VN - Ren'Py - Tune in to the Show [Ep. 8 BUGFIX] [RobertDeadth]

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.

Review for v0.30

I honestly don't have any major complaints about this game. I just found it to be extremely boring at the end of the day. It's pretty dialogue heavy and very slow paced, which I'm usually into, but I just haven't gotten hooked. The renders and such are great, but the characters and dialogue feel very generic.

There's a fair amount of AVNs that add pointless sandboxes for no reason, but this is a rare case where I think I'd enjoy this more as a sandbox. The premise is there. Stuck in this gameshow house with all the love interests. Right now it's kind of just hopping from girl to girl, leaving you waiting if you want to see a specific love interest. Super linear. I'd much rather be able to go around and talk to whoever I want whenever I want to.

I think the gameshow premise could have been fun too, but there just isn't much being done with it right now. It's hard to put into words, but this feels like it's lacking in any real emotion or drama. Everything has a rather peaceful/calm vibe to it, which makes it feel like nothing actually sticks out if that makes sense.

This is probably great if you're into very vanilla harem games and don't mind slower pacing, but it lacks any sort of action or drama that would compel me to keep playing as of this version.

Review for 03.0
Renders are good
Story is just intrested nothing special
Lack of sex scenes with some girls
No bugs
don't play with sound
To short for 0.30
Gonna keepa eye out on update to see how it goes

The concept is good, the base of a good game is there, the writing is good, the characters are good but nothing happens. The game teases you with a plot of mystery but it's taken such little space in the dialogue that it's easily forgotten. I usually don't mind slow paced games that take their time building up the story and the suspense, but there is a limit and this game really balances on that limit. There's no real drama, no mystery solving, nothing to really point to. So far the mystery has only been addressed as two characters suspecting and two questions asked about it and that's it. There isn't even any interpersonal drama or anything particularly strange happening in the house.
The game might become better when the mystery is more fleshed out, but it needs to happen. Until it happens, some interpersonal drama would be nice to keep the story interesting and engaging alternatively actually weird mysterious stuff happening in the house, and a disappearing burrito room isn't enough.

Review as of v0.30

Version reviewed: v0.25 - Episode 2 Part 2


Overview
A game with great promise. The renders are good. The story is clear and not rushed. The writing is actually above average for an adult VN, though it does meander a bit, which is somewhat expected in a game of this type. The LIs are sexy without being cookie cutter knock offs and they each have their distinct personalities that are each actually attractive without being overtly sexual in nature...so far.

The only cons so far is that there has been almost zero story progression (I.E. What is the show? Is there actually a mystery or is it just a Big Brother type show as it presents it self) and there are very few choices to be made. If it goes a few more updates as it has been this will turn into a kinetic novel instead of a VN with impactful choices. Which isn't a bad thing per se, but the tags would need to reflect that.

REVIEW Episode 2 Part 2
i really like this game because you can put any different girls come from especially from asian korean and japanese, not really much game can give an asian character, so its really good.

1. its not really problem actually but yes the first impresion from every single character in starter the teks and the face is so different

2. need more interaction with player its mean with multiple choise when in dialog or plot twist or MC need decision when doing something or MC need more action or not when in some situation or anything, for example when MC and Maya in the libary and Maya has falling from the stair, maybe you can improve with interaction with player (1) hold Maya foot, (2) hold the stair for Maya (3) doing nothing or anything, i think you know what i mean. so the game is not flat.

im usually check some game is worth it to play and read in every single dialog or not with SKIP Unseen Text, because i got very bad experience when im read every single text and i got no one interaction with player. its like wasting my time, i called it SKIP GAME.

