VN - Ren'Py - Veneta Bay Erotic Stories [v0.2.1.1] [QueenBuz]

Marketed as choice based. The reality is a exceptional disgusting boyfriend forced onto the FMC without choices.

The story is in itself a good idea. Nothing groundbreaking, but since it is told from 2 perspectives, it gets somewhat of a fresh wind.

I liked both main characters. The MMC is not just a shy introvert, he has some social qualities and is overall a good base ro develop over time.
The FMC is a great character and I enjoyed playing through her struggles. She seems very intelligent as well, and fits quite well with the MMC.

Where the game fails (for me?) is the execution. It is very early in development, so not much to judge yet. The girl the MMC could have an interest in is a internet whore and fucks the FMCs boyfriend. Everything so far unavoidable.
The FMC has aforementioned boyfriend, which is gross in every aspect, and you're forced to interact with him. No choices given.
Lastly it is an NTR game, the boyfriend cheats on FMC.

I quite like the style of the game. Everyone is way to muscular, but it has its charms. It is also very colourful, which I enjoy a lot.

At the moment it is unplayable for me. With a proper rework, that reintroduces player choices and let us actually avoid things we don't want to see, this could become a really good game. At the moment it is just a jealousy inducing failure.

This game is surprinsgly good! At a glance you might be fooled into thinking it's another low-effort mobile phone/kinetic novel with minimal storytelling and cardboard characters.

But this game features great writing (in all but a few poorly translated parts), the characters are diverse: ranging from the school slut, to the homecoming queen with a dark secret, to Goth band chicks, to theater kids and nerds, etc. And even the male characters are diverse and given depth, and aren't one-dimensionally antagonistic or mere obstacles for MC.

A lot of the kinks seem hinted at here, including the male MC and his dad dating the same girls, or potential options for sharing or threesomes, though it's not tagged it might fit the personalities of some of these characters. If I'd offer any critique it'd just be that its not obvious if there's any benefit in being anything other than maximally 'charismatic" [which often means either brave or flirty]. That would add greater replay value.

Worth your time and look forward to seeing more.

This is probably the best AI game I've played. The graphics are consistent throughout and it has a unique cartoony style that lacks the samey rendering you see in a lot of AI models.

It also has inbuilt mini games that are essentially retro arcade games like Pong and Space Invaders. They're pretty basic but really help to add variety and polish to the overall experience.

But the real triumph is in the writing. The game does a great job at describing characters and their inner thoughts. My only criticism is that the dialogue is occasionally a bit wonky. (Example, a character yelling "I will come!" instead of "I'm going to come/I'm coming".) These quirks are pretty infrequent though so don't really damage your enjoyment of the game.

This title definitely deserves support. I hope it continues.

Decent start of the story, I like games with multiple protagonists because they offer a lot of choices usually, to tailor the experience however you like.
The dev listens to constructive feedback, he re-worked and fixed buggy parts of the art/story, it's nice to see improvements from one release to the other.
The story seems to be shaping up to branch a lot and offer multiple playthroughs, it's good to be able to construct your own path with these many choices presented.
There are some grammar/translations issues, but those can be fixed pretty easily in the future.
I will be giving it an encouraging 5 stars, but I'll keep an eye on the development and adjust it if it goes sideways. I hope it won't.
Keep up the good work, Dev!

The game follows a young guy, who just started University, and now is facing new possibilities and a bright future. At this point, this is the golden-way way of making a story. It always works, and even though there are a lot of games out there with this very same storyline, the differences between how their stories develop is what makes them either closer to a "Summertime Saga" level of success or a simple, forgotten game in the depths of this forum.

One thing I can't deny is how well-written the game is. The writer made sure to punctuate the sentences properly, and write them in a proper way. I know it sounds like a silly little detail, but it does make a huge difference.

Regarding the UI of the game, which is, the menu, buttons, text boxes... the devs are doing something about it. Which is great. It adds personality to the game, make it more original. Sure there's room for improvement, but that's something they will be working on as time goes by. It's not a top priority, but it makes the game look more "polished".

Regarding the art... wel... it's inconsistent. I absolutely love AI art, I think it looks great, but we can see way too many different art styles put together in one single game, which leads us to the conclusion that it needs to be fixed soon. A consistent art style is the most important thing, maybe even more important than the story itself. Having characters that looks good, but, most importantly, always look like themselves, is key. Having an art style that is cohese and makes it clear that all characters were "made the same way" is also key, as it deeply affects the credibility of the game.

The game is creative, it has some new nice mechanics, such as in-game minigames. Overall that's cool, it's a nice add. Also, we see some details around that makes me thing that the devs know what they want, a great sign.

Overall, the game is still getting started. It's always a promising start. Making a game is not easy, and most devs are heroes for squeezing as much as they can from the tools that they currently have with little to no funding. I'm sure in the future most things will be fixed, but that work takes time and patience.

Keep up with the good work, devs.

I think this is probably the first game with AI art that I'm rating lower than the previous reviews. Usually, there are some grouches whining about how AI art sucks, and I'm in here like "what are you talking about? This looks great!" In this game, I still think the art looks great, but that's about all. The dev definitely needs to do more work on the English translation, it kinda reads like a bad MTL at this point. The mini-games, rather than breaking the monotony of a non-interactive VN, actually just make the game monotonous in a different way. There definitely needs to be a skip button for those. The animations need to be a higher resolution; it was quite jarring switching from the crisp, clear still images to something that looked like a streaming video that just started buffering.

The game's art isn't very consistent. However, the game has a lot of creativity, the posters in MC's room made me laugh a lot. The story seems very promising. There's a long way to go and for a first version there's a lot of content. I hope the updates don't take long.

Looks promising and interesting to me. Like the setting of the story. I know its not everyones cup of tea, but I enjoy those kind of ai art templates. Keep it up and can´t wait for further updates. Hopefully not every 6 months.