Ren'Py - BizzareHolyLand [v48.2] [HMO]

I have never loved a game so much yet been so conflicted about it...

I'm giving it a 5 stars simply because I hope, I TRULY hope that the dev wakes up one day and decides to pass on the actual game dev part to someone competent and devotes 100% of his time to art.

Because that's what this game is. It's art. Not in a metaphorical "it's a fuckin' work of art!" way, but rather, the only thing you want to see when you play this game is the art. The animations. The beautifully hand-drawn girls that have quite a lot of variety. It's PHENOMENAL.

The game itself, though... It's absolutely insufferable. I understand if a dev doesn't have a lot of experience making games but holy **** PLEASE just pass this onto someone who you know can rewrite the entire story progression, UI, choices, etc... I'm not even talking about the story itself, it's passable, you can be a good angel guy or a bad "i really want to bone succubi" guy. It's whatever, not particularly intriguing, but it does the job of a porn game well.

But the core mechanics of the game, my fucking god... there is 0 sense of player direction, 0 sense of what should i be doing now, 0 sense of how powerful you are, the entire combat system and inventory is completely irrelevant and you either hit the checkpoints/correct items or you're fucked, some, actually, no, fuck it, all of the fights are are unintuitive and require some weird way to beat it that's completely unexplained.

There are ENTIRE ARCS for both the succubi & angels that unlock access to like a dozen different girls and they're INCREDIBLY easy to miss. You have to pass some extremely specific dialogues and do it on a specific day to wake up in a heaven of woodland fairy-esque dreamland and bone all of them. It's wild. I genuinely do NOT think I've ever seen a more unintuitive game in my life. If you REALLY sit down and save scum then you'll eventually get all of the scenes but it's genuine torture.

To sum it up - pretty much ALL you do in this game is talk to a girl -> talk to another girl -> day ends, go to sleep -> wake up -> talk to them again, PRAY that there's new content -> run around the map like on a wild fucking goose chase hoping that something new happens -> nothing new happens -> open up the walkthrough -> oh you had to do X and Y specific things.

Anyways, having said all that... this game still has some of the best art this site has ever seen. Everything is animated, pretty much every single sex scene is a minimum of 2 orgams with full xray view. And ALL of this goes for like, what, 20, 30 girls? I dont even know anymore - it's a lot. It has bad endings, it has fetishes, it has vanilla.

Please, dev. I don't even know if you can read english and understand my review or if you pay someone to translate this game. Please. Remake the progression and this game will be one of the best games on this site, I promise.

Amazing, really gorgeous art, full of animations...
...and sadly that's it.
Player gets hit with 50 walls of text full of exposition and explanations of the world and characters, then is presented with complicated UI, inventory and general sandbox systems.
All while having zero interactions beside one meaningless choice at the start.
My head started to hurt before I was able to finish tutorial.
I look forward to any future colaborations of this artist with more experienced writers and game designers!

v35
+The art is fantastic
+Animated sex scenes
+optional internal view (mostly good except for the creampie animation)
+very cute girls (angel waifus!)
+great premise (you are sacred being. a human whose jizz is rich in Holy Energy which angels need)

-The art used to be better.
-main quests are on a timer. happen every 5 days
-poorly done sandbox with very poor gui
-massive map. mostly empty. hunt for places where you can interact with things
-inconsistent navigation method (sometimes you click on directional arrow. sometimes you click on a door to go somewhere. sometimes on text)
-inconsistent map (I am in room A. I click on left arrow to go to room B. going back to room A can be right arrow, or up arrow, or down arrow. who knows. it varies. which requires you to memorize each location's name and use that to figure out where each arrow leads)
-bugs
-excessively verbose dialog that is broken english and feels pretty generic. I very quickly started skimming it.
-unavoidable nasty surprise hours into the game. I initially forgot when writing my review, possibly becaues I was skimming by that point. But when you you first encounter Luna (an angel girl) by rescuing her from demons. Luna is absolutely covered and stuffed with "dark seed" (monster sperm). Immediately you purify her sexually. personally I hate it... but I won't take off any points for this to try to be objective.

