VN - Ren'Py - Wicked Ways [v0.4] [LewdsMeister]

The overview states " As your relationships blur lines, moral dilemmas arise. "

But this isn't the case. In Chapter 1, you don't get to steer the MC towards or away from any relationships - so they are not "yours." You are forcibly put into several "cheating" scenario's.

Then you're, I guess, supposed to care about MC's dilemma.

There's not enough player agency to care.

The sex scenes would be great for 2014, they're extremely sub-standard now, sadly. Too stilted, poor animations.

The dialogue is utilitarian, it gives you enough information so you know what's going on. But it doesn't flow and make you feel the characters or immerse you into the story.

A game with great potential, beautiful graphics and setting, the story promising, but it can be improved, having the options to get angry or reason is a nice way of acting, a new way of even
see the NTR VNs finally, in a different way, not the usual paths. Congratulations on your start..

I think the word that this reminds me of is "middling". The story isn't good, not because of misspelling and implausibility, but because it takes itself seriously and gives us no reason to do the same. The developer tries to add depth to the MC's job, but knows nothing about the industry he's talking about or business meetings in general, and so this part of the story that the dev has made critical to the story is almost childish in it's simplicity and reminds you it's just a porn set-up.

The models are well-done and the backgrounds aren't bad, but unfortunately the words behind the models don't have much to cling onto, and thus they end up feeling relatively lifeless.

For people who just care about the sexual content: there's two sex scenes in the game at the moment, not a bad count for a first release really.

I'm giving it a 2/5, but it's a high 2. I'd give it a 4/10 if I could. I believe the dev CAN make a better product, but ultimately I have to review it on whether I believe people should invest their time into reading it, and I just don't believe there's enough to entice people.[Review for 0.1]

0.1 Review:
Well.... The plot is a classic porn plot. There's nothing bad about it, just don't expect something deep and profound. Good renders except for some parts in sex scene and anim that could use improvement. The plot so far is ok but the dialogue is meh. The length of 0.1 is around 30 mins. This could be a good avn in the future and it can be improved. Not bad imo so 4 stars.

This game on it's release launch (0.1 version) falls somewhere in the middle due to different reasons. First of, the story could be interesting, but the characters don't behave in a believable way in any case. They are supposed to be professionals and yet they quickly forget that and move on to quick fucks with little believable buildups for them. There are also no choices so far, so you end up cheating on your fiancee without any alternatives, taking the tension away. And since there is little buildup to anything, the payout isn't great either.

Render quality is pretty decent, to be honest, but animations are too basic. Sounds are few and don't add much to the game. And it has some occasional linguistical problems especially with how the characters express themselves.

All in all, it can improve and become a decent or even good game, but it can also quickly fall down to the two stars. Time will tell.

Updating on v0.2: I believe this lost the third star into remaining with two and I'll probably drop the game here. The development in my opinion is not solving the issues but continuing with them, and the story is uninteresting to me.