RPGM - Ren'Py - Completed - Alansya Chronicles: Fleeting Iris [v1.0.5 Renpy] [Heaven Studios]

This has to be one of the worst paced games I've seen on this site. I'm in shock at all the positive reviews because I was bored out of my mind playing through the intro. I think in an hour I've seen 2 pictures of content.

Pacing 1/10 - slow, painfully slow. I expect a person to need over a dozen hours of gameplay here to unlock a respectable amount of content. Other games find a way to get this done in under an hour. I've spent over 80% of my game time walking between the characters home and places in town. That's not how I want to spend my time in this kind of game.

Art 5/10 - mediocre. It's not bad, but it's not especially good.

Replayability 1/10 - not because of the story value of replaying it, because I DON'T WANT TO. This game is so slow and boring that I'd never subject myself to another 10-20 hours of it.

Playthrough Value 1/10 - can I get everything in a single playthrough? No. That's a huge strike for me. I don't care about realism, think of the players time. That's more valuable than forcibly subjecting a person to the same shit over and over.

Story - I don't care. I'm not giving it a rating because that's not what I'm here for. The characters seem interesting but I don't play these games for their award winning writing.

That's it honestly. I wish I had more to say but my only takeaway here has been boredom. If you scaled the city down by 80%, cut the writing in half, and gave the player a sense of agency early on, I wouldn't hate this game. But I do, oh god do I ever.

This is a really ambitious game with a huge map that has a widescale potential. The reason, however, I hesitate to give it 5 stars is because it stops short at delivering on that potential. And instead we are given a bland NTR story with not much freedom on whatever route the player chooses. The impressive option to explore the entire city ends up not being that relevant to the main story. That is not to say the game is not entertaining. I had a lot of fun with it; especially if you're into the trope of an inexperienced woman getting sexually corrupted, you'll likely enjoy it too.

This is a very simple game: there are no battles and you can only travel and explore the city, progressing the story. There are different routes, some of them will be locked based on your choices and be very restrictive, but you can can progress some of them together, until some heavy story choices that will lead you to an ending. The city to explore is huge, but in the last patch they locked it up a bit, to help new players: new areas will now open progressing the story, so players will not lose themself exploring.
That said many encounters in the free roam section are still in developing, and will be added after the main story conclusion.

Art and writing are really good, one of the best around in my opinion. CGs are unique ( only 2 scenes in secondary events are re-used), and the game has almost 200 different CGs at the moment. The story is simple, but every route has some unexpected events that will make you replay the game to experience them all. Characters are well portrayed (MC is quite naive, but that's a common trait in these games) and will surely charm you.

This has to be the most complete experience for an NTR game of this style, and I have played many of those. Let me tell you, if you're into this type of shit, you're gonna love it, it's pretty straightforward to get most of the scenes and the main routes. The map feels complicated at first so if that is a problem to you, you can always grab the teleportation ring at the Reminiscing Room, makes traveling to your workplaces a lot faster.

As for the scenes themselves, they are all fantastic, none of them are reutilized and that is a gigantic plus on my books since there are so many already, and there are still more coming in the future so that's insane.

So, quality scenes? Check. Decent NTR story? Check. Quantity of scenes? Check. That's really all you need for these type of H games honestly. 5/5

One of the best NTR games out there. Despite the slowish updates, the devs actually deliver what they promise. Very creative with interesting paths, wich for a NTR fan is a breath of fresh air. Its a must play!

• Great art;
• Cozy, diverse world;
• Lots of kinks;
• Lots of scenes;
• Elaborate lore;
• Good mechanics;
• Stable RPGM;
• Unlockable "gallery";
• Good codex;
• Plausible plotlines,
even if obviously
sexualized;
• Decent english;
• Your choices matter.
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• May be too slow-paced for some.
• Minor story inconsistencies.

Consensus: A fun game with a lot of places to visit, characters to meet, and people to bang. Doesn't offer anything outside the tags, so you know what you'll be getting into.

Very good game. Worldbuilding, story&character development and art design are all great.

It might lack more content on the sister's storyline, and also with the patient she attends to at the hospital. But overall, it's a 5-star game.

This game is fucking terrible, but I still recommend you try and play it. You might like it. You might be more patient than me, but I cannot tolerate 45 minutes of mundane conversations.

