VN - Ren'Py - Onhold - Twisted Memories [v0.8b] [BaiBai]

This is easily Top 5 on the site right now. If the tags are your cup of tea, then so is this game.

The writing is INCREDIBLY good. It's hot, descriptive, slow-burning, and most importantly, grammatically correct. I'm barely 3 hours in and already I am fucking HOOKED. Normally I can't stand when there's just oodles of dialogue before any action, but holy hell does the dev know how to tease properly. They have me invested in characters I didn't give one iota of a fuck about in the beginning. They have me playing the romance path instead of corruption, which is crazy because I normally always do the corruption path first. I really can't stress enough how quality this game is. I honestly feel guilty for not paying for it, and when it's fully released I will definitely be dropping some cash to support the dev. Incredible work, simply incredible.

Actually, maybe you shouldn't play this, it might just ruin everything else for you.

1 word to describe the author of this game, Master. The writing and the psychology aspects behind every character are so dynamic and realistic, well put together game, unfortunately stopping because the author has something going on with his life. I do really hope all the best to you and hope to see your comeback soon! Try it out if you haven't, its great

This review was made on v0.8b when the game was on hold and I hope the creator will resume development because it's one of the best porn visual novels on this site. If you want to try it I advise against picking the High Quality version because it has bugged audio effects that crash your game. Standard looks just as good and is problem-free.

I love this avn, you either love or hate the renders but I think they're great, the writing is good and there is a perceptible difference between your choices and their impact in the story, the animations are crisp and the dynamism on them works wonder for the tone.

REGARDING THE CURRENT STATE OF THE GAME: There is no certainty if the dev would come back to finish this avn, what there is works fine but I'll have faith in the future, life is hard for all of us and since the dev has shown signs of life, only time will tell. I'll change this if new information comes.

The Game is simply great and i can't wait for the next update.
The first reason that it's great, are the interesting characters which nearly always act realistic while also neither make everyone a nympho that alays falls in love at first sight or the hard to get tsundere .Also it's great to have an AVN that makes the "Loser guy goes back to the past and creates a harem" genre that way, that you don't have to feel like a moral degenerate or a super edgy teenager, while also having a sub/dom relationship. And the overall writing is great and enjoyable and the animations aren't a loop of 3 seconds, but rather of 45 seconds which feels very refreshing, and the overal game feels like the dev loves the programming and writing while both knowing the sides of people who enjoy the good writing of AVNs and those who just want a quick jerk. The only bad thing are pretty common typos, but those are just minor.

10/10. The story follows a loser living alone who dies and wakes up back in time. And you know what? He sheds his loser mentality. He tries to be better. He lets himself care about others and helps them. He grows up. It's such an endearing and wonderful little story that I feel like a better person after experiencing it.

This is certainly one of those VNs where you end up reading everything even if you didn't intend to. It's extraordinarily well written, the characters are funny and pretty, and the situations all feel organic.

10/10. My only complaint is the interactions with his little sister, but everything else is kosher.

5/5
Good graphics and excellent story, great character construction and how he affects his surroundings, making it not a generic game where the story is irrelevant. The game mixes very well between lavish scenes or just the story.

The story is fun and good enough to have me invested and looking forward to the next update. I'm mainly invested in the seduction route because I'm more of a sucker for romance than corruption. The corruption route was about what you'd expect: some dialogue changes and a couple new scenes, the biggest change looks to be for Catherine's story so far, so if you just care about H-Scenes and story isn't really your thing, then the corruption route is probably the objectively better route to go since it has literally everything the seduction route has and more, with some new extra scenes thrown on top of it. For the story as a whole, pacing wise, I think some things could've been done better, like the whole Catherine arc was kind of annoying, where just as the MC was about to talk to her and progress, he got interrupted by someone coming in last second on two separate occasions. Also, some girls have WAY more focus and attention than others; mainly Stephanie. It's worth mentioning the 6th and final of the secondary girls, 12th overall, hasn't even been revealed yet. I think the game definitely could benefit from a significantly more even spread of focus around all the girls, and at most maybe a little extra focus on girls that it would realistically take more effort on the MC's part to get with, such as family members or the teacher.

