VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Once a Porn a Time [Ch.2 v0.13] [Salty01]

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Time for a review:
(Anal content: Chapter 1 has few scenes, I think it was around 3 or 4, Chapter 2 has few scenes too, being 3 in total and middle quality)

OPT Chapter 1 was one of the first h-game I have played, it was interesting with a lot of good AND bad parts (specially that awful robot minigame, plus bugs), but overall was a good experience.

OPT Chapter 2, as other has said, it has a strong start with a lot of new characters and potential... which sadly falls flat to the ground from the middle of the game onwards.

The game is exactly as the Chapter 1 with the ONLY improvement being the art and a new inventory HUD button, the developer didnt designed news mini games or anything different from the first entry.

The unfamous Robot Minigame is back and still awful, BUT the worst part is the butchered later\ending parts of the game, is incredible unsatisfying and throw away a lot of other potential character and interactions. The dev just ended the game because wished to start do another game which ISNT the sequel of OPT....

Plus I dont know if the dev dont know how program the game, but it has a lot of bugs which makes some quest imposible to finish, the worst is the Jasmine which isnt working and the dev have the guts to ONLY FIX in the PAID steam version....

There isnt as much H parts like the first game, and the ones of we have are very tame.

If I was a patron of this project I probably was very angry and disapointed of how turned out, the dev dropped the ball really bad. This game had so much potential which was throw in the trash.

I am only giving 2 stars because the art, writing and music are good, but the other parts are really annoying.

Positive:
- Art;
- Story;
- Music;

Negative:
- Unfinished and bugged product;
- Lack of H scenes variety;
- Lame minigame robot again;
- Lack of other princess's to corrupt;
- Rushed story and unsatisfying conclusion;

OVERALL:
I bet the lack of princess's in this game AND the bugs are because the developer want so badly money they put it a paywall in the game (which I am almost certain that is the main problem with bugs) plus is selling in the steam, so they need to change the princess from disney appearance and only add 1 princess in this game makes the job easier.

It has some good moments but the bad really hurts the experience. The overall feeling is this game is a step down from the chapter 1, good luck to anyone who buy this at full price on steam.

This only makes me appreciate more Minty, the Four Element Trainer creator which always improved and is improving the game despite of time or money.

Review for ch.2 v.013 (and ch.1)

This is not a perfect game, but it's high quality and actually completed (kinda).

There are 2 main kinds of characters, the robots you are corrupting and the characters helping you do it. The robots are decent enough. It's where most of the content is. It's a little vanilla for a trainer game and you have little to no choice in how you do it. The characters helping you are where the game really shines imo. They are fun, decently developed and have a nice variety (although they are mostly horny).

The writing is solid. The art is generally good, though a little inconsistent. Everything works well. There is a little grinding, but I really had no issue with it.

There is a lot of Patreon exclusive content. If you can't access that it honestly really hurts the game. So make sure to find the code.

Chapter 2 does feel way more rushed. Alladin is barely there. Jasmine is rather easily corrupted and very underdeveloped. Ali comes in too late and has no unique content. The brothel never actually opens and the guard + saleswoman get no content. The start feels a lot stronger than the end. But it has an ending at least.

It also feels like there are less outfits and they matter less to the story, but that might be wrong. For all the in game complaining, i actually wished there were more. Or at least let us keep the outfits from ch1.

But the story isn't actually finished and is supposed to continue in a different game instead of ch.3. Which is just a dick move tbh.

Overall it's absolutely worth playing. Ch1 is a solid to great trainer and ch2 still has some great stuff even if it's worse overall. 4/5

So the game has a very creative and engaging narrative, and I like the crew that we are working with, but it has fallen short in the last couple of upgrades due to the Focus on P&C, the main selling point for me is the story and how you progress through the corruption of the androids.
As a player that likes story driven games this was perfect for me.
Good job Salty01, Let's hope you do better in P&C and see a more exciting story.

The chapter 2 is kind of deceiving compared to the chapter 1 i must say, a lot of thing stay unresolved and feel rushed. I hope the next chapter/game will have a better roadmap than this chapter and will be focused more on princess and the Deeznee universe, BUT the drawing are better exept for some character (Lycoris felt off compared to Amandine or Jasmine in term of quality). So I cross my finger that the team will go again to what most of us where attracted to, the audacity to parody the universe and style of Miki House.

Review of Once a Porn a Time Chapter 2 Patreon Version

Positive Aspects:

• Improved Art and decent if somewhat janky animations.
• New characters are well drawn and interesting
• More opportunities to talk to people about things other than sex. (I know it's a porn game but I still enjoy a good conversation.)
• I like that Amandine doesn't start out as a perverted sex-addict. It creates a nice contrast while also reminding you that everyone else on the crew are perverts.

