VN - Ren'Py - Bright Lord [v1.0-Fix Rework] [KissKiss Studio]

Gane version: v.1.0-Fix Rework

I played this game years ago, in its earliest stages of development. Back then, it already had very much the same strengths and weaknesses it has today:

++ Really great, stunning renders
+ The MC isn't ugly

Yep, that's it. No comes the bad:

- Animations are still stiff af, they don't "feel" natural at all. Physics are absent (arms and legs are unnaturally raised in the air, no bouncing, no wiggling...) and the animations are very limited in frames count overall. They are just slightly above "bad".
- NPC's are one-sided/ bland and they lust for the MC much too fast (yes, that IS explained and reasoned with the powers, but it still feels too fast- there is almost no development in their relationsships).
- The MC's character has at least some depths in it, which is emphasized by the choices he has to make (corruption <> trying to stay sane), but ultimately he is just a jerk trying to lay every woman he meets.

The story is still mediocre and has some issues with consistency, although the dev managed to fill some plot holes over the years, which makes the plot easier to follow and understand.
Another, disappointing fact is that the content hardly rose and - as already mentioned- the quality of the scenes is still rather bad.
To me there is still a LOT work to do, before this game becomes a "good" game.

Great game that I ignored for a long time due to the presence of my least favorite tag(mind control). Here, it is not a hindrance and is used judiciously. The MC also isn't fully in control and his powers are a threat to him as well. One thing that can piss some people off is that the game clearly wants you to go corruption mode. There isn't a viable alternate path(yet). Even then, the primary girls retain their personalities and don't turn into mindless sex dolls. There's an inherent struggle going on in their subconscious mind that makes the mind control palatable and makes it something to weigh against while making your choices.
On the technical front, I liked the designs as they are pretty much the best you can do with Daz3D. Sex scenes are well animated and the music is unobtrusive. There's a clear thrust to the story so far with exciting revelations and intriguing mysteries. The supernatural elements are tackled well with the underlying demonic entities each having their own goals which might differ from what their human host wants. There are no spelling errors and the prose is well written.
Overall, a stellar experience and I'm looking forward to enjoying each new update.

Always wanted to give this Game try but due to time constraints wasnt able to do so. Finally after the Full Version of Season 1 released i took it upon myself to try this game out. Here are my thoughts on the Game


- The Renders is the first thing that catches your eye. Amazing Graphics I must say. Can definitely keep up with the big boys in that regard

- Female Cast is nice. Some Beautiful Women I must say. My Personal Favs are Chloe the older Sister and Megan the Villain. Some splitting into Paths so your own Main or go down the Harem route. Having a Chick as beautiful as Megan not become a potential Love Interest would be a shame.

- The lore surrounding the Story is quite interesting i must say. Would love if the Author could expand on it further in Season 2

- The Mc is all right. You could tell that the Mc was steadily growing throughout the Story. Now that the groundwork has been set an increase in critical choices would in Season 2 would be much appreciated so you can mould him into your own character (badass, simp, hothead, perhaps even Villain alongside Megan )


The Potential is there and the groundwork has been set. Given how the overall Story was steadily improving throughout the playthrough makes me very hopeful about how good Season 2 will be. Highly recommended Game 10/10 with potential to become even better

The game is truly exceptional and deserves much more recognition. Its compelling storyline and outstanding animation set it apart, making it unfortunate that it remains relatively unknown. Undoubtedly, it stands as one of the finest offerings available. Please continue the excellent work!

Pretty good game, I've had my fair share of playing high end rendered games here, yours does take it in my top10. Sadly the biggest criticisms are a bit overblown but they are true nonetheless. It really needs proofreading and fast or atleast for the next project. The story and the themes put are interesting, don't let anybody say otherwise but how the plot goes on afterwards does feel really lacking, the relationships are purely corruptive but the MC really acts like he's trying to be a good guy and do the right thing. The pure corruption part might've felt better if the MC was a bad guy at the beginning and maybe tried along to get better or something. The author got a few things to really fix and his project might get big. there are others that have done more with simpler and uncomplicated plot but nowhere close to the renders here.

