VN - Ren'Py - Genesis [Ep.24 - Part 1] [Solensis]

A well-elaborated and expansive fantasy that features a suite of characters, locations and world lores. However the developer either needs to increase the frequency of updates or concentrate on the main story as it shows signs of drifting.

Story
MC is killed and resurrected by a minor god to take part in a war with eleven other contestants to become an ultimate being. Thus begins his adventures to kill, coerce or persuade other contestants to his cause in a fantasy land.

The main plot is typical of those found in fantasy RPGs and AVNs. Old school as it might be, not many developers execute their world and character building convincingly, thankfully Genesis belongs to a minority that does them well.

However recently minor side stories, dream sequences, slice of life events have proliferated to the detriment of moving the story forward. At Ep 24 we have only seen one contestant killed, one given up and another missing - the remaining eight have not even appeared to date.

While these distractions are not without value, they are only enriching if the developer updates frequently. It’s disappointing to wait for months only to get a dream sequence or mini story that is not even part of the main game.

Game Mechanics
AVN with choices most of which have no impact. The key ones are those that drive MC towards the light, dark or twilight paths, I presume they have impact at a later stage though variations are minor for now.

Battle choices is picking the right one depending on enemy stance, interesting the first time but pointless subsequently. Some of the quizzes require exact word answers which can be difficult, but are solvable with some googling.

Background / Character Renders
One of the stronger points of Genesis - background fits the story well and there is minimal use of generic CGIs which helps immersion. Character are plentiful and unique enough to be easily distinguishable and fit into the game universe as well.

The use of dark colors, simple lighting as well as no frills traditional outfits reminds me of old school fantasy RPG games back when not every graphics artist tries to dress up fantasy characters in all sorts of out-sized impractical lavish trinkets as if they were Christmas trees.

Character Development
Character development focuses on the MC which we get a detailed look at his inner thoughts, conflicts and emotions with various characters. MC has a mild tendency to self-doubt, but it’s done sparingly not to the point of being an irritating doormat.

However as many of the LIs are just touch and go and only join the MC for a part of the adventure, there is not much screen time given to them to fully flesh out.

Sex Scenes
Simple but hot. You aren’t going to find strange kinkiness in them, but animations are short, smooth and on point while dialogue is complimenting. Many threesome scenes are done well and memorable. Only thing I wish is more variety in BGM, all the sex scenes feature the same music regardless of circumstances which isn’t ideal.

BGM and Sound Effects
BGMs are selected well especially the emotional ones which help to drive the mood across, sound effects are minimal like dropping, door knocking, flame etc.

Conclusion
Overall a solid 4-star experience - I like the detailed world building and MC’s personal development. The story is not original but entertaining nonetheless, but the unbridled introduction of secondary distractions breaks momentum and have players wondering where the whole game is heading at times.

It would also be good to have one / a few main LIs where their relationship and character is flashed out more instead of the pass and go with everyone currently.

the game bad all round only played the first 10 mins of it the game so cringe i couldn't take it anymore if u play the way u want u get bad endings this should really be a kn cuz ur choices dont matter ur forced to play the way the dev wants u to

Man!! What a game..I just love fantasy games where MC can have the powers and can absorb powers to help people..
Specifically,The best part about this game MC can see about the suitors past before killing them..And he try his best to solve everything with his mind control..just wow!
Great work by Solensis ❤..
Just in love with the game.. can't wait for more..
It's sad that it is underrated..But sometimes some things need to be underrated..right?
Gladly enjoyed it..worth playing and like the way MC was leveling up and unlocks new powers keep it up!

I like the story, the characters. Mysterious story, two plots. Solid graphics and rendering. The MC has a goal in mind,
and he realizes that he has other goals.I dint have a bugs and like pace of game.Music is good.

Story is pretty decent with some good plots but later in game it just feels like a mess, the poor writing dosent help it much either and it gets very cringy at times on top of that.
But what ruins it to me is when they make it into a mindless fuckfest game, you have alot of choices to turn LIs down or romance them which is really nice, so i dont really get why they would ruin all that by forceing multiple girls on you which i couldent care less about.

Then theres the choices where it just leads to game-over, they are pointless and idiotic, if they want to make it so kinetic then just leave out the choices altogether, giving you 3 choices where 2 leads to game-over whats the point.
Game should have had kinetic tag since you wont feel your changeing anything story wise by the choices you make.

Also giving you 2 choices to who you want to fuck, wheres the no thanks dont want to fuck any of the bitches.....

Then theres the fighting which feels pointless as well, oppenent has 2 poses just click the right one option for the post and thats it, if you fail for whatever reason you just click the retry, theres just no point to it.

Animations are a mixed bag, some looks pretty good, others mostly late game i just dident enjoy and used fast skip to just get them over with.

Music is alright.

Rating for the VN game Genesis

**Graphics: 4/5 stars**
The graphics in Genesis are impressive. The detailed and colorful images help to create an immersive and engaging world. It's clear that a lot of time and effort went into the design and implementation of the visual aspects of this game.

**Animations: 4/5 stars**
The animations in Genesis are fluid and well executed. They add to the overall atmosphere of the game and enhance the gaming experience. The character movements are realistic and the transitions between scenes are seamless.

**Plot Twist: 5/5 stars**
Genesis outdoes itself when it comes to plot. The story is gripping and suspenseful, with unexpected twists that constantly surprise the player. The game's ability to captivate the player and immerse them in the story is truly remarkable.

**Overall rating:**
I love the story of Genesis. It is gripping and keeps the player engaged from start to finish. The combination of superb graphics, fluid animations and a gripping storyline makes Genesis an unforgettable experience. I highly recommend this game. It is a must for any fan of visual novels.

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The game has a very good plot that captures your soul, but everything is spoiled by the toxic colors used by the developer and bright flashes of a white background that make your eyes pop out of your head. Apart from the ridiculous coloring of the characters, the silver coloring of the Succubus and the other green and blue characters, developer are you serious...? The animations and renderings in porn scenes are very weak, compared to top games, here they look terrible. I simply skipped them so that I could move on with the story. Personally, I did not have any erection during the entire playthrough of the game. Developer, no offense intended, this is healthy criticism, you definitely need to do something with the graphics. According to the five-point system, I give it 2+, and then only out of respect for the work of programmers.

This game has some good things going for it. The HoneySelect renders are whatever, but they are not badly constructed and some sequences and plot points are pretty well done.

The game has two major flaws, however, and several smaller nitpicks.
The first major flaw is that all of the fights feel extremely formulaic and it kind of makes the main character look like a pompous doofus.
The villain gets introduced two minutes before the MC fights them. The MC is all talk, going "You haven't seen my true power, rawr." and then two frames later he is getting his ass kicked and he has to summon his buddies to bail out his sorry ass. He always *just* manages to defeat the baddie, and often someone dies and he goes: "I'm sorry I couldn't keep my promise to protect you. I'll do everything I can to protect the ones I love from now on." And then at the next fight it all happens again.
Like, is this a power fantasy or a grizzly gritty grimdark fantasy where every battle is an intense nailbiter? 'Cause you kinda can't have both tbh, but it's all fused into this edgelord world building, and after a while it just feels silly.

The second and more severe problem is the story's complete lack of focus. It feels like the writer kept going: "You know this would be a cool setpiece/plot point." and then he just drops everything the story had going for it and starts writing a completely different thing. I know it's an adventure, and I know it's supposed to be episodic in nature, like it's Naruto or something, but characters, women who are in the harem, gets introduced early on, and then just completely forgotten later on. There are too many plot points going on at once and too many characters to develop which means that while the main story sort of chugs along at a slow, but decent enough tempo, the character development has been completely thrown to the side.
For several hours you get introduced to like a bunch of characters when the previous ones still really hasn't been fleshed out in anyway. And this makes all of the girls feel the same, which is a death sentence to harem games (at least to the ones that wants to take itself more seriously than just being an all-out fuckfest).
If you are juggling with too many balls, some are going to fall to the floor, and yes, the audience will notice it.

I don't mind that the game is tropey, or that the fighting is the same uninteresting sorry excuse for a mini-game... take the riddles and quiz elements and the one-choice bad endings out though, that's just poor and lazy game design, man. I don't mind the overdramatic reaction to everything or that the game is probably a bit too verbose. I'm fine with that, but the game does such a bad job at making me care about the villains, the actions and especially the characters that I can't muster up the energy to care about the game going further.

