VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Sunshine Love [Ch. 3 v1.01i Extras] [MrDots Games]

If i would have to describe Sunshine Love with only one word, that word would be: disappointing.

I was enjoying Sunshine Love during chapter 1. There is a well enough story background regarding the MC job, family, girlfriend and going to help his half sister run her hotel for summer. There are some antagonists, actual villains in the story and the relationship between MC and her sister is done pretty good. Chapter 1 is pretty slow with progression, not that many scenes, only at the very end we finally do the thing with our sis. There are some other girls we can romance, and with some of them we can have sex a bit quicker. Unfortunately not all of those girls are interesting and some of them seems just to be there as plot devices. But nonetheless, i was enjoying chapter 1 quite a bit. But later, with chapter 2, i don't know what happened. I'm honestly not sure if i just lost interest in the game, or chapter 2 is just so much worse than chapter 1. Everything feels very bland, with no depth, just boring to play. Main story runs in circles few times over, most of the dialogues are skippable and relationships with the girls feel rather flat. I know most of them are supposed to be casual, since the MC is only there for a summer and after that he'll be gone but still. This whole premise of strictly casual relationships, summer flings could be an issue itself. Thanks to this, neither the MC, neither the player have a motivation to actually get closer to those girls. I mean, if we're going to left them in 3 months time so what is the reason to actually engage with them emotionally. Those "main" relationships with your half sister and with her cousin are done quite well, and in those cases there are definitely some feelings involved, they look like a proper romantic things but the constant threat of leaving the place doesn't help. Many times MC thinks about not wanting to get closer because he'll leave soon, especially if he's still with his girlfriend back home. This "open relationship" thing with his gf sounds good on paper but it doesn't change anything. Either we have a permission from our gf to romance other girls during this summer visit, or we dump her at the start and we're free to date whoever we want. But regardless of this, we'll still be going back after summer so this doesn't mean anything. Only some different dialogues. And since our gf is not really an interesting character, i see no reason why we shouldn't end things with at the very first occasion. We can romance all the girls without any negative consequences but there is no harem ending, only some stupid dream. That's so bad, so whats the point of romancing all the girls if we still have to choose at the end? Games really should stop doing this. There is a fairy decent number of endings, solo endings and with some groups of LIs. Honestly? It's quantity over quality. Those ending are rather short and just uninspiring. They don't offer enough new content (seriously, most of them don't even have any new proper sex scenes, only short montages). Same scenes and dialogues are happening in different endings sometimes. This feels very rushed. Overall they're just disappointing and unsatisfying.

Visual quality is ok, but nothing more. Renders are solid, but too colorful for my taste. It fits with the summer theme but it just doesn't look realistic. Backgrounds could be better, especially outdoors. Many times things in the background, like some objects or even floor are pretty low quality and it just looks bad. Models in general look fine, but inconsistent in quality. Even on single girl model you can see that some body parts are worse quality than the others. And this is hilarious since the main girl model have better quality neck than breasts. If anything, it should be the other way around, right? Speaking about models i have to mention that the MC dick looks like it was made from plastic or something, like it's just an orange dildo. At the beginning of the game there are two scenes with different, much better model but after that it got replaced for no reason. And now we have to talk about sex scenes. Honestly, they're boring. They feel completely lifeless. Whats worse there are many repateat positions and animations during different scenes with different girls. This is just lazy as hell. For the 70% of the game every blowjob looks exactly the same, with the same camera angles and the same animation. Animations and scenes are only getting better in the second part of chapter 2 but even after that, in chapter 3 and even during the game endings some scenes are still the worse ones, with worse animations. This is such a letdown, when you think all the scenes will look better now, its just so disappointing to see thats not the case and only few scenes are indeed better. Music is there but implemented in the worst possible way, as a music player we can control. This is no good, specific music should be implemented and changing depending on what's happening currently. Tracks themselves are ok, but their implementation is lacking. And sometimes where there is some event specific ambient, our music player still plays so we have two different tracks playing at the same time. There is sound during scenes like moans etc. and they're fine.

Ultimately, Sunshine Love after rather promising start turns into very disappointing game, with bland and flat LIs and relationships, disappointing and lazy adult scenes and even more disappointing endings. From chapter 2 onwards game just becomes boring to play. It took me more than 30 hours to finish the game and see 15 endings, and i can say that it was not worth it.

