VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Where the Heart Is [EP25] [CheekyGimp]

Entire Game Review:

The graphics are bad. Like really bad. Doesn't hold upto today's standards. Dialogues are cringe and bad. Monica and her black MILF friend, forgot her name as she's so forgettable, ugliest MILFS in the AVN world. The only ONLY saving grace of this game is Katie. Take every other girl out and keep Katie in, that could save this game from the garbage fire dump that it is. Fire the writers and hire new ones. If Cheeky is the one writing this game, then he needs to hire new writers.

No music,. Seriously. you're raking in $7,000 a month and 0 music? Garbage renders, bland as fuck story, and nothing interesting except for Katie.

This was my favorite game, up until episode 22. I've stopped playing.

It wasn't intentional, I didn't actually realize I'd stopped.

Near the beginning of episode 22, I couldn't bring myself to reject one of the characters that really needed help, but I knew it was going to be a disaster if I didn't. I left the game running, but switched to another game... and just never came back.

This game has the best banter of any VN that I've seen. And the art is great.

But... What I enjoyed most was seeing the MC bring happiness to the lives of the people around him, while juggling the secrecy with ever increasing stakes and antics.

The writing was so clever that I couldn't wait to see the magic trick that would Kobayashi Maru the impending catastrophe. When it actually turned out to be zero-sum, I lost interest, I guess.

Oh, well. The game is still very good, and there's a lot of fun to be had in 21 episodes of content. Just be aware that there's a sharp turn onto gravel before the end of the road.

I only played the first hour and realized it wasn't for me. The beginning is a huge dialogue dump without much excitement happening. As for the character models, Monica, her friend, and her youngest daughter looked like scary porcelain dolls to me. The faces and expressions were a bit to unnatural.

Overall, this game was recommended multiple times in other threads, so the high expectations kind of killed my chances of liking this game. I'm sure it gets better as it progresses, but I just couldn't vibe with it enough to continue.

- The story is long and of average quality
- Dialogues are average
- Some girls are kind of interesting but not too much
- The rejection choices do not matter - even if you are rude as hell all the time the girl will still come at you (tested on Monica), it breaks the immersion
- Graphics is weak and some girls are really ugly and some look like wax dolls, there are some average ones also

In a crowded market where devs can easily release a successful game and then mysteriously disappear for months or years, Cheeky, Ace and Cell have not only continued to release a great game, but also further build up on good will (despite April 1st!) with each release. Their communication with fans is something other devs severely lack and I look forward to each new release, along with their future games to come. 5*s

P.S. If any of them happen to read this, please think of including chars from WTHI universe in your next game!

I love the story. Girls are very hot. Some are nice and some are total bitches. Just like in real life. I would like to see more choices, but I can see where the branching would be too difficult to maintain after a certain point in the story. I can't wait to see where the next stage goes. Congrats and keep up the good work.

It's ok. The game is pretty fun and can be really hot at times as long as you try to bang everyone. The minute you try to turn someone down, things fall apart. You turn her down...and she comes back...and you turn her down...then you go visit her for no reason since you already turned her down...and she rips off her clothes...and you turn her down...ugh. Basically, the game pressures you into banging everyone and the characters don't adapt. Basically, the women in this story only exist to fuck and if you don't fuck them, they become pointless, pathetic and weird. This wouldn't be a big deal - you could just follow the man-ho path and have fun with it, but it is strongly hinted throughout the story that you can't successfully maintain relationships with them all, so you either have to break the game or be prepared for a "bad ending". It's also extremely long. The whole thing just feels exhausting.

this game is very old and the quality does not hold up to todays standard of game in this genre. the renders are very bad, the characters skins all look plastic and there is not enough choice. A lot of content but most of it is boring and not worth reading. If you want to play a long ass game and not too bothered by the quality, you should try this.

I honestly dont mind the terrible renders if there is actual story including loveble characters.
But no, dialogs are bland, most times renders look like La Noire facial expressions %500 videos.
as of ch22 there is only 2 decent human beings in the game.
Im not a milf fan but i dont mind, what annoys me is dev really pushes you to monica,
like i literally rejected her advances multiple times yet she kept throwing herself at me, so i downloaded the mod to check if im doing something wrong, her affection was negative but she was still pushing my buttons.
So yes choices dont matter in this game, even tho there is so many of them to my liking.
Most girls has that "sLay quEEn!" wibe in the game, its kinda cringe.
Last-ly dont be fooled by high rating of this game. Its dog poop.

