Ren'Py - Blood Ties [v0.1.0 Alpha] [BaconLake]

First of all,,, Vampires.... <yawn>. As you can imagine when you have a bunch of immortals with the powers of the vampire, doing whatever they want and everyone is beautiful, you end up with a fuckfest.

There is no thought or challenge. All the females throw themselves at the MC and he either fucks all of them or not. The women are all a bunch of vapid sluts and they all seem to be perfectly fine with this arrangement.

I mean, the dev is talented and the women and images are all really well done. It is also clear they have put some thought into the world building aspect of it, but at the end of the day, it's just a shallow fuckfest. If that's what you like, you will probably love this AVN. If you are looking for a story with characters that have at least a little depth, then move along, nothing to see here.

Let's get it started with some of my initial thoughts:

• Some parts of the UI, like the heart icon in the top right corner, look kind of cheap. You could definitely generate a much better version using AI or just polish it a bit more. (barely an issue tbf)
• The "Click to continue" label in the bottom right is a bit annoying. Would be great if there was an option to turn that off.
• Some of the poses feel a little too over the top. A bit more subtlety would go a long way in making the scenes feel more natural and immersive.
• I'm definitely a fan of nipple piercings. But it’d be nice to see a bit more variety. If every character has the same or very similar piercing, it starts to feel repetitive. For example, the twins, imagine if they had different styles, that would be such a nice touch. You could even tie piercing styles to factions or backgrounds. Like a preference or something. That kind of detail, where a sexy visual element has some in-world logic behind it, really adds depth. Unless of course, it was a conscious design choice.
• I think there's a mix-up between "chapters" and "scenes." Right now, each "chapter" seems like it's just a single scene. It might make more sense to group this whole part as a prologue + Chapter 1, since it mostly reads like an introduction.

That said, the writing is decent, the renders look really good, and the story so far has me interested. I’m definitely looking forward to the next update. Just hope you’ll keep improving as you go. I’ve seen promising games go downhill because devs only focused on pushing out more content, and a few years later, nothing actually improved. Would be awesome to see this one grow in quality too.

I personally don't like what I have seen MC is not in a single one of the five scenes we got, so we pretty much only get to see different LI whoring around with different folks.

The scenes as they are, are a dour affair we get some basic animations with different angles without any text, sorry not sorry when i want some plain sex animations, porn has it covered and does so better.

The rest of the story is a head scratcher, as is, we got Vampires without any weakness, a Vampire normally possesses, which brings heaps of problems with it from a worldbuilding perspective. None of which gets explored in what we got here.

The English is serviceable but needs more work.

The graphics are great, which pains me to no end because most devs think they can coast by on graphics alone. Man, I wish we would get a great game with this level of graphics, but it is not this game.

More like an intro than "5 chapters"

English can be a bit rough, but its not Engrish, the writing is otherwise alright - Im sure it would read better in native language.

Mostly world building so far, seems interesting, will see where it goes

[Review for v0.1.0.Alpha]

The Good Stuff: Writing and smut, the core of an avn is very well done here. Little things like expressions during dialogue and scene framing have clear intent and are on point.
There are a variety of LI dynamics, some are very open with their sexuality, some are loyal servants bound to the mc by a blood ritual. All are drenched in hedonism and can mostly be shaped(romantic/domination) by choices. Looks like there'll be plenty of kinks too.
World building follows typical VtM styled trope, without the usual weaknesses of a vampire, it will be interesting to see where that goes story wise.

Concerns: Many LIs are already quite depraved, so how the devs handle pacing remains to be seen. Other than that, some of the quieter and lewd scenes could benefit from more fitting music.


Overall, a very promising start and a must try, unless... having your LIs show any life outside the mc's orbit gives you the ick.

Wow. Girls and renders are really hot, and it seems there are multiple choices to shape your relationship with the girls. Scenes could use some more work, since they are basically just videos that are skipped the moment you click. It would be good to mix renders with videos and to add options during scenes (where to cum, position etc).

starting off with a 5 star with it being subject to change as things move forward..

promising start, some great visuals, the whisper at the start is annoying and unneeded, the current LI's are likeable enough although maya could use some work, maybe add some makeup to complete her style..

A lot of effort has been put into the menus.. and by that i mean the lore and family tree sections.. its clear that the dev has actually done the ground work for this title before getting started, i just hope there is a story as well as character building and not just a excuse to thro characters into provocative scenes.. as much as they are good, this title could have a rich story with such a well structured lore system behind it..

This is my impression based off the 0.1 release of the game so far, first off the game looks pretty good, the girls are absolutely gorgeous, the story and setting seems to be thought out well and is more than the typical stuff you see on here as there is some background on what vampires are and it differentiates a bit from your standard stuff with things like pregnancy and "affirmation", as well as various factions in it. There are some really cool shots in the game that actually impressed me, there is animation which is always a positive, but the main strength of the game as mentioned and what we are all interested are the girls, lots of beautiful likeable vampire girls.

Again this is just the first release, so the game can go in many different directions for better or worse, but so far i am impressed with this game, looking forward to seeing more, really good start.