Max's Big Bust - A Captain Nekorai Tale Reviews

Purchased this game as I saw the sequel had come out and had never played this game. An enjoyable Visual Novel with a lot to unpack. Looking forward to playing the next game.

This is the best visual novel i've ever played EVER. The story is VERY good (even though its in development) The art is very good (cg,character sprites,ect) I've never played a visual novel with full motion video cut scenes fully animated The interaction is the best i've ever seen in my life(visual novel wise) you investigate crime scenes, you can actually play on your phone. my virtual pet died :( One thing it lacks, but is made up for in the other feaures is that there is no voice acting, but this is not the first visual novel i've played without it. The action scenes are good. It also has a very good soundtrack serously make a DLC for that. This game is one trillion times better then sakura spirit (sakura spirit was the first visual novel i've played) I've payed CDN$28.04 it was -15% best 28 dollers and 4 damn cents i've spent (and also the most i've put into one game). I Recommend this game for the visual novel fans out there or the people who want to check this genre out. BUY This damn game its worth EVERY SINGLE DAMN CENT. If I was to give this game a rating on a scale of 1 to 10 I would say 9/10

Pros Pretty cute visual novel. Nice art. Fun story. Memorable characters. Hot characters. In depth story. Skip function. LI matters in details. ^^ Cons Anime scenes are scarce. Anime scene quality is not as good as art. More romance scenes with LI. The game is pretty awesome. Just wish there was more... T_T especially the romance scenes.

Pros Decent story. Likable characters. Nice background beats and intro. Several funny moments. Few detective scenarios. Not to many. Not to much. (Also after first playthrough you don't have to do them again skip option.) Cons Didn't care for the quizzes. Wish their was a skip option.

This visual novel is great, and I'm recommending it because it is funny and well-written, with very memorable characters, and because ultimately I'm smiling for pretty much the entire time that I'm playing it. For the price, it's absolutely worth it for anyone looking for a fun, raunchy comedy visual novel, especially for those who like stories with gender-bending elements. But I am writing this review not only to recommend the game, but also because aside from my recommendation, I have a specific complaint and I do want to share it, as it is basically the only thing bothering me as I play the game. And that complaint is the handling of Max's sexuality. To avoid spoilers I'll keep this vague, but the game gives you a choice of potential romantic partners, 2 male and 3 female, that Max can spend time with and eventually date. And yet despite this, the game consistently codes Max as straight and presents unavoidable romantic tension with both male options, even when you reach a point that Max is explicitly dating a woman as I did with my play-through, and despite occasional tacit acknowledgement of this in dialogue, the game continues to create strong sexual tension with the male characters no matter what choices you make. It also rather egregiously has the female partner I picked cheat on Max with another of the female options, in a scene that was presumably written to create a lesbian couple under the assumption that Max would be dating one of the men. I'm not such a yuri fan that I'm going to shame a game for having a straight couple in the lead, but I will fault the game for presenting me with a choice to have Max date not one, but THREE women, and then consistently imply that I made the wrong choice because the story was clearly written for her to be dating a man. I'd rather not be given a choice and have a well-told straight romance story than to be told that I can have a gay romance when that seems to not really be the case. I hope this improves in the sequel.

This is a game involving transformations, primarily focusing on guy to girl. Though animal ears and tails are pretty prevalent too. If you dont care for that kind of stuff you should probably just move on, because though there is more than that to this game it is the central theme. The main character is a Police Officer working in an elite unit tasked with taking down a new drug, MinX. Through a bit of stupidity, the character gets turned into a girl. This is a world were people can buy drugs to alter their appearance so it's not considered a big deal. You have the standard romance options with the people you work with. You also have some detective type puzzles to work through, which i rather enjoyed. Other than that there's alot of dialog to go through and it feels very well written. I rather got to enjoy the characters in the story. The game world itself is an extension of another game, "Gender Bender DNA Twister Extreme". As a result the game worlds lore actually has some depth to it, though its mostly only hinted at here. I'm not sure but i think this game picks up a year or two after the last one ended, and in a different city. You will see some return characters though. Simply put, this game is better than its predecessor. Or at least i think so, sure you don't get to jump around characters like before and see their different angles of the story. But, this game seems like it will ultimately be larger and already has more variety of actions, namely the detective style puzzles and i'm hoping they do more with the mini game on your phone. Regardless, if you liked the previous game get this. If you thought it was lacking a bit, get this. If you hated it, don't get this. And if you have no idea about the other game ask yourself two questions. Do i want to play a date sim style game? Can i tolerate transformations that include gender change? The only thing i didn't really care for was the serious lack of variation on the characters picture's. I'm hoping its nothing more than a mark of being early access. Admittedly it was funny when the characters made a comment about this in regards to a criminal but i'd rather have more variation than a sly 4th wall gag.