Game needs a lot of work with the writing and Proofreading,
Good thing is there are lovely models in and good renders. The story is kind of all over the place and is not breathtaking. If you are looking for just for hot girls and nothing more then it is a good play

I practically don't write reviews but I am very disappointed with this game, there is practically nothing in it that I could describe as good, I will only mention a few elements that are quite weak.

-Renders aka character design, the 3 main characters look like clones, the same faces, the same body type (huge boobs), at the beginning of the game I had trouble recognizing who was who, the only distinction was "this one is a mommy, let's give her pubic hair and the sisters will be bald" Additionally, the renders themselves, although good, are not top-of-the-range (many games have shown how to make great renders) and due to their generic nature and the "bimbo" effect, they are more repulsive than encouraging.

- The main character is completely useless, he always talks about not touching the "group" (sic!), he constantly cries about how poor and manipulated he is, but you can't see it at all, the game feels like the developer wanted to do the most a vanilla game because he is afraid of anything more hardcore, but at the same time he would like to make a hardcore story and it doesn't work at all. A story in which a boogie woggie possesses a guy and controls women cannot have a hero who is a complete twat, it would be funnier to make him gay and as if he had to have sex with women in great disgust.

- The sex scenes, something that should be the strongest element of this type of story (and porn games in general), were completely unmemorable, vanilla and even boring, the game's theme was dark about a creature without morals and most of the scenes were ordinary blowjob or boring sex scenes when the "inner the voice corrupts the character. All this corruption is also poorly done, and although the idea of the subconscious doing it is interesting, it is done poorly and boringly, it comes down to "do it, do it, you want it blah blah blah"

- most of the scenes are very dark, to the point that you can't see shit in them, I understand that this is an artistic intention and the game was supposed to be a horror game and very "dark" (which completely failed) but it does not mean that the scenes ( especially sex) are supposed to be dark and hide 3/4 of the scene

- The plot wasn't bad in general, but in my opinion it was poorly written, and what's more, the main character is very annoying, as I wrote above, I wasn't more interested in what would happen to him, I was more interested in whether he would become a loser, he would finally become a bright lord because he I felt dissatisfied with the shallowness of all dialogues and "actions". Like the already mentioned constant crying about the "group" or even the scene in which he killed one of the bogeymen in the woman and instead of using her or turning her into a sex slave (after all, his parasite needs energy), he gives her water, says that it will be cool and gives it back completely nobody knows why. The choices also don't seem to matter because despite choosing all the wrong options, the main character hasn't changed a bit except for crying more about how he is a monster.

TL;TR The game disappointed me a lot, because I was expecting a dark erotic horror with elements of control, but what I got was an annoying main character, 3 family members who look like clones with a bimbo build, completely vanilla scenes, and a plot that doesn't hold together with constant jumps between flashbacks, the world of dreams, and other places, and the general problem with the desire to build a dark "evil" world and the fear of any more "bold" actions

The rendering is the best part of this game but the actual game is taking a long time to finish and any momentum of the story, which is decent enough, loses it because of the time between updates. I would accept the wait if it had content, a great example of a game here is Being a DIK which is going 5 years now being on the site since 2019 great renders as well, and a great game the difference between this game and Being a DIK is the CONTENT. Chapter 1 focuses on world-building, establishing narrative, and characters. Chapter 2 expands on the narrative and characters such as the main girls by making branches for each girl which down the story the player will need to make a big choice, chapter 3 deals with the choices the player made from those chapters. There is FOCUS on each chapter. Another example is Superhuman. Great story and consistently good updates. Each update ends with setting up the next update that way the player is engaged and wanting for the next update. The game going on for 3 years and has more content and engagement than this game which has better art but lacks variety unlike Superhuman which has the same premise, the MC having superpowers. A third example and a big one since it just finished is a game from 2019, City of Broken Dreamers. Unique art, unique atmosphere, unique characters, and good story has more content and has finish in five years to what this game hasn't even finished from part 10 it seems and in each parts there isn't much content unlike with CBD. And it seems the creator is moving to another project which will take more FOCUS away from this thus derailing whatever wait and/or anticipation for the next update.

