VN - Ren'Py - Elvensang [Ep. 5] [Worlaix]

PROS
- Its a very well written story. I enjoyed reading about the elven lore and the hatred between the elves & humans. The writer does a good job to keep the reader interested.
- The art style is very nice. Although there seems to be some variation between some CGs, some characters look different between scenes.
- Amaya. Literally the best thing about this game. What a fucking badass.
- The whole package is nicely presented in terms of sound effects, dialogues, and BGM as they match the tone of the game. Like the (sorta) jumpscare with the demon in the bedroom or when the music suddenly stops when you encounter something paranormal. The creator really put effort into setting the scene.

CONS
- I don't like how you are forced into relationships. I found Sunny kinda annoying and the dev wanted to do the whole 'she is an innocent lil thing that you must do this slow burn romance with'. Maybe its just my personal preference as I'm a big fan of choices and I prefer strong female leads like Amaya rather than Sunny who is the exact opposite. But here's the problem, you are given a choice to romance Amaya, but then you have no choice with Sunny?
- No matter what other character you like, you feel they come in a package with Sunny and you must share her/them with Sunny. So the game is kinda heading into this unavoidable harem situation and I feel its probably because the dev doesnt wanna deal with confusing renpy variables where she is removed from the equation or he cant narratively write his way out of it.

Elvensang is an excellent VN, with quality writing and nice hand-drawn natural art.

I liked the story most of all, the lore and world-building are of better depth and quality than most you would find here. I would definitely play (or read, more like) the game withtout any sexual content.
The art looks a bit off sometimes, and mostly in the beginning, but it still has a tender and passionate look, I would say 'natural' hand brush style, which is rare and immersive.
Characters are well written and choices and embranchments makes you consider that there is never a perfect path. The vanilla romance with Sunny is well written and perfectly brought up. She is to me the cutest thing ever.

On the other hand, I feel like there is a lot of unnecessary dialogues. Lot of chit-chat dragging on without true purposes. Didn't kept me from reading though.
The mc's relation with his mother is simply not my jam. Too much mama's boy situations, but all tastes are in the world I guess...
Sometimes the story seems a bit off-track, but some parts are really well written and kept me busy for hours.

Overall I love this game, it is way above average in regards of the writing and world building. It is very slow paced, and has too much dialogues, which could be seen as sometimes a little boring, but strangely didn't kept me from binge reading it...

I'd like to start off by saying this is probably the best banner on F95. IMO. No matter what...when I see it in someones signature or it shows up under searches...I always stop to admire. That being said: this game/story doesn't leave a lot to be desired if you are intrigued enough by the banner.

Story is original enough and your choices feel like they have weight to them. The dev is currently active. He is a Solo dev though. Patience must be exercised to some degree. It is a slow burn but the ball does get rolling. Do yourself a favor and give it a try.

It should speak volumes to the quality of writing on display here that this game, objectively bereft of sexual content (presently), reviews so well here on F95zone- the home of degeneracy. It truly is a testament to the writing. The art- while occasionally quite pretty- is fairly amateurish. The game systems are just the stock standard renpy VN affair. And thus it's the story that truly distinguishes itself. It's an intimate story about family and finding your place in a world that despises you. The characters are all written in a way that makes you eager to pull the strings that will unravel their inner selves. If you want a cute, mushy little romance story- rife with temptation around every corner- you can have that. If you want your own personal harem, filled with top-tier heroines, well you can't quite have that yet but the foundation is certainly there and quite fun to explore. And if you want something a touch more... degenerate, well there's this fantastic mod that some talented soul put together. And the accuracy with which this anonymous figure replicates the art and writing of the creator? Truly is astounding. Chefs kiss. Overall, this is a fantastic project that's a little bare bones at present but can easily end up becoming one of the greats after it's had a couple more years to cook.

I dont usually review any games but this game just had to get one.


The game is probably one of the best out there, the characters are top notch, the story is compelling and it's clear that Worlaix put a lot of effort in world building, it even has a codex which is nice, the art is also very nicely done and music wise its very well fitted, the initial theme the game has is one if not the best instrumental pieces I've heard in a game, it's only downside is that the scenes don't have sounds, for me, a game that lacks sfx never gets anything above 3 no matter how good it is(which kinda shows how good the game is in itself) but other than that this is must try.


this is for Worlaix if he reads these: More Anasteya please

Do play this game!