The first 21 episodes build up to something great. Worth playing. Granted the first 10 episodes have ancient renderings. It's pretty bad. But it gets better. The animations on the other hand don't really get much better, lol.

But be warned, if you play it and enjoy all the romances in the first 21 episodes... You'll be abruptly confronted with a sudden change in the writing And no longer be smashing all the hawt chicks and following their stories. Instead you'll be confronted with ultimatums from most of them. "Become my sole interest or i'm abandoning you, forever"LOL

Kind of heart breaking at the end of it. Not enjoyable for me, but i'll give it 3 stars because it's still a decent game. For the first 21 episodes............

5 stars if it ended better, lol.

[EP 22 Review]

This game has great graphics and leading up to Ep 22 the mix of defining choices and overall depth of fun with the MC and all the different characters is well balanced. However, what made me rate the game so low is the DEV has created a ridiculous amount of choices for each interaction that sucks any fun or enjoyability out of the game.

In the most recent Episode every interaction gives you 6 or 7 unnecessary choices that either ends a relationship or not. I couldn't even enjoy the game at that point it just became infuriating. For example
The graphics have greatly improved but the DEV is just trying to do way to much right off the bat. In the beginning of the new chapter he said "we're not going to make this easy for you some choices will impact future relationships and sometimes we won't tell you what they are" well sweet you just sucked all the fun out of the game.

Paradox of choice is alive and well in this game. Having alot of choices is great if done sparingly and in the right way. However, this can also be a large detriment to the games enjoyability and this new update had so many choices I ended up quitting the game after about 5 minutes into it. This didn't feel like a game more like a multiple choice quiz.

I am super impressed guys! This is exactly what I hoped an AVN would be. The pathing variables left me in awe. I love the attention to detail not only in NPC actions but also their dialogue and demeanor towards the MC.

Still one of the very best VN's out there, definitely one of the best written, and the characters are memorable, which is very rare around these parts. It's worrying though how the updates seem to be getting shorter.

Interesting game but suffers in my opinion from big downsides to be considered as a good or great game.

The good traits are :
- A simple and consistent story.
- Some hot female characters. (Mainly Monica, AAA milf).
- A good amount of teasing.
- MC is some kind of alpha male (important in my opinion as it adds for the consistency of harem like porn game where Female characters are lusting after the MC).
- Late game updates which greatly improve the graphism of the game.

But those very few good points are shadowed by annoying traits :
-Up to episode 15/16, rendering is very poor. Some characters look weird (Katie has dead fish eyes, and Jenna is literally grey). Only Monica looks OK. And MC penis looks like something a 6 years old would draw. After episode 18 only, graphism starts to be good.
-Sex scenes are kind of underwhelming and animation is extremely bad.
-Dialogue, probably the biggest problem of this game. What's wrong is not the content (as I said, the scenario is consistent), but the form. There are so much dialogues for a very few progression in the game, I started skipping dialogues at episode 14-15 as it started to become really boring. It can be so much optimized.
But another huge problem with the dialogue is the amount of dialogue interaction required from the player... You have more than 1800 choices to make up to episode 18 (counted it from the available walkthrough), so to episode 21 (current update when I made this rating) must be around 2000. It is just extremely annoying and almost game breaking. AND note those are only the choices which are giving you the most points or the best options, sometimes you have between 3, 4, 5 or even more choices with of course proper dialogue lines and reaction from the characters. In my opinion, the time wasted here is tremendously gargantuan. I mean the amount of work done on that case is amazing, props to the developer but if only more time was spent from the beginning on rendering/graphism and animation, the game could have been a masterpiece !!!

Rate : 3/5.

There is no such thing as a perfect game, and WTHI is no exception. It's a game I should not like; there are a lot of LI, the MC can be kind of an ass and there are parts of the story I just want to get through as fast as I can. Some of the early renders sucked and OMG clingy Monica scared me away from the game the first time I played it. I could not get rid of that clingy, ugly, desperate MINLF not matter how much of an ass the MC was. Despite all the flaws, I have spent WAAAYYYY to many hours playing the different paths, and each time I was pleasantly surprised. It was like a different game each time.

This really is a wonderful little gem of a game/story. There are parts I didn't like, but you are never going to find a game, with this many paths, that you are going to like from beginning to end. But let’s start by talking about the bad things.

