VN - Ren'Py - Onhold - Aren't Grim Reapers Supposed to be Scary? [v0.1.7 Uncensored] [Kamuo]

This review has made after playing the 0.1.7 version of the game, the last one before the hiatus.

Two things to clarify before starting this review: First, I am well aware of the fact this game is basically being re-worked, and this information was confirmed by the developer himself, so I'll probably write another review in the future. Secondly, under the premise this game wasn't finished, I will be softer with my review, avoiding to treat this game as a completed one. With that said, let's start then.

I am a huge fan of Kamuo, and first for all I can tell this game contains the quality and the excellent style we are used to, if you enjoy his animations too. This of course includes the sexual scenes, which are well-excecuted and are charged with a good spark of creativity, despite some of them are concepts we've seen in the past. Nevertheless, is worth to point out the fact this game has done with 100% original characters, designed and written by him. I'm going to address the writing topic later, but speaking about the design of the characters, I give him the merit for designing eight different girls for this game. Naturally, due to the erotic and cute nature of the game, you cannot expect intimidating characters or an accurate representation of Grim Reapers, yet the design of adorable girls with a dark color palette works nonetheless, and somehow Kamuo managed to not fall in the typical goth girl design, which is a great achievement considering the aforementioned fact about girls with dark color palettes present in their designs. Beyond some minimum oddities I found, and dissonances with my personal taste, I can say the characters are well designed.

Now, after praising the design and the sexual part of the game, I'm going to talk about the script. The script in this game is an important part of it, because the intentions of creating a universe and an interesting history are clear. Sadly, this is where the problems start. Kamuo has talent as artist, but his writing abilities are minor, and this can be seen as he constantly repeats phrases through the script. For example, the question What do you mean by that exactly? will be present more times than you may imagine; this was clearly an attempt to denote the confusion state of our protagonist, who has truly reasons to be confused, but I think there are other ways to point that confusion without tiring the player in the process, after reading that, and other phrases over and over. Now, about the characters, while their design are excellent, some of them were introduced to us in an improper way, having only a short time to connect with the player. This is a huge defect in the writing of the game, because the lack of a proper introduction to a character will lead to a lack of sympathy from the audience, as we didn't had the time to know, understand, or empathize with them and the way they act or speak.

Personally I have faith in the future re-work of this game, hoping the defects in the writing will be fixed, and naturally, having even better animations, designs, and apparently, new characters. I do not recommend this game if you are not a fan of Kamuo, or if you are simply waiting for a complete game, not to mention all the writing flaws I found and mentioned here. So, with that said, play it only if you are a huge Kamuo fan like me, or if you have a few hours to waste and you are interested in a incomplete but also pretty well animated game, with a script which leaves much to be desired. You can also play it if you want to compare the differences between this one and the new one in the future, speaking about history and lore.

I really like your artwork.
And the story is also very refreshing.
Especially the style of direct addressing I always find amusing in such games.
The "lewd moments" are an absolute bonus with the lovely animations.

Personally, I'm not a fan of "irreversible decisions" with different endings that force you to play the game several times. That always leads to long skipping phases that devalue the game a bit in my eyes.
But that's no reason to deduct a star.

Super work. Thx
Would be happy to see more.

I have played "The Grim Reaper who reaped my Heart!" and i have found this.
I really like that have annimations. It working great and have multiple route. I take 4 star because it have no "Route" menu that we can load before a route choice like "Sable's Grimoire" games. It doesnt have CG and event gallery that i think all game like this type need to have. I hope in the furture (or futur new game) CG/Gallery/Route will be added. Thanks for the creator that make pass fun time around the game.

I also like it run under Ren'py because save files is compatible between PC & Android (yes, you can put manual save files from both version to the other )

PS: Sorry for my bad spelling, french speaker

Quality game look forward to future updates, love the story and animation overall great thing you got going here hope the project is a success. Everything seems professionally done. Currently there there seems to be only 1 animation but it is really well done, would recommend checking out.

This review was made playing the most recent version to the date, which is the v0.1.7

I'm usually someone prejudiced and I don't expect high leves of creativity from artists like Kamuo, who forged their fame like that guy who makes amazing animations, but doesn't write or do anything else. So, it's nice to see I was wrong.
This game is pretty good, and I recommend it to anyone who wants quality over quantity and if you have steel patience, because the developer is slow. But the wait is wortful. The characters are full of charisma, their designs are interesting and reflect perfecly their personalities; Also, the game have some plot twists and it's designed to have a narrative and an own universe.
As a matter of fact, if you want to fully understand the history, you must pay attention to the text and don't get distracted. I'm giving this game 5 stars mainly because the last route added with the twins, Lafi And Rafi suprased my expectations, and they're right now my favorite characters of the game. It's clear how the creator has affection not only to the fans and community but to his own creations and game as well.
The last thing I would like to say is, this game is not for Winged Cloud fans who wants new game in 2/4 months. Expect a slow progress because the artist is not putting his 100% efforts to this game, making another works and animations which doesn't have anything to see with this game.

