VN - Ren'Py - Where It All Began [S1 Ch.4 Fix 1 Steam] [Oceanlab]

I played this reworked version and then go back to play the old version to compare them, and holyshit it's day and night different.
The old version was pretty good and it hooked me, but the visuals of the early chapters are... terrible, if I'm being honest, they did improve in the later ones.
This new version is, damn, easily the best thing I have seen in any AVN. The details in the models, the scenes, the lightings, etc. are insanely well-produced. And the writing has improved a lot compared to first chapter of the old version, although there isn't much to discuss about the story for now because it has been rewritten and it's only chapter 1. I'll edit this review when there is more content to talk about, I like how things are going for now.

One of the top quality gamers out there, good renders, animation, music and and intriguing story. Did not play the initial version of the game, therefore I will have to wait for the future updates to understand more on what's waiting for us. Overall a very good game.

For v0.1 Reworked Beta:
What an amazing experience. From renders to story it's a masterpiece. I'm kinda mad at myself that I didn't know that Ocean had a second game. I'm a supporter of Summer's Gone for over a year and only now have I realized that he has a second game. Just take my money already and good luck. I can't wait for the next release <3

Artwork, Characters, Story .... simply one of the best visual novels out here
I can't wait to see more and I am hooked already. Totally recommend this one (and I played almost every VN there is ;D)

Graphics are perfect, animation short but provoking, I like that. Story... Well I personally think that you started to much open minded with characters. Should keep it low profile... Don't talk like that easily about open relationship. Give us something to wonder about. I already know that he will fuck his best friend. I don't like that. Teas a bit

v0.1 Reworked beta

Well I was waiting for reworked version of ch1. I only knew about this game after playing summers gone. So I played the old version of this game. When I saw the render quality I was kinda disappointed. Even though render quality was better than a lot of games in this site. So I was really glad when I heard dev was reworking this game. Other thing I didn't liked in the older version was Miru. MC's relationship with her was forced. And she was annoying bitch and her model is bad. Sometimes her facial expression was weird. So I dropped the game after playing until half of the ch2. And waited for reworked version. But ocean changed all his faults in this reworked version

* Render quality and cutscenes are top notch
* Plot is similar but made several changes
* All girl's model is beautiful
* Miru is now a lovely and caring person
* MC looks good

Waiting for next updates. Ocean is indeed a perfectionist

Really excited about the new rework. Story, Dialogues, characters etc were already awesome. Now Animations are really great as well. I also love new models...

Pros:-

• Great Graphics
• Great Animation
• Great Story
• Nice dialogues
• Interesting characters

Cons:-
None so far...

a game where i didn't mute Music which is nearly impossible because of how insanely tasteful and great the music is

insane models sexy and gorgeous and the characters personalty is really really great
story and test are just great and also funny
Renders is the best i have seen

all in all its a top game for sure and seriously i cant describe it with words
and don't know what to say more
keep up the insane and unbelievable work and wish u the best Dev and thanks for this master piece ( bow of respect )

The 1ste version was good and one-off my favorite games.
Butt this new version just WOW. Those visuals are out there so good!
The dev makes great stories so far and can't wait to find out the changes and how it all go's further. Keep up the good work.

For me the reworked Version really turned out great. The Renders look great just like in SG. The Animations are some of the best i've ever seen in those types of games. Like mostly everyone, i'm hoping for faster updates. Keep up the good work Ocean.

To the 1 chapter of the re-release.

5/5 cause it is Ocean, one of the few standards of quality in the industry.

Finished the first re-released chapter and honestly, it feels like an empty tease. A lot of pretty things, some funny interactions, a bit of flashing out of the relationships - but we had already seen all of that. Main plot-wise nothing had changed, so if you played the previous version of the game you are not loosing out on much if you just ignore this release.

It is pretty, it is shiny, it has music, new renders and some characterisation, but ultimately so far it is a FIFA 20XX, all the same things in a flashier wrap. And a lot of animations to fap to, though.

If you are coming to this game for the NTR, ignore this release (obviously). Nothing to be found in the first chapter, as it should be.

Review of v0.1 Reworked

This has honestly proven to me that ocean is insane at what he does.
It's hard to put just into words how stunning this game is, it has the best animations in any game, the best renders in any game, the best character models of any game, all by a sizeable margin.

I feel like I could infinitely list good things about this game, the writing is also good and overall it's hard to find a flaw.
And let's get into the real stuff, the renders are honestly insane, it's so far ahead of other games that you need to play the game yourself to truly understand.

Let's talk about the animations......... Uhh how do I put this into words, they are so ahead of every other ren'py game that you might aswell think you are playing a game that is supposed to release 5 years in the future, as with the other stuff, you really have to try the game yourself to understand what I mean.
Basically you could take any frame from a cinematic animation and make it a wallpaper, that's what I'm trying to say.

And the character models, oh the character models, truly the best I've seen in any game, and that's saying a lot knowing he's going up against a lot of amazing competition, not trying to say that all the other games look bad, just that this is the top in my personal opinion.

Easy 5/5 for me, you have really mastered your craft ocean, keep it up.

