HTML - Bonds Defiled [v0.43b public] [Bonds Defiled]

I’m not mad at it, but I’m not loving it yet.

The UX is almost good. It's partially user-friendly in how things are organized and accessed, and there are some decent cinematic moments created by changes in music and background changes during important beats in the story. However, the delayed text appearance is just flat-out bad UX—users should never have to wait an arbitrary amount of time progress to the next page. I also think there’s an overuse of padding and borders in the dialogue bubbles in some pages, which results in 5 lines of dialogue requiring a user to scroll.

The story is okay. The sex scenes are pretty good, and most the nonerotic scenes are tolerable, but it’s absolutely filled with fantasy clichés—The late-blooming hero who’s finally going to prove himself. The powerful, misunderstood bad boy who becomes the protagonist’s friend. The sexually pure girlfriend who’s the party’s healer. The tomboy friend who’s hiding a crush on the hero. The friend of the father who turns out to be more than he appeared…

The (AI) art is hit or miss. Most of the women’s models are fine (aside from always looking like they're glistening). However, the demon guy looks a bit too fake with a 10-pack of abs, 0% body fat, and a cock wider than his arm. The fact that even the father’s wizard friend looks like he’s yoked under his robe makes me wonder if this is some kind of Jojo world where HGH is in the water.

The really interesting thing this game has going for it is the soul forging/fetish mechanic. The way you can shift the variables of (at least) SIX party members’ kinks means there COULD be some exciting branching coming soon. Of course, this is barely used at the moment and entirely contingent on the author being able to juggle the MASSIVE matrix of variables they’re creating. If they can, this game could turn into something pretty damned good.

Overall, as of version 0.43b, there’s not much to see, but I’ll be cautiously watching its progress.

This game is very thought-provoking, I like the ideas they've implemented so far with the corruption, it's well thought-out. For me, the most important part of games is the story and imperfect yet likeable characters, which this game has done well on both accounts. Looking forward to future releases!

Really enjoyed the writing and quality of the story. This is based on finishing version 0.21a. (prologue and 2 chapters took a few hours).The AI images work nicely and the relationships/dialogues between characters is done well. It'd be nice if future updates added a few animations for sex scenes or more sound effects but it's still fine the way it is. The mellow music coupled with writing and images still conjures up a believable erotic fantasy set in ancient times. Fetish choices are well defined for the routes you choose for your character.

It gets points for style and scope, but is incredibly verbose in it's writing to content ratio. Plenty of systems aren't very well fleshed out, and given the bredth of it's various modifiers that the game keeps track of, you might be mistaken at first for assuming it's sandbox - it isn't, it's very much on the rails at all points. Not quite kinetic since there are choices, but with a very limited approach so far.

The AI art is also quite soulless and basic, some of the artwork feels very disjointed to what proceeded it.

It seems to be quite the slow burn also, with limited content in chapter 3 so far which is the current limit as of this review; that said it does try to do something new and for that it has my respect.

3 stars is all I can give this project at this time, it definitely needs a lot of content, and in my personal oppinion perhaps a little more sandbox given the various attribute systems the game keeps track of seems to lend itself to such projects.

Love the game, love the concept, love the art, love it all! The story may not seem interesting or unique at first glance, but in truth this is a rare gem: the plot is really interesting and despite being still in an early phase, you can clarely see the potential, the intriguing plot moving behind the scenes, the characters relations that will evolve. I really appreciate that it includes both gay and straight content, it's not easy to find good content that appeal both inclinations, and I really love that here I can see that both are equally important. Ok, the gay content is not really equal, but it's relevant, it's there, and it's really good. Kudos for that, at least one person appreciate that choice. The writing is interesting, captivating and, generally, well written, and the art is also really good. It's in an early stage, yes, but it deserve support and attention. This could be a really epic game/adventure. 5/5!

the def if obviously trying to create a game where every importand char is well... that.. importand...
dev is not ruhsing anything but is rly going all in on the premise of giving every single character and couple time to develop and explain thair relationship.

this might seem tedious for the everage modern audience, but if you want to make game like this,with as many possible branches, there is no other choice.
the AI is also rly solid, just another field where the dev rly tried to keep a certain standart and it looks good.
there are only 2 thinks in this game is could falter:
one is just how ambitious it is. i mean, if all the dev said is rly possible i praise him from here to mars.. this game is rly one of a kind.. but it is just sounds to good to be true.
the other one is that i wish the MC would not just be sidelined for other relationships couse i thing main point should still be MC (no matter the gender).
def has already pointed out that MC would be persued and i know this is probably my " i -hate-hard-ntr" voice talking, but the chars so far are writen rly well to the point where it rly feels that they are real friend and dont wanna hurt eath other.
im probably to sensitive but it feels like there should be no need for conflict between the main cast.
anyway dev is rly good at writing relatiinships and so far i trust in his abilities

Whether u like this or not will highly depend on your general opinion on AI-usage in lewd games (and if u go along with the tagged fetishes). Microwriting, Art, Music/Sound- u name it, LewdGPT created it. That beeing said, imo it is a ambitious and nice approach and already better than a lot of those HTML-feminization/femdom-games out there with barely any art at all (or just random real-porn-pics) and especially with barely any sound/music.

