VN - Ren'Py - Hottest Summer [v0.85] [DarkStream Studio]

Good:

• Internal environments are detailed.

Bad:

• Low resolution renders.
• The author claims the game is based on "asian environment", yet, not a single piece of culture is shown despite the LIs being "asian-like" aesthetically. Even the MC himself doesn't like "japanese" or whatever the author is trying to aim.
• For some reason there are lens flare in every single scene.
• The writing is high school level at best. i.e., MC describes every female body like a narrator, the sisters' vocabulary is limited to "bro", there's no question marks, etc.
• Classic "jump" from one scene to another completely different.
• I think there's a single music BG for the entire session, and no sound effects at atll.
• Male models are proportionally weird?
• No atmosphere, no setup, no intensity, just renders...
  

If the insanely bright, overexposed and filtered renders won't give you a headache then the writing, non-existent character personality and (lack of) story surely will. But if you - against all odds - somehow make it this far into the game without a migrane then you'll instead be lulled asleep at some of the most generic adult content you're likely to experience in a game.

Of course, to each their own, but I genuinely wonder if the people who rated this 5 stars have played a different game than me 'cause I find this to be one of the worst games I've ever played, full stop.

First off, this is principally an NTR VN, so if that's not your thing you have been warned. Lovely models/renders. They are all Asian - which is fine by me. The male models are...weird looking. There is no animation to speak of and when there is it is terrible. The positions during the sex scenes are, however, good. The story is...well, there is not much of an overarching story. More of a set up to the action. I've only played one run through, but there seems to be scenes missing. A few abrupt jumps. Overall, great female models. Some decent titillating scenes. Very Jav NTRish if you know that genre.

Very poor plot of innovations, very boring, graphics average for VNs, poor audio, too linear as a game, too predictable. honestly very boring, every situation reveals a MC weak towards everyone. pure oriental NTR style

The models is absolutely beautiful, it would be perfect if it has animation rather than only image, but it still good and great to play. The updates also consistent, and every update is enough, not small and not too big.

One of the best representatives of the NTR genre.
The characters are beautiful and attractive.
The variability of the choice is good, although somewhat confusing. Not too fast, but also not too slow development of events, which in turn allows you to enjoy it.

It is categorically not recommended for those who do not tolerate NTR, because it is very difficult to avoid it here.

I was really surprised at how good this game actually is. If you're not a fan of ntr, I would not recommend you try this game. The reason why I said this game is interesting because I think the story is really good!

The game is great, but I would prefer if the non-consensual cheating (NTR) aspect was optional. This would give players more choice and allow for the creation of additional storylines, increasing the overall enjoyment.

This is really one of the top 5 games I've ever played. The female characters are all pretty too. Especially Juno is so cute and nice and the best. The story is fun and I'm looking forward to the future story more. I especially like it because the ntr is optional. I would appreciate it if you could update Juno's story more in the future. I especially hope that Juno's ntr will be updated more. I would appreciate it if you could update the scene where Kim and Lamu ntr Juno. I'm really looking forward to it. Thank you for making the game

I'll start be prefacing that the game has an interesting focus on Asians which might be to your tastes if you're into that. And for all the complaints about the models, they are pretty good, a shame then that all these women basically share the same body type.

But, from here onward, everything crumbles down.

Art:
There's an ungodly amount of filtering in these scenes, outside, the bloom is turned to eleven, inside, there's blinding lights pointed at the scene, which detracts from the art.

Writing:
Terrible. There really isn't any other way to put it, from the moment the game boots up, and I shit you not, the very first proper phrase is immediate engrish and it never gets better,

Another incredible offender is, and I understand the average porn game enjoyer is illiterate but presenting a character by having MC call her mom, and the following up with a parenthesis explaining that this is indeed the MC's mom is... illustrative of the level of writing you can expect.

And as far as narrative goes, it's in shambles. There's multiple "antagonists" that barely get any buildup to tension, the MC is the classical loser trope for no reason, and every woman is either seemingly dumb, or a slut from the get go. The NTR is weak, the Corruption is weak and the Harem is... just a series of women with the MC, and barely any cross-interaction between them.

Soundtrack:
Mute it. There's 2 songs playing on loop no matter what scene you're viewing, sparsely interrupted by jarring showerheadwater.mp3 and birdchirp.mp3. some panels also do with moaning sounds but, honestly this is best enjoyed on mute as there's no thought on matching song to scene ambience.

Improvements:
This game needs two things most urgently, a proof-reader combing for grammar and orthography, and a second proof-reader who has picked up one single piece of literature to help stylize conversations. A VN is composed of two primary elements, text and image, you can't have your "work" fail to stand on one of it's legs and call it a day.

Everything is so embarrassing, from the renderings to the writing. Brothers, it's not that difficult to make NTR warm and exciting, especially the family friendly one. But somehow the developer manages to make it boring, the dialogues sound unnatural, or the whole thing could be written by A.I, but this does A.I an undue disservice. The templates are decent but it's just a copy and paste job. Most renders appear static and require little effort. Don't think that the NTR tag will bring this.

v0.35

Disclaimer: I do not have an NTR fetish. I usually dislike it, but can overlook it when I choose to.
I chose to for this VN.

It's hard to put my finger on exactly why I didn't enjoy this story.

The visuals were mediocre.
Story was bland.
The perspective shifted to too many other characters too often.
The writing was perfectly fine english, and not the worst. Just... not interesting.

