Matrix Hearts - Season 1

I'm basing this review on a first and blind playthrough of the Steam version of this game. (Matrix Hearts - Season 1, on 2013/10/07) This first playthrough took me about 8 hours, though at least an hour of this was spent on taking notes, gathering my thoughts, and facepalming. Matrix Hearts starts with a gripping story. An Olympic hopeful suffers a sports injury, leading him into depression. He pushes away his friends, and finally his girlfriend. His parents decide to intervene and send him to a tropical island to rehabilitate. This rehabilitation is a state-of-the-art device, attached to his knee, that can transform hormones (good feelings) into magic healing power. Layla, our once-babysitter, now super-smart expert of this technology, is our caretaker and landlady on this journey. While the setup of this game is original and solid, it almost immediately falls through. The writer(s) don't seem to understand what depression and introversion mean. When playing this game, you have to meta-game to find enjoyment. Just pick the "right" option, even if it goes against MC's nature. Any kind of role-playing will leave you confused about the MC's mental state and motivations. The first two chapters of the game are relatively solid. There's somewhat of a story, and characters do seem to respect MC/player's choices. However, this all falls apart in the third chapter, where suddenly events pop up, even when they were avoided earlier. Out of the blue, my MC decided he had a planned meeting with Chrysta, and that he promised to go kayaking with Gemma. Suddenly, part of his day consisted of training in a lewd version of Magic: The Gathering, even if he told Dutch earlier (in a path-defining choice) that card games didn't interest him. The choices, and dialog also makes clear that the devs just expect everyone to play for the lewds, and not the story. They pay lip-service to the MC being depressed and introverted, while making him a sardonic, wise-cracking jackass who chases all the women. His constant irony and self-deprecation is a constant throughout the game. While this kind of behavior is a tell-tale sign of depression, it isn't used as such, or to that effect. Everyone is constantly ribbing and bantering in the same way. Many of the main characters speak alike, even if they grew up in different countries or have vastly different backgrounds. Everyone's a "bro", and even 40y/o's will say MC's knee is "borked". People don't talk this way. The little animations I've seen were sub-par. There is clipping, janky movement, and loops that abruptly reset. Throughout my playthrough I encountered 4 missing renders. The renders themselves are decent, even if a bit basic at times. Many of the poses are exaggerated and overused. The premise of the game gets lost in the renders as well, we'll see the MC climbing stairs without using the rails, or support his weight on his bad leg. We'll see him carrying people, squatting, crawling and running. Except when he can't, and he'll need someone's help to get up. The Love Interests are varied enough to be interesting physically. I appreciate that there's variation, and that the smallest cup isn't an F. Even though they all speak alike, they do have their own character and interests. That said, some characters have very dubious motivations. An example of this is Layla, she asks Stormy to take MC on a date, because he could fix her "♥♥♥ machine". Apparently she's unable to climax, and Layla thought it was a good idea to ♥♥♥♥♥ out the MC for this. This made my interest in Layla disappear. My MC was attracted to her, though it never escalated past flirting, at least there was some progression. Her whoring the MC out, I interpreted as her having zero interest in the MC. Another example is Gemma, who, while knowing the MC can't swim, rocks the kayak to test his reaction. When he falls in the water, she berates him that "In every sport you have to operate under pressure! Ugh.". This is utterly irresponsible behavior, since she, as a quasi-professional had the job of preparing and training the MC for events like these. When she later asked if I wanted to join her team, the only reply I could bring myself to give was "I'll think about it." (Because the game didn't have the option to say "No, thanks, you're nuts, and I don't trust you with my life.") The game lacks in other technical aspects as well. Readability in some scenes is very low due to the absence of a textbox. And even the main menu is unintuitive due to the angled gray text on a bright background. On the top right of the screen is an icon representing the MC's knee device, when making choices a positive or negative score will display on it. However, I haven't found a way to get an overview of all Love Interests and their current scores. The most obvious way to do this, was to allow players to click the Matrix Hearts icon, sadly this doesn't work. Matrix Hearts features 36 "otter pics" that can be found by finding and clicking an otter icon in certain scenes. It also has 20 lewd scenes. Seeing as this is a steam release, I worry that most of these negatives won't get fixed. I can understand when one missing scene slips under the radar, when there are 4, I'm wondering if there's any QA done, or if the game was ever beta-tested. The steep drop in quality at the start of chapter 3 makes me even more worried about future chapters. The game seemed to transition to a pure kinetic experience, where choices don't really matter at all.