The graphics and animations are decent if you're fine with Honeyselect stuff; they're not bad, but they're also not Eternum level or anything. If you've played a Honeyselect-based game before, you probably know what to expect as long as it wasn't one of the low-effort ones that somebody pushed out in under an hour. That's about all I can say on that subject.

I like most of the character designs and personalities; they're not anything new or unseen before, but coming up with a new and unique character is kind of a tall order in this day and age. I'm also kind of a sucker for blondes, which half of the "primary" girls are, so yeah. If there was any character that was kind of off to me, it would probably be the MC himself since it's kind of hard for me to believe that he'd be so socially adept and confident when a mere days ago he was still an obese old man with no friends whatsoever who died alone in his rundown apartment after jerking off to too much porn, but this is a porngame, so maybe I'm just nitpicking at that point.

As for H-Scenes, you can kind of refer back to where I touched on the graphics; they're Honeyselect ones, and they're not extremely high quality or anything, but they're also not low quality. As for the amount of them, there is a decent amount, but as I mentioned when I talked about pacing, while most of the girls do get some focus, only really one gets a huge amount of it, and out of the 6 primary girls and 6 secondary girls, only she has actual sex scenes; in fact, she has 3 of them. That's not to say the other girls have no scenes at all, although there are a few that don't, but the scenes the others do get are limited mostly to masturbation or kissing scenes and one BJ as of the current release. As mentioned before, it definitely could've benefitted from a more evenly spread setup, but at this point I think it's too late to really do anything about that.

A final topic I felt I should mention is grammar. There are a lot of spelling mistakes that I feel like could've been avoided with something as simple as some proofreaders or even just taking the time to go back and reread what was typed, as well as some weird minor things that lead me to believe English isn't the developer's first language, like the word "message" repeatedly being misspelled as the word "massage," but I guess what is just overall minor grammar mistakes are on the low end of complaints.

Anyways I hope the dev keeps it up because I did really enjoy reading through the game.

It's always the good ones hope we get more of the good stuff eventually. The story is pretty fun too if I had money I would pay for this. Anyway, I need more games similar to this so if anyone knows of any key me know

So, you are an old bastard with a huge cock, like a horse cock, something straight out a horror movie that will break even the more loose pussy in the world. After that the redemption arc begins, it gets quite deep just in the very minutes of the game.

SPOILERS AHEAD

Now I want to talk how you literally HAVE to bang every LIs, I mean it's not bad but if I don't want to fuck my little sister, which is a childish brat, I mean it, why should I have to start a love route or a seduction route? NO, I DON'T WANT! But the game doesn't care so you have to bang her. Same with your mom, banged by a driller.
Then, moving on, you NTR'd a guy. Yes, almost unavoidable.
The point is, why making a game where you literally feel you are on tracks to romance every girl? You should call the game Harem Memories, or Building My Own Harem, why even bother to write in the description "finding true love" while you are in a mission to destroy every pussy. Yes, some action is fantastic this is a AVN, but at least develop the story in a sense where you can avoid some of the Lis, what is the meaning of drilling every girl.

This is my personal opinion, I usually play other genre where you can build a true bond with only one girl and replay the game with various routes, but I got curious with the arts and story.

I'm actually really impressed by how much I liked the story. I loved the focus on the relationships between the MC and the characters. The seduction routes really should be called love routes as you get some really wholesome scenes. But even in the corruption routes there's still love (Besides the route where you NTR a guy). I went into this thinking it was just a corruption game and was pleasantly surprised! Sex scenes are pretty top notch even though there's some graphical and grammar issues here and there.

