Others - Abandoned - Glamour [v0.57] [Dark Silver]

The game overall have a good render. Good looking character. But it's too grindy. The development also slow considering the how long this game has been. The story is in either good or bad. If you guys don't mind playing the same scene and don't mind waiting for the long update this game is for you also support his patreon if you like lol

Edit v0.16 offline
New character or just reviving the character from BB this game would be long way to finish. Grind fiesta only good render without animation

The renders are outstanding. = 1 star

This game is boring and wasting time.
I've been playing for six hours and did nothing.
I need to replay the scene over and over again so I can get some real thing.

This game is a joke.

So I finally gave the game a try after more than one year of development and it was actually worse than I imagined and I had very little expectations to beginn with.
The grinding is from hell. Not only do you have to repeat dozens of events multiple times with little to none variation to advance the plot, the dev also implemented a "chance" mechanic, meaning there is a good chance an event won't trigger even when you do everything you are supposed to do.
While this can be a fun mechanic to reward the thorough player with little bonus scenes, the game uses it so often and with critical quests that it is just a torment to play.
The second big disappointment is the lack of content. You would think a dev like Dark Silver with a team and money would be able to deliver a satisfactory experience after such a long time, but when you look at the actual content and not the time you need to unlock it, there is just not enough content to justify such a long development time and I played the female MC, who apparently has much more and fleshed out content. Even after such a long development time, basic open world mechanics barely exist or have no actual effect other than just being there.

Considering he is basically restarting BB in Glamour now, so the development will be even slower than before, I have zero hope that this game will turn into something decent in the next couple of months. Maybe, but just maybe in one or two years this can become a playable game, when the content is more spread out so the game will be less repetitive.

Edit: Now, nearly four years later I can say the game got even worse.

This game is extremely slow and boring. I've been playing for two hours and I feel like nothing has happened yet. And some of the questions at school are shit too because the answers are wrong. I don't understand why developers hide all there good content behind so much shit grind!!!!

this game is just too much grinding. it could been fun (the same way Big Brother was) ONLY if it's possible to cheat. too bad, because the graphics are nice, but the game isn't worth the hassle. i hope one day someone will be motivated enough to add an mod for it. Until than , i will just pass

I was a big fan of BB and was a bit skeptical at first. I have to say, the game is every bit as good as BB. I didn't think I'd like playing a female MC but they've done a great job. The only con is that it is a little grind heavy but the upside is that there are several variations to repeatable events. And...it looks like DS is rebooting BB within the game.

There's supposed to be so many great renders in this game considering this is the same guy that did big brother, but by god there's such an amazing amount of dialogue which is shown in a horrible long text blurb that you're basically already bored by the time you get in control.
Somehow these devs seem to forget that it's a porn game told through visuals not a porn book.

Glamour Version 0.13

After Big Brother got abandoned by the Dev i was a little disheartened as in my opinion DarkSilver had some and still does have some of the best renders in his games, When i heard he was starting a new project i rejoiced as i wanted to see the same level of quality in an even better game... This is NOT it.

Pro's

- The renders really are outstanding, the scenes are beautifully as well as the characters, apart from Developers such as DrPinkCake, DS has some of the best renders in the business.

- Character development and personalities are also very good, you can quickly get a pretty good understand of the characters.

- The story isnt bad, its engaging at times and usually serves Plot or character development.

Con's

- The development time is pain painstakingly slow with each update not really adding much apart from some boring "Filler Scenes" that serve no purpose.

- The game is beyond grindy, it seems any scenes worthwhile viewing are locked behind a massive event chain as well as CHANCE encounters.

- The actions in the game take a LONG time before you get any kind of pay off, im not saying you need a character to drop their pants after getting them a glass of water but you need some sort of gratification.

- One of the glaring issues of this game is that the Dev is technically making 2 separate games at once, A Male path as well as a Female path. this just slows down development on a project that is already slow.

- At times it seems you are stuck in endless lines of boring dialogue that dont further the plot at all.

Summery

Version 0.13 was "The biggest Update Yet" and it did add a reasonable amount of content to the game, however it still has a very long way to go before id consider this game "Playable." This game may and most likely will be pretty good if it ever gets finished however its a long ways off and has already been in development for a long time.

