VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Melody [v1.00 Extras] [MrDots Games]

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"Soy un hombre muy honrado, que me gusta lo mejor
Las mujeres no me faltan, ni al dinero, ni el amor"

*Ahem*

Visually, this is a very qualitative game, both in terms of characters and scenery. The animations are successful. The girls' panel offers us enough diversity to satisfy most of us. In short, it's great work!

The story is also very successful. Lots of choices, lots of ends, lots of girls, lots of temptation, but be careful the game is quite demanding and it will be difficult for you to get the best ending. I hope you'll reach it... well... if that's your wish.

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on. I hope you feel that way.

I don't give it five stars because perfection doesn't exist. On the other hand, if I could have given it 4.5 stars i would have done it gladly.

So don't hesitate and throw yourself on it, I highly recommend it. And since criticism is easier than practice, I'd like to say thank you and bravo to MrDots for his work.

"Ay, ay, ay, ay
Ay, ay, mi amor
Ay, mi morena
De mi corazon"


Signed Jack Beauregard

This game uses way too many buttons, but the thing is most of then are only 1 at a time that does only one thing, which is quite frankly idiotic. There's absolutely no need for a button when you have only one choice, it just slows things down for no reason.

I didn't like any of the endings. Two silly bad ends, that made no sense. Two lead to nowhere, the exact same nowhere to be precise. And as for the rest, aside from the ones centered around the female protagonist I felt they were more or less the same.

As you can guess from the name, this game is focused on one particular character. One I never found myself interested in and couldn't help just wanting to shoo her away to focus on the others. Which is unfortunate.

In the end, I found the game boring and tedious most of the time.

I think I'm at the point where I should review this game now. I wasn't on f95 when I first played this, but this is one of the only five games I've played more than once. Infact I've played this game four+ times. I can't remember the exact amount.

Melody is equal-first for my favourite game of all time and second for my favourite Love Interest in a game. Her personality is endearing. Her attitude really suits with her style and her design is exceptional. She has a clear story arc that is well executed and presented in an engaging and interesting way, and even at the less important parts, whenever Melody was in a scene, I enjoyed it. She faces struggles and overcomes them and despite her strong and independent personality, she is still very loveable and affectionate. In games, I prefer romance and story above all else and Melody delivers on this perfectly. I could not ask for better romance with Melody.

The render quality for Melody is exceptional and they contribute a lot to the immersiveness of the game because the renders look good and just work. The dialogue is also very well written, and very few lines feel out of place or don't suit. The other girls in the game also have nice designs and arcs (and although I don't prefer them anywhere near as much as Melody which is fair considering she is the titular character of the game), they still have interesting stories nonetheless.

The only thing which really comes to mind when I think of things I didn't like in Melody is the quizzes. Basically you are asked some questions about music for Melody's tutoring lessons and you have to answer them all right to get full Melody points. I find this a bit tedious because it isn't like they stated it in the game beforehand, it's more just general knowledge or you have to look it up. Although this is very minor and did little to subtract from my experience.

Overall, I highly recommend this game because it has well written characters, beautiful renders, an amazing story, and the MC is also well written and enjoyable to play as.

One of the first games I played and I hate that it good me hooked, one of the finest story lines which gradually took shape and got hooked, I read the whole story and it was really great with great animations. Wish there were more games like this, easy to navigate and understand.

I loved every single bit of this game . The story has a good build up, and mltiple endings, with whatever girl you want to end up with. So it's good to save the game at a lot of points. And nice visuals! I recommend it to everyone!

I must admit, I passed this game over a few times because it did not look that interesting to me. Man, am I glad I gave it a go.

Let's roll into my thoughts on Melody:

PROS:

1. The characters are great for the most part.

In appearance, the characters look pretty realistic. The women have gorgeous eyes. I love that Sophia and Melody are adult, but appear to be a bit younger because not all women hit a magic maturity button at the age of 18 and look like full on adults. Beyond that, the cast members are not all walking perfection, which can take away from games to me a bit.

The characters all have a story. Some of these are really well thought out, especially for Melody. Well, the game is named after her so that makes sense.

2. The story is well thought out and quite extensive. It includes humor, tragedy, sex, and romance. A great amount of effort and love are shown in the plot.

3. The challenge. Getting a perfect ending is difficult. In fact, I don't know that I plan to go back and try again. I gained 330 out of the required 400 points and that was with saving a number of times and going back to change decisions later. Really, I had no idea when I started how much difference all of your decisions can make.

4. The sex. Tons of it. Various positions. Various women. Loads of masturbation and lesbian scenes as well. Loads of great fantasy stuff can be found here. Can we say massage oil?