Bought it, i'm the "OH LOOK HOT CHARACTERS ON THE FRONT PAGE" type of buyer. I wasn't expecting much when i came in but gave it a try anyway. It's a pretty okay AVN. The renders are great, characters are great, story is okay too. Not to mention the change of visual style from chapter 2 to 3 is fantastic. The animations are... well.. kinda in the middle for me but don't get me wrong it didn't stop me from enjoying the game. I really had fun with Matrix Hearts. I will definitely buy Season 2 when it drops. Looking forward to it.

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[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/40328198-Den-of-Perversion/]Find the games to feed your fetish[/url] - Den of Perversion Curator Site [h1]Too Long Didn't Read Version[/h1] [Table] [tr] [td]Recommend[/td] [td]✔Yes, at list price, on sale, or part of a bundle[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Visual Novel Type[/td] [td]Railroad [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Acts[/td] [td]Solo Female✔, Breast Sex✔, Oral✔, Vaginal✔, Anal✔ [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Censorship?[/td] [td]No [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Hours of Gameplay[/td] [td]Eight to Ten hours [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Difficulty[/td] [td]Normal [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Graphics[/td] [td]Good - Beautiful [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Animation[/td] [td]Stills - Animated [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Audio[/td] [td]Music, Sound Effects [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Art Style[/td] [td]3D Model [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Bugs[/td] [td]A few here and there [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Replayability[/td] [td]Only to get the Achievements[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Multiple Monitors[/td] [td]Stays up, with audio, when not in game. Cursor not locked to window. [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Overall Rating[/td] [td]Good - (7/10) [/td] [/tr] [/table] Enjoy my reviews? [url=https://ko-fi.com/rkilroy]Leave me a tip[/url]. [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/40330370-Kilroy%2527s/]Follow me on my curator page[/url] Or [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/Rkilroy]Join my group[/url] [h1]Synopsis[/h1] Matrix Hearts - Season One is a RenPy railroad visual novel. There are plenty of choices to make, but they really only decide which women you want to be with, not change the path of the story. [h1]Story[/h1] You are a 19 year old sport and boulder champion competing for a spot on the Canadian team. An unfortunate accident as you reach the top dashes your chances of going pro. After eight surgeries over four months and six months of intensive physical therapy you've managed to gain minimal knee mobility. You're throwing yourself the pity party to beat all pity parties. Your parents have had enough and are throwing you out. But they are also handing you a life line. Your parents contacted your next door neighbor who went into physical therapy and the company