I found myself not caring about any of the characters in the slightest. And since the sex scenes were boring to me, I didn't care whether those happened or not.
So... ya. I'll forget about this one in about an hour.

It wasn't the worst though. Just... missed the mark. For me.

Simply amazing. This is the NTR that really hits. You basically manipulate the girls/story so they are with other guys. A rare case where the corruption tag really deserves to be there.
Telling your best friend to go out with your bully is sick, but man do I love it.
I hope the updates keep coming.

This feels like another game that wants to pretend it isn't an NTR game and that there's choice. If the content is just cut off and there's no replacement: you aren't playing an alternate route, you're cutting off branches of the same route. It's an afterthought, not a feature.

Even then, I thought NTR fans needed character development to enjoy the corruption. It isn't here. It's seemingly normal women, suddenly becoming whores for a very specific asshole. It's depressing to read not because of feeling sidelined, but because it's a waste of time.

I will be fair, at least the NTR is avoidable here...but its like playing a NTR game trying to avoid it. You will have a very bare minimum of content but also not liking it. Also you need the walkthrough guide for it since not all choices seem to lead into the obvious direction. However im not sure if "everything" is safe because despite there exists variations of existing scenes depending on your path, for at least one girl (Ling - The teacher) there is not. So I dont know if she still have sex offscreen, if it just wasnt addressed, or it "dosent count because it happends offscreen."

How good is the content regarding this? Its kinda very basic, almost bad. The eroticisms dosent exist at all and character emotions and actions are bad. Bad in the sense the author had to force the sister fall in love with the MC from out of nowhere now or it plays on the intented ntr route but before the sex could happen it suddenly stops and we have a short explonation of two to three renders why she cant and it progresses to the next "scene". However Romance does exist but its nothing to cry about.
If you want to play this game on this path -> Wait when its finished + read the comments.


How is the NTR Path? Well, to say its orientated on JAVs would be somewhat correct but fails on the delivery. MC gets cucked by a bunch of different guys, one per girl here and there is some reason behind it. But it switches from very silly reasons (as to say "I need to somewhat make MC mom his uncles dick now, no mater if it makes sense") to your typical corruption of a LI in these genre (Slowly she gets "forced" into doing things she dosent like, be still does because she either dosent want to "hurt" MC but also starts to enjoy it.)
But again, its delivery is not that great. However if you like the models and enjoy this stuff you can check it out as its gameplay is rather short. We speak here 15-30 minutes depending how you read.

The Good:

The characters look great.

The Bad:

Not too many Asian games out there, I wanted to like this game but it was nearly impossible.

1. The high bloom is super exaggerated here, it's almost blinding to see. The Dev missed the mark here, I couldn't even see the fantasy scenes which was important.

2. The paths are obsolete, they simply don't matter. No matter what you choose it all leads to the some kind of content.

3. The MC is weak, he has no back bone, he looks to be built like a running back, he's not scrawny at all but constantly gets pushed around by everyone.

4. Multiple protagonist tag is missing seeing as you can pick choices for Uncle Kim. Speaking of which he sort of just appeared out of nowhere and moved in.

5. The dialogue is bad, I'd say slightly under the intermediate level. It's hard to get into because in mind I know no one would actually say these things. In the opening he was referring to his mom and sister as a stranger would. A proofreader could go a long way.

6. The MC's man parts looks like a plastic dildo.

I'm half Asian myself so I was excited about this game, what a huge letdown.

Great character renders; super unique to have Asians that actually look fuckable; though they all look like they're the same. Especially Yuri and Juno. Dialog isn't as bad as some people say. Some of the premises are interesting for the sister and the childhood friend

However. I can already tell this game isn't going to be a masterpiece because of the following reasons:

1. Too many routes, too many women, and too many "bad guys". You see, it's at least 1 bad guy per girl. There's already 5.
2. This leads to shallow writing, shallow character development, and poor corruption. Why? Because each of the 5 women needs to "progress". There's no time for slow simmer of character development. No time for love. No time for romance. And therefore the NTR is weak. You care very little about these girls, because you spend very little with them.
3. Stupid nonsensical corruption: You can see this with Mom already. It took zero convincing by this fugly "Uncle" to convince the supposed career woman super model 40 year old woman to suck and fuck. Can you imagine someone like Taylor Swift, a highly successful, attractive, woman who can basically fuck anyone shes wants let's some ugly old guy fuck her? Really? Do you guys not see who real super star women date? They date 6 feet, 6 inches, and 6 figures men. Not old crusty losers. Tired of this troupe by fat neck beards man. It's so unbelievable and bad. Might as well have a 10 foot tall hamster with a 20 inch BBC fuck the mom instead, if common sense is to go out the door

At best, this game will be average.

this game is top tier
great visual
great story
great everthing
cant wait to see a new update comes out..
so i can cum XD
the compress size i good..
the amount size who can have many content for just 100 mb wow.
imaging what will be happen if this reach 1gb..
hope you well developers.

I love the design and artwork of this one, it has subtle hints of corruption which I love. (Biased because im into Asian Girls), think about adding a skinny Asian girl

The potential of this VN is exponentially great, and i cant wait to see more!

Good start, the story despite not being so epic manages to interest you in the routes you can follow with each character, the girls are beautiful.
The good thing (which can also be bad) is that the game will have several routes for each character and can
that when the story progresses and there are too many scenes the game is canceled or ended abruptly.
Anyway, the game for me is a 10 out of 10, I wish the dev the best, and that the game is completed.