VN - Ren'Py - Twisted Memories [v0.9b] [BaiBai]

I'm an old guy. And yes, sometimes I fantasise about being 18 again... but with the wisdom of an adult!, otherwise, I would probably re-make the same mistakes again.
And this is exactly the premise of this VN: an old guy, his botched life the result of his own making, is getting the opportunity to be a teenager again, but with the knowledge and wisdom of an adult, so he can make his life (and the life of the ones around him) better.
Unlike some comments here, I do like the writing, because there is a story to be told. So, it is *not* a VN for a quick FAP nor it is a immediate fuck fest.
Regarding graphics and sound, this is obviously made with HS/HS2 assets, but since I like it, it is fine by me.
Also, there is a good amount of attention given to the music and sounds, which so many times are ignored by other devs.
I hope this VN is continuing going forward up until completion.

On everyone's soul this game's premise is fire. The writing seems to be a common gripe for some reviews - yes there's mistakes, but it's not bad. It's the type of mistakes where you can easily fill in the blanks if you are a native English speaker. Character models are amazing. Story is actually quite interesting, but the narration can be a yap-fest sometimes (had to enable unseen text and skip at times). Would be nice if the devs made some scenes more succinct and to the point. The built tension is really good.

4.5/5

Excellent VN with just the right amount of romance, teasing and humor. If you're put off by the initial premise, I urge you to look past it and give it a chance. I guarantee it'll win you over.

• The characters are quite unique and varied. Even though some of them can feel a bit tropey (particularly the family members), they all have their own motivations and feel like actual people.
• The animations are top notch and extremely sexy.
• The soundtrack is quite fitting and helps set the mood.

The only negative I can even think of is the verbosity of the writing. Sometimes it feels a bit too much but it doesn't happen often enough to get annoying. What does get annoying though is the number of typos in the later parts of the story. It feels like after some point the script stopped being properly proofread.
I strongly suspect the writer's native language is German due to the sheer number of inverted sentences and expressions like "under four eyes" in the meaning of "alone / in private." The former, while certainly a great tool to achieve a dramatic effect, stand out like a sore thumb when used too often. The latter is not an expression in English to my knowledge.

I’m giving this game an average score of 3/5, primarily due to its writing. Graphics could be better, but it is alright.

The game suffers from common issues found in many visual novels on the website.

More text doesn’t mean better content. I’m not a huge fan of visual novels, but the excessive text bloat makes the game tedious and boring.

How to improve.

Reduce Text Volume: Cut the text by at least half. Remove filler and unnecessary dialogue that doesn’t advance the story. For example, 15-minute monologues about the protagonist’s feelings in their new body are excessive.

Improve Grammar and Readability: Run the text through a reliable AI tool to fix grammar errors and make it more concise and engaging. Many players have reported issues with the writing quality.

Enhance Pacing: Adjust the amount of text per screen. Avoid meaningless filler sentences that force players to press a button repeatedly for no purpose.

The story feels chaotic and lacks meaningful choices, such as whether to pursue a character or not. This weakens immersion, which is already limited in visual novels.

The plot shouldn’t randomly jump between characters; it needs a clear, structured plan rather than aimless/random encounters.

In writing, there are usually rules and principles how the characters get introduced, catch interest, and how the story grows from this.

Surprisingly strong writing, narration, and dialogue (if you can overlook the typos) along with everything else you could want in a harem game - incest, petite, milf, risky creampies, even some light netori.

Highly, highly recommended for fans of incest and harem; but even if you're not and the incest doesn't put you off, give it a shot.

Pros:

great writing, some of the best writing with slow development having real meaning unlike other games when sow development just means padding. Here it is actual development
Excellent use of limited lewd scenes, and use of existing and new background assets e.g. to show classroom or crowd use shadowed people in background to give a depth of characters
Choicesakes sense i.e, both corruption and seduction choices have ripple effects, especially since all corruption and seduction choices are not of same value which is a tually great and don't give indication making the game and choices feel organic.


