Ren'Py - WE: Another World [v0.16] [Kerosine_NTR]

Character modles, dialogue and writing are poor. Half/most the game is just skippable. By the time it got to the metaverse/VR part I got too bored to continue. Also didn't realise it was a NTR/Cuckold game. Not for me thanks

As someone who has been playing NTR (Netorare) games for many years, I have to start by saying that this project absolutely thrilled me. I had previously played Kerosine's A Wife's Life, and while this new game is very different in style, the developer's skill in plot design and dialogue shines through in both.

The game promises a game within a game, almost a metaverse concept, which immediately brought to mind the "Striking Vipers" episode of Black Mirror (Season 5, Episode 1).

Our main character (MC) is a university student living with his family (mother, father, and sister). His girlfriend attends the same university. She is very well designed—neither excessively gorgeous nor utterly plain—coming across as innocent and shy. The MC has one close friend, while the girlfriend has one bull friend Jamal and one sexy female friend. The entire plot revolves around these characters.

I'll try not to give away too many spoilers. Normally, in visual novel games, I'm very results oriented, and when I don't feel invested, especially in games with complex mechanics, I often "skip all text" just to see the scenes. However, this absolutely didn't happen with Kerosine's game. It doesn't bore you; it makes you curious to know more.

The game progresses along two different branches: real life and the virtual world called "We." This is where you truly appreciate the sheer scale of the developer's effort and workload. Those who have played it will know there's a skill building system reminiscent of The Witcher, with slots for character armor, weapons, and a host of new characters introduced within the virtual world. The potential of the game, as much as the game itself, is incredibly exciting.

In the virtual world, the MC's girlfriend primarily spends her time with her friend, Jamal, who is highly flirtatious and has a high libido. He even tries to bond with the MC to get closer to his girlfriend, going so far as to send him pictures of women he's slept with, which is why he feels like the main bull. In addition to all this, there is also a secret stalker.

In short, for those who love NTR, this is a treasure trove . The potential is massive, especially for those who played Kerosine's previous game, A Wife's Life. I anticipate we will experience corruption, jealousy, cuckoldry, humiliation, and cheating—all of it.

The MC has a beautiful, single sister who seems quite horny and easily manipulated. Furthermore, there is sexual tension at the MC's workplace with his close, womanizing friend. This is certain to test the MC's integrity and loyalty. It seems like our choices will come back to us as karma within the game world.

The gameplay duration was quite long, and I never felt bored. I am eagerly awaiting the new update. Thank you, Kerosine, for bringing this wonderful game to us. I hope your hard work is more than compensated!

0.16

I really liked the game's modifications. It's now more interactive. Before, it was very stagnant. I really liked that it's practically two different games in one: one with the genre change and the other in real life.

I'm enjoying the game's slow burn; it's not rushing, it's delivering gradually, and now with the genre change, the MC itself is being abused. LOL. Very good.

The game is really good. I liked the point distribution and classes in the RPG game; it just needs more scenarios to use it.

really promising game. the only minor issue that i had was that sometimes it felt like some dialog trees were forgotten about. for example MC would promise GF to call her after work, then MC isn't given the chance to do that but the next day nothing happens.

The release so far seems good, hope the dev stays on the project till completion cause countless times such ambitious games get abandoned.

The protagonist transformation genre was a surprise but a welcome one, I think if the Dev was more open about it, it would attract the right audience.

Pretty solid game. Very good amount of content for the couple of first updates. Not often the author actually takes time to make the 0.1s updates actually substantial, so it's a big plus for me.

In terms of content, the gameplay loop is unusual. It's your average "sandbox" tho you only really have 1 choice of progression so it is more like an illusion of the sandbox, at least for now. The VR game gimmick is also executed in the unusual fashion where it is a substitute of the main game loop instead of its main focus. I do not honestly like that, because it makes the gameplay too disconnected like you are playing a 2 completely different games, but it is more of the personal taste issue, so I won't detract any points because of it.

When in comes to renders, they are average not great, not bad. The character interactions are made in a lazy manner where instead of changing renders with different poses and expressions, it is mostly just shifts the light from one static image to another.

The main thing for me is the genre representation. It is too early to definitively state whenever it is good or not, but so far it seems that the author gets the idea of the NTR with a slow-burn corruption well.

So far, a solid 4/5. I will revisit the review after a few more updates to determine whenever it is worthy of the 5 stars.