Id personally hold of on becoming invested in this game its one to Watch however its going to be a long road in my opinion.

it's a boring game, it takes far to long till you get some action, I read everything a few times, but sorry don't get the story so far, I'm sure I missed something and why mixing with big Brother ?
It's sure nice to see the BB girls again, but again what's the story behind it

this game is realy beautiful

the characters are very nice, the girls are very beautiful "guys too" and even if for the moment the content is light, the story is so interesting, "attractive" that it really makes you want to follow its evolution

the choice between male or female character is really very interesting and original enough to be reported, it brings a real plus to this game, female or male protagonist made very often debate and with glamour everyone can find his happiness

I think it's one of the most promising recent games of the moment.

congrats and all the best for the future

I really like this game. I spent hours going through the quests and grind out what needed to be done. Even though it got a bit grindy at times, i still liked it. And i was really looking forward to the next releases.
And then it all went to shit for me. When they introdused BigBrother into the game i got a bit worried. At first it was ok as a way of getting more money rather than farmin the hotell job. Then they went overboard and Max turned into a playable char. And in the latest release, that is the biggest they ever did, there is nothing but BigBrother content... For this reason alone i stopped playing the game. Sorry to say that they ruined a good game by trying to resurect a dead game like several other devs.

Full disclosure: I've been a DS patron for two months now and I've been a long time fan of Big Brother. I tested Max's route in 0.12, but deliberately waited until 0.13 before trying Kate's story for the first time.

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First off, the renders in this game are exquisite. Those familiar with games built on DAZ assets, will recognize a lot of props and rooms, but there's a quality to the postprocessing and color saturation that really makes this title stand out from the crowd.

The models used are absolutely gorgeous, and DS does an excellent job of posing them in the different scenes. Facial features are quite varied but universally beautiful. Body proportions are fairly believable (e.g. no ridiculously large breasts) but there's a preponderance of supermodel / porn star body types. This anomaly has an explanation in the main story, though.

As for the story, I find it interesting and fairly novel. I won't go into detail, but the female MC (Kate) has had a sheltered upbringing, laying the foundation for a corruption theme. There are quite a few quests/storylines available as Kate, although none of them are concluded as of yet. I must admit I was surprised to find that playing as a female MC feels like a refreshing change. YMMV. If projecting yourself onto the MC is important to you, you may want to wait for Max's story to be started. Personally, I was very pleasantly surprised to find out that DS is basically going to reimplement a lot of the Big Brother storyline in Glamour. I am looking forward to playing that once it gets released.

Currently, the writing is pretty good. There are a few typos here and there, but errors in translation (DS's mother tongue is Russian, I believe) are fortunately quite rare. Not all of the dialogue is believable, but it is obvious that a lot of thought has gone into the different storylines.

The biggest gripe most will have with this game, is probably its pacing. This is not a game for instant gratification. There's quite a bit of text to read through and sexually explicit scenes are not something that happen early. Many of the sex-scenes require several play-throughs, before you reach the climax. This does go hand in hand with the slow corruption theme, but may feel forced at times. It is particularly frustrating when a given scene triggers very rarely. Whether one considers this a grind and thus something negative however, is a matter of perspective.

In summary:

At version 0.13, there is a lot left to do before this game could be considered finished in any real sense of the word. However, there is quite a bit of content here already, and the framework has been lain for a lot of exciting material to come in the next releases. I also cannot stress enough that the quality of the content thus far, is immaculate.

I know DS has some haters after abandoning BB, but if you manage to judge Glamour on its own merits, you'll find a lot to like here.

According to Greek mythology, Narcissus was famous for its beauty and arrogance. Looking at her reflection in the pond of the nymph Eco, he was enchanted by her own beauty and lay down on the bank of the river and languished, staring into the water and beautifying herself to death.
I remember the days when people waited hours and hours for the pirated version of BB, it was the only game in the history of this forum to have a protection against sharing. As if the unexpected cancellation of the project was not enough, after milking his Patreons for more than a year, DarkSilver resolves to unearth an abandoned project that has only Glamour in its name. And unhappy with his failure, he still forces the player to collaborate monthly to enjoy all the options in online mode, using BB's "golden goose" characters in a terrifying and depressing game.
It's sad to see that many people have not woken up and still support the narcissism and arrogance of this developer.

If I could I would give it 0/5.

A game with hardly any content due to the stupid idea of creating two games in one (boy and girl).
This translates into double the development time to increase the creator's bank account every month for a game in which you visit a house without doing anything.

Visual side of the game is superb - quality, models, details etc. Story is ok however not brilliant. The only issue I have with Glamour is that it involves lots of grinding. Too much clicking, waiting and clicking some more to push events just a tiny bit. I don't think I'm unpatient but this one really put me to the test...

I have to say that I was a great fan of BB. Even though I can understand some of the critisism. The major flaw was the lack of an overview, of all all possiblle ways.
This Game on the other hand, doese it much better!
The new main charakter is verry nice (even though i would also see the male path going to start ;P) and all the NPC´s look great and are interesting (as far they are developed by now).
Most of all I loved all the conections to the BB-charakters! But new ones are almost as good and i love to see more of them!