Cons;
Not necessarily cons, but I would like a path that would involve mc not necessarily going twds sexual relationship with fmc I.e, sexual relation can be avoided and the relation becomes pure platonic i.e, having relation is purely players choices. Here relation while organic feel out of control of player , which is a great in a way becaus all choices have weight and ripple effect becomes that much impactful. But again I want a parallel route that is purely platonic with all characters ters barring one .
Personal cons:

Incomplete

Petite is not my cup of tea l, though I like relation dev with the sis part but not necessarily sexual relationship with younger girl.

CREAM OF THE CROP. Game is about a 40 something "Ugly Bastard" man who is suddenly reincarnated into the body of his young highschooler self with all of his personality and knowledge of the future and as a result lets him handle and cherish his loved ones more and takes initiative in building better relationships and being more assertive.

Basically a grounded time travel to highschool body anime that shows events one day at a time in Kinectic novel format with choices being almost not mattering as you end up with the girl anyway. I dont know the impact or how significant the branchings are for choices or routes but it seems like in the end all girls will be with the mc. The game takes its premise seriously which I love with the fact the the mc is an older man in a young body not being ignored as he acts his true age with inner monolgues and commentary on events from an older man's perspective. I especially enjoyed . That is the most ridiculous thing the character does though as most of it is centered on relationship building. the game has good pacing and dialogue making us see the girls personalities more and treating them as characters that are of stereotypes such as clingy little sister, overworked mother, bully who used to like you, kind class president and others. Game has a good amount of sexual content and I hope it continues to shine with good dialogue and a day by day styled pace.

This is a VN that deserves a try. It is both super messed up and super wholesome at the same time.

With that said, I will start with the problems I found with the VN and then go to the really good things.

1. The spelling. There are SOOOOO many very small spelling mistakes that just takes you out of it. It is a VN with a lot of text and narration, so when you have super simple spelling mistakes in almost every scene. You cant help but think that the Dev, knows how to spell but is too lazy to proof read the text. It would benefit greatly with a proof reader. Mainly because it is very small mistakes most of the time. For example, using thought instead of through or just a missing letter in a word. Very fixable, but at the moment you have to stop mid sentence and think for a second to know what is meant.

2. The narration. There is sooooo much narration. And it is mostly 4-5 lines long for each picture. The writing is really good but it just becomes annoying after a while because it takes the momentum out of the scenes. This is especially bad in sex scenes, where everything is overly explained, even just things that a shown in the animation. It is unnecessary! It would be benefit greatly with either fewer lines per picture or just completely removing every second narration. The first week of in VN time, takes something like 24 hours to read through.

Now to the good part.
The VN is beautiful, the LI's are hot and the characters seem very different from each other even though there are a lot of them. The story telling is amazing even though there really isn't that much of a plot, it is still an interesting plot and goal for the MC.
Animations are good and pretty fluent with a lot of variety.

I really like this VN and recommend it, but I will only give it 3 stars, because of the extensive narration of the lazy spelling errors. These can both easily be fixed, so I hope the Dev reads this.

Perfect VN?

Great models and animations. Story is good, with nice progression. There was a choking scene, which would be awesome to see more like it. Plenty of scenes too, though not a ton of variety of girls. A lot of hourglass girls but I'm not weird so that's no a problem for me. Give it time this may be #1 VN.

a fucking masterpiece i can't find the words to describe it everythings is insane, the characters, the animations, the plot, the story, only things bad is too much text in my personnal opinion but def the best vn ren'py on the web

The conversations and events are extremely well thought – a very convincing and usually hilarious turn of events. I find myself getting surprised and end up reading the conversations even when I intend to skip. On the negative, character designs need a bit getting used to and the progress is somewhat slow but worst of all updates are too rare. Still one of the best games here.

I played mostly the romance options with a bit of corruption sprinkled in for flavor. I am finding the experience rather enjoyable and the hot scenes are hot. If you can overlook the spelling/grammar weirdness it is worth trying out.

