VN - Ren'Py - Bright Lord [v1.1.2 SE Steam] [KissKiss Studio]

(This review was made after playing the Phase 2 v0.1b version)

I'm really thankful for having tried this one out. The game ticks all the right boxes: top notch renders, great animations, that are only improving with each release, and quite the gripping and exciting story.

The characters have interesting personalities. If you're looking for a nice horror game, very well made, with great renders and animations, this is your game.

Dev, keep up the great work!

Graphics are great, premise and plot is great, models are great, but dev REALLY screwed up progression. At the very start you get fucking, fingering, nude bodies - all of it. What's left? Too much reward from the start, no buildup...

v0.6c i'm not much of a reviewer, and my english is rusty, but i see potential in this game and i'd like to add my constructive aspects.

Good points:
- Good renders.
- Beautiful girls, very nice models, maybe the only problem it's a typical one with these games, but the mother's model looks like any other young character.
- Nice animations, they are not great but they're clearly better than average.

Bad points:
- Remember that it's a game to fap, at first it goes well with the tease, but it seems that never moves on from that point, or it takes too much time.
- The story. It starts good, nice personalities for each character, good atmosphere, interested of what's gonna happen, but later on i start to wondering what's the mayor difference between choosing corruption or not, "Bright Lord" often do what he wants, no matter the option i choose.
- Chloe. Damn what a pain in the ass she becomes after some time playing. It seems like she's the MC by the way every other character in the game just forgive her for everything she does.

I hope this game gets better with time.
Cheers and i wish you success in your work.

v0.06b

Good:

• Models for the MC's counterparts are all gorgeous. Emily is cute in a very endearing/innocent way. Nicely done there. Landlady looks quite similar to Emily, but with bigger tits. Chloe is stunning in every way. She's definitely my favorite.
• Appreciate that there's animations. Keep them coming! The very first one really is stellar with the titties bouncing and whatnot. Some are a bit more...see-saw? Not sure how else to explain them, but it's obvious when a more fluid result is there which ones were kinda phoned-in.
• MC's relationship with Emily is a believable one with a good dynamic. I like their inside joke/teasing.

Neutral:

• Models are sexy, their faces a bit generic/Barbie-ish to me.
• The "landlady" character model could stand some aging to distinguish her from her fully-grown "tenants".

Bad:

• Why are "hehe" and "haha" inserted so frequently and randomly when there's nothing humorous going on? Expanding on that a bit: I find myself a bit confused overall about the inconsistency with the grammar and punctuation. Sometimes characters' thoughts and words are laid out colloquially, succinctly, etc. Sometimes there's a comma after damn near every other word. Questions are sometimes phrased as statements.
• In the scene w/ MC and Emily going for a hike and they get lost, are we to believe they set out first thing in the morning, and after a few hours it was dusk? Or that they were indeed out for a full day with no food or water?
• I'm just going to be blunt here: Bright Lord (the character) is written terribly. To the extent that every time their dialog is on the screen I consider exiting the game, but just blow past it because it's so...unrefined and juvenile. "...and shit". There's nothing whatsoever convincing or intriguing about his character or backstory. The justification and brief context he provides to the MC as to who he is and what he's motivated by is so impossibly lazily written, but has so much potential. Even psychodelusional's half-assed evil character in Dark Neighborhood was better written than this guy. His dialog (and others') also isn't consistent; usually blue when it's MC + Bright Lord, but there are exceptions.
• A lot of the dialog is juvenile, actually. People say a lot of VNs have that quality about them as if written by a 14-year-old, and this definitely has that. It's as if the presumed maturity of the visuals is mismatched by cheesy ass lines like "My King" and "your sceptor". Let's keep it just this side of humorous when they be fuckin'.
• Why is the MC sharing an undecorated room with his sister, and both beds are child beds?

Overall, I just can't recommend this one. The 2 stars are because the models are excellent and the renders are good. The story leaves a lot to be desired, though.