AI-usage seems to result in a quite quick update-tempo, since dev pushes out a new update every few weeks so far, those new versions all only add like 10mins of new content though. Still, compared to all those "1 update with barely new stuff every 3-6 months"-games out there this is refreshing.

At this point (v. 0.33) amount of content is still quite small, but for a HTML-game I happen to find content quality nice and look forward for the next few updates.

So normally I don't review/play games that are below version 0.3 as I feel version 0.3 is when a game really begins to take shape. With that said the premise was interesting and the reviews were good so I gave it a try and I was pleasantly surprised. The game definitely has its shape put together and I would say this is a good demo to show people.

The introduction is solid. Characters, including the player character, all have clear motivations and goals and are distinct from each other. Not only that but these goals and relationships are brilliantly tied in with the sex/corruption system in the game. Basically the premise of this game is that your party is given a power that grants them what their heart desires.

But we're following the Wishing Crown rules suckers!!! (That's an Adventure Time reference) Basically people's desires aren't set in stone and can be manipulated. For example a girl who puts on pretty clothes and receives positive praise and attention for that will have a desire to get more of that, which the power grants by making them more of an exhibitionist.

Likewise a girl with a crush on a taken guy gets her desire granted by gaining an overwhelming confidence to seduce and steal the guy away from his current girlfriend. This means that due to characters' conflicting goals and relationships, they will, even if unintentionally (and sometimes intentionally), influence each other.

My summary does the game a disservice as the writing does a much better job of "SHOWING" you this (as opposed to lesser games that just tell you in boring exposition). It's by far the game's strongest point and I can recommend it to people who enjoy a good story off that alone. And I didn't even have to touch the well done world building that takes place in this story.

Moving along to game play. So that's tough to judge right now. The game boasts and impressively tracks dozens (possibly hundreds) of variables relating to the character preferences. I was pleased to see that several of the LIs have a lesbian stat on them and things such as confidence are also stats that are being tracked and updated.

With that said, the game hasn't opened up yet, letting the player free roam. Which would be where I expect this system to shine. Everything is pretty linear so far with you getting a few choices here and there. So until the gameplay is further developed, I'll have to wait and see on this.

This game is honestly 4 stars as of right now, but since it's VERY early in its development, I'm going to rate it as 5 stars to give it the benefit of the doubt and because I see great potential and promise in this game. This is one to definitely keep you eye on.

This shows a huge amount of promise, not a lot of content yet but probably one of the games I've been most excited about on here. Art is well done, story is solid and the music is really top notch. Can't wait to see more chapters of this!

A really good beginning ! Can't wait for what is to come... I always loved rpg vibes in sexy games and this one is on a good path. I love the characters, how they are shaped by their past, Mariel for example !

Really like it. For this short development there's a huge amount of content already in the game. It satisfies a lot of my fetishes, really like the plot and the music too. Plot seems at first generic, but changes soon after and there are quite a few twists, that make me wonder how it continues. Keep it up 5/5.

The epitome of AI.

Something made by someone without any discernible talent, but with a hunger for some spare change on patreon. Everything about it is very regurgitated, from the writing to the art. Even the gameplay itself is poorly done.

This is not a game, just pollution.

Hi keep up the great work! I wonder but are Seryk and Nimeria actually the kids from the flashback? I think they are but not entirely sure, end scene of chapter 1 is what is giving me a bit of a feeling and maybe I am reading too much into it but her behavior and words in that scene with Seryk just seems to points that way.

Anyway the story is great, the pacing is steady and I am immersed while playing/reading it XD. Honestly if its not for the choices I would thought this is a novel. 5/5 for me

Amazing set up. The characters are well fleshed out, bonds are well-established although each one have their own vulnerabilities. The soulstone concept is good. The interlopers are hot, let the corruption begin and lets gradually defile the bonds.

This game is a really promising one, with a good set up for the corruption.
Nice range of characters.

It seems to be setting up for a lot of fun and interesting paths. I like the mechanic where you don't have full control over which fetishes and stats you are leveling, and the element of randomness to which stats level is interesting, over a long period it seems like it would somewhat match your actual interests as you seek out specific kinds of content. The only really problem right now is the lack of content, but it is an early release so that is to be expected.

Despite the other reviewer's assertion that it is all gay and foot content, I played through with no gay content, because I chose not to see it - it was in no way forced on you. And there was relatively little foot content as well, unless you specifically choose it. There is quite a bit of scent content setting up, but you are given a fair warning at the start.

The AI images are decent. I imagine the only other review at this time gave it a 1 star review out of the whole militant "AI = Trash" attitude that you see a lot of on this site. And if that is your opinion on AI, that is great for you, give this one a pass. If you don't mind AI generated images, then it is a good start (with little lewd content so far).

Good:
- Premise looks interesting?

Bad:
- Static images are absolutely gigantic in size (both actual and disk space).
- File name casing breaks images on linux/mac/mobile in some cases.
- The AI animated pictures are janky. Better off leaving those out imo.
- Mostly a kinetic novel.

Ugly:
- Zero content. Literally none, well, unless you count feet and a dick in your face.
- The gay/foot fetish content (what's even there) already signals where this author is aiming to go with this game.
- The "Soul System" is going to bog down development on this. Keeping track of "hundreds of variables" is going to turn into a feature creep nightmare of mile wide, inch deep content along with confusing the ever living fuck out of the player.