What I liked
For someone who likes to read, there is a lot of material to read. like multiple hours. And I do like the pacing. It is a slow burn which works for me in the context of roommate/landlady scenarios. I assume that there is more and faster action in the corruption paths.
The models are not the prettiest I have ever seen but they are not ugly at all and over time they grew on me.
The H-scenes are indeed hot
Some of the dialogue is actually quite humorous.
There is animation and it does not detract from the scenes. I found it mostly enjoyable.

What I did not like
it has been mentioned before and I only bring it up because in my opinion the game deserves better. Spelling and grammar (prepositions, time, sexes) are used in an unconventional way to a degree that detracts from the readability of the sentences and the reader's chance for comprehending what is actually going on. Interestingly the spelling eccentricities are not merely common misspellings like "message" vs "massage" or "were" vs. "where" or typos with neighboring letters indicating a certain negligence. There were also random letters thrown in or words that - to my limited knowledge - don't exist. I am honestly curious what the reason could be.
In any case considering that the game is mostly kinetic with lots and lots of text this is a quite glaring flaw.


Other stuff I feel like commenting on
I have no clue about the software used other than I have seen models like this before, actually in one of my favorite games. The disclaimer made it clear that all characters are above legal age and when it comes to looks there is a broad spectrum of how people can look at any given age. However, the way some of the characters behave is decidedly immature. That is not a limitation of the software that was used but they were written that way and I'm interested in hearing why. The playful, naive younger ... roommate ... is a staple of VNs and they come in different flavors. This current iteration is rather on the more juvenile end of the spectrum and I do not believe that it makes the character more interesting.

Probably a matter of my taste but the proportions for the female models are way off. I am not even referring to the size of the breasts that look like they could sustain their own atmosphere. While I do find curves as appealing as the next person, to have characters whose torso is less wide than one of their buttcheeks just looks odd to me.

There are a LOT of girls to conquer with 6 primary LIs and 6 secondary ones. After a dozen or so hours - yes, I do read all of the text so it does take me a while - I still have not met the 6th secondary LI and none of the "support" characters. While it is not necessarily a bad thing to have that many LIs it makes for a lot of downtime if you are interested in specific characters. I do like e.g. the Julia/Viktoria combo and there have been hours of play time between 2 scenes with the two. Same situation for the Clements ladies.

Ver 0.9b this is my first time reviewing
story: 2/5
graphic: 3/5
modelus: 2~3/5
vibe : 3.5/5
i played most of the game but start skiping at some point and not gonna play next update

rating overall : 2.8

story : there is alot of game with this same story (die go back in time ) is not fresh story and like this typa story i love isekai stuff , but this one is one of those just like the other so there not alot of intersting things u seen em every where.

story: and for the thing happing in story there is 2 way u know what about to happen or is just wierd i like werid stuff but not this one .
chacters : some chacters are some are not is in middle close to low
my personal fav are mom , teacher and viktoria.

models: there are not bad , at least not some sloppy models u make in 30 min but nothing special just avg , cloth bug in to the body most the time and is hella annoying .

pacing : is fast at some point and so slow at other side and it got on my nerv so i just start skipping at some point .

vibe : as i said it was good at beginning but the more i played i didnt want to play anymore


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if you like iam the best at everything guy , is ok to play
this game is heavy on incest ntr
and also there are 2 loli in game idk why is not in the tags | lil sister act too much like a kid
sir thats a child

Utterly enjoyable!
I particularly fancied how the LI's all feel so realistic in their motives and behaviors (except for the mother, she was very cliché).
The cg, particularly the animations, truly surpassed all my expectations and are, imo, amongst the best on this site even if it may not seem like it from the screenshots.
This is indisputably a 9/10 game. Not perfect since there are many many errors in the text. almost to the point of being immersion-breaking. It's not that the quality of the prose is bad, quite the contrary, but it desperately needs some editorial work. I wonder if the author is dyslectic or if they used a speech-to-text tool of some sort.
Another minus is that you don't always have the option to skip a LI's seduction route.
But these are all minor complaints when one looks at the overwhelmingly good quality of the whole.
100% recommended.

