Ren'Py - Abandoned - Glad To Be Alive [v0.09] [Naughty Pineapple Games]

Lot of potential here but its also very early so there are hits and misses but non of the misses are game ending and are easily fixed if the dev chooses so. The render quality for the models are mixed, but the art direction or I guess more accurately the style for the girls he is going for is unique and welcome. I do like it, he just needs to refine it. The personality of the girls is varied and they feel like their own person. MC's friend is rather annoying but its a personal thing, however his personality type conflicts heavily with the MC and there is no explanation to why they are even friends. They are just way too different, Perhaps if there were some context. The friend should be toned down a bit. The sandbox free roam aspects is something I never like in a game but it is what it is. In this game, its brief (so far) but it was very hard to navigate, the mouse needs to be in very specific spots. Took a while to find the study area to advance the plot.

So with all the criticisms, why the 5 stars? Just for the potential. The game is way to early to even be leaving a review but here we are. Game could be good, lets so. I had fun playing it and didnt feel the need to instantly drop it. Im liking there are more asian girls too. And the uniqueness of the designs. No copy pasted characters.

TL;DR: This game, from version 0.09, doesn't try to play around too much with any of the story, opting for the standard college playboy fare. Some nice new models provide a bit of originality to look of the game. It's clear the creator want's to try to develop characters with some interesting motives, backstories and personalities. The only real gripe, that would bring this down to 3 stars is the text. While it's difficult to write a good story, scenes, and dialogue, remember to show not tell


This is essentially an extended demo, so unsurprisingly there isn't a ton to do. There is sex scene here, though I assume it's more to show off what's to come than to be seen as meaningful to the plot. There are really 3 main topics for this review.

1) Characters, they are designed to look different from the standard model being throw around by porn games, and I appreciate that. A bit of fine tuning on some of the facial expressions would help (Much like the writing, subtle is typically better). One thing I really appreciate is that there are more Asian characters, it's not just a one and done fetish thing (Not my particular fetish, but variety is the spice of life).

2) The scenes are par for the course, MC goes to college, is going to live it up with the help of his goofyish new best friend, Nothing revolutionary. We have some interesting ideas floating around, but it's too early to tell if anything will come of them or if will keep playing things safe.

3) Text is something of a problem? I ask as it depends on your value of text in a porn game. There could be a lot of refinement in the dialogue and "Stage direction" For example: In the car the game states that the tense moment is very tense, and that the tension could be cut with a knife. This is too much. Keep writing tight, and remember to show not tell. The words the characters say should indicate it's tense, and at one point you achieved that but still over-explained. This will be anyone's biggest gripe.

This is a really strong start and keeping it safe with the setting/plot, as the creators first kick of the can, is probably a good move. A touch more refinement in making the characters faces LESS exagerated when trying to convey emotion will help keep models looking great. The dialogue will be the biggest hangup but if the authour focuses on the golden "show don't tell" rule I think that could be handled well enough.

I've been a lurker on this forum for some time, but just something about this made me want to write a review for it.

First of all this review is as of [v0.09] so please keep that in mind.
Renders are good. Some could use a bit of work, but it's generally better than quite the majority of games here. Also the eyes on some of the characters, where the pupils are facing seems to be a bit off, especially in the beginning. But this seems to solve itself by the later stages of the game.
Gui is still a little on the lacking side, but according to the developer's patreon he seems to intend to work on it.

Where this game shines however are the characters and the story. The characters don't seem so black and white here. They own have their own crafted personality. Some more likable than the others but it seems intended. A couple of them do seem to be on the trope-y side however but that's fine. Nothing we are unused to.

The story has quite some funny stuff, well-written. Daisuke as the mc's sidekick has potential. At first he seems like an annoying brat, and the MC himself seems to reaffirm this at the beginning, but throughout episode 1 even, you can see signs of him doing some more likable and affable actions that sorts of redeems his annoying behaviour somewhat. I feel like the developer is trying to craft daisuke as a character that will slowly sort of grow on the player and i'm interested to see how the developer goes about doing this.

The english, grammar, story-writing in general is really good. Definitely one of the better written games on this site. After playing so many 'engrish' games, this one comes as refreshing to see.

Overall a very commendable first attempt for a first release. Looking forward to see how this game moves forward from here.

Game has potential, but the protagonist is boring, stupid and the plot device that is used with the intention of making him interesting, utterly fails.
The mc needs to talk more, instead of just thinking 10 boring sentences, the mc should just talk, instead of just standing there staring, not doing anything.
The girls are okay. some boring and some just don't act like real people.
Renders are good, but but nothing special.
over-all story of a guy starting college is over-used.
I am quite of mc's that lack any kind of social skills.

TLTR: game has potential but the characters, including the mc needs to be reworked