Ren'Py - Max's Life [Ch. 5 v0.51] [Kuggazer]

  1. 2.00 star(s)

    Fuchsschweif

    Update 20.01.2024:
    Changed the stars from 3/5 to 2/5, because in chapter 4 there are even multiple scenes where other guys jerk off behind your character while you have sex with girls, and your ugly nerd cousin Steve is constantly having his hands on your girls, even though NTR is turned off.

    Original Review:

    Oh boy, this game could've been a 5/5 so easily, it has the potential to be one of the best adult games ever made. That is due to a kinda interesting open world, tons of girls, a "story" that is fun (you work yourself up and get richer, buy businesses and stuff, which makes you feel like really going somewhere) and lots of great ideas by the dev (for instance, you teach a female class about sexuality and you can imagine where this leads to. Lots of cool ideas and different places with different things).

    But.. there are many things that keep the game down. First and foremost, the open world isn't really "open". You often can only chase 2-3 different paths at once, everything else is hardlocked behind progress on these paths. But this works against the idea of an open world.

    I could understand if some major events were locked behind some sort of overall progress, but here it's really constantly like this.

    Then this game falls for the usual trap: Tedious tasks with 0 gamplay value. To be fair, it's not exaggerated here like in other games, and it doesn't feel grindy often, but still you'll find yourself walking to stores buying items, or visiting the same girl 3 days in a row and see nothing really new in order to progress with her story.

    But often you'll also have a hard time figuring out how to progress, and the ingame hint system often is useless. It should actually tell you what to do, and not give you hints that you already got by dialogues.

    So if Jennifer says to me "I lost my ring at a place between X and Y", the hint system should tell where that place is, and not repeat the same info.

    Often you'll have to search this thread on F95 to find out what to do next, and you'll also be constantly looking into the guide. Not as much as in other games again, but often enough to be annoying.

    I can't stress this enough: Good game design is when you DON'T need a walkthrough to play a game. Everything should be designed that it comes naturally while playing.

    Next thing that drags the game down is, that a lot of sex scenes are the basic one from the Illusion game that was used for making this game, and they're being recycled too often. Luckily, in chapter 3, there's a bit more of custom scenes (as it appears), but still they only make up like 20%. I would have loved to see more own ideas, since the world and the places and different girls give sooo much room for fantasy. Potential is being wasted a lot here by the same sex positions over and over again.

    Then, the dev does also two mistakes that most adult game devs make:

    1. After ejaculation you'll be faced with a static image instead of the animation keep going, this is a huge turnoff

    2. Many sex scenes are wasted by close up shots on the dick how it goes into the pussy. That always erases the complete personality of the characters having sex. You could literally take any of the other 100000 games and watch a scene with a dick into a pussy and the only difference is the artstyle.

    Good shots show at least the female partner, her body movements and her facial expression. Lots of wasted potential again.

    Chapter 2 isn't reworked yet, so after you finished chapter 1, which is great, you'll have to torture yourself through the chapter 2 with less good graphics, no ingame hint system, laggs when you go to sleep for the next day to occur and some game-breaking bugs that you can only solve by downloading hotfixes that are somewhere hidden within the 779 pages of this thread here and by uploading your savegame to online save game changer for renpy and manually editing missing corruption points, that the game just doesn't give you.

    And some events trigger randomly and then only on day X, but are required to move on, so you'll find yourself grinding through weeks and hope for the random event to occur. Or save right before it and reloading a couple of times.

    Last but not least, the game forces more and more voyerism to you, as you find yourself more and more often in sex scenes where other men are watching you fucking girls standing next to you. I even had a scene where I had to fuck a girl with a black guy together despite that I have turned NTR off.
  2. 2.00 star(s)

    sonstwer

    First half of the first chapter was really fun to play until I got to go to prison. Prison time seemed rushed, without passion, as if it needed to be pushed out to complete the first chapter. It consisted mostly of transitions, missed content and fun.

    Second chapter introduced a new UI that´s unnecessarily complicated, fonts that can only be read on a 4K Display (tablet: small white font with red outlines on white background, but providing important infos). It´s missing a hint system and is lagging (2 seconds on my laptop).

    That´s why I never even made it past the prologue.
    Animations took a step back, not forward, they feel cleaned up, not to show any interesting details anymore (no wet pussies, no creampies, no juices).
    Biggest turnoff: you can´t click forward during animations. You´re forced to watch those clips in full length to be able to advance. NO GO!