Overall Enjoyed but things could have been different I guess. Characters look nice and the scenes were great. Story was lacking sorta and the last chapter seemed slightly rushed. Way more ending opportunities than I expected when I reached the end. So yeah 4/5 stars for it, hope the next game is on par or better.

In the end just a disappointing mess. The game sells itself as a harem game throughtout but that is not the case here . What could've been great just wasn't. The final chapter of the game also feels rushed and underwhelming. This review would be a 1 star but it is saved by some of its animations and sex scenes.

Just another MrDots game that fails to pull the trigger when it matters the most

Excellent master piece of a game that everyone needs to try if they love VN with an amazing story. The story is a heartwarming tale about rekindling with loved ones, while discovering whom you choose to love along your journey. By no means the story is short, its pretty long that would could take up at least a week of gameplay if you play roughly 1-2 hours a day. The only downside to this game is that the whole game is split between separate games that you have to download individually. The animations are pretty good and top tier compared to other VN games out there. Plenty of characters to go around and not boring at all. 10/10

This visual masterpiece is a real tear-jerker the closer you get to the end. However, it also drives you crazy because, unfortunately, you constantly want to smack the MC for his stupidity in the way he sees things.
But don't worry it comes to a happy ending. Important to mention for a game with more than 20-30 hours of playtime.

What's great is that the characters, especially your sister, all wear something different every day. Really, big thanks to the developer for such details. I miss that in many other games.

Visually beautiful, constantly changing scenes. Large selection of LI and many endings.

I wouldn't consider the music a success. It just doesn't fit. My tip: Just search YouTube for background music, maybe jazz or something atmospheric. The soft sounds convey the mood of the game much better than the cheerful, funny clown music that comes with the game. But music is a matter of taste, right?

However, it doesn't change anything about the game, which I can absolutely recommend!

I got mixed feelings, the very good point of the game is the scene animations.

The scenario is mid tier, but the writting is really bad.
I found the small talks and little introspections pointless, on the verge of annoyance.

Give it a try, but if after some time playing you ask yourself "is this rly worth my time", the answer is probably no.
At this point either skip dialogues or quit.

I really Enjoyed this 3 Chapter VN.
Pretty faces, hot bod's and some creative liberties. All I was looking for.
You'll never please everybody, but you did please me with this VN.
Well done, I'll keep watch for future projects

Good game with good graphics and story (of course it had some sillies), plenty of characters to meet (mostly females for obvious reason) and each having their own interesting personalities.

Game has plenty of sex if is after that and story should keep player occupied otherwise.

Game has replay value in that sense that needs to play game 1 girl/woman at a time to see all endings or cheat a bit.

I decided that I'll write a review as soon as the game is finished, but still was pretty surprised it finished anyway.

In this masterpiece of a seemingly generic harem game, MrDots fully unleashes his bag of smoking hot characters of all types. Story-wise it's still you basic MrDots - the story is sort of like a coating on a candy (sex candy), IMO in many ways it's even better than Melody. It won't sweep you off your feet (probably will make you yawn at times) but it works perfectly for an AVN.

Endings are ENDLESS in this game, to the point that there are ones that are surprising even for me.
Overall, a great addition to MrDots' collection of good games, now 2 and counting. Now that he found the formula I hope he keeps 'em coming, but by the time the next production cycle is finished, I'd be out of this place already.

Cozy. That is the best description of this game and of the author's works overall. This is a long novel with decent writing and world building. All characters have dimension and you can choose the relationships you want the MC to build. This is the first game where incest is an option that I opted out and went for the 'childhood friend' route. I am glad I did because it was much more believable. The models are kinda doll-like (but come in most shapes and sizes) and while some animations are superb, some are only so-so. If you are tired of the fuck fest (although this novel gives you that option too) and want to invest a little more in a slice-of-life story with some decent character development, this novel is one of the better ones. I could feel the love the author has for his/her work.

This is a slow burn game, with a long story (that will not win a literature prize any time soon), lots of girls and a decent to good gameplay.


Models
I have mixed feeling in regards to the models: on one hand I really loved some of the models finding them appealing and attractive (Ashley the MILF, Kristina boobs, the sister), especially variety in bodies (petit, normal, milf) and different type (european, asian, redhead, black). Even so I feel like the petite is more underaged.

Story
The game present a good story, with ups and down and something to keep your brain busy between the wanks. Your actions will bring you in the arms of one or more girls so there is quite a bit to explore to obtain all endings. That being said given the high number of love interests, even if it is harder for the developer it will be great if it will be possible to have avoidable interactions with some characters to be able to achieve kind of a "true love" ending.