While I liked a lot of the dialogue, the banter between Katie and the MC got a bit old after a while. It was fun and playful, but it also seemed to drag on way too long. Then you have the LIs that just won’t go away. You reject them, and they come back. You reject them again, and they come back. At one point in the game, the dev asks if you want to end the romance and you click yes and then the dev asks you the question again “Are you sure?”. Yes… ffs I am sure. Then a day or two later, the MC gets another option to fire up the romance again. There are other aspects to the dialogue that were frustrating; for example, the girls are really forgiving. The MC can be a total ass hole but the girls, while they acknowledge he is an ass at the time, they seem to have a short memory.

There were also some scenes I didn’t like. The party scene was one. It was just too cruel for me, although the MC does have a way out of doing all the bad stuff. Also, the interaction with Dogboys mom was just… idk… uncomfortable. The whole thing.

Now let’s talk about the good stuff. The renders. As the game has progressed, the dev has worked hard to improve the renders and the animation. So while some of the early scenes are meh, it is nice to see the dev wants to improve and is doing so.

The content. Dudes and dudettes… there are hours of content and a lot of good content. As I mentioned, the early stuff was meh but the later scenes are really well done. Lots of options and each LI brings something different to each encounter. I was really pleased with the Elaine content and it was a nice buildup.

The story. Okay, so the story is nothing earth shattering, but there is a compelling story running throughout the game and it keeps you guessing about the motivation of all the characters. There are also individual stories running for each of the LIs so no matter what path you have the MC take, it feels like an entirely new game. Like Jenna… OMG the way that story progressed was really interesting and fun to discover. Her character is like the Jam of the Month Club… it’s the gift that keeps on giving.

I could go on, but you really need to play it. If Monica weirds you out like it did me, just stick with it. It will be worth it. The game is getting close to wrapping up, which is sad, but I am hopeful the dev moves on to a new project as I am looking forward to seeing what they can do in the future.

Fap-able game.

The characters look rough in the first chapters but it gets better.

It has some really hot scenes and you have the option to avoid girls you dislike.

If you stop to read everything, the game will become slow.

There is replay-ability value so you can spend many nights in it.

Ep.21 The graphics are bad. The girls are sluts ALL OF THEM. The MC is a weak beta cuck who lets himself be treated like shit, can't stand up for himself, and starts drooling if he sees a bit of girl body and the Story is mega weird. The developer tries to push his political agenda never a good thing if the agenda is shit! And the choices don't influence anything in this game except reject don't reject. Pathetic!

Love the dialogue - MC vs Katie especially. Laughed out loud many times so far. A good source for gratuitous friendly insults. Great work overall - best overall dialogue of the 90+ AVN I've read so far. Minor non-sequiturs based on expectation from previous choices but overall an interesting story sufficiently convoluted to remain interesting even with the non-sequiturs. And noting permanent versus flexible choices on key dialogue was helpful, although I won't know until I get to the end (only up to Ep 18) if I'm going to get the result I want. But I'm hooked for now - looking forward to future updates.

Love this game!

Games like this are proof that you don't need flashy renders and lots of animations to make it good. You can tell the writer is a native english speaker and it shows because the story flows really well!

Love the models, especially Monica! The story is everything you want in a lewd fantasy and I really like the way you can reject girls or go with them. And there is no grind or insane gateways where if you make one bad choice you don't get to successfuly court them. Dev manages to create all these exciting moments with the girls where they bounce off one another depending what you choose. The Natasha 'party' scenario is one of the best moments I've experienced in a Lewd game. I wish though it could have taken further i.e make it all more fucked up where you're a real nasty guy with more consequences like getting chucked out of the house by Monica or something. I understand why though, and the way it was resolved with Katie was very clever and creates cohesion to the story. Although I should probably mention I'm playing this game with 'cheat mod' so I don't have to worry so much about making right or wrong choice.

That's probably my only criticism. The dev could have really branched out with choices but I know that may get messy. Perhaps there next game they might experiment with that. But the fact it doens't get bogged down in all this 'branching story line' stuff maybe is it's strong point. Because it still makes you feel like you are making meaningfull choices when you decide to court a certain character.

Some people don't like the POV kisses and stuff, but I really like it. There is a sense of intimacy. The game works because the scenarios and characters feel believable and that is vital for good game.

Just a dam good VN.

Good game and nice characters. Did not go the corruption way. Have to replay more to get different outcomes. But one of my favorite game so far.

Personally i like the angle to get engaged with Monica. I think in theory you can possible be engaged with everyone. All character look great and have their own story as far as i can tell.

It is really well made and i love that it is long. You will have fun time playing it. Just have time available.