    Conclusion: Started really strong and then plummeted down like the stock exchange prices on black friday back in those days.
  3. 1.00 star(s)

    MikesDK

    Story 1/5
    Story is bland and the writting is ok, sandbox is boring and you cant do things in the way you like since buying stuff is locked untill you reach the story part that unlocks it, those things i could deal with though dont even mind a grind but having to visit some old ugly milf with huge saggy tits to make money no just no, also i cant deal with is the lack of choices and freedom, slap a kinetic tag on since thats really what it is.

    You cant pick who to fuck, if you want to progress the story you have to fuck everyone and maan i hate forced LIs i just cant have it, that also why i never play kinetic which is a tag this game should have to warn people that you have no choices when it comes to importen stuff like relationships.

    So expect a full blown fuckfest game with 0 relationship build up, 0 romance just a pure pointless and mindless porn game, where you never get to feel any emotions for any LIs.

    And dont expect it to be NTR free even if its turned off, multiple girls will still do lesbian stuff without MC being there anything from licking to strap-on so yeah not anywhere close to NTR off, you even agree to share a LI with anoter girl.

    You need to be into young/old/tin/fat/ugly/small tits/huge saggy tits....so pretty much everything, dont know how many people likes all but i sure dont, i hate big tits with a passion and having them forced on you and having to fuck somone with that is just a no go for me, game only becomes a huge turn-off constantly which is a pretty idiotic thing for a AVN/Porn game, also know that fetishes will also be forced on you, like feet,lactation, BDSM and so on, so you truely need to like everything in this game to play it.

    Why not give people the choice instend, its no hard just add a freaking yes/no button and change a bit of text so it shows you dident fuck em... sure its a bit more work but then game would then be for all instend of the few.

    As for virgin fans just forget it, theres no deflowering, no pain, no blood, no nothing its pure and simple a normal sex scenes where they just put in the word virgin, absolutly nothing to come for.

    Girls 4/5
    Girls looks pretty good and there is a good diversity in builds as well, to bad all of them are forced on you, but that dosent change that they look good.

    Animations 4/5
    They are pretty good for this type of character style.

    Music 0/5
    There is none.

    Choices 0/5
    Forced relationships/LIs, store items are locked to follow a kinetic story like you cant buy the dress you might like for the sister but forced to buy em in order once story reach the point.

    Sandbox 1/5
    Its the worst kind where you have 0 freedom due to questlines being tied together so you cant progress story without doing them all, so you cant skip someone that way either if you hate the LI really awefull setup, the grind is easy and moving around could be a little better like theres no mini map to go to diffrent rooms, have to click your way there.

    If you had choices in this game it would be 4 maybe even close to a 5 star game but without them its just no good.
    For me to play it as it is now i had to use fast skip (ctrl) to get past so many forced scenes which ruins the hole story as well.
  4. 4.00 star(s)

    LeroyChun

    Really liked the variation the game has to offer in girls , not all of them feel same dialogue and looks wise so that is really nice

    Did not understand some of the pacing in the plot earlier but that gets fixed later on so that's not really a issue.

    Lots of content though , huge props for that.
  5. 4.00 star(s)

    Silk_Ari

    It's a game that provides you with a good time. Nothing more, nothing less.
    The story is basic and cliche but that's fine it's not pretending to be anything else than what it is.
    There's no "real choices" here with consequences. Every girl is going to fuck you no matter what. I feel like you need to go into this game knowing this and accepting it. If you do, 4 stars.

    To sum it up, it's like a number written in a bathroom stall that says: "for a good time call xxxxxx"...
    If you're into that sort of sh*t... it's going to be a good time guaranteed :D
  6. 5.00 star(s)

    vins90

    I played again and confirmed that it's one of my favorites. Visually, the artstyle and proportions were perfect for me even tho there are bodies for every taste. Max has a nice personallity and every character stands out in their own way and moment. Even new characters are memorable. The dialogues aren't heavy, I guess the font helps. Some typical plots but they balance with creative ones. You knew how to fit a lot of girls and I love it.
  7. 5.00 star(s)

    jake22299

    exceleent game please keep going one of the best game it i hope it will be updated soon thank you guys please put futa trans as well thank you very much kuggazar what a great story please make annna in the story little bit more milfy
  8. 3.00 star(s)