Here is the walk through: http://hrpgheaven.com/viewtopic.php?f=88&t=3830 , have it ready, you're gonna need it. Oh, and the fucking maps. There's a folder in the main directory with giant fucking maps in it, they expect you to alt tab to look at that fucking map constantly, lol.

Story & writing - 1/5 - Extremely boring. The game starts with the most mundane conversations imaginable, like typical, everyday casual life stuff, boring as hell. Imagine a boring conversation between a couple, now imagine sitting through that over & over. I don't mind a little bit of setup, but my god it's so boring.

CGS - 4/5 - The CG's LOOK GREAT! Too bad unlocking all the content is too difficult and complex.

Porn NTR - 1/5 - After 45 minutes of game play of just going to work, she ends up acting like a total prude. I only had one dialogue choice to let her get groped by the pub boss. After that all the decisions were gone and she just turned into a prude.

Walkthrough - 1/5 - The walk through is complicated as hell. Any game that forces you to constantly alt tab to a walk through has fucking failed. The game has a quest system, but it doesn't give you guidance on where to go for side quests.

MAP SIZE: -5/5 - The map is too fucking big.

After 45 minutes the game is slow, boring, shit. The CG's look good, but who knows how the fuck to unlock those CG's. The walk through has like 10 different routes. We should just be able to experience all the NTR ones with the quest system guiding you where to go, but developers can't understand this basic fucking concept.

SIMPLE CONCEPT: If player wants NTR, guide them on the NTR path with the quest system. If they don't want NTR, guide them on the non NTR path.

I tried exploring around a bit,but all the npcs just say stupid shit.

The game world is too fucking big. He needs to shrink the entire map by 10 times.

To make everything worse, the game works on a complicated day system, where you have to do X before Day X in order to get Y, but with condition Z.... jesus fucking christ.

The game had the right idea with the quest system, but they need to make a quests for ALL the content in the game.

So now the game wants Ayame to get a new job? wtf? ... It's been 45 minutes, where's the porn content? lol

This game have some of the best 2D art ever in a game. Way ahead of its time, and competing with the top of the 2D games out there imo. The story is great, and the writing is really good and fun. Can recommend to try it out!

It is a nice game. Overall similiar to stories from japanese adult videos. But not more.

Even less. Most of the time the sex scenes are blocked by a 2 blue text areas. One for the name and one for the story. Sometimes, but only very short it is transparent. So my question is, why not always transparent? Pressing Q removes it and shows only the picture, but hides also the text, so you can't proceed.
There are nearly no animation and if there is animation it is so short and stops faster as you can look.

For me it is not clear why I can't start the route with the neighbours, why it stops the other routes. But Sato and Melvin together are possible.

I have problems with the time management.
1. for example Sato and Melvin are in the same timeframe. It makes no sense that you do Sato for 2 weeks and go back to Melvin and it is like you where never gone several days. With more timeframes it could have been better done without colliding.
I mean why it is not possible to work and weekends or in the evening? Or enter the Gym from 6am till 12pm?
2. At the weekend and later in the evening, there is nothing to do. It is not possible to visit college as she suggested or use the library or Gym or getting the driver license. And I see no reason why.
3. What time do we have? In the park you get told that you could get at 11pm to meet someone in the toilets, but it is not possible. There is nobody. How do do I get 11pm?
4. Which day do we have? You can get it from you equipment. Which is in my opinion far to many windows to open just for getting the information what day we have.

The game is sometimes not helpful to find locations. I could not find 7/11 for a long time. Only with the teleport ring I got there. And it helps also not to find free roaming quests.

The adult streaming would have been better if she used a mask. Typical Clark Kent / Superman problem.

Often it is not possible to save the game before an event starts. Sometimes an event starts directly after another event. I think this is one reason why most prefer Ren'py for a game.

The blackmails are very weak. Especially with her twin-sister around and knowing that Sato and her are assholes. It would have been better she didn't met her at the beginning. Same with wallet in the locker. There is no proof she ever touched it and those lockers are normally not very safe. Also did Melvin this not the first time. So he can't be save anymore that some of the previous waitresses would not talk if she try to find them. Ok, let her be very naive, she should be easy to get. These are 08/15 JAV stories.

To other players: Try the game and if it get boring do the same you maybe would do with not-subtilted-JAV. Forward to the interesting parts with the hidden room.

played 0.94. Just play it, if your waiting for it to be completed, just dont wait, go ahead and dive in.

its more COMPLETE game than i expected. Moderate amount of path has ENDING already. and its satisfying.