I give it 3 stars, just because the idea is good and the character models are decent. The interface looks like they want something interesting for the game.
But I found the fact that there were no animations weak, and also due to the conversations, the characters are always just their static models, there are no variations in pose and expression in the conversation, everything is very rigid. The dialogues are a bit forced, they're not natural, it's that feeling that takes away the suspension of disbelief, where it's clear that they're trying to explain the plot and things to the player, the construction of the dialogue doesn't seem very intelligent, it doesn't need to be expository like that, sometimes the action and the subtext of the conversations will paint a better picture in the player's head.

The game is interesting, although it’s still too early to call it undeniably good. But unlike most games being released nowadays, this one actually brings something new to the table.

It’s been a long time since I had to think while playing an adult game — and that’s a huge plus for me. I’m tired of visual novels that can be played by holding down Ctrl, where the only “interesting” thing is the sex scenes.

I really like that this game features various menus, and from the looks of it, there will be even more in the future. The in-game fantasy world is well-crafted and reminds me of classic (non-adult) RPGs. I’m really looking forward to how the story develops in that setting — I hope there will be a logical narrative arc, not just a series of unrelated mini-quests.

There are no animations in the game so far, but that doesn’t ruin the overall experience. In this type of game, it’s not a dealbreaker — though if animations are added in the future, that’ll be a nice bonus.

I’m giving it 5 stars because I want to see where this project goes. If future updates disappoint me, I’ll update my review.

VERSION: 0.13
SUMMARY: Not bad, different and could be decent, still a bit soon to tell due to the different mechanics, which are refreshing.
RATINGS: (out of 5):

NOTE: The following categories and scoring method are my own criteria and may require more context. Additionally, scoring is based on the state, and what is in the current version and not what may or may not be.

1. Model Visuals..................... : ⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. General Visuals................... : ⭐⭐⭐⭐
3. Animation Quality................. : ⭐
4. Character (Persona)............... : ⭐⭐⭐
5. Story Quality & Pacing............ : ⭐⭐⭐
6. Writing Quality & Dialogue........ : ⭐⭐⭐⭐
7. UI & Game-play Mechanics...........: ⭐⭐⭐
8. Playtime & General Quality.........: ⭐⭐⭐
9. Sounds & Music.....................: ⭐⭐
10. H-Content & Fetishes.............. : ⭐⭐⭐

Average: X of 50 possible points giving a X% rating i.e. X stars.

PROS:

1. Models and LIs look really good.
2. Writing is structured and reads well.
3. Story is basic but interesting due to VR concept thats introduced.
4. Kinks are potentially good, but not 100% sure yet as its still early days.
5. The VR idea is better interesting, considering also the MC is another gender there.
6. I also liked the UI changes between VN world and VR world, its well done.

CONS:

1. Not a fan of the SANDBOX elements, or anything sandbox related. They waste time here also. See comments
2. Style, the game style feels like a side-scroller, not sure how to describe this, but the way the characters pop into the screen, its like stick figures, so it feels and is very basic and primitive in its design.
3. NTR is as question mark here for me, I am concerned the MC gets cucked without it being avoidable? See comments
4. Added to above point, the same applies to the VR part of this game, where the MC is forced to do things or things are done to the MC like a "almost" rape scene. Are choices at all relevant here? What can we expect going forward?
5. MC comes accross as a mixed bag, kinda beta and I am not sure why, the MC is in good shape and condition, has clearly got intellect and appeal so why does he act threatened? This is compounded when the MC has chances to step out and be an alpha of sorts when he can "cheat"
6. Added to above, what relevance does the stats have like "corruption" what other stats are there, do they affect choices later on, can lack of or otherwise too much corruption block some choices?
7. No animations or angles are a let down.
8. Sounds like lewd scene sounds are not implemented and that is dissapointing too.

FINAL REMARKS, OPINIONS & SUGGESTIONS:

NOTE: The following remarks are my personal opinions and thoughts, which may provide more context and could be useful to the developer.

