VN - Ren'Py - Turning the Page [v0.31.0] [Azienda]

I have a lot to say about this, but I'll start by saying that this is by far the best NTR game I have ever played.
This is a very slow paced NTR experience that takes it's time to explore each character and really fleshes everything out before jumping into the action. If it weren't for the slow pacing, this game wouldn't be nearly as engaging. If you are used to NTRMAN games, this game will definately seem WAY slower paced to you.

I plan on finishing this review once I'm done playing through, but being knee-deep in this game so far, I must say it's gotten my attention!

I don't like NTR games very much, but I liked this game very much. The pictures and animations of the game are of very high quality. I liked the Sophie part more, there is more content. The men's part has less content and did not attract my attention. Those who like NTR will love this game.

Turning the Page [0.31.0] is certainly one of the best classic NTR games on the market, but it may not exactly be completely worth the time.

First of all, TTP follows the classic japanese formula of NTR games, where the wife is - at first - blackmailed/exploited sexually, before she begins enjoying the lewd actions: and in the end, fully succumbs to her lust for the 'other guy'. This means that being faithful or trying to salvage the relationship is NOT the recommended experience, seeing how you will most likely play through a much shorter narrative that simply leaves you "whelmed" (one of the "good" endings is literally achievable within the first 10-20 minutes of reading, after the first or second presented choice), so do be aware of that. These stories are meant to showcase the 'darker' side of NTR, full of twists, betrayal, and emotional anguish... particularly concerning the male MC.

To that end, at the start, the game offers you a choice between two perspectives to play the game through: the husband's, and the wife's. Typical for NTR stories, playing as the husband means you get a lot less lewd scenes (around 90% less) as that POV is supposed to portray the mystery, paranoia, and doubts creeping around in the MMC's mind as the situation progresses; playing as the wife, you will get a front-row seat to her corruption & descent into "depravity" (sexual liberation and self-discovery, the sexual acts are all still vanilla-flavoured) - and also where you will get to see the vast majority of the h-scenes. Choices are available on either path, and for the most part, they are pretty self-explanatory (keep in mind that, barring that aforementioned "good ending" choice at the very start of the game, I don't even think it's possible to stop, once the NTR ball starts rolling).

One important aspect of any quality NTR, however, is dialogue & narration. Too often, games like these sit comfortably in the opposite - but equally extreme - sides of storytelling:

1. Some are too rushed, preferring to barrage the players with action as soon as possible at the critical expense of character building & development (why should I care that his wife is banging this other dude?),
2. Some are too verbose, opting to go into vast detail in describing every scene, event, or action. This leads to player fatigue, as attempting to immerse yourself into this story requires a lot of focus and dedication, lest you get bored or tired.

With these phenomenons explained, I can safely say that, IMHO, Turning the Page veers on the side of too verbose.

In short, the game expects you to read too much, and for some this may even be a positive - but not for me. And I suspect, for a lot of other people as well. In order to be properly familiar with the characters, their personalities, their motivations - you will have to dedicate hours of your life reading this story piece meal. Even with some of the better 2DCG art in this field, this "requirement" is too often an insurmountable barrier to entry for a lot of people, and I confess falling victim to the infamous holding of the CTRL button to get to the good stuff. I am of the opinion that this project would benefit greatly from a more condensed narrative, which is a shame, since the rest of the package is fantastic.
One thing I would like to point out: this game features one of the rarest endings in NTR games - a wholesome NTR ending where the stolen wife is shown building a new, happy family with the man who stole her.
This is something I feel a lot of NTR games forget to keep in mind. as too many of them end with the significant other becoming a mind-broken slut for cock, and the romance part gets left out.
For this reason alone, TTP will always hold a special place in my collection, and a secure 4/5 rating.

P.S.: The developers are still in the process of adding one more path, but this one features the expected nymphoniac behaviour from the wife, so for those that resonated with my opinions, feel free to consider the game finished for all intents and purposes.

+Nice story progression.
+The story also make senses.
+Consistent artworks/CG. (Which is REALLY GOOD!!!!)
+Some has animations in it.
+Slow corruption progression.
+2 POVs to choose from. (The cucked one is my favorite!)
+Dedicated developer.

I would give 10 stars for this game if I could!

Love the game, definetely one of the best ntr games i've played, and I especially love how they show the gradual corruption of Sophie, it's not a one and done instant mind break, and it's so hot when she falls. Would have loved to see more outfits tho, and maybe some tattoo options, but overall love this game.

I am giving this three stars because I can't maintain being aroused while playing it which imo makes it a bad game. I will point out that what is here is impressive. It's not finished yet it's a lengthy story with great art. However, there is so much text and dialogue and it really treads deeply into misery porn for me towards the end that I can't stand it. I mean, I enjoy NTR and corruption but it just becomes so cruel and evil that I don't see how anyone could enjoy it. It's like they spend way too much time with Felix so you actually feel bad for him. I'm talking like 10-15 hours of reading to finish one route, maybe even more. I do agree with others that it drags a lot at times, not to mention how when you play the opposite route you're forced into rereading a lot of the same text you already experienced. Just with some slight variants from the new pov.

