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

Review for Ep. 20

I was conflicted between 3 and 4 stars, but I think I enjoyed it enough to lean on the higher end. This game isn't awful, but it has some problems. If you're able to look past them though then there's something to enjoy here.

The story and setting is what makes this stand out. There are some common themes but it's told in a more unique way imo. I won't spoil too much, but you're essentially chosen by a higher power to fight in a sort of battle royale against other chosen ones and ultimately be the last one standing.

The MC's power is cool. If you read solo leveling, it's essentially that but with a bit more to it. If you haven't, you're basically a summoner who can summon the people he defeats (with some caveats) among other abilities. It's fun to build up a party of adventurers and also build up your summons at the same time.

I have two bigger problems with this game. First is the writing. There are moments where I just cringe man. The MC really feels like that dude who thinks he's cool but is just kinda lame in reality. Except everyone around him does think he's cool ofcourse. A different review compared it to how you would treat a child and I do see what they mean. The worst are the moments that are suppose to be super dramatic and sad, but literally none of that emotion is present in the player. As a player, there is literally zero reason why we should care about the girl our MC is trying to revive. There is not a single scene outside the short opening that gives us any kind of connection to her. Our protagonist also has an emotional attachment to this young girl we found for literally no reason, and now he's like "I'll kill anyone who harms her" yaddah yaddah all edgy like. A lot of the plot twists you can see coming from a mile away (though not all of them to be fair).
My other problem is that this game plays like a linear visual novel when it REALLY feels like it shouldn't. Minor spoilers ahead but you have a "mind palace" where you can see all your summons and interact with them. However, you only go to this mind palace at random points in the story when the MC decides to go into it. There's also these separate side stories that you have to go back to the main menu to play. The problem is that these side stories still tie in to the main story, but you have no idea of the timeline or if they even will affect the story (when they seem like they should). I honestly don't understand why they weren't just integrated into it. There's also no real choices that meaningfully change things either.

Look, I'm no game developer, but I would have the mind palace act as a hub (say, after the prologue and up to the point you unlock it) that you can tackle these side stories from and progress the main story at your leisure. Having repeatable interactions with your summons among other things to do in the mind palace whenever you're there. Just my opinion though.

Again the game ain't perfect, but I enjoyed it enough despite my issues. Renders aren't bad and the sex scenes aren't either. A decent amount of the models have been hit or miss (some are a bit plain as compared to others?) but I'll just chalk that up to personal preference. I really do like that we have summoner powers. Probably not something everyone will enjoy, but I think it's worth a shot if it caught your eye at least.

Really gave this one a fair shot, but it never got going. From the first minute I could tell the writing was poor... but thought there was a chance that it would have good ideas, interesting plot or decent porn. But none of that ever happened. Seriously wasted about 3 hours on this.

English: 6
User Interface: 4
User Experience: 7
Art: 4
Dialogue: 4
Story: 6
Opinion: 3
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Avg: 4.86

Little thought as this released, 22.5 Part 1, Are you kidding me? Releasing part of a part of a chapter in a story?

I will include my old review, as the whole story probably wouldn't have changed in the year between these reviews. And it's quite comical in that it reads as a fan fiction, but this time I'm going to review the actual content of the story. So maybe I can paint a decent picture on how I really feel about this. The Dev fixed renaming the MC, I'm happy for that, though I think a line or two of calling MC Aiden slipped through. And the "custom" CGs especially with the Titan fight do not look very good, and that's later content, which means the quality isn't improving. Also, the cringey charm this second read-through has very much worn off and I felt I had to suffer through it rather than laugh to myself while playing.

The story is very simple, MC wakes up, contented on his birthday. Has the perfect day with his best friend, Laurie (DEV, those are two words, not one) and is even gifted his edgy katana for his birthday. It's even overly detailed with how "cool" the sword is. But anyway, after work MC and his friend are killed by some sadistic guy, originally he rapes and kills the best friend, but Dev got too much grief because the idiot players have the mindset "she was raped so she's not worth my time" which is disgusting victim-blaming, and I'm getting off topic, but that would have been a much bigger motivator for Vindicta(Laurie) to hate men. But it was changed to "He broke every bone in her body" so now she hates men yadda yadda. Then MC gets reincarnated in "The Void" with "The Queen" There's a lot of ambiguous flashbacks and TO THE END SO FAR there's not a lot of details, only that some "Supreme Being" keeps trying to call MC "Son" or something and MC is now big and strong and super cool and a total Gary-Stu.

