VN - Ren'Py - Completed - The Engagement [v2.5.1] [Captain Kitty]

A developer that actually interacts with a pirate site forum fans.. I mean wow.. but sometimes I wonder if that is wise. The toxicity level here is off the chart. Most developers just try and left not because its a pirate site , but the sheer toxicity of the forumers here. But still commendable.

Graphics- seriously I rank the dames among the top Renpy games.
But there only 2 atm , the GF and the Oriental Dame =D yah.. Suzie (O.O)

Story- not much atm , just like a typical business trip with GF left alone.

Game play WOW....
A consequential adult game , it reminds me of those early Japanese adult mystery/adventure game I played during my younger days. Nowadays its all toxic repetitive action grinding stats and alpha/beta stats reactive route which I don't find very realistic.

Realistically what will happen should reflective of your choices and not because of a number. Choices does matter in this game
for E.g
If you don't let Suzie meet Winton , Winton wouldn't be there to protect Suzie when if u let her go to the toilet alone. And only if you are on the love choices with Suzie then can you prevent her from meeting Winton. So everything is based on choices and consequences rather than number stats.
But this also means the number of different permutation of routes will be high rather than just alpha/beta 2 route. I wonder how the developers can pull this off. But still the reason why I love those japanese vintage adult game is the replayability due to the number of routes even though many years ago 1 game size is only 8-15 mb.
Con
However -0.5 star for the short descriptive on sex scenes. Its like Au Pair Innocence , each sex scene is like " they have sex" , "he undress her" etc etc. very short and 1 liner.

and another -0.5 for making me sell out Suzie!! Dam.. she the type your bring back to see the folks man. Not horny aphrodisiac-pumped Milfs where they most probably screw the entire bit-town the moment you off your PC anyway. Now I feel dirty.
Screw the GF , but not Suzie!!! But I just have to play out every routes. Dam you developers!! =D.

So i rate this 4/5
Gamed reviewed 0.3.1

Well, I replayed the game once it was completed and sadly I stand by my review.

This was a mindlessly stupid excuse for an NTR game. For those who prefer harem games be warned that this game wants you to choose the NTR. It is avoidable, but it's painfully mindless.

As for the NTR, there are many NTR games that you can download and done way better.

The good
--gorgeous renders
--I loved the look of Li way more than Suzi. Oh well.

The bad
--mindless inane dialogue, incredulous circumstances
--boring narrative that defies credulity

At one point in the game, there are two simultaneous plane crashes and remarkably no one is killed, except maybe the pilots, but who knows, maybe they did and no one cared. Of course, no one has a scratch on them and everyone immediately changes into their bikinis and starts thinking about sex . . . you know rather than survival. It is laughably bad. So, laughably bad you may love the unintentional humor of it.

Let's deal with the NTR paths first. The main problem is that women have no real agency to the point of being downright annoying. They are incredibly naive and easily manipulated into cheating by everyone around them. The dialogue makes the women out to be laughably insecure regardless of your path. As for the MC, the NTR requires you to play your character as basically weak, uncaring, and dumb as a box of hammers.

As for the women, Suzi can apparently deny her horndog boyfriend (Alex) sex, but lacks the spine to fight off the alpha black man? Why? Because it's NTR. Or in order to secure the order, she's willing to be coerced into sex with the client. That's the more obvious set-up. It's such a disappointing NTR route.

As for Emily, the initial set-up is that she quickly flees into Alex's arms. Why? B/c the MC is going to a bar to meet with his colleague in a work situation. It must mean he doesn't care about her. <facepalm>

If you start off having the MC deny the NTR, you can still get it later since Woody magically reappears and will trick and manipulate the women into NTR with either him or Alex . . . you know, the same way an ugly, fat, old man would if he had no chance with either of the hot women otherwise. <sigh> Why an attractive alpha male has to do that is confounding.

Despite the Dev pushing you into the direction of the NTR, you can do a harem route, but it too is very unsatisfying. The trick here is to be a white knight with Suzi and fuck Emily whether she wants it or not. Don't take no for an answer--force her anyway--and like all good submissive women in this game, she'll eventually like that you forced her. Remember, no really means yes, and his girlfriend will eventually like getting dry-fucked or fucked in the open. Just keep pounding and she'll come around.

Sorry, I've never dated a woman that wanted or liked being dry-fucked, so this was a turn off for me.

Note: I don't know about the ending for all of the NTR paths, but I do know that the NTR virgin path for Suzi--where she goes back to SE Asia--includes a rape scene near the end of the game.

My review as of version 0.3

=-=-=-=PROS-=-=-=-

-The asian girl is hot and she has that innocent aura that makes any man dreams about throwing her against the wall and ....
-The option ( i hope) to avoid NTR content.
-NTR content (if you are into that thing).

=-=-=-CONS=-=-=-

-Assholes that can easily rob your girl.
-Characters with shallow personality.
-Boring dialogs.
-Pace of the game/ story.
-Lack of originality.
-Story / Plot

NTR Games are not known for good stories but this one takes the cake with not one realistic character in the whole lot.

If you make a game with human characters you should at least have had a human interaction outside of NTR hentai.

Right this makes absolutely no sense.

The characters are stock and crop-up in quite a few recent "games".

Nothing to see here.

Pros

-Nice Renders/Models (For the women)
-Acceptable Animations - Some are pretty spotty though.

Cons

-Terrible Dialogue - I assume it's a translation issue but man getting someone that actually speaks english to help with dialogue can't be that hard.
-Terrible Characters - Everyone is a trope happy caricature of how a real person behaves
-Choices Don't Matter - I understand it's an early version but what's the point of interrupts at multiple opportunities if they all lead to the same thing "Get out!". One of my biggest pet peeves in some games is they give this illusion of choice but always lead to the same thing.

I don't know where to begin, it's weird but not good weird.

Regardless of choices you will end up sharing a room with another girl who happens to speak while you are on the phone with your girlfriend. Rather than explain what's going on the guy blatantly lies while acting suspicious as all hell so she instantly assumes something is going on.

Remember, i've done everything to avoid the other girl at this point so nothing at all should have been going on.

Meanwhile the girl you are on the business trip with was born an invertebrate, no spine whatsoever. First she gets groped by some guy she's supposed to be talking business with all the while internal monologue says the MC should be helping her, more on this in a minute, secondly she goes to a bar alone (I agreed to stay in to speak to my girlfriend) and she gets hit on while drooling over how strong, forceful and masculine he is. We then go to dinner with aforementioned gropy guy who again proceeds to blatantly grope away while she once again wonders why MC isn't helping her. Then we go for drinks with gropy guy who happens to use a date rape drug .... what in the flying fist fuck am I reading?

That woman is by far the worst character i've ever seen in any form of media. Weak, feeble and pathetic. I tried to keep my mouth shut so I don;t get labeled an SJW but for fucks sake she is the living embodiment of every single trope about women from the perspective of someone who's never met one. I hate SJW's so it pisses me off to no end when I see something that makes me sound like one of them.

Despite doing everything I possibly could to avoid that pathetic spineless wonder I end up in the situation where my girlfriend thinks i'm cheating on her because the MC is lying little shit ball and not a very good one.

So, what do I take away from what i've seen so far?

One girl is fucking terrible, the MC is a prick all the other guys here are potential rapists and nobody is any good at their job.

I gave it 2 because the renders are half decent.

I hate shitting on peoples work but they already took a shit on my mood so fairs fair.

This game has a great story. Although i am a big fan of NTR, I enjoy the fact that it is avoidable and not being forced on to you, like in other games. Game feels a little short but it drawn me in for the next chapter