CONS:

1. There are some consistency issues in the game. I guess my stocking fetish made me catch that in one of the scenes where Melody's stockings kept disappearing and re-appearing during the course of the scene.

2. The main character being in his thirties or forties and having to be slowed down a few occasions by much younger women was a bit irritating to me. I suppose it isn't unrealistic, but I kept thinking that he needed to put himself in check a bit better and let his engines cool down.

FINAL THOUGHTS:

What can I say? It rocked.

I am definitely planning to check out other games from this company. If you are into adult visual novels, hot teens, and don't mind a lot of story line; this one is definitely worth checking out.

Melody is the sweetest teen to romance with I've ever seen in a game! Is the only game that I didn't care about sex or click spam just to see it ends. She will always be my top best character I've played in a game.

After the unforgettable jewel Acting Lessons, I've finally run into a game which made me feel like I truly cared for the characters. This is the first time I wished for Harem route not to fuck and dominate all the girls like an alpha male, but so that I could provide them love and passion and to keep them happy. Well done, thank you.

A really very nice story, nice graphics and good action movies, great music.
Excellent playability, very long-lived and full of alternatives, really a great product, congratulations to the developer, really good, thank you very much.

Just finished my first playthrough and I gotta say this is best game out there in terms of overall plot and character development. Even though there was still a buttload of fap material and steamy action in here, there were also plenty of relatable moments. The pacing was great and nothing felt rushed or out of place. All the characters and renderings were top notch and I can't say enough about it. I'm still looking forward to multiple more playthroughs to get different endings

Wow just finished the perfect ending and all I can say is I'm shocked. I actually felt a ton of emotions while playing this. Normally when I play these types of VNs it's usually just to fap, I only cared about the models and the animation. But man this one actually got me invested into the story and characters. Yes it is a slow grind, but I think in the end it paid off really nicely.

One of the greatest adult games. For me animations in this game are the most satisfying so far. Dev has made Lots of animations with Heroin Melody. so great quality and angle (first person view). Render, Story, Characters are all great as well.

A great and even interesting story, well-drawn, beautiful characters. Sincere sympathy appears for the Melody character. Perhaps for me this is the first game that I wanted to go through several times to see what it will lead to in the final.

Review of full version:

SPOILERS!!!

This is a good down to Earth story. Your girlfriend throws you out of the house (because she’s a bitch) so you stay with your friend for a week before a woman answers your ad to buy one of your guitars and she offers you a job tutoring her niece. And things go from there.

The character models are gorgeous. Although they sometimes get this look on their face which makes them look like they are pursing their lips for some reason. Other than that, the dev did an excellent job with the models.

The lewd scenes are good. Some of them are nice fluid animations while others are a set of images chained together.

The game is nice and long, which I like and appreciate. It tells me the dev really put in the work and cared for the game.

I really like the ability to pursue or decline relationships with several characters. It allows you to really play like you want to. Some relationships may end automatically because of circumstances while others will force you to choose.

If you let Melody have a relationship with Sophie later you walk in on them in the shower with Sophia fingering and kissing Melody. Regardless of the fact that all three of them have thought about a threesome between them and the PC it would have been interesting to have an option to interrupt them in the shower and be furious with Melody since she is effectively cheating on the PC. Melody never told the PC about her relationship with Sophia and Melody has even thought to herself after one of the times she had sex with Sophia that she felt she was betraying the PC.

It would have been an interesting swerve in the relationship that I wish could have been explored.

The characters are good. They all feel down to Earth and realistic. A couple of them really hit me in the feels with some of their scenes.

If there is one downside it’s probably the writing. While it’s good there are some things I would have done differently.

• You can tell the author is from the UK with how the characters call the car trunk the boot. It took me a few seconds to realize what they were talking about. There are other things referred to with a different name I wasn’t familiar with at first. This isn’t necessarily a con. More of an observation.
• There are spelling and grammar errors sprinkled throughout. Not bad though.
• The PC almost constantly reflects on his time in the town and with Melody. This gets a bit tiresome because you feel like you’re reading the same thing over and over again.
• Nearly every conversation in the game has to do with music. Fictional bands, the history of music, instruments, music culture. If you don’t care about music that much some of the dialogue can get a bit boring.

Despite my issues with some of the writing I still really like Melody and was sad when I reached the end. I would highly recommend it.

Melody must have been one of the first adult VNs I've played - and I still remember how amazed I was back then.

Now, as time has passed and I've seen my fair share of adult games / VNs, that amazement has pretty much vanished.

Melody is still a good looking, well crafted and - most importantly - completed VN (which is a feat of its own), but other than that it's not that special in my opinion.

