VN - Ren'Py - Erotica [Ep. 12] [Daniels K]

There are some nice aspects to this AVN
+ I really appreciate how the girls look more normal than other VNs where it seems every girl is a 6'2", fashion model with Double-D implants.

+ I did not see the end of Episode 9 coming at all. With what our main protagonists were up to, I did think, "That's not a great plan. What about <specific female name>?" Question answered with a nice surprising twist.

> Animations are so-so. Not a total negative because at least there was an attempt and it did seem to get less choppy as the episodes progressed.

> The story is good, not great. The plot twist help, but things like suddenly he's a porn actor was out of left field.

> The uncle is almost like the Hand of God fixing things for our MC. It's a bit too much for me personally sometimes. Anytime it's pure chance or hand-of-god it makes me wary of the rest of the writing. At the same time, we all need allies...especially powerful ones.

> I have no idea why this is titled, Erotica. It doesn't feel like that to me. Now if the story was a journey into the dark, off the beaten path of experiencing sexual fantsies and/or kinks, I could see how the name applies. This is boy returns to old hometown and hooks up with the yokels; while building relationships with the criminal underworld.

OVERALL
I've played worse and I've played better. This did not feel like a waste of time. Worth checking out.

I'm actually suprised TBH cuz i just downloaded this game because of swingin tag but there is only one scene in swinging as of now but then what made me like this game is this characters and beautiful girls with linear story.
I mostly skip dialouges because of worst english and writing but this game really pull off those issues because story is not complicated it is very simple to understand memorable which makes this game more interesting.
Also, damn there is a reasonable characters of hot and beautiful girls which is a big positive point you'll get to interact with all based on your choices which makes this game enjoyable like not too much cock sucking whores in one game.
My fav girl is ofc lily she is just so hot, thicc, cute, innocent and sexy at same time. She is really the best for me.
This game also have some dumb plot lines like the blindfolded thing but i find that also fun for me cuz i the end we can choose how we proceed with chloe ofc i swapped her lol !! so yeahin the end you always get the choice.
Animations and renders are top notch in the game. It's really good and im impressed.
Only a big flaw in the game is it says voiced but no thats just one AI voice for all girls dialouges so its a clickbait and i fell for it so its just disappointing for me. That's the only reason im reducing the one star. Dev shouldn't have done that
so yeah keep doing the awesome work dev looking for more fappability works from you lol

The plot is actually pretty decent as AVN plots go. Nothing to rave about, but it has some suspense and a few twists. The graphics are really well done, and the animation during sex is slightly better than average. Heather and Lilly look too much alike to suit me. Maybe it could be as easy as changing one of their hair colors. I really love Riley, as she is not classically or voluptuously beautiful, but still girl-next-door sexy. I would like a pregnancy option, but perhaps that would make things unnatural, given the story line. The one thing I would really love is to have a voice actor (even a rank amateur) do the voices. The computer-generated voice is monotone and so unrealistic that it is actually jarring. Compounding this is the on-off nature of having voice for one screen then none, then voice back, then gone. Others have commented on this, and I agree it is worse than no voicing at all. If I could give it a 3.8, that's what I would go for, but 4 stars is not overly generous and 3 stars would be a disservice to a good effort with room for improvement.

I keep getting sucked in by DK's stuff. Early promise, decent models, some fun scenes, someone to hate. But, as usual, it all falls on it's face after dancing on it's dick of idiocy. Just piling up improbabilities and stupid events just pull you out.

If you played his games you know what to expect. An empty pastry puff. Or you could say it's badly Shakespearean: So much sound and fury, signifying nothing.

TLDR: If you like DK's formula, and formula it is, then you'll like this. If you are one of the ones who get sucked back in to be disappointed by the inevitable dickdance mid-late game, then move along and save yourself the wasted time.

