VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Locked in Temptation [v1.0] [Tasty Pics Studio]

A long long walk among nice women and you end up with... almost nothing?
Extremely disappointing, just when you thought things were heating up, you're faced with the Game Over screen. Wow.
I don't know what more to write about this, save yourself some time and look at the gallery.

This one is bad, it just is a complete mess for my taste. First of all, lots of the story is not explained, at least in the few days, and it has no interest at all, so I ended up skipping it all and going through the walkthrough. Choices matter, which is good, but since the writing and characters is poor, who cares about those choices and their consequences? It's also on the shorter side as a full game, so at least you can get a full playthrough relatively quickly and see the different branches and scenes.

Render quality is mediocre, and I personally expected more from the character models. Animations are there, but pretty basic. I took away the music like I always do. There were some sound effects here and there. And at least in my playthrough I found no bugs or problems.

So, all in all, either skip this one or skip the plot and go directly to the scenes with a gallery unlocker or skipping dialogue and following the included walkthrough.

the story is good and the renders are not to bad as well it plays out just like the devs other VN My Pleasure which btw was awesome incest VN except the ending i hope this one does not end up like the ending of it . but back to this one the story is still young and plenty to add to the story and look forward to in future releases so i will say if you liked or played the Devs other VN and liked it you most likely will like this one the dev is talented and got skill and knows how to tell a story .

VERSION: 0.2
SUMMARY: Not bad overall, but great if you into bimbos...
RATINGS: (out of 5):

1. Models: 3
2. Animations: 4
3. General Visuals: 4
4. Characters: 3
5. Story: 3
6. Writing: 4
7. UI & Gameplay: 3
8. Content (amount): 2
9. Sound & Music: 4
10. Fetish & kinks: NA

Average: 30 of 50 possible points giving a 60% rating i.e. 3 stars.

PROS:

1. Written well, good structure, reads fluently and not too inflated or filled with long winded conversations.
2. Style is pretty good, the flow of the scenes and overall way the story is told, described and plays out in both visual and written way.
3. Audio is good, music is not bad, has decent mechanisms for fading music out, ambient sounds, done with "class" if I had to describe it in a word.
4. Visually the game looks very good, models look good and small details like blinking eyes are a nice touch.
5. Not much content, at least what I would call good, not in the story sense of the word and sure as hell not in the sexual/adult sense of it either.

CONS:

1. Female LI looks like a bimbo, or a barbie...with some "eastern" (big eyes) and "western" (huge tits) influences. More about this in comments.
2. Filled with lots of cliches and nothing particularly new or interesting.
3. Characters look similar, feels like a cheap out on developing new characters...like they all related somehow
4. Slow burn when it comes to lewd content, the MC doesn't have a GF nor gets any action apart from DIY and a BJ.
5. Interaction with landlady often centers around the MC paying her compliments (most natural choice IMO to get in her good books) which almost feels like there is a pattern to it and this screams lazy, uninteresting and boring/vanilla to me.

FINAL THOUGHTS, OPINIONS & SUGGESTIONS:

• Look we all love tits, well most of us, whats better than big tits? bigger tits? To some sure, but there comes a point when it just becomes totally ridiculous and now its taking the piss, kinda like this game. I mean sure this is all fake and bullshit, but the LI looks human, milfy, in proportion mostly on every level as are other characters...so why the fuck have her tits so big, i mean one boob is bigger than her waist WTF is with that...
• Per above point, this leads to the comment of western and eastern type influences (at least in my mind and not being a bigot or anything, its simply an observation) Too big eyes and too big tits or ass or lips etc, add too to anything and it ends up shit IMO. This character would look great if she had smaller tits and eyes, THE END. I would have preferred she followed the style of the previous game. To be fair, the eyes are not too bad, but the one render of the LI in the car, her eyes are just huge, compare it to the rest of the face and tell me im imagining it...
• Full disclosure, I found it very hard to care about the writing throughout my play through of the current content, I was very put off by the huge tits thing..., if you not a fan either, I would suggest skip this game or grit your teeth and hope for other content and LIs that pique your interest.
• The style and feel is also very reminiscent of the developers previous game and while that was good, I would have opted to try some new things. e.g. the whole come into room, flirt and offer a massage thing is as old as they come and the previous game has massages coming out of your ears...kinda get boring.
• On styles, unless I missed it, but are the "landlady" and her boss related? Why do they look like they could be family? Or is that again just the style...also looks a lot like characters from previous game...bit lazy IMO.
• Per above con point the seduction and flirtatious interaction between the MC and the landlady right off the bat are so obvious that you could just do renders and no dialogue and still see whats going on...there is no anticipation, no hesitation, clearly no imagination that leads to player FRUSTRATION (see what i did there ) But seriously, no inhibitions, no real challenge save for the time grind to see how the story unfolds, more kinetic than interactive. You add boring uninteresting characters to the mix of uninteresting story with flimsy plot...meh...its just sadly NOT GOOD!
• Not much content here and that which is there is pretty dull and bland to my tastes simply because its boring, its done before countless times. You can easily wait several updates before trying this out IMO.
• This game does not really intrigue me to be perfectly honest, its filled with cliches and things that feel cut right out of the previous game, which was good but also vanilla and ultimately boring and not very interesting or really complex. This game seems to follow that same pattern. The LIs having similar eyes and facial features just make it feel even more like there was not really major effort put into making this game. The story and script are not particularly interesting nor are the characters....visually it looks good in a general sense, the same with some other features but its just not enough to warrant a better score than 3.

A slow but somewhat of a positive start.

Reviewing as of 0.1 Elite

Pros:

• The character models are rendered decently
• There is a gallery
• Around 30 minutes to complete
• The BGM is really nice

Cons:

• No real H-scenes yet but it's in early build so it's fine
• The plot is weird and the interactions with the characters seem stiff
• I get scared when a frozen model blinks at you
• While there are choices, I haven't seen any of them lead to different paths

Conclusion:

There's not a reason not to play this game but there's also no reason to play this game now as there isn't much to do. I'd wait for future updates to really gain an understanding for what this game is.

I liked the game. Good picture, normal classic plot for games of this type. Very nice female characters, thanks to the author for maintaining the tradition. An important advantage of the game is that the gameplay is clear and thought out, that is, there is no need for a mod to complete it, which seems to me to be one of the biggest advantages. It is also very good that there are relationship statistics, a very necessary option. In general, I recommend the game and will wait for the continuation. Thanks to the author for his work and the distributor for the distribution. Enjoy the game everyone .