VN - Ren'Py - Eternum [v0.7.5 Public] [Caribdis]

0.1
This is by far one of the best games I've ever played on this site. The story, art, sound effects, scripted events, and everything is great. I was very excited when I started this game and I am even more with the next update.
I am very thankful for the dev for providing this awesome story for us.

Keep up the great work, man!

(Sorry about my English, it is not my first language)

Almost 150 reviews on a game that just came out. What's up with that?

Well, you see... it's a game made by the madlad Caribdis

The creator of Once in a Lifetime. Something everyone that reads adult VNs should read.

Caribdis effectively came back swinging with better production quality overall. Everything that anyone could whine about previously was amended with Eternum. Better UI, better MC model, better male models, more variety in girls, better menu, etc.

This one started off so strong, the community was collectively like "CARIBDIS IS BACK, AND IT'S GREAT. COME ON IN."

What more can I say?

I love the girls so far, I love how this was referenced in the last game, and I love that I'm about to go on wild adventures again. Adventures with what will likely be some very fun girls.

One can make the obvious comparison to Ready Player One, and you wouldn't be wrong for doing so. However, I already enjoy Eternum way more than RPO, and that's not even because Eternum has sex scenes.

Eternum is self-aware in a great and balanced way, and that what's really going to make Eternum shine. The writing is just so spot on and consistently FUN.

Aight, I think that's enough shilling. Just read it if you haven't.

Can't wait for more, and hoping for a Stabby Mike cameo.

I was already fond of the models and art in previous game of Caribdis, but now, while similar, it looks like it's more polished and improved on and I love it. The characters are interesting, humor hasn't lost its touch and the story is excellent. Looking forward to play it until the very end.

Great story idea, which is well written
The girls look amazing, the outfits in eternum give them an interesting vibe
Also, love the fact that MC is a badass, highly confident, not just a wuss trying to touch some women

Looking forward to updates, great job developer!

There obviously isn't a ton to review here yet, but it's plenty for a first release and it just oozes promise and potential. True to form, Caribdis had me laughing within the first few minutes of the game, and quickly provides us with a couple of gorgeous totally-not-sisters. The basic premise is really cool too and opens up some interesting possibilities. Really excited to see where this will go!

What can I say? It's a Caribdis game. I went into this expecting it to be perfect, and it somehow managed to be even better! It is simply brilliant. An order of magnitude better than OIAL - and that game was a 10/10. This is without a doubt in my mind the #1 VN of currently in development.

I kinda wish I could cryogenically preserve myself so that time would fly by faster and I could experience more of this masterpiece ASAP! I will definitely be supporting this on Patreon as soon as I get my post-pandemic finances sorted.

This really isn't necessarily my kind of game as playing this kind of male protagonist isn't an easy sell for me. But the premise intrigued me, and I'm glad I dove in!

I don't know how to say this well, but I'll try. I appreciate this dev and how he has developed the female characters so far. I feel like he is balancing the kink/porn aspect of having pretty females, but also not just creating "cum dumpster" characters that have no agency, desires, and depth to them too. Putting it bluntly, I see a lot of devs on this site that I literally laugh at privately because it's clear that they have no clue about women's thoughts -- and I even think some of them have never even been with a woman, but I think this dev strikes a perfect balance of enticement/sexy with some character depth. Awesome!

I also want to commend the humor. It has some very lighthearted moments and the intro of some of the characters and groups are just awesome!

But I want to save the best for last, and that's the "game" world. It's just such a cool environment with shades of Blade Runner and I wonder if something like this or Ready Player One inspired the game.

So, 5 stars. Not even necessarily my style of game at all, but the game is that good. Have fun at it all!

v0.1

From the version that i am reviewing on eternum seems like a improved version of Once in a Lifetime and Once in a lifetime was already a masterpiece.

Eternum improved from the already good visuals of Once in a lifetime. The graphics are superb and the game definitely ranks at the top of this website based on graphics. Each image has high resolution and i would even say that the quality around 1-3 tiers(depending on the image) below a ultra quality graphics triple A game of 2021ish(This is a VN so obviously it requires only couple images per minute instead of generating high quality images realtime but i am just comparing the quality). However this will games graphics will beat the triple A games from the mid 2010s.

from the current version the story is similar to Once in a Lifetime. The game is currently on the same path(storywise) as Once in a Lifetime but is drifting apart. This is a good thing as it will not be just Once in a Lifetime version 2 but a whole new game with an unique storyline. I would say that the tempo of this VN is good as the game doesn't forcibly put in any character as it gives hints(dialogue, location...) whenever it wants to introduce a new character so the new character is already integrated in the story. The story is also has a good storyline.