V. Ep 10

abandon ye hope all that enter here...

i mean it's Danielsk right? strong start, whiff of a middle and an ending more forgettable than a game of bingo in an alzheimers ward. cut and paste your standard review from all the others and move on right?

surprisingly no

yes the same sorry formula of throwing girls at an MC and then slowly picking them off one by one for the rather weak attempt to make these games replayable is still there (thank you skip button), and i think it will take a very VERY cold day in hell and a brain transplant before danny can even imagine a harem (hey some peeps are just not dreamers), and not forgetting the premise is pretty flat and yes there is a house, it's practically a trademark , but there is also signs that D boy has also discovered plot devices!!

i know! shut the front door...

yes the writing of dialogue is a little immature at times but c'mon....there's actual progress on show. K is .....and i'm working up the spit to say this....DEVELOPING.
i shit you not

even the art is better....i think. seems so. not my forte.

that VN with a whole cul de sac of homes AND adult dialogue, complete with a decent (don't want to dream too big yet) premise where something is happening that warrants reader's surprise, is no longer a pipe dream to me.
it may still be some way off but out of the dark there is a glimmer of light at last.

i rounded up my rating for encouragement

and you can stop praying for that cold day...

Story is very vanilla but i dont mind that to much, there are still some fun stuff happening, like Harper to bad she wasent a virgin though then she would have been perfect, but not really supprised she not, she just had the perfect look for it, but with her background it also make sense she isent one, i just love my virgins so always hoping

MC is pretty much just a slave with out a mind of hes own, when hes uncle says jump MC says how high, someone threatens MC with a baseball bat uncle says go to a party with them and MC does....uncle tells him go work with some dudea and he see the two guys he hate the most and MC still works with them.....its just really bad.

The constant relationship thing with Riley and MC feels way to drawn out, keep hearing "lets talk about what we are" and they never do is stupid, MC took her virginity, they fuck and kiss and yet for some weird reason they are still just friends......but keep saying they need to talk about but never does it gets a bit annoying.

MC i dont really care about, hes just to childish like alot of MCs are, constantly thinking how hot evey thing the walks on 2 legs is and how he wants all of them..... i wish there was an off button for thes thoughts, when a girl talks to him about anything he thinks they want hes dick, surely it couldent be for any other reasons...it just feels to cringy and gets annoying, even more so when MC thinks like that about a LI you dont want anything to do with.

MC is also a true idiot, like when it comes to the photo session while Karl is there, even when he got told that he might want her for porn movies MC just tells Riley all she needs to think about is being sexy for the photos....MC just cant put 2 plus 2 together and its a normal thing for MC doing the game.

As for the virgin scene its just a joke, its proberly one of the worst scene ive seen, when MC puts hes dick in he covers them with sheets? so the player cant see anything what so ever? and no i am not even joking....

Most funny part is when he says hes slowly getting inside you can see on the covers hes already very deep with how much he moves....its like they where to lazzy to make a real virgin scene with deflowering.
What makes it even worse is that the girl has 0 pain even with MCs dick size, not even from breaking her hymen which she did since she shows you blood on her hands in the toilet right after.....

There is 0 virgin vibe doing the hole scene and dialog was extreemly bad, never heard a girl getting her hymen broken with 0 pain but only pure pleasure.
Its almost funny to hear her say after sex that she has some pain now? but dident have any doing? and then MC explains it hurts the first times even though she dident hurt at all doing her first time....lol

The voice thing i dunno, its pretty good considering its not a voice actor, but for it to really have any effect it would need to be 100%, having 2 lines without then 2 lines with voice just feels a little pointless, you dont really get into it since once you start reading you read so when voice then pops up you are pretty much done reading already, if its 100% then you can just listen and not look text at all.
Not even sure which way i would like the most, reading is a bit faster but with nice voices that fits the characters it can do alot for a game and done right i would take the voiced over reading since it just adds more fun.

Story 3/5
Even though it is very vanilla i did enjoy some of it, and the small side things was fun as well proberly more then main story.

Girls/LIs 4/5
They look great and has diffrent builds and diffrent personalities,

Animations: 4/5
They are pretty decent and has diffrent positions.

