . Writing is good and it's doesn waste time with any gameplay , it's a VN with choices to pursue who want . And the animations in this game are well done . This game looks promising , looking forward to future updates .

This is a really good game.

Technically, everything is perfect; I found zero bugs, and the renders are good.

The girls are beautiful and sexy; some of them may appear somewhat similar among themselves, but this isn't like other games where the girls are clones. They also have different goals, different reasons to be in the game, and, of course, different personalities, so the game feels varied in that regard.

Also, the developer did a good job of establishing the mystery of the reality show, so there is a reason to come back besides just the girls.

Recommended

English: 7
User Interface: 3
User Experience: 3
Art: 7
Dialogue: 5
Story: 5
Opinion: 3
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Avg: 4.71

The idea that this story could possibly be a real thing is the most disgusting and scary thought in my head. And if you think about it for more than 10 seconds, every female on the "show" would have their life ruined by the sex and idle bullshit the Host at the start wants MC to participate in. Childrens teacher? Fired and blacklisted. Student about to branch into adulthood? No one will hire her and her family that is semi strict will probably disown her. The twitch thot would probably just get boosted views, because that's the world we live in. The other guy? laughed at and ridiculed. Girl with poor family ties and career oriented? She'll have to go to that modelling gig after this. The yoga teacher will get more male clients, and the rich CEO woman is rich so at most she'll step down with a "modest" severance package. But no, you're not meant to think like that, it's a "sexy" game. I can't help that that's where my mind goes.

The "story" is MC gets accepted as a participant in a reality show where they live together for a month... And do nothing? The host begs MC to sleep with the women so they'll get views, and MC being kind of a wet blanket says "I'll try." All of the dialogue reads like it wasn't written by a person. And after myself having given an AI a story prompt to write about, I could believe none of this was written by a person. It's the "Yes!" type exclamations, or just "Yes, I like HARRY POTTER just like you humans do. I'm so relatable." So much is just idle pleasantries and forced relatability. Which is a bit of a shame because sometimes things sound personable, but then just goes back to AI dialogue.

Chapter one was introducing all the characters and their one personality trait. It had a few meaningless choices and I don't know why but the Dev decided to over compensate for the lack of choices in the first day by adding A BUNCH of meaningless choices. And the whole "Underground there's hundreds of rooms so the dev can use the DAZ asset flips for rooms for MC to have meaningless sex in." And they try to say Evelyn is old but because aging an asset flip would require more effort than arranging some lights in the viewport, it's 100% relayed through "witty" banter. I just can't stomach how boring it is.

Overall, I don't know what the point of this story is. They're hinting at some sinister behind the scenes stuff, but it's probably just a porn studio trying to get views on high quality amateur porn. The hook doesn't hook you, the dialogue isn't engaging. Sure, the art is good, but it's hard to screw up pre-purchased Daz assets. And "good graphics" aren't something to give 5 stars for.

This dev has gotten tons of praise so I'm just going to get straight to my criticism: Stiff, wordy, and unnatural dialogue with no agency over the MC's personality or behavior. You're forced to play as a generic nice guy cardboard MC. The renders are great, but practically every woman has the same face shape. To sum up my feelings about this game: I'm bored.

I have mixed feelings about this game. I didn't mind it overall, the story has some good potential to it. I think that the dev would do well to stop counting words and remove that concept from the changelogs, whenever I see a VN that gives a word count it sends up a red flag that he dialogue is going to very formal or saturated with an overuse of adverbs and adjectives, and well low and behold this author definitely has done that with this VN, just by simplifying the language used by the characters can make this a much much better game. I can understand one character out of the bunch speaking in a very wordy way, but for everyone to do this is something that boggles my mind, we don't speak like this in reality. I do give the dev credit though cause most other VN's that do this fall into a 2 out of 5 star for me cause the writing feels rushed and not so much like a passion project, and this writing doesn't feel rushed and I can see the talent that is locked behind what I consider to be the wordy trap, remove the excess wordiness and this could easily be a top contender on many peoples lists of favorites.

Prologue is straight outta shit tier hentai manga.
Conversations between characters feels like written by AI, or an alien trying to infiltrate humans.
Dialogue is so fucking bland. Its like kids trying to go up in social ranks by saying they love the popular/current shit.
You couldnt wrote more generic japanese girl from a shounen anime for example.
On the other hand, renders looks great. Dont even need animations. They show %100 accurate emotions in there. Dont have any fucked up visuals, thats a plus.
If you dont read between renders and skip couple hours of dialogue its a very fun game.

Great first few patches. Shows significant promise, also has an actually somewhat interesting story going on in the background. Main thing I feel is missing are some animations. Curious to see where the project will go in the future.

Have you ever wondered what watching cat videos on the internet feels like? This game is equivalent to that. It's neither good nor bad. It's just average and boring at times. The renders are kind of good and the models look good (Even though for some reason they feel very similar compared to each other). The dialogues are uninteresting. The story is somewhat ok. It's just that the writing is very bland. On the other hand, the animations lack quality.

In the end, I found this game kind of boring and the simplistic writing doesn't make it better.