Most of the characters are an alternate universe of a character from Once in a Lifetime. This makes you feel connected more easily as it is connected to the other game. Although the similarity between characters this games gives a differnt feeling about each one of them. They don't feel like exact copies of the other game just similar. All characters are likable and wellmade.

I would recommend to play both this and Once in a Lifetime. Both games are masterpieces and the game developer is putting a lot of effort into making them. I believe that the game will become even better as the game developer is constantly improving and making his work better each release.

This is a very well done introduction to Eternum. Well written, funny, witty, sexy, beautiful to look at. Looks like lessons learned from making the previous game are well applied.

It's not a short intro, either. There's plenty to see, hear, read. I'm excited to see where the story of Eternum goes.

The graphics also seem to be turned up (in the right direction) from the previous game. A lot of hard work went into this and it shows. Very impressive and I highly recommend folks trying out this game,

The MC isn't whingy, he acts like a normal dude with a bit of self confidence, and he's surrounded by beautiful women... a classic but still appreciated recipe for my tastes.

Despite being very early in development, this game is already probably more enjoyable and engaging than most titles on this site: art is nice, world building is great, writing is crisp, all the girls are hot and likeable. The game strikes a pretty good balance between humor and mystery. Author does a good job setting everything up and even with the first release, there is quite a lot content here (even if hardly any lewd one). As a side note, it's nice to see a porn game written by someone who seems to actually like women (say what you want, misogyny is not sexy). Really looking forward seeing future releases of this one.

Good models, plenty of playtime, the right amount of dry punchline humour.
"Difficulty" seems easy, choices are very cookie cutter, might change down the line.

We've all seen the spam of Ren'Py 3D harem games, but this one stands on it's own legs.

Before Starting...
This is the second game of Caribdis and I'm a big fan of his first game as well, so when I heard we gonna get a new game and he is not gonna stop making games I was so happy. I just want to say appreciate his all efforts before starting the game and thank him Anyways...

Good Points
+ Drawings/Renders of the game look amazing. Real-life city & buildings look pretty good. Eternum textures and texture style looks amazing. And all of these have a detailed look with a well-suited color palette as well.
+ Details about Eternum lore especially take my interest a lot and I wanna learn more! And I'm loving things we already know: like all our character's journey to find Calypso was darn amazing... The details we learn were mind-blowing... Basically all details about Eternum lore are pretty darn interesting and good.
+ Aside from lore Eternum's potential about having different servers and stories etc being used by DEV pretty darn well! He creates different stories, ambiance, and musics for them and they are well fitted. Especially that Detective server was scary AF with all that ambiance and music etc... I was playing those parts while I'm alone in my room without any light... And now im like: ''Mr Carbdis... I don't feel so good...'' LOL
+ Like his other game this game has an amazing sense of humor as well, there are lots of scenes you will lose yourself while laughing. Especially that Dark Souls reference was amazing, I'm still laughing. Or reference to Disney princess or reference to Anakin's feelings about sand etc. There is a lot of them out there and if you are cultured enough you gonna have blast! And Nova keeps hacking other people could be my favorite new thing, I'm just losing it whenever I see a scene about it LMAO. And references are not just about being funny, there are some cool references like Pyramid Head Summon, etc as well.
+ I really love how our DEV uses music, they fit scenes pretty well: especially that creepy music in creepy scenes got me... I can even say the music itself was more creepy than the scenes it self LOL.
+ Girls/Woman looks damn hot, cute, sexy, amazing... Call whatever you want they look 10/10. And not just their look: their characters are damn well made as well. Each of them has their own personality and character traits, non of them feels like copied from the other and they do feel unique a lot: which makes things pretty immersive. Their stories are heartwarming and sometimes sad but always well written, like Luna and her experience with Boggles... That scene just makes me cry... Or how amazing Penelope is or how Annie is the cutest thing in the whole world!
+ Texture quality looks pretty good. We can especially see big improvements in women's body textures.
+ We have well-made and lots of animations for sex and normal scenes. I can easily say this game has the most realistic and good-looking animations and animation physics I have seen in any adult game, they are just perfect. Especially v0.4 GYM animations were dope.
+ New fight mechanics with timed actions, their visuals, and sound effects was dope! It was darn cool and I'm hoping for more! We need more fight scenes like that gladiator fight!