- Story was pretty much linear, but it's a great one and also very engaging, when I started the game I coulnd't stop playing for the whole sunday xD. At first I thought this was going to be another classic VN but I was wrong.
- Character development is great. Main and side girls are insteresting. MC is ok.
- The writing has, in my opinion, only two issues: 1st. There is too much "bla-bla-bla" from time to time, I mean, dude, I don't need FOUR paragraphs for you to describe me how a fking Blowjob feels, this is not a BOOK, this a VN. 2nd. I could detect a lot of grammatical and spelling mistakes (specially towards the end) and I'm not even native xD, however, this is not hard to correct, it needs to be polished a bit.
- Music/ Sounds: Great tunes.
- Renders: Not bad, this is HS afterall.
- Animations: Not bad.
Overall the game despite its issues is fking great, not gonna lie, I had a blast. So I'd give it an 8.5/10, definitely a 5-star game. It's totally worth checking out. Looking forward to new updates.

Genius game! This one is up there with all the top ones on this site.
Even tho I am not a fan of Honey Select engine, the Dev is squeezing every last bit of potential here from it. The models are hot and have unique faces way above Honey Select standard.
This game is like a state of the art cocktail-so much good stuff mixed in and in a way that it elevates every aspect.
Graphics is good, models are hot, fitting music for various scenes and like a cherry on top the insanely good story. This Dev is so talented he/she could write a book and it would be good. He/she has such a way with words, knows how to build tension and endearing narrative.
You are 40 something degenerate, but you get transported back in time to where you were young and even tho the things get lewd a lot, it is such an uplifting story about redemption and love that keeps you hooked. It can also take a slightly darker turn if you are set on making your harem. But you can alter your choices and not be complete degenerate.
This is why visual novel format will always be superior to sandbox games, because you can build up the narrative brick by brick and the story has a flow. In sandbox games, most of the time you spend clicking between rooms and locations instead of enjoying a good story.
Word to the Dev: Good job. Please, dont cave in to the pressure of feedback. Proportion crowd telling you "boobs too big" or any other rubbish. Your game is perfect and I feel like the Developer should always have the absolute creative freedom to make the game how he/she envisioned it.

Good Points
+ Since MC already had a pathetic and terrible life before, with this new chance he is trying his best, not acting like a pathetic loser and acting cool, cold, assertive, and different from his old life by trying to fix his mistakes, not acting like an asshole to some people from past like his little sister, trying to fix the relationship between his sisters and reunite the family again or going against the bullies he had, or how he is using experience and knowledge he had as a middle-aged guy in his young years, etc, gives us good MC to enjoy.
+ The story was interesting as well, especially with MC trying to be a better person and the story revolving around him fixing past mistakes, or remembering how things went down after his mothers got fired from her current job, they almost lost the house, etc, she became sad person unlike before, and he tries to fix this along with other problems, etc, gives us good redemption kind of story with some touching moments along with lewd stuff going on.
+ We have some really hot girls/women like Mrs. Clements or MC's mother or big sister, and thanks to how assertive MC acts and catches them off guard, etc, they can show their cute side time for a time as well, and they are just adorable.
+ We have two routes for every girl/woman, so you can have a bit different approach to girls/women, either go for a seduction route a bit closer to a romance route or you can go for a corruption route, a more sexual route with more dark details, like blackmailing some girls/women, etc. Being one of these routes can change scenes with the girls and give you different dialogues, so variety-wise it's good.
+ Sex scenes are good and have animations with decent physics.

