Ren'Py - Completed - Midnight Paradise [v1.0f Extra] [Lewdlab]

Pros:

• interesting and immersing story
• insanely good renders and animations with a lot of focus on details
• some of the best looking characters in adult games
• music is good

Cons:

• would have been better as a VN, the location and time of day systems work but get repetitive and annoying after a few minutes
• cannot imagine playing this without a walkthrough or the walkthrough mod

As of Midnight Paradise V0.8.0, the game has great graphics; however, the story is alright. Reminds me of GTA: Vice City, story of violence, gangsters, drugs, women and sex. Also, there is not enough actual sex scenes as of now with the main women. Looking forward to future updates, hopefully the story and scenes pick up. Will review again after updates.

I couldn't believe the quality of the animations the first time i played this game, mom has to be one of the hottest characters i ever encountered in adult games.

I really do hope the updates will come more often and with more sauce.

Unfortunately, this game has been a disappointment to me.
On the one hand, the renders are great. From this point of view, it is among the best adult games here. The girls are quite attractive, especially the mother. Not too fat, not too thin, not too yound, not too old. More than that, they are all quite different, they are not clones or twins, like in some games.
Also, the music is nice and the overall design of the game is stylish.

Unfortunately, that is about it about good things. The gameplay is horrible. That typical running around rooms and places trying to find what to do. I don't know why game developers keep doing that. If you don't know how to make enjoyable gameplay, just stick to making a normal usual novel with choices.
But it is not the biggest problem for me. What precluded me from enjoying the game was the narrative. All charaters in the game feel weird and unnatural. Usually, in all those incest games developers try to invent some gimmicks to justify sexual relationships among relatives - some drugs or alcohol, blackmail, some sexual diseases that make them constantly horny and so. But in this game, the mc just starts touching his sisters and mother and everyone considers it normal and doesn't even protest or think about it. The same story goes with the teacher. The mc just asks her to shake her boobs for him as some sort of encouragement and she almost immediately starts doing. It doesn't feel like she is a real person, she is a fuckdoll who pretends to be a teacher.

So, overall, it seems certain to me that the person who is responsible for the visual part of the game is doing a great job, but the one who writes the story should be replaced (of course, if they are not the same person). Those amazing pictures are going to waste.

Midnight Paradise v0.7.1 - Pretty good
+ no bugs
+ music in most scenes
+ good renders
+ good animations
+ good-looking interface
+ gallery with all scenes!

- Since I forgot to watch TV (Dad/Mom tells you to "work hard" so I just attended uni and did the mafia lawyer missions) and didn't realise TV is to unlock Isabel/Joyce route, until all Ruby scenes were completed. So game feels too long/slow, drags on past day ~30-40
- Since it takes way too long to actually fug the characters, the uncanny valley effect of the 3D models start to stand out and overshadow the initial beauty. Faces look kinda odd close-up with yuge cheekbones and very sharp chins.
- Evening events too empty, only Isabel massages available?
- Best friend return came too late, you're already juggling 3 interests in the house, teacher at uni - then aunt, maid and hony russian mafia lady appears wtf
- No visual indication when study/pool finally opens, door icons stay the same.

Minor comments
- Since you literally can't get laid until the end of the game, only Elite bonus scenes #1-3 are the best wank material. The others just don't measure up. If you prefer actual fugging to wanking at people, you're not getting much from this game.
- 2 spelling mistakes, forgot where, sorry
- Hint system very useful, but incomplete
? Why does everybody have sleep paralysis
? I want to enter the brother's room. What was that "thump" noise anyway? Why is it always unenterable?
? Not actually a lifesim game, it's event-based story unlocking. Player cash/doing jobs/attending class doesn't actually matter.

The good points of this game are obvious:
- Excellent renders.
- Very good animation
- The story with the mafia lady and shady lawyer guy is interesting.
- The plot of MC taking over the dads company, while trying to compete with his brother for it, could be interesting when its developed more.

