VN - Ren'Py - Fractured Realms [v0.5.1] [Virt Studios]

More like a 4* but giving higher rating due to potential and development speed

This game has a lot of content for being out for a year. The graphics and animations are not 5* caliber, but the writing is much better than most, and it has a interesting plot line. Throw in points for the story moving along

One caveat is that the cast of characters is getting too large - and it appears that even more will be added in the next update. You will also need to adjust the text transparency - otherwise you will not be able to read the text in some scenes due to the lighting and text color

Would suggest playing

Oh.. This is a rough one to review for me. I enjoyed what I read. There's a lot of lore so far. I wish there was more adult content. Especially something with Gabby. Still, with what we got, I'm intrigued.

The h-scenes can be a mixed bag. The animated scenes are low-fps, but hey, the characters are cute. But then again, you have choices (faster/slower/position1/position2), but... Why choose position 1 and go to 2 and then back to 1?

So.. Even with that... Why a 5? I guess because I can't give a 4.5. I enjoyed it a lot. I obviously wanted more h-scenes, but damn, I want more. So yeah, I want more.

The game verges on unbearable

The only positives I can say are that I personally like the love interest or potential love interest at this point (V0-5), and I do like the concept of the game.

The sex scenes are just God awful and seriously need to be revamped, the writing/lore of has potential at times, but there are several errors that confuse me due to poor writing. And the biggest issue of all is the fact there is no text box, and no text outline with white letters. 90%-95% of the text blends in with the back ground, and the fact the dev is either to lazy or incompetent to make a simple change to improve that is really telling.

And I'm not giving credit for someone else making a mod for it

While my overall impression with the game is probably average, the negatives are enough to make me give this a 2-star rating.

The story is interesting, and the girls are attractive with a few nitpicks here and there. I do think there is a ton of potential only if the dev does something about the massive negatives holding this game back: The animations & sex scenes predominately, and the fact that with the game being split between 3 areas, the plot and settings have become watered down and nothing is getting the attention it deserves.

The animations are very, very poor and take a moment to load, which is strange because the animation is very poor-quality with very few renders in each animation. As a result, they aren't smooth at all.

The sex scenes also have pointless menus for absolutely no reason. Progress the sex scene naturally without forcing the player to click choices every few seconds. If people want to see something earlier in the sex scene again, they can roll back.

Between the Earth, the new world, and the MC's place between worlds, the game is being split between too many areas and we aren't getting near enough development in any area because of it.

There's potential but this is one of those games that I think the dev should absolutely stop production, learn how to fix these mistakes and rework the game before it's too late.

I love contemporary fantasy and isekai genres so I really like the story. We are not that far into it so I can't tell how it will turn out, but it's not bad.

The character models are mostly ok but nothing exceptional. Though I have some issues with the looks of Veen and Sumida. While I have no problems with cat girls of fox girls and such in anime, Veen here unfortunately falls right into the Uncanny valley where she can look a bit creepy.
As for Sumida, I hate her little horn thingy on her forehead. Seems like a horrible accident waiting to happen.

The animations including the ones during sex scenes are nothing to sing praises about. It's not a 2 frame slideshow but far from what you can see in some other games here on the site.
Talking about sex scenes, I don't like how between different phases of a sex scene you are brought back to the starting prompt, I'd rather only have the continue/repeat and next option.

There are a lot of scenes with MC asking questions from different characters. While I'd love to learn more details about the background of the world, magic etc. it started to feel repetitive. At least it gives the option for players to skip these, but maybe there could be a better way to present all this information.

There were some missing images in the version I played (0.4.1) especially towards the end throwing exceptions. Hope the dev will go back and fix those. And I don't know if I missed something or there was really no mention about pulling out a dagger from the bottom of the labyrinth until the events in the last update (0.4.1) where it suddenly played an important role at least in the dialogue.
In sex scenes you can choose to pull out or creampie resulting in pregnancy for sure (at least according to the button text) but I don't know if this was an error or there will be some kind of magical explanation for it later on.

And please fix the spelling of millennia!

If I wasn't a fan of the story/genre I'd giving 3 stars at most as it falls a bit short as AVN but since I'm:
4/5

I'm really enjoying the exposition of the story on this one. I suppose it takes a while between updates, but I've always like the characters and their interactions: the models are cute, and their personalities are well varied and reasonably complex. The devs are doing a good job of handling the gradual transition of the MC from cluelessness to some degree of understanding his situation and abilities as he is faced with new surprising situations. I look forward to continuing to follow this one.

Closer to a 2.5 star atm..

Good enough looking characters. Two have hairstyles that make them look mentally challenged. Would be nicer to just not see the MC. Characters tend to not look directly at the MC while having conversations.
Some backgrounds are the same as in most other games, such as the park.

The 'animations' are really jerky and made me feel a bit nauseous.
The scenes are very poorly lit. The cafe was nice and bright, but other scenes all looked dark and washed out which made me not want to read much further.

It would really be nice if they put more than 1 word in a text box and more than 1 sentence....
Giggle... click
Oh... click
and short 3 or 4 word sentences.... 1 at a time.....