Bad Points
- UI/HUD looks a bit cheap and basic.
- There are lots of visual bugs here and there like clothes not fitting and looking toned, or objects like bags or shoes going inside other textures, or objects like bags or shoes going inside of human body textures, etc, if it's happening only one or two times it would be okay, but it seems it's happening constantly as far I can see, I don't think I was able to count all of them, but I saw at least more than 20 of them.
- Some girls can use some changes, like Emily's face, especially their jaw and mouth look weird, and Stephanie's hair... Jesus her hair looks like a bird nest or something, nearly every girl in the game has at least decent hair, DEV should give her better hair as well.
- Like most games out there with corruption/lust & seduction/love paths this game has a bad balance between sexual scenes as well, corruption/lust has far more action than seduction/love almost makes seduction/love path nothing but a full wall of texts, this game is 2 years in already, seeing this bad balance in 2 years old game is quite a bad point, to be honest.
- Condom thing ruins most of the scenes and makes no sense at all especially getting used even in deflowering scenes, pills exist, but MC said he is against pills and condoms same time... Yeah... Makes lots of sense.
- Even MC is likable in most parts in some parts but his act about dresses, etc, is pretty much nonsense, especially with the existence of love paths it makes no sense he is acting like this even in love paths.
- Girls/Women getting jealous over and over again even for any small thing is a bit annoying trope, their number should have been less.
- Some stuff like dirty pictures of MC's sister on the internet even while on the seduction (love) path was quite nonsense.
- The game is a bit too much slow-burn, heck slow-death maybe better wording here considering the game is 2 years old, we have 6 main girls and 5 side girls, yet MC only had real sex with 1 main girl and done ''just the tip'' sex with another 1 main girl, let alone not need to say best-looking girls/women in the game nearly untouched, with this rate this game will never end. It's quite text-heavy as well, it takes hours to see any action, and after that action, the game becomes text-heavy again, and it's a really boring cycle, to be honest, it would be better if it wasn't this slow-burn or story and sexual content balance was better, sadly with how it is currently the game has very bad balance between story and sexual content.
- The path MC took for earning money wasn't logical, he came from the future, and he should have known enough info to earn money from the lottery, bets, etc, like things, instead, he is going shady business with a random old man's store aphrodisiac business and trying to sell them online, etc, was quite a cliche for a game like this and felt like too out of place especially considering his age and other things about him and story, and since it was really out of place despite all hard work he put Gao, the store owner didn't even take him serious with saying he is a child, and he got frustrated and literally told everything to him, how he was 40 years old dude, how he died, then wake up in his young self, etc, and after talking about it Gao magically believed him and after presenting his plan he made him manager of the store, make him BOSS of his good for nothing grandchild...
- Until the very last part of the game's current content Leo's existence, being MC's ''best friend'' and constantly tagging alone while MC is with his sister or Stephanie, constantly bugging them and not letting the story flow, etc, was quite annoying, heck dude even wanted MC to ask his sister about him if she likes him or not after we just saw him first time, and he was constantly bugging MC about Stephanie and his relationship, how he needed to ask him first, MC ruined his life and he will be alone because of it, and we never even saw he is being nice and friendly to MC, saying things like ''you will screw things up I know because I'm your 'best friend'' to him, etc. Sadly in these ''going back to the past to fix things'' kinds of stories always there is a guy like Leo, a so-called ''best friend'' who doesn't suit MC's new character at all, messes with the flow of the story, with the only purpose of annoying MC and players, etc, so honestly wish he didn't exist and DEV didn't done this cliche. He did become better at very later parts, but still doesn't change how annoying he was, and even with his kind of better version he still is.
- Some girls are straight-up annoying with their stubbornness, like Stephanie's stubbornness with other girls despite MC saying clearly no she is trying to make his dad meet with MC's mother so they can be together or not listening when he says she should stay outside and going inside of a store, then later hauling MC up about his connection with the store, or how Alyvia can't see Dilan doesn't even like her at all, they don't mean for each other despite it's clear as a day. I mean sure in most scenes they are fine, but in some scenes, it's almost unbearable how stubborn they are...

For The End
I don't think this is a bad game, it seems to have potential, but the execution of that potential is poor, there is no balance, and the game is too heavy on slow-burn text-heavy story and has soo damn less action, this is 2 years old game for god's sake, then why aside from full wall of text it feels like 6 months old game? SHM...

Pretty good story with a bunch of likeable characters. I enjoy that there's a seduce and a corruption routes for each main girl. The corruption route kind of makes the MC like a childish asshole though. But I enjoy there being variety.

My biggest issue with the game so far is that you're forced into a relationship with a girl and she's maybe like a good 30% of all the h scenes. I would've preferred it being more evenly distributed, but I guess it's to make the story work so I can't be too mad about it.

Dahm good VN and long story!

Probably would be best to do some more spell checking especially further on

all the love interest are unique falling for most of them almost right away character design is great

looking forward to the updates!

