Ren'Py - Goddesses' Whim [v0.3.9v2] [Ncrow]

If the only thing you want is stunning visuals and steamy scenes, play this game.
Personally, the story did not capture my attention, and the dialogue was below average. There was an excessive amount of exposition, which was tedious, and characters frequently delivered monologues in a manner that was annoying and cringy.
The game heavily relied on clichés to provide the player with a sense of comfort and perfection, so I got bored and annoyed very quickly.

5 stars for visuals, 0 stars for typical harem with no depth, 0 stars for typical boring MC, 0 stars for minigames that served no purpose, 0 stars for 0 player agency, 0 stars for plot.

This game is fantastic! It exudes a cozy atmosphere throughout, and each moment brings me closer to the love interests. There's a distinctive quality to each character that sparks my curiosity and leaves me wanting to learn more about them. The action scenes are also exceptionally well-executed, making this Visual Novel truly impressive. Overall, the game is absolutely outstanding.

The art is surprisingly well done - characters aren't flat, scenes look good. I just can't stand the writing. Not only is it just so incredibly cliche, it's riddled with translation errors between the author's original language and English (I can only assume). I didn't really get too far into it because I was so bored, but the assets looked good enough to at least give it average.

If you can stand sub-par writing and story for above average models, then you'll probably like this.

Favorite KK game on the site hands down. the animations are so well done, you can really tell the dev puts a lot of effort into the details.

Story isn't bad and it seems to be getting better as updates continue. Highly recommend.

I'm not really good reviewer, so let's make it simple :

Character : 4/5 (very expressive, especially the main girls)
Story : 3.5/5 (it's good and has nice comedy in it)
Scene : 5/5 (no comment. Just play it and you would like it)
Overall : 4.5/5 (this is one of the best koikatsu based game you probably ever play.. imo, it's golden experience)

What a great game! It has comfy feelings all around and it's full of moments where it feels like I become closer to the love interests. There's also somehow something unique in every love interests, makes me want to know more about them. The actions scenes as well, they are too awesome and looks really good for a Visual Novel! The game is fucking amazing overall.

game has likelable characters, fantastically animated custom h-scenes, is regularly updated (usually once a month), and great visuals. it is quite hard to find a fault in it. I would recommend it to pretty much everybody. the dev knows what they are doing and i look forward to seeing more updates / what they go into next

Amazing so far, haven't even finished it yet, absolutely blown away by how much content is there, the animations are great, the character are diverse and look pretty good, cute + funny + "plot" + plot = perfect, looking forward to see how the story develops and more "plot" for sure, the music is also pretty good.

I don't have much to say. I just wanted to leave a very well deserved 5 star rating for this game. Everything about it was fantastic and I can tell how much care and effort has been put into this project. The animations are top notch. The story is fantastic as well but most of all I enjoyed the characters. Their stories and personalities are really the thing that kept me hooked. Excited to see what comes next!

Story:

You take the role of a modern-day teenager, who tries to save a girl and ends up dying in the process. In the afterlife he meets a goddess who gives him the opportunity to be reborn on a medieval world.

Yes, the premise is a carbon copy of a isekai anime, but the game plays is out like a homage, rather than plagiarism. It makes clear references, and the dialogue is written as anime as possible, complete with expressions like “fufu”, “oi”, “ara ara” and so on. Theres no shortage of headpats, pouting, blushing and cat/dragon girls. If you dislike this style of cutesy anime characters, this won’t be a game for you. If you are used to that, however, you will find a story that despite the generic premise, still manages to carve its identity as it unfolds, and has no shortage of likable characters (even if they are fairly one-note). The script is lighthearted and pretty funny at times.

Design:

I won’t beat around the bush, this is a sandbox game through and through, where you must build relationship points, acquire money, resources and so on. Once again, if you are one of those people who goes into every thread complaining about sandbox, even when its clearly labled (you know who you are), then don’t bother.

With that out of the way, some grinding is required, but it’s not too excessive. The early girls need you to interact a handful of times before you can see new events, but that seems to have been dialed back substantially for the later girls, which is a plus for me. There are minigames for fishing and wood cutting. The map is user friendly enough, and you can teleport to a girl’s location from the menu if you’re on the correct time period, which is a nice feature. The tips are always clear about what you need to do.

Visuals:

Visually, this game is fantastic in several ways. The renders are great, the UI is pleasant, and the animations are some of the best out there (as you can tell from the previews). The one caveat I have with the presentation is the perspective of the sex scenes. Most scenes are shown though first person or a closed-in camera. One advice I’d give the dev is to also present the scenes from a pulled back camera for those who prefer to see the whole picture.