Overall it is a very poor game with amazingly good art and cute girls.
I ended up dropping it.

A lot stuff here!
Fully animated big titty angels, many characters, scenes, world, super design, and many many more!
The way how those angels are drawn is unique (you will not see it every day). Big boobies, REALLY fancy costumes and giant wings.

The art itself is just tremendously good, a vast amount of angels/demons, each one well detailed and different, if you're looking for a good story it can be something meh, but it's not totally bad, music almost non-existent, but it's refreshing among all the sea of games in this category, see unique ideas and a style and animations well done, the environments all done, very underrated in its rating, compared to many more stale things, the gameplay can be somewhat tedious while you remember the places, but it is easy after you explore and remember a bit.

I've never, ever played a game on this site that I love so much yet hate at the same time.

The art is some of the best I've seen. Period. The animations are fluid, there are tonnes of them and the girls are just hot. (if you're into the whole religious and/or being abducted by succubi thing).

And yet, the navigation/quest/path system in this game is so horrendous that it's almost impossible to figure out anything without spending hours just clicking through locations and restarting your game constantly.

There are lots of unfinished paths that essentially lead you into a softlock and force you to restart if you want to see the rest of the content. Half of the locations, while pretty, are entirely useless and server no purpose other than to confuse you further.

At times you'll feel as if you've seen absolutely everything just to learn that you haven't even unlocked 80% of the gallery yet. And if you're like me, someone who doesn't enjoy just watching the gallery scenes and want the dialogue/build up to them, it doesn't really help to just use an unlocker. There are no walkthroughs or anything so good luck going back and forth trying to find what you've missed.

It's just sad. And yet despite all of those issues, I still can't give this game a rating lower than 4. The scenes and girls are just incredibly hot. Once you manage to force your way to them, of course.

Edit: I URGE the dev of this game to fix and polish the navigation system ASAP. The art is there, the animations are DEFINITELY there, it's time to postpone the next girl and just make this game actually playable. Please.

Art is unique and interesting. There are many scenes with different characters so most people should find what they are looking for. Gameplay is alright. I played it once some time ago and probably wont play again till way later version.
Art 4/5
Story 4/5
Gameplay 3.5/5
Fapability 2.5/5
Originality 3.5/5

---Art style is alright. The character designs look nice but some of them (specifically 2 of the blonde angels you meet in chapter 1) are so similar that it's very hard to distinguish which one is present. Most characters also seem to have a common clothing style that's only slightly varied.
---It would be nice to have the option to use a static image instead of only moving images because it would make the game a lot less laggy than it needs to be.
---The backgrounds could maybe use a touch up. There is a scene that says there is an angel sculpted on the wall, and the wall is basically a blob of color.

---Story is pretty straight forward. You are literally a battery and everyone is a female who needs energy so you get to bang them all.

---Music is nice and calm.

---The gameplay / map movement is rather confusing and annoying. Sometimes you go one way and your entire direction gets rotated or flipped, so you try to go back but end up in a different spot. I usually have to rollback to undo wherever I went. There are also many areas where you can only progress through one path because the other side is blocked, so I don't see why you wouldn't just remove the option to explore since it doesn't do anything.
---The Hint system is nice and mostly easy to follow.
---Combat is very simple, you attack/use spells and deal damage.
---There are several bugs including: (1) viewing the skills during ch1 before you have use one, and (2) using an item in combat while holding the 2 special golden items from the casino while you are in The Tower. Both of these force you to rollback or send you to the menu (or rather, at least for me it did).
---The corruption path doesn't start at the beginning anymore and seems a lot shorter and less optional than it used to be.

---Be warned: this game uses a lot of crayola white that covers 90% of the screen, so if you play in the dark you will actually go blind.

I like the graphic.
that's all i have to say.
the gameplay is kindda boring.
overall is actually not a bad game.
this game took like 2 years now.
but atleast it not jst random free asset.
the blackground is to be polish in my opinion so the UI.
the character detail is good.