The game is decent.

You're an ugly bastard that gets sent back to like middleschool days and tries to salvage/fix his fucked up life before it ends up like before. MC is still giga horny and retains his monster cock from being a middle-aged porn addict. I wasn't the hugest fan of him - he's kind of just super assertive and like a playboy. He says and does things that are crazy and outlandish even knowing how they sound. Occasionally, he can be thoughtful and stuff, but otherwise its giga horny 24/7.

To be honest, I was expecting more scenes between MC and the other characters. It's been mostly just foreplay and corruption so far. There are 6 main FLs and 6 side ones. Stephanie has the most scenes out of anyone in the cast. Stephanie is your best friend/girl friend. She's pretty perverted and tomboyish. Your entire family get the second most number of scenes. Your little sister being the most prominent love interest out of them. The devs are still cooking with the Mom and big sister, but it seems like the big sister will get more scenes soon. Then there's 2 more girls that don't get that much focus, aside from being at school. One is your childhood crush, the other has a crush on you.

The animations are good, the renders are well done, and the lighting is impressive imo. I think that the blush on some of the models can get kind of ridiculous/overdone at times, but it won't bother you too much. Music is good, there's the occasional sound effect here and there - but I wish there were more during sex scenes.

The dialogue and grammar started off really good. Then as you get farther into the game and closer to recent updates, you notice a significant drop in quality. I'm not trying to be the grammar police in a porn game - but it's kind of immersion breaking and annoying to understand what characters are yapping to each other about when words are misspelled and placed out of order in sentences. Like, at that point, I would just play for the renders/animations/sex scenes. I'd just hold down ctrl and skip the whole game.

Anyways 4/5, needs better proofreading and pacing. I don't know if the dev is going for season 1 and 2 or something, but at this rate, it's looking like only 1 girl ever really gets straight up sex, while the others are just foreplay. Also, I noticed there's no harem tag...which is a little weird considering how much MC fantasizes and tries to plan out making his own harem. Unless that's a fakeout from the dev? Idk

Awesome game. Frankly speaking. It's character based and pretty emotional.

I'm sure anyone who enjoys this has regrets about their past. It's definitely 100/10 material. Author knows how to write characters and move the plot along. The protag can be as Demonic or Sincere as you want him to be.

I don't wanna talk about the characters because they're written so damn well, for the most part and it'd be better for you to read for yourself, but BaiBai's got a relatively good grasp on psychology is all I'll say.

Protagonist is written fucking phenomenally. This game plays with your fucking feelings. Scenes are pretty good also, and the author's got a great sense of buildup.

Setting's nothing home to write about, but damn. This game will have you feeling more than just horny. Even if you're apathetic. If you're looking for some quality, this is it.

As for the harem, the protagonist and author are VERY pragmatic about it. It's not a plain happy go lucky fantasy. The protag has made it his goal, yes, but he works to build and balance all the personalities he interacts with.

I'd rate this as one of the Greats on the level of Pale Carnations and HPMF.

100/10

Also the amount of time protag gaslights the heroines is fucking hilarious

-Netori Fiend

Really good VN with a couple routes that lead to a couple of unique scenes, but you can mainly get 90% of the scenes by sticking to one route.

Pros:
- Many girls to get scenes from
- There's a good amount of scenes for the 0.8 build
- You don't play as an ugly bastard, you get sent back in time to your teenage self
- It takes multiple hours to complete

Cons;
- Your almost a shota in the way your character is built which is a turn off for some (this is a pro for others)
- You can't do much with the older sister yet, which is my favorite character

Definitely play this game out and also play it again when there's more updates!

Intelligent, erotic, and novel.

Pros:
- Writing. Characterization is deep and solid. Dialogue is snappy, and the MC's inner life is top-notch for a porn game. Good integration of a lot of characters, and good pacing.
- Sex scenes. I often had the feeling I hadn't played a sex scene in a different game, and that's a good feeling when one's played a lot of porn games.

Cons:
- Some of the body parts dip far beyond the suspending-disbelief threshold for me.