VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Due to My New Situation, I Have to Corrupt My Friend's Harem! [v1.00] [Warrior Novels]

What the F*** did I just played?

The Dev should move to writing dark fantasy, because there he can print his ideas on thousands of pages instead of in a game.
This reinvents what it means to have a "slow burn" game.
The models, scenes, and ideeas are ok, sometimes really good.

But the writing.. the horror
1. It doesn't make sense most of the time. Like the protag wants to corrupt a LI, he has her sucking him off, then distancing himself because he doesn't want to corrupt her too quickly, so let's do this shit again a few more days with no progress (The story literally goes with the protag thinking "No, she souldn't be this easily corrupted. I will wait more, I don't want this now")
2. It feels like the author discovered a psychology manual and wanted to share his love for this art with everyone, at the worst possible time, without ever discovering Foreplay. You have scenes in the game that can take more than 30 minutes, with both partners naked, and they talk fking psychology for the entire time, and having debates on the existence of life and human dilemas. And at the end, they call it a day without even trying to have sex.

• Imagine yourself in real life, with a girl in your bed, you over her, ready for sex, but before you stick it in, you randomly pause and start a debate for half an hour or more about her childhood traumas and past experiences in life, treating her like in a therapy session. Then at the end, she tells you she loves you. And then you get off her and tell her you won't fuck her today because she needs to build sexual tension and let her cook a few more days. And the girl going even more crazy over you because of that. WTF

Be warned: If you go by the numbered events (~150), the first actual sex scenes you will get will be in the second part of the game (~80). You only get blowjobs at max until then. And even then you will have to watch countless debates and long conversations that will bore you to death.

And again, the idea behind the game is interesting, sometimes even the way it unfolds, but it drags way too much. I literally waited 5 real hours between a BJ and intercourse (talking about steps in a relationship, you still get a lot of BJs in the time), while starting to skip text towards the end because I couldn't take it anymore.

So i came into this one thinking I'm just gonna get something fun, some corruption and NTR. And I did get that, what I did not expect was the rest.

I was not expecting such well written characters! Each of the girls are so different, and the character analysis one them so deep, and I was not expecting this at all.

The best part about this is not actually the NTR, but the corruption. Yes, suspension of disbelief is rife (at least there is some plot reason given for this), and unreal situations are plentiful, but the deep analysis on how the MC approaches each of the girls to corrupt them is very well done.

All in all. was worth it.

Btw, this is a kinda long one, be prepared for about 20-30 hours, depending on reading speed. Also very much a kinetic novel style with VERY little freedom. Would have love some more free roam, and choices, but all in all this succeeded in what it was setting out to be.

Just a quick ranking I want to give
Chiaki, best girl, 5 Stars!
Ai, also best girl?, 4.9 Stars
Tokuko, did not really like, but think that was intended, 3 Stars
Ema, did not like what she became, 2 stars

Endings
Ai, best end! 5 Stars
Chiaki, happy end, 4.5 Stars
Tokuku, wtf end, 3 Stars
Ema, no ones happy end. 1 star

Version 1.00
playtime about 30ish hours to see all endings
overall i'd give this 7.5~8/10
will say i dont really like ntr but dont mind it if i feel its deserved (which in this case it is), i do however like corruption
Ai is best girl followed by chiaki
also Players dad is suprisingly goated for them being "bad" people. chad dad

anyway, story/corruption i thought was pretty great. its a slowish burn that doesnt feel like its dragging along thankfully. does require some suspension of disbelief (as almost all corruption games do) but thankfully doesnt really go into the trope of "muh cock is bigger and im better at sex" either for corruption which is nice. (does however have you have a bigger dick then naoki). PLayer corrupts them all in different ways.
there was some contradictions in the logic/motivation between characters and their reasoning (mostly tokuko, esp in her actions regarding the start of the game that kicks this all off)

animations are ok, bout on par with what you would expect for a koikatsu game. better then stills but not amazing. cumshots generally cut to stills in this game and the cum looks like elmers glue

Sandbox is basically non-existant this game plays more like a kinetic novel with the sandbox only popping up at the start/end of a day to replay some scenes.

