TL;DR:
A photo-editing game with plenty of levels, Rina's Journey is more sensual and tastefully erotic than nude or sexual. It is, however, riddled with rather annoying bugs right now, so I would wait until some bug fixes come along.
+ Big-t*tted onee-san wears tons of cute outfits <3
+ Over 70 images/levels in total!
+ Unique gameplay mechanics
+ Neat bonus customization of the cursor and display of locked levels
+ Ability to skip levels as a reward for completing other levels
- Riddled with bugs for now, but hopefully they'll all be fixed soon
- Various softlocks requiring nearly a dozen restarts in total
- Rather repetitive, later levels still work on the exact same mechanics as the early ones
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Photo-Life - Rina's Journey is a sort of unique puzzle game wherein you're given sliders and must try to filter the image to become as clear as possible, going through a pseudo-editing style of gameplay in order to progress to the next level. Although there is no sexual content or nudity in the game, many of the outfits presented are definitely erotic in nature. Rina herself, being the big-boobed onee-san that she is, has plenty of ways to show off her rather gifted curves to the world!

The gameplay itself is a sort of trial-and-error puzzle with various sliders. There's also a puzzle where you need to "Enter a value 0 to 1" to find the correct alignment, but I could never get this to work properly. 0 wouldn't work, 1 wouldn't work, anything over and under didn't work, and decimals were treated like they didn't exist, so that also didn't work. Interestingly enough, entering a negative value would have an impact on the appearance of the image, but wouldn't lead to progress. Ultimately, every time this puzzle popped up, I was forced to restart the level until I got a version of it that didn't include that. Needless to say, I had to restart puzzles many, many times.

If you were looking for nudity, you're in the wrong place. Rina definitely has an erotic body, but there isn't any nudity in the game, nor is there any that's advertised as existing. Even in the DLC, it's plainly stated that there is no nudity. This isn't necessarily a bad thing-- being that this is ultimately a photo shoot for a modeling career, it makes sense that it wouldn't progress into actual nude territories. The material that is displayed is still tastefully erotic and includes photos of Rina in various styles of outfits from casual to formal, holiday outfits, gym outfits, sleep attire... cultural outfits and cosplays, even! If you really love how Rina looks and want to see her happily in various outfits, you'll definitely get that here!

I was surprised with some of the early levels of customization that you could do. Being able to change how your cursor looks and change the manner in which locked levels are displayed seems rather unimportant, but giving that control to the player is always a plus in allowing them to customize their experience! In the gallery mode, you can also hide the hud to allow for Steam screenshots, and you can also Download images directly. Unfortunately, this feature seems to be broken or ill-explained as of this review, as the photo claims to have been downloaded to my Pictures folder, and while there is indeed a file called "Photo-Life" there, it is inaccessible and isn't in a proper file format.

This game has a TON of levels! So much so that it's easy to feel burnt out while playing the game. I would suggest playing the game in chunks-- doing a set or two and then taking a break and coming back in a little bit to continue the game. To make this easier, there is a built-in auto-finish feature that costs $100 of in-game currency (that you earn by completing levels). You get $50 for each level you complete, meaning that you can skip 1 level for every 2 that you complete.

Interestingly enough, even auto-completing a level awards you with $50, so if you end up beating 4 levels to stockpile $200, you can skip 3 levels after that. You can also get $25 for re-completing a level, meaning you can definitely farm an easier level to get money to progress through the more difficult levels. Keep in mind, however, that sometimes autocompleting a set from the main menu screen won't award you with the achievement for that level. It is more worth your time to autocomplete the set from within the levels themselves.

This game does unfortunately come with a good share of bugs that I'm sure will eventually get fixed. To explain the ones that I personally encountered:
* Sometimes a level wouldn't load in, instead only being a solid color. Fixing this required a full level restart, and occurred 3 times in my playthrough.
* Finishing the Bonus Set awards me with the dialogue "Dial," as spoken by "Name," which is unskippable and requires a game restart to get through.
* Unlocking the Teacher set of levels left me unable to actually continue playing from the menu, halting my progress entirely until I replayed the level just before it and allowed me to auto-progress.
* Some minor dialogue issues like the text on dialogue choices scrolling off the text bubble, or various instances where my character was referred to as "(Player name)" rather than the actual name I input. My character, Cramstuffenlufs, is upset by this. There was also one instance upon completing a month where instead of saying the month had ended a new month had begun, it would just say " is ending and is beginning."

Although there's plenty of customization, I do wish that there was an option to add editing flares to the images that we unlocked. It's not a big gripe with the game and I won't dock points for it, it just seems like it'd be awesome to be able to add little stickers to an image in a game like this that has such a heavy emphasis on photo editing. It being missing doesn't detract from the experience, it's just something that crossed my mind.

Although it's definitely got some bugs and I probably had to forcefully restart the game close to a dozen times in total, Rina's Journey is still a pretty good photo-editing game. I have every confidence that the issues I have with the game will be solved over time, so I think that it's still a good buy and despite my issues, I was still able to complete every level and unlock every image!

big boobies => good boobies

So, this is basically what I'm looking for when it comes to Adult games, in a way.

I've played some of these "Adult Only" games on Steam and elsewhere, and these games seem to assume that I'm interested in playing some particularly terrible species of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, or they otherwise might start out all right, but then plunge into territory that makes me end up wanting to want to scrub out my skin on the inside, or even end up being some combination of the above, and I'm not so much offended by that sort of thing but more bored.