I love this game, it's a great game, both the visuals and the story. In-game comprehension You don't have to press any guesswork. Easy to play and the animations in general are considered another very good game. Looking forward to watching the next update.

The story of the characters is written super well and you just have to know how it goes from there. Aside from the story, which is just addictive, the H-scenes are very stimulating. i can hardly wait for the next update! Many thanks to the dev for this masterpiece! 5/5

Le doy 3 estrellas por lo corto que es tener un desarrollo de casi 2 años y por romper la cuarta pared que no me gustó nada y me retiré de seguir ese waifu quitando que aparte el arte es increíble parece que veo un anime las chicas son guapas espero que la cantidad de contenido mejore y más caminos y decisiones que TENGAN PESO no que haya son decisiones de adorno. Bajé una estrella y eso da 2 para etiquetas falsas.

What a great game. Awesome animations and the storyline is great as well I really like the amount of detail in the artwork. There isn't much to currently work with but I defintely see potentional in this game very high quality art and story telling. Highly recommend this for people who enjoy the anime type of artwork. Good work DEV

When you make a game completely centered in your own OCs, there's always the risk of not fill the expectations of the public, especially when you were known as an animator making fanarts in your social media. Fortunately, I can say this game is far from that situation, all thanks to the excellent talent of its creator, Kamuo; One of my favorite 2D animators.

But trying to left behind my fanboy side, I'll try to be objective. The animations are good, fluid, and colorful, which is to be expected if you know the animator, but the somber and gloomy aesthetic of the game feels kinda off for an erotic game. I'm obviously not expecting a pink flower field, the game is actually trying to show cute Grim Reapers, but some variety in the color palette won't kill the visual presentation. The only exception to the rule where I can feel a pleasureful experimentation with the color palette is in the Mykka's laboratory.

About the history: This is a Visual Novel, so the history is important. I've played all the builds, so I can speak freely about the history. Don't worry, there'll be no spoilers. The history is interesting and it's a clear attemp to create an universe with clear rules, narrative, and something beyond the pornography, which is good if you enjoy reading the history meanwhile you also are looking at the excellent design of the girls, but if you don't like reading or are more interested in the sex, this game maybe is not for you.

Speaking about the porn scenes, they're satisfactory with no doubt, and some of them implies an interesting plot reveal about how this universe works. Expect not only images but animations, with the great fluency and design from the animator, if you know him. And if someone asks, I can't tell I got bored at this scenes.

In conclusion, it's an excellent game. But I honestly recommend to watch some of the animations made by the creator in the past, or play his previous VN, so you can get a better expectation to this game and you won't go completely blind to this game, assuming obviously you don't know him. And if you know him, why are you still here? Thanks for reading and all, but you're delaying too much to download this excellent game.

Good Points
+ We have pretty cute characters, they are damn cute! Not just they look damn cute but same time their dialogues are funny and cute aswell.
+ We have a lot of well maked animations for normal and sex scenes.
+ Susui's actual look was damn hot and i was hoping some like that happen and im happy its happened. I saw some people are angry about it but honestly i dont think its logical to angry about that at all, now she probably hottest Grim Repaer you can ever find and its pretty normal when you think about her position.

Bad Points
- Sadly this game is not about same MC we know from first game, while its have some characters we know from first game and takes place in same universe it doesnt have same MC and its pretty much disappointed...
- While this is not same MC still Grim Repaers calls our MC as a ''Human'' nickname and its little bit annoying, i would like to have that nicknamelike thing shold be special to Vel's Human and not used for other MC, its kills the inique feeling of first game little bit which reason i dont like this detail, pretty little thing but its still annoying.
- And probably worse point of this game... Your choices can block girls paths and there is no such a path you can go for all girls... So if you want have scenes with someone you gonna lose all other scenes for that and this is pretty annoying... There should be path, right choices for seeing all of them instead of blocking player like that... Seriously this is not romance game you cant have everyting, its not realistic game at all to: so whats point of this suffering?!
- Game literaly have no content at all... Not just lew we dont even have enough content for story aswell and this game is not developing since 1-2 month (it feels like demo or v.01 of some games we know) while had content like that... All we have is: pussy grind, handjob while licking nips and blowjob... Yeah... Amazing... And im not even gonna talk about tags... There is vaginal sex in tags while we dont have any vaginal sex in game at all! Missleading your players with tags? Seriously? Wow...

For The End
Honestly i was waiting pretty good game after first game but im totaly disappointed with this game... Its have potencial but our DEV need to fix things i write in bad points or this game gonna be failure after his first game, base things still good but that bad points need fix ASAP! Our DEV makes great characters and animations but those bad points kills all good points of this game... I hope he can fix this game and make it great like first one...

To start this is well worth the play and well worth tracking. The games art, animation, motion comic elements, and general production values are excellent and really set a new standard for Visual Novel games.
Dialogue and world building is also very good. The girls are well characterized with consistent, interesting personalities that come out through their diction. The framing and establishment of the game world is a smidge expositional, but excusable as the player character requires it in narrative and it’s facilitated/built on by optional conversations in the game.

