Ren'Py - Abandoned - Absolute Power - Remastered [v0.03] [Bad Seed Studios]

The classic 'get demon powers and use it to fuck your family' kinda story.

My main gripe is that there's 0 choices throughout the game ... the demon in your head is telling you over and over again not not reveal things to your bestfriend, so when it got to that conversation I presumed there'd at least be a choice there, but nope.

Also there's not much content here, and as it's abandoned no expectation of content in the future.

The renders are fine, but a little basic (of the type on a static background of bedroom, or classroom, etc).

So yeah, I saw this mentioned in some thread somewhere so decided to check it out despite the abandoned tag, but there's not really anything to get excited about.

I have been meaning to try this game for some time now but had never got around to it until today due to various projects I'm working on but I have to say I was surprised I enjoyed it as well as I did as the story seemed very familiar from just reading the plot however I discovered as I got into the game it had taken on a story pretty original. I noticed some renders were a bit grainy due to lighting issues but that's just a learning curve that I went through myself not so long ago. I checked out the coding as I liked the daily events and thought it may have been a version of DSE code but it was written without calling events, acts, etc... and was fairly clean of most issues without those although some were annoying like in BB, when you already have total control of your sister but you're scared to let her see you peeking of her in the shower... BB had those with you've just ate your sister's pussy but she didn't want you to see her pussy on the sofa while watching TV later in another scene. Those errors could be avoided by calling the events, check my game code if you're not familiar with DSE.
Despite these what I would call minor issues I really love this game so far and expect it to get much better as it progresses. I wish the dev well and I will be following this one!

It is an AMAZING GAME. I planned to write a story that was very similar to this game script. This game provides some interesting choices that can differently affect the following scenes and conversions. Besides, the aunt from this story looks same with Ann from another game "Big Brother", though there is no further scene related to this character. I kind of expecting more updates of this game.

I loved the sister. She is absolutely gorgeous.
Also, an interesting plot core about mind control AND the choice how to use it. Player can either dominate them or create deeper connections.
And to make things not so easy there is the looming danger of the tough mafia guys and the necessity to learn and develop MC's powers. Very interesting, can't wait for the updates.

Review for 0.5 (or 0.05, dev keeps changing)

I've been a Patreon for some time now because I wanted to like this game. The premise seemed nice, intro story looked decent enough and you could already kiss and get a hand job from mom if she was corrupted enough. The dev was just starting, with low numbers on Patreon so naturally you couldn't expect much from the dev yet.

The game had options to go to mom's room and living room (nothing happening in living room, but you could watch TV) but also had options to go to bathroom, sis room and leave house that was coming later and the dev said that 0.5 (current version) would be the update to wait for.

This above was all for version 0.2 (or 0.02, again, dev keeps changing)

So what has happened since then? This big update that was supposed to be the thing to look for?

Now you can visit mom room, sis room, living room and bathroom. A few scenes with mom and sis in their rooms if they are corrupted enough and some random showering/yoga events from both mom and sis. May I remind you that this was supposed to be the update where the world would be better developed..... yet everything you do is inside the house.

Main story has not progressed at all, corrupting story has, but these are just a few dialog before the main scene happens.

Overall, I'm really disappointed by how slowly the game has developed, the dev is not talking outside the Patreon account (and even there he's not that active) and this is starting to feel like milking from Patreon. Release just enough so that people are somewhat satisfied and make big promises but under-develop once there.

Not surprisingly, I have decided to stop supporting this dev, there are more games and better devs out there.
1 star
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Version 0.6

I decided to revisit this game to give it a fairer review than I did at first in a rage. This is my result.

Story 1/5 -> The story here is not interesting at all. The intro takes forever with choices that in the long run amount to nothing and have no impact on the rest of the story. After all that intro you still have to continue the story by researching the demon girl in a library to get further and starting corrupting the girls at home. You quickly become bored of the story all together and just spam through to get to the good parts. Also it is hinted at that you will use your sister to distract the step father in order to go further with mom, giving this game an NTR affect that can be a huge deal breaker in my case. Some might like it though but it is not for me.

Dialog choices 1/5 -> As stated in the story part above, early in the game the choices do not matter. Once the initial intro is done, here comes the nightmare of these choices available. The only choices that matter are the once continuing the corruption on mom and sis. You have to start by corrupting mom. You can only do that once per day in her bedroom. You need a certain amount (I think 5) of points before you can start kissing your mother. After that you have to keep going by corrupting mom more to advance further. Once mom is complete with kissing and hand-job, your step father comes home and you have to start all over with sis this time. This is a grind-fest and not the good kind.

Sexual Content+spelling 3/5 -> If you have the patience there are some interesting sexual content in this game. You can have a kiss and hand-job with mom, and go all the way to impregnate your sis and take her in both holes if desired. The reward though for all that effort is not worth it for me. Spelling is acceptable with the occasional spelling error but nothing deal breaking enough to have a huge impact.

Domination/bdsm 2/5 -> This game has interesting domination routes with magically corrupting both the mother and sister into being receptive of being dominated. I do feel sad that I have to use magic in order to dominate them and the grinding in order to get there really drags this part down since the experience is that it is not worth the effort. There are so far no bdsm paths so that is also a minus.

