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

The game offers a mixed bag of experiences. On one hand, it shines in character development, rendering, and sex animations, but on the other, it stumbles in terms of gameplay and storytelling.

The characters. In a genre where character quality often varies greatly, this game managed to make nearly all its characters compelling and likable. Their individual storylines, personalities, and interactions were crafted with remarkable detail, adding depth to the game and enhancing its appeal.

The renders, The game has some of the most stunning renders I've ever seen with this engine. The level of visual quality was amazing.

The sex animations also stand out. They are exceptionally smooth and well-executed.

However, the game has its fair share of shortcomings. The gameplay experience is marred by excessive grinding and scene repetition, making progression feel like a chore. The storytelling, or lack thereof, is another disappointment. The overarching narrative is basic and nearly non-existent.

In summary, despite its flaws, it was still a pretty good experience. The exceptional characters, stunning rendering, and engaging sex animations provide plenty of reasons to give this game a chance. However, be prepared for a fair amount of grinding and a rather basic narrative. If you can look past these issues, you'll find a game with a lot to offer in terms of character-driven gameplay and visual appeal.

I enjoyed it thoroughly.
6/7 main characters are of "big boobs" variety, so there isn't exactly a lot of different bodytypes here. Not an issue for me. it helps that only one girl has huge tits and none of them have grotesquely huge tits.
Every girl has a different personality/kink. So there is a high chance that you'll find the one that you like.

I'm giving it 4 overall although it's probably not a full 4, maybe a 4-.
The models are good quality but a bit too samey, I really liked two of them though. The story is totally fine, they also did a good job at setting up the harem portion of the game, writing is ok.
The biggest issue is definitely the grinding, it's done to a pointless extent, just mindless repetition so that you can unlock the next step which you have to do multiple times for multiple steps for multiple girls, it's basically the downfall of the game.
I would still recommend at least trying it though, and then you can decide if it's worth the grind.

With a wide cast of characters, V.I.R.T.U,E.S manages to accomplish what many games fail to do with them, give each character a deep and almost real feel.
Even though this is just a porn game, it manages to deliver a somewhat coherent story with good each of the characters being aware of each other's relationship with the MC.
Though, I can understand that some people feel frustrated about some FMC train of thoughts and overall personality, I still recommend them to play it until the end.

This game has a pretty strong start - there's a plot where the playboy son of a billionaire suddenly finds himself without his funds and needs to build up again, finding lots of love along the way, but then his mysterious father disappears forever, and the entire plot sort of vanishes. The rest of the game is convincing a set of unique girls to congeal into a single sex slave/lover persona through monotonous grinding and a lot of repetitive scenes. The girls begin with personalities, but don't worry, the personalities are wiped away pretty swiftly and replaced with mindless sex. The stakes are always low, the plot evaporates, the game doesn't really end so much as run out of content, money is useless, and the choices you make don't have real consequences.

That said, I love the huge boobs. The renders and sex scenes are pretty well done, though the dialogue is stilted and inhuman, and the girls talk in a very unnatural way.

I dunno, I suppose this game bit off more than it can chew. It had ambitions, but I feel like it could have been more focused and shorted and been more compelling.

I guess its a fairly good game.
You have good graphics.
A pretty standard story and a buildup that "properly" leads to harem.

But it's not that engaging imo.
Then it's sandbox.
+ grind.
Dunno about you. But that's more trouble than these are worth (I don't remember a case in a porn game where grind was worth the reward.)

We have the tsundere who does not communicate well but "cares" more than you can tell because they show the opposite of their real feelings.

We have rushed story here and there.

I'm a MILF lover. So I try to get the entire available story of the milf. In this game, for the milf's ending. She goes from saying "I can't be your wife. I'm too old." to us missing any confirmation or special moment to give us the necessary context for a the next scene where she says "thank you for choosing me to be your wife."

Now I admit to being human and thus imperfect. I might have missed the two affirming their feelings and their commitment/bond in some slide that confirmed the marriage. At least one of the girls confirmed her feelings before her and the mc became housewife and househusband. Yes you could clearly tell the MILF liked the relationship with the mc. However I don't play these games to imagine personally provide the context that bridges "I'm too old" to "I love my milf-wife." and "thank you for choosing me to be your wife."

If you stuck through that. You maybe understand how invested I am in Milf content. Or you are again disappointed in humanity for doing something that you don't understand why/something unreasonable.


That's life ainnit?

The very definition of grinding should include a reference to this game. It's insanely inflated by pointless repeating events that caps the progression of other characters until you score unjustifiably high points with each girl. The story is dumb and directionless. It would have worked better just as a normal story based VN with some menu for repeating events like the pointless, but nice to see, training interactions menu. At least you wouldn't have gotten all the mutually incoherent endings overlapping. Girls are all hot and cute. I wish they didn't all have sadly oversized boobs. An oppai or two are good in a game, but, literally, all of then with the sole exclusion of the loli? Feels juvenile. It felt like a 1 star project, but the content is massive and the scenes are hot. I must at least recognize that.

Meh game. MC does not have enough sleep sex scenes with the women. One of them has several scenes with him but not enough to entice. All the women have big boobs, even those with "small boobs" the creator could have made more ass on the models but must have really be into tits.

Overall, a nice visual novel, but with some weaknesses.
At some points the story is quite nice and you build a relationship with the girls that goes a little deeper. But sometimes it just seems very flat, forced or just random.

The MC always says how educated and " virtuose " he is, but he doesn't act like that. As soon as it comes to sex he is more or less cock controlled. Drunk or not so deal with an inexperienced girl and after the first time just offer money? Yes he comes to his senses afterwards that this was not the smartest thing to do and takes responsibility but still....