Gameplay
As always I am not a fan of splitting a game and having to download and play each part. The interface is lovely with a good first impression. Even so the gallery mode is missing. The animations are nice and fluent.

Still one of my favorite games. The individual and group storyline possibilities are great. The narrative content, potential issues, and love interests all make for and engaging read. Plus the lewd scenes are very well done.
Excellent work.

After DmD this was quite disapointment. The characters are quite appealing and attractive, the graphics is good as well. But the overal story and build-up of tension and so on did not feel right. Too much focus on some hotel managment, which you cannot alter anyway.

This game could've been a lot better, I'm just gonna leave it at 3/5 stars. A little background of the story, MC lives with his girlfriend and both of them are working until he lost his job all of a sudden. Decides to take on a job at a hotel owned by his long-lost step sis to earn some quick cash. Travelled all the way to the hotel only to find out step sis is lying, and that the hotel isn't doing good, and MC will not be paid but she badly requires his help to salvage the situation, like how is this scenario even believable? And the fact that throughout the game, step sis still has the audacity to be angry with MC and all, ghosting him and stuff, really dude? MC's girlfriend didn't like the fact that MC brought up a dream about having a threesome with her, but later parts in the game she decided to want an open relationship, like what?? I tried to not have anything to do with the step sis, getting the points into the negatives, but even then, somehow there's still some progression and scenes with her which I really disliked. And why is MC even kissing so many people, its actually pretty annoying, as in some runs I'm only interested in a particular LI.

There's also this urge to skip many parts of the dialogues in the game, because the conversations does not feel meaningful, and it makes the game feel very draggy and long. There's also way too many characters, which makes interaction with them a chore and redundant. The villains also just somehow wanted to buy the particular hotel for no apparent reason, and would even resort to murder? And how would going into the police station and looking up their private computers on information ever be a good course of action, along with stealing important documents?

What saves this game is just how gorgeous the girls are, with Ivy, Lily and Ashley being my favorite. The animated H scenes are also pretty good, and they are paced really well throughout the game. I really like Ivy's/Lily's H scene in chapter 3 especially, its so good! User Interface in the game are also pretty nicely designed.

Pros:
-Good renders
-Excellent UI
-Gorgeous looking characters
-Great H-scene animations
-Some nice music
-Roshi's advice
-Doughnut finding

Cons:
-Uninteresting plot
-Way too many content
-Way too many characters that are unnecessary
-Unavoidable scenes with step sis even when I do not want anything to do with her
-Some characters lack depth
-Spineless MC
-Lack of Twins only ending

The only thing worth 5 stars would be the animations. I think that at least 50% of the game's dialog would be dispensable, since it doesn't add anything interesting, it just makes the game tiresome, and I'd say that 80% of the thoughts are unnecessary.

Better than its predecessors. I Loved Melody and DMD, but this game is TOP TIER. The Girls in this game are all unique, quirky and absolutely Gorgeous. not a lot of these types of games have character bios, so thats a nice touch. The Animations are good and the Artstyle as always in Mrdots Games flawless. i would recommend playing this game. def in my top 10 now.

Most games do not have enough content, this one has way too much. Way to many characters who are there needlessly, and amount of content could be halved without the story line being impacted in anyway.

If you like slow burn games, this might be for you. Respect to Mr Dots for the high quality renders, and plenty of content.

Just maybe work on the pacing and less LIs because it gets a bit draggy getting to know them. Somehow, didn't find the story engaging though.

Same as every Mr Dot game lately, starts somewhat good with an "interesting setting " and gets progressively worst and worst. It was even worst at one point but they reluctantly listened to feedback and somewhat made things tolerable. In the end the game is just bad, most characters are flat, souless, like you can tell they are just there as part of a porn game and play their part, thus their actions dont make much sense unless you apply porn logic and shut your brain down for it. Dialogs are boring and cringe, writing is just horrendous and nonsensical, scenarios not believeable and cliche and not single LI stands out, they are all forgettable, boring and outright unlikeable and annoying. And dont get me fucking started with the MC.
I used to give 2 stars just because the quality of the renders is good, but in 2024 this quality is a lot more common and since everything else is bad I can only give it a 1 star because it is just not worth playing at all.

Great game. I love the fact that it is not another fuck fest. The plot makes sense also. The girls don't fall for the MC's huge dick. The models look good and the animations are beautiful.
Keep up the good work!