VN - Ren'Py - Her Last Piece [Act 2 v1.1.024] [SpiceMerchants]

Overall: 5/5

This game should set the standard for VNs moving forward. Incredible art/animations and sound design. I feel like within the first 10 seconds of the opening already sold me onto the game. The saying "she lies" had me questioning every choice and decision I made throughout the game. The voice acting for Arvenia threw me off at first because I was expecting more a darker tone for the dark queen, but it grew on me over time. Her performance adds a layer of emotional depth and authenticity that elevates every scene she’s in. The subtle nuances in her delivery—whether it’s a trembling voice during a moment of vulnerability or a sharp edge during a confrontation—make her one of the most memorable characters I have seen in my experience playing VNs. Though I wish there were more variety in the dialogue choices, I wasn't disappointed with what I got. I felt immersed in the game's narrative and the characters and that is only possible because the writers knew how to connect the characters with the players.

Take a look at the pictures, it says it all.
-If the artwork pleases you, then you'll enjoy this game and its animations
-If it doesn't, then you won't

This is a visual novel with some light exploring that will take the story in 1 of 2 directions based on your choices. It's nothing extremely complex and if you want to get straight to the action, the game makes it easy for you to get there. All in All, i highly recommend this game. With 2 acts out right now, and a third on the way, its a great visual novel with a good amount of content for you to "enjoy"

----Also, this game has PHENOMENAL writing. Give it a try

Pros:
Amazing art and animated scenes
Great writing and story telling
Voice acting is well done
Choices can matter and affect the direction of the story and scenes you get

Cons:
Expected to end after the next act. Hoping for more

Another porn game with fantastic art and good animation, that is completely ruined by its excellent writing.

I joke, but it really is hard to stay in the gooner mindset with such compelling character writing and storytelling. There's mystery, a tinge of horror, and a ton of thrills.

This is going down as another of the great "Come for the titties, stay for the romance" kind of game.

Excellent!! An underrated gem, it has voice acting, a engaging enough story, animation, hot choices, and demoness GF. I hope the dev keeps the pace and I hope the game becomes a huge success so that the dev can continue making masterpieces like this one. If you haven't do check the dev's steam page and buy the game.

Best 2D vn game for all time for me! the voice acting is just perfect, the text counts is very generous for lighweight novel reader like me. The plot flows smooth. All i can say is, MAN if i have the money i'll buy your game instantly! i hope your journey sails smoothly!

The 2D animated model is reeaaallly good. And naturally so are the scenes between the mc and the female lead and the art as a whole. The writing and dialogue is well made, uch that I actually read all of it rather than skipping searching for scenes. The interactions between the characters are something I'm invested in. The voice acting is rather fitting and and well done! I'd typically mute voice acting unless it is a japanee vn, but the voice acting here was really well executed that I liked having it on. The choices and branching in the plot is also a nice touch, making the player' input actually hold value in the story of the viual novel. Ultimately, a really well made game that I look forward to for more developments! Thankyou to the developer/s for making this!

This one is really hidden gem, usually i skip the dialogues in VN cos they are shallow or boring but in this one i couldnt,

I was siping every bit of dialogue like fine wine, really mature , 10/10 writting, and voice acting is perfect.
Never thought i will be thinking this much about the VN after i finished it.
(Also cant wait for ACT3)

Dont know what is this kink but really this game pushed the right buttons in me. Really made my night

You can really feel her compeling character, and choices are not like - be mean to her, she is mad, be kind she will like you and this is really good, i was kinda shocked that after i told her she is coward, the dialogue really went the way i was thinking even tho she was mad as hell but still cute

Also the mysteries in story are really intriguing and the lack of strainght answers to everything is making this even more interesting

For now game looks very promising - mystery all around, sexy queen, different relationship variants and nice art.

For now it is not always clear what choice leads where so the results are kind of unexpected. Also there surely must be some variants between love and submission. For example - romantic love and MC dominating or love and MC is submissive. Maybe there are, but I haven't found them yet.

Hopefully there will be wilder scenes and more fetishes later on.

This game is incredible, reading this was a really great time.

The story is really well made and written, but more specially the suspense and mystery behind it all, very hardly i've come to think hard about my choices in a VN, but in this game, i constantly think about my choices due to the mystery behind the queen's motives.

The visuals are really good, with the use of Live2D on these gorgeous drawings, the art style is good and distinct.

The VA of the girl is a really good, I'm the type of guy that really cringes when a porn game has voice acting, but this was the only game I can think of that didn't make me mute the voice acting, in fact, I loved it.

Anyway, this is 10/10 game if you like a VN with engaging stories, specially romance.

this is one of those games that one should try if you are spending time on this site looking for something quality to play. beautiful art with the live2d design. the story is quite enjoyable, tho its still a bit short and unexplored to truly make a proper judgement on it, yet it did make significant progress compared to its first release.
if you are already looking for nsfw games, playing this is a foregone conclusion.

I'm most of all very taken by the Live2D animated character sprite(s), fully animated scenes, and full character voice acting. Strongly recommend diving into this game if the screenshots catch your attention - there's good production behind this one.

Really another good surprise. Graphics are nice, the voice is soft and suits to the character. Alas, it's just the first chapter but it's a very good start. The whole game may be astonishing and remeber ... she lies

Good art, good story, but the game is VERY short.
The total gameplay is only around 7-10 minutes, which leaves you wanting more, as there’s almost zero content to explore.

The download time itself ended up being longer than the game, which was quite surprising and a bit disappointing, especially considering the potential for more development.

Despite the quality in terms of the visuals and storyline, it’s hard to ignore how brief the overall experience felt. It’s almost over before you truly get into it, leaving much to be desired.

This is just the first chapter, but I am already quite invested. The lonely, evil and powerful queen/sorceress and the servant/underling dynamic has always been one of my favourites ever since I read the Black Company. I am excited to see how the relationship develops depending on your path.

The art is great for what it is. A detailed animated sprite during dialogue, with dedicated CG's and animations for scenes. It's a formula used in a lot of AVN's and I think it's done well here. It allows much faster development time than if every dialogue scene is getting unique CG's. The actual scenes themselves are hot and very well drawn.

The dialogue is competently written. The general writing and worldbuilding is fine so far, but we will have to wait for more chapters in order to truly judge it. This is more of an intro than anything. It will be easier to judge paths and such when we are a few updates in.

The only issue is there are some bugs. On two separate occasions making a certain choice caused the game to exit to the gallery without warning. The two times it happened to me was choosing to peek in the bathhouse, and when the Yandere path scene at the end of chapter is about to trigger. Both of these times the game quit to menu and opened the gallery. This isn't going to adjust my score because this is the first release, but if it doesn't get fixed later down the line it likely will.

Gets a point for character artwork (not the environmental art), gets another point for some imaginative flourishes.

The rest kind of sucks.

If you don't like femdom (I do not) there's nothing in this first chapter for you. The romance route has a couple of cute exchanges, but no real content. The replay screen at the end of the chapter was completely blurred out for me.

The writing is mediocre. The info dump at the start is pretty awful, I was so bored. Remember how Lord of the Rings info dumped by showing the conflicts and wars, the failure to destroy the ring breaking the trust of elves and men? Yeah, not a fucking atom of that. Just dry explanation of the history. Even the MC's journey to the castle is info dumped, instead of dramatised.

And it's so short. Unbelievably so. I was done in 20 minutes.

The voice acting is really amateurish (high quality my ass) and I just skipped through once I had read the dialogue. It was distracting, and a waste of effort imo.

The model isn't even changed to have their mouth open when they talk, it's so lazy. Environments are also extremely limited, there's very little detail, and the actions you take don't change what little you can see, despite the fact you're supposed to be cleaning things up.

This is all style and no substance.

If you aren't into femdom, there's nothing for you here. Just don't bother.

surprised this game had a VA, great story that isn't dragged out and I enjoy the mystery aspect, makes you unsure of certain actions. cant wait for act 2

The game itself has great visualizers, wouldn't mind some more but I understand that it will just increase the length of production. The main girl is very seductive, almost like a succubus.

I think they should also add more side characters that might create some interesting dynamics between the main character and main girl.

Incredibly charming art, alongside some great animations and effects. The backgrounds and character design are amazing.

The female lead has voice-acting, something that is a plus, and although there could be some improvements it is generally nice to listen to.

The story is very interesting despite the little we've been shown. The contrast between what we're told and shown leads to an uncertainty on how to progress and act.

Was faced with some bugs (mainly being thrown to the gallery after every scene), but considering that at the time of writing this was the very first public release, it is understandable to be faced with such issues. Hopefully in time they will be solved.

All in all, for a fairly short (30 minutes - 1 hour) experience, it has proven itself to be more than worth the playtime due to the evident quality of the game.

Awaiting more!

A very short experience that I'll be reviewing as a demo, but for a demo it's a very high production value experience that offers a very welcome addition to the surprisingly rare genre of romance-based femdom.

Art is probably it's headlining attribute, it has some very fantastic base art that could carry a VN by itself as just stills, but they've augmented it even further with live2D animated sprites that bring a lot of life to the game and what surely has to be at least some manually animated CG with how detailed the breast groping was. There naturally will be a drawback to this as that much production value in each CG is going to limit how many scenes the game can offer, but they've seemed to plan around this by keeping the scope of the game small and focused.

Voice acting is also quite well done and is definitely augmentary to the experience. I've seen a few other games try to hit above their league by adding voice and you end up with some girl whisper reading on a bad mic that you have to feel bad about muting just to enjoy the game. Here though you're getting an acceptably professional experience by an actor that's actually emoting to the script. My only slight gripe is that I think perhaps a bit more of a sultry mature voice would suit the character better, but personal preference.

Story is a great premise, and as I said is a setup I'm a big fan of. My only gripe is that there's really not any conflict to it at all. She pretty much does nothing but be nice to you from the beginning and practically wears a sign on her forehead that she's lonely and attention starved, so there's not really an arc of warming a cold heart or anything. The protagonist literally got sent to his death by a culture he himself describes as a hellhole, so he has nothing better to go back to and there's really no reason to pick any resist or escape options other than just the curiosity of seeing what they do. Since that can't really carry a story unless they go full slice of life, this is gonna make any evil stuff they introduce later feel less like a twist and more like a bait-and-switch. Perhaps they could meld some of the yandere route's elements into the main story thread more, so there's a bit more darkness to drive some early conflict (and to keep the femdom aspects alive in a route that could easily end up so romantic that she just turns into a tradwife). Or maybe they have a really good plan here that I'm not seeing yet.

Overall though, great experience thus far. Being a demo it is very short, and it's limited scope makes it seem like even the fully finished game is going to be overly short too, but until those fears get realized I can only really review it as the demo it is, and as a demo I found the quality high enough to balance out the limited quantity. I will be watching it to see if it can keep up with it's own promise or not though.

All I can say about this one is: that's something I've always been looking for in games of this type and it has been doing it excellently so far. Exemplary promising, I would say. (ignore this part, i'm just a bit lazy rn and in need of more characters to post this, but it's real good. worth to try)