VN - Ren'Py - Unexpected Consequences [v0.10b4a] [Dream Cloud Entertainment]

Was going to give 3 stars, but adding 1 for Alice. Usually the taller than average women in a story are muscle bound dommy mommies, so it was nice to a see a normal tall ginger who loves to game. The main story is a bit out there, but that is nothing unusual for most AVN's. The story and romance move pretty quick as well. Grammar and spelling are better than most. LI's are varied and unique. Like that some are virgins and other's have had some life experience. Being bi is mentioned a lot, but at least so far it has all been as part of three ways with the MC. Overall enjoyable and looking foward to seeing where the story goes.

I just dont get it....it starts out ok for like 5 mins making you think you have choices in this game, like keeping things professional with the boss and such, then you go to the club with your two new rooms mates which are both hot, MC then takes a piss and some extremly ugly whore walks in telling MC to fuck him, and MC goes "this is not me, i wouldent do this kind of thing" and then goes to fuck this ugly bitch....it makes 0 sense for MCs personalty, 0 sense for the story and it makes 0 sense to do that shit when he has 2 hot girls waiting on him.

I can clearly see the plot from 50 miles away as well, MC and the ugly bitch was somehow drugged so they couldent stop wanting to fuck one another which changes nothing, its just a sad excuse to make forced sex shit and a piss poor plot seen a million times over and sure enough game turns into some mafia/syndicate story going even more crazy so yeah most defently not good and no forced sex scene in bathroom was not needed for story since you could just give MC the option to resist but still find it very weird, 0 need to force something the players dont want and story could still be the same.

Not that it would make story much better, the first roommate Alice comes stright out saying she dosent mind sharing MC at all even though hes her very first boyfriend...it just to weird and idiotic and ofc everyone loves the idea of sharing MC....fuck me....

So its very very clear that this game is just yet another mindless fuckfest game, with 0 build-up and no choices, i will never understand why devs belives forcing shit on people will result in more support for the game and then make more money on it which is most devs goal, its simply just dosent work that way.

And maybe 10 mins or so in, you already fucking one of the room mates as well, theres no romance or build-up with anyone really, it goes from 0 to 200mp/h in a second.

Game also makes use of yet another idiotic way of forcing sex scenes on you, by dreams.....so when MC dreams he can now fuck the room mates in them... i just dont want to see any kind of sex scenes with a girl before i deside i want to be with said girl.....

And if you go for another girl it goes stright to giving you lesbian vibes, i went for Alice the room mate and the girl missing a leg, when MC comes home with one the girl she has already texted the Alice to start up a 3-some....turning that down will then result in the girl saying she wll go into Alices room and see what she can do to make Alice happy.....so that means i now have to restart game to dump the one leg girl so that shit dosent happen.

Also game shoots it self in the foot, if you want to play faithfull route its impossible and if you do undercover your yet again being forced into sex scenes you dont want and not going undercover will make you miss alot of content, its simply just awfull.

Virgins scenes are also shit, even though they have hymen theres close to no pain and ofc no blood so very poor deflowering and virgin scene.

Animations are average at best but some scenes has very bad cam angles so you cant see shit or its just to dark.

Music is very nice has some with lyrics, proberly the best part of the game.

Choices, multiple forced sex scenes and dream sex shit.

I dont really see a way of saving this one, it would take to many changes.

GIVING ONE STAR FOR UNWARNED AND UNAVOIDABLE NTR

I was originally going to give this game a 2.5 rating until I got to a certain scene I will detail momentarily. The renders are fine, though at times during the sex scenes the faces can be a little scary to be honest. The story has promise but is poorly executed due to no common sense. You are trying to uncover a mystery involving tragedies with your family, and the lives of those you love BUT YOU DISCLOSE INFORMATION TO EVERYBODY WHEN YOU'RE GOING UNDERCOVER?! That's just dumb. After day 2 you have women willing to share you and say they 'love you' which would be fine in a super natural game, here it's illogical and while I try not to involve realism when I play VN's, this was just silly

I will now spoiler and disclose the NTR THAT WAS NOT PRE_WARNED ANYWHERE

Another one of those ...
The game pretents to have choices, then proceeds to force you into sex scenes.
Not worth anyones time.

The graphics are fine, if not up to date.

The MC is not ugly, but mis figured. Doesn't help that the dev decided to focus a lot of pictures on his face. Visually it ruins a lot of scenes.