6 hours of gameplay so far and it's still in development? Wow, I sure feel that I got what I paid for! So after running the game from beginning to the current end, I have to say that I am not disappointed at all! The plot (scroll down to my review below to avoid spoilers) The plot is apparently set in the near-future, where it's been popular with transformation-gas and half human-half animal surgeries and stuff. The technology is quite similar to current, with taser-weapons as regular non-lethal weaponry, normal TVs, cars on wheels and trains still on tracks etc. The gender-transformation is apparently still in its early days with a few biproducts (like lactose-intolerance being a biproduct of cat-ears). Our protagonist however, is a young police officer with about three years of experience. He and his partner, Brad, are part of a department that deals with drugs and stuff and they are currently trying to deal with a new sort of drug called MinX. During their first dispatch, our protagonist ends up having a "tiny" bit of an accident and ends up as a woman. Now, for all of you that came here just for that par, I can promise you that he's not the only one that ends up having to deal with a female body... *giggle* Now, here's my veiw on other features in the series: Music/sound I like the music and sound effects, but I miss being able to hear voices and possible have a on/off function of this. What I think would be great is if one could choose between having the characters speak or not. I like the game, but it's a shame when I have to read things 2-3 times because I can't seem to register what I read (this often happens when I'm feeling a bit tired, and that I do often). I also think this could help making the game differ more from other visual novels. Animation This part I feel should be separated in two parts: the animated scenes and the regular scenes. I have to say that I love the scene from the trailer. However I have been playing for 6 hours and only at the current end did I get to enjoy a new, short animation that looked quite similar to the last one. To be honest I feel a bit disappointed. I would very much love to see action or comedy-packed scenes receive even just a short scene now and then. Especially special scenes containing unique situations or characters. It would give the game more interesting content that adds to the regular content. For the regular content I want to make one thing clear; NEVER use a picture of the character that doesn't fit in with the action. It's important with variation to ensure that it doesn't look cheap and poorly made. So if a character is bloody, it is bloody, and if a character got ther gender swapped and they have a belt to their pants, they won't try to hold them in place with one hand all the way to their boss's office and then all the way home. Besides, a womans waist is wider than a mans, and hence it doesn't add up that the protagonist lose his pants (and not the underwear?) when turned into a woman. But enough of that pricky stuff. Overall aside from these few things, the content is good-looking and most of the time it fits well into the situation. Texting I've found some, but very few errors to the texting. So far I guess I have only found places where words are missing, so I just add them in my mind when reading the sentence a second time. It would be nice to see these minor errors corrected, but it's not something that would need to be prioritized at this stage. It may actually be a good thing, as the reader has to stop and read one more time to get the whole picture. It creates a pause and a difference, and it certainly gets the reader's attention back a little. As long as it's only happening 4-5 times in like 6 hours of content, it's not something to get all worked up about. interaction with the game I simply love how one can affect the game with multiple choices and this should definitely have a continued focus throughout the development. Even though it's a story-based game it should give the player the possibility to interact and affect the game, and even though I haven't really got to test this out much, I have to say that it's still a bit funny. In my case I'm a justice-person so I have an issue with accusing the wrong suspect and stuff like that, in fear of getting both the hard-working protagonist and an innocent in trouble... But I did get an opportunity to run away from a certain cute-girl loving maniac that eventually stunned/tazed the protagonist and dragged her to a swimsuit shop... it was quite funny actually... And that's it for my review! Personally I don't think I'm the right person to set a "grade" on stuff, but in my case I would say 8/10. As the game is not finished yet, my estimate is only for the content so far, not for the finished product.

It's a cute visual novel. I use that term advisedly, because that's what it is. It's not a game, per se. It's a story with a set beginning and a largely concrete end. There are puzzles, and objectives, but it's only a question of doing them well or doing them poorly. You can't skip them. So, what's here that's worth your time? The art is quite good. I understand it may not be to everyone's tastes, but I enjoyed the artistic direction of the project. The writing is excellent, though slightly slapdash at parts. The animation, when there is animation, is top notch. The characters are strong and well-defined, except when they aren't, which is usually for the sake of humor. There is one gag towards the end that relies both on the static animation and the fact you probably haven't given a particular character much thought that I thought quickly redeemed whatever flaws there were here, so I'm certainly pleased. It's a fast game, if you let it be. You could easily get sucked into the writing and spend hours at each decision point, trying to obtain more of it. Now, a few words about the... let's say content, might not go amiss here. Yes, it involves a full-scale magical sex change. Two, in fact. The story, insofar as it takes a stance, could also be described as sex positive. There's a great deal of sexual content and innuendo. Outright nudity? That I didn't see, though that's not to say it's not there. You can tell at a glance up therewhat the usual 'level' might be. Soundtrack is... basic? Very basic? It seems to be largely stock music, and it was probably the weakest part of the game for me. Since there's no speaking outside of the animated sequences, you could easily play with the speakers off and your own music on. I'm not going to recommend that, but it's something you could do.

If you, like me, brought this game for the lewdness, turn back. It's another of these 'lewd' games where the characters look more naked under clothes than actually nude due to pointless censorship. And there's no patch or dlc available to amend this. Reason it's pointless is because most scenes have most girls scantily clad and leave little to the imagination. The censorship style in the 'nude' scenes seems to cover up MORE than this, and it's just silly. Nude bodies: censor on sight think of the children. Put a microbikini/microthong on an otherwise nude body: perfectly acceptable in every country. Wtf? I swear, Steam and all the games like this would pick an active war zone over a nudist beach for 'safety reasons'. With the number of uncensored fps and the like where you're actually killing people, since when has nudity been worse than murder as a crime?

I thought that this was going to be a silly game with gender swapping, but I’m glad I was (partially) wrong. Yes, there’s a lot of fan service, but honestly, Max’s Big Bust is a good visual novel. You solve mysteries and you can romance one of the other characters (women and men), and the dialogue between the characters is pretty funny some times. I liked the fact that the game makes fun of itself; not in a tiring way that at some point you get annoyed (at least in my opinion), but in a legitimately funny way. Everything can happen here, the universe of this story is totally crazy together with its characters. There’s the animation too. Some scenes were actually animated into a short anime, and I found that amazing! [spoiler]Also, the “after credits” nearly made me choke of laughing, now I want to see a zombie version of Dancing Guy in another game.[/spoiler] 9/10, I highly recommend if you want a visual novel with more gameplay, and if you really want a "non sense comedy" to read and have fun.