This has to be one of the better games of 2020. The plot is interesting. A boy who is trying to overcome the views of his condescending father and start his own business to prove him wrong. The protagonist is enterprising if a bit naive. The choices the player makes are consistent, however with an inner conflict: be a good person, or a wild, control-lacking one full of anger, spite and vice.

The supporting characters are amazing. They have unique traits that make them memorable. From the elegant mom, the caring older sister and the rebellious y younger sister to the domineering Aunt to the grounded or crazy girlfriends each character is interesting, deep, and likable.

Let's look at the aunt for example. She runs her own enterprise and you can tell. She's blunt and to the point when she speaks. The way she stands and her posture both scream: "I'm in charge here". Even her earrings are over-the-top elegance. The only thing I think would have been great to add were the renders of what she put on Connor's phone. The author built up a very sexy scene but ended it without any closure for the player.

The renders are... wow. The detail put into the renders incredible. For instance, Mom has a set of diamond earrings she wears all the time... except in a bathing scene which makes total sense. Another highlight to the character render details is... well... the highlights. There are a few characters with multi-color highlights in their hair. I don't recall seeing that in games of this nature and it really adds to the character diversity and looks great. Another detailed character trait is the clothing. The clothing the characters wear are very provocative and match the character's personality. Finally the skin detail on the models is high-quality. My classification software gave the models the correct tag of "photo realistic".

I really got into the eye colors of the characters. The blues are not quite blue and the green... wow. Love the green eyes. The eye colors have depth and at times really confused my classification software.

The game and story seem quite in the early stages (as of episode 7). We have hints that there is something special more about Connor, but we don't know quite what it is yet. Looking forward to this story line developing so we can get more scenes with the crazy Asian girl who likes to flash Connor to help him "focus". This is not uncommon theme with other characters in the game as well but the other instance happens for different focus objectives.

I'll just copy what I wrote in the thread a few days ago:

This game is nothing but an extremely beautiful and sexy facade.

Lewdlab arguably provides the sexiest renders of all H-games devs. I said renders, not animations; his animations are good but on that front a couple other devs are in a league of their own.

But anyway, that's all there is to this game. Ridiculously sexy models and a bunch of very nicely done renders.
Period/full stop.
No meaningful story, no character development, no logical gameplay (I mean, why freeroam when we are actually pushed from one hint to another?). Not even more musical variety, which with his current support he could easily afford to include.

Besides, someone mentioned this earlier. Either you are DrPinkCake or a game with so many female characters is bound to end up being either a mess, or abandoned (or both). He will not abandon it, so I guess it could turn into a mess.

DoD was an amazing serendipity. He was in the right place, at the right time, with the right mindset.
Although it was just a light-hearted , incest VN with mystery undertones, it was quite refreshing and showed involvement and work behind it. The novelty also made us appreciate it even more.
By contrast, Midnight Paradise is just a mass-produced, commonplace incest game without any passion at all.
Boring as hell.

I'll give it 2 stars for its impressive art.

After the engine switch to Renpy i cant really complain about the game.

The story so far is more of a build up and i'm interessted in what will happen in the future.

The renders and animations are gorgeous. The models, at least the girls, seem to be new or modified to the extend, that i cant recall if they are in other games too.

What i really like about the game in comparison to the first game from Lewdlab, Dreams of Desire, is the relative slow progression with the girls. They are so much hotter and the goal is so much sweeter if they dont jump the mc dick from the get go. But don't be misled, there are plenty of hot voyeur and teasing scenes, especially if you like lingere .

I really enjoy the game so far 5/5 stars.

There is not much promised after more than 1 year.I thought he was experienced enough about adult games.Although the game promises a lot in terms of visuality, it is not possible to say the same thing for the content.

It's subjective but almost all women here are incredible, all model are unique they are not a reused model we can see in 70% orther games. This game has a very quality renders it help and the story is good

One of the dullest game i ever played.The story going nowhere.