>But game construction has dangerous red flags
Currently the game is a Visual Novel with menu based interaction in hubs between sequences of time forwarding narrative. This is mated with choice decisions that change the game’s timeline.
This is an incredibly risky design. It’s problems are showing only one material choice decision into the game.
The two sex scenes currently in-game exist on separate branches. Moving forward, the game and all the girls already have to be written twice to accommodate this choice decision. There are 6 girls, and if each game choice is structured in a similar “either or” manner the game is already hamstrung. Each “to be continued” is a whole other set of writing and events. The current writing and scene construction is highly situational. The Scenes could be reframed at different places, but already Sui and Neu require 100% unique paths for their opposite branches to begin the physical relationships. Additionally, if/as timelines converge, key events will have to be written either so generalist your choices don’t play a role or require alt dialogue and references for every combination.

It will rapidly get out of hand, and really the existence of binary choice at all (and this early) means it already has.

Each time Kamuo moves the game forward it will require more writing and be harder to keep track of. Many cases of games making the same design pitfall collapsing under the weight of the complexity of seemingly simple (but compounding) in game player choices. Regardless, even if Kamuo has 100% mapped out the web of choice decisions, it is still the absolute hardest/time intensive way to make a game. It’s going to be slow and forward progression will be increasingly minor due to each step forward requiring monumentally more parallel writing as the game advances.

The simple way to remedy this, make it a single timeline of events. Everything happens sequentially instead of parallel, your dialogue choices only produce variants of scenes or prevent scenes from triggering. This is not the most groundbreaking of narrative structure, but requires no additional mechanics than what is already here.

The more in depth way to remedy this
The building blocks are all here. The walk transitions, the girls as animated interactives in world locations, the establishment of game locations via the intro. A relationsim system would compartmentalize the arcs for each Reaper into their own little boxes that can cross over narratively via variable based game conditions. Forward progression of time/narrative freezes and in these plateaus between fixed narrative events you develop the relationships with each reaper. This would let Kamuo focus on his 6 established reapers as their own arcs without having to tether them to ongoing narrative events or deal with the massive spider web of parallel writing.
These girls also deserve the depth and character development possible through a full relationsim over the course of ingame weeks versus only being viewed through narrative forwarding writing. The chefs kiss to make each sex scene have weight behind it.

The former is as simple as replacing the “to be continued” pane for Neu’s branch with a line of dialogue in the Sui branch saying something along the lines of “[playername] how lewd, is one of us not enough for you? uwu”
The latter is far more adventurous and a game worthy of the effort being put into this animation, GUI, and motioncomic presentation. Would be the instant gold standard for western(?) English language Erotic Games.

I hope things take one of these two directions before future updates lock Kamuo into the "narrative progression" game design and I’ll be able to amend my review when game/writing design is on par with art design, presentation, and dialogue. But If the future builds just toss Deca/nextgirl onto what's structurally here currently, it’ll sadly be a game built on sand. Not unfinishable, but far more work for far less additional playtime per update and only get worse the more branches are added to existing branches.

The best animation for H-games in whole my life. This art-work is the level for all games in novels genre. Perfect way of using 3d cg fro 2d art.
I'm not fan of reapers-concept, but this one is really exiting.
I really hope this game will updating.

This is one of my favourite games on here. The animations are super cute, the charakters are so interesting and the storywriting is top-notch. The thing I loved the most from "The grim reaper who reaped my heart" was the change between something super cute, turning into something really scary, which I hope will be featured in this game as well. Because the drastic change between those two components, made it so much scarier and better!
So far, one of the better games you can find!

beautiful graphics
the animations are nice
BGM is pleasant and not annoyingly penetrative like in other games
the story has to be expanded but so far i think it's nice
and the sex scene that is there so far is also great

the only thing that bothers me a little is that the characters have no voices. It would be nice if the ladies would moan at least during sex

This game is easily a 20/10, even in this state

It's really funny, cute, and above all is extremely well drawn and animated

You're easily attached to the characters

It's the type of game where you don't even want to fap, just play, live the experience and feel

Of course if there's sex scenes with all the characters (I really hope so) I wouldn't complain

Just downbload it and play, you'll never regret it, just for the cuteness overload it's worth it !

wow...another sequel from vel but it's her friend

the animation still the same....smooth, hot, and cute at the same time

but like what happened before....we need GC

because for vel there is no GC but we use save point

but beside the GC the both game is good

I'm going to keep this short and sweet because that's all I need.

The Grim Reaper who reaped my Heart is easily one of my favorite games of all time, and this one is easily up there already too.

~ Art? 5/5

The art style is so cute and aesthetically pleasing that I found myself sitting on scenes for much longer than I would in any other game just so I could look at the backgrounds, and more specifically, the girls, even longer.

~ Sound? 5/5

I don't have much to say here other than I love the BGM. it suits this game perfectly and I love listening to it.

~ Characters? 5/5

Neu, Susui, Intoh & Mykka are all adorable beyond belief, and their personalities/dialogues are amazing and fun to read. I would never even consider skimming through their lines as I might in other games.

If you love cuteness overloads with a touch of H, then you'll love these games.