Preface this. I played V 0.2.7.7d
it took me about 10 days 22hours (ingame time) to reach end of current content (which now that i look at it, god damn)
I played a mostly lovers route as the corruption routes had fetishes that didnt all appeal to me, i also kinda grew to like characters too much to want the corruption so i can only comment on lovers side.
i dont review games on potential because thats like reviewing a food you havnt eaten yet, its full of hot air. this'll be on the games current state.
There is a lot of text in this game, though its very balanced in terms of story and sex scenes.
solid 9/10
ok starting off with the scenes since thats what most are here for. Scenes are great and cover a wide variety of fetishes (which depends on your route for the char and which char) and there are tons of scenes. however there is 2 artstyles that the scenes will come in, one is great and matches the sprites the characters have during dialogue, the other is hit or miss with some scenes looking weird in it. (i assume the other is a placeholder or perhaps original artwork that is slowly being phased out). The animation is not really animated but more of a few frames that cycle through on repeat but its better then just stills. The text in the scenes does a good job describing them too, its not just moaning and sfx. Overall i quite enjoyed most scenes.
The gameplay leaves a fair bit to be desired and is probably the weakest aspect of the game. I played this on challenge mode which has reduced drop rates, and no fast travel, among other things. The gameplay is a sidescrolling point and click. to attack monsters you click them. This can get very uncomfortable; i ended up making a macro that just repeatedly clicks right mouse button when i hold down my macro key to deal with this (also didnt wanna put excess wear on my mouse)
if you end up stuck farming mobs for a quest drop and get unlucky. I had to farm just under 300 lobsters at one point to get 12 claws for a quest, though admittedly that was one of the worst instances and it took like 20min, most of the times i had to get mats from mobs for a quest it was relatively quick and not super grindy.
you can assign skills to left and right mouse buttons (should note that you dont really get usable skills until halfway through the current content when you actually get your dark knight powers). The skills are kinda bland (note i played with a cane, i dunno what cannon side offers) one skill is literally just a stronger normal attack, the other skill you get is an "aoe" skill but the aoe is so small the monsters pretty much need to be stacked to actually get hit by it.
not really sure where to stick this but the art for the areas (like the towns, fields, and all that, is amazing.
The monsters are a little funky mess (heh) with the lvls kinda being all over the place. you have lvl 10ish mobs in areas really late into the current game (kerning city subway for example) adjacent to higher-ish lvl mobs.
Overall the gameplay is alright, its not amazing but its kinda off.
The story and characters.
The story is written quite well and is quite enjoyable, i wont dive too much into it for spoilers, but its a fun journey that has its emotional ups and downs. It very much does fit into that zero to hero narrative but it avoids the pitfall of MC just steam rolling everything and there being zero tension. the can and will lose sometimes, and the story takes those losses and uses it to build on the mc which is great. I am quite invested into the story. I do wonder how the story differs and will pan out if you choose to go a more corruption style route.
There is a lot of reading in this game but the game strikes a nice balance between sex scenes and story scenes, and you can always take a break from the main story to go do some character quests if you feel like you need it.
The characters are easily the strongest aspect this game has. The characters dont fall into simple trope personalities and feel believable with the exception of the optional thing of turning everyone into lesbians (aka bi since they still with the hero) within the harem leads to some suspension of disbelief but, thats optional fetish sidequest you can choose to allow or not and doesnt really impact their overarching characters.
Proportionally the cast is relatively diverse in terms of height, bust size ranges from sorta medium to huge. there are a few smaller breasted girls but most of the small breast characters require the forbidden card.
There is a HUGE cast of characters in this game (i count 51 in the recollection room that have scenes), and suprisingly despite the large cast i didnt have issues remembering who is who due to their uniqueness. About half if not more of them have either a lovers or corruption route once you reach a point in their story, from there that chars content will differ wildly, generally devolving into toys/pets and/or prostitution for the corruption side and wives and well... lovers for the lovers side. not just their personalities will change when you choose but it will also impact the story and what you have access to, for example Ming on her lovers route eventually (with your assistance) opens a store near homebase that sells consumables and armor that is actually useful. The game thankfully tells the player of when you can choose a corruption or lovers route for a character and gives a brief rundown of the fetishes and themes involved with both sides so you know what youre getting into. As i said above i started this game planning to corrupt some chars and go lovers route with others and ended up growing attached to the characters including those i was gonna corrupt and instead went lovers route.
I liked just about all the characters with my favorite ones being Luna, Maggie, Rina, and Rixxa. (honorable mentions: jane dark, lily, ai, asuna
Some of the cast feels a little neglected though and doesnt have much content right now. Like admin, luna, mai twins, valerie, and a few others.
