Ren'Py - Completed - Knightly Passions [v1.34] [FEYADA]

I think this game got away with much better review simply because of couple of well drawn frames. Gameplay experience wasn't all there. Let me elaborate.

Roleplay: 3/10
You can count with one hand how many impactful choice there are actually. Story doesn't sway all that much, i'd call it a linear VN more than anything.

Combat: 2/10
Implemented Slay the spire inspired combat but doesn't have the depth of it. You can't really pick and choose what goes on ur deck. Combat UI is very unintuitive as well. clicking on cards is inconsistent. I am often clicking on cards for 3-4 times to play. Slay the spire's swiping mechanism would have been much better. also, SFX/greyed out card for when not enough energy/invalid move would been lot less frustrating. Lastly, combat difficulty is awful. you either get a cakewalk or pure agony. should have been a medium/normal difficulty. Monsters should have had a difficulty indicator. Especially the main mission ones. So players have some idea on what their gear level should be.

Story: 7/10 (ignoring the ending)
You can tell some characters got lot more love than other characters. I do like a bunch of story bits but some spots had unnecessary exposition dumping. Aurelia definitely benefited from "give me quick summery" option in dialogues, something all semi-VN games should implement. Ignoring the ending, i can give it 7/10. There were some bits of story that connected with me, wasn't expecting that from an adult game.

Gameplay: 2/10
playing through this was kinda painful. First few hurdles i faced, there is no easy way to make money early game, no way to regen health freely, no way to figure out whether u under-leveled before jumping into a fight.
In term of minigames, puzzles made sense, google connection lost game was easy, qte were simple. fishing took a little time to get used to (its actually not same as stardew) but i figured it out. BUT arm wrestling game was painful. they should have substituted that with QTEs instead of using button mashing. my hands broke down after defeating tavern keeper.
their decision to force u to play through the entire game was diabolical. There were a lot of characters(mostly the red haired nun) i didn't care about but i had go through their quests anyway. Lastly, the survive in the cave game: figuring out all 4 mushrooms through trial and error wasn't on my mind when i started. If main guy kept mental note of what each mushroom does, it would been lot less confusing. I thought eating any mushroom has a random chance to get u poisoned. what i m saying is mushroom effects weren't communicated very well in the game.

CG and animation: 8/10
It's considered best part of the game. I agree to some extent. 2DCG are very well put together (some of them are wallpaper worthy) but i can not say the same for animations. Not all animation were made equally. Some characters got much more love than others. Sudden shift to 3D animation in a mostly 2D game was jarring as well. I hope the artist level up there perspective drawing game and keep it all 2D for the next game.

Some minor nitpicks: UI had few confusing elements. scroll up takes to the previous scene. i would often scroll up in my inventory to check things in previous pages but get surprised. also there is no item sorting in the inventory which made inventory a mess. and why the item count is on top right? shouldn't it be on the bottom right? is this a russian thing?

Overall: 4.4/10 -> 2/5
Unnecessarily large scope for the game, they bit lot more than they could chew. they could have chopped off few characters. made the story shorter with less character with higher quality. You will absolutely feel how rushed everything was how abrupt the story was. I did not enjoy the game and r18 scenes weren't worth the time investment.

Story : 7.5/10. Engaging and interesting, besides the end part.

Gameplay/Pace : 7.5/10. I really liked the gameplay, simple rpg mechanics and elements but nicely refined. No annoying random encounters. Game dragged a bit at times.

Characters' design : 8/10 Nicely done, appealing and cute girls.

Characters' writing : 7.5/10 Good for the most part.

Mc(writing/design): 7.5/10. One of the better designed and written mc out there.

Graphics(overall game render quality) : 8/10 Unique renders and graphics.

Animations: 6/10 There are a few animation in the game but not too great.

Sex Scenes (overall quality): 7/10 Good but not too great.

Sex Scenes (variety of fetishes, quantity, spiciness): 5/10 Pretty vanilla, not enough variety.

Sound: 7.5/10 Liked the music for the game.

overall score 7.5/10

Great Game, the adventure and storyline are all top tier but... there's one big problem that I'm sure most players have experienced..

We can't apply our save to the latest updated versions.