3. The MC figure 25 y.o looks old, MC more look older than me in 29 y.o, MC look like 45 year old. 25 y.o with status retire and have stable income i think must be have more cooller style.

so with the beatifull Graphic render, story telling is good, music bg is oke, animation its optional when sex scene or anything for aditional for more better (if you can make it), more important is MORE INTERACTION with Game Player.

and where you come from ? how did you know this plot and story ?

becuase i think familiar with asian dating show from Japanese or Korean or China with samiliar plot but in different story and without "sex" , in 1 month with 6 man vs 5 women find the love or in different show find love or money, maybe you find the show is Heart Signal from korean and China (reality show only find for love or couple in 1 month), Love Catcher from korean and China (reality show find love or money or diamon ring in 1 month, if love card x love card you get your partner as "love" and if love card x money card so where's choise money card they will be get money and love card didnt get anything, and money card x money card you didnt get anything), Somebody S1 S2 from korean (plot in all dancer and find in dancer partner in last show and love in 1 month), Terrace house from Japanese (reality show find an love but its so diffierent because the participant can request to out from the show and the show i think running for 3 month for 1 season, im forget it for this one because the show has ben stopped when the participant going to suicide when show still running)

All in all a very promising VN that I hope to see more of in the future.

Pros:

• Good renders
• Quality and novel story
• Doesn't take itself too seriously while at the same time the humor doesn't feel forced
• Diverse and (up to this point) adequatly well fleshed out LIs
• LIs look and feel very diverse
• Cute readhead

Cons:

• No animations
• Still kinda short (but already some lewd scenes)
• MC a little too passive for my taste, feels like every scene, lewd or not, is controlled by one of the girls - Personal Preference tho
• A little too much internal dialogue for my taste - Again Personal Preference
• Feels like the dev could have incorporated choices way more often

I've been playing AVN for a long while but I've never seen this kind of plot used before (a reality show), if you think about it is obviously a good setting for AVN. You probably won't find a trepidant story but if you want a well written slow-life story this is for you.
Being a reality show that is about meeting new people and finding love, the strong point of this AVN are the girls. I find all of the really cute with well distinguished personalities. Plus what can I tell you I'm a harem lover and the developer confirmed this game to be a harem soooooo big plus.
I really can't wait to play more and I totally recommend this one!

So far, so good! I'm looking forward to new updates.

I'm a big fan of the visuals. The girls are unique and all very pretty.

Each person in the house has an established personality, as well as obvious thought put into their back story.

The plot seems basic, but works well enough... until the realization that something else may be going on. But that additional mystery seems proportional to the game itself (in many other games that take on a mystery twist, the stakes, and twist itself, just don't feel like they fit. No such problem here, thus far).

It almost feels like a slow burn, until you realize how much time ACTUALLY has passed by the time you finish the current version. In all honesty, I'm quite the fan of how the dev is pacing things.

With the exception of the first (and unavoidable) sex scene in the very beginning (which is either there for titillation to draw us in, doing it's job better than the dream scenes too many games use, or part of the slowly developing mystery plot, or both) scenes neither feel too rushed, nor out of place.

My biggest issue is likely me just over thinking things: you're told sex is good for TV, so try to hook up with the girls. Now, I'm sure the girls realize that interpersonal drama and sex between contestants is good for reality TV ratings, but we aren't told... for the viewer, what do they see? Implications that people are having sex while editing cutaways show little? The sex itself, just edited or censored? Or full access to everything that is happening? Because not one of the girls seems like the type who would want a sex tape floating around.
I mean, a teacher, a CEO, and a just-turned-18 girl who is all bubbly, sweet innocence, all seem like the type who would find their lives too easily hurt or destroyed by countless hidden cameras capturing them in sexual moments, and broadcast for the world to see.
Maybe we should handwave this away to adult-game logic. Maybe I'm overthinking it. Maybe they were told (even if the game doesn't tell us so) that while the audience has to be fed enough to tune in, modesty would be protected?
I don't know. I wanted to voice my view on this bit, but in all honesty, it seems to effect the story and characters so little, at this time, that my gripe aside, I don't think this should count against the game. The reality TV setup works... gotta give a reason for all the sex to happen, right?

In the end, I'm happy to leave a review, even this early in the game's development, and say that I think we have a real gem in the works here, and I'd certainly recommend people give it a try.

Beautiful renders, awesome girls with unique personalities. The story is very original and was introduced in a well-paced way. I am looking forward to more updates. Diana is my favorite so far, but the dialogue with Vivian balanced my preferences (she is a cutie, despite her athletic body).