The characters are quite bland and interchangeable, the girls not really up my alley (especially the main girl Melody looks like an oversized doll with fake boobs).

However, the worst thing about Melody is the writing.
While the setting is unique and the dev uses proper English, dialogue and story are drawn-out and tiresome.

After revisiting Melody, I can't think of a single moment of excitement, a feeling of "I cannot wait to see where this is going" - quite on the contrary:

Everything about Melody is just way too predictable - the story, the relationships, heck... even the sex.
Talk - hug - kiss - grope - masturbate - sex. Rinse & repeat.

On top of that the relationship (point) mechanics don't make too much sense.

You already kissed Melody before and she liked it?
Too bad - the next time you meet her she expects you to hug her in order to like it.

Or you meet her friend Fi and dare to give her a friendly hug in front of Melody?
She's going to hate you for it.
No, you have to kiss her friend - then she's fine with it.

So, yeah - without a walkthrough you are pretty much screwed (and I haven't even mentioned the "fun" music theory quizzes yet).

Funnily enough even on an "I'm doing everything to piss her off" playthrough you still end up "screwing" Melody while technically being on the relationship status "stranger".

Ultimately, it doesn't make too much sense - just like the characters.

Melody is characterised as a decent girl, but at one point and out of thin air she simply decides to ride around town topless. Go figure.

Love this game!!! so much knowledge spread about music, points of view from the MC that made me think even highly about classicals. This game made me wish to look up some jazz songs, and when I listenned to them I loved them. The game Soundtrack was cool. And honestly, those Quizzes Melody took were memorable. I didn't know there was an instrument called "Piccolo"! I got shocked. so, cute girls, cool personalities, lots of routes with different plots to choose, I like it very much. Didn't expect anything else from MrDots, as DMD is one of my favourite games! And now Melody is too, without a doubt!

I really enjoyed this, both how the story plays out and the music. Really put me in a relaxed state when I hear Gymnopédie #1 at the top of week 12. Gets a little cheesy at times, but most of these things do.

So, it only just occurred to me that I've never given this game a review. This is a great game and I've sunk more time into this game than I care to admit, having played through the entire story multiple times across multiple versions. There's an insane amount of content here, and it's of amazing quality.

All of the characters have incredible effort put into them, their poses, wardrobe, and expressions are simply incredible. The animations are, generally quite good, though some are not as great.

The characters in this game definitely feel real, though some are quite shallow, and in general, they're not as real as some other games achieve.

The game is quite slow, with plenty of filler between sexy scenes. I don't mind it, except the quizzes, which I can understand the idea behind, but can't say I like, and I'd say it adds to the characters seeming "real," but it's quite clear some are not fond of that. Some characters also take a while to get into their pants. It can be frustrating, but it gives you time to learn about the character before fucking 'em.

This game takes forever to complete with plenty of endings. I love that fact, but it's also clear some people here play the game for the sexy scenes and just want to get to those. I can respect that, but I care more for the story than the sexy scenes. Fite me.

Alright - i realize this game VN was completed quite a while ago, but i just had the chance to circle back and play through this again.
I initially rated this VN 3 stars - mainly due to the best ending I could get was 'The Good Ending'. In my opinion The Good Ending is not a good ending, it pretty much sucks to be honest.
I used a walkthrough mod, ended with 405 points and all I got was the 'Good Ending' . I finally found out that the only way to get The Perfect Ending is you have to remain monogamous the whole time - SO no screwing Izzy, Amy, Becca, Fi or Xianne.
But i will say - The Perfect Ending is awesome! It is exactly what I was expecting for an ending to this VN!!
I still feel that the 2nd best ending, the Good Ending is pretty lame; it isn't good in my opinion. But the Perfect Ending is so awesome that I still feel this VN is a 5 star game.
I understand you should rate a game on more than just the ending. But I always felt like Melody was one of my favorite VN'S on this forum. The story is engaging, the renders are good, the choices actually matter.

This will be my first review of any game on this site, sorry already for my bad english and review never done this before.
So far i playd multiple games of this genre and still bussy with DMD.
But finish this 1 last week.
And if i need to put it in 1 word WOW, what a game what a rolercoaster of a ride was that.

So here are some points that are good and bad.

GOOD
- Story what can i say some 1 realy know how to make a story that pulls u in.
- Characters, background and all the other stuff are breath taking.
- A verry good amount of content some time even realy perfect.
- And dialogue is verry good written.

BAD
- Animation can be some time a bit strange on how the postion of the body is.
- Would have loved if some of the skin would look a bit better specialy around the breast.
- I feld that some time there need a bit more frustration or tention between charachters.

So over all in my opion a 9 to 9.5 great game keep up the work, would recomand any 1 to play this game.