Most immersing story I have played so far
Low sexual content (which is + for me)
Original setting and universe, or at least unknown for me, so I have a lot of fun learning about it as opposite to games set in already existing ones. Gives an incentive to not rush exposition.
I will rewrite this later.

Do play this game!

Bro's like to write a lot, a huge amount of blabla, no lewd scene.
Its a shame because the art is great, but the creator put too much dialogues, way too much.
You feel like you're reading a big book of 2000 pages instead of playing an adult game.
Dont play this game

Elvensang is such an incredibly boring, monotonous game.
No sex, (almost) no nudity - so if your intention is self-satisfaction, forget it.
The characters are a bit interesting, and the story isn't bad.
However, the plot drags at the speed of a crippled snail, unnecessarily detailed and redundant.
It is simply TOO MUCH text, absolutely unnecessary, often boring and pretentious; text in such quantity, and even with black screens (an evidently lazy work on the part of the developers), that I often felt cheated, as it seemed like I was being forced to read a (bad) book.
And finally, the art is very simple, simplistic, even, with few details, uninspired and with strange incongruous visual variations from one scene to another.
The game has some potential, but it is wasted because the developer apparently considers himself a modern Tolkien.
Rating 1/10.

Okay, this is a promising game. The Art is interesting, the characters are well done and the background story and the dialogues are well written.

But, at this stage, its basically erotic fantasy with sex scenes consisting of 2 hand jobs by the main LI. wait, and you grab the moms tits once.

I mean, let's be honest, its a porn game, then it should have porn in it. I know I know, it is slowly building up which I usually enjoy. But it's a lot of dialogue with not much happening and a lot of teasing. Right now, for me it's not interesting, because it ends before getting even something you could call porn.

I believe if the author keeps going at this rate, we might have completed status in 2026. Maybe then there will be tons of porn if the dev doesnt fall for the trap of adding more and more LIs without fleshing out the existing ones.

Concetrate on the characters you already have and begin adding porn, then it's on the right website.

Great art, good story, good characters. Basically no porn right now, so substracting 2 stars. Not sure if choices really have an impact on the overall game. they are looked upon in later dialogue, but I dont know if it changes the story.

This project leaves an extremely pleasant impression thanks to its sketch, plot and forks. Ideas associated with certain prejudices + elven beauties along with excellent drawing are a reason to keep an eye on this project.

[Reviewed Episode 5]

I always try to reward / appreciate VNs with bespoke art but I find myself wanting to like this game more than I do. There's a lot of positives here, including the characters -- but the story is both cliche and burdensome, going in slow circles. I will continue following this but will hope the dev can more consistently meet the heights the game sometimes achieves.

The Good ()

• Enjoyable art style evoking classic fantasy
• Great buildup and sexual tension in the relationships
• Cute, likeable main love interest
• Lots of story content
• Many suggestions of branching options with side love interests in the future

The Not-So-Good ()

• Some of the story is deeper / better conceived than other parts -- your mileage may vary
• Not a lot of actual H-scenes so far in the story
• Same art used for majority of scenes with little changes
• Slow updates from dev

There's definitely something here, but between the slow updates and the grindy story, I'm not expecting the final product can achieve the game's potential.

I love this game. I started it not thinking it would be nothing special. Then I looked up and it was hours later. I noticed good use of conflict in storytelling. Characters have wants and those desires clash. For example, with Sunny's apprentice arc. That's storytelling that's captivating.

Going around and making friends and influencing them later to help you achieve tasks is a compelling gameplay loop. The inclusion of lies even if non- consequential and linear is good. It does a good job of putting you into another world. I'm not sure that world is particularly interesting though they did craft some interesting scenarios. There are some cool narrative threads as well such as the black mirror. Which makes me want to check in once it's finished.

