Ren'Py - Completed - V.I.R.T.U.E.S. [v17] [NoMeme]

The gameplay is quite boring:
- the way to raise stats just feels time wasting
- the money doesn't matter at all, why even include it?
- the "training" system doesn't make sense - It seemed at first that you have some choice what "perks" to choose but it just forces you to pick what the dev intended. Also, to me at least, it seemed to suggest that you could actually raise the levels here or at least do some progressing - but it's basically just a another replay gallery.

Additionally most LIs are quite uninteresting and just feel a bit silly and behave very unrealistically. They also nearly all have comically large breasts. The MC is also uninteresting and quite annoying honestly. The scenes are well animated but otherwise not really anything special.

In short: decent visuals, bad characters and story, boring gameplay, horrible MC

What starts bad, don't have to end like this.

The beginning didn't welcome me with best impression about MC. Being quite rude to his friend, deflowering one of LIs while being drunk wasted (that's also not leaving the best impression of her, but she became (IMO) the best LI in whole game), partying in the middle of the week then sleeping in classes and he was terrible in reading situations. It could be a bad start to a great story, but I'd say that MCs change is too drastic and sudden. So it's just a good story? Not sure, if we can call it a story, because there's almost no plot. You're playing rich guy with no money who needs to survive while building harem and that's basically all about the plot. That's good thing for about 2/3 of the game, before you learn, make bonds and gather your harem, but lack of something bigger makes later part of the game a lil bit boring.

You may need to adapt to writing. There are no sloppiness and big grammar mistakes, but this game have few weird things, like abusing ellipsis (... ... ... ...) and original onomatopoeias, for example "KaKa KaKa" while shooting photos (which is extra weird for me, because in my language it's one of slang words for poop) or "zimmmm, simmmmm" while sucking.

It's a sandbox, but navigating is quite easy, because there are dots and portrets on map that shows where you can find an event or grind affection. So, if you're lost, just skip time and follow the dots. Don't also be worried about playing multiple times, one of great ideas of dev was implementing possibility to check available endings (and subbranches of events) while playing, so you don't have to create 1500 saves, just play and pick your ending from your bedroom.

LIs are diversified and not too stereotypical. Some of them are let's say extraordinary unique with rare traits. And since game is focused on relationships, you'll be able to meet all of their characters and some background. I'm however disappointed a bit, because at the end of harem endings they all want to become just fucktoys, housewifes or pets without personal ambitions. Only Vera is close to perfection.

Game have acceptable graphics, beautiful faces, a nice environment and smooth animations with simple, but enjoyable, sex sounds. Using real world pictures as backgrounds sometimes is quite unique and IMO it not only looks better than CG (at most of times), but I believe it also saves dev time, so she/he could focus more on other aspects of the game.

There's one huge flaw. Literally huge and not literally one. Actually, there are many of them, breasts. All of them are too big, there's no diversity.

I was torn between rating this game as 3 or 4, but the latest part decided. Game is described as completed, but one LI route is cut in half and left without proper ending. Also, latest updates messed timeline and some events appear earlier than they should. It's still good, romantic, slowburner, but lack of depth in story and few minor things put this game on quite average shelf.

Of all of the love interests, I think Rachel was the least developed and the most disappointing. This sucks, but what was there was good and the rest of the characters all make up for that. The art of the game is great, the writing is good, and the gameplay isn't too bad. It's kind of grindy, but WAY better than a good chunk of games I've played. The balance between "getting to the good part" and making it a real game is hard to maintain but this game does a pretty good job of it.

The prologue of the game was extremely linear with almost no straying from the path. This makes sense when it comes to making sure the player knows the basic story and how the game actually plays to a degree but the lack of control almost chased me off because I was worried the rest of the game would be the same. It's short though, so I powered through it and I found a game that blew a lot of others out of the water.

This game is good, maybe even great. I can't wait to see where the devs go from here.

Last time I played this game was 3 years ago and even until now, I still come back once just to experience the amazing story and quality this game has given.

As someone who usually enjoys 2DCG or 2D, this game made me appreciate the beauty of 3D and 3DCG games.

It brought drama, action and romance.
Not you casual ero game.