Excellent game.

I honestly don't have any complaints about this game! not even one.

The story is really really interesting. and you can't guess what turns it'll take.
The models are nice.
the characters are relatable and realistic.
the dialogues and reactions are logical and realistic. that's something you rarely see in these VNs.
there's a great mix of diversity in the sex scenes and sexual acts. especially forced sex and hypnotic sex.

I'm really invested in the story and want to see what happens next.

Ok, sorry if there is any grammar error in my review, english is not my mother language. Bright Lord does everything a good adult VN has to do, it has good models, good story + it drives with very good writting, the major difference between Bright Lord and others games is that the sex scenes aren't the best thing in the game, the story on the hand, it is the best thing and I wasn't expecting that from a porn game! can't wait for another update, it's just too good.

First things first, I really NEVER do any reviews but i really want to push this game.

Modeling: 9/10 (Nice looking models, love it)
Rendering 8/10 (Most of the renders are very good or perfect)
Sound 11/10 (Epic sounds! You'll see what i mean )
Music 10/10 ( Music fits the situations very well)

Story (11/10):
It's by far the most interesting Story i've ever played!
It could even be made as a movie / tv-show
(without the sex scenes) and it would STILL be good.

Overall a real Masterpiece and i enjoy and read every single scene (that's very rare for me )

Please Keep going Dev!!
Maybe i'll be your next Patreon

Greetings
Firestorm

Taken directly from my comment in the thread as it says everything.

I bloody love this VN. There are only a few titles on here where i get genuine excitement when they appear in the updated list, this is definitely one of them.

There isn't a single criticism I can place on it, the story is unique (from what I have played on here) and incredibly gripping, the characters are beautifully rendered, the whole playing experience it is visually impressive, its also a game that can stand on its own and doesn't need constant sex scenes to keep me interested. Don't of course get me wrong, I love them (a lot) but it says a lot about a story when I don't miss them when they are not there all the time.

@ the dev, thank you for your hard work in creating this, your vision is turning out the be a spectacular ride and i cannot wait to see how the story pans out.

Great job

This is a good game. The story is different and cativating and the girls gorgeous. The bathroom peeking is used so much on the first day that I got the feeling that this was a parody but since there was no peeking during shoping I have my doubts.
The bad thing for me is that the MC is forced to have relations without the player consent but since that is, so far, the entire premisse of the story, I won't base much of my rating on that. I won't play it though.

Thank you and good luck.

v0.5b

I like the game very, very much. The story is atmospheric and suspenseful. and whilst the mc is okay, the girls/women are all exquisitely crafted, especially the mother who is not only hypnotically enchanting but together with her fiery, tormented older daughter represent, in my opinion, two of the most heart-stoppingly gorgeous women of any I have seen grace these frequently exceptional VNs.

The rendering is lovingly excellent with clearly painstaking attention to shadow and light which really does intensify the edgy atmosphere of menace which lurks in every shadow and haunts every moment of this tale.

It will be intriguing to see just how tautly our emotions will be stretched and what chills this imaginative creator will send down our spines before we hopefully reach, once again, the daylight at the end of what promises to be a disturbing, yet at the same time deliciously sensual, journey.

Wow. 10/10
This game has it all if you like Landlady/roommate stories *wink*
The story line is unique and quite gripping. The rendering is top notch and the personalities are fleshed out quite nicely. Playing it leaves you wanting more. Other than some minor typos (most likely due to English being a second language) it is flawless so far. Don't worry, it is well written, that's why I said minor.

I can't wait to be able to play this game from start to finish, although I'm sure that will be quite a ways from now. Still, I will play each installment eagerly and look forward to seeing where this game goes. Bright Lord has a bright future as does the developer.

Good art, interesting premise, promising story...
All that being said, wow I have never seen a game with the such an aversion to penetration.
I mean maybe I have, but not one with straight up demonic mind control.
Kind of makes sense the MC doesn't want to immediately bang his family, but the bright lord seems to almost honor that for some reason?
There are several scenes where the girl literally begs to be penetrated, and it just doesn't happen for some reason or another.

Maybe the Bright lord isn't actually what it seems?
Then again, if the point of the game is to NOT penetrate the three main girls, I'm not sure how well that goes.

Still there aren't many games that check off all these tags and does a decent job. That's why 4 stars. Hoping with a few updates it will be a 5. I am still interested in where it goes.

I'd avoid this one.

The game has a point system that doesn't matter because the enity that takes you over forces you to do his bidding to the people closest to you . Why have a point system when its not needed, you still get to have your way with them lol.

The renders are good and the animations are decent but the story isn't very good., it seems to put you on rails with out you giving your decisions towards the progression to the story.

Good Points
+ Renders and art style look quite good.
+ We have some hot-looking female characters that are for sure.
+ While character stories and their development feels darn cliche the parts about Bright Lord, his background story, and Volans feel well-written and interesting.

Bad Points
- They became better with phase 2 but until that point, nearly all female characters were acting rude, bitchy, and odd: they were not likable at all. And while they do change with phase 2 it's not going to change how nonsense and annoying they were and caused all that cringy scenes. Except for Emily... She literally stands there as the only female character you can like from phase 1 to phase 2... She is a good girl for sure but her existence is not good enough to carry the whole female part of the game, especially considering she has the least attractive body from all females in the game.
- Character developments are pretty much cliche well known same old story... We have MC who leaves the house for school. We have bitch older sister who is the best friend of MC before he leaves, now she thinks he is selfish, hates him, hates the whole family, insults them constantly, etc... Little shy sister who likes MC secretly... And hot milf mother who lost his husband (MC's father.) The same old story you can find in literally any 10 adult games you look at. Generally, I don't hate this formula but especially bitchy older sister part is so annoying... You didn't need to make the same formula, and you could have not added bitch older sister and you could make her nice... But Nah... You gotta make the same annoying formula...
- Even if you resist the Bright Lord & try to not do things with girls they still treat you quite bad when they learn things happened, and that's terrible decision, there should be a different approach for people who resisted using them and players choices should matter on this matter, even after rework it's still same, only change is Margarie calling MC ''Inhuman'' instead of ''Freak'' and it aint enough. They, especially Margarie acted like everything is MC's fault, said he ruined their life, and other nonsense stuff, etc, I mean like seriously? Is this the real way a mother treats her son? If the story was making any sense then she should have said ''What's happening my son... Is he fine?!'' etc, instead of keep faulting him, but instead, she treated her son like a freak even though he resisted doing those things. Even he desperately tried to protect her & others and leave the house away from them? A real mother should have worried about her son, and should have to feel sorry for him.
- MC & his relationship with Bright Lord is bit annoying, and he is not in control most of times.
- Sex scenes need to improve. There are some improvements we got with phase 2 but honestly, I was hoping for more improvements. They are still not that good, they are more like average. While their quality looks pretty good, the animation part still lacks longer loops, better physics, and more angles/positions. And characters showing robotic expressions in sex scenes need to change as well.
- The content we got with updates is not good enough, DEV needs to start lowering his update times or add more content with each update.
- Forced Liza's girlfriend thing was unnesecary, weird and annoying... Honestly, I do believe she looks fantastic and is probably the hottest girl in the whole game but she is dumb AF and she is cringe... I wish she had a better character or character development.
- While all Volen's looks darn cool with that all red-colors etc Bright Lord looks just creepy... I wish he was looking better like other Volen's, I can see DEV have a talent for designing them, it could be cool if he used the same talent for Bright Lord too. I know it's tied to his background story and things that happened to him, but still it feels bad while you watch all cool-looking Volen's and see MC's so-called most powerful Volen looking like an ugly ghoul.