To me this game just doesn't focus on the titillation of a partner cheating or someone awakening to some kind of extreme pleasure. It's become a story about how cheating destroys this man's life. A story where everyone who is guilty goes on to live glamorous happy lives while he stews in his misery. Unable to move on or ever find happiness again and rots in a dirty, dark apartment forever in pain. It's just too much real sadness for me. Perhaps in the future there will be alternate endings, but right now I don't like the endings we have.

I guess my advice is to make liberal use of the skip key and enjoy the art. I will revise this as the game progresses. I do like it and think what is here is good and it very well could be a personal thing as I know what betrayal feels like, but sometimes I can barely get through a scene in this game.

Caveat: the artist is incredibly talented, both in the vivid pictures they create and their strong grasp of the english language and realistic (though at times simple) efficient dialogue and scenes.

That being said, its so repetitive I eventually broke my skip key from holding it down for so long. Even the sex scenes are repetitive. How many times did Sophie have her boytoy fuck her, but ran an internal dialogue in her mind about wishing he wasn't wearing a condom? It must have happened at LEAST six times.

In a row.

While that might be very realistic, its terrible in fiction. We get it, she has a conflict there. Now the next scene should resolve it, deepen the crisis or have her ignore it. Repeating the same thing, beat for beat is wasting everyone's time.

Don't waste people's time. Cut some of those scenes, or replace them with new ideas. Or find a way to make things different enough that we are interested.

I love an innocent wife who is slowly seduced and corrupted story. And this game is one of my favourite in the genre.

You get to watch events unfold from two perspectives, Felix and Sophie's. And my recommendation is to play a little as Felix, then switch over to Sophie and play to the same point from her view to see what is really happening. I found it really hot.

Felix is too pathetic and naive at times. And did Sophie turn completely psychotic? Maybe, but it's a corruption game...I am not looking for happy ever after for all the characters.

This was definitely a 10/10 game for the first 80%. The seduction and corruption of Sophie was great. The scenes and scenarios are hot, and the sound effects are really sexy. I loved the writing and the majority of the dialogue.

The ending or endings are a personal taste thing, I am writing this review whilst the developer is still creating the differing endings, and no doubt some will be hated and some will be loved.

5 Stars.

Can't wait to see what game Azienda brings us next.

this is a game that starts off really strong and have good corruption development for the main female character. but there is waaaaay too much dialogue and at the mid point of the story every other scene is just the same things being talked about over and over and it really drags for so so long. then the endings got released and they are way too lovey dovey boring.

also at the start of the game's development they used a different artist which is noticable because the art in the beginning was GREAT but the art nowadays is horrendous lol. so there's that as well

I have not played from the male PoV at all, and i do not plan to so I can only review the female PoV.

I really love this devs work, really hits the sweet spot. The art, the story, the pacing is all so good, and the scene setting is extremely hot!

It feels like people focus way too much on the characters morality... in a netorare based game. They are supposed to be morally degenerate, corrupted characters whose whole life revolves around sex, and that is why we play these games, they aren't supposed to be likeable, similar to every other NTR game.

Either way, i really enjoyed the story, it is a bit of slow burn in the beginning and it is a bit text heavy, so if that's not for you then dont play it... or use the skip function.

But if you ike NTR, espeically from a female perspective, you will love this game.

This devs can cook something great in the future, I wish them to improve, but this one is meh

the good:

1. hot premise with slow burn
2. writing is good at the beginning to mid section
3. some L2D animations

The bad:

1. 2nd part of the VN is boring and scenes are uninspired
2. Male pov handled extremely bad with almost no juice for male pov enjoyers due to boring and uninspired scenes again
3. Art is mid at best, sometimes it's just bad
4. Lack of sprites for FMC, most of the time you look at the same fmc sprite and she never changes pose to keep you engage. 2D art is hard and expensive I quess, but if you care.. you care.
5. Unbelievable and unconsistent characters, main bully specifically. Wasted potential again.
6. Ending is just *wtf is this*.

Wish devs added some fun corruption screen for fmc to keep track of her endeavours between walls of text, but maybe next game they'll add it.

Not worth your time. And I mean it will take hours and hours of your time.

Extremely wordy VN that really falls off quickly. I know people love the story-building that VNs can have with their text, but I personally feel like 80% (this one included) of them are just wasting your time with text that doesn’t add anything to the scenario. Even worse, the story is honestly subpar and doesn’t seem like it knows where it wants to go - it feels like new characters and situations were added just to prolong this work than add anything.

Personally not a fan of the art as well, male MC looks weird for some reason. A mix of his facial expressions, big head and almost slender man like body… on top of inconsistencies with the FMC later in the game as well.