This, however, is a more chill sort of sexy that avoids going into either sort of territory. I wouldn't say it's because of a lack of any truly R-18+ content or H-content or however you want to call it, but rather because the game is, at the heart of its story, good friends ending up having themselves a (consensual) good time, and the object of the player's affection just happens to be a huge-chested, thicc bundle of joy who is impossible to mistake for anything than an actual grown adult, which means the game doesn't need to reassure the players that she's totally 18, honest.

It is one year of a photographer and his model learning to like each other and have fun together, without being something all creepy or weird about it. I wish more games did this because, as this game demonstrates, it just works. So, it's probably one of the more actually adult games out of most of the "adult" games on Steam at the moment.

The actual gameplay is more of a puzzle game than anything else as it basically involves editing the various parameters of a photograph to make it actually look right, such as negative, lens flare, color blend, and so on and so forth. The parameters are randomly generated, as is the method of manipulation, and harder photos require you to change more values and with more precision. What you do doesn't really change that much as you go through the game, but the actual game is short enough that it doesn't really wear out its welcome, unlike some games which are too long for their gameplay to sustain.

There's not much to say aside from that, aside from Erkaz was the correct choice to do art here.

There are some still unaddressed bugs in the Steam version currently, such as how the game doesn't properly recognize decimal values, but it's nothing progression-stopping as you can always reshuffle things, so it's more of an annoyance than anything.

So, really, it's a game worth throwing a few bucks at.

Rina is an unexpectedly wholesome entry from an otherwise adult-themed developer, telling the story of a playful young woman and you, her cameraman, over the course of the year. Each season is divided into 5 photos, and carry different themes for their sets. It's your job to alter the photos to correct color, glare, and contrast problems through a series of multiple choice, slider, and toggle buttons. If you're a Photoshop dunce, worry not, it's quite intuitive.

These puzzles are inherently simple, and with a bit of tinkering, have a logical sequence to solving. As puzzle difficulty increases, both the number and sensitivity of the filters grow. If you find yourself stuck, you can spend cash from solving puzzles to either reveal the final image for comparison, or skip the puzzle entirely for a higher sum. You earn 50$ per puzzle, and the skip costs 100$, so it's very easy to afford.

But even if you decide not to take this shortcut, you can still brute-force answers by the very nature of how the system works. To complete a puzzle, you click a button that literally checks your answers. If correct, bars on the left side of the screen will fill. If you're close, they fill a lesser percentage. Since there is one for every filter, you can literally click the multiple choice prompts one at a time to reveal the answer. Radio button toggles require the full 2 or 3 to be selected to work, but even this can be bypassed by brute forcing every possible combination. Sliders are the hardest, demanding pixel precision at the hardest setting. When you're close, it elicits a half response, and that's your cue to make incremental changes until you eventually find the sweet spot.

In between these puzzle sets are light graphic novel dialogue sequences. You can encourage Rina to become a teacher or model, but the choices don't really matter. Regardless of what she chooses at the end, you'll still play out the other path after you finish the first. It's a nice touch to break up the monotony, since the work you do is a matter of repetition for each and every puzzle.

The gallery deserves mention for having slideshow, zoom, and export functions, without the need for extra paid DLC. If you'd like to support the artists, a convenient link provided on each of their works will take you straight to their online galleries.

All in all, a decent casual puzzle game with a novel mechanic. At the time this was written, it's still profile restricted, but will probably hit the threshold to graduate in the future.

Achievement Hunters: Complete the base game, all 60 images. Then open the credits, gallery, and the about sections. You can speed through the game by using the purchase option on every hard mode photo, unlike me. I saved it only for when I got stuck and had over 2,000$ left I couldn't spend. The extra gallery contents are not required.

<1hr to 100%

My Personal Game Score: 10 / 10

+Very nice artworks
+Sounds are good
+Casual and relaxing game
+Easy to play
+A great game for it genre

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boobies! What more to say?

Puzzle game. There are three types of mode (which seem locked to certain puzzles), five puzzles to a "month"/theme. Decent enough.

A fun puzzle game with a frankly absurd (in a good way) amount of pics to see that are all very well done. There is no nudity in this game but it has actual model like pictures that are tasteful but not showing too much to go into the smut territory. The puzzles are a series of sliders, buttons, and value entries that let you take the picture you are trying to develop and get the absolute best version of it (i.e. the one you get to see at the end). Unfortunately at the moment one of the mini games seems to be more trouble then it's worth. The "Enter Value" puzzle does not seem to work the way it should, or I'm not using it right. I'm not sure. It asks you to enter a value of 0-1 with an example of 0.3. Sadly I'm not sure as to why but it does not work for me and of the 12 or so times I only got it right once. After that I restarted the picture whenever that puzzle showed up but that is the only real compliant I have for this game. The Dev has seen these complaints and is working to improve which I can only applaud and for everything else that's here I truly do recommend this as a buy for the full $5 with all the DLC.

Edit 08/13/2021: The one Enter Value puzzle has been disabled allowing for a smooth ride through the game. Thanks for listening =)

I love it: a simple but very enjoyable game. I got much more pleasant emotions than I expected from almost everything.

Very juicy, soft and pleasant art, music and funny, not straining gameplay.

Fell in love with OC from the game. Want some moar!