VN - Ren'Py - The Way Love Goes [Ch.31] [Naughty Skunk Games]

Game: The Way Love Goes
English:............6/10
User Interface:.....3/10
User Experience:....6/10
Art:................6/10
Dialogue:...........2/10
Story:..............3/10
Opinion:............3/10................
Avg:.............4.14/10 [2.07/5]

I HIGHLY doubt anyone is going to see my review, no one ever goes beyond page one aside from me. And this broken website still shows me games that I've ignored, so I guess "Here are my impressions of this terrible game, two and a half years later." As always, I will include my old review down below. If you care enough to read it and my assuredly long-winded new review of a game that is so tropey, mid, and brain dead I don't know why I'm putting myself through it. What I do remember about this is MC is lazy, only one of the girls have a reason to like him, and the dialogue is terrible. I think this is the game that made me realize all of these games have the same plot. "MC returns home after X years, suddenly the family is attracted to each other. Oh and the mafia is now after him because there needs to be a plot." And even right away, you see the piss poor renders and empty dialogue. Like when it zooms out to see MC's old neighborhood, you can see parts where the plane all the houses are sat just cuts off into the void of the low res background image of clouds. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad. And just how grainy all the images are so far, is so distracting. I know most of it is subsurface scattering, cause a lot of the image looks fine, then theres pretty much white noise over all the models' skin. And I know, because this is a mid-ass game, there will eventually be a "remake" of early chapters that are just re-rendering similar images. But this is one of the few games that has a rating it deserves. UNFORTUNATELY, it's getting that rating, not because it's written and executed like shit, but because these weird snowflake "alpha males" can't handle forced LIs in a sex game, or girls who do the same thing a lot of the scummy MCs do in other games. You can dish it out but can't take it FROM A BUNDLE OF IMAGINARY PIXELS. It's pretty funny to see, you know, if it wasn't so sad. So let's get through this, shall we?

Fair warning, this is one of my longest reviews to date. So I put it in a spoiler. I know it's just me screaming into a void, and not many people will see this. But I figured I'd review this again for the hell of it. It's spoiler heavy and I really just don't like anything about this game. Do with that what you will. I will warn you with this: This game is so banal and awful, going back through to spell check I wanted to check out.


I don't know where to begin with this. The Translation is not the worst, but the English is not good. Words missing, misspellings, and just weird phrases no one that speaks English has ever said. The UI/UX is dead stock, but the side images aren't good and all the images are loaded when needed so the game just freezes for a full on second some times because, instead of making a video or loading the images in at the beginning, the suddenly tell renpy "GET THESE IMAGES NOW." The art is grainy, poorly lit and the poses are boring and asset flipped. I have seen much worse but these aren't good. The animations are coppy and comical at best. The Dialogue and story are some of the worst and most boilerplate garbage I've seen. MC has to shout dum stuff like "HOLY SHITTING MONKEYNUTS" at the drop of a hat and to END OF CONTENT you don't even know what MC's parents did, just that they're bad people. Maybe I skipped on line too many and missed it, but when MC found out the reader just got empty ellipses instead of what was on the computer. So, to put it in the games terms: "BY GOLLY MS MOLLY'S GIANT SWEATER PUPPIES THIS GAME IS BAD."

Not a fan of image quality nor artwork, story is okay but nothing too exciting. Also has a couple of typos here and there that really need to be cleaned up. Would need a whole rework of the images for this to get worth playing.

really nice concept with hot mcs just the story line is kinda all over the place like the cousin admits to being in love with him 3 times and each time he acts like he didnt know and he goes from a perv and peeking on her in the shower and grabbing all their asses to scared and contemplating if he should kiss them like bro how you gonna go from big perv to pussy to nuts of steel back to a pussy like she admitted she wanted you to touch her and asks you why you would you want to touch her friend when you have her and you say youd rather have her and then when she asks for a kiss youre like idkkkk like yeah id eat you out but idk about a kiss and then you say you would owe her big and when you guys get back she asks for another kiss like bro you couldve asked him for anything.... but yeah all in all good game just gonna wait till ch 20 atleast for some action with the 3

The good:
There are a few cute faces.