The few LIs I met until the mentioned forced scene looked good. They seemed somewhat unique, although I read that they're basically rip-offs from another game.
Of course several get ruined by (ex-)boyfriends and colorful stories about their sex life.
All that weren't as as bad if you had any choice.

But there aren't any. Only choices consists of skipping or seeing sex scenes.
All relationships are forced as well, even with ruined LIs like engaged exes etc.
Overall this is completely kinetic with meaningles choices that pretend to give the player any agency.

The English is fine. Some wrong words, some misspelling. The dialogues feel unnatural but not unreadable.

All in all a big disappointment.

[Reviewed at v0.10b4a]
I'm gonna be real, the only reason I'm giving this 3 stars instead of 2 is because I find it oddly charming, because in truth this is an incredibly flawed game.

The plot is fairly cookie-cutter for the AVN space, your parents were mysteriously killed and everything bad that's ever happened in your life is one big conspiracy, plus incest, plus cute roommates, plus sexy cougar boss, plus weirdly passive MC who somehow woos all the ladies, etc, etc, etc... You've read it a million times, and so have I.

Additionally, this game suffers from a chronic need to make everyone okay with each other. You're attracted to both your roommates? They talked amongst themselves and are both fine with being a throuple. Seeing your first love (with whom you traded virginities) for the first time in three years and you've recently started dating your roommates and you also didn't speak with her all that time even after she lost a leg? No biggie, she forgives you and wants in on your throuple. You went on a first date with your virgin roommate and ended up bedding her and cumming inside her? No problem, she says she's always wanted to be a mother and life's too short to play it safe.

See what I'm getting at? There's no drama, no conflict, no friction--everyone's just magically OK with everything, and that makes for a pretty boring story.

But the worst, for me at least, is the machine-like nature of the dialogue. Every character talks like they're a robot, in the most unnatural way possible, explaining what they feel and why they feel it in a manner no person would (especially not with people they met a few days ago.) The truth is that people suck at being clear and candid, especially when it comes to their emotions, which is why every sentence spoken in this AVN feels like it was written by AI.

And yet, I find the simplicity of this world to be weirdly charming. People say what they mean and mean what they say, everything just immediately works out fine, everyone's just happy to be there...

Ultimately, if any of the things I pointed out tick you off, it's probably not worth the download. If none of that annoys you to the point that you'll still try it, maybe you too will be charmed by it.

This VN is mediocre after all.

Writing is right down the middle, mediocre. Not terrible, not good. English is mostly decent. The "story", as in the background, is developing slowly, everything else is at a fast pace up to a point where it's just ridiculous. Some things make no damn sense at all.
Some examples:
MC has had sex just once in his life with a long-term friend of his out of love. That doesn't stop him from having a quickie without any protection with some lesbian in a men's restroom at a night club on his first visit to one of those. Both couldn't hold back in the moment and both regret it seconds after just going their own way after this. Both think they have been drugged, but hey... No big deal (...)...
Second example would be MC going on a date with his new roommate, a virgin girl who never had a date before in her life, who he "knows" for barely two days. She was nervous beforehand and MC thought it would be a good idea to fondle her private parts out in a public park right after they've had dinner. Totally out of character for the MC and even more so for this girl considering the provided backgrounds.

Renders are good for the most part, dev seems to have his problems with facial expressions, they're often distorted, putting it mildly...
"Animations" are as bad as they get. Barely any movement, no natural movement, looks like switching the same two pictures back and forth for the most part, resulting in "movements" of an inch or two here and there back and forth... Would be better off without animations at this part.

Considering everything so far I'm somewhat generous in giving three stars here, I pondered giving two or three and evaluating the potential of this one as well as comparing this to other VNs I go with the three stars for now.

So far so good, good start, story doesn't start off too bad, it depends a bit on how it continues. Characters are well done and the graphics are good too. Since it's still early days, we'll have to wait and see how it develops. 5☆ from me .

It's not exactly terrible, I just couldn't find a reason to like it

The game spends waayyyyy too much time focusing on the MC's ugly scrunched up face where he seems unable to portray correct emotions

The models are pretty good, fairly varied but as always fall into the cringe trap of half of them having tons of tatoos and piercings, short hair and manly features. But heh, I guess there must be an audience for that.

The renders are decently done.

The writing is hit and miss, there's no engrish but a lot of failures - confusing effect and affect, your and you're etc.