she works for has a prototype that might solve your problems. [h1]Gameplay[/h1] You start off by setting the main character's name. Along the way you will find Blue Otter Games logos that will unlock the photos in the Otter Hunt section if you click on them. Occasionally you will get a scene lock where you can explore the scene. Hotspots will be obvious when you move your cursor over them. Clicking on the hotspots will provide additional story information. You are punished if you play this game full horndog. If you take the opportunity to glance at every bit of exposed flesh you will miss out on content. So, be a good boy, or at least check the other options to see which one is the best one. There are occasions where sneaking a peak or asking the untactful question is the best option, but these are few and far between. You will also run into Otterly-Ultimate choices. These choices have a large effect on the story path and affect not only the current chapter, but future chapters as well. There is a special banner, along with the choice options, so you'll be sure to notice them. The art changes in Chapter 3. Which is a good thing. The main character's body hair looks "wrong" for the first two chapters, too thick and wiry. In chapter 3 they make an excuse to remove it. In general the English is good, but there are spots where it is just wrong. There are three chapters in season one, so don't expect closure. There are over 200 choices to make. The main character doesn't climax in most of the scenes, it is all about the women. In the few that he does you usually don't see anything. Blue balls abound. [h1]The Gallery[/h1] The Gallery is the Otter Replay option on the title screen. There are 20 scenes to unlock. There are also the 36 Otter Hunt images which you unlock by finding the Blue Otter Games logos. [h1]Final Verdict[/h1] A decent story that doesn't take itself too seriously. While you can play a harem type game you are punished for behaving like a horndog. Very few women appreciate you wanting to know if they wear a thong. [h1]System Specs[/h1] CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 9 7950X3D Motherboard: Gigabyte X670E AORUS EXTREME (rev. 1x) RAM: G.SKILL Trident Z5 Neo Series (AMD Expo) DDR5 RAM 64GB (2x32GB) Video: ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4080 [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/40330370-Kilroy%2527s/]Follow me on my curator page[/url] Or [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/Rkilroy]Join my group[/url] [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/40328198-Den-of-Perversion/]Find the games to feed your fetish[/url] - Den of Perversion Curator Site

So Matrix Hearts is not a great game 0/10 the male was charater was very boring generic and way to much of a perv never felt like a genuine charater no real choice's in the game alot of the choice's just felt the same no real story no real path to choose from and the writing was very bad overall the game never really let choice on what you want to be as charater and the freedom to let you do what want to do.

