VN - Ren'Py - Cursed Affection [Ep.10] [Daniels K]

So if you ever played a Daniels K game, you know what to expect. If you haven't then you will experience stories where anything goes....vampires, serial killers, alternate dimensions...just take the blue pill and see where the rabbit hole leads....

Some of the devs previous games have started strong and then kind of fizzle out with rushed or short endings.
However, I find this one to be quite entertaining and it's kept my interest in the story pretty well so far.

The supernatural setting involving witches, cults, zombies and a town they can't leave, may feel a bit like the tv show "From"....but that's a good thing! well for me as I love that show

I play the AI enhanced version and the girls renders are really good at times...the love interests Jessica, Bonnie, Kelly and Christine are all extremely hot! side girl Anna is a cutie too..
Some of the animated scenes like where Bonnie is sitting in the diner talking to the MC, look great....Daniels K has seriously upped his render game with the love interests at least.

Sometimes the story plot dumps feel a bit weak or a character will do or say some stupid shit and that's the reason i can only give 4 stars - like it made out I was for taking the witch with us when I was like "Leave that bitch's ass to die!". You also need to seriously switch off the logic side of your brain as reality takes a back seat in his games.It's still enjoyable and worth playing in it's present form. There's not a lot of lewd stuff but what's in there and considering how hot the love interests are, most guys will no doubt find at least one girl to simp over.

Overall a fun and entertaining supernatural romp with hawt girls who moan like zombies fucking..."Mmmmmmmmmm"..."Uhhhhhhhh"...what more could you want! think of it like that cult b horror movie that turns out pretty fun...

there are a lot of bad decisions being made with this game. bad storytelling and bad realism and bad renders. characters dont act at all like they should. the personalitys are all over the place. the renders are weird and mostly bad. the use of ai could be interesting but i ts polishing a dog turd here

Finishing is not the best overall - story, characters, plot lines, writing, interactions, scenes - but it's pretty good overall in all aspects. It's way above the playable / decent which in my case is a 3 * average.
I don't necessarily like to too enigmatic supernatural stories but for an AVN it does stand out from the average crowd. The characters feel relatively genuine. Everyone falling for the MC is, of course weird, but if we didn't have a lot of sex it wouldn't belong on this site isn't it? It's so weird some people complain about that to detract several stars. Sure, it could be done in a bit more believable way, but I believe there's a fine line between something being too simple and going too complicated for realism, then you end up with stories that are planned to be done in 25 years best case scenario like some dreamy developers.
So overall this story strikes a pretty good balance, I think it's entirely playable, a true 4 * in my opinion. There's no glaring issues and no outstanding genius either, it's just done pretty well.

Version Episode 9b

Inconsistency plagues Cursed Affection and no, I'm not taking about the models or background renders - the inconsistencies lie in story flow and characters throughout the game.

It's like a Story Chain game where each person builds on what was narrated by the previous players and snowballs into a big directionless story filled with logic faults. In modern context, it's like the script was written by an AI with low context tokens and simply generates content with what it "remembers" for the past 2,000 words.

Story
MC is a Marshall of a small dwindling town; he saves a girl from an occult ritual and subsequently experiences various paranormal events cumulating in strange undead beings attacking the town. It doesn't help there is an invisible barrier preventing its inhabitants from escaping the town.

It's a reasonable paranormal + apocalypse starter, but momentum breaks down early. Despite the disaster, everyone in town including MC and LIs go around business as usual as if nothing more of consequence is happening. As a result, players don't get a sense of any terror or impending doom despite the events.

Throughout the "horror", MC is also busy with various slice of life and romancing moments with the different LIs which is jarring. The plot subsequently takes a drastic turn from Chapter 9 and goes on an entirely different angle without really resolving the key mysteries, even in moderate part, of the previous arc.

Though chronologically linear, Chapter 9 & 10 can almost stand entirely on their own without much bearing on Chapters 1 - 8 as the story goes off in a fundamentally different direction.

Game Mechanics
Standard visual novel choices that either allow you to reject a particular LI or result in some minor branching. I believe Chapter 9 is the first time a major choice appears that will lead to very different outcomes.

Background / Character Renders
Background consist of the typical urban setting maps you see in almost every Daz3D game, good enough to deliver the story, but nothing memorable.

MC is your standard male model with a physique that is on the smaller side of things. The LIs are well done and distinguishable and one of the stronger areas in the game.

Character Development
Character development suffers from the same inconsistencies as the plot in Cursed - MC kicks off as a highly upright and responsible Marshall who is deeply in love with his pregnant girlfriend Jessica.