There were some grammar errors in the sense that they used the wrong word in spots, occasionally they'll use the wrong name too.
ex.
"since yesterday, Player had felt belittled by Naoki.
Player was making Naoki felt like a worthless man who constantly needed to listen to player's reccomendations"
you can see here the first sentence has player and Naoki in the wrong spots based on context of 2nd sentence (and the story) and the 2nd sentence has felt instead of feels.
Just some minor things like that pop up every now and then.

Overall id say i enjoyed playing it. regarding the endings

I am not one for a NTR story but the plot grabbed me more than i thought it would but i do agree with the other reviewers some of the dialogue does not sound natural, i could excuse AI or the MC since both are weird but even your childhood friend speaks in that manner.

in terms of the scenes they are nice and well animated my only wish that there was more. Even With the good pace Of the corruption i feel like there should have been way more sex scenes.

Characters were fine to me, im easy to please and i really liked AI and Chiaki. i think My one true gripe is that the MC does all this to get back at Nokai or W.e his name was but towards the end he kinda drops that to better his relationships with the girls i just wish it was better shown even if it was a short epilouge to see how better he treats the girls even ema. The MC seems more robotic than a smart clever guy. AI has more grounded dialouge than the MC and she is also weird. idk i liked the game liked the scenes but it could have been more. Also the choices really dont matter much but its fine since the quality of the story was actually pretty decent. Overall ok game, wish we had a gallery but its fine. Probably would'nt reply it.

I noticed this game quite some time ago when i was searching around netori stuff, but since it was unfinished i deliberately avoided any information about it for the actual completed release, but my expectations were high since there is a very small amount of games actually focused in this, at least comparatively speaking. What awaited me, however, was immense dissapointment. Perhaps i am overly harsh in this review, but my experience with this game was absolutely deplorable.

Overview pretty much covers most of the plot so i won't stop on this for long, you help a friend get his harem, then you like one girl of them but he nabs her anyway so you go onto a revenge plan to make him suffer and get them all from him. Sounds good on paper. HOWEVER.

There are so many issues with what's going on, and i wish i could start with most prominent but all of them are horrible. Starting with complete and utter disbelief in what is going on at all. Naoki, the friend you are stealing from, got personality and charm of a paperclip on his good day, and the girls sticking around him in such a group (especially considering all of their personalities) is so utterly absurd it simply doesn't work on a most basic level.

Equally absurd are the means of stealing, which is a combination of some prototype brainwave influencing device combined with hypnosis and drugs, i'm sure there are fans of this approach as well but for anyone enjoying emotional complexities or progression or any sort of moral dilemmas it is utterly laughable.

Protagonist is a complete piece of shit too and doesn't care about anyone in any capacity, and while it's not my thing there is a fanbase for this approach as well, but the big issue for everyone is it feels like even the protagonist doesn't want to be in this. He shows zero enthusiam for anything, goes through pretty much zero character development, anything he does and achieves not only doesn't belong to his efforts but he also doesn't care, i have no idea how am i supposed to relate or care in any way to anything going on in this story. I can appreciate an asshole character who enjoys stealing a wife/GF from others, but there is just nothing here. You would think at least his thoughts of revenge would ignite him but he is equally lethargic around it all. It is equally laughable how he is portrayed as this legendary criminal mastermind that is a master of psychology, plans ahead for years and manipulate everyone like a puppeteer but it is just pathetic. It feels like author wanted to have his Yagami Light or something but it's comically awful.

And all of those issues are proliferated and made worse by utterly insufferable overly verbose garbage writing that cannot be engaging if it's life depended on it. All of the dialogue is this game (and there is A LOT of it in the worst sense) is completely devoid of any life and personality and feels like it was written by an AI, or something that technically knows human language but doesn't understand concept of emotions or expression. Dialogues and events that should take minutes are stretched out into hours or sometimes tens of events and go in circles ad infinitum. All main girls have one simple character trait and this is their entire half-bit persona with zero complexity or nuance. There is so much stupid repetition time will stretch and you will wonder if it's some kind of purgatory and this is your life until the end of time now. It is rare to find writing so wretched and stretched. You can sit there and hold skip button for 40 minutes straight and you will lose zero plot or context.