As others have pointed out it's pretty grindy and you have to chase all the women to a certain extent -> for example I'm not into MILF content which you have to manually skip (did I miss an option?) otherwise you don't get anywhere.

The quantitative amount of content is quite good - about 9 hours for me, although I also skipped a bit. The texts were well understandable for me, but I can only say little about the mistakes, because English is not my native language.

The quantitative amount of content is quite good - about 9 hours for me, although I also skipped a little bit. The texts were well understandable for me, but I can only say little about the errors, since English is not my native language.

About the character design:
I just have a weakness for girls with white/silver or red/pink hair although the others are also attractive. As mentioned before, I'm less into the MILF content, so Elisa & Lady Minna just fall through for me.
The poses are mostly well chosen.
But I do not understand one thing why so many creators are fixated on huge breasts that are beyond realistic

You ever want to feel like your reading MTL without MTL? Here you go.

All told its not an awful game, its grindy sure, but so are a lot of sandbox games, and the inconcsistent English.
You'll have Ow for OH and Ow for Ouch used interchangeably, which is one of the more minor issues that just can outright change the context of a scene.

The protagonist is also kinda just annoying, he speaks highly of his virtue, but is down to fuck a drunk chick and take advantage of a chick who knows little to nothing about sex.
You can't have a 'moral' character that constantly does immoral things and then is just like 'oops'

This game definitely needed an editor and probably a protagonist with a different moral structure.

That aside it is nice that you can unlock the endings and view them or other subplots again from your room, which is something not many games I've seen have thought of.

The models are fine, but the girls definitely don't feel like they were given an equal chance and there are clear favorites.

You can play it, and can generally grasp whats being said, but dev really needs to go back and edit the broken English, make the PC more consistent, and give reason to unlocking the trainings and such beyond just to see the same event again.

good game despite being a 'japanese harem game' with too much focus on big tits, that is not something bad but variety would be better and girls talking about being conquered in the middle of sex sometimes, some of the content didnt get finished and i would like more harem/pregnancy but is very much worth playing

The start is a little rough, I sometimes had the feeling the MC was somewhat mentally unstable, becouse one day he would seem to be a spineless virgin, the next day a dominant man, the third day he'll stammer and stutter becouse someone mentioned boobs and the fourth day he'll grab a girl by the throat and fuck her roughly.
Luckily it does get better, untill he settles into a somewhat simpy dominance, you know, the type who'll dominate a girl and then apologise profusely when it's over.
Not a bad personality type, but not ideal for me either.
Regardless, as soon as things start getting more serious with the girls is when the game really picks up, the scenes are great and the story is good. Just remember it takes a little while to get there.

Beautiful renders, It doesn't happen very often when I get attached to a character like I did with Theo who's really hit everything I like in a Main female character. First time I've played a harem game where I actually felt more like just staying with one

Great story along with a great cast of characters. However, since all models were made in honey select, I can't give the dev too much praise on that side. The UI was amazing but I hoped this game would be made in an engine other than renpy because it lagged at mostly every moment, and it wasn't a PC issue. The sandbox aspect was also amazing, however, the game felt a bit "fetishy" at some points considering the master-slave stuff and the whole harem with one master stuff, but that was fine since thats the kind of game this is. The grammar and spellchecking needs to immensly worked if the dev is working on another one after this and maybe get a native english speaker to help with the writing and language. But other than that, great game. 10/10. Enjoyed it alot and didn't get bored.

This game has bad graphics and poor details. There is a lot of women but they are not so attractive. The story is a bit strange (probably because the harem setting). The gameplay is between average and poor.

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

All i can say is that this game is not perfect, yet it is one of the greatest games ever.

Maybe one of the things i like the most about this game is that it has a fairly realistic way for a man to make a Harem. Not just corrupting girls minds by force like mind control, blackmailing, or r4p3 (kinda pathetic tbh),. You've got to earn your Harem

If i had to give a suggestion, this game is a bit lacking in "sickness" elements, at least for my taste. Also the ending is...rather predictable and anti-climactic. The rest, i'm satisfied.

The game is really good.
Nice, story, hot models. Pretty good animations.
It has only one big downside. It's too grindy.
Each girl has a love meter and about each 10 love points the plot with the girl continues. During the farming these 10 points each time, you have to repeat one action all over again.
During to the count of content that you get, I found the grind a complete waste of time. Dev could reduce the love points in at least a half and the game would be still pretty long.

Mostly a re-hash of what others have said:
* Too grindy- I feel like this could have been toned down by making a lot of the plot scenes/interact scenes advance affection, or some of the scenes with multiple characters will only advance it for one character. I reached a point that I don't care anymore especially considering....
* Incomplete- Seems that there is a scene that can completely kill being able to complete the game. Chose an option that avoided a scene I didn't care for (Femdom) and didn't realize it had locked me out till I'd overwritten my saves from before it.
* Rachel tacked on- You can't even really do anything with Rachel until you're almost done with several other characters.

What's there can be decent at times but at this point the whole thing doesn't really seem worth it.

V.I.R.T.U.E.S. [v17] [NoMeme]
A good game that I recommend.

+
Great character models, one of the best character (aesthetic) games I've played.
Different endings, excellent characterization, good animations.

-
Story of certain characters too long (some dialogues are really useless).
Sound effects but no character voice. This is too weird, I would have preferred no effects at this point. It's not the first game with such a structure, but only this has bothered me.
Less gameplay than expected. The picture with the map mislead me. The game is "look where the map indicates to go and read".