Pro:
-Good render
-Good animation

Cons:
-Douchebag Main character
-No story
-No buildup
-Very little sex content
-Money grab since its been more than a year already,but we only got one sex scene,handjob and blowjob
-No navigation org clue for an open world game.

Not really recommend,it fail to be an open world game.

Reviewed Version - [v0.7beta]

Pros:

• Good renders.
• Great Animations.

Cons:

• No story.
• It's a cock-tease, i.e., it has only one sex scene and couple of blow/hand jobs.
• Has very little amount of content even though it's been out for more than a year.

Conclusion:
The dev took everything good about Dreams Of Desire, flushed it down the toilet and then locked up the toilet seat... They tried to go open-world, but failed miserably. It feels nothing short of a cash grab.
It has neither the story nor the sex scenes, in my opinion - there is no point in playing a porn game when it doesn't have either.
If you are still interested in playing this, I would say - wait until this game has had lot more updates, as for the moment being, it feels dry and dull.

The start is fantastic. Finally not a good but shy protagonist. Protagonist here is a real duchebag who is flex himself with parents money and background power. In real life I would hate this guy but this is a game just a fantasy. Thats the point try yourself in a character who is different than in real life so I really enjoyed this part of the game. Render and animations are top class work especially animations more smooth and natural than in most of top games. Sandbox part of the game was easy for me couse I am experienced with sandbox type of games but I can imagine that some strong tooltip or guide needed for the majority to enjoy it. I like the thought monologue narrative and I don't have problem with long teasing events. As I remember that was the style in previous game too.

I am a huge fan of whats here already. The story is well written and unique (unlike a lot of the titles already here.)

The renders are all fantastic.
There is ambient music that doesn't feel too repetative.
The characters are interesting enough (admittedly the mother-son story is kind of like every other game here...)

What does this game not have? It doesn't give much room for a branching story line. You slowly progress your way through the main plot and the plot of the characters, and the game has a good amount of interactivity, but it definitely is closer to a kinetic novel with many clicks in between.

All in all, I'd strongly recommend playing this one.

Edit: oh yeah, someone else mentioned, but this game is a sleeper creeper type. Not 100% sure how much its tied to the plot line.

4 stars (good but not excellent) just because it has been more than 1 year in production and it doesn't even have a blowjob, not to mention sex, if you don't count the sex tease in the beginning, so this game is all a tease by now.
And Being a DIK has been around the same time and has plenty of scenes.
Other than that, renders and animations are top level. Just the faces of roomates can look a bit more younger than landlady does...

This guy deserves 5 stars for the renders alone. He populates his games with incredibly hot girls.
Alas, unlike DoD, here we see MC too often wich is not that bad but not very exciting either. Also his personality is too cheesy and unrelateable. We come from saving the world magical superperv to harrassing teachers to see their upskirts.
Still, those renders are awesomely awesome.
BTW night creeping stuff is pretty good and I see no reason to reduce that.

Writing is subpar and the open world nature of the game makes it tedious trying to figure out where you need to go when. This should be a strictly VN style game where you jump from scene to scene without making the player randomly guess where they need to go.

First, let's get a few things out of the way:

A. It's an incest game.
B. It's a sleeper-creeper.

I myself am not fond of creepers in any way shape or form, but the renders make up for it, and the MC isn't the usual 12-year-old-in-an-18-year-old's-body, he's ok-ish

Now, with that out of the way, on with the brief review;

It's an absolutely stunning game, visually. And I mean that, when I saw the navigation icons, I was stunned. Yes. The navigation icons. You know, that part of sandbox games that no developer puts any time or effort into? The things that usually barely work and look like they were copied from a jpeg from the early '90s? Yes. Those. In this game, they look so breathtakingly high quality and professional, that I can't even.

Have you noticed how I'm not even talking about the game per se? Well, I feel like I don't have to. Just look at the disclaimer above, look at the renders, understand the mind-boggling quality of even the most mundane stuff and your mind should be made up by this point if you want to give it a try or not.