Please fix this

reasons to play? the art. THE ART FUCKING CARRIES THIS
it feels a bit incomplete but generally quite fun. decent enough story and the animated scenes are pretty darn good though there seems to be a large frame rate drop on some of the newer scenes, also thank god theres a skip button for some of the not so well done minigames also there is a slight style change but thats just because of the multi year long dev time and improving artist

I don´t like VNs. Read, click, read, click, only sometimes a decision, which mostly doesn´t matter the slightest.
Here we have the exeption which proves the rule. This one has a stat system, a map (where sometimes new locations appear), some minigames, decisions are used to continue the story. I wished all VNs were like this, it would definitly improve my general opinion about VNs.
The art is good, with sometimes a bit of animation. Could be better, but generally OK.
The music is fitting for the medieval setting, and there are other tunes for different situations.
Story is good, no orthography errors found so far.
All in all clearly a recommendation! Not perfect yet, but definitely a positive experience.

10/10 chracters and art. story well written , easily playable with guides in game if i remeber correctly. Everyone is hot as fuck. 1000000 % must play. I would believe if anyone would give point less than 4.

Came for the art, stayed for the art.
If you like the artstyle in the previews and the cover, try the game.
I appreciated the gameplay, most of the story, loved the scenes, and found the characters to be fairly interesting. However, this review will cover more flaws than benefits, since those were the ones to hit me later on in my playthrough.

Disclaimer: I played on the "tactical" mode, which feels more gameplay-oriented than story-oriented. The balancing appears to reflect this.

It's a game with all the mechanics of a proper game, but with a few critical flaws. The combat is interesting enough to make the "grinding" in the game not feel terrible, but as it uses a turn-based card system, the inability to pick and choose your cards cripples this gameplay element.

The use of ren'py was certainly an interesting choice, and this game pushes the engine to its limits. Kudos.

It's really not an H-game at all, in all honesty. It's an RPG game with h-scenes, and it bears the marks of a modern-day Patreon game, with minigames strewn about and drastic changes in animation styles between scenes. However, the core art remains some of the best I've seen on the site. (Also, I'm pretty tired of 3dcg.)

Minor spoiler:
The story ends on a cliffhanger for two of its main plot points (three, if you consider Arachne), and it really detracts from the experience. It feels like the game is considered "completed" only because its part of the story is over.

Did I mention how good the art is, though?

this is more like a visual novel version of the witcher rather then the typical stuff you find on this site. its a proper game. honestly phenomenal work here and i look forward to the second installment of the series.

The art is quite good, the characters fun, and the game is an excellent demonstration of what can be done with ren'py if you push it beyond what it was intended for. On the flipside though there is the confused writing which does have its ups but also downs and truly awful design decisions which make this a 2 star game if you don't turn on the cheats, a 4 star game if you do and then treat it as a VN with minigames.

First of all, I want to say that if you wanna try the game purely for the sake of porn, you will be definetly disappointed. Treat this product as a full-fledged game with elements of non-necessary 18+ content.
Drawing in the scenes is great, but the text in the scenes are quite dry.

So I was the one who installed the game expecting a typical harem like. And just for the 18+ Was I disappointed? I didn't have time for this, because I was immersed in a decent plot in fantasy world, very colorful characters and their interactions with the protagonist. Of course there's nothing over the top but it's still not bad.

But this is not the strongest part of the game!

What struck me is that this is one of the most advanced game I've seen made on RenPy in terms of game mechanics and their quality of implementation.
The developer is a great game designer and it's just an awesome combo. Great gameplay, great balance, everything is intuitive, you don't need a walkthrough. You are always surprised with something new. The puzzles and mini-games are not annoying and engaging, they are very diverse and almost never repetitive.

The gameplay is very engaging, with its system of RPG skills and level ups. Heck, even the music is cool, and I even added some of the soundtracks to my playlist. I really liked the OST 'Between Life and Death' DLC
It's a full god damn game.

The only downside that this is not an finished story, the dev should have labeled it chapter 1 or something like that.
The game has to have a sequel.

The DLC though very awesome, but it's a filler and I'm a little confused as to why spend so much effort on a filler DLC when that same effort could have put into the main game especially when the main story isn't finished. DLC have great ideas, mechanics and story development, this would look great in the main game, not a standalone filler.

I definitely recommend this game

Story-wise, it’s a great game. Even though the main idea of the story is fairly plain and somewhat not compelling, after a few more minutes of playing, you start to actually enjoy the fight mechanics, and then the story begins to get more intriguing.

Every character has a well-developed story and an interesting, unique personality, so you can easily find a favorite. The game isn’t that long and doesn’t contain much (although still plentiful) relationship-based content. Unlike most games, this one doesