VN - Ren'Py - From the Sin [v0.10b] [Vorpal]

v0.10b

Story is good so far, I think, you are one of the only men alive and girls suck your dick for mana (because dicks have mana), bizarre adventures follow.


Pro:

- Fucking insane quality for animations and nsfw, like damn good stuff
- UI is really impressive and planned out for more chapters, there are replays for all of the different segments of scenes just in case you didn't save, there's stuff for girls which most likely will include gallery for each of them and achievement system
- Found a funny easter egg that made me go through the game in one sitting, when you are prompted for a choice of your name you can ask Cluster to pick you Zell, but then if you roll back and pick Zell yourself you get a reaction out of her (same as if you pick Cluster). More of those please

Con:

- Girls fall for you too quick.. maybe ? I mean to be honest if dicks would be a source of mana you would get hounded over real quick, just food for thought


Overall a really good first impression from me, not sure what are achievements planned for right now, maybe to unlock secret scenes or true ending, no clue

5 star

Review for v0.10b

Honestly a pretty impressive start overall. Every once in awhile you come across a visual novel that feels a bit like a breathe of fresh air in them being both high quality and relatively unique, and this fits both of those descriptions I'd say.

The plot actually has a lot of though going into it so I'll avoid speaking about most of it for spoiler reasons, but the dumbed down idea is that you've been broken out of a facility by happenstance and and up being taken in by a team of adventures, who you yourself end up joining, on a sort of quest to find a certain girl(?) among many other mysteries. There's a lot of interesting things and details honestly, pretty easy to get invested. Clear it's a game where the dev is actually thinking and planning out a story. Though there's some clear character archetypes you've seen before, they do have a lot of personality to them. The MC is a bit more passive and reserved maybe, but it makes sense given his background. Interested to see how things will develop on that front. A bit early to really delve into any of them.

Again it's really high quality in that there's a lot of unique assets I haven't seen before, good sound effects and music, the renders and models look nice, animations are very solid, etc etc. No complaints on that front. Hard to say how much choices really matter, and so far scenes are unavoidable.

As far as lewd content goes, yes this is a femdom leaning game. I'm someone who doesn't care too much for sub/dom dynamics no matter which way it goes, but for me this has been fine. It's very light femdom if anything from the few scenes available. Might change down the road given some details about the world, but for now I wouldn't call any of it extreme by any means. The MCs sort of passive nature is displayed in lewd scenes as well, and I do get the impression of him feeling a bit more like a toy for the girls rather than them doing it out of love for example. Mostly because it's still very early for any real relationship development and the scenes kind of come without much build up to them. Two of the three scenes were animated (with pretty good animations) but all three of them were hot I'd say.

Not a ton more to say, but given a few more updates to see where the game really goes, I'd say this is one to keep an eye on for sure.

I love the models in this game, especially the girls and their different personalities. I am looking forward to seeing how the game and story develop with future updates. I can tell a lot of love and effort was put into this game it has a lot of potential.

Surprised this game hasn't gotten more praise, despite it being early in development, you can really see that the dev cares about the story and characters. A very unique VN in a sea of copy and paste VNs

First thoughts:
You didn't screw up the the main menu by making it difficult to adjust the music volume, text speed, or full screen it as soon as I open the game. Appreciated.
Scroll back works (Thank god, I always have to scroll back when I fail to read something right and click too fast).
Right click goes straight to save, which is perfect. Feels like the save slot count was expanded. Arrows are properly there. Looks good to me.
Doesn't appear voiced, but I never could wait for someone to talk anyway. Has proper music and sound effect, so it doesn't feel dead silent.
Facial expressions look properly animated, so that's appreciated. I hate dead faces.
English is kinda flawed, but it's so far at the level I can ignore. Nothing really feels like a typo so far.
Art/Models are good.
I don't believe I've seen any animations in the lewd scenes. Though the current version has its charm.

Yes, I did see what the author did with the colors.

As a whole, it has potential, but there remains a lot of story to write. But I guess that's obvious since the story itself says we're still in the prologue.

So far the story is enjoyable and the renders are good, I do wish the scenes were animated but hey its still decent for what it is so far. So far the biggest con imo is the extremely long black screens, for some reason when the MC is thinking or the narrator is going over what is happening its just a black screen. The dev should really change this and just add a render or 2 to fill those gaps because a black screen is the worst possible choice imo

From the Sin [v0.01]

Absolutely amazing first release. Really really hope this doesn't get abandoned.

Lots of content for a first release

Excellent writing, characters feel alive and have individuality. Perfectly handled humor allows for varying degrees of extreme characterization or narration without becoming parody. The cast feels easy to get to know, but also don't feel rigid, they feel like they'll be able to grow and show their depth.

The setting is a blend of scifi and fantasy, and what we have seen and be told of both so far is blended beautifully, neither clashing with the other.

The music and audio is very well chosen and used.

The choices given, so far, seem largely inconsequential, with the story following a predetermined path but given alternate dialogue and reasons for the same events happening. This isn't a bad thing, but still worth mentioning. I have no reason to think we won't get more impactful choices in the future, and the end of the epilogue (v0.01) pretty much implies decisions will need to be made.

My one tiny petty complaint was that the harem tracker / character tracker wasn't implemented yet. It's there, but it's empty, shameless teasing to be honest.

Anyway, highly recommended