Review for v0.1.0 Public.
The game coming from a dev with a large amount of experience under their belt, the pure quality of this lives up to the expectations I'd say. While I have some differing opinions that I'll get to, this is an extremely high quality game. A level you don't see too often in the AVN world. It has a lot of the supporting elements (renders, music, UI, etc) that make for a great AVN, too many to bother listing it. Suffice to say, a very solid foundation.
The throne usurped, a knight and his princess betrayed, and a nigh-hopeless escape into a long-term plan of revenge. It's a pretty classic start. The concept is this: Our princess has awakened some type of demonic(?) succubus-like powers that are essentially fueled by corruption. Our job as her knight? Use our enchanted dick to seduce and corrupt women to drain their mana and give it back to our princess until she's strong enough to take back her kingdom. Yes, it is a corruption game. It also plays like an RPG. We have stats, there's stat checks, and though not currently filled out, a sort of map with what I'm sure will contain lots of different paths at some point.
If you love corruption and darker themes/being the bad guy you're probably already loving this game. But say you're like me and enjoy taking the nicer routes, what does this offer? The game mentions being potentially driven by chivalrous love and saving the princess from her own corruption right? This is where the game gets a little shaky for me.
This is taking an unconventional approach to that sort of morality system. You start corrupted. A lot of the MCs dialogue is crude, sees women as his "victims" and honestly sounds like a creep who's about to commit sex crimes (which he doesn't seem above doing). I'll give an example: over the time skip we corrupted a tavern owner who the MC refers to as a mind-broken whore among other things. First thing we have her do is go stand in the window with her tits out all day for everyone to see.
It's off-putting to put it mildly for me. The dev mentions that there's plans for a route where you mellow out presumably from meeting future characters, but that sure as hell doesn't happen yet. Honestly I wouldn't even mind playing the bad guy given the situation, but I don't want sound like a sex criminal constantly on the prowl, which is kinda what's happening.
The MC has a mistress-servant relationship with the princess that's being done in a palatable way for me (i.e. not extreme). That being said, I'd want to see more from the MC than living purely to serve his mistress/princess. To be his own person a bit instead of a complete pawn. He expresses his desires to claim the princess when all is said and done, but what else? Right now I don't have an answer.
Of course this is still only the first version of the game and I know the dev has a lot of plans for the writing among everything else. Need to just let it play out more before I'm actually set on some of these opinions. My one real objective complaint is that the sex animations, as it tends to be with Daz games, are a bit lacking. The few scenes haven't felt as intimate or carnal as I'd want them to be.
I'd feel a little disingenuous if I didn't give some praise as well. The game captures this sort of darker fantasy aesthetic very nicely. The character models do look great (the princess is hot man) and all those non-sex scene animations are a great touch. Regardless of if this ends up being something for me or not, it's a game I think a lot of people will enjoy.
The game coming from a dev with a large amount of experience under their belt, the pure quality of this lives up to the expectations I'd say. While I have some differing opinions that I'll get to, this is an extremely high quality game. A level you don't see too often in the AVN world. It has a lot of the supporting elements (renders, music, UI, etc) that make for a great AVN, too many to bother listing it. Suffice to say, a very solid foundation.
The throne usurped, a knight and his princess betrayed, and a nigh-hopeless escape into a long-term plan of revenge. It's a pretty classic start. The concept is this: Our princess has awakened some type of demonic(?) succubus-like powers that are essentially fueled by corruption. Our job as her knight? Use our enchanted dick to seduce and corrupt women to drain their mana and give it back to our princess until she's strong enough to take back her kingdom. Yes, it is a corruption game. It also plays like an RPG. We have stats, there's stat checks, and though not currently filled out, a sort of map with what I'm sure will contain lots of different paths at some point.
If you love corruption and darker themes/being the bad guy you're probably already loving this game. But say you're like me and enjoy taking the nicer routes, what does this offer? The game mentions being potentially driven by chivalrous love and saving the princess from her own corruption right? This is where the game gets a little shaky for me.
This is taking an unconventional approach to that sort of morality system. You start corrupted. A lot of the MCs dialogue is crude, sees women as his "victims" and honestly sounds like a creep who's about to commit sex crimes (which he doesn't seem above doing). I'll give an example: over the time skip we corrupted a tavern owner who the MC refers to as a mind-broken whore among other things. First thing we have her do is go stand in the window with her tits out all day for everyone to see.
It's off-putting to put it mildly for me. The dev mentions that there's plans for a route where you mellow out presumably from meeting future characters, but that sure as hell doesn't happen yet. Honestly I wouldn't even mind playing the bad guy given the situation, but I don't want sound like a sex criminal constantly on the prowl, which is kinda what's happening.
The MC has a mistress-servant relationship with the princess that's being done in a palatable way for me (i.e. not extreme). That being said, I'd want to see more from the MC than living purely to serve his mistress/princess. To be his own person a bit instead of a complete pawn. He expresses his desires to claim the princess when all is said and done, but what else? Right now I don't have an answer.
Of course this is still only the first version of the game and I know the dev has a lot of plans for the writing among everything else. Need to just let it play out more before I'm actually set on some of these opinions. My one real objective complaint is that the sex animations, as it tends to be with Daz games, are a bit lacking. The few scenes haven't felt as intimate or carnal as I'd want them to be.
I'd feel a little disingenuous if I didn't give some praise as well. The game captures this sort of darker fantasy aesthetic very nicely. The character models do look great (the princess is hot man) and all those non-sex scene animations are a great touch. Regardless of if this ends up being something for me or not, it's a game I think a lot of people will enjoy.