    Jdiezel

    simple sandbox game with great renders, animations and solid scenes

    sadly it was ruined by terrible dialogue and pacing

    if there was any simple corruption dialogue with moderate pacing this could easily be one of the best corruption games of all time. sadly the pacing is incredibly rushed which leads to all the scenes being filled to the brim with porn logic
  9. 5.00 star(s)

    LeoW

    I've been playing this game since Chapter 1-4, and I've been supporting Max and the girls throughout the story. The plot is well-written, and the animation and graphics have improved with each new release. Recently, the game has added a feature that allows players to choose whether or not to share the girls. Those who prefer not to share can disable all NTR content in the settings, while those who want to make a choice for each girl can enable the feature and decide up front. I believe this approach is beneficial for everyone. I understand that the developer wanted to add more spice to the game since it is quite lengthy, and incorporating more kinks achieves that goal.
  10. 2.00 star(s)

    FGALROD12121234

    It feels like this game is designed from the ground up to be as tedious and annoying to play as possible.
    Unable to buy items from the shop until prompted, having to click through to a bed to pass days, events that must be repeated at the same time requiring sleep spam. That's just the first chapter.


    The second chapter fixes some of these things but adds even more time wasting annoyances. They removed the walkthrough, made skipping time require opening a menu, made scenes unable to be clicked through, and added constant menu boxes that consistently bug out.


    The game itself is quantity over quality design with tons of characters and scenes without much thought put into any of them, which is fine.
    But the awful menuing sandbox buggy junk just ruins the experience
  11. 4.00 star(s)

    RoadToSilverland

    currently going through chapter 3 and is started strong (thank god for the return of the assistant) I would give it 5 stars but chapter 2 bugged out completely, looking through the guides I saw that I needed to wait for a night visit that never came.
    had to skip half chapter 2, hot fixes did nothing.
    for this kind of games I often ask "how close in quality is it to Harem Hotel?" and base my rating on that.
  12. 1.00 star(s)

    CJIAI3IIC

    Unfortunately, this is one of those games where the author decides for you which heroine to choose, or rather, you need to sleep with everyone in order to continue the plot further. I absolutely do not like this approach - where is my personal choice? Plus spending a lot of time on characters that I'm not interested in. I agree to less content, but against the mandatory passage of absolutely all branches.
  13. 4.00 star(s)

    mr.basic

    the game is almost 5 star the models are perfect and scenes are flawless story is not at all boring . The only concern i have with the game is the NTR switch, either we have to completely off or completely on . I prefer to decide from girl to girl. for example i don't like to share M, rita , laura, nicole . other girls i don't mind sharing . i just wish we could decide which girls to share and which girls not rather than it's just completely sharing or no sharing at all. other than this small problem the game is fantastic.
  14. 5.00 star(s)

    Evilashv02

    Best damn game on this site. Hit all kinds of kinks that most games don't. Love the story, characters and of course all the wild sex. Max is a pretty cool guy. Thier is a lot of hardcore stuff here, but you can play it vanilla if you would like. Please never end!!
  15. 5.00 star(s)

    Zapv

    Great game with lots of fun content. The latest updates lack old characters (for example, girls from the church. I really want Futa content). This is a great way to have fun, but I would like to see more fetishes. I hope the author will add a little spice and be wonderful !
  16. 5.00 star(s)

    BarneyAKQ

    A game with gorgeous female models and so many sex positions I don't see any reason not to give it a 5 stars.
    The story line is so long but all things connected , a girl brings another , such as classical mother-daughter scene. Really exciting about those harem content.
    The author knows what an adult game player truely needs.Not wasting any words while characters are fucking . In some games the subtitle box blocking the view is so annoying.
  17. 3.00 star(s)

    randomguy6516265165

    THIS REVIEW IS ONLY FOR CHAPTER 1 REMASTERED
    Ok after playing chapter 1 remastered I can say that it was a pretty solid game the history is not the best part but quite enjoyable, the scenes are amazing the best thing about this chapter without a doubt also the game has a switch to turn on NTR and piss scenes so thats a plus. I tried to play through chp2 but drop it after the first 10 min of gameplay so I can say that personally I wont finish this game unless the dev makes a remaster for chp2 and this makes me drop the rating down sadly. Chapter 1 is a 4/5 star game.
  18. 1.00 star(s)

    PRINCE2126

    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.
  19. 3.00 star(s)

    BRONKKNORB

    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
  20. 4.00 star(s)

    TM | Twisted Games

    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!