Conclusion:

Goddesses Whim is one of those games that isn’t for everyone, given its overly anime and sandbox nature, but it’s hard to deny the quality and effort. The story so far won’t be winning any awards, but it does get more interesting as you play, and I’m curious to see what comes next.

This is my Review of v 0.3.2. Public (Goddesses' Whim)
Made by the developer (NCrow)

There is a possibility that this Review will change when a new update comes later on since this game isn't finished yet.
Spoilers alert BTW!

The Story-line: 4.3/5

The thing about this storyline I liked is that it's straightforward to understand the main character's goal. From one boring life to a second chance with a new life after giving up his life for another without hesitating. (But there is more to the story than what we think)

Now the story is pretty easy to follow since there is a main log of events you can do for each girl you meet in the game and a main storyline. Let's just take the part I (Didn't like first) like most games, you are forced to do everything with everyone or you can't continue the main storyline. So if there are any types of girls you don't like, but want to continue the main storyline you're forced to do it...

(My very own opinion) For me, if there is one girl I like (Ryoko), I like having the choice of whether I want to go after others or not. I don't mind been around any of these beautiful Girls/Women, but I would have liked it more if I had a choice to take the relationship a step further or not. That's the only main thing I didn't like, so far.

The best part of the story is that everything makes sense, is not hard to understand what every character feels. Easy to see it right away in the text, the facial expressions, the music, and the humor in this game have made me break into laughter several times. Well done!

Every character in this game has their own personality and story to tell which ends up in several hours of gameplay of content. Some parts have made me laugh, feel excited, cry, and even scared my pants off... (Damn you Shika!)

Animations and Art: 3.7/5

The game is Anime-3D, I do love Anime-2D more when it comes to the art style, but the creator/creators have done an amazing job on the characters here so far. So I didn't mind it at all.

For most people (Even myself) if there are some types of girls you don't find attractive, they are still lovely in their own ways. The more time you spend with the characters, there could be a higher possibility of finding other types of things you find attractive, so it's pretty much recommended to spend time with everyone.

There are almost nothing of animations in the game when you walk around. The only part that moved was Shika when she was standing outside of the Doctor's house sweeping (Animation video that repeats itself every 2 seconds) Tomoe in the shop and Mayu in her shop It's not bad or anything like that, the only bad part is just those three animations. BESIDES from the Ara~Ara parts... That's where the game shines when it comes to animations.

The part that almost broke me was at the last event part for this version when you watch Ryoko and the main character training and she falls back on the grass. The grass didn't move at all, either Ryoko is light as a feather, or the grass was made of metal. Maybe some magic was involved here... idk

Lack of shade, flat texture, repeat texture, and some blurry color here and there.
But the characters are almost flawless and the world part looks average good for now.

Level of difficulty: 3.1/5

The game has mini-games like fishing, rock-paper-scissors, and chopping wood. And a few fighting scenes, I didn't know what would happen if you failed fighting scenes so I went back to the game to find out... Nothing will change the outcome of the story, just that you have to (Try Again) and take it from there.

There are no lewd difficulties, no Story challenges, and no decision challenges which makes the rewards worth less. So it's just go to the next event and see what happens. My hope if there will be (Multiple Endings) when the game is finished. It's not an expectation, just a hope. Can give the game more reasons why one should play it again later on.

The sounds & Music parts: 3.7/5

The game has both sounds and music. But it still lacks sounds here and there (Even for the lewd part. That part came as a shock, to be honest) Some parts of the game really hit the right spot when a sound was needed for the humor, and others like hitting and magic were good.

There were enough sounds to enjoy the story, but it would have been great with more. There were also some sound effects I didn't expect. That laughter coming from the frog at the Mayu event was terrifying. You have to hear it to believe it...

Overall: 3.7/5 - F95Zone Star 4 "Good"

The game is not a final version, and it has a great start. With many types of events. I didn't detect errors or bugs as I discovered. The girls in this game are amazing. Love their story, personality, and their looks.

If I had to pick the top 5 out of the list that I loved the most.
The list would have been 1: Ryoko, 2: Charlotte, 3: Natsuki, 4: Akane, 5: Shika

It took me hours to get through all the events and it has been an incredibly good story that I would really like to continue to see through for future updates. Oh god, I love the humor in this game! Keep up the great work!

one of the best games i played , the models , the animation , the story ist just fugging great , hell of a great game , you think you played all then you missed this scene and another village new scenes i love that game really

Attention to detail is great, little to no clipping textures, nice animations, dreat models and a not that cringe plot. Decent divercity of not overly stereotypical characters.
Very decent game overall, can't wait for a full release.

Excellent game yeah can be a bit grindy sometimes but that's something fixable upgrading the resource quantities you get from activities but the rest damn animations are pretty good ,models are custom , girls are Lovable it doesn't have any rare kink you can't avoid that ruins the experience....

