VN - Ren'Py - Lost & Found [v1.0 Part 1] [Jun1or72]

Lol.
Lmao even.

Yep. This game definitely has its influences completely glued to its sleeves. I don't mind that too much. If there was one thing MNF did wrong, was it being needlessly padded with way too much dialogue.

Lost and Found on the other hand does not care about things like "pace" or "character traits" or "narrative cohesion" and instead rockets by in break-neck speed. Here's your mom, here's your half-sisters, one of them is really moody, nevermind you have history, now you're fucking, now you're fucking the other sister, now you're fucking your mom, now you're fucking your secret third sister that came out of nowhere, now you're fucking your aunt, your cousin, your grandma, every woman you work with, kick your halfsisters father's ass, now it is time for an orgy.

It feels like watching a porno, where everyone of the cast and crew had somewhere to be, and was like "okay, I know we just started but let's wrap this shit up. I'm hungry, and I don't wanna miss the Superbowl."
Conflicts arise and gets resolved in minutes, none of the characters have any simmering tension before everyone is just fine with family-wide harem incest. "We don't have time for this shit, we have nachos to eat and halftime shows to mock."

It doesn't exactly help that there is a noticeable amount of grammar problems, and that none of the characters feel distinct, dialogue-wise. Writing is hard, and I don't actually doubt that there was effort put into this, it just feels like there wasn't when the story is set on being told immediately. It makes it feel like the author only wanted to minimize the amount of renders they needed to make, and then chose to write around that instead.

The game is pretty funny, unfortunately not for the correct reasons. It all just becomes so unbelievably implausible that it becomes kinda hilarious. The renders and the models are pretty hot for HS models, and I do have a soft spot for redheads.

My stance on this is that while I can't give it a high score, I will say that I did enjoy my time with the game, through the good and especially through the bad.

MNF clone, but without 80% of annoying and pointless dialogue, but with some nice ideas from there, like taking bath with five woman at the same time. Some woman will spread their legs for you after couple of compliments, I'm ok with it. And models are prettier. Honestly, it's all right.

English is not my first language expect a few errors

The game is very beautiful and has good animation . The story isn't groundbreaking, but it manages to save itself in terms of humor, which is excellent.

The characters are almost copy and paste between them which is expected of a family but they manage to be distinctive at the same time which is a good thing, the main character has a good appearance but strange in a certain aspect of the face.

As for the pace of the game, I think it's too fast, there's too much development in the relationships in too little time, which makes it seem like it was done in a hurry, it should have a slower pace to make the formation of relationships between them more natural.

All in all, the game is great and deserves to be followed closely.
v 0.7

A simple and breezy story, the plot of incest and pure love doesn't beat around the bush. While not designed for strong confrontation, the overall narrative is relaxing. Players who enjoy fulfilling their sexual fantasies may want to try a simple, enjoyable game like this once in a while. For me, evaluating an erotic game requires some "special" perspective, and this game fulfills its purpose of a sexual relationship, so it's a pass, three stars. In addition, I played it to relax and enjoy the purest satisfaction, I was very happy, so I added a star.

I'll start off with something positive. The art and animations are done well.

The story itself is awful. It's a cheap knock off of another game. You can never become emotional invested in the characters because the story sounds like it was written by a 12 year old. Here's your hotel room, lets have sex, I'm horny. The writing brings down the entire game. I feel sorry for the artist. The writer tries to bring in heavy topics to get you emotionally invested. However, it's rushed and comes across as if nobody cares. It's all so matter of fact rather then engaging. By the way, your mother is alive... OMG, that's amazing, lets have sex.

If your looking for a quick fap, download the game, crack the gallery, get in a quick fap, and delete it when you are done. The rest of it isn't worth anything.

This is the corniest game I have ever played. The dialogue, the story, the character....I'm sorry to be so negative, but you need proofreaders and someone to bounce this dialogue off of STAT.
At least the girls are cute, even if the MC is some horrible hairy ape-man hybrid.