In terms of animations and visuals it's hardly even tolerable, there are barely several locations used and it took me way too long to realise what i'm looking at with Ema's father. This was like the least fatherly model of a father i've ever encountered. There are a lot of small things too like protagonist room often looking spacious as a plane hangar, a ton of small grammar mistakes you would think be ironed out by now, things that are not that relevant in the grand scheme of things but do add annoyance.

If you are looking for netori or corruption it's just trash mind control. If you are looking for a harem protagonist doesn't care about anyone. If you are hoping to at least see some manipulative mastermind tagging at the strings, this is definitely ain't it. I do not see how anyone can derive any value from this, i sure feel like i wasted my time and gained nothing here.

TL;DR: Way too many words, way too little sex.

When I first started this game, I was intrigued; the idea of being that side character in a dating sim that helps you win the girls over only to lose out on the one you care about to that protagonist who already has everyone else? Wanting revenge for that low blow? That's a fun game right there.

And then the character you inhabit just. Doesn't shut the fuck up, ever. Honestly it seems like the writer was too busy wanking himself off to the idea of being so smart and having well written character dynamics, but realistically, the characters are all pretty one note, and despite having different methods of corruption, all end up in basically the same state at the end.

Then there's the sex; or rather, the extreme lack of it for a corruption based game. So many times I would go into a new event expecting more daring sexual advances, only for it to be 45 minutes worth of reading about "I don't want to be corrupted!" "But you will be." In various formats until they all fall, and then you bully Naoki a little, and then the game is done. Which is a shame, because the sex we do get is great! Even if most of it isn't repeatable in any way, I enjoyed it more when it happened.

To me, the biggest failing of this game is that even the protagonist doesn't really want to be here; he doesn't enjoy these women's company, he despises Naoki, he hates his father... There are times where you think that maybe he does care for a moment or two before, nope, sike, that's part of the conditioning and manipulation. Man is so high off of his own "my brain is huge" supply that even during the sex he can't stop thinking to himself about how much of a master manipulator he is.

All in all, this is a 1 star for the concept, 1 star for the girls designs type of game.

If you are looking for Corruption, Harem and Netori, I very much recommend it due to the characters and dynamics as well as the structure.
It's a pretty great work all things considered but imho it's important to note in a review which 'flaws' may deter one.

And the flaws rather focus on the erotic parts beyond inflicting soul crushing damage to the friend.
Artistically, centering the heart-shaped pupils on the eye center rather than the pupils does, especially with Ahegao, reach uncanny levels.
Some animation loops are also rather eerie due to heads bobbing unnaturally or similar motions that would better remain static / without.
Personally, I'd rather not have pubic hair on two of the four while Touka has too dark eyes but that's really just a preference and opinion.

My biggest grievance though is that I could quickly play through it not because it is short, it is anything but, instead the H lacks eroticism. Most is 'matter of fact' dialogue which furthers moral (not much pleasure) corruption or the stealing and sensual descriptions meanwhile are very lacking.

Total: 2.5 stars rounded up to 3.

The good:
Decent renders
Good variety in CG
Great pacing - women don't fall instantly but don't take ten hours of talking before you get anything from them
I like the fetishes shown in general

The bad:
The writing is weak. This overshadows everything else. There are two main parts:

First, the dialogue especially is stilted and unnatural. I've read MTl poetry that is better than this. The playboy that you are supposed to be stealing girls from is supposed to be suave but he completely lacks charm and charisma. His conversations to win over the girls are something like "hello! You are beautiful! The end!" I promise you that there is more to being charming than that.

The guy you are playing as the protagonist is supposed to be a cold, intelligent manipulator who understands people at a fairly deep level, but your character totally sucks at every major social interaction so what kind of manipulator is this? Hello?! When he's talking with the girls and trying to get to know them, he doesn't even employ extremely basic social skills like identifying common social connections or common interests. How is someone supposed to be hyperintelligent manipulator who talks to people like a bored third grader? Ugh.

It makes sense that the main character needs super hypno machines in order to get the girls to open up to him, it would be impossible to believe that he could possibly charm or win them over by acting like a human being.

tl;dr good premise bad execution. The writer of the story appears to be lacking in basic social skills and this greatly harms his ability to write realistic and interesting characters. The protagonist and the friend who you are stealing from are supposed to be dynamically opposite personalities but they talk pretty much exactly the same way.