The story is what brings it down honestly. The mc is an absolute cringy coward. For some reason women throw themselves at him despite this. He has to constantly spend money on them in every instance, to get any attention. When sex does happen it's because women dont have free will, not because any relationship has been built up.

Also, it is basically kinetic. the player has ZERO control. It's either see content or pick the option that passes time with no content. In situations like eg peeking, MC because he is such an insecure coward immediately has to talk to them about it

Legitimately one of the worst VNs I've ever played. Let's go through it:
Story: Have you ever played the sandbox-harem game Love Sex & Second Base? Then congrats, you've also played Unexpected Consequences, because this game essentially takes every character and scene from that game, changes the names, makes the writing WORSE, and then pretends like it's the dev's own creation.
Story rating: -7.5/10

Writing: Being able to write dialogue is a huge part of making a story believable. Every one of us has had conversations in real life, so it's not too hard to write two characters speaking to one another like actual human beings. How does Unexpected Consequences manage this extremely basic aspect of storytelling? Well, here's a snippet from the MC's first night out with the two main LIs the day after he met them for the first time (direct quotations from the game) -
Idiot MC: Sorry to keep you girls waiting
Girl copied from Andrealphus' work: Hi MC, I'm glad you're back, I was starting to worry about you.
Other plagiarized girl character: Yea, what the hell took you so long?
Idiot MC: I'm not going to lie to you girls, I was having sex with a woman I just met. This was totally out of character for me, this strange feeling came over me and I just couldn't resist her. After we made it out of the bathroom it was like whatever came over us vanished and we both instantly regretted it.
Plagiarized girl: Y-y-you what?

Yes. This is how bad the writing is. Rating: -1,000/10

Visuals: It's pretty standard 3d style renders. Not as good as the top tier stuff, but a little better than average. Oh, and the MC looks like Frankenstein's monster, but without the green skin.
Visuals rating: 5/10

So what do we have? This is a VN that reads like an 11-year old's fanfiction. There's no original ideas anywhere, the dev just rips off a better game and made a much, much worse copy. Add it all up, and we've got....
OVERALL RATING: -1,002.5/10
First time I've ever rated something a negative number!

well where do i start. I love what you have so far.
The story is decent. I do hope to see the MC knowing how to shoot guns. Having both parents be agents seems like the girls and MC would know how to defend themselves or atleast basic pistol knowledge.

Having the MC having a gun license(and a firearm) would fit into the story and could make for some interesting things to happen.

But all in all i like the story and where i believe your going with it.

As a AVN, this one isnt bad at all. the plot seems abit, far fetched. but lets see were the story takes us.
i ain't no master in spelling and grammar etc... but i find this one, to be not bad in that regards. yeah there's a few misspellings or sentences that make no sense. overall though, easily readable and understand the context.

Renders arent too bad, seen alot worse. though a few of the females have some cheek issues....l looking at you jamie.

animations are fine. again middle of the road, seen far worse and honestly its a plus it has them. theres afew that dont bother at all.

the characters though seem abit stiff and wooden. the poses and especially eyes, need improvement. alot of repeated scenes and animations but with a different female model. but thats okay.

liking the VN sofar however, will see how it goes.

The one downside sofar, and major factor in giving only 3 stars. choices seem to be pointless, hte dev has placed the girls for this harem, and theres no choice in weather you want them or not.

perfect example for me, is Mia. wasnt a fan of her look or tatts. so i rejected her everytime and left her out. she asked the MC out on a date. i refused.
next few scenes, the girls are talking about your upcoming dates. and sure enough the MC goes on a date with Mia, despite rejecting her.
i gave her a bad date so i didnt get the lewd scene. but mattered little, the next morning she is now your girlfriend and going around telling everyone so.

this annoyed me greatly, what was the point in even asking then. does that mean all the other choices i made, mean nothing either. is this really a Kinetic novel instead?

Ill keep following it and see if it picks up, but i dunno, really dont like the Mia model that is forced on you.

Ok my initial thoughts seeing as it is still early devlopment, the renders are good, the characters are a bit cliche (basically all are ok with each other f**ing the MC).

Writing is a bit meh, but that may improve over time not a bad start plenty of scope to get better in the future and there is not a bad amount of content available so far.

Will watch this one as it grows but its certainly not a bad game by any stretch.

3 stars for now but it has got some very good potential, don't give up Devs, this is just my opinion i rarely play games still in infancy but this intrigued me enough to play it early.