We are led to believe early on that this will either be a non-harem game or at least a harem one that has dilemma and emotional tension i.e. not fuckfest where MC plants his dick everywhere and every girl just goes along for fun.

The lead up to sex with the rescued girl, Allison, occurs on emotional vacum and thereafter the sstory descends into a fuackfest with multiple LIs and once-offs with random girls. This does not gel in with what we are told about MC earlier on as well.

Even more disorienting is MC going around assuring each of these girls as if they are the unique one other than his pregnant girlfriend. Typical cheater scumbag behaviour which is totally at odds with what we are told about MC earlier.

Jessica's reaction to sulk one corner after discovering MC's betrayal with Allison is nonsensical as well.

Sex Scene
The scenes are a mixed bag. Good thing is they all come with animations and sound effects which certainly helps build up the mood, but some of the camera angles and dialogue could do with improvement.

Too much "hmmm, ahhh, ohh etc." which is simply just repeating what the sound effects are doing. Many of the animations are also too short a loop and some of them exhibit considerable jarring.

BGM and Sound Effects
The BGMs are well selected to create a mysterious and dangerous mood despite the inconsistent plot and characters. There are some rudimentary sound effects that do their job.

Conclusion
Overall, despite some very notable areas for improvement, I would say Cursed Affection is a passable but mediocre product which is decent enough if you just want to kill some time.

The entire project can do with much firmer planning and control though; it feels like every chapter and scene is just thought up on the spot without taking into account what happened in the past and what is planned for the future.

Very good scenario and intrigue, the character are very nice, the renders also and sex positions, it is lacking a replay mode and more hints about the story and drama. Waiting for the evolution fo the project

A very nice piece of art

CURSED AFFECTION ep 9
I played AI version on Mobile

Pros
Nice animations, but short and unimpressive sex scenes - i can`t do any better despite having smooth animations sex scenes are dull and short, thats the pro...
branching game with choices and options
Woman looks good+ aka 7/10 for 3d game

Cons:
Zombie game
Random unprompted game overs for arbitrary reasons
Game dont autosave at all (might be mobile ai version exclusive bug, but thats the bug i experienced)
Some choices indicate results, but a lot of them don't

If you wait for few updates it might be cool game, but i dont see it ever in 5star category and thats a low bar for sex games on me

Fantastic game with descent story, great looking girls, and over the top animations. Well done! The story is "out there" but intriguing and keeps you guessing. Can't say enough about the animations. So many and not just the sex scenes. There are animations everywhere and it really brings a cartoon porn game to life.
I didn't notice a reply gallery but I'll look again. If it is not there then definitely should be.

Review based on experience up to chapter 4.
This will be very subjective and contain spoilers, you have been warned.

1. Renders are top notch and character models are excellent. The girls are really pretty with good variety though perhaps a bit to heavy on the large boobs. This novel seems to go for a believable and realistic style, so not having all the girls have massive boobs would surely help in that regard.
2. Animations are well done and there are plenty of them. However alot of them are in weird places like just walking or someone just sitting. Would have preferred to have more animations in lewd and action scenes instead of these seemingly random spread and not so well cutted into regular scenes.
3. Dialogue is well written and for the most part has a good flow and seems natural and believable. However the banter in lewd scenes is bad, there is no dirty talk and aside from alot of ahhh and mmmh the characters seem to just be having a regular conversation while going at it.
4. The story is quite is all in all quite good and the way it is presented is also for the most part both engaging and interesting. As of chapter 4 there still alot of mystery going on and if it was not for my next point I would probably still be reading instead of writing this review.