Pregnancy 1/5 -> You can impregnate your sister in this version, but you have no idea if you succeeded or not and what this means in the future. It might be good and might be bad. Also the grind you have to do in order to get there is not that rewarding once there.

Overall this means that this game gets 8 points out of 25, resulting in 32% or 2 stars. I really wanted in earlier releases to like this game, but newer versions have made me burn so hard on them that I cannot give this game a good recommendation.

Each to their own I guess.

My star system:
0-20% -> 1 star
20-40% -> 2 star
40-60% -> 3 star
60-80% -> 4 star
80-100% -> 5 star

The following review is based off my personal experience with playing this Game/Visual Novel... I try to be as brutally honest and detailed as I can, and these are my own opinions and thoughts, from one or more play throughs...

(12/19/2017 - Original Review - v0.03)

This is another corruption visual novel/game that includes the whole family sex thing... There are so many of these types of games/vn's coming out, and this one has a similar feel to the backstory of Harem Villa, with the whole demon giving the protagonist corruption abilities shtick...

Visually the characters look ok, yet I get a feeling I've seen a very similar character model for the mom in another VN i tried, but just can't remember which one... The backdrops are not unique in this one, as I've seen a majority of them in other VN/Games by other authors... There are glitches when being presented with any semi-animations, where the screen flashes before playing them...

The script is ok, with a bit of dialogue/monologue filling the introduction prior to the corruption game, but the theme is a very familiar one... At a few moments, now and then, I also felt that the story had several flaws in it's presentation... As an example, when the protagonist tells his best friend about the whole demon ability thing, the friend just outright believes him, without question or thinking it's a joke... That is either very suspicious, or not very believable... Any normal person, even a best friend, would at least in some way question the sanity of such a proclamation, before trying to trust what they are saying was true... The script just feels sort of rushed in some cases, as if the author/s didn't put very much thought into the story progression, or didn't put much thought into having things make total sense... It was sort of like adding story filler to appear more VN like, without thinking about continuity or immersion...

There are also issues with how story progression works, that pretty much hurts the immersion... So basically, once the corruption game begins you can visit folks to interact with them, not many choices work for the moment since they are still under construction, but you can do corruption once per day... Once their corruption is high enough, you have a choice that sais literally "mom story" or "sister story" etc, which actually progresses the story with that character... And you are not clued in on if the corruption is high enough, so you have to press the story buttons each day as well, to see if the corruption is high enough to progress...This in turn takes away from the experience, by presenting progression in that fashion... Some other means should have been used to allow the story to progress, or it should be automatic, or something other than what is currently being used... Plus, because the story progression is extremely linear at the moment, to push the main story you have a similar choice labeled 'Continue the main story', while the protagonist is in his bedroom (again not knowing if it is time to progress or not, because if you progress it too early you'll miss prior scenes)... I'm hoping these current mechanics are place holders, because they are very clunky, and totally immersion breaking...

Overall this VN tries to have a main plot (the demon giving the protagonist corruption abilities for his soul) with a backdrop that someone else is also looking for the book, that the protagonist got his ability from... But the execution is poor quality, even though they did attempt to put dialogue/monologue with some basic story elements... In the end, this VN is looking less like an erotic VN and more like another Corruption/Domination porn game, following practically the same pattern as a lot of other games of the same ilk...

It is still very early in it's development, but I can tell already what road it's heading down, even with it's clunky progression system... Perhaps I might revisit this one way further down the road, but I dunno at this moment, because I'm not all that impressed with it's current state, and the fact it seems a lot like a copy cat game, with only slight differences in the story from others out there...

(03/24/2018 - Review Update - v0.06)

Well it's been over 3 months since the last version of this game I played... There is still some minor proofreading needed to fix the spelling/grammar errors in the introduction... As well as a mix up with the mother saying some dialogue, but the sisters name showing, just once... There is also an error when doing the BJ scene with the sister again, near the end of the sequence... Which you can ignore, but it still pops up every time...

There hasn't been a huge amount of content added to this game over the 3 month period... The sister corruption line is done and there are few minor quick events in the living room, and some small alterations to the introduction, but that is about the extent of it... I'm surprised so little content gets released with each update, as I read the release notes...

The game is still a grind of the same menu's over and over again before moving a particular story forward... At this point I'm guessing it will be this game's style going forward... The developers have even stopped adding animations with the newer content... As the content still just involves the 2 characters, and still one (the mother) is only partially done, I wonder why it is so slow to develop?

I hope the developers are not trying to milk money form their donating supporters... But it wouldn't be the first time I've seen that occur in this genre... Only time will really tell... I really see no reason to continue to revisit this game, as it is taking far too long to develop with extremely small updates... At this pace it would take years for it to complete, as it hasn't even touched on any other characters or even outside the home yet, in all this time...

This game has an exceedingly poor story with very large, unexplained, jumps between corruption scenes and no attempt at any decent characterisation.
There's zero originality here, even with the renders, and no attempt to appear otherwise.

I did not easily understand the game, the course of the story seems rather risky. I did not imagine myself instead of the character. The story does not seem to me linear. I will relativize by saying that we are only at version 0.03