NO REPEAT CG. i'm so suprize at the NO REPEAT part. Plenty of expression variation during CG.

well written MULTIPATH script. (NTR, loyal, corruption, your choice)

The music is SICK in the scene collection room. Sooo good.

probably one of the best game iv played so far with a lot of content and great art! the route iv prefer for the moment is with Jack the Sato and garcia follow just behind. The one iv not enjoy played was the melvin route due to is look (Fat, old and ugly) the infernal combo for me

I consider this one of the golden RPGM games. The options and paths will take you quite a bit of time to explore and are the core of the game.

That being said - without a walkthrough it is a bit hard to shape her exactly how you want because it locks her into "paths" that seem to exclude all others. I also wouldn't mind a teleporter of sorts for her work commutes considering you have to memorize locations and the map is huge.

Gameplay - 8/10 (without the sea of choices it would be 5/10)
Art/Scenes - 9/10
Future Promise N/A it is pretty much finished
(I consider an average game 5/10)

PROS,

Renders are nice and have a unique feel.

Is not translated english YAY.

Lots of different paths.

Story unfolds quickly.

CONS

Plot and stories are, as most common in this genre, incredibly weak and ridiculous. It is a shame because there is not many well written corruption plots and these guys clearly have skill. I understand they trying to do a Western version of a Japanese style and they followed prototype but wish they didn't in this aspect.

Characters are weak and as ridiculous as plot.

VN in RPGM. Can't save except in outside dialogue in free roam and sometimes you go entire days without freeroam (for example in True path you can NOT save at end of current content (Dads visit) and have to save before last Melvin scene) So make sure you save often. Would have suited Renpy much better.

When shifting through smut, I try and be as honest as i can from what gets swept up.

This game took me awhile to get around to reviewing, considering that it's a large game, and I've been following it since it's very incarnation. So, do keep in mind when I try and sift in between the lines, these rose tinted glasses might get in the way.

The game premise is simple, you play as Ayame, you recently got married, but your marriage is slow and Ayame has the whole stuck at home wife that gets sexually frustrated, and to help with that about every person she meets in this city is a sexual deviant of some caliber. Here you then explore the city, get a job, and play this RPGM game more like a visual novel, rather than taking quests, as the quests in themselves are more like chapters that pan out for each route you take.

So, whats the good beefiness that gets this game up there? The corruption is great, doesn't take too long, but the beginning is a bit slow, but slow enough to be considered build-up with what Ayame is pursuing rather than to be just more fluff. There really is no fluff, nor grind in this game, since as previously mentioned its more of a VN, but without the walls of dialogue one must slog through to get three to four CG's in an hour. And the "quests" are rather easy to get through when going through these VN routes, such as the highly popularized Melvin route, which starts off with you getting your first job essentially and following through and choosing the appropriate responses to have Ayame fall further and further into debauchery. And that gameplay serves the majority of the routes, with others being a little bit more niche and being at the right place at the right time.

There's a ton of material as well, and the CG's are well drawn, with the artist and developer being very mindful of both adding content and redoing older content to reflect the better progress made as the versions fly by.

A con I hate in this game which can be negated with the teleportation ring (but isn't recommended of course for newbies) is going through the city. I know it helps build up the world and gives an area to explore for H-events, but for the most part a lot of the time it takes a bit to learn the streets, the areas, and generally the right direction to go. A bit confusing, even with the map. As instead of most games where you get a ingame map and fast travel to locations, here you truly walk around the typical (though gussied up) RPGM city and take busses/subways to get to the next location, thus making you remember where to go, certain routes/streets, and also looking at the city map in the game folder to read the layout of the land. So be ready to feel like a dad lost and busting out an atlas at times.

All n' all, its a great western RPG game, since the CG's are nice, the perviness is nice, the situations are pretty hot, Ayame once going through the corruption wheel is well developed, and the developer is a true stoic in the genre. I guess you can say here my bias lays, as with what he went through, that's enough life events to tank an indie game on steam with more funding than any smut game, let alone this one. But he got through all of it while having a lot of fans push the panic button of a developer going the patreon snail route, when instead he was facing a lot of issues back home. Reading further on the changelog here, alongside his own patreon will give more insight on that if you're willing to give a gander. So, that preseverance in this genre is rare and needed.