Just an okay game.
Pros:
+ Visuals are decent
+ Sex scenes are well animated
+ 6/7 of the girls have a pretty good story arc
+ 3/6 of the girls are a family, and it feels like their characters and scenarios are more well-defined than some of the other girls (Theo, Irene, Eli)
+ Extensive gallery options and the options to replay sub-scenarios for in case you can't select certain choices w/o stats needed
+ UI is smooth.
+ Homely feeling of the story is pretty nice. It feels wholesome to an extent
+ Each character has their own ending. There's some branching paths in said endings. The harem endings are also fun
+ There's actual sounds during the sex scenes
+ Sandbox that's not done in an overly annoying way

Cons:
- 1 of the girls has little to no story or scenes. She feels like a complete outlier to the harem, regardless of if you include her or not
- The harem can feel like it's split in half at some points
- The stat grind for money and love/harem acceptance for girls can be a bit annoying
- The writing is pretty bad. Tons of grammatical errors and mistranslations (?). There's also the matter that the actual writing, as in the meat of the plot and characterization, can be pretty immature and mediocre as well
- The MC will annoy you, or you'll be pretty used to this sort of MC (horny playboy that fucks anything that moves, but is gentlemanly at the last second) (He also kind of forces sex quite a bit, so it's a little icky to watch sometimes)
- The sound design is kind of average and doesn't do anything new. The music is just some random stock OST that is lighthearted. Some of the sex sounds can overlap and glitch, bleeding into other scenes.

About a 5 - 6 hour game.

Pros:

1. Open world is easy. I don't know why dev made this open world, all you do is click on locations where a girl is to get love points, then when they have enough points you get a special event to increase the point cap, and you repeat. The money isn't even an issue.
2. Girls are different. It starts off really strong, the girls aren't samey, they have different erogenous zone which often dictates the type of scenes you'll see in the beginning. Sensitive nipples focused, lactation focused, anal focused, scent focused....but they all turn into mindless sluts eventually
3. Lots of endings...it's weird how this is handled, you unlock the endings just by playing normally and you see them in a "what if" storyline. It's weird because you'll get the "single girl" endings first before the harem endings, and there's multiple harem endings, which again, is weird because I don't think you can lock yourself out of any content

Cons:

1. Very male giga chad protag. There's two girls you have no choice but to act like a spoilt man child
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2. Dialogue sucks...not the worst, not the best...but Irene has some weird dialogue
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3. Side content. This is just a nit pick, but you have to play the other game to get full context on what happened with Theo and protag. And there's paid exclusive art wallpapers (Doesn't matter really since I'm sure the codes are leaked somewhere)

Verdict. I liked the game. The H scenes are phenomenal, animated and very different from every scene. Storyline is meh, you're just a rich dude looking for love. Doesn't really have me thinking the game is finished since the endings are weirdly done.

one of the best 3dcg games I've played with a great story

ART : 9.5/10 - Very good art , for the characters . Maybe even the best as far as I've seen

Story : 9/10 - Nice story , everything was pretty reasonable as to no girl falling for the sake of it like that

Characters 9/10 : great characters and have nice traits

Overall 9/10 : Overall the game is Excellent , anyone can give it a try and enjoy playing it

The writing is so atrocious I barely got more than twenty minutes into this. I hope it's primarily a translation issue, but the MC's characterization is so self-aggrandizing with no self-awareness that that's what's happening... I'm shocked so many other reviewers could get past all that to what I'd hoped would be a good game. Maybe there is a wonderful game or story to be told underneath the terrible writing, but I'm not going to suffer through that to find out.

Starts great, but really falls off. There's a lot of content but the writing is very mediocre. At the beginning the girls have different characters and backgrounds but as the game moves forward they all become more and more similar. To highlight this, at some point the protagonist is at the beach with a girl and he tells her "Your butt has gotten bigger" and she replies "Oh no, I'm not going to eat dinner today." Not only is that reply something that would never happen in real life, but the girls are so similar any one of them could have said that.

Also for a game that has the first letter of each girl's name as its title, I was expecting all girls to have a similar amount of content, one of the girls only has one sex scene, two of the girls don't have their own ending and even though this is supposed to be a harem game, there is no harem ending.

The game feels half finished.

Version: v17
More like a choose-your-progression trainer type game. Designed to be very casual, but you have to play a lot of "days". I'd describe it as an advanced version of those old dating sim flash games with a more modern interface and HS animated scenes. You choose who to progress when you want, but everyone ends at the same place in the end. Some restrictions apply, like Rachel being locked behind Senning progression, and Uno can't be met without advancing Irene.