A generic Visual Novel with 'click to see next slide or line of text' gameplay and some in-game choices that really lead to nowhere. This title is clearly designed to be a NTR kink and if you turn it off, you'll miss lots of content and also adult NTR scenes (and end up having rather one-dimensional and very restricted experience). The story itself is far too weird to be interesting or believable (stars off as another 'young-guy-finds-himself-living-with-a-bunch-of-girls' cliche). It is also inconsistent and confusing with constant change of viewpoints, way too many side characters (especially male characters) and the pacing of events (the story goes from one riddiculous scene to another, a crowd of characters appear or dissapear suddenly without any reason.) All characters are rather eccentric and weird for the sake of being weird. Renders are decent but your main girl (the girl with whom you'll get almost all sex scenes) is not my kink (weird grimmed, petite, asian nutjob.) And the hottest girl is the main bitch with whom you'll constantly fight or agrue even if you don't want to (no respect for player preferences). All other girls serve only as a teasing or blue-balling baits (some flashing, grabbing or cuddling.) So, you're basically surrounded by hot girls but have no sex or you're stuck with the ugliest one. And all girls act like they suffer from serious mental issues (anger bursts, hysteria attacks etc.) It's not appealing or sexy at all. It is really weird, messy, totally unimmersive and designed to be strictly NTR story.

Version Reviewed: 0.6 Full

I really wasn't expecting much from this game due to not liking the author's other game Summers Gone. This game is more believable with more realistic writing.

Pros

• Excellent renders and visuals
• Excellent character models
• Good looking / hot female character models
• Good story
• Good writing
• Good character development with the main characters
• Good animations
• Good lewd scenes

Cons

• English problems throughout the game. Lots of misspelled words and misused words. Lots of awkwardly worded sentences. The author even claims to have a proofreader which is shocking!
• Too many females in the game have the same body type - bimbo
• Not enough animations
• Not enough lewd scenes with side characters
• Sexual situations are often teased and then you only end up sucking on tits or eating them out. The story doesn't attempt to advance this in nearly every case. Once you do something sexual with them, no more lewd content is available for that LI in most cases.
• The author keeps introducing more and more side characters instead of developing existing ones and furthering their stories
• The scene in prison with the MC teaching a female guard a lesson was a huge letdown! The author could have really done something special here with an aggressive forced deepthroat/facefuck. The scene ended up being very mild with just a single punch to the face and the female guard barely licking the MC's cock. Nobody who saw this would buy it. The MC's cellmate just takes his word for it with no witnesses? I was expecting the female guard to be screaming out for help while the MC kept forcing her mouth to deepthroat him further over and over again while her makeup smeared down her face. The MC could keep slapping her across the face telling her to do better. That would have been a worthy scene instead of the weak scene we were given! The MC and female guard did not sell the scene in any way.

Overall, I enjoyed this game and encourage others to give it a try!

I love this game. The renders look great and a new update is coming out to improve the renders!!! The story is captivating, I don't know who to trust. I read the walkthrough and I couldn't decide which playthough I wanted to do they were all so good. I also really like the idea of some scene and choices being up to chance like the camping and mystery pregnancy. Trust me you will fall in love with this game.

Pros

I like some of the scenes and scenarios. In particular the camping trip. It's really fresh and interesting.

On my second playthrough I appreciated the story more with it's focus on a more serious take, although I'm more neutral here because I don't particularly like it either.

The girls are really hot for the most part and the character archs are very appealing: hot lawyer, 'mute' milf, needy women that wants you so badly, crazy young chick. I just wish I could have seen the story go further. I'd love to explore all these women and their arcs.


Cons

I find the girlfriend unattractive and really annoying, I don't really have a thing for asians so it might just be me. But I like how you could act rudely towards her.

I came back to this several months later and found the story hasn't progressed. And I seen that this person wants to do a re-haul of everything. Why!? It looks good, just continue on with the story. There is a much wider problem with these VNs taking so long to make. Such potential with great characters but can only give it a 3 because of progress. I probably will look elsewhere as I don't understand devs decisions to remake it all.

Great story telling. Renders and animations start out good, not great but definitely improve over the course of the game. What would I suggest the developer improve? Well, a true harem path would be great (it seems impossible with the story so far). Even more strongly requested would be a request for a greater variety of body types. Its not bad now but could be better.
If you value story over quick action, I would recommend you try it. I will try this Dev's other games.

Without a doubt this is one of the best games ever made I was taking a look at the remaster I liked it very much better all very beautiful especially the characters this game was even more perfect than before and it must have been a lot of work to redo everything and change some things for I'm here commenting and doing my best to make it clear that this game is very good even I don't know if the story has changed or remains the same But that's not important for me now I'll find out when it was released I just want to thank you for two games I like the most Miru is also very beautiful thank you (Oceanlab) for having spent all this time remaking the game you for me are one of the best developers so far ♥

The story is good, the choices are very good (I looked at the different forks in the walkthrough and I saw a lot of very different outcomes than what I choose, same for the information you get). The characters are very interesting and there is a clear progression in the dev skills between each chapters.
The only minor downside is that sex scene are kinda average (but they are nice nontheless).

Overall an excellent surprise and seeing how the dev skill progress it can be one of the best in the end.

It has very nice renders, quite interesting story and an interesting character cast. I did however find the current content rather short. I can only see it going up as the paths get more developed. I would love to see the MC doing some blackmailing of Katie but that doesn't seem to be there (yet?).