Music 4/5
To me its just above average since it still mostly just feel like a background thing and not really setting a mood, but its still better then the normal elevator music alot of games use.

I was at 4 stars for some time but the way MC acts and thinks plus the virgin scene and the story becoming a bit boring i had to go down to 3.

Pretty solid game by Daniels K.

I enjoyed most of his games (except the previous one) and he's on good form here.

Girls are pretty and varied and as usual getting to the good stuff does not take too long. The story is nothing much but I don't mind it, it's not an incest game that needs a good story and build up.

One star deducted for the horrific looking dick though. Size is on the big side for my taste, but it's ok. The texture is really bad, not only does it looks wet all the time but the veins and the colour are all wrong compared to the rest of the body.

Minor annoyance: the transitions between scenes take a bit too long.

Review of ep 4

The main menu ensemble (music + video) is arresting and brilliant. I love it, and IMO other devs should do things like this to set the tone of the rest of the game.

...and that's where its virtues end, because the game itself is mediocre at best. (Note: I turned off voice acting as it was distracting.)

MC's "I faked a degree at salesman school" look is off-putting, and he has the charisma of a ten-year-old Republican trying to be a model citizen. Like all the characters in this game, he has no brain or agency at all and follows the "I'm a good guy" script because that's his job. It's uninspiring and I just don't care about him.

Riley is similar. I really like how she looks and superficially acts; she's my type and I should love her to pieces. Unfortunately, I can't; like MC, she also just barely registers as human and seems to be thoroughly on-rails for some type of external narrative. You could almost replace all of MC and Riley's lines to each other with "herp derp" and get the same game.

Lilly is also kinda my type but falls flat for similar reasons. I didn't go through her route fully because I just don't care.

Heather isn't my type.

Harper's intro was the high point of the game for me, but the dev doesn't seem to know what to do with her and she quickly fell into the same boring pattern that the others girls did. What a fucking waste because that storyline has problem-hot written all over it. She should be inspiring fear and excitement, not "oh, it's Harper".

Minor gripes: the game's geography is inscrutable; it looks like we park in the middle of nowhere to get to our house. Apparently driveways aren't a thing. The 50's style gas station is ... well it's interesting I guess. Never explained.

I dunno, this game had all the ingredients to be something I'd love and then just ralphed on itself at every opportunity. I don't get it. Girls + renders are gorgeous, story is a nothing-burger, nobody has any charisma. It isn't a train wreck, but it's got nothing going for it either. 3/5.

one of the most boring pointless games i have ever played on here ....a huge amount of convos go on way too long or are just DULL....do yourselves a favour and go watch some paint dry it a lot more fun

This is definetly the best game of Daniels K.
Renders and animations are good as always with his games.
Unless many others i really liked his last game, but this is another
level, the story the writing is really good. Looking forward for future updates.

The writing for this story is better than average, it makes for interesting reading although having no good choice in some options is as frustrating as it is realistic.

The models are nice, even the mc for a change, but the girls all have horrible body hair which was enough to drag down the whole novel for me

The good:
+ Top quality designs.
+ Interesting story.
+ Talking girls.
+ Replay-ability.
+ Often updates.

The bad:
- Nothing really worth mentioning.


Still too early in game's development, but it look like it is going to be great!
The game so far is 5/5 IMO.

This is probably Daniels K's best novel yet, I've tried other novel's of his in the past but they never really stuck but this one I'm actually really enjoying. The character models are good the renders are good and so far the story is actually really engaging and pretty interesting and leaves me wanting more, Looking forward to future updates.

great potential. i like the diversity of choices, realistic LIs, love the implied storylines. if it keeps up as is easy top 10. renders are nice. good art and posing. looking forward to more updates. keep up the good work dev

Great first chapter, love all the girls. Pretty standard overall MC isn't a douche, girls are pretty and the art is really good. You get a sense there's a bigger story with the uncle and you're basically going to end up owning the town or something else.