The animations are different from those normally used in other games of the same style. The story is generic in anime, with a stronger protagonist than usual, which gives me that touch of nostalgia. The characters feel alive and have personality. I really like this gam

A game with really great visuals, decent gameplay, but terrible writing.

The models are beautiful, the scenery is pretty solid too (which is something often overlooked by devs). And the animations start quite good and get even better later on. If you're just here for a fap, you could definitely do worse than downloading this game and skipping all the dialogue. But if you care at all about writing then I've got some bad news.

The writing isn't just bad, it's very bad. First of all, there are a lot of mistakes in grammar, sentence structure, syntax, and word choice. It's clear this dev is not a native English speaker. But it goes beyond that, too. The dialogue is really bad, there's a lot of exposition that is very dull, there are a lot of moments where characters are basically thinking out loud and monologuing in a way that can get annoying and cringy. Also, I feel like I say this very frequently in my reviews for adult games, but I really get the sense that this Dev just... doesn't know how women talk. It's a shame because the setting is pretty decent, and some of the characters could have been really compelling if only they didn't sound like their dialogue was written by an A.I that only learned to talk from examining porn.

In a perfect world, this dev would hire a writer -- one who interacts with women in the real world -- to do all of the writing and dialogue for them while they focused on the art and world and just pushed the writer in the right direction. Also, this dev really needs to reduce the amount of times you need to repeat events to progress. Tedium is literally never fun in games like this so I never understand why devs make you talk to a character and repeat the same event 5 times in a row before something new happens. Trust me, dude, NO ONE enjoys chopping wood for 30 days just to earn enough gold and materials to build stuff. The minigames are solid, but they aren't good enough to warrant that much repetition.

TLDR; As I said, the visuals are great and it makes for a good fap, but if writing matters to you, you won't find it here.

Safe to the point of blandness SOL wish fulfillment game

This game uses every possible trope to strengthen the idea that you are utterly safe, infallible, and perfect here in this space created only for you. Being the only male and everyone in your general vicinity being your biggest fan are just the most obvious and egregious. Perhaps the writing evolves past "omg mc your handsome, u hav big dick, aaaaand so kind?!?!" but considering repeating the same event until the game takes pity on you is considered "progress" i highly doubt it.

Seeing as this review is for a game and not a collection of animations the story should carry the heaviest weight (otherwise dont waste time with story and just make animations) and with that in mind its below average

Nice story, incredible original characters, and amazing animations.
Easily some of the highest quality work I've seen on this site.
I could only count on one hand the games that could be compared to this.
Also one of the few devs I never had a single regret in financially supporting.
If there are any cons to this work in progress, I found them easy to look past given this isn't some mainstream super-professionally developed title.

It has ALL the ingredients for an excellent game, BUT needs to follow a better recipe....

Pros:

1. Probably the best koi renders and H-scene animations in this site. I'm not joking, I have played 100s of AVN and there's like 1 or 2 koi that remotely come close.
2. Music is pretty pleasing
3. Writing is decent for a lighthearted novel.
4. Characters are beautiful
5. I don't mind the white knight MC but there's a catch (check cons)
6. Sandbox and UI is clean.
7. Minigames are really fun and so smoothly executed.

Cons:

1. Pacing and plot needs a lot of improvement. Like, even if it's a lighthearted setting, we need some substance to make it seem MC is getting to know em. Repeating the same "hangout" event to increase love points till you bone them doesn't make for any storyline or any meaningful arcs.
2. Mc is a nice guy alright but you can't make him that and at the same time request lewd stuff from Lis when you do a job or something. That's completely different tone and breaks immersion.
3. Tone down the LIs or NPCs simping after MC. It gets very overwhelming and doesn't really make the plot shine. Like I don't even remember what the plot is or name of characters because they don't shine due to the fact that these issues take up the game's time.
4. Making LIs with different body shapes and sizes would be cool cuz currently almost all are busty (which I don't mind but I know others might).
5. Characters have little to no depth and are super one-note.
6. I personally don't like the only male MC in the existence tropes so here's that.

Verdict: It pains me to say this but I would hold off until cons are fixed because honestly this has potential to be one of the best koi games ngl.

I would rather you play that than this cuz at current state it's really good for fap but doesn't deliver the whole package (would you rather eat something that is tasty with various notes that ends your hunger or just chug gallons of sweet water to satisfy your hunger? - at current state it's only as good as one-note sweet water)

Some of the best animations I've seen, and a lot of cute girls. There's a pretty good story for those who focus on that, but I mostly enjoy winning all the girls over to your side. Good hints to prevent the player from getting confused on what to do next.