The MC, as usual this is the place that most avn falls short and this one is no exception. So much so that he gets his own section of this review, since in my opinion almost everything bad about this novel ties into him.
1. The physical. Very much on the small side in both height and build for a man, as in he is pretty much the same size if not smaller than most of the girls. Does not at all fit with the whole sole protector of the town role he is supposed to have. Comes show already in one of the opening scenes as he is complaining about how hard it is to carry an unconscious girl, that he is rescueing, 20 meters. Not only does he carry her in like 4 different ways that are all wrong if not impossible, but as a policeman he should also have had that type of training and be in shape to do so. I also think the whole supernatural and horror aspect of the story would be much better if put up against a physically capable individual instead of a weakling, to show that despite his competence he is still way out of his depth.
2. Competence and choices. Straight away he makes poor choices, him driving home his pregnant girlfriend to stay at home alone at night when he knows there is dangerous people in town, to then go back and fall asleep at his desk while supposedly watching over an injured girl locked up in a cell is just beyond stupid. Then the choice on what girl to check in on before going home is just wtf, ofc you check in on both of them as you promised. Not only is it your job you also made a promise, but nah lets not keep it so we can get home what 20 min earlier. Then we encounter weird freaky people who are obviously dangerous and does not die even though you shot one of them 3 times in the head, and you dont think it is time to bring out more than just your handgun and do not want to break into the gun store to get more firepower, to not even talking about not even having a shotgun at a sherif department, a little logic please. The choices where you get 2 options and one just leads to game over is also completely pointless and add nothing to the novel. The choice where you chose between believing the squatter girls or the douche brothers also just is a prime example of what an absolute idiot mc is, like he knows these dudes are unstable and drunks so his solution as a police officer is to beat the guy up and tell him to leave them alone, not just illogical but also friggin illegal. Then we have the scene where 4 of these cultist fuckers march up unarmed to the police station and starts demanding to get the girl while throwing threats n stuff, and what does the marshal do, he fucking hides inside and tries to bargain with them. Why does anyone trust this guy to protect anything, he is so damn useless it makes me wanna vomit. Also the situation where he chases this woman to the border of town and he knows if she continue running she will die and he just yells stop, draw you gun fire a warning shot at her feet, hell even shoot her in the leg just friggin stop her from running into certain death.
3. Background and setup. Saddling the mc with a pregnant girlfriend who is obviously a sweet girl bordering on complete angel... is just a bad choice. Like why force the reader to play as a complete asshole to interact with the LI in the novel and to watch the lewd scenes that dev has put effort into making. Seems obvious that it is intended that mc should have relationships with several of the girls, but to do so he has to behave like a despicable garbage cheater. And it also makes Allison and the rest of the LI seem like a bunch ruthless cunts. Ofc I dont know if all this is intentional but it is for sure not my cup of tea. Add this to his other faults and there is pretty much nothing to like about this mc and he drags this whole novel down with him.

A few suggestions on how to improve this mess
1. MC needs to grow some balls and put on his man shoes, and while he is at it grow a head taller and gain 40 lbs. Nobody feels safe with a pathetic weakling in charge and it does not help the credibility of the story to have all the LI be delusional and praise him for being a good guy when he is a frikkin cheater. Let him be smart and manly cause his sissy ntr personality do not fit in this setting, hell it does not even fit with the cheater aspect of the character and it for sure does not fit with good guy protector man of the law perspective that most of the rest of the cast seem to have of him. I really want to continue the story but I just cannot when playing as a guy that pisses me of every time he needs to make a descision.
2. For the whole pregnant girlfriend setup to work, she either needs to be into the whole sharing her man thing from the start or there needs to be options for talking with her about it early on when other women start showing interest and thereby getting her on board. Otherwise you just lose all the audience that are not into cheating and still wanna see lewd scenes.

So to conclude this, if mc got a complete make over character model, choices, background everything except perhaps his face. Then this could pretty easily grab 4 or 5 stars, but as is he drags it down to not worth reading

The game has its moments of intrigue but i am not sure what it is but it did not keep my attention i wasnt getting that oooo i cant wait to see what happens next feeling.

The models themselves are pretty much run of the mill. i played through to the end of the chapter 8, and i will probably play the update but i am not left with the feeling of not being able to wait for the update.

Overall

Gameplay ........................ 3/5 (chapters are short)
Storyline .......................... 4/5 (interesting cult/supernatural)
Animations ..................... 3/5 (just not very smooth)
Models ............................. 3/5 (nothing too special compared to other games)
Totel rating ..................... 3/5 (its not a bad game just can be better)

This is one of the best paranormal story for an avns. Which focus on how our sense of security we get from our house, guns or masculinity means nothing in front of a force we don't understand,that laws of logic breaks beyond such power. And all this done very subtly. Teh writing here is good as I am in still h one.

and the renders and musi is on point.

Teh on;y issue I can find at this point is that its sex scenes of part 1 and some later parts are like a sex simulator with no naughty talk and progression and very clunky animation implementation which is a issue , this do improve in somtimes, but it is a primarly story focused AVN .Otherwise this game is truly a gem in the dust. That needs to be played by more people. If nothing than for its environment alone.

It have interesting theme i.e, facade of stability, exploitation in the name of truth

A pretty decent story about a cult that terrorizes a small town. It's a good looking game, with some very nice renders and a terrific sex animation system.

