Ren'Py - Unknown Affection [v0.1.2] [Feel Good Games]

Awful game.

The models are pretty nice, but unfortunately first you have to get through the fighting mini game, which is just the worst trash. Even after the dev has modified it, its still the worst trash. The entire first scene of the game, including two fights, a conversation and a choice, which determines whether you get a sex scene or not, and you can't save during it, or rather it will let you save, but when you try to load that save, it will take you right back to the beginning of the scene.

Even with the ability to essentially skip fights, it is still far too much wasted time that you'll never get back for one missclick if you accidentally try to scroll back, because that's another thing you can't do. I say you can 'skip' fights, but really you can automatically block all incoming damage, rendering the fight pointless, but you still have to sit through the monotonous, badly designed junk of a fight mini game, and just to punish you further, it takes longer to end the fight if you choose this option. Why? Because the dev thinks this is cool presumably? Like he made the fight scene, so you're going to damn well sit through it, or something?

The story is just cringeworthy drivel, of the sort that a 12 year old of a certain persuasion might think is cool. But honestly, they'd probably just think its too much like brainrot. I can't remember the exact dialogue, but this is a pretty fair summation of the first conversation with the first girl you meet. "you sell drugs? That's so cool, it must be so exciting. You're now my girlfriend".

3/5 for the models.
1/5 for the story.
-500/5 for the minigames, the ass programming, and especially the really dumb fight scenes.

PROS
+ Story seems interesting, even tho it has tons of cons.
+ Marlene's character design is one of most beautiful character designs I have seen, she looks amazing.
+ Characters are nameable by player.
+ MC is bit cringy, but has kind of cool side as well I guess.
+ Sex scenes are animated.

CONS/SUGGESTIONS
- Story is bit cringy, especially the one about the kings, their sex life, etc.
- Dialogues are bit too long, some stuff can be explained with very less words, and that would be far more enjoyable to read.
- There is no option to close the named saves, and it's quite annoying, option to close is needed.
- Dialogue box looks terrible, simple, and centered dialogue box would be far better, trying to be unique doesn't always means better, most of time for games like this simple, and classic is better, especially needing scroll down for to see more dialogue is one of worst designs I have seen.
- Some scene effects like camera getting close to somewhere, etc, can't be skipped by clicking, and forces you to slowly watch it, pretty bad choice.
- Mona's design looks awful, she is supposed to be a young girl, but she looks like old cougar with hot body, but ugly face. Lisa doesn't look good either, she looks better than Mona, but her face needs some changes as well, and I really can't say I understand how person who designed Marlene designed those two as well, they look like designed by someone not skilled enough, meanwhile Marlene looks designed by someone very skilled.
- Fights are boring AF, and take too much time, especially the ones against multiple enemies, it takes too many clicks as well, they should end way faster than current speed, in fact very short QTE event with some cool renders/pictures could be more than enough, or you can simply let people skip the fights fully. What's worse is first fight was riggred for you to lose, so after spending all that effort, and time you still lost, BRUH...
- Needing to click ''Viewfinder'' every damn time to click something on screen is really dumb, either that thing needs to be removed, or should be toggled after one click, and not needed to be clicked over, and over again.
- There are some partial voice overs for some scenes, and they are kind of weird.
- Music stops when you save the game, kind of immersive breaking.
- Some scenes, especially the ones after animations have some problems, like bottom quick menu being unhideable.
- Animation quality, physics, and FPS needs some improvements.
- Content-wise the game falls very short, I mean we didn't even saw any of the main girls yet, let alone having any content with them...

VERDICT
It seems the game has some potential, but the current rate is quite poor.

Yeah, that fighting mini-game is total crap. Not only do you need to have twitch reflexes to play it, but which button does what changes randomly. So, one time you will be told that the attack is coming from above, and you go to hit the corresponding "block from above" button, only to find that it has randomly changed to the "block from below" button, so the blow lands.

At first, you could backscroll and basically munchkin your way through it, but then this method gets disabled, which means with my reaction speed I'm going to lose for sure. Plus, the "fights" take a long time to finish.

There was some promise in the plot, but the execution is super frustrating. Maybe I'll try it again later once it's had time to develop more. Maybe.

Edited: Dev listened to problems and solved some. The HP of opponents stillhigh which makes youwantskip fight and close the mini-game, which isthankfully was added as a choice.

Old post: I picked the easy difficulty just to find out that even on it, winning seems to depend more on luck than on the player.
The very first enemy can hit you on the arm with a bat or go for your leg, and there's no telling where the hit will land — it’s all luck. If there’s some animation that hints at where the strike is going, I couldn’t spot it in the ten minutes I spent fighting him. The reaction time is shorter than what mobs in Dark Souls give you. What’s worse is that the reaction timer starts immediately, and the moment you're supposed to block could be right at the start of that circle, meaning you have to guess how and where to block in the shortest reaction window in the gaming industry. And thats considering that in previous "dialogue" lines buttons were in diferent places, so good luck keeping in mind where are block buttons will appear.
And it’s not like the fight is a quick exchange of 4 to 6 hits—no, your character does laughable damage while the enemy has a ridiculously long health bar, and yours is tiny. After 15 minutes of trying, I couldn’t even beat the very first opponent with bat. So how do you even play this? It's a mystery. And why play it? That’s an even bigger mystery, because I didn’t get a single hentai scene. I guess they’re locked behind that opponent...
Although I see people in the comments saying you have to fight him twice...
With a combat system like this, the game is trash. And what about the hentai content? A solid 0. Maybe once it becomes actually accessible, I’ll gladly come back and update my rating. But for now, since I haven’t even seen it, 0 feels fair and honest.

Do you like reaction minigames more than porn? Play this game! Dev put enough thought into the game to allow disabling jumpscares, why not let us skip shitty fucking minigames. If I wanted to play a shit fighting game I'd buy a PS1.