EDIT: I want to be constructive rather than being pure flame. I think the author could really fix up the game by taking a writing class and taking notes on dialogue writing from movies or games. Youtube videos that break down human interaction like charisma on command could also help him in understanding different ways to navigate conversations and let him differentiate further between the main character and the friend.

I'm surprised. Usually, when I download a game here, it's for doing some hands-on activity (if you know what I mean).

I thought this VN would be the same thing, yet another game that would serve as a release for me. Surprisingly, I can't do anything concrete with this game. If we remove all of part H of the game, the writing remains excellent, each character is recognizable and diverse to be loved by certain sections, we are at a point where I just enjoy reading the dialogue.

When I start to be interested in the story rather than in part H especially in the mind control tag, it is because the game has fulfilled more than its function, and for that, I can only give it a 5 /5 well deserved.

GG the VN, you exceeded the function I had imagined and I always have a good time.

Pros:
- Very long. Not a finish in one or two sittings kind of game.
- One of the better corruption/netori games out there today.
- Variety in the girls personalities and designs.

Cons:
- The writing does not sound natural and has a constant "off" feeling to it.
- A pairing of slow pacing and, frankly, not much happening makes the game a more tedious slog than it needs to be.
- Limited locations. Almost the entire thing takes place in either your bedroom, or a couple of rooms at school
- Renders are only average Koikatsu quality. Many prettier options with this software. Same applies for the sexual content.

If you are a corruption, netori or to a lesser extent a trainer genre fan, then I would recommend playing this as I had a nice time. If these are not your cup of tea, however, then this is not good enough for me to tell you to ignore everyting and play it anyway.

I've been watching this game for a while now. I'm all for corruption but I'm picky about NTR, but I dove into this game anyways. This game is substantial, with a mix of good and not so good elements.

Reviewing as of v0.46

Pros:

• A very large amount of scenes to view and collect
• The corruption is paced very well. Some games instantly corrupt girls and it doesn't feel as gratifying. A slow burn corruption is the way to go.
• The girls come in different body shapes so there's something to enjoy for everyone
• Around 2-4 hours to complete

Cons:

• Extremely linear with no real choices to be had
• The MC isn't packing much, wish there was an option to change his size
• The writing isn't the strong suit for this game. Also if there's no chocies for me to have, why make me go to places to advance the story. Just make it a kinetic novel at this point.
• The grind isn't much, but with no choice-making and not much to do, it makes itself more pronounced.

Conclusion:

I would read some other reviews before jumping in. I try to keep mine short and straight to the point but a bunch of people on here have made some excellent and thought-out reviews detailing the story more. I would recommend giving this a go but don't be surprised if the lack of choices and the constant grind turns you off.

-The writing is weak, not terrible, but forgettable and drones on.

-The MC complains too much, even when he had the power to do something. They come off as whiny or incompetent too often.

-MC has no emotions at times, which really makes certain scenes feel awkward. Essentially MC has a generalized "Flat Affect."

-The blackmail/coercion parts are fine, but tend to end up being both drawn out and seriously repetitive. Also reinforces the "Incompetent MC" stereotype because every girl, even the ones who kinda liked him, have to be manipulated/coerced by hypnotism.

-Sex scenes/progression, while slightly different/unique at the start for each girl, eventually becomes same static thing everytime; it starts to feel like a grind.

-Who knew every girl could explosively orgasm from sucking a dick? Like has a guy ever came from eating a girl out? Holy fuck.

-It relies too much on powers/outside influence (hypnosis and drugs) to manipulate everything because the MC is useless and annoying. Not that I hate the idea in a story, more it's a pain on how it's done. Why? The father forces it on the son, and then things get pushed from behind-the-scenes.

-The MC's father seems to be the real MC...sorta not joking? But is definitely manipulating the story too much.

-Playing this game just makes me angry at times because it could have been so much more.

Simply the best story of "See the consequences of your own actions" I have read so far.

Favorite girl definitely Ema, but they are all fun encounters.

Also slow corruption is just always a nice thing when exectued correctly.

Review @v0.41: I wish I could rate this one higher than 5*.

Let me talk about the cons first. Pencil dick. Relatively short penetrative scene. Linear with only ONE branching choice so far.