The bad:
Grammar.
Poorly written dialogues.
The story is a poorly executed collection of porn cliches.

I don't skip text usually, but in this game I mostly skipped. The experience was not really interesting.

[Ch.8]

The choices are meaningless. The player has no control at all over what the MC is like, no control over how the MC feels about any of the characters, and little control over which scenes happen. This is a comic pretending it's a game.

The plot moves slow, which is a good thing because it's a little silly and not in a good way.

There's good effort on the content and renders even if they're not amazing, which kinda redeems the game.

The story is good, the LIs are beautiful and they have differnt characters and body types. The MC is agreable and someone that isn't just an overthinker regretting everything he does. The graphics are also good, so all in aall I give it 5 out of 5 stars.

Some of the early reviewers gave it an unfairly love ranking. I always wait!

Edit: After Ch 8 I still can't understand the low grades. The story is nice and easy, the LIs are great and the MC a funny and thoughtful guy that don't back down from the lewd scenes. So far a slow burner, but I don't mind that.

Overall average game so far in my opinion. Nothing really stands out too much.

Animations and models are decent at best. Storytelling lacks any real depth and much flavor really at all. Some wholesome scenes but I'm sure we were all hoping for some more layers to this story. Maybe the dev doesn't have the means to improve the quality of the visual components, but if they get there eventually or get a lot of support behind this game it could help it and improve it a lot obviously.

Is this game just average as of right now? in my opinion yes but could it get a lot better? of course it can as most games can.

For this game i'm giving 3/5. There are several reasons for this score. Firstly i want to say that character models are nice, not best but they can pass. Story itself isn't that bad.

Now what i totally disliked in this game so far is the fact that all females are hot for MC. All of them want his pants off from the start. There's no relationship building, nothing like that. You just get some choices to pick up and that's it. Speaking of choices certain things are forced on you. Like there's no option at all. So lets say you want to play solo path for single female. Well tuff luck on you cause game forces you to do something you ass a player don't want to.

Does this game have potential?, yes it does. Do i recommend it to try it out? Yes and no.

Thats nothing... The Setting and Story goes around here in every second game.

The Renders are... yeah there are Renders. The Models were recycled many time around F95. Overall the game looks "ok-ish" but really not good... there is so much more possible with a little more effort.

The writing is not good, the storytelling just bad.

And the Game has major issues... not the first a game give you choices and just ignore them after a second you picked some. "want to peek?" "no" "NPCs respond as if you have peeked" yeah what ever. No choice did matter, there are no variables. Doenst matter what you choose, the game goes the way the DEV wants. Just dont give us choices if you dont want the player to choose something diefferent than you intend@ DEV.

You can find hundreds of games like this, and much more better ones.

Normally i wouldnt write a review at this early state of a game, but im doing it anyways cause this game just dont have any potential at all. Its comnplete generic, and in my opinion the goal for the DEV is to get easy support at patreon with minmal effort to the game.

I just finished the first chapter and here are my thoughts about it.

Let's start with this I think the game needs an incest patch to make Megan the aunt and Lily and Nina cousins of the MC.

Now with the obvious out of the way let's get to the story or better backstory, the parents throwing a 12-year-old out is a stupid idea, a better idea would be that they send him off to boarding school.

Cut back the thoughts of the MC and especially the perviness it's annoying and childish. Also, in the first scene with Nina why the bullshit with her kneeing the MC in the balls.

The MC is not the worst I have ever seen but get rid of this sad excuse of a beard or give him a good locking one.

I think these are the most important things for now.

Chapter 1 brings a series of cliches, every scene so far we can see it other dozens of games. Story is more than dumb, models are generic and we saw them as well in many other games, and many renders have terrible lightning. So far this is worse than average.

Good start, I like it when stories build up slowly and you can tell when characters are interested in each other.
The graphics are also great.
An Incest patch could also be quite interesting.
Keep it up