It oozes character. This game has a main character that I find myself rooting for. He wants to do right and that is used to great effect. My favorite is Trisha. She is a wonderful study on internal contradictions. Her being of elevated status, yet percieving difference in abundance rather than lack of it. Born in a rival kingdom so there should be tension there, but she really just wants friends. Having that sophisticated mask over her lurid gaze. Claimng to not want to marry but desperately being hot in the pants for you makes for a compelling read. It feels very human.

I like the shading, color, and softness. It feels very homely. However, the weakest part is the drawing. Some of these drawings are flat out bad. And almost all of the drawings are a tad off. That said, if you can, ignore bad drawings you'll find the writing more than makes up for it. The NPCs in particular look terrible. The drawings are very close to being good. The artists just need more practice and that will come with time. Keep that in mind before jumping in. The artist should focus on learning anatomy, perspective, and drawing consistency in the future. While amping their strengths color and vibe.

I'm so used to harem stories meaning minimal effort and concern. This is a passion project, and you can feel it and it's compelling despite the shortcomings of poor drawing and consequences of learning as you go. I am glad they did though. There is a lot of potential in the dev, Worlaix. I'm rooting for them all the way.

It is abundantly clear that the writer loves the setting he has created for this game, though I suspect the writer fell into the trap of believing his first TTRPG setting is far better than it actually is. It is also abundantly clear that the writer isn't particularly good at writing dialogue, or pacing a story, or writing a love story, or giving the reader any sort of payoff, in the form of actual porn or even just dialogue, or anything regarding the growing sexual tension between the MC and the women around him. It is very unfortunate that the setting is quite bland. Were it a setting for a tabletop game or even if there was more of a game here this could be forgiven in spite of everything else wrong with it.

The art is fine, if nothing special, but there is almost none anyway so it really doesn't matter.

The story on the whole is bland, and despite selling itself on moral greyness and difficult choices there is little divergence between paths except for minor dialogue changes. The characters tend to have shockingly little personality for how much they drone on and on in conversation. The writer has even gone so far as to include a glossary which exposits on the setting and yet still at least half the dialogue is expository, further reinforcing my idea that this was the writer's D&D setting prior to being made into a game.

My advice to anyone reading this is to look elsewhere for their fantasy fiction.
Want another story about an outcast elf in a bland fantasy setting? Read the 40 Drizzt Do'Urden novels that R.A. Salvatore wrote for the Forgotten Realms.
Want more generic fantasy schlock? Check the fantasy section of the local secondhand book shop.
Want generic fantasy smut? Check the fantasy tag on literotica
Want generic fantasy pornographic art? Look at a booru
Any of those options is near guaranteed to be less boring or more arousing than playing Elvensang.

Really enjoyed this one. Didn't think I would like the graphics that much but the game actually looks very nice and I ended up liking the renders, so if you're worried about the 2D graphics, just give it a chance and play it anyway, you may end up appreciating it.

I think the game's very well written, has some great characters that you end up caring about and the story's good as well with quite a lot of choices that influence it. Overall, I definitely recommend this one.

This is about the latest update, Ep.4, released August 2022.

The background artwork is very good other than too much use of blurring the edges of most every detail which can get old on occasion since there aren't too many different scenes.

The characters are absolutely beautiful! They could use some help with their lips, but otherwise are great.
There are a couple scenes with what looks like older artwork and the characters look a bit strange.

The background music/soundtrack is very nice and fits well with the story.

The background sounds, such as crickets or a dog barking, might be nice but gets extremely annoying after awhile.

It would be very helpful if we were allowed to choose a different font as well because since there is so much text to get through it can be a little bit tiring.

Game performance is very with no delays, lagging, or issues with saving. There aren't really any animations to speak of. Scenes are very static other than an occasional movement of the lips or eyebrows.

There aren't too many choices in Elvensang, just enough to not feel like a kinetic novel. Some of the results won't really make any differences no matter what you choose. Also, many choices start off with 'you'. You chose to ignore, or You chose to answer, or You chose.... etc. Those are just examples, not direct quotes.

The writing needs a lot of help. For example:
You wake up
You are tired
You don't know...
You made your way....
Starting every sentence with You gets very boring very quickly. That being said, it's also good in some other areas.