• Regarding sandbox, so far its really pointless in this VN, all the content I played is linear, i.e. go to university then to job then home, pretty much. You can't go to the mall randomly or home, its linear, so WHY I ASK make it sandbox at all, why not just go traditional VN route and save us the clicks and bullshit.
• My playthrough was quick and just a one path, I tried to play the faithful route, good BF and checked the GF and male friends on doing things that could lead or suggest to cucking or NTR. This is important for me, in that I can decide to go the cheat, cuck, faithful or whatever route, but the way the game play it almost feels like you putting off the inevitable which is being a cuck etc.
• Per above point, for future updates, I would like clarity on the tags and things like NTR, cheating, cuckold etc if they are avoidable or not, please add this in ( ).
• Also I considering the VN has quantity of semen in the avatar as a stat and its mideval period setting, will pregancy be a thing, at least for the VR avatar? What of the normal VN world, would it feature there?
• Adding more to tags and future direction of this VN, is incest a thing? Will the MC have sexual, romantic options with family members? Suggested when checking out sis.
• Same as in the normal VN world, I would like to know if the VR world and the avatar there also have choices that relate to NTR, cucking etc. I can see that in the VR world, the MC GF getting screwed by Jamal being "only a game" but this could translate to NTR back into the real world, and also BETA the fuck out of the MC if his avatar gets fucked in the VR world by Jamal who all kept their gender, only the MC is a female in the VR.

TLDR:

This VN is interesting, it could be really good, but leaves a lot open ended at the moment and as such I have some reservations. (Read the review) I am not overly fond of the style but I do think the premise, ideas are good and interesting. I do not like the sandbox elements, at least, not how they are implemented and here they are clearly a waste of time due to the linear narrative where sandbox falls flat.

The MC is hot and cold and should be liked by the player, yet I felt conflicted in his behaviour. This is due to the choices in the game almost feeling forced and that the MC must be cucked. The same can be said about the MC in the VR, there also, the "almost" raped scene, will there be things that happen to the MC that are unavoidable? If so then please let the player know what they getting into.

Will all content be good or is the dev driving the cuck, NTR, abuse etc content and narrative more...

love the plot lines already! characters are allllll hot. Cool concept as well! Only downside is theres no animated scenes. But so far the story very cool! Looking forward to future update of this game!!

Pretty good start. I like the ideas behind the game so far. I hope some of the standing CGs for some characters like Jamal are improved as they look pretty low quality. I'm particularly interested in the irl vs in-game dynamic and I'm happy to see that the in-game seems to be the main focus.

Wishlist for future updates:

• Animated sex scenes
• Improved UI, current UI feels bland but hopefully just a placeholder
• More varied and higher quality standing CG renders that are used in conversations

Good luck devs!

I love the start of the game, Not a ton of content at the moment but lots of promise from what I can see. Seems like there will be lots of branching paths. Hoping to see a lot more from the "NTR" side - will definitely be supporting this project

0.11 version
Good looking vn with default mom and sis lines, cuckold, bbc topics and interesting plot with vr game.

It has very long, poorly written and boring start. Just few char models chatting a lot without any animations.
Your char has very athletic constitution but can't outrun girls and acts like some helpless nerd. He thinks a lot about things that just happened to him, repeat them, constantly doubts stretching the play time.
His girl is very modest but when she sees for the first time Tyron she and her best friend almost lost their mind right in front of her boyfriend.

The second part in vr game is more interesting in contrast with irl but also gives you no choice other than to play female char with planned corruption line.
Mobile phone and map features are included but for current version as formality cause you cant choose any options even in chatting.
There is only one looped melody in menu and during playthrough that annoys pretty quick.

It has a great potential with optional choices and some rework in current version but if dev wanna make cuckold story in irl part with female corruption in vr game that's not for everyone.

How this game is stretched out. Stupid endless dialogues, MC comments on his every breath, dozens of minutes of dull whining and strange jealousy of MC for any reason. Not surprised by the NTR tag, MC is incredibly stuffy. Even the characters of the game constantly tell him "hurry up, you're late, why aren't you eating, they're waiting for you, hurry up", but MC stands still and reads his monologue "I need to eat, then go, then this, then that" and he just stands there like an idiot. How boring it is! The entire part before the "game" can be fit into three sentences, but it was stretched out to two thirds of the current version (although the RPG part itself suddenly turned out to be good, if you skip the dull part of the dialogues). For some reason they added a phone and a map, but you can't choose anything there except what you're told to do. What's more, Mother says she has a day off, and in two days she "just got a job yesterday". MC's girl says she promised to meet her friend on the second day and will only be able to go for a walk with MC on the third, but on the second day after classes she invites him to go with her. How did you get lost in your own demo? At least that's how it looks or is the developer heartlessly skipping days.
In general, the renders are good, the plot is a drawn-out bore.

[0.11]
Game starts slow and you start to think you are playing just another RenPy VN, but than something happens and it stops to be like that.

Not the best story writting, but considering it's renpy, gameplay and graphics are saving it... maybe if the intro removed elements that make it look like not just keep clicking for more content mechanic (places you can visit, but at all times you can click only at one, same with phone and other things, whole intro has only 2 places where it branches).