VN - Ren'Py - Aracelis [v0.5 P1] [Eyia]

One star for the beautiful MC and some of the girls.

Thats it. The game pretends to be a choice-driven novel, but it is just an ugly bastard corruption slob with no agency over anything but actual sex. Every single "man" in this game is an ugly rapist or overdosed womanizer. Or both...
The girls look good, but most of them are already fucking their own uglies and/or are just there ro make the MC jealous.

The MC is repeatedly forced into jarring situations and makes decisions devoid on player choices and braincells. The crime plot is so dumb it hurts.
Even if you manage to avoid the rapists, even if you get to a date with a girl, it is ruined by another one and you get the choice of going with them or ending the date... The sex scene you fought so hard is buggy, way to short and end abruptly.
Of course with a fitting NTR-scene next morning.

If you're into a beautiful MC getting raped and molested by the ugliest things possible, this is another one for the collection. Sadly, it fails in every other aspect.

A great start to this new AVN.
I was happy to see that a lesbian path was open, and I jumped right in.
I really like seeing that the beautiful Heroine has the ability to take action and make active decisions to succeed in her fraught journey! She can therefore be a strong person who takes charge of her life, can say no to her detractors, and try to find a more glorious and honorable path to success (something much more rewarding and happier!), and not just be a puppet handed over to abusers who would abuse her! I sincerely hope this path continues in this direction. What I also liked is that even in the lesbian path, it can be difficult to find the right person; this is smart in an AVN whose goal is to create a real romantic relationship! So I'm waiting for the sequel and praying that this path will be fleshed out and not just be a semblance of a path devoid of content.
The other paths interest me less because, in my opinion, we're dealing with a classic path of corruption where the protagonist becomes a mere object in the hands of ugly villains! I'm really not looking for that, and there are so many AVNs on this theme that I don't see the point of continuing down this kind of path.

This looks a great game for female corrupton lovers.

The MC model is hot and not some deformed bimbo monster. Side girls looks good too. The dudes have more variety, from good looking to ugly bastards.
Story wise is too soon to say much but the game is not a slow burn blueballer. Just two updates and things are moving forward, no penetration so far but plenty of teasing and other sexual situations.
Can't wait to see more of Aracelis adventures.

It's a pretty good start, but I seriously considered just giving it 3 stars. I appreciate the work the dev put into making some original characters as well as some locations I have not seen before. Regardless, there are some challenges for me.

For one, it is just another corruption game. Ugly men and the MC put into silly situations. I think part of the problem is I just might have played too many of these as they all seem the same anymore and this one is no different.

I will say, one of the things I like is the MC is smart and you can play her like a real woman who knows how to stick up for herself and how to fend off the morons of the world. I like that she can put the men in their place if she wants, but if she lets things happen, that's where it falls off the rails for me and slides back into the old corruption formula of being a helpless slut.

There is also a nice balance between male and female partners so I think you could probably play the MC as a lesbian and potentially skip the corruption parts, but we will see how it plays out. And that is another thing I like, as a player, you can easily opt in or out of any of the scenes you want. This may change, but for now, I think it's great.

The dialogue needs some work as English does not seem to be the devs first language. This is okay, but I found some scenes were bad enough to pull me out of the story and I had to think about what they were trying to say. Again, no problem, but if the dev is looking to make this an excellent game, this will need to be addressed.

Anyway, while there are a lot of original things going on, at it's base it is a familiar corruption game, but it has some potential to be really excellent. I just hope the dev continues the story the way it is and does not conform to the crowd and turn the MC into a slut caught in a fuckfest.