For The End
This is not a bad game, quite opposite even with all that cliche parts it's enjoyable but its have some bad points and instead of fixing them our DEV just keeps creating more bad points and continuing old ones... I was waiting game became closer to its own great potential with phase 2 but looks like while some things became better he added new bad points...

The game has promise and is definitely one that I will keep tabs on. Personally horror is the hardest genre for me to partake in but the cocktail of horror and exotica is hard to resist.

For the sake of avoiding spoilers, I won't reveal how the author scares you but you have a faint heart I would not recommend playing at night. I nearly leaped out my bed haha.

Very high quality renders, amazing art with very hot girls and good animations. Animations improve as the game progresses, so I believe the dev is getting better at making them. This game shows real promise and it already has a good amount of content considering how long it's been in development. I'm looking forward for further releases!

Good renders animation and general design

But the pacing is too fast for me and there is very little character development. Whilst there are choices, this feels like only small step away from just being a straight VN.

The lack of player agency is really where this falls down, I just don't feel engaged in what the MC is doing or the choices he is making, It also doesn't feel like the choices the player makes actually does anything.

Great visual artist but poor game designer

good story ，i like it， good animation ，。 I denifitly like the stoy about mystery Power. it show something special . i 'd like to say , please make more story like Bright lord ,dream of desire like this kone of story . They make me to want to discover the result ,where the power come from. Intresting.

Version 0.7
This game still has 2.5 "issues" that prevent me from giving it 5 stars.

The most important one, this is a story about mindcontrolling power in an adult setting where the goal of most players problaby is masturbation or erotic statisfaction. The game/novel itself however makes it a point to not want to give you sex scenes because of morals.... this confuses me

And leads to a lack of masturabtionable content. I persume that most players are over the age of 14 and are not sufficently erotically satisfied with dry humping or asschecksrubbing content. Also the sex scenes are lacking in duration and writing departement. Firstly, I think they are too short. On "auto", they take place for like 2minutes max... Yeah that doesnt cut it for me. Also the writing during the sex scenes is rather bland and not that captivating. Nearly no descriptive work and we don't get character motivation, thoughts and goals during them. Also we don't get any input on how the Bright Lord feels about them. So for me the sex scenes are looking nice but dont give me enough.

Both problems mentioned above could be excused by very good writing and character development. This doesnt seem the case either, as the plot appears to move along faster than all the characters coping with what is happening. Chloe doesnt like the MC in the beginning and still doesnt like the MC now but maybe probably respects him? What was the point then, why did she piss off everybody and move out but still doesnt want the MC in her life but should be a primary love interest.
Hopefully wrong future scenario: Chloe acts as bait and needs help/rescue from the MC. After the rescue arc she will accept the MC as a love interst. this however would go against everything she did in the story before: trying to be independent and make her own choices to get her own life and make it by herself. Also, we are at Update 0.7 now and the MC still hasnt come to terms that the world by large is not the fairy tail that 9 year olds think it is. Kinda off putting. I mean is he dense? He has another inside him, got shown mass rape, slaughter and destruction (I speak like multiples of 10000) just from that one crusade flashback alone, and he still hasnt emotially grown. Meh.



Now for the generic review stuff
+ Great renders
+ Beautiful girls
- Not enough sex scenes
-/+ The actual sex scenes are done well but short and lack dialogue and meaning
+ have I mentioned the girls are beutiful and the renders are very nice?
+ Very good animations
+/- The story premis is what got me to play this in the first place, a dominant male and mind control, but not explored enough imo
+ The Bright Lord concept and overall story where "parasitary divinities" go to war is heckin cool

If you like the game dont forget to give it a thumbs up on the Discussion Page, it helps with the algorythm

Truly is a dull game, the protagonist is a glorified dog dry humping all the other characters with no pay off. Boring story with so called powers that gives the player ZERO choice in what they do with said powers you just grind through boring scene after boring scene with very little variety & as I said zero pay off for the protagonist. Avoid this one