[Story]- Well, the girls each have their personalities and "story", but the game is too text heavy, and the font is SMALL, and I usually just skip the dialogue. Fortunately, it's easy to know the context just by glimpsing the text. I actually found Senning to be the annoying private obsessor type, and I had never not liked someone in these types of games before, so that's a first; but I just skip the dialogue, so it's all good. It just means these girls have personality, and they're all quite extreme. The story itself is really unrealistic. The MC is a player, but he thinks like a virgin beta when it comes to the LI's. I find it hard to believe that an experienced playboy can't control himself at all... and then he only starts to try to get with these women Now when he's had years to start. If you're into the get LI's fantasy, you may enjoy it. I just suspend the disbelief... a lot.

[Gameplay]- You really have to lower your expectations a lot when playing this. The only stat building comes in the form of girl relationship points. It makes it seem like building money is important, but it can pretty much be ignored. It is, in fact, a Very casual experience. At first, your actions are really limited, and you just take whatever actions you get and skip the time. It's important to understand that you Don't need to explore. The game will tell you when there's things to do, and when there aren't things to do, you just move on. The game will drive the story for you, and all you have to do is raise relationship as you see fit(It's really the ONLY thing you do in this game). You will get new scenes as you increase the girls' relationship stats. The game will tell you if you need to do something to progress. Nothing is missable, either, as long as you continue to progress relationship... unless you're trying to progress on "solo" paths; but being that it's a "harem" game, I don't see why you'd want to, really. Just be aware that it is a LOT of in game days to make progression.

[Scenes]- I am not a big breasts kind of guy. This game is full of big breasts, but I still found them all to be attractive. There's also one certain smaller breasted chick, and she's fantastic as well. The models are excellent. The EARLY scenes are pretty bad, but it got better. A Lot better. The sex doesn't look dull like in some other games, and private parts mesh together pretty well. Fantastic. And there's plenty of cum, and in all sorts of holes. No "only this or that" bs. The game focuses mainly on the 7 LI's, and you will notice an absence of side girls. There's maybe 1 or 2.

To be brief, "Virtues" is a harem AVN done right, falling short of greatness due to its sandbox mechanics. In my opinion, the main selling point is the interaction between the members of the harem.

Now, let me be verbose.

It is a sandbox-type harem AVN. The most comparable title would probably be the more well-known 'Love &Sex: Second Base'., which serves as a good basis for comparison. The main difference, aside from visuals, is the smaller scale of "V.I.R.T.U.E.S.," which is mostly a welcome change.


There are just seven girls. I would sat that they are all interesting. While some are better written than others, I enjoyed each of them. They're written as horny fantasies, not actual human-being, but not to the point of being overly cartoonish, so it is easy to be quite warm to them. There are some strange dialogues here and there, but overall it is good.

This scale allows the developer to write numerous harem interactions and group sex scenes. That's where the game really shines.

The sex scenes are well done. I really enjoyed (in more ways than one, if you know what I mean) many of them. Two prominent fetishes are:

• Breast-stuff (big tits, milking, kissing/handling/fondling/fucking tits, and so on). This is not something I'm particularly interested in, but a lot of interaction focuse on these kinks. If that's your poison, you'll probably enjoy these scenes more than I do.
• Maledom. It's a vanilla type of this fetish (no intricate BDSM here), which I enjoy. I would say that the game is tagged, among other things, with 'rape' just in case, there is no dark stuff here.

Both features show that this game is a somewhat personal project, and it shows.

The most noticeable downside is the sandbox mechanics. Look, you probably know the drill. Such games tend to consume your time, with some in-game days and weeks consisting of mindless "click click click click click click" until you finally reach the content you're pursuing.

"Virtues" isn't the worst in this grindy sanbox-design, but the problem remains. There isn’t enough variety in daily interactions for this grinding of points not to become boring.

In my playthrough—and I think many people will have the same experience—this becomes especially tiresome during the latter part of the game when you add the last girl to the harem. To proceed with romance, you have to raise the stats of other girls, which likely means you've already seen pretty much all the content this game has to offer. So you end up with a tedious click-fest for in-game weeks that has no meaning whatsoever. Meh.

Still, this is a real success for the developer and a genuine delight to play. I enjoyed my time with it; I came a lot and appreciated the harem interactions. It is far from perfect, but it is worth trying.