Generic NTR story that structurally is kind of the same as any other NTR story except the execution is really good. I'll probably preface by stating I didn't read everything in this game because it's like really long and I kind of got a feeling of there is alot of stuff in this game that doesn't need to be there entirely. The game is an NTR story so probably helps to remove anything that doesn't really add to it . I could be entirely on that point since I didn't read anything dealing with external characters outside of the main three.

Another issue that I saw is that the FMC looks different when in CGs vs the normal character portraits. Her breasts go up like 3 cup sizes or something whenever a sex scene happens and then go back to be what looks to be a D cup when she's just in her character portrait. It actually slightly jarring I like how she looks in the cg sex scenes so I hope they update her character portraits to just look more line. (Actually I just did a recheck and her tits aren't even consistent throughout all the sex scenes. They inflate over time. Would be hot if it was a story element but i think it's more likely just inconsistent art since the character portraits never change and entirely consistent throughout.)

There is currently only one real route. There is a NTR avoided route that ends the story early on but basically if you go that route it feels like a non story. I can't tell exactly is on the roadmap but it seems at least one or two more routes are planned. I hope these routes end up being some type of MC wins FMC back after corruption route because the current NTR route in the game is brutal. The writers kind of crafted something of a ultimate cuck where the MC doesn't enjoy being cheated on and losing his wife but is too much of a loser to do anything about it other than just take it. They basically write his ending to be as sad as possible and to maximize his suffering the bull and FMC live like this maximum happiness life where they have an amazing sex life are deeply in love , are rich and famous, end up having multiple kids (And its stated that this someone doesn't affect her body at all). I think this is a normal NTR story trope but you really feel like the writer dials it up as hard as it can go without feeling like looney tunes NTR (IDK i'm talking about NTR stories where they go too hard that it just knocks you out of the immersion).

Also this is normal for NTR stories so I don't know if it's worth mentioning but none of the characters are really likeable. They are all in their own way terrible people.

Also animations for sex scenes are good. Some scenes are animated and some aren't. The quality of the drawings is also random sometimes being pretty good and other times feeling shoddy. It honestly feels like you are watching a modern 12 episode cour anime with budgetting issues.

I wanted to like this, but couldn't. The VN started off great, scenes were hot, art was okay. Half way in I started to realize that this is no different than any other ntr VN, Felix is a scrawny idiot with zero redemption qualities and the awareness of a brain dead patient and this goes on until the very end. Zach is the typical blonde chad doing the NTR that the writers want everyone to like, but honestly that just made me hate him more.

First half actually had a story, but remainder only showed how much of a slut zach turned sophie into that I lost interested in reading and only watched the gallery scenes. The past works were better.

At first i thought i could enjoy this game until i found out the male MC is a literal idiot like the writing on that side of the story is just not good at all it kills the females side. I just believe that if the developer makes the male MC just have a brain it could honestly be a 4 to 5 star game

another cliché netorare game where the woman is blackmailed and then turns into a slut, I don't dislike the premise but the writing is so lazy that it bothers me. What I hate most about this game and hate in other similar ones is how dumb and idiotic the male protagonists are made, just because it's more convenient for the story.

Honestly was enjoying this game so damn much but what is with v28 feeling like an extremely rushed ending cause it was bad really bad to the point it could really just ruin everything you had going with the game so far. I truely am disappointed with this latest update

Ok the game to me is just meh.. I had high hopes this game would get better over time, however it seems (including the graphics) to just get worse.
The characters imo are just not likable all around and the story is just the same story I’ve played way too many times in different roles. I saw high reviews and gave it a go, but for me it’s just not worth my time or energy with better games out there .

Reviewing v0.28.0:

I really would like to give this one a 4-, or maybe even a 5-star-rating...

The artwork is decent (except for the very final scene in Sophie's route -- which is highly inconsistent with what has been presented before), the setup is ridiculous yet fun, and -- the parameters given -- the storyline [initially] is not too outlandish to break one's suspension of disbelief.

But:

• especially in the first dozen of "chapters", way too many words (pointless dialogs/inner monologs) ...it just drags on and on -- and so even I, who usually does not skip from scene to scene, cannot see myself reading another line of what ultimately feels like filler text;
• I don't buy the outlined progression of transformation from loving wife to "cock sleeve" (the second half of Sophie's route is okay-ish, however);
• Felix's route is lackluster; and
• as too often in this genre, TTP is kind of a kinetic novel, hence missing meaningful choices.

So, I rate it a 3 to 3.5 for now... future releases may push it towards a 4.0 rating (iff the artwork used in the final scene for Sophie isn't an indication towards where this project is heading).

Although thus is less evil and less logical than how I would like them to be, I believed in the dev, they will not dissapoint

At this point it's a lovey dovey relationship ending with ntr spices.

I hope sophie page still gets the ending she deserved, there is no point in cheating, cheating is bad, make it didactic for all the cheater out there, expose their gaffe.