Negative Aspects:

• No improvements on the grindy drone minigame and less tools given for it than were in Chapter 1. (No emergency powercell and 5 power boosters not available at the start for some reason.)
• No ability to revisit Chapter 1 corruptions outside of a single non-repeatable scene with Snow White. (Whom for some reason uses her steam redesign instead of her patreon model.)
• Despite being a trainer corruption game about princesses you only corrupt a single princess.
• Chapter 2 feels incomplete, as if it was cut off at the halfway point.
• The brothel plotline was dropped out of nowhere without any development besides several characters getting outfits some of which only wear them once.
• Several characters (Vanessa, Amelia, The Guard, interview candidates) receive inadequate development.
• [LIGHT SPOILERS FOR MAIN PLOT AND PATREON QUESTS]I'll try and keep some of this vague but I can only do so much. After corrupting Jasmine, the transition to corrupting Aladdin is rushed and lacks depth. The city-wide corruption storyline is resolved too conveniently, feeling like a Deus ex Machina. The corruption of key characters like the Sultana and Ali Baba feels half-hearted and unfulfilling, with inconsistent rules regarding android corruption.[END OF SPOILERS]
• More of a nitpick than a proper criticism. Amandine's final quest conversation contains an exposition dump foreshadowing Salty's next project which I personally found tacky.
• Another personal nitpick is that while Chapter 1 featured some petite girls with smaller breasts basically everyone now has a full ass, curves, and is a D cup or larger.

Conclusion:

• Chapter 2, while having some positive elements, falls short of expectations and may not justify its current price point.

The character are the selling point of the game for me, and I'm not even talking about the princess, I really hope there will be spinoffs of the crew someday. The writing is fantastic too and with the addition of animation with the chapter 2, this is rally one of the best porn game ever for me

Solid art, and a fun story. A bit grindy, but what game isn't? And even then, the creator let the codes out so you can skip some of the grind. Only problem is that it's split into chapters. And I'm not sure if I want to skip from where I got in chapter one all the way to chapter two. Is the gallery from chapter one unlocked in chapter two? Or should I view it as two separate games with the same characters and tone? No clue. So, I keep trying to beat chapter 1.

Don't get me wrong, the games about the universe of OPT is one of my favorites but I have the urge to post a little review about the state of the game it's currently in and what I hoped for in a sequel/updates.

Chapter One is very clearly an introduction, for the whole universe and your task as MC to corrupt characters in the fictional theme park. It's straightforward but also lenghty and that made it so good. I really don't mind the grind as the rewards were satisfying and there just is a lot of content to explore. Lot's of customization and diverse array of characters to interact with. When the Chapter ended I really looked forward to the rest of the story and how many characters we would be able to corrupt. The riddles with Sphinx and other minigames unlocked the potential for a vast array of enjoyable gameplay like Aurelia has.

Chapter Two is more of the same, but also very different. The NSFW scenes are improved greatly and the animations are topnotch. I really enjoy the romantic stuff that's included, the build-up with Emee and Melissandre in Chapter One was a great entry point for further romantic experiences. While Amandine and Lycoris are interesting characters, the romance falls a bit short sometimes and Emee and Melissandre get completely left out as well. I would've liked to return to Anna, Elsa and Snow White (or what their Steam names are) more regulary and get implemented in the same game. The fact that you have to boot up Chapter One to interact with them makes this Chapter feel more empty. Just like I can't fit the outfits unlocked for Emee in Chapter One in this Chapter. (the clothing options are very limited in general in this Chapter)

I bought the Steam version of Chapter One as a way of supporting the dev as I just really like the content they produce. It's not something I would do for Chapter Two, there are just too little updates ( Chapter One had up to 0.33 and this one might not even make 0.15) and you can tell the dev shifted focus to the next 'game' very early on in the Chapter. I hope the next updates have a little more punch to the story and we don't have to wait long for the next game.

CH2 v0.13

Disclaimer: Every word from the earlier review about v0.11 is still valid, but since the game is now finished, the review must be updated. And it's not gonna be positive update, because 'finished' here means, now nothing will ever get fixed... And some things are aqctually in worse state that in CH1. This shouldn't be a complete product, yet it is, because dev just can't wait to drop it and focus on next game.

1. Still no coming back to previous characters, despite this being promised multiple times.

2. Outfit management WTF? Half of the characters can't even change clothes, even if they do have some different outfits gained through story. Not to even mention that outfits should be done better, like having multiple parts. Well, who cares if the system could've been better if it doesn't even fucking work for half of the characters.

3. No game loop after the end. I mean yes, this isn't a thing, because the dev decided to not care about points 1 and 2, so adding a game loop would only higlighted all those unfinished parts mentioned before.

4. Whole plot got wrapped up way too quickly, we literally got like 5 minutes of content with Ali-Baba and then suddenly whole town is corrupted. Any other potential side stories were thrown away or squeezed into a few sentences during the ending. Like the old computer thing.

5. Gallery isn't updated with events from 'the ending'. Seriously, I'm at loss of words in how badly unfinished state the dev left this.

6. The last and probably the worst thing -it turns out the he recently lied to all his patrons again. Literally month or two ago, there was a poll about what to do with Sheherazade reward for corrupting Jasmine, and dev declared he'll let patrons decide the reward scene. Guess what, game is finished and NOTHING WAS ADDED! The only thing that changed there, is the button being non-clickable. I mean with stunt like this pulled on your paid supporters, it's amazing they still pay him. And I think I have the right to complain about this, since I was a paid supported for quite some time.

So, if you just randomly found this game, it's nice enough to give it a try, as the story is fun, and graphics style is quite good too. But do not have any expectations about the continuation, don't put any hope in the dev since he won't listen, and don't give him any more money. The second star only stayed because of overall story and nice graphics, because I certainly don't consider this as a finished product.

Grind isn't too bad.
The story is interesting, unique and great.
The Android porters for Chapter 2 are slower than the ones used to make the Chapter 1 port.
Emee the blue cutie is beautiful and a great person, as is Amandine the brilliant writer.

Overall, great game! Have enjoyed Chapter 2 so far. Loved the objective of the game since Chapter 1. At first glance, it doesn’t look like much, but once you try it, you want more of the content. For example, I discovered this game back when Chapter 2 was introduced and Chapter 1 was complete, although I did not know much about this game, I gave it a shot. Once I was in for a couple of minutes, I could not stop playing, I loved the objective of the game as well as the relationships you grow further in the game. With chapter 2, the same thing could be said, although the downside of the game is that updates come every 1-2 months, and it could be frustrating finishing a quest and yet having to wait for the next one. But overall, it’s a great game!

This game is waaay too grindy for what you're getting out of it. It's okay to have your game be shorter if it has stellar content. You don't need to artifically increase the length with an annoying as hell mini-game designed just to eat up time.

If the grinding aspect was removed I'd probably rate the game as much higher. But the sheer amount of work for pay off is just not worth it.

Which is a shame because I Like the writing and art, when I'm not wasting time doing pointless busy work designed to artificially lengthen the game.

Great art work, fun story. Good writing. Need more options to view memories/cutscenes. Could use a kind of freeroam mode after completion of chapter 1. Please continue this great game, and add more pubes!

Grind is broken AF.
Latest RenPy refuses to load edited saves.
Events still break.
Drone "minigame" is a fucking travesty.
Your primary income source - and primary quest cockblock - is said "minigame".

It would be more enjoyable to get a Brazillian using superglue and sandpaper than to continue playing this.

I really enjoyed the premise of this game and spent hours enjoying the dialogue, it's genuinely funny... but it really starts to feel like a grind after a while and the actual scenes (when you finally get to them) just aren't good/long enough to justify the work you need to put in to see them.

A fun and entertaining game about fairy tale women, but it's more about the humor than anything sexy.

From "chenzhou" for inspiration:
"Tried fapping...it took too long to see any nekked pixels. Went soft. Cried."

Art's decent. Writing's been awkward at points, the grind rivals sandbox HTML games. Not nearly the worst I've played, but tends to drag too much.

Fun and enganging, a bit grindy from time to time. Rewards for the grind could be bigger. not enough lewd scenes that feel really rewarding. characters are great and reallly well Written dialouge. A lot is locked behind a patroen paywall

The problem with hand drawn character art is that it takes a lot of work to create.
So the devs creating such games usually use the shit out of every image they made. Which, you guessed it, leads to excessive grind because they have to stretch too few images over too much game play, or players would be done in 5 minutes.

Too little payoff for all the grind for me. AND - I even used the money cheat!

Favourite type of porn game done well,
art is perfect, story is well written..
the "Patreon only" content is actually most of the content expecially in chapter two and game is borderline unplayable without the cheats but apart from that one of my favourite games on the site.

The game is truly amazing! The Art might genuinely be the best of any Adult game I have ever seen, and the the range of fuckable characters is moth diverse and all of them are well done. the game can be a bit tedious, but when using cheats that can easily be alleviated. probably in my top 3 best adult games