I dont normally rate games but I just had to for this one. This game's artwork is just so good. I will admit it is a little bit annoying to try and keep track what is where and all that but the sex scenes make up for it. Honestly, Im considering subscribing to the person's patreon just so i can see more artwork like this. I just love the style they use to draw their women..

The vast majority of side content kicks you back to the main menu when you finish the given side quest, wouldn't be that bad of a bug but when you need that side content to get items/skills/whatever sandbox progression garbage it makes the game virtually unplayable. The dev has been made aware of the issue many times and seems to either not understand the extent of the issue or is just blind to the continuous reports and believes he's fixed it while in reality only fixing one instance.

It's a real shame because if not for the above issue, I'd give the game 4/5 stars, as the art and animations are both amazing as noted by other reviews. Only the writing is painfully bad - the author clearly speaks English as a second language, and I can bear some Engrish, but it legitimately reads like it was written by a 13-year old.

Unplayable mess as of v23.0. Right after the message "There supposed to be a H-scene" you step into a minefield of bugs, you keep getting dropped into the main menu or you just find stuff that you shouldnt be able to find at that moment of the game.

The one reason why I give it a star is for the art but it really doesn't meet the sexual scenes, they are sad, not to mention the annoying map system, that is, sanbox is disgusting, they really should remove it and make a visual novel 100% of the story, I wouldn't know What to say since the game blocks many decisions as it is not complete.

review based on 22.0 version
PRO:
-good animated art
-good code
CONS:
-1 minor bug- wrong named animation file
-bad(in my taste) story
- some collectables placed under navigation part ui
-bad text/art ratio. mby better add more nonanimated arts, than animate every art?
-how tag "prostitution" relate to that game?

in my personal taste- not a good game- not enough sandbox, not enough vn, too many dangeon exploring, but some1 ll like that game- just matterof taste.

This game is sneaky awesome. Amazing models, an actual game with some choices to make that seem to effect the story (and possibly content you see). I would recommend this. the only way it could be better is if the textures were redone in 4k.

Love the unique art style. The navigation system can be a little confusing at times but its nothing unbearable. I'll definitely continue to come back with each update. So hopefully this stays alive. Keep up the good work

v20.1
Plot is... kinda boring. Main character is some kind of "sacred being" that discharges holy power by ejaculation and apparently it's top quality food for everyone in this world. Interesting concept with horrible execution.
Annoying part for me is that text is riddled by emotes like: uwu, owo, lenny face (( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡ °)) and so on. MC , of course, is a retard that at some point starts talking to his penis and it responds back... with emojis too... These 2 things literally made me stop caring about story in second or third chapter.

Art itself is okay, not really my cup of tea and it made me think about league of angels for some reason. But that only applies to where art actually is. There are a lot sexual descriptions not reflected in what's going on the screen. Not sure if it's laziness or budget constraint.

Sandbox... While I never felt lost I am not sure why dev decided to go with sandbox. I don't see it taking any advantages that sandbox would give it and it could easily be made into visual novel for most likely better effect. Worst part about sandbox is that dev decided to put some material gathering (textiles for village girl) limited to being able to do it once after every quest, so you have to remember to go there and gather materials 5 times (which means 5 quests and after each one you have to remember to go there) to get that stupid dress. It's just a chore.

Not sure about sound since I played with it muted, but given rest of the game I am willing to believe other review that it is terrible.

Overall it's a poor game that has only art going on for it, at least where dev could be bothered to put art depicting what is going on in text.

Pretty af, really great looking game. Scenes are hot, characters look amazing. Really, really dope game to check out. My only problem is that its very clicky, lots of dialogues which are admittedly arent bad, but pretty tedious after a while, at least for me. I couldnt get through an hour of it due to that, but if youre ok with dialogue heavy clicky fuck games I recommend this one.

Wonderful, this is what people say, games should be an art and this game really does it, very good story, the characters are gorgeous, the type of animation is really different from the others, the choices really matter, different from some other games, your choices really change story and right from the start.
things that need some polishing are more sound, pov scenes, nephilims, more servicing (blowjob, boobjob etc) and anal.
gameplay is simple and fun, this is fucking easily a fucking 10/10.
Hear me out, play it, you won't regret a thing.