VN - Ren'Py - White Cube [v0.5a] [Anekin69]

Interesting concept which then goes all over the place, and gets incoherent.

The girls look good and are fine character wise.

The guy is absolutely horrific, his face is ok, but his body is beyond ugly. Besides his looks, he's also a total douche. Sure, it looks like there might be an explanation for his behaviour one day, but for now it's just nasty.

I think the dev should first work on his story, it needs coherence and at least a little bit of guidance for us viewers to know what we are dealing with here, too many things are unclear. This doesn't mean there cannot be any mysteries left.

After that the guy needs a new body

Weird..., here is my take on it so far, not much, will add more later;

Pros:

1. Interesting concept
2. Good looking models
3. Clearly has some sci-fi element to it which I usually enjoy

Cons:

1. Dialogue can be better
2. Issue for me with story and character cohesion, some things just don't flow or make sense, too unrealistic.
3. Game is all over the place with flashbacks that make no sense, at least not yet.
4. Choices have no meaningful impact if any really, the result of the game so far is exactly the same in either case.
5. Too far fetched in a way, at this point whats happening to these characters clearly has no limit and can be anything which ends up losing my interest. The game becomes a shock and horror thing instead of also intriguing.

Could be part of the story, could be characters are drugged, not sure, however, some moments between characters are just not well structured, the dialogue is wrong, the characters behaviour is nonsensical and their memories are rather short. Nothing that is said or done has any real effect if any.

The writer is clearly trying too hard to making something unique or they are just throwing ideas into a blender and letting the player experience it.

Either which way, this game will need a lot of work and I recommend only playing it much later or even better, when/if its complete. Perhaps then it will be structured into something that is actually good and makes sense, not this.

The game is beyond terrible. Calling it a game is and insult to game. You do nothing you have no choice. It is not even a proper visual novel since the story doesnt even make any sense as it jump from one scene to another without any explanation. And it doesnt even follow the tags it shown.

Absolutely superb "direction", which really tries to make it seem like an independent cult horror movie of the past.
Renders are nice, and despite the seemingly dull premise the plot has many twists and variety (in fact, shoehorning sex at at every occasion is kinda doing it a disservice).

I'm not giving full rating just because the game cannot seem to decide whether you are supposed to play it in "third person" or you are actually meant to fill the characters shoes. Unlike in cinema you are given a minimum amount of latitude here, and suspension of disbelief breaks completely when certain.. very aggressive or dumb behaviours happen randomly.

A promising project, quite intresting idea, good and intriguing start... But something went wrong. It just gets worse with each update. Renders are good though.
Looks like this game is done. Or it desperately needs quite radical remake.
Sad but true.

Very good and interesting game. Hope the dev update it faster!! Really enjoying every aspect and dynamic it brings. The dev is incredibly creative, eagerly awaiting to see what new features they might add.

The game has decent renders, and builds on a very interesting and unique story concept. Lots of promise if done right.

But...

There is no consistency. The characters and the story keep going all over the place, trying to do all sorts of unnecessary things. It feels like a bunch of different story ideas all in a very early development stage just shoved in with no care to make it actually fit.

There are also technical problems that simply have no reason to exist if you playtest this thing through even once. The biggest one is the frames you cannot skip for 10 seconds -- you need to sit and stare at some picture for a length of time before you have to click for the next one. It was painful for that Christmas flashback sequence thing. Like a dozen pointless frames, all with forced wait.

Oh and once you hit the end of content the game just drops you back to the main menu. No warning. Which is even more confusing since there is a warning at the end of season 1, so the concept has to be familiar to the dev

Not as good as it should be given the focused premise of the game.

The writing of the characters is unfortunately not very good and given it's just a couple people in a box, that hurts the game more than in another setting.

The guy is also extremely stereotypical in his backstory and he has the emotional depth of a piece of cardboard. As others mentioned, he also has these psycho episodes, which I am sure are important to the plot somehow, but they are just not very well done and the reaction to them by the women is mostly ludicrous.

He's shallow, unlikeable and behaves a bit like how a 13y old boy would think a MAN should be like.

So, good premise, poor(ish) execution.

An interesting and entertaining visual novel. Don't expect many choices, but the story is interesting. Not jawdropping, but certainly there and interesting. There is some mystery and it is not just the "who kidnapped them and why?" but also on discovering the background of the people that is revealed slowly.

0.5 updated review
Very interesting game with nice character, great story and stunning render and it's feel like a movie than AVN

Pro
- Story
- Emma is one of the most gorgeous character in AVN I really love her
- Character look great they've been nicely designed
- The sound effect is really good and some of the dialouge have voiced
- I didn't know what gonna come next so it's interesting
- Amazing concept

Cons
- Mark is disgusting so it's 2 stars off
- Emma backstory
- Sometimes male mc is acting like a psychopath without any decision for player to choose or his backstory to relate in
- Some sex animation would be nice and better than long render of mark
- Some of importance sex render like Emma squirt has been black and skip