I love how the game is going, although it started in a tragic and sad way with that event, little by little it is improving and although it could be better graphically, I'm fine since it compensates with the soundtracks and the mini stories (of other characters) and personally the The part where you make the pact with Louise touched my heart and brought back memories: 'v but hey, I just wanted to tell you to keep going with the game and so on, greetings.

Pro's
Good renders, somewhat intriguing story.
Con's
No choices, It's kinetic except for the few lines after the choices.
The mini games are awful, at the start of the game you have to just find the way the dev wants you to make it through.
The other mini games is just look at stance and choose accordingly, that it's not even a game. It's just a bad/poor time filler.

Not very satisfying either, there is some scenes that are nice and all but nothing really outstanding, it's like the dev don't know what he wants to do, he just wants to please people, but I wonder if he even pleases himself.

Review for Ep. 23

While skeptical at first due to its cliche concept of a protagonist being killed off and taken away into another world – an idea too often explored in entertainment – this game however turned out be an astounding piece which kept me intrigued and engaged till the end by immersing me completely within its story.You can actually feel like you are living in a fantasy world where magic is everywhere.

I thought the characters in this story were decent but what stood out to me most was how much I loved the main character! Unlike other heroes who are always trying to save everybody from everything, he has an actual goal that you get to mold with each decision made along either a light, twilight or dark path as well as his accompanying attitude shift. Additionally, there were so many great additions like Marie (Best Girl) and Luna, but others like Scarlet could have benefited from more fleshing out.Before coming to Solensis the main character was emotionless but now that he is here it's weird how emotional and expressive he has become. He swings between being sullen one moment and crying easily the next. It's understandable though because of how close-knit his relationship with his friends has become.

The most vital element besides the sex scenes in this story is the mc's strength.I am completely smitten with how perfectly Lelouch and Sung Jin-Woo's abilities are blended together in this one character. Watching as his powers regularly comes forth shows just how formidable he can be.I'm especially fond of those moments when he uses his mind control power, the world around him becoming suddenly ominous as his victims lock eyes with him. It's such an impressive display of domination.As excited as i am at thinking about what acquiring his divine form from queen would look like,i cannot help but worry that The dev may mess up it and completely ruin some players expectations.

As someone who's played an extensive amount of visual novels in this genre and has a top 10 list consisting solely of my favorite picks out there - I can say without hesitation that I absolutely love playing this particular game! While it isn't finished yet - I believe that when it is completed it will easily earn its place on any person who has tried it being in their top 10 pick. Keep up the amazing work Solensis!

This game felt really enjoyable at first.

Decent beginning to a story, losing someone MC loves, fighting for his life, meeting new friends, new romances etc.

And then the story just kinda...stops. Oh it moves, below snails pace. MC gets into a subplot, which develops another subplot, which develops another subplot and then it's hour of reading subplots without any progression.

Worst of all, sex scenes aside, subplots make little sense and have even less interesting things going for them. Meanwhile the main story is on complete hold and it feels that at current pace, main plot would resolve in 10-20 years.

Sex scenes are OK...if not for sped up POV scenes later on. It's kinda dizzying looking at "fast forward fucking in first point view".
I like girls, and they all get some development, but again, they get put aside so MC can get into subplots with side girls for one or two scenes.

Meh, not worth continuing, don't think this game will ever finish. Might check it in few years, see if it went anywhere.
If you're here just for sex scenes, this one might be decent, but after that start, it's a shame it took the direction it did.

Played to when powers received

Pros:

• Interesting concept, not entirely unique, but interesting
• Will appeal to shonen fans
• Surprise death early on was a very welcome change to the trope

Cons:

• Veteran VN players are going to see the same old tropes
• Writing needs work; too cliche and generic
• Not deliberately, but story is way too similar to many other VNs

Overall:

While I definitely have no problem playing a VN with this concept, the writing just wasn't there for me. It wasn't the actual story that was the problem, but the dialogue and exposition was very basic and felt "phoned in". The story failed to grip me and I felt nothing for the characters at the point I ended, but I can't say I wasn't intrigued. My favorite scene was the alleyway fight (not so much a fight as a beating). It did a great job in showing just how powerful that enemy was compared to ordinary humans, and that nobody could do anything to stop him. Although it is nothing new in VNs to have such a fight, I don't believe I've ever seen an MC so helpless. He does not save the day or even get a few hits in. The biggest surprise for me was X's death after we are introduced to them with a long scene. Avenging them would definitely be a helluva motivator. It's definitely possible that the writing gets better over time, but the beginning is very crucial getting your audience invested so I encourage the author to take another look at it.