But all of those are overshadowed by the pros. The story is great. The characters are explored in depth. The conflicts are natural. No characters involved are plot devices. Well except for Naoki but we all know he is a loser. And most importantly, as much as there is slow burn corruption going on, none of the girls are losing their identities.

I'm already interested by the netori element, but now I'm fully invested. Wish devs all the luck in further developing this game.

I really enjoy the whole corruption process. each girl has a unique story and method to account for their personality. unlike many of the corruption games on this site, the process is gradual and believable, leading to satisfying build-ups.

this game could have been a 5/5, however, i really dislike the premise. in a sense, naoki already won because he already fucked all the LIs except for one, so the victory and revenge doesn't feel that satisfying. I'm not sure why the writer made the MC a genius and have the tools to control libido but couldn't change the timelines a little bit so that naoki is eager to but had not taken the harem's virginities. this could have been so much more satisfying. i think this is kind of a letdown considering the high school setting where virginities actually are believable and I wouldn't care as much otherwise.

İdea is good but this is little too easy for Mc to achive man like really easy everything goes to keikaku and girls have no will to fight theres no big corruption story sometimes feels really boring but but theres big potencial here dont get me wrong this is not master piece but still its good to play.

Obviously if you're not into the main tag this probably won't grab you as much as another game. But it's still surprisingly fun. I think the scenes involving the boyfriend, Naoki, are a big skip. I also think the girls are generally less charming by virtue of having agreed to be in a harem in high school with a man who is obviously not very competent or smart. While it's pretty much entirely linear, the corruption is paced really well, and even for a slow burn there's enough meat in the scenes to have fun with.

I appreciate that the protagonist is not delusional about whether what he's doing is good or not. I appreciate that the game offers you an out at the beginning with the joke ending, just to make sure we're all on the same page. As much as I don't find the scenes with Naoki being jealous interesting, I at least like that the game sells us on his charisma. It's also nice that Hiro, our protagonist, does have a sort of acerbic charm to him. You can understand why they would have been friends, and also why they would have drifted apart.

I know the cheating isn't optional, but Naoki being a real character really just doesn't improve the actual meat and bones of the corruption for me. If this game took place entirely within the sex and blackmail scenes, it would probably jump up a point. The real personalities are the girls and how they grow and change, and while they're not super engaging, they'd be far better if they weren't dragged down by the high school bullshit. When Hiro gets a win in their little social games, it doesn't feel satisfying, because he's just achieved emotional victory over fellow children in a classroom. You get the feeling it would have been better if there was no ensemble and everything was just one-on-one.

I'd still recommend playing it over a lot of other Koikatsu corruption visual novel games. It's not smug or overbearing and it takes itself seriously. It's not self-aware, it doesn't break the fourth wall, it doesn't try to be clever with the reader, nor is it moralizing. If I could steal anything from this game and spread it around the website it's the straightforwardness.

Interesting. I can understand how this isn't for everyone. If you are here for the art, you'll likely be disappointed. It's servicable, but reused often, the animations are standard and everything outside the girls is basic.

BUT that doesn't matter. This might as well be text based and it would still be good. This is all about the mental process of corruption, the strategies and the changes in behavior and attitude. It's slow, but really really well done. Now, there is some Deus Ex Machina, but the progress is believable slow and different with each girl.

It's a very smart and well written VN, but it'll only be worth your time if you enjoy reading it instead of skipping through.

I played the first game and it was great, but this one just step above. Just a Masterpiece for me, a sea of love, lust and passion, the process of “corruption” is very interesting and exciting, as always, the first impression of the characters is the same, but gradually it changes very much.
Personally, I liked the game itself more because of the fascinating story and the process of corruption itself, where you reveal the characters and stories of the girls, and I began to fall in love with them. Well, the H events themselves are great too))

Well this is a hidden gem, the models might not be the prettiest, i guess is because they are all handmade and not stolen or tweaked like many others games around, but the plot is the real star here, the corruption and the fall of the girls are really great, every girl fall for a diferent reason and not all is dick magic power.
The only thing to improve it will be the graphics, the first impression not is the more apealing, and the sex scenes, i mean what is happening around the scene is great with talk between the characters and the circustamces but the description and intensity are not in the same level a good example of great scenes might be "depraved awakening, city of broken dreamers and being a dik".

ps: the dev really have potencial he already got the hardest thing of all, a good writing.