Also can we just stop with the Landlady and acquaintance and just state it as it is.Hell just go with stepcest all the way cause the dialog already implies and its less CRINGE

VERSION: 1.0
SUMMARY: Very good? No.

PROS:

1. Stunning models, unrealistically good looking, bragging rights to the designer but doesnt make for a very realistic scenario.
2. Animations are very nice also.
3. Writing is decent, structured well enough.
4. Story is different, unique and I would say good simply because of these aspects, but...Check CONS

CONS:

1. Development is going on nearly 4 years from first version, even got a rework, which is good, but honestly, I don't feel the developers heart is in it.
2. Story is IMO all over the place and when it does get some direction, it takes a hell of a long time to get anywhere, this game has been in such long development that it could have been done twice over already.
3. Writing is poor, the dialogue is not terrible but the grammar is shit. The developer gives you options to set the relationships but its such a lot of puke around ACT2 already where the "landlady" is no longer called whatever you called her nor the other members of the "household" (lets cut the bullshit, its written to be family) yet its one minute mom, then landlady then father Christmas or something else. Don't you proof read your work? Again, developer is good at visuals, shit at writing and story IMO.
4. Characters seem or want to be complex, but the game story and narratives are so slow (in terms of development). There is very little story here, very little character background and depth. The dev wants to pretend that there is but really, the player really knows little to anything about the characters before the possession or after.
5. Updates are so infrequent and often small with little content and usually you end up having to replay the game from start to get the thread of the story again or your old saves simply fuck out...

TLDR: This game boggles my mind in a way, I even had a hard time typing up a review, it simply was not thought out well in terms of execution of its story. The story is decent, but falls flat due to poorly fleshed out characters, slow development time and ultimately just doesnt have the cohesion to give it a better rating. The developer should focus more on the aforementioned and less on the the models IMO. GET THE GAME DONE

2 stars for the models

It was a masterpiece. The story, the elaboration of the characters, high-quality design. What more can you ask for? You will meet a green-eyed demon who will not leave you indifferent. I envy those who can experience for the first time this dark but at the same time fascinating story.

Another "corruption" game where I'm supposed to believe that the MC gets cock blocked from fucking his family. This is despite the fact that he literally gets full control over the girls. This has been done to death and this game offers nothing new to the genre. The same bimbo looking models with the same looking unrealistic MILFs where it's trying too hard to make them look older but not too old at the same time.

Honestly, a solid 4. The animations for the sex scenes are really short and you can't control anything, it's basically just watching the scene. Also, the writing is pretty average and the plot tries to be deeper than it actually is. The corruption/love routes are also a huge lie like a lot of people say in other reviews. There are a few scenes where you can move around the rapey stuff if you're on the love route, but the general premise is going to be the same: raping girls. There's heavy corruption either way and over time you change the girls to be more, well, corrupted, and they become more open to your shenanigans. I can understand why people would be pissed off if they were expecting the love stuff and instead they were forced into the rape stuff, however that's pretty much what I'm after so that's lucky. If you're not into that, you will hate this game and you should definitely avoid it. Also, the girls all look really hot and they have big tits so again if that's not your thing, you won't like this. Overall, a pretty damn good corruption game, but the love/corruption routes are the same, and the rape is mandatory, you should not play this if you aren't accepting of this.

Full marks for rendering, but the animation scene is too short and the plot is decent. The only downside is that corruption and love route scenes are the same. Choosing a love route will still control the protagonist's family. What I hate the most is controlling corruption..This is rape，I can't accept it.

