[h1]At a Glance[/h1] [table] [tr] [td](Adult) Content[/td] [td](FxM) Sexual content.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Censorship[/td] [td]No. Woot! Woot![/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Hours of Gameplay[/td] [td]One or two hours.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Modding Support?[/td] [td]No.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Patch Available?[/td] [td]Download from Steam.[/td] [/tr] [/table] [b]Santa Monica Paradise[/b] is a lewd visual novel [b] - Disclaimer -[/b] For the purposes of this review, the adult-patch [b]is[/b] installed. [h1]Game-play[/h1] Smash through text boxes and make choices every so often — a standard visual novel. [h1]Story[/h1] Peter Kellerman is a renowned chef, and he's newly single ([i]and ready to mingle[/i]). Pitying his recent divorce, Peter's older brother arranged for him to stay a weekend at his villa. Peter meets an attractive woman, Yvette. She's sort of his guide, whom meets him...

Cute little visual novel. Very romantic. Touches of comedy. Two girls you can romance. Both tales are good. And with the free patch, you will get one love scene per girl. Fully recommend.

This game is quite short but have a really lovely story and character design. Somehow its easy to relate and feel attached to the characters. I hope the developer will make a sequel or extended story for each route! Thank you!

Very short but at the price you really can do a lot worse. The background music is good, and the character art is well done. That all said, the pacing seems hurried, and while the characters all seem to have a decent amount of backstory to them, their personalities are static the whole way through. The sex scenes as well were a little lacking in a descriptive sense. All in all, while I would not be going out of my way to recommend the game if I was trying to get someone into visual novels, it's still worth the playing for the price. In future games, I hope to see a lot more character development and story, but the bones are there, it just needs more fleshing out to raise it up a little. Hope the developer keeps working to make more and better VN's

the story of the game is bland and has no interest whatsoever. i tried to get into this, but i skipped to the end for the pictures and found myself disappointed with what i got for $3.99, which is a shame

Charming little summer tale. I just went the Rica path and I was not disappointed. Don´t expect anything too deep, but it´s not bad. Backgrounds look like being hand painted, the avatars are in steep contrast to it by being a moderately western Manga style, but they look just right somehow. Lots of talk about food and about human relationships and having broken up recently. The weakest part actually was the H-scene: Almost static picture, awful lot ot talk, over and over again with references to food. I went the Yvette way afterwards, a bit less obvious to take the right choices, but it turned out well in the end. Verdict is quite similar, s*x scene less wordy. Get this game like you get a slim paperback novel and enjoy a bit of relaxing reading. Nothing more, nothing less.

I love the story. More power!

while the sprites look nice and they actually had scenes they really don't fit with the background. also the options not at start and again no gallery. not sure why they refuse to put them in their games. 3/10

The game is really simple, and the choices are obvious as can be for the routes you want. It's a bit buggy though, making it annoying. And the characters are pretty simple, so better for achievement seekers.

If short romance VNs are to your liking, on top of being at a budget price, then you might consider getting this one rather than a pack of crisps. Santa Monica Paradise presents a drive-by-romance, where each involved party has a wound to heal, and they only have a weekend to try. The middle-aged protagonist has just gone through a rough divorce, an aspiring jazz musician with a break-up to get over, and a reliable assistant struggling with a one-sided office crush. The available romance routes are fashioned in a more mature, down-to-earth way than a typical high-school romance tryst. Still, this is a brief story, so the romance part feels underdeveloped; it plays more like a prologue to a longer story rather than a complete one. Therefore, the 2 main endings appear fast and feel rushed. The page description mentions comedy, however, there ain't much comedy here, mostly just casual and polite interactions between recent strangers. The biggest flaw I can think of, and directly linked ...