The game has its merits, and the gameplay mechanics are decent, but I have some concerns. I hate the way the developers handled the characters and the developing side Additionally, the ending felt suddenly, which was disappointing.

good game, i enjoyed all the scenes and the story.. it's been a while since i played this and only stumbled upon it today to give it a review it needed LOL

it's decent and i enjoyed it 'til the end, can't really give a detailed review since its been a while since i completed the game and again just recently stumble upon today

I didn't even really mind the repeating events because I could skip them. This has a huge scope and pretty well thought-out connections between characters. Few errors for a game with this much dialogue and plot and moving parts. I liked some LI's more than others but that's the nature of the harem genre.

Great story, excellent characters and very sexy scenes (the different endings I also recommend), highly recommended for anyone 10/10.
Can't wait for the next game, I'm sure it will be even better.
(Senning Best Girl)

I completed this game a while ago but I'll give my two cents, for completionist's sake.

VIRTUES is a really simple "harem-sim" with frequent sex scenes. They're competently made, and hot enough as with most HS animations.

The game is mostly forgettable although I do like the girls (one is a bit too young-coded for my taste).

There's not much else I want to say. If you're looking for a completed HS game just for fap material with no BS, this'll probably do the trick.

Virtues is a game that started off strong but ended poorly due to lack of updates and the developer just not focusing enough on this game. The developer wanted to start a new project but didn't want to leave this game unfinished so the ending is rushed and feels incomplete still. With that said:

Pros:
- Amazing h-scenes
- A lot of h-scenes to collect with multiple girls
- Different routes to take
- You can unlock features to your house and girls as you progress
- Progression system is fluid and rewarding
- Plot is decent

Cons:
- Ending rushed
- Lack of updates for a long time
- More characters got a lot more scenes than others
- Can be very grindy at times

Give this game a shot and look forward to Passion3D's next work and hope that it finishes well

I'm so disappointed with this game. It could have been incredible, a 5-star game, if it were well-written, with dialogues that evolve, less grinding, and fewer repetitive scenes. I don't know if it was rushed or if the aim was to create a weak game in this style, but it really let me down.

The girls are beautiful, all with big tits, which disappointed me a bit. The girl who was supposed to be "loli" has big breasts, so her small breasts drama feels pointless. Many of the romances are well-developed, but there's so much grinding and repetitive scenes until you get to something interesting, which is frustrating. Not to mention that to progress with Girl A, you need to first progress with Girl B, which makes sense for a harem story, but ends up creating a large space without anything new or advancing.

The prologue (tutorial) to me is the most nonsensical of any game I've ever played. In my opinion, the prologue should fill all time gaps, introduce the system/map/HUD, and the girls, but right from the start, we have to grind. There are periods of time where you have nothing to do. This beginning almost made me give up, but I'm glad I went a little further because the romances are really interesting.

Another thing that made me abandon the game was the dialogues. Sometimes they're incredibly well-developed and funny, but most of the time, they lead nowhere. You make plans to go out with someone and it's never mentioned again. There's a fortune-teller who sees your future, but she managed to get all predictions wrong.

Without a doubt, the writing is the worst part of this game, but the repetition comes right behind in second place. If it were a visual novel without the day of the week and time period system, and with dialogues that always make sense and lead somewhere, it would be one of the best games on the site.

I have mixed feelings. It is very enjoyable until 3/4 then it falls off a bit. Here are some of my thoughts:

-Story: Interesting and engaging until certain point. I appreciate that you can choose to be a bit more rough throughout the game during sex scenes
-Renders: Average I'd say, graphics are a bit outdated but they're still good IMO.
-Animations: Pretty good.
-Playability: Most of the game it was enjoyable but gets a bit grindy towards the end.
-Characters: I'd say this is where it shines the most, I loved the Girls and their dialogs. Although the MC might be a bit controversial I don't dislike him either because he has some past issues.
-Music/Sound: It has only a few tracks which are not bad at all and sex animations have sounds as well. So they are good enough.

Overall I'd give it an 8/10. Had a lot of fun. It's really worth trying.

Btw I just realized that "VIRTUES" means Vera/Irene/Rachel/Theodora/Uno/Elisa/Senning ... that's kinda cool -

Beautiful graphics, smooth animation, streamlined enough to have an engaging plot, one of the best games I've ever played. It has no flaws, except for the fact that the updates are a bit long in between. The point is, it depicts positive Chinese girls, and white-haired sisters, and oh my god, it's so fitting for my sexual fetish, I love it. Hope the next game make by creator still got a strong quality.