This is just horrible
Renders are ok, but all the girls are bimbos, at least a bit of variety would have been appreciated

You get to define the relationship with girls, but writing is so inconsistent. In some scenes, "Landlady" acts like MCs Mom, then in another scene she acts like MC is just an acquaintance.
The "Dad" of the "Family" died and MC didnt even go to the funeral because he was too busy. That would make sense for "Landlord" but not for "Dad"

There is no "normal" sex scene in the game (at least in the beginning, i just couldn't play anymore..). You have option to agree to sexually abuse the girls, or if you try to resist then you are forced to do it. Dev calls this Love and Corruption routes. Raping is neither love nor corruption in my opinion
I Have no idea how this is not tagged with rape, because this literally is rape, MC either uses mind control to rape girls or he is forced to
Also on top of that, in one scene you have 3 options. 1. Rape semeone. 2. Rape someone else, 3. kill random person. WTF.

Never have I been this annoyed over a game before, made me waste a few hours of my life trying to make it seem as if the choice you take have any significance. The "love" and "corruption" route have no differences at all, MC still ends up fucking his family using mind control. The LIs are hateable, they blame MC for everything for no reason. There is so much useless drama between the LIs. The older sister is an entitled bratfy bitch who thinks everyone except her is in the wrong. Throughout the entire game, the players have no agency. The MC has been gripped by the balls and is controlled by the bright lord no matter what choices you make. Unlike the description suggests, you cannot "resist" him, this is a fully corruption based game but the dev of the game is too spineless to advertise it as that. Atleast have the balls to own what you are instead of wasting player's time.

Great game. Deserved way more attention.
Great story line, great animation, sad that not lots of people know about it!
Definitely one of the best one out there
The update is slow that's the only problem

Render Review: (P2.V.0.9.part3)
Very HQ renders but lacks enough Content or should i say just barely adequate (It's just straight up seggs, NO foreplay, NO romance, Only Seggs!)
Models looks great. Nice Costumes. Nice Cosplay by chloe too. If Cosplay/CFNM Seggs scenes would've been there it would be Excellent!

It's an excellent game. The characters and renders are so perfect that I loved playing it. The plot is quite nice too. At the beginning of the game I didn't thought that it'll turn out this good but then gradually it keeps getting better and better. Keep up the good work dev .

Let's start with obvious: the girls are 10, models (including monsters) are great and detailed. Outfits are perfect, but I think it would have been better that the girls would change their outfits that show so much skin a little bit later in the game.

The story is intriguing, I actually read. Well, except some moments. Dialogs sometimes feel stretched or mentioning things that were established before. Could be so to remind player what happened on previous release, but I don't believe that.

At first the story was bright, then it had some sort of dark twist, I kind of felt bad even, later on it got bright again. So it already has full emotional journey of game or hollywood movie

I am considering to replay the game (even though it is not finished) again, because it feels like your decisions matter, there was reference to one of them in the game - "you should have done this as I told you" - or something like that. But I'm not sure, either way, worth replaying.

EDIT: forgot to mention that at some points Landlady looked younger than her daughters, and it threw me off a bit. But the game is so good, that this is probably the worst thing about it.

Game Review before Rework:

PROS
- Great renders
- Interesting combination of horror & erotica theme
- The Paranormal part of the story is interesting

CONS
- Pacing and writing is bad. There is not much character development.
- Sex scenes is short. The scene between love and corruption is not much different.
- Too much unnecessary drama and very one dimensional characters
- Players choice is useless as the story path is predetermined
- Conversation flow is bad and childish.
- All the LIs behaves like kids throwing tantrums and does act their age.

There are much better games out there. Would only recommend this if you;re really bored. This is a Kinetic Novel pretending to be a Visual Novel

Updated Review as of 1.0 After Rework
- The entire game is still a hot mess
- Renders are great but the dialogue is still badly written and the interactions between characters are awkward.
- The story is badly written with much of its story potential thrown out the window due to the author's inability to have story pacing and consistent story element
- Renders and dialogue/story element is not in synch. example, the story narration states the house is old and need fixing but the house looks new/great condition in renders
- The tenant/roommate title spoils the entire flow of the dialogue. Reading it can be painful like nails on a blackboard

TLDR - Still a hot mess (2/5) after remake. The only consolation of the game is the renders, everything else is badly done