The onely thing i dislike verry much, is the ne "talking-mechanic"! Sometimes i can just work my way around all possible topics to talk with an NPC and then there are so many times, the conversation ended after a topic and I had to talk to the NPC again, why!?
Can´t just I chose the end of the conversation? That would be less frustrating...

But all in all, I love the writing and the graphics. I´m eager to see what´s comming up next! ^^

I tried to give it the benefit of the doubt, but sadly, there is nothing appealing about this game. Anything that could be positive is just destroyed by the clunky interface. Nothing seems to work right.
I only played because of BB. This has all of the irritations and none of the charms.

Version 0.11 Offline: In a word - Terrible. In more words: Part Time Maid Simulator 2018, subtitle: You might see some naked people.

Big Brother was a great game with some grave flaws. But also some things it did very right that a lot of other lewd games failed at. Glamour on the other hand, does all of those things immediately wrong. Let me list a few examples:

Lewd: What Big Brother did very right was, it let the player be very lewd right from the start, spying on his, uh, co-tenants, with a danger of getting caught, and the various quests served to increase the amount of lewd that these actions would yield. Many games fail at creating a lewd atmosphere right from the start, where everything you do in the game basically only serves to increase the lewd yield. Case in point: Glamour. There is nothing lewd to do all day, no boundary to push, no sleeping people to molest. An absolute boner-killing snorefest.

Interface: The interface of Big Brother was clean, sleek and efficient, it let you jump to every relevant location immediately. Glamour on the other hand lets you navigate an annoying labyrinth of locations, in none of which anything is happening. Furthermore, the dev AGAIN repeated his mistake of emulating a renpy interface in Unity, which means all problems with the interface are acerbated by it's infuriating sluggishness, which only seems to have increased since Big Brother.

Now what things did Big Brother do wrong? Mostly, what people call "The Grind", by which people mean the fact that most quests can only be progressed once every few days or once a week even. This is further complicated by the circuitousness of the plotlines. A plot may not continue at all until you complete a completely unrelated plot. And unlike Big Brother, you cannot as easily fast forward through the days until the next event triggers, because of the sluggish interface and the banality simulator day schedule. This means, the Grind is even worse, and much more infuriating.

But the game also manages to introduce entirely new design mistakes. It is, most of all, horribly overwritten. Every character, without exception, will throw 100s of lines of dialogue at you at the slightest provocation. There is no lewd shit as a reward for reading this crap. DS' writing was serviceable enough in Big Brother, but in Glamour, it's so much useless shit and you want to shout at the game "SHUT THE FUCK UP AND GET ME TO THE LEWDS" at every single character after a while.

There really is only one thing that Glamour does right, and it's a thing Big Brother had too - Good, crisp renders, of models that don't look undead abominations, like many other games. This is of course so because Daz3D doesn't do facial expressions other than "Blank, soulless smile" very well, and many devs make the mistake of trying to give their models some sort of facial dynamic, which just makes them look like horrible abominations. So the dev resorted to simply giving everyone the same vacuous stare in every frame, ever.

In the end, this is complete shit, boring, tedious, and worst of all, unfappable because there is simply nothing to fap to. Waste of time, pass.

1 out of 5 because of the crisp renders

I'm usually not writing any review for games and i must tell any people to reading my review " this is my opinion " about glamour offline 0.12
my opinion is 1/5. But if I could send 0/5 !!!
1- name is glamour offline but not offline and need internet. you download 1.8 Gigabyte for this game and when you extract and run you can see need download 2 gig more !!! download in offline game !!! offline ???
2- i don't know about story for i can't see any story and event on this game in 0.12 version.
3- i select max for main character in 0.12 version. 10 hour play with max and i can't see any story and event. only wake up in morning , going to school , back to home , again and again and again , it's bullshit and boring game in all time , i don't know what the fuck is this game !!! i ask to other player for Max story and They say to me "there is almost no content for max " , so why dark silver add max character in the game ??? i think developers forgotten have a max character in game.
4- This game is terrible to play and very bad and useless walkthrough.
5- at last i must talking about developers (Dark Silver), dark silver making new game and release new version update in 1 or 2 year and abandoned this game like "Big Brother". Developer must look more to players interests in a game for not only making for money.
i think glamour never go to popular games list. If this game will become popularity. I'll lose faith in humanity intelligence.
Big Brother is awesome but Glamour very bullshit and i never try again.
thanks for reading my review <3

Great visuals but its lacking much of the content that I would expect from a game that is 12 months old. Its a porn game and the only scenes you can access is having another lady eat you out for a weeks wages or watching your sister (sorry not a sister anymore) fuck her boyfriend in front of you.

I don't know if this is a bain or a boon but Big Brother (the devs older game) is being merged into this starting from v0.12. On one hand I think it'll be more fun but it means that development time for both patches is going to seriously slow down.