This is maybe the most arousal game I have play on this site. Especially with the interaction between MC and LIs as he made them fall for him, either by romance or corruption. It's really feel like a hentai experience with the LIs sinking into carnal desire. Overall 9.5/10

I'm trying my hardest to like this game, but the kinetic is just a little too strong here. I don't understand why some girls were optional(secondary) and others were not(primary). When will these devs understand that we do not want to play your story your way but our way. You want to establish a kinetic story thats fine as long as its interesting but every single Li should always be optional.

-Stepanie. I really don't like Stephanie. I stop at the part where Stephanie is pushing for mc mother to link up with her dad. That was the final nail for me.
She was already clingy, insecure af, and annoyingly jealous, but dev wanted to add disrespectful as well. Mc tells her no repeatedly and 2 seconds later she's telling Mc's mother that she should meet her very obvious drug-addicted criminal father in front of us. Ignore everything else about her up until now; this alone warrants a breakup. I see ppl in this thread feel sorry for her because mc let her turn into the school's bicycle later on and to that I say mc did not let anything happen. Stephanie is her own person and chose that life for herself. My frustration with her has peaked and I want nothing to with her.

-Viktoria. While I hate Stephanie; I don't care much for Viktoria. Even if Dev wrote Mc as someone who forgot the first part of his life as if he has amnesia (lol more on that later) and promises were made; still doesn't justify her bullying. That girl needs a whole redemption arc just to become friends let alone a girlfriend. A redemption arc that I'm sure will not come because of how Dev wrote Mc thought process so I rather just not deal with her at all. For a more in-depth review on her search for @Revolving Mania. Their take on her and others for this story is spot on. Julia(Viktoria's mother) waiting room. (Or I should say I was in her waiting room. Now I'm not sure I want to keep playing anymore.) As long as Stephanie & Viktoria are not optional but mandatory; I'm not playing.

-LIs. Its a harem game but you don't have the option to choose who's in your harem. Surprised that the second teacher introduced for the group project isn't one of the options and I felt like there should have been even a third teacher but who knows maybe that comes later. Abigail feels like the first secondary who's going to be forced on us like a primary. Aden's mother should be an option for obvious reasons. Is the dev planning to take this story to Z school(Highschool) since they keep repeating there's not much time left( a few weeks but probably a few months) of Y school(middle school). If so that would open the gates for even more classmates, teachers, mothers, neighbors, etc and welcome change in appearances between mc and a few of his Lis. This would also bring in more events with the older sister & Mya . (Since using context clues again they are not yet graduating and are 2-3 years older. ) Abigail seems to be 1-2 years older. Emily & Lola are 1-2 years younger.

-Mc & The Plot. Dev wants us to believe ppl can forget someone close to them without Amnesia or Dementia. When Mc said he did not remember Stephanie; 1 of 2 close/best friends of a few years, that was probably a sign that I should have dropped this. Then later Mc had to be reminded of his childhood sweetheart. Using context clues from the story suggests that was even more than a few years. Just ridiculous. Remembering wrong or having twisted memories is one thing but having no memories at all is too much. The pacing of the story seems to be in rush mode. Dev wants Mc to be an Entrepreneur immediately, Jacky(mc's mother) must rely on him as soon as possible(her losing her job could have been pushed back to the end of the school year or summer), Mc needs to makeup with Viktoria using every school day possible (As if weekends and afterschool house visits don't exist because you know they're neighbors and they are in a group project if you needed the excuse but you really don't because they're childhood friends and their mothers are friends!) Where's the Julia content! The older sister beach trip could have also been pushed back to during the summer. Yet despite all of that you will feel like the story is not moving fast enough with the content. Some Li you would think you would be further along by now but nope the dev have pumped the brakes to milk. You establish a whole herb & potion shop and done 1 scene with it(massage).

