Ren'Py - Max's Life [Ch. 5 v0.52] [Kuggazer]

I used to play this game when it first dropped and it looked very promising nice story line and tons of women and being an alpha chad but now the game has degraded to NTR and swinging most the women seem unsatisfied with MC and the games story has become shit yes there is a switch to turn on/off NTR but it seems to effect the true story when you go into the later game were there are no avoidable options if you dont have it off.
I did play some of it but couldn't keep playing through the rest.

Hard to rate because of the different standalone chapters. First Chapter was good, nice characters, decent storylines, but a little bit of a run around, especially because you couldnt just buy everything from the shop at once. When it came time for the 2nd chapter, it was wild how much worse it was. The UI got utterly destroyed into an ugly mess where you have to go a menu deep to forward time, the inbuilt walkthrough is either gone or hiding somewhere, the character designs were changed and not all for the better, and the graphics for the map especially became laughably worse. Hoping chapter 3 is better... if i can make it that far

I would love to give this game 5 stars, and while the story is more adequate than amazing, the porn aspects of it and the great kinks would probably get me that far...if not for chapter 2. It is sitting right in the middle of this effort, an unplayable outdated mess that breaks up the story progression. There is a ton of good playable content available across three of the four chapters, if the developer will remaster two, this will be a pretty easy recommend.

Right now I'm rounding up from a 3.5

Please, fix chapter 2!

One of the best Ren'Py games out there, especially if you like Honey Select graphics.

This is one of the few games where it's got a pretty interesting storyline while being almost non-stop sex.

Personally I dislike sandbox style games, there's a very small number of them that I genuinely enjoy and this is easily in the top 3.

If you haven't played this yet don't be intimidated by how much content there is to it so far I strongly recommend it.

Finished all four parts. And now I'm going to give a short review of it.

First of the whole series as whole is mind blowing and overwhelming, the sheer amount of content is unlike anything. Play just for those scenes, you won't be disappointed.

Part 1:

Decent pacing
Reworked version is good
Somewhat of good story telling

Part 2:

Buggy and need a walkthrough to play
Good but slightly fast progression with all the main female characters
Some scenes r hot as hell ngl
So many milf & thicc characters
Story felt rushed in part 2

Part 3:

Well coded linear setting.
Major improvement in graphic
All Characters turned slutty
tons of sex

part 4:

Story now is biting dust. It's became a porn movie.
But again tons of hot sex scenes
Some models r just incredibly hot

Should u play it?
Ans: Of course. You need no you must play this. This game as a whole has something like 8 gb of videos only(although they r 20 sec long and taking a lots of space. Dev should have used 1 sec video with loops). There are about 50+ characters each having atleast 1 sex scenes. Very diverse characters with enough for everyone. Small tits, big tits, huge tits, medium tits. This game almost has every thing. But missing one single thing that make it so underperforming on Patreon that is writing, story and initial game mechanics. If not this game alone has more content (Sex scenes atleast) than both harem hotel & mythic manor combined. We need to support this types of devs. Good luck. Thank you .

The first game is pretty good, but don't like the style change of the second game and that's why I haven't played a single game since then.

It's still worthwhile to download and play the first game, but if you liked the first game, I don't think you will like the second one.

As a whole, this series is fantastic, there is an incredible amount of content, with a cast that grows huge by the end of it. All of the main characters have great H-scenes, and there's a lot of side content to fill out the rest of the world. Guarenteed you'll find at lwast a few characters you'll like, there's a huge diversity of appearances and personalities.

The sandbox navigation is a little rough in the first couple of parts but worth it for the good scenes and fun writing. Later parts streamline the experience and there's an in game help system to help you when you're stuck. Although its a sandbox the grind isn't bad and it's always advancing you through the story anyway. No overly complicated stat systems and the money grind goes away very quickly.

Definitely recommend this series, it will keep you busy for a long time with good content

** I actually played Chapter 4 first, then went back and played Chapter 1, I haven't played Chapters 2 or 3 yet. Most of the criticisms I see are for Chapters 2 and 3, so I may end up changing my rating after I play those **

I'm not sure how I missed this game all this time.
This game is great!!
There is TONS of content.
There are so many hot models, I really have a hard time picking a favorite.
The renders and animations are well done - clear and not choppy. The only partial criticism I would have is - the sex scenes are somewhat repetitive - the scene will many times cycle between 2 renders/animations 2 times, then there will be 2 new renders/animations that will alternate 2 times and so on. This isn't really a big deal, just something I picked up on.
The story is surprisingly very engaging. I say surprisingly because, this game is your basic cliche - nerdy, wimpy, virgin MC that transforms into this charismatic super stud that every women drops her panties for. Well - every women does drop her panties for the MC, but the Dev does this story in a somewhat more plausible way and definitely more entertaining.
There is an NTR tag, but truthfully - this game is about as softcore of NTR as you are going to find. For starters, you have the option to turn NTR off completely. But even with it turned on - most of the NTR is really more sharing; the LI's aren't running around cheating on you behind your back.
Gameplay - this game is one the better adult sandbox games on this site. For starters it works as a sandbox game. Most of the adult sandbox games, really shouldn't have been designed as sandbox games; they make much more sense as a VN. I also like that the game isn't overly grindy. Sure there are some parts were there is a little grinding to advance the game. But not to the extent that it detracts from the enjoyment of the game. Also the hint system (virtual assistant) is a great component of the game.

All in all this is a very fun game to play. The Dev really checks all the boxes in creating an enjoyable and engaging game.

Im gonna rate the first chapter as a first impression, as always, for me, in case i come here in the future looking for games. This way i will know what to expect, and i will know it from myself.

The first impression is that this engine is dated for 2021, and there may be different body types, but in the end, the body structure remains and it is not good enough. The asses are a big problem and this engine makes asses look like the ones of underage girls, literally, like really underage, those that willl definetly bring you doom, and a FBI squad to your front door.
Pussies are the same for everyone and are boring and ugly, permanently open.
The way things deform ,again, quite ugly and you will see strange polygon overlapping and well, that stuf. And also you will see this thing where a character that is thin, in some scenes will appear to have masive thick arms and legs.

Regading the writing, well it is there,and its obviously not an english native, cause even me, also not an english native speaker, can call this weird sentence structure choices from time to time. But thats it pretty much for the writing.
Character development ends in the 3rd paragraph of the introduction and you are sent straight to dating sim mode, where you do stuff, get some things to meet the requirements and progress the next level of lewd with almost no resistance.

And sex scenes are mostly the same that you have seen in 10000 games, the same animations and camera angles and the same lewd progression.

With all this said, even if that cute girl is my sister, she could be raped by 3 meter black orcs, and i wouldnt really care.

I dont know where the girls are when they are not reachable. Where do they go? Are they studyng? one of them is. Mc is looking for work, but did he study? what career? Well, i dont want cringy exposition but you can tell this things in a subtle way. For instance, he is looking for work and he is not finding any. While talking to his mother during breakfast one of them could make a comment like "I am a (instert career of choice) graduate, and i cant find a job. Or the mother could say something like "there is not much need for (instert weird career choice) in this small town.

Well this is my opinion, and it is for me mostly.

Really missing the days when this game was getting on its feet and had so much potential,. Really liked the girls and making them fall for me without the help of "mind control". Yeah it was a bit grindy but it was rewarding. Then they dev was like "hey why don't we just turn all our girls into slutty whores who will fuck anyone you tell them to for.. reasons." Didn't like the swinging and the NTR. I will, however, give the dev props for making it optional and including a switch that just turns it off altogether. Still, even though you can turn that kind of content off, the game just assumes you want your girls to be porn stars and prostitutes regardless.

Very very sad. Such a great potential, so much dissapoint. Thjs my friends, is what happens when a dev tries to cater to his extreme patrons, and goes straight down the rabbit hole of nope with a hell no.

This story/game comes down to three points really, good amount of content, horrible renders and animations, basically very little story to any of it.

So many dev's come out with the cheap renders and very short animation times, especially for any sexual content. This again is one of them.

Story: Not really a lot of story to it, if you want story content this is not one of them.
Writing: The usual errors in spelling, and confusion in translations.

Graphics/ Renders : CHEAP and Dated are the words that are best used to describe it. Was not planned out with quality renders.

Animations : Short and loopy. There has not been a dev yet that has actually put in the time for a long and quality sex scene involving a true render of how sex actually plays out. Most just use short loopy and poorly done scenes. This one does that as well.

Lots of content: Although most of it is really not interesting or attention grabbing.

Average low quality story/game that continues to put out content, but does not improve the overall with anything interesting, like an actual continuous story.

One play through is enough, not good enough to keep, it really isn't a memorable story/game.

-awful writing
-no characters personality
-no story
-no chose
-no routes
-items available only in events so its just backtracking
-with all this game has time-local trigger gameplay
Only good thing its graphics, so in the end this is not a game or story,
that's just porno in bad way.

This is a porn game pure and simple: the plot is absurd and all over the place the characters are all horny, and the MC has a giant magical cock. So if you are thinking you're going to get something deep or substantive here you're going to be disappointed. But as porn it's pretty good, there are a ton of nice looking girls with a larger variety of body types. The plot is coherent enough to add some spiciness to the scenes and there are lots of nice animations and some really nice custom animations too. The game can be a bit grindy and you'll probably need the walkthrough for chapters 2&3 but if you have that it's a breeze. Overall if you like Honey Select and you are looking for some nice porn you should give this a try

I generally dont do reviews, in fact this is my first one ever, but I am doing this mostly to counteract the stupid, however valid, 1/2 star nitpick reviews.
I have been following this game for a long time and I still love it. I will say though that chapter two is gaping hole of a mess compared to the remake of chapter 1 and the others after it. It sours the sweet taste that the now gloriously remade chapter 1 leaves in your mouth and not everyone is gonna push through that. However those that do will see that this game is deserving of a high rating. Very good renders and hot scenes and situations all throughout. The dialog and story is...ok. Its nothing phenomenal but it does the job adequately enough considering the dev is not a native English speaker. So dont expect anything mind blowing from the story but for what it is, it works.

The fact that this game gives you the option to toggle off the stuff you dont like is already miles ahead of a lot of other similar games and there is no semblance of grind outside of maybe the now outdated formula that chapter 2 still adheres to. It's been a while since I've been through chapter 2 though so I dont quite remember how bad it is.

The game as a whole is amazing sadly then fact that it is in 3 chapters and has to downloaded one by one.
And it cant be tied in to one smooth progressing game kills all of the joy i felt in the 1st chapter.

Its just too much. For me.

Review as of 2021-03, with CH1 finished/remastered, CH2 finished, CH3 finished, CH4 v0.36

So this one is a bit of a mixed bag, as it is essentially 4 different games in vastly different states of playability.

As it is impossible to make an "overall rating", I'll rate them indivdually and rate the whole series by the average of the four games.

Chapter 1
Overall very good. Decent story, good characters, good CG, good sex scenes, decent animations.
The remastered client with the ingame guide works extremely well.
The prison ending is kinda bad, and I'm close to knocking off a star for that, but I'm gonne be generous here and not do that. 5/5

Chapter 2
Very, very bad. No ingame guide. Laggy client. Can't click through animations. Every animation completely freezes the client for several seconds before starting. Completely unplayable. 1/5

Chapter 3
Basically works the same as Chapter 1, same client, significantly improved CG and animations. This could have been so good. Unfortunately the game softlocks on you after less than a third way in, by some programming mistake that won't let you re-buy an item that is required to progress the story. Super sad, and completely unacceptable in a supposedly "finished" game. 1/5

Chapter 4
Once again, effectively the same client as Chapter 1 and 3, and as such works well. Unfortunately, at this point the game has been overly convoluted with characters, 90% of which serve no purpose but still clog up the map with their presence and the (at this point) unneeded locations, making the game extremely confusing, making you spend more time finding out where characters that the guide tells you to talk to are, rather than actually interacting with them. 2/5

Conclusion
(5 + 1 + 1 + 2) / 4 = 2.25 ~= 2/5
It's a massive bummer, because the remastered Chapter 1 is so good, leaving you with a desire for more. A desire which Chapter 2 to 4 unfortunately cannot satisfy.

Solid game, only complaint is the Lewd scenes could be a bit more intricate, and involved, and there are no choices, just unlocking content.
The Good
MC doesn't look like a donkey, or a child, like a lot of other Honey Select MCs.
Lots of different girls with different shapes and personalities. The family is best but plenty of other ladies.
Can turn the pissing and NTR off. That's always nice to be able to avoid if it's not your kink.
Not much grind and a ton of Lewd Scenes. Really each chapter is the size of a normal game, and has lots of sexy time.
Sexy sounds and animations are quite well done. Not the best I've seen, but still pretty good.
The Not so Good
Story is pretty thin at times, and girls are a bit too easy for the most part. Would have really liked a bit more dialogue, and intimacy, especially with the family. Some more interactions between the different girls, would have been nice. Not more girl on girl, there's plenty of that, but more overlap, so MCs life doesn't seem so separated.
No choices that matter, just grinding stats to unlock content. Would have been nice to end some girls paths or just be friends if you don't fancy them. You can skip content, but not in a way that makes sense in the story. Sex with every female you meet is a bit much.
Overall a solid Incest Harem game, if you don't mind Honey Select, and favor sexy time over story.

Not good, a lot of unnecessary grinding and repeat scenes day by day to advance also the story is lame seems to be written by a 12 yo, MC is worthless and unlikable but every girl in game falls for he immediately without reason , totally unrealistic could make a little more sense with some mind control, is ok to kill sometime

I have to say that the story isn't that great but it's not the worst. But the sexy content in the game is excellent and Hot as F. The NTR content is avoidable and the NTR present in the game is not that horrible. But he game has lots of good FAP material that is all that matters to me ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) .

One of my favorite adult games of all time. There is so much content here, and the girls are really hot. The story has heart and humor as well. I really look forward to seeing what new directions it can go, and if it can be expanded upon.