5 star for Concept, Character design, Mood and tone and Render
Minus for mark

Worth 5 stars easy. Maybe when it first released it may have come off as lacking in story but it is definetly building up to a very erotic, somewhat original adult game. I have to say, I think it is kind of funny how the developer kept male gentian modest but the females are not average, but not complaining. Story stopped suddenly, which I think needs to be worked on to not have sudden endings. Would be better to have mild or heavy cliff hangers, just not white noise. Good luck

The author has a very unique idea, and the overall design of the game is very good.
A lot of times we call RenPY games visual novels, but this game is more like a movie.
The overall design is a suspense movie, with beautiful naked women arranged in the middle to make everyone happy.
The plot is fascinating, and there's a lot of room for manoeuvre for the author.
This piece is worth playing for everyone. A wonderful new work to remember in the second half of 2023.

one of the very very very few games i didnt hold down the skip button all the way. great job man, keep this up! Could really feel the tension and its so palpable.

It's an interesting game. It has the potential whilst also suffering from some issues which I worry will prevent the game from truly reaching greatness.

The premise is interesting, two characters in a box. Gotta do tasks to get out. If they fail they die. If they win they get out. Now I gotta say for that reason alone it's better than quite a few other games out there. The game is trying to do something at least different.

However, there are issues. it has an issue where it feels like more effort has been put into the female character model than the male. Pretty standard as games go but given there's no renders beyond a white padded cube then it is REALLY obvious. The male character has body and facial hair and it just looks.... poor. It doesn't help matters he looks like Rylan Clark. If you're British you'll probably understand, if not then google him. Basically a daytime tv presenter.

It also doesn't help that almost immediately the characters are thinking about how sexy the other is so the whole point of this becomes almost redundant. It appears that the game the characters find themselves in are to bring two strangers together and force them to do things they don't want to do but both characters are like "damn, I wouldn't mind a piece" after like 2 minutes of conversation so the tension is just shot to hell immediately.

There's also a weird thing where the male character (John, you don't get to name characters oddly) has occasional.... rapey thoughts? Almost like a second personality with red font and everything saying things like "Fill all my sperm in her womb, until she preys me to stop" Now.... it's early doors, maybe John has been dosed with something to lose his inhibitions but at the same time it's jarring as hell. If he's a sexual predator then fine, it would certainly play into the "horror" elements mentioned in the overview but I get the impression you're meant to feel for him so I doubt that's the case.

Ah ok, the John character is a bit rapey. Weird. It.... doesn't change much? I suppose but really the whole "it's two strangers who want to fuck each other after meeting for 2 seconds" bit is really ruining the game. It's inevitable what's going to happen and the John character just isn't pleasant to look at. He looks like a Ken doll

A sufficiently good visual novel with hefty bits of thrill, mystery and erotica.
Good quality of 3DCG and usage of voiced slided makes the experience even greater.
Looking forward for the next iterations.

Man, the concept and the art of this game is very good. It's a horror mystery game and we have no idea what is happening. Including who is the good or the bad person here or if there even is a good or a bad person here.

The models of the girl and the guy looks great too. Honestly, I would love to see how this story goes forward because it looks great as it is right now in 0.3 version.

Great looking game although it is more of a VN than a game. But I dont mind that very much. The creator says it is a linear game and as long as the storytelling is interesting (which it is!) that does not bother me at all.

It is kind of refreshing not to have any meaningless choices. Ofcourse it is all in the early stages of the story yet so part of me giving five stars is the excitement of not knowing where the story will go.

So Mr. Anekin69 this review is an encouragement to keep going and I extended that encouragement to Patreon as well. Very good job so far!

Interesting setup, nice renders, the writing isn't the greatest but its alright keep up the good work as I said great idea to begin with. Honestly I am surprised that there arent like a billion similar games to this. You could get really creative with the tasks and then what comes after.

Looks really promising. There is an interesting setting I haven't seen in any other games, but I think I will see again after this in a number of knock offs. I think if there is follow through with regular releases this could be one of the better games out there. Not a lot of content yet, but I'm looking forward to future releases.

Good idea, but poor execution.
I genuinely was interested to try it, but quickly got disappointed. Basically, there is nothing to keep you invested in these story. Just from the start the characters already thinking about fucking each other, the characters are empty: the girl forgot about her boyfriend after few second after she saw a stranger's dick, she didn't afraid to be alone with him either; the guy act like sexual maniac, he had few moments of fear, but all other time he was just thinking how to bang her. Well, you got the idea. In this case, I don't even see how this task would be challenging for them, since they already want to fuck each other. I perfectly understand that is the porn game, but the dialogues, characters emotions so false that give you association with those generic porn movies with girl who called a plumber.

Personally I was expecting at least good writing and tasks that will test the heroes traits, bonds and will to live. In this case, it would even be more better to leave only the woman as a main character, since she has a boyfriend, and tell the story on her behalf, as she would have to perform various crazy tasks against her will. Apart from that, I expected that the plot itself could be a little more in the atmosphere of the films on which this parody is based. In any case, people who watched them downloaded this game and expecting at least some level of cruelty, or brutality. I'm not talking about very extreme things, but everything here is too harmless, even the execution itself is just a lethal injection, which is not as scary as it would be if it were sharp spikes, for example.

+1 star from me, just for trying something new.