Jank I did encounter a few bugs and oddities as i played through but thankfully nothing major and the Devs are active in the forums and were willing to fix my save or help out when an issue did arrive within a few hours which is super chad of them. Did not experience any crashes
Overall i really enjoyed my time playing this and look forward to coming back in a few years to replay again with a bunch of new content!
it took me about 10 days 22hours (ingame time) to reach end of current content (which now that i look at it, god damn)
I played a mostly lovers route as the corruption routes had fetishes that didnt all appeal to me, i also kinda grew to like characters too much to want the corruption so i can only comment on lovers side.
i dont review games on potential because thats like reviewing a food you havnt eaten yet, its full of hot air. this'll be on the games current state.
There is a lot of text in this game, though its very balanced in terms of story and sex scenes.
solid 9/10
ok starting off with the scenes since thats what most are here for. Scenes are great and cover a wide variety of fetishes (which depends on your route for the char and which char) and there are tons of scenes. however there is 2 artstyles that the scenes will come in, one is great and matches the sprites the characters have during dialogue, the other is hit or miss with some scenes looking weird in it. (i assume the other is a placeholder or perhaps original artwork that is slowly being phased out). The animation is not really animated but more of a few frames that cycle through on repeat but its better then just stills. The text in the scenes does a good job describing them too, its not just moaning and sfx. Overall i quite enjoyed most scenes.
The gameplay leaves a fair bit to be desired and is probably the weakest aspect of the game. I played this on challenge mode which has reduced drop rates, and no fast travel, among other things. The gameplay is a sidescrolling point and click. to attack monsters you click them. This can get very uncomfortable; i ended up making a macro that just repeatedly clicks right mouse button when i hold down my macro key to deal with this (also didnt wanna put excess wear on my mouse)
if you end up stuck farming mobs for a quest drop and get unlucky. I had to farm just under 300 lobsters at one point to get 12 claws for a quest, though admittedly that was one of the worst instances and it took like 20min, most of the times i had to get mats from mobs for a quest it was relatively quick and not super grindy.
you can assign skills to left and right mouse buttons (should note that you dont really get usable skills until halfway through the current content when you actually get your dark knight powers). The skills are kinda bland (note i played with a cane, i dunno what cannon side offers) one skill is literally just a stronger normal attack, the other skill you get is an "aoe" skill but the aoe is so small the monsters pretty much need to be stacked to actually get hit by it.
not really sure where to stick this but the art for the areas (like the towns, fields, and all that, is amazing.
The monsters are a little funky mess (heh) with the lvls kinda being all over the place. you have lvl 10ish mobs in areas really late into the current game (kerning city subway for example) adjacent to higher-ish lvl mobs.
Overall the gameplay is alright, its not amazing but its kinda off.
The story and characters.
The story is written quite well and is quite enjoyable, i wont dive too much into it for spoilers, but its a fun journey that has its emotional ups and downs. It very much does fit into that zero to hero narrative but it avoids the pitfall of MC just steam rolling everything and there being zero tension. the can and will lose sometimes, and the story takes those losses and uses it to build on the mc which is great. I am quite invested into the story. I do wonder how the story differs and will pan out if you choose to go a more corruption style route.
There is a lot of reading in this game but the game strikes a nice balance between sex scenes and story scenes, and you can always take a break from the main story to go do some character quests if you feel like you need it.
The characters are easily the strongest aspect this game has. The characters dont fall into simple trope personalities and feel believable with the exception of the optional thing of turning everyone into lesbians (aka bi since they still with the hero) within the harem leads to some suspension of disbelief but, thats optional fetish sidequest you can choose to allow or not and doesnt really impact their overarching characters.
Proportionally the cast is relatively diverse in terms of height, bust size ranges from sorta medium to huge. there are a few smaller breasted girls but most of the small breast characters require the forbidden card.
There is a HUGE cast of characters in this game (i count 51 in the recollection room that have scenes), and suprisingly despite the large cast i didnt have issues remembering who is who due to their uniqueness. About half if not more of them have either a lovers or corruption route once you reach a point in their story, from there that chars content will differ wildly, generally devolving into toys/pets and/or prostitution for the corruption side and wives and well... lovers for the lovers side. not just their personalities will change when you choose but it will also impact the story and what you have access to, for example Ming on her lovers route eventually (with your assistance) opens a store near homebase that sells consumables and armor that is actually useful. The game thankfully tells the player of when you can choose a corruption or lovers route for a character and gives a brief rundown of the fetishes and themes involved with both sides so you know what youre getting into. As i said above i started this game planning to corrupt some chars and go lovers route with others and ended up growing attached to the characters including those i was gonna corrupt and instead went lovers route.
I liked just about all the characters with my favorite ones being Luna, Maggie, Rina, and Rixxa. (honorable mentions: jane dark, lily, ai, asuna
Some of the cast feels a little neglected though and doesnt have much content right now. Like admin, luna, mai twins, valerie, and a few others.
Jank I did encounter a few bugs and oddities as i played through but thankfully nothing major and the Devs are active in the forums and were willing to fix my save or help out when an issue did arrive within a few hours which is super chad of them. Did not experience any crashes
Overall i really enjoyed my time playing this and look forward to coming back in a few years to replay again with a bunch of new content!