Elvensang is made up of custom artwork and characters along with extremely long drawn out conversations. As others have mentioned, most conversations seem to be
bloated and long-winded not really adding to the progression of the story. Since the images don't change any during these conversations, that too gets old eventually.

Finally, if you are out for a fap or looking for sex scenes then this isn't for you as I think I only saw 1 sex scene so far? Somewhere in the forum the dev states, I think, that there won't be any until Ep6. So don't jump into this with those kinds of expectations. Honestly it's more of a teen fantasy than an adult game at this point.

It's a very very slow paced VN which certainly isn't the worst out there, but I fell asleep a few times trying to get through it.

The story is so good!! It's one of the best stories I have read in this type of game. I don't even need the porn tbh, when the story is so captivating. It doesn't hurt though! I definitely want to see more of the mother.
I'm very excited to see what happens next.

Was hooked by nice individually made art and elves, but found myself captivated by the story and character behind the pretty visuals.

Fair warning though, if you simply want to masturbate, this won't be the game for you; it takes a long time to reach erotic material, which as of this review is often not directly sexual for the protagonist.

However, can say I particularly enjoyed the setting and themes, which still provided a feeling of personal interaction and character development in the choices available. The characters have been the strongest point for me, both main and side characters, which interact and build off each other in the greater story in an active and interesting way. For example, the competition between choosing to support the Briarstead community, elvenkind, or one's own family only, and by extension choosing whether to aid the local duke, , or the up and coming 'nouveau riche' merchant(& his daughter), all of whom have their own aims and beliefs of which you may or may not know of and must consider, and perhaps even plan to use to your advantage.

Also, particularly enjoyed teases of potential future erotic content; very loving/affectionate with the mother, adopted girl, and barmaid, while maybe some femdom from or merchant daughter. Also happy to see muscular but feminine women are not shyed from, with the smith, , and perhaps even
I don't know how large the complete version is planned to be, nor how frequent updates will be, but so far looks like a very interesting and promising read.
-A thorough thanks to Worlaix for his work

TLDR at bottom.

Elvensang as of this moment is quite overrated. Yes, it does have a fairly interesting world that is built up by the massive amounts of exposition; however, it is too much exposition. There is an overabundance of long-winded conversations and thoughts that don't forward the plot much at all.

Which wouldn't be too bad to me if as the player character you had more dialogue choices when it came to interacting with the characters you encounter. It doesn't have that so a lot of the conversations are quite mundane to say the least. The characters acting more as vessels to talk about the world outside of the village that you don't get to see rather than get you to enjoy their presence.

It's a visual novel, you want to see more than you get told.

When there are choices to be made I can't attest to any that questioned my morality or gave me second-thoughts. Helping whoever you want always and not being rude to them always is the better choice.

About the art, it has moments where it's pretty good and some where it is pretty lackluster. I would say only about 10% of it consists of nudity or intercourse.

The soundtrack is passable, relaxing, and forgettable so not much to say about that.

TL;DR, If you got a lot of time to read all the fluff text knock yourself out but the best way to enjoy it is to skip the majority of the unseen text and rollback before you make choices.

Was excited to try this game given some of the reviews and recommendations about the writing. Sorry to say I can't agree. The writing is not "bad" in the usual way of being puerile and dumb, but it's not great.

It takes hours for the main story to gather momentum -- far too much of what's here is painstakingly detailed backstory. IMO the author falls into a common writer's trap of falling in love with the backstory he crafted, and wanting to put it all on the page rather than getting on with the main plot.

There is an avalanche of exposition, of questionable necessity for a simple fantasy setting and an uncomplicated cast of familiar stock characters.

Also the prose tends to be somewhat padded and uneconomical. Almost every sentence of dialogue runs longer than it needs to, almost every conversation runs twice as long as it should. Some sharp-eyed editing would be helpful here.

It's easy to tell the author is passionate about the project -- but a good author shouldn't be so frivolous with his readers' time and attention. Three stars for making an effort but can't go higher.

keep em coming, this is a quite uniquely interesting storyline imo, hopefully the creator keeps this going till the end, would love to see this kinda a storyline with a futa protagonist aswell but guess those are not as popular or lots of people not into it