Bad Points
- There are some inconsistent and kind of nonsense scenes where your choices do not work as they should, Axel's and Annie's scene is a good example of this. In that scene we see Annie having a problem with one of him, and we get 3 different options for that scene: we can Ignore, be polite or act aggressively towards him. But even if we choose to "be aggressive" MC just stands there watching them while that dude gropes her ass... I can understand ''being polite'' can lead to this failure but acting aggressively should be fast, fast enough to avoid this scene. And we have some other scenes as well and they need a chance, and DEV should avoid these types of errors for the next versions as well.
- Jerry's existence is so annoying... He is made out from cringe toe to head and his existence is good enough to count as a bad point... Especially his arrogance about Dalia is not bearable at all...
- We have too many teasing and cock-blocking scene, their number keeps increasing with every update and DEV literally adds teasing or cock-blocking scenes to every scene, even if it's not necessary at all, which is quite annoying. For example, even in this 0.5 update, there was a Nancy scene cut by Penelope, then there was a Nova scene, the dialogue was saying you can have sex with her, but another guy come and MC got cock-blocked, then there was Regina scene again it's teased by her but we had no option to had sex with her and then we had another Nancy scene cock-blocked by Gertrude... As you can see even in one update we have an unnecessary amount of cock-blocking and this is 5th update... Basically, DEV keeps cock-blocking MC non-stop and these cock-blocking scenes have literally zero meaning, they are not funny or not needed at all. They just lower the game quality and make things annoying.
- Update v.07 had quite nonsense ending which MC got shot, SMH... Why he acted soo damn egoistic and dumb? You seriously gonna tell me he just turned his back against junkies? Even 10 years old would think they will get shot if they turn their back junkies after punching them like that... That ending makes literally zero sense and screams poor writing, not something I was waiting from Eternum for sure, very bad choice...

For The End
Honestly, this game started perfectly, it was a straight up 5 stars rate game without any problem, but with every update and increasing problems, especially the annoying cock-blocking trope DEV use and thinks it's funny while it's not is lowering this game's quality, the game is already perfect with the way is but he keeps adding some stuff we don't need at all and at this rate I'm gonna drop my rating from 5 stars to 4 stars, it's still one of best adult games I have ever seen, but DEV needs to stop adding bad points over and over again, fix current bad points and overdoing unfunny tropes...

Fuck this game is great just like the first dev game it doesn't disappoint at all, music, modeling, scenes EVERYTHING in the game looks great not to mention the story and the worlds inside the game Eternum with cyber-punc look I just loved it I really have nothing bad to say about the game the story hooked me too much I look forward to its update.

I know it's only in the very early stages, but wow! Great writing, amazingly creative world, interesting characters so far. Considering this is an adult (or porn game) that shares the same site as so many other games that have trouble spelling words, it's amazing. I don't like to compare and contrast in these reviews but Caribdis' first game was amazing, with great characters, hot scenes and a compelling story that actually made you want to play to the end to see what happened. This game is already reaching higher then Once in a Lifetime. Really excited to see where this one goes. It's a must play!

What can I say other than to please play, rate and support this game monetarily as much as possible? Caribdis has already shown us their AVN creating chops through the excellent Once In a Life Time, Eternum is an improvement in every way, in the best of ways. The dialogue is smooth, the writing and plot threads are intriguing, the humour had me laughing out loud at several points, and the visual are by far and away some of the best I've seen. This is an excellent game and well worth the patreon money.

Amazing start to this new game after an excellent prior outing in "Once in a Lifetime". Eternum promises to be a worthy successor in every way, from the top-notch writing, warm humour, and beautiful design and pacing. To say I've been looking forward to this is an understatement for sure!

I played Once In A Lifetime and honestly thought it was spectacular, I even went as far as to give it my first 5-star rating. Now Caribdis comes out with Eternum and even though it's just version 0.1, the storytelling, comedic timing and visuals of the game are some of, if not the best I have ever seen. The ending of version 0.1 just makes me crave for more. Amazing work, Caribdis, I eagerly look forward to your future works.

It is such a great game so far. You can just see how much love and care this game is receiving. I laughed my ass off well more than once (micaela hahaha). It is incredible. The characters look awesome (i guess its personal taste for everyone but I very much enjoy them) and the whole experience just put me into an elevated mood. Definitely already one of my favorites and I cant wait for updates. Keep up the great work Caribdis!

The first version is already great. Im really looking forward to the story unfolding. The differences in girls is nice and im hyped for every new girl that will get added. (need some glasses girls in here). Caribdis has already shown how great a game can be with once in a lifetime so im not to stressed about this going bad. Looking Forward!