A harem themed game like so many other on this website: MC gotta fuck them all and manages to do so despite everything. This is just your run of the mill harem game if you are after is multiple LIs, not so much blueball or teasing and quite straight to fuck kind of AVN. No bullshit, so no slow burn. Renders are nice and animations are smooth. Update schedule is reasonable and content is no small amount. Theres already plenty of content as of v0.7

Alright this one's a mess, lets start with the bad

Cons
-It's basically just a complete remake of that other incest harem game, just with the pacing turned up to 11.
-The dialogue is bad. Usually canned, way more sappy than most of the situations call for, and the girls are way too impressed by literally anything.
-The MC looks like a dirty homeless dude with craaaaazy arm and body hair for I think the first 8 chapters or so.
-MC cheats on his main girl with his secretary the morning after he starts dating her, and doesn't even address that in his thoughts once. Has absolutely no concept of loyalty at all.

Pros
-It's basically just a complete remake of that other incest harem game, just with the pacing turned up to 11.
-The dialogue is bad. Usually canned, way more sappy than most of the situations call for, and the girls are way too impressed by literally anything.
-The MC looks like a dirty homeless dude with craaaaazy arm and body hair for I think the first 8 chapters or so.
-MC cheats on his main girl with his secretary the morning after he starts dating her, and doesn't even address that in his thoughts once. Has absolutely no concept of loyalty at all.

Ya I know, it's definitely a mess but no matter how bad it is I'm enjoying every minute of it and stand by my rating. The game is fun and silly, and it's so impossible to take seriously that it's flaws aren't bothersome. Recommended for people who like overly campy stories and 12 year old power fantasies.

As others have noted, it is almost a direct copy of another game. I wonder if it's by the same devs under a different name? That said, it suffers from all the flaws of the original, the most glaring of which is progression of the story. Each of the women falls deeply deeply in love with the MC because he does something reasonably nice for them. I understand that harem games in general have difficulty with seeming realistic, but this is way beyond that. The women in this game act as if a goddess has chosen the MC as her champion and made him irresistible to any woman he talks to for more than 10 minutes. I found the game to be a bit of a yawner because of all that.

I'm upgrading my review a bit. The story continues to have a fairy-tale unreality in terms of the relationships and psychological changes of the characters, as contrasts the fairly realistic imaging, but unlike the game it so strongly resembles, the plot seems less focused on simply manufacturing new story lines to keep the subscriptions flowing in. Time will tell if this game actually tells one coherent story or falls into the doldrums of manufactured conflicts and progressions to maintain the money flow beyond what would be a natural ending place for the story.

hmm.

A better imitation of MNF than Years Later.
But it's becoming more and more like the og. . . like not much new.

It still is a fairly different story so I like that. But the characters are mostly the same.
And I missed the part that informed me that this is a Kinetic Novel. No choices at all so far

While the story isn't anything to write home about and it's kinetic novel at that, i do like the renders and scenes quite a lot. Would prefer to have some actual gameplay, so can't really call it a game with the lack off said gameplay. At least the sex scenes are nice.

Seriously..... what a bad god, a cheap copy of another game, bad outdated graphics, the story to tell about it is a copy, but even so, it's even more bad, cheesy and cheap, the truth is, I thought I'd like it, but it's a shame.

What every says is true. It looks and feels Like My new Family. But for me thats it. The story is good. Animation is good, only sometimes its a little bit bad. and i have a fast laptop. so its not my laptop but the animation. Go on finish the storie. good luck dev

Sorry, can't leave a higher review!
The game feels forced!
The game feels empty!
Having everything given to you from the start just feels wrong.
The MC has to work for it a little.
The game (novel if you prefer the term) feels not ok.

The premise of the game(story) does appeal to me. The execution of the story is at best, good but not great. Also, there are some other reviews that make the obvious comparison to a very similar project but I'm not going to compare projects.

I don't mind the beginning of the story about the awful father that has caused the situation you and your' family are put into. Though it's nothing original and a bit lackluster, but whatever and ignorable.