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its not a bad game to play not overly priced renders pretty good some comic dialogue which made me chuckle a little bit only slight criticism is the otter huts you need to find when you do find some some come up with error code but apart from not bad for season 1 but sure there is more to come in season 2

Ну что я могу сказать, сюжет вроде не плохой, но судить только по наличию 3 глав пока нет смысла. Радует наличие музыкального сопровождения, не плохое качество рендеров, но анимация страдает. Как обычно закончилось на самом интересном месте, жду продолжения.

[h1]<Abandoned>[/h1] [i]클라이밍 캐나다 국가대표를 꿈꾸는 주인공은, 현 스포츠 클라이밍과 볼더링 챔피언으로, 세계 선수권 대회 출전권을 따낼 수 있는 큰 대회에서 뛰어난 실력을 보여주었지만 붙잡고 있던 홀드가 빠지면서 추락할 위기에 처했고, 설상가상으로 하단에 위치한 홀드조차 떨어져 나가는 바람에 튀어나온 못에 그대로 무릎을 찍히면서 큰 부상을 입고 그의 선수 생활은 끝나고 맙니다. 그로부터 7개월 후.. 물리치료를 받고 있으나 사실상 재활 회복이 어려운 영구적인 장애 판정을 받고, 주인공은 자신의 전부였던 꿈이 무너진 후 매우 냉소적이고 비틀린 성격으로 변하였습니다. 이런 아들을 보다 못한 주인공의 부모는 그를 위해 새로운 방법을 제시합니다. 과거 옆집에 살던 주인공 또래의 Layla가 대학에서 수석으로 졸업 후 현재 물리치료 관련 분야에서 일하고 있기에, 그녀에게 아들을 맡기며 재활 치료와 관련된 최첨단 프로토타입 장비의 테스트 참가자로 보내는 것이었습니다. 그녀가 있는 곳은 미국 근처 섬 해안에 위치한 열대 도시 Zippyzinc City였고, 마침 1년을 유급했던 주인공에게 필요한 단축 과정 학교도 있었습니다. 결국 마지못해 부모님의 제안을 승낙한 주인공은 비행기에 오르며 Zinppyzinc City로 가게 되는데..[/i] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 이미지 렌더 7,000개가량에 애니메이션 66개로 제작된 게임입니다. 주인공이 클라이밍 대회에 참석했다가 사고로 못에 무릎이 찍히며 선수 생명이 박살 납니다. 못이 꽤 안 좋은 곳을 찔렀는지 재활 훈련을 해도 사실상 운동은커녕 쩔뚝거리지만 않아도 다행이라는 말을 듣고 있었죠. 그래서 마지막 시도를 위해 열대 섬을 간다는 내용입니다. 이 치료 방법이라는 게 아직 상용화되지 않은 최첨단 기계를 무릎에 착용하고 생활을 하는 건데 무릎에 착용한 기계를 통해 인간의 호르몬을 이용하는 일종의 바이오 테크입니다. 예를 들어 엔돌핀, 도파민, 옥시토신, 아드레날린 등 사람이 어떤 감정을 느끼면 몸에서 호르몬이 나오는데 혈관에 연결된 4개의 장치로 신체의 전자기 신호를 보내 호르몬의 변화, 감정 상태 등을 감지하여 호르몬 반응을 증폭시킨 다음 그걸 다시 몸에 전달하는 과정을 반복하여 몸을 다시 회복시킨다는 [strike]말도 안 되는[/strike] 설정입니다. 여기서 Matrix Hearts라는 게 바로 감정 → 호르몬 폭주 → 장치 증폭의 과정에서 만들어지는 일종의 에너지 같은 개념이에요. 그래서 주인공이 느끼는 감정이 진짜일수록 Matrix Hearts가 몸과 잘 융합한다고 합니다. 즉, 주인공이 연애나 즐거운 경험, 성적 흥분 같은 걸 하면 호르몬이 증가해서 Matrix Hearts 생성되고, 장치가 그걸 증폭시켜서 신체를 회복시킨다는 거죠. 근데 게임을 진행하며 어이가 없던 건 도덕적인 행동을 하고, 스스로 도덕적 만족감을 느껴야 Matrix Hearts가 올라가는 거였습니다. 예를 들어 히로인의 속살을 몰래 엿볼 수 있는 상황이 왔을 때 몰래 엿보면 안 되고, 오히려 엿보지 않고, 스스로 더 나은 인간이라 생각하며 자딸을 쳐야 됐습니다. 뭐 이 게임의 가장 중요한 개념이라 좀 상세하게 설명하고 넘어갔지만 개인적으로 이 게임은 정말 못 해먹을 정도로 어려웠습니다. 영미권.. 아예 그 동네 애들만 플레이하라고 만든 게임 같았어요. 왜냐하면... 슬랭이 엄청 많습니다. 도저히 뭔 소린지 몰라서 번역기를 돌려봐도 엉터리 문장이 나올 정도였죠. fo sho 가 뭔지 아십니까? brosif 가 뭔지 아시나요? Natta, totes , Cray , hoe, tats, tots 등등... 속어가 너무 많습니다. 거의 대부분의 문장에 사용되어서 정상적인 번역이 어렵더라고요. 플레이하는데 너무 짜증 났습니다. 아니 만약 반대로 한국인이 AVN을 만들었다고 합시다. 그런데 대화 지문에 나온 단어들이 [b] 혜자, 창렬, 능지, 쫄보, 대꼴, 노잼, 갑분싸, 갑툭튀[/b] 등등.. 이 지랄로 되어있으며 과연 영미권 애들이 이걸 번역할 수 있을까요? "존예탱? 존예탱이 뭐지? 존나예민탱인가?" 이러고 있겠죠. 게임을 거의 자국민 외에는 할 수가 없는 수준이에요. 아니 다 같이 하는 게임인데 기본적으로 표준어는 사용해야죠. 그래도 아예 영미권 거주하시는 분들이거나 슬랭까지 익숙하신 분들에게는 재미있을 것 같습니다. 유치하긴 해도 전체적으로 유머러스하거든요. '내가 이 대화와 유머를 100% 이해할 수 있다면 정말 재밌었을 텐데' 싶었습니다. 렌더링은 뭔가 깔끔하면서도 엉성했습니다. 갈수록 나아지기는 했지만, 초반에는 같은 장면인데 수염이 있다가 없다가 하기도 하고, 바닥의 타일이 바뀌기도 하더군요. 심지어 애니메이션은 왜 그리 부들부들 거리는 건지.... 하.. 참고로 시즌 1은 챕터 3개로 구성되어 있는데 5명의 메인 히로인 중에서 야스를 하는 건 고작 2명입니다. 당장 저 표지의 메인 히로인과의 야스씬도 없습니다. 전체적으로 언어적인 한계와 자잘한 부분들 때문에 아쉬움이 많은 게임이었습니다. [h3]마무리 지으며..[/h3] 유기된 게임으로 분류하기는 했지만 얼마 전 개발자가 본인의 Patreon에서 챕터 4의 베타 테스트를 진행했습니다. 하지만 그럼에도 그냥 유기된 게임으로 분류한 이유는 게임이 미완성된 지 3년째거든요. 도전과제는 오류로 아무것도 달성되지 않는데 그것도 몇 년째 방치되고 있으며, 애초에 스팀에 출시한 챕터 3은 제대로 완성된 것도 아닙니다. 현재 스팀에 출시된 버전은 0.3.9 버전이며 개발자는 0.3.99버전의 업데이트를 준비 중이었거든요. 대략적인 정황을 설명드리자면.. 개발자가 캐나다 사람 같은데 하와이로 이사를 갔다고 합니다. 그런데 문제는 2년가량을 이 게임의 개발과 관련된 아무런 소식이 없었던 거죠. 뭐 중간에 새로운 게임을 개발한다는 소식은 있었습니다만.. 아무튼 2년 뒤인 25년 5월에 드디어 다음 버전의 베타 테스트를 진행하고 스팀에도 반영한다는 공지가 올라왔지만 결국 다시 잠수를 탔습니다. 그 이후로 몇 개월 만에 다시 슬쩍 나타나서 본인의 Patreon 후원자를 대상으로 테스트 하더군요. 하지만 지금까지 모습으로 미루어보아.. 어차피 이 게임은 시즌 2 개발 도중에 결국 버려질 것 같다는 생각이 듭니다.