Moving ahead, MC trains for a year and joins the Zodiac War led by God and the Devil to pick the new supreme being. But MC already has mind control and can summon beings that are stronger than him, so the tension is not there. He adopts a kid, has a princess fall in love with him, kills an ageless demon, and beats one of the Zodiac Suitors is a relatively short time. The chapters get exponentially longer and even broken into parts which DEFEATS THE POINT OF CHAPTERS, so the first 15 chapters are over in about 20 minutes of reading and the last 7 take forever to get through. Which is a big problem as this struggles with pacing. You do all that stuff really fast then the game slows down to a halt while MC idles in town looking for another Suitor but also because his emotions are all over the place? But he never shows it? Then when Vindicta shows up again it moves at lightspeed then A RECAP OF EVERYTHING SO FAR PADS OUT THE GAME. And there's already quite a few recaps which just makes this entire section a joke.

Ultimately, the writing in this has a LOT of issues. One being the English isn't all the way there. There are so many tensing and wording issues I gave up counting. The UI/UX is COMPLETELY stock renpy the only change is a font and the namebox is in the center, so laziness to add any originality. The art was okay for a while, but there's no post processing and especially the Titan fight, the CG look like their cobbled together. It just needs work. The dialogue is all over the place, MC is introduced as a stoic, logical person, but acts like every anime protagonist ever. He acts completely differently to each girl. And the story is another "Just happens to be the strongest guy ever" type story so I'm not enthralled by it. And below I'm just gonna leave my list of notes because I couldn't think of a decent way to write them into my summary. And if anyone notices any of the things I point out, I'm glad I'm not screaming into the void.

Great so far and no NTR or rape scene that got it its lowish rating before worth the play, good story and good characters that make you care about them both foe and companions. Good renders and art and even better fighting mechanics and lore building

I really enjoyed this story so far. Of course it has faults but show me a game on here that doesn't. The fighting mechanics are simple enough that they don't drag it down and if it's not your thing you can just skip it. Choices don't seem to make a big difference yet with a few right or wrong exceptions but hopefully that will get better with time. The story is what really did it for me though and i absolutely love Luna. Definitely worth a try in my humble opinion though. I have a feeling this is going to be a love it or hate it game for most. Thick skin Dev, don't let the nay sayers sway you. I'm looking forward to more.

The story of this game is convoluted as hell. but still follows a simple Isekai type story. you got transported to another world that you had to take over with a bunch of antagonists in your way that you need to eliminate. recruiting a party of adventurers to help you in your mission your typical isekai plot I played a lot of games that have tried to pull this simple concept and failed. this game 17 episodes in is still hanging in there being a little slow-moving the plot forward but maybe that's what is saving it from going all over the place.
The bad = characters design meh. the murder of Laurie scene was too brutal and went for too long as we got it right away that the guy was bad news dev didn't need to keep going at it. as for the rape scene, I'm new to the game so I never experience it (thanking God for that) therefore can't talk about it.
The ugly = the fights not a big fan of those in my games but played a lot of games that had decent fights mechanics this one is NOT one of them.
also, you have useless choices I have no problem with games that can't afford meaningful choices and tries to give us the illusion of it, but this game doesn't even attempt that, to the point that is going to make you beg the dev to go kinetic.
Overall I still recommend this game mostly for its story, hooked me enough for me to want to go back.

Creating the Mind Palace for MC to summon the souls of dead women there to fuck the dead?


And what's the point for those stupid fighting when the result is predetermined by the story?

Also, even if the player beats the boss, for that 2nd question "Would you be able to die for the sake of someone else's life", the fact that the player must answer "YES" or it would be an unavoidable gameover just sucks.

Lastly, that "best friend" character Laurie looks terribly like an aged vampire. No sexual appeal at all.

Just deleted the game and put it under the "Never-to-try-again" category.

Well played trough this game ... Its decent so far with some good points like...

Making ur own harem / army

And some of the girls look pretty cute

The war with multiple antagonists will be pretty interesting as well

The only downside for me was that the best friend got killed in front of ur eyes ...

But i have a feeling she is the one being trained by that king of the void guy and is now in the new world as well fighting those other 12 antagonist\

Could be interesting to see how they both will react when they ultimatly come face to face again

Still had to give it 3 stars only since it was pretty dark having the mc his best friend being killed so horribly at the start ... But at least the rape scene was cut

episode 16
Story is a confusing mess
You fight you die you get new power
Renders are good
This game really needs a walktrough
There where moments where you need to make the right choice If you did not game over and retry This left me frustated
Maybe i try this game again after some updates and if there is a walktrough
No bugs
Never played with sounds

Liking the story so far, will see how it continuous. (Although in some points there are some "plot holes", or at least inconsistencies that make little sense).
Also, renders are a four out of five for me.

The main problem with the game is the plot. It is utterly convoluted and all over the place. The MC is drop on a plot arc and suddenly kicked out of It and added into a new one. I mean, It's totally Ok and even rich when a plot has multiple plot arcs some within others, the problem is, you can't simply drown the player/audience/reader into a spiral of plot arc one after the other. Not just that but also the constant overcharged background story for every little detail in the game which seems totally unnecesary.
I'm not saying the writing is horrible but how the story is told.
The animations are okay since they're made with HS, but often the backgrounds and assets look weird, and also the characters feel repetitive because the HS engine...
On the positive side there's some branching choices/paths...

I think it's a decent game. The renders are good but a lot of them are similar to others I've seen before. I think the story is good but it's not settling into my top 20 or anything. Overall it's an okay game. I'd preferred the early version, when it seemed like it was going to have even darker tones, but I get why some people are liking it and there's nothing I'd point at and say it's bad. If you read the description and liked the pics you're probably going to like it even if for me personally it wasn't exceptional.

Well if your looking for a great and intriguing story and beautiful characters then you should try this game. It's nice since you dont know what to expect also as of now you have choices how your mc can act wanna be a badass hero go for it or wanna be a handsome villain you can as well all in all animation are good also. So come and try it and enjoy a wild ride .

Wow i thoroughly enjoyed this. Great story that kept me intrigued through out. Love the idea of this war and battling 13 others to claim your throne. The idea of killing these others, forcing them to quit the war, or them becoming your servant can go in so many ways. The characters are beautifully created and out MC seems like a bad ass. I hope that chapters come out fast and that we get more development of the story. Hats off to the developer.

I love this project and look forward to what is coming next! Honestly, it's got some unique vibes to it that I've rarely seen done in the others here, and the fact that it is not just some simple hgame but one that has a story and paths we can take is pretty neat. There's optional and not simply a skip in the scenes to dictate whether you chose to do good or bad despite the lack of a karmic system which isn't too bad either. I recommend this to anyone that's found this gem hidden in these threads.

It is still early phase of the game, but from what i have seen so far it has a very promising start.

The Story is interesting and has me hooked up for wanting more, the characters are well designed and diverse. Each of them seem to have different goals in mind, so i'm sure we will see our share of fights, intrigues, plots, maybe some backstabbing.
Most of that will play in a fantasy world which has his own problems like wars or a monster created by God/Devil to make the challenge for the MC and the other suitors harder.

The game also has good music, which fits well with the theme.

For players which are interested in a good story i'd say give it a try, it's worth it.

Big thumbs up from me! Stunning visuals and interesting plot.

Just one feedback for consideration: Maybe Laurie's facial texture at the start could be redone a little? I felt her features were much less sharp/smooth/ than those of the goddess of the void (kinda like going from 720p to 2k HD haha)

A bit short but has a really epic feel to it, deserved 5 stars. I look forward to more to come!

P.S. I didn't play the 0.1 but the change from rape + death to just death scene is very important. I think some dialogue for that part can still be modified e.g. 'break her in'