-Leo. I know the herb & potion shop could have done him some good. It doesn't feel like these two are best friends at all and feels more like Leo is best friends with stephanie. Why doesn't ppl feel like Leo also 'let' stephanie became a bicycle. I mean he was there too and worse he was closer to her.

-The grammatical errors and typos seem to keep increasing as you dive further into the story. Whoever was proofreading seems to have checked out. I'm not even a grammar nazi. It went from you'll catch some mistakes or misspelled words every couple of scenes to now every other sentence and with a story like this where there's a lot of inner monologues & narrations...

As always I'll change my review and continue supporting when things change but until then I'm gone.

Omg this one is amazing. The writing is fantastic even with the errors. With a little editing, your looking at professional author quality. The story is fabulous and no matter which routes you choose there is something fabulous with each girl.
I can't wait for the next update.

I like it but the potential isn´t fully used yet.

The story is good I really like the concept of being thrown back in time, the pacing was a bit meh at times and there are some worries I have like, I hope there won´t be anymore supernatural stuff or that the time travel is explained both would be very bad, and the Gao stuff with the potions feels like filler at the moment.

The dialogue is mostly good but there are a lot of typos or wrong words, like "ant" instead of "and" or "fishing" instead of "wishing", it isn´t a big problem but there are many of such errors which should be looked over again.

Gameplay is mostly just choices which leads to "do you want a seduction point or corruption point" or for the side characters "do you want to do lewd stuff with them or not." But it works the love and corruption routes are different enough.

Music isn´t amazing but always fitting and sets the tone.

Sex scenes and animations, are mostly good, sometimes they are too robotic or theres clipping but nothing too bad.

Models are good.

Characters are decent I will say something quick to each of them.

Mother is pretty standart nothing really unique too many "funny" moments.

Emily is also very boring just standart little sister who loves you and then does perverted stuff and loves you more nothing really unique.

Alyvia is good she is cute I really like her seduction route, the corruption route I am not a fan of yet but maybe the direction will be more interesting later on.

Leo boring best friend who has nothign unique but I like that you kinda help him get a girlfriend.

Stephanie I like her but hope somethign more interesting will be done with her it feels like her story is pretty much she is your girlfriend now and not much else.

Cathrine, I really like how sudden her corruption route escalated, love route is meh right now, she is also kind of boring.

Viktoria i am biased towards becuase I really adore that trope of bully who bullies you because you broke love promise.

Mrs. Clements, is good mostly because she actually feels bad for having done lewd stuff.

Her daughter is only in one scene butit seems like you can´t romance her if you don´t romance her mother which I like.

Lola is cute a lot better then Emily.

Viktorias mother is cute too.

Mya I like that she isn´t just the slut best friend of sister who does slut stuff because she is a slut, I like that there is actually love.

I hope there won´t be much more new characters added because I like how the MC is shown rejecting multiple easy sex scenes like which Melena or Viktorias friend, it makes the sex scenes with the characters more impactfull instead of feeling like just a sex scenes which is why I kinda fear the "other" section in the characters tab, because I really don´t want random one-off scenes with random girls who are just there for sex. And I also like that the characters aren´t easy to convince to make a harem.

Love this game! Just wish i found it in the future so i wouldn't have to wait for the whole story. Can't wait to be a millionaire from selling aphrodisiacs and buying my little sister wife some cool swim suits!

I wasn't a huge fan of the models at first, but they grew on me quickly. I am shocked at how good this VN is in terms of pacing, length, relationships, etc.
I wouldn't call it a con, but if I had to give it any stikes it would be just a couple of weird graphical things, and I'm not a huge fan of the whole gargantuan dong thing, but it plays into the story, so it didn't bug me too much.
All in all, I am mind blown at the quality. It is a game that made me want to keep playing just to enjoy it, which is rare in the genre.