Ren'Py - EURANASIA: Prison of Lust [v1.0] [Pantsu]

To be honest I very much preferred the prologue which was structured as a normal visual novel. The story and characters were interesting and personally I felt things would have gone much better if the game just proceeded normally.

Unfortunately after the prologue, the game changed to a sandbox where it's just mainly redundant clicking over the different times of the day in prison just to trigger something to move the story forward.

The overall scenery could also do with a darker and more somber tone since this is supposed to be a maximum security prison. The overall feel in the cells, canteen, workshop and gardens felt more like a cheap holiday resort then a horrible prison.

Actually a good first chapter. Now while it still have some problem, like the unnecessary Sandbox, I can say the rest of the game do actually well. First to the good thing:
- Worldbuilding: 8/10, It show you the setting, the basic struggle of the people in it
- Story: 7/10, not much to tell, since it's the first chapter, but I think it's convining enough for an adult game
- Character: 9/10, the models look very good and diverse
- Render: 9/10, one of the better honey select render game
Overall, I think this game can be better, but right now it's good already. While people think sandbox might be annoying. I think it does not affect the flow of the game, and no grinding too much as well

I think other reviewers have been a little harsh in evaluating an initial release. there are shortcomings in this game, but the premise is intriguing, and the limitations are not more than is to be expected from an initial release. The characters could be a little more complex, but the game so far does draw me in. Probably the most helpful change that could be made would be and indication of when the player has finished all the progress that can be made in this version. Another improvement would be to have some indication of progress with each character, and some hint as to what to do next. I look forward to continuing development of this one.

Reviewing v1.0

Premise/TL;DR: i'll try to be short and concise as possible but overall this game is a waste of time, just move on, play anything else.

Pros

- The graphic is amazing.
- The initial premise of the story is cool

Cons

- The grammar is atrocious, sometimes feels machine-translated, sometimes feels like the dev is inventing new words.
- If the initial premise of the story is cool, the execution is terrible, so many questions open, and some statements contradict other previous statements. An example of questions open: The narrative talks a lot about Euranasia and how men are going extinct...what about the rest of the world? We just get some random historical facts about this region but nothing else(extra: by the mention of it i half-expected a White-on-Asian kind of raceplay/interracial relationships).
- MC is dumb, i thought i met the dumbest MC in VNs but this guy? He overthrows the "king". Let's ignore his personality, but literally exposes himself so much, constantly taking unnecessary risks but gets away with it because he is the MC which means he has a plot-armor. Let me ask one question: What if Ryuko's love-points are increasing because MC is pretty much exposing his allies, raising the chances of them getting caught?
- The non-MC characters may look different but personality-wise they're the same person, everyone wants to be cute, everyone behaves like they never have seen a cock, or never watched straight-porn(exception for MC that considering his behaviour, i believe he only watched male-on-male porn). Ultimately, everyone trust everyone way too easily, even the guards are soft as hell for a maximum security prison. In the end like the statements made during narration, some characters contradict themselves like Youko who decided to get tattoos because she likes them, but apparently is super worried to look scary, while wanting to be cute enough to get a partner...and we get told this, IN PRISON. I've a question: in a nation(i refrain from saying "world") where women are ruling, men are going extinct, the only tough ones are nameless NPCs, despite MC's words of hate and concern at first, he goes down simping by showering every single lady with compliments, if it's not simping, then it's very close.
- The minigames are grindy as fuck, after the second time, i just cheated and maxed the strength.
- This is personal and it doesn't change my rating: too much smoking, okay is to express misery or to look cool (it fails miserably, everyone look that character that their only role in a show is to psychoanalyse someone's life).
- Not sure if intended but some events that shouldn't be repeatable, they do repeat (see Mika's moving boxes for the first time for example, considering that they keep talking about Mika asking for MC's help like it's the first time...everytime)

Conclusion

This game is in a dire need of a rework, delete everything and do it again but better. Nothing else to say.

Well, if you want to ask people to grind, you should check if your game is worth it. Appreciate the effort though. Nice renders but the writing is so poor. At times, feel like the dev is trying to sabotage their game with the writing. It could be the translation issue, but again, what is the point?

Story 4/5: I really like the concept of the story. It shows great potential.
Writing 2/5: a bit below average but not terrible
Renders 3/5: fine, pretty average
MC 1/5: stupid, awkward and slow MC. He stutters a lot and have a severe lack of confidence when talking to girls. He seems to have little to no self-control and has an extreme overuse og words like "please" and "sorry". Furthermore he seems incapable of acting assertive. When he compliments girls, he does it in a way which makes him seems even more pathetic. Quite frankly he is pathetic, and is in dire need of rewriting.
Characters 3/5: decent variety and some are written decently well, while others are extremely terrible written
Choices 3/5: the choices seem quite surface level and only seem to effect the points you have wit them. the choices are often pretty bad, and have the beneficial choice being to sound like a pussy wit no self control


Also, as a side note: the smoking it is excessive and completely unnecessary. for some reason he tries to talk a girl out of quitting smoking, which is forced and stupid. It would be better if it got removed completely but minimizing it could make it tolerable.
lastly, making money seems way to grindy, but maybe that is just early on, and later there will be given more efficient ways of making money.