Matrix Hearts Season 1 (MHS1) is a traditional, choice-driven AVN. Season 1 has 3 chapters & one playthrough took me roughly 18 hours. MHS1 surprised me. It was much better than I expected. The renders are high quality (i.e., realistic & detailed). The animations are good (but not amazing), especially in the sex scenes. The game has ample NSFW content. There are lots of attractive women & hot sex scenes, including casual flings. The NSFW content makes sense within the context of the plot & there’s a gallery to view past sex scenes & new sexy renders. The game has high quality graphics & this benefits everything. The women are hot & look real while the environments are interesting, very detailed & surprisingly realistic. This greatly helped with immersion. Also, the game has an interesting, fairly well-developed story & plot complete with character development. The writing is well done & unique. The game tries really hard to be witty. And there are quite a few jokes too. I was impressed that it all worked, that the developers pulled it off. The jokes land & are funny. And many times I’d say to myself “That’s clever”. As well, the game has quality sound effects. They made the game more immersive & enjoyable. Also, the game has excellent music, which made the game a lot better. Despite the game's many positive qualities, MHS1 does have some flaws. The biggest flaw is that the game appears to be abandoned. This is why I do NOT recommend the game. The developer regularly disappears from his Patreon and Discord for months at a time, and hasn't released an update in over a year and a half. I'm extremely disappointed that I won't get to see how the game ends. The game had a lot of potential. Another flaw is that the game has low replay value. There are choices but a lot of the choices are not consequential. And in some cases, you get the same outcome regardless of your choice. In short, this game does not have a lot of branching or consequential choices. You can do almost everything the game has to offer in one playthrough. But this flaw did not bother me because the game has a lot content (my playthrough took 18 hours). Another flaw is that you can’t form romantic relationships. You can have sexual flings but no real relationships. But the game is early in development, with only 3 chapters. So it’s likely that this flaw will be fixed as the game gets developed further. In sum, MHS1 is a high quality, fun, interesting & unique AVN that will likely will never be finished. So why bother playing it? No one wants to play an unfinished, abandoned game. I would have never bought Matrix Hearts if I had known that the game would be abandoned. I feel ripped off! Epic fail Blue Otter Games! I will never again buy one of your games.