Pros:

1- The background music was well thought out and sets the mood nicely.
2- The renders are well done. There are some really artistic shots in the game.
3- The female characters are pretty, but look more like Instagram models than inhabitants of a small town. Yeah, I know, it makes fapping easier.
4- The sex animation system is terrific, and was the most impressive part of the game for me. Yes, more fapping.

Cons:

I would have rated this game much higher if it wasn't for the mediocre writing. I assume this is an English translation and that really drags the game down. There are simply way too many frames that resemble a garbled word salad.

If the Dev is interested in putting this on Steam, I would strongly suggest he/she gets the English version cleaned up first.

I read the tags and thought to myself, "pregnancy?, great I'm in" And then I see the pregnant GF, oh no! I was sort of put off, but I soldiered on expecting something like a good end of humanity epidemic story, but it seems like a slow burning horror cult/alien story. The expectancy of seeing some steamy action wasn't forthcumming, so I have decided to delete this game as a waste of disc space and my time.

I think this is similar to the Twin Peaks-inspired game he did before, Pine Falls, but the models and animations are much improved, and therefore, the game is a lot more modern.

That being said, it's a Daniels K game, the plot can rush at points, and the girls throw themselves at the MC for no other reason than he's the MC. At least he gives you choices to accept or reject their advances.

The English is still a little off, but very solid.

The AI-improved version is really interesting, it borderlines on real and uncanny valley, but the scene with Bonnie talking was very solid.

All in all, it's a Daniels K game with good animations and good models, therefore 4 stars, it would get 5 stars if it was a little less rushed, but I understand that sex sells.

Well done! The animations are better than average. The story is interesting given it is a porn AVN. The girlfriend is pretty believable as a character and a huge plus that she is pregnant. Sometimes the lewd times can be spaced pretty far apart, but not too bad. I am not going to follow every update, but I will revisit when completed.

(Based on Ep 3)

Pretty good Daniel K game. However, this time the plot seems to be a bit more serious and I'm all for it.

Pros:

1) Great renders
2) Plot seems to be heading somewhere
3) Nice setting. A backwater cult American town vibe.
4) Animations are great
5) MC isn't a fresh 18yo creep

Cons:

1) Relationship with the girls develop too quickly
2) The various options during intercourse was a great idea but wasn't executed well. The sex scenes lose coherence when going from one to the other.
3) At the moment, doesn't seem to be many branching opportunities.

Overall a pretty good game. It's a Daniel K game so it probably won't be abandoned and finished in a timely manner. But at the same time, the ending might be rushed since it's a Daniel K game. Good luck to the dev.

Even through it has been done a couple of times before the story is still interesting but there is not enough of it yet to tell if it is actually going to be done well or not.

The characters logic and priorities in this game are all messed up,
Sex scenes are good and bad, for MC's girlfriend it is awful, first there is a terrible choose your camera angle and action mini game type thing and then second there is the art, if you are going to give a character pubic hair at least make it look nice, Jessica's crotch wouldn't look out of place on a hobo it is just disgusting, for the other characters through they don't get a mini game and the art is pretty done well.

None of the characters really stand out yet as there is little time to get to know them.

Its too early for any choices to have any real effect so whether they work or not is still up in the air but given the nature of the story i would doubt it.

Story 3/5 (ok but short)
Sex 2/5 (good and bad)
Characters 3/5 (nothing special)
Art 3/5 (nice)
Choices 2/5 (nothing useful yet)
Kinks 1/5 (one so far)

Review for Ep. 1
Honestly I do not really get how this game has such a high rating. The story starts of quite interesting. I have not seen many games like this, so I appreciate the authenticity.

However, the dialogue and romance is rather dissapointing. Romances happen so quick without a lot of development or events having to take place for them. It just feels so unrealistic and rushed.

I guess that's in general the vibe I got from the litte content that we do have right now, rushed. It seems this game is just rushing to as much sex as possible.

Great first chapter. Looking forward to more. If your reeeally wanna give the player the "your choices matter" feeling- don't give them the power to investigate everything. Not the "choose at least 3" but "man, my schedule is gonna be tight, can only squeeze in 3 things to investigate today"
It sounds silly, but this illusion of choice will go a long way for future updates...ehhhh but who cares, right?
it's not like Daniel K actually goes on this site

I really enjoy this mystery story so far. It leaves me curious how it will develop. I enjoy the characters and do like the renders. There is even quite much content for episode 1. The developer did a very good job. Cant't wait for more

i love the story and the renders and after all it was an interesting experience really
the only thing i hated in this game was the sexual encounters sys because animations need dialogue too and to go through them without choosing randomly
that way it feels more alive
but i do love this game ofc