The story is a bit boring, BUT, it's early. Having minimal choices and no actions has a lot to do that that more like a kinetic novel.

Poor writing decisions such as meeting a waitress then having her want to immediately give you her virginity. Other girls are similar such as within 24 hours they have a crush on the mc and so forth...

Would be nicer if there was a lead in to the magic part rather than just all of the sudden being there and the mc going along with it.

I'd almost give it a 2 star as it is, but I'm betting with just a few changes this will be a Great umm kinetic/vn/whatever. Would be really nice if it were a game.

Another pleasant surprise here!
As is often the case with this type of game, I look at them carefully, and I don't know why it took me so long to get into this one.
The basis of the story here seems really excellent, and gets off to a good start.
However, I'm having more trouble with the writing, some things don't feel natural, there's a lack of information or sometimes it's too childish, the example that comes to mind straight away is that of the maid who kisses him on the mouth with the MC and a very young teenage girl's dialogue follows.
I have a bit of trouble with the MC's face, I don't know why, it makes me want to slap him, but that's not a problem because we don't see it all the time either.
Anyway, I like the story and can't wait to see what happens next.

Well i replayed the game and making a mostly new review.
Story is pretty decent, its about MC going to hes home town to find out magic is real and then he meets alot of people ofc mostly girls.

The only part i really really dislike is Nicole, apprently shes an old girlfriend and the second you meet her, you can fuck her and im just not into this type of 0 build-up with a girl so i turned her down, she wasent really in my taste either which dident help.
Problem is that shes treated like shes in a relationship with MC even when turning her down over and over, other people talks about MC being in a relationship with her and its annoying as hell when you arent on her route, it also feels like Nicole is the main LI not just due to the background of being with MC but shes brought along into the magic world and is apprently special in some way as well, so not being on her route makes story feel very odd, like Emily talking about how Nicole wants to share MC? i mean it has no place in the story when MC is not with Nicole....
MC is also a very nice dude who apprently invites every single girl to live in hes house, no matter if your on their route or not.

Relationship build-up is lacking alot, like Nicole first meeting its a fuck her yes/no option stright away, Emily which you dont know can give you a BJ after knowing her for a very short time.
You also meet a female orc and its the same like before you saved her but know nothing about her and she trows her self at MC giving him a BJ and they talked for like a min before that.

Girls/LIs are a bit meh, mostly due to them having almost the same build and all bigger sized tits and not a single small sized one in the game, devs should really try to aim for all peoples tastes and make a better diversity in builds.

Animations are about average so far, you can enjoy them but not anywhere close to the best.

Music is ok, i would say around average since i have heard alot better in other games, but it ofc it beats being silent by miles.

Atleast game promiss you can pick and choose who you want or dont want to have as part of your harem, this is a huge plus that might make the game playable so you can say no to the LIs that arent in your taste, even done one feels forced due to story making it sound like your with her even when your not.

So i still cant give this more then 3 stars.

On a side note, this game is only a bit more then a year old and has alot of content, even though its only about 1gig in size its content rich and seems to have fast updates compared to so many other games.

Version 0.1
Good Graphics, the writting is well done and I haven't spotted any mistakes so far. There is about 1 hour of content. Right now there are no really big choices which is to be expected of such an early release.I
I think this game has potential and am eager to see how it develops.

Version 0.2.2
So far the story continoues to be interesting and there is a lot more content now. Not many choices really just do you want to add this girl or not. But I personally don't mind that there is a lot of lore told each update and the graphics still are good.

I like the "youngish but developing" maturity of the MC. The LI's so far seem cute, lovable, and unique. The story pacing is good. The girls fall for the MC almost immediately but, it's a harem story so, I give it a pass. The introduction of the magical elements are both decent and a little bit rushed but, again not enough to take off points. Renders are a tiny bit on the dark side and the animations are probably the weakest attribute so far but, not bad.

All in all, I'm stuck at about a 4.5 but, since some... body gave an obviously slanted and biased one star review with essentially no justification... I have no problem giving the benefit of the doubt and calling this a 5 star VN.

Hard to believe this one got a 1 on a review tbh.. I found it to be well written with great renders and an interesting beginnings of a story. The ladies met so far were diverse and good looking. Definitely can see this one taking hold and bringing in a crowd of followers. Everything about this says quality.. The only issue I had.. and it was minor.. was the animation quality wasn't quite up to the rest of the work.. something that I can see improving as time goes on.

It looks great, and I dig the synth music that I heard for most of my time with this playthrough, but I glazed over pretty quickly. I feel like this script really needs to be cut down severely, because the pacing makes this unplayable.

The game looks very good for demo and And the story is good now I hope there is more And the characters look very hot Except for a hairstyle of MC everything looks great Thanks for sharing this game I am waiting for the update impatiently

What a fun little demo. Really enjoyed the art, animations and story. Cheeky little cliffhanger as well. My only recommendations to any developer is always double, triple check your translations (trust me I know English is hard however I do not let it deter me from the overall experience) and just a personal preference, allow the readers to adjust the text box opacity. I will definitely keep an eye out as I look forward to further updates and thanks for sharing.