Overall, 5/5, and when you get tired of getting new versions and having to play through the same routes over and over again (I think they fixed the saves transferring over so this is an old problem thats no longer a thing but it was a problem back in the day), the developers are also generous enough to have a save file for those that already got to the edge of the last version, and to just go through the new stuff on their included saves.

Great game if you like corruption/NTR, or just in general don't mind NTR. A lot more content than most 2d games I've played. The art starts off a little meh and somewhat bland, but clearly improves as time goes on and you progress further into the game.

many endings, good scenes, too bad the have no sounds, but doesn´t matter. good text and characters, many options. maybe a bit overwhelming at the start, but you eventually get to it. Really looking forward to future updates. One of the better games i played at f95 for sure.

I really want to give this game more stars but...

The RPGM engine is really bad version and IMHO outdated. So much so it took me 90 minutes before I could actually figure out how to get this game to run, manually edit the init file to get it to run in a decent sized window, and then figure out how to navigate without mouse support, and then figure out how to access the main menu and then how to save...

After installing, the game would not run - I needed to really search the comments to figure out I needed to download and install a completely different version of RPGmaker from the rpg website - (this info should be announced in the Install spoiler on the first page) - then figure out how to get the game to display in a decent sized window.

I had to literally watch the hole damn intro 4 times - 2 in a tiny tiny window then finally was able to guess that F1 key would allow me to set the window size (2 works well) - then a few more time until I figured out how to access the main menu (X key) so I could save the damn game and not play the prelude over and over again...help menu is sorely needed right from the start.

The story seems good but OMG - it took me 10 tries to figure out where to stand to open that damn bedroom door and to realize I had to hit the Z key while standing in the exact right spot behind the door (actually 2 separate doors side by side which is so confusing and unneeded) where I could not see the character icon - navigating with the keyboard to someone like me with disability in their hands is AWFUL. This game needs Mouse support.

Then seeing that the character's are only portrayed from the waist up in the dialog window - dealing with a non transparent text box - this is a waste to me as seeing the whole character's body is a turn on.

Not to mention the many bad links to images for the best friend in the first few scenes of the game - come on, this game has been out for years and it still has broken links in the first damn day???????

After 90 minutes I have still only gotten through the first quest...figuring out how the X and Z keys worked, and so many cut scenes that it was hard to figure out when to save - and the save screen was not very intuitive - very confusing as it seemed it was going to overwrite an old save from the way the screen displayed, then no ability to name saves...OMG what a pain in the ass!

Have not yet got to a real scene yet after 2 hours of 'play' (work) so can not judge the renders...had to review this anyway just in case other new players have issues.

Most of this complaint is mega stuff, not game story related - could have been addressed by the devs on their patreon or walk through web site easily to give a detailed tutorial on how to install and setup the game.

I plan on trying again to get to the actual content and will update the review at that time. I really want it to be good as decent NTR story content is so rare.

Great game, good pacing, lots of kinks, most optional to your own fetish taste.

Good example of a nsfw RPGM game done right, always look forward to seeing more updates dropped, thanks to all those on the dev team for the solid game with great art, and not shying away from being a nsfw game like many games seem to be doing these days.

Keep the updates coming and best wishes!

Edit v0.94

So, after years of development, the gameplay didn't improve one bit, sure, walking pace is fast and we're spared some tedious things like dressing or coming back home, still, there is some tedious routines specially in melvin's pub and there's so much you can do in a day, worse, finding optional content is like searching a needle in a haystack.

I also hate branching, i barely want to play the game as it is so i'm cetrtainly not playing it 5 times to get all the content, this is particularly not fit for RPGMaker games.

Conclusion : poor porn ratio/ time spent and it's not like the story is so amazing, some H-scenes are good, art is good too but mostly, it's not worth the time spent, there' is so many better games to play, story, mechanism or porn wise.

Old review :

I played this game from the first releases in ulmf or hongfire, not sure.

As for the game, i like the main character and the pub route, didn't like the sato one which led to zero choices and boring sex scenes,

The swingers thing is alright but not as interesting as it should be, it's a game, we want public sex and exiting situations, not boring stuff almost everyone tried already or could easily try.

Also, due to the engine, even if it's customized, playing this is painful and even more because of the branching, seriously, who wants to endure RPGMaker this much he's going for multiple playthrough ?

So, it'd be so much better with more daring scenes outside of Melvin's route, less conventional ones, some choices and less or no branching due to the engine that makes it a chore.