Pros: The plot for me is really good, one of the better Isekai style games that is a straight up parody with no creativity. All the characters look appealing as well are interesting and no annoying/usless character (to this point), I personally enjoy that the mc looks like a regular dude that doesn't have an unrealistic horse-lengthed cock, the battles scenes look really good though sometimes glitchy, and finally I love the adoptive daughter you get, bonus points for her cuteness.

Cons: While I do love the battles in the game, when you do the "summons", would be nice to have the player decide who to use (though I can understand on certain situations forcing a certain summon). You have neat abilities that can be used on people but we are rarely given the choice to do so and given all the interactions you have, that is a missed oppurtunity to use them more often. Clearly an Isekai based game, some paroding should be expected, however for me personally the "transformation" ( ) in the recent update while funny, showed a lack of creativity and just didn't make sense at all.
And lastly the spelling/grammar isn't perfect, though anyone should be able to understand what's being said, so not that big of an issue.


My overall thoughts: I really enjoyed this game, the con's are not that big of a deal to not enjoy/try the game, I think with simple tweaks this game could be absolutely fantastic, adding more meaningful choices/battle options throughout the story would enhance the VN greatly. Each update ends with a good cliffhanger, no annoying exits from a scene, that makes you eager to see what will happen next. Solid VN with solid writing, if you love Isekai anime this is a good download, an would recommend this game to anyone really.

I am still at the beginning of this game, and unfortunately, I cannot continue. You can really feel the edge when you try to read the dialogue. The world that is being built up is so needlessly mediocre. Most of all, you are forced to care for characters, then you are forced to make horrible decisions, and then you are forced to sit through various pretentious lines of dialogue only to end up with a pretty lackluster story by the end.

P.S. Also, the blatant Solo Leveling bits in the story are vomit-inducing. I actually physically cringed every single time.

It's a great game, I really feel like I'm moving too fast but I'm not complaining, it's very entertaining, I don't understand how it has a low rating and doesn't have as much support as other games, however I really recommend it to pass the time, don't hesitate

Looks = Good, at least for me.

Characters = Average to Good, not long enough to really decide but average considering other novels that I like.

Story = Interesting but full of cliches this is an important part to me and sadly is what lost most points because again it is full of cliches.

Choices = Bad, like really bad, this would be a great KN because I feel like none of my choices mattered at all or very little and the MC's personality, even right after a choice basically gives you the impression of setting it and after another one similar, feels like it is set in stone, there is too much that happens just so the story can happen and since like I said above the story is full of cliches it isn't really a good point for me.

Extra = Some of the cliches about the story fall on the "hey this was fucked up but we ignored it when it was born" like goblins and a lot of HP, so I won't put it on the author cause I also didn't notice until it was pointed out to me. Besides that, it isn't bad, actually for a game on this site it is good or maybe even excellent but as a game or even a book or comic I would say it is average. edit: changed the rating because of a specific scene but if I say what I actually though was wrong with it the mods will delete this.

I feel like the developer wanted to write some Isekai manga and ended up in a porn game. I can see this plot in some ecchi with a overly long name. Althouht the plot is contrived and coomplicated at best, it is not bad. As all ilusion based games, it has some fluid animations. I wish Illusion would update the engine tot make better graphics, thtough. Stuck in 2010.

Reviewing Episode 21, though I definitely didn't make it that far in. The writing is uniquely bad, awfully inconsistent power scaling, a protagonist who's ok with mind control one minute then a paragon of morality the next, a hundred other issues I don't have space to put. The scenes I got to weren't terrible, which does keep the game from a 1 star rating for me.

The game was decent in the beginning but I'm losing more and more interest as I progress.

- Actually, I wasn't impressed with a lot of things right off the bat; especially with the things related to the story like the plot, character developement, dialogue, creativity, etc.
- Nonetheless I found it okay because the game provided some decent sex scenes and I thought 'it's fine as long as the game keeps providing sex scenes.'
- Then I got to this point where the intervals between sex scenes became longer and longer and it was no longer worth progressing the story for the scenes.
- So this "Visual Novel", for me, ended being a game with a poor storyline but not enough sex scenes.