Corruption Visual Novel Review: Jessica O’Neil’s Hard News

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Written by Rastafoo69, edited by Otaku Apologist

Jessica O’Neil’s Hard News, a visual novel developed by StoperArt. Released July 17, 2018. Support the developer on Patreon here. For PC Windows, Mac OS, & Android devices. No voice acting. Uncensored genitals. 3D hard pussy Hentai-onahole.moe.

Jessica is a busty blonde beauty who wants to make a name for herself as a local newspaper journalist. But being a beautiful woman in the big city means that she’ll run into plenty of men who want a piece of her. How she reacts to their advances is entirely up to you.

As of October 2023, this game is in development at stage 0.60. The Mac version is only available at 0.50 and is missing some content discussed in the review. Updates come out once a year on average.

STORY

Jessica has a boyfriend named Conner and is living with him in their apartment in the big city. As she performs her duties as a journalist, she’ll come into contact with many men who will try their best to steal her away from Connor. Depending on her attitude, she can either give in or resist their advances.

Her beauty is a great tool for her to get close to powerful men and start conversations with people who would otherwise ignore her. Its a bit of “pretty privilege” but it allows her to get major news stories and major scoops that other people who be unable to.

Although the writing tries its best to take itself seriously, the plot always flows towards outrageous scenarios involving Jessica’s lustful body. Like when she agreed to wear a cheerleader outfit and get dry-humped for the sake of forgettable reasons that had little impact on the overall plot. In other words, everything boils down to the writing getting her from one lewd scenario to the next.

As of update 0.6, Jessica is casually cheating on her boyfriend with handjobs and blowjobs for multiple men. The trajectory of the narrative seems to indicate she will finally have vaginal cheating sex with an elderly man some time next year, 2024.

In spite of the fact that Jessica is already a cheating slut, the game still allows players to cosplay as a loving girlfriend whenever they wish to. And because she gets piped by her boyfriend regularly, there are multiple vaginal sex scenes available and she is not a virgin.

For visual novel afficianados, this game is a nice predictable experience. For more critical players, the writing will feel like just another city girl becoming a cum dumpster, which is a trope that’s been beaten to death over the five years that this game has been in development.

GAMEPLAY

This game is a visual novel made in the Renpy game engine. Simply click to interact with the choices on-screen. All choices relate to proceeding with or avoiding a sex scene. There are no “routes”, so the game is effectively a kinetic novel in terms of plot.

GRAPHICS

The visuals are where this game truly shines. Jessica looks a bit like a barbie doll, but in a way that is believable and attractive. Her bust, her waist, and everything in between convey the obvious fertility of a blonde 25 year old woman. She perfectly borders the line of a young babe and an older milf, without falling too deeply into either category. This is reflected in her wide variety of clothing options, which also builds her character as a city girl. Considering the name of the game, getting Jessica right was of upmost importance to this developer.

The backgrounds and various event settings are filled with a sense of novelty that is rather uncommon in most Renpy visual novel games. Rather than recycling assets, which leads to most visual novels feeling generic, this developer has placed a lot of time and effort into making each area of the city look and feel unique. For example, when Jessica goes into the camper trailer of her friend, an old man. Most games would just have the scene play out in an apartment or bedroom, so the setting of being in a cramped trailer adds a sense of freshness in this game you won’t find in many others.

A common trope of 3D Renpy games is either to overlay the characters on a background image or simply offer a simple position and view for the entire scene. This game does the opposite! Each 3D environment is fully rendered with furniture and realistic lighting, so the developer can offer different angles and perspectives to a scene without breaking immersion.

There’s also a great attention to detail in the character models present. For example, Jessica has very light tan lines from her shoulders to her breasts. Even though the game does not have any beach tanning scenes, it conveys that the world is already lived-in, because she was living her life long before the plot began. Another neat detail is how Jessica’s hair is so detailed. In most scenes she has it tied back, but goes through various stages of being unkempt. When she’s dressing professionally, the front of her hair parts in a beautiful way. When she’s dressed more casually, its broadly held back, exposing the whole of her forehead. In other words, more practicality over presentation.

The greatest praise I can give this game is the use of animations in the latest update, 0.60. The author is playing with the concept of vaginal sex and how near it is to happening. Witnessing the fully animated dry humping and thrusting of another man’s cock on top of Jessica’s pussy was downright fabulous. A still image would not have conveyed the tension, so the developer invested his time into animations that truly paid off in making this game, an uncontested leader in terms of visual presentation.

VOICE ACTING AND SOUND EFFECTS (SFX)

This game features no voice acting. In early scenes, the developer ripped audio of fake moaning from porn videos and ported it into the game. None of this audio is original and its highly compressed nature makes it far from a high quality experience.

The sound effects in this game are understated but play a major role in immersing the player in the experience. Like during the handjob, where we can hear moist hands rubbing the shaft, while the man is breathing heavily and enjoying it. This game is not a loud RPG with cartoonish sound effects, but the more reserved approach to audio design works well to convey the weight of the scenes. The downside being, early scenes have almost no sound effects, while scenes in later update patches are full of superior sound design. Overall, its an uneven experience.

MUSIC

Atmospheric sound effects like birds chirping are far more common than music tracks in this game. There isn’t even a song on the main menu! And for indoor settings like the first handjob scene, there is no music at all. The blank silence in this game makes for an offputting experience, because some players may struggle to be fully immersed without it.

HENTAI

Although monogamous vaginal sex with her boyfriend is present, the bulk of the game is focused on outercourse. After years in development, Jessica still has yet to be penetrated in an act of cheating sex with another man. Even when it happens, the developer will likely make her use a condom in order to milk the patreon donations for as long as possible.

As previously mentioned, most scenes are contrived and often designed for the sake of saucy teaser images to keep the patrons happy. In reality, most scenes fail to hit the mark in terms of memorability and eroticism. For example, one of the early corruption scenes involves a hobo peeping on Jessica fucking her boyfriend. This was a novel concept back in 2018, but nowadays its more “par for the course”. As the development cycle continues to take years and years, the early portions of the game feel increasingly unimpressive.

Although animations are available in later portions of the game, the early scenes lack them. Moreover, the lack of substantive corruption progress means that erotic dialogue where Jessica experiences lust ultimately falls flat. Across all scenes, players easily know that regardless of what the dialogue says, there is zero chance of Jessica actually going very far.

This is not to say the game is bad. The handjobs and blowjobs in this game are extremely hot due to the stellar visual presentation. The game is well worth fapping to! However, its hard to recommend a game that plainly fails to deliver on its corruption-oriented premise.

CONCLUDING WORDS

Jessica O’Neil’s Hard News is a well known corruption visual novel that has been in development for over five years. While the visuals are unmatched, every other aspect of the game is relatively average by comparison. Still, when the price is literally free, the game remains well worth a play for fans of blonde babes needing to be corrupted.

Download Jessica O’Neil’s Hard News for F95zone. If you like this game but want a more complete experience, then check out our review for Exchange Student!