The sad truth is the images are inconsistent in quality. Prime example is the first time you go to the office reception desk. It's shaded and then randomly not. Also, the shading is just too dark, but this could be excused. Though, the abrupt lack of shadows is jarring.

The writing is, even if not fluent English, all over the place at times. Events that should have more words said, are not and vice versa. I will admit that situations that are meant to feel emotional, do seem to express that in the text and visual medium. There also seems to be a point in the last 3 or 4 chapters(as of 0.5) that the names of the person making the dialog, is randomly missing.

In conclusion, this isn't a bad game(story). It's not the worst and the writing is obviously from a newbie writer, which is admitted from the beginning. That's nothing against the writer though. They're new and practice makes perfect. I overall do like this game(story) so far and think with some editorial changes, this could be exceptional.

This story is yet another carbon copy of a game on this site that shouldn't be held on the pedestal that it is. Frankly, if the dev couldn't be bothered to make their own story, I'm not gonna write my usual doctorate thesis of a vn review. I really don't care who copied who, it's plagiarism. And not only that, the writing and dialog is bad so it's ripping off a bad and boring story. The ONLY three differences from the source material is it isn't long winded, there's slightly better title cards for the chapters, and thankfully there's no loli content.

default renpy ui
MC supposed to be a photographer but every angle in the game is terrible
immediately after learning his mother was still alive, MC says "was that my mother?!" but then "I just can stop staring at her tits"
MC is not allowed to be surprised by anything
MC rewarded for staring at his interviewers tits constantly with sex
Writer is overly focused on bugattis
On that, giving a photographer a supercar with no storage space is laughable
Yet again no one at all even remotely dwells on the fact that mom left her son 20 years ago
practically copies the other game beat for beat even the dumb "MC considering suicide but that only comes up for one line of dialogue"
Even the sex dreams of the girls is in this
The only thing it's missing is a girl with cat-like birth defects
Kylie meets MC, acts rude, apologizes, then in detail confesses to childhood trauma to some guy, she just met, that constantly sexualizes his family members mind you; "i was sexually abused" MC says sorry then imagines her naked. I'm sorry, what?!
Every single time MC meets someone, he politely says "it's nice to meet you" each girl responds with "So charming!" THATS NOT CHARM ITS JUST A POLITE GREETING
Reading "my little sparkle" gives me a cringe only the incel subreddit could ever give me
Speedruns the events of the source material
The fact that Beth not only exists but pops up two days after MC reenters their life the exact same way, cheapens the experience and impact of both of the events.
Right after "becoming a couple" MC cheats on kylie with the receptionist so much for "love"

Bottom line, boring, lazy, repetitive, rip-off, waste of hard drive space. If you're one of the people that LOVE that other game and want more, here ya go. I won't fault you for having bad taste.

A little shaky in terms of presentation and writing, but the perfect comfort food. At this point, it's pretty clear what the creator's intentions are and I am absolutely here for it.

The fact that this is the dev's first game makes me all the more hopeful for how this game grows.

Considering this having barely any gameplay, the writing really needs lots of improvement. The easiest thing is to make MC drive the narrative more, let him start topic of conversation, take actions that have consequences. Being passive and choosing to be passive are very different in my eyes. But i can understand if the writer wants the game to appeal more to the "beta" audience. Like seriously, F95zone should make a "beta" tag to address these games

This is a straight rip off of another famous VN on here. I hope the dev got permission before scalping this story? The only things missing are the cat girl sister, and the harem.
Now on to the review
PROS
Models are decent
Renders are ok
CONS
Straight rip off story
Summary
There are only a couple differences between this and the more famous VN on this site. Mentioned them above.
The story is the same. The events just happen faster than the original.
Maybe this dev thinks they can do it better than the original, but that is a hard thing to try to do.
For me personally, this is a hard pass for me. Don't let my opinion deter you from at least trying it out.
My thoughts for the dev, figure out your own story. In my opinion this is a steal from a really great developer.
Good luck in the future