Ren'Py - Sinful Valley [v0.1.2] [RumiGames]

Story is below average and it dosent help that its kinetic/linear story where you have 0 choices, your forced to be in relationship and fuck everyone, its the most pointless type of game since you as the player arent part of it when you cant deside anything.

The sandbox is also pointless, boring and brainless mini games that are only there to waste your time and make game even more repetitive, same for leveling up girls where you just do the same things over and over, talk about the same shit over and over, its just pointless.

As for the girls they are a bit meh, maybe ts just the character style that i dislike but they just feel boring to me and just cant see them as hot.

Animations are pretty decent and virgins show blod fucking them the first time so atleast it got this right.

Musc is just generic background stuff nothing special.

i love reviewing new games with potential! gives me hope that my review's gonna contribute to its eventual blossoming of popularity, which i think this game has potential to do if the dev continues to work on it.

alright, here are my thoughts on it. to put it simply, if you've played like harem hotel, HS tutor, mythic manor and those type of games, you'll feel right at home. the premise is simple - follow a general story whilst meeting girls, improve your relationship with then and eventually get to bone them while also experiencing their heartbreaking stories all at once. neat!

the main thing that caught my eye is that this is one of the nicer looking koikatsu games. i feel like once you play over a hundred of these, your eyes become trained to notice what is 10 minute slop and what has thought put behind it. this is the latter! scenes look good, each girl and their individual scenes have well-animated shots for dialogue, idling, talking, etc. the lighting is good, renders itself are high quality, so on and so forth. for a koikatsu game, it looks great! my only nitpick is the bloom for some certain scenes.

i don't really have any major "cons" for this game, but here's what i thought of during my time playing it: since this is going to be one of those games that has you swapping through menus/waiting for times *constantly*, i'd highly recommend adding a dedicated "return to your room" & "pass time" buttons to the UI. i'm okay with grinding relationship points and navigating locations, but it's so much nicer when the game helps you do so & is aware of it being a major issue down the line once you have a lot more locations/girls to manage.

in summary, it's a good-looking koikatsu game in every sense of the word that clearly has effort & care put into it. there isn't all that much to do quite yet considering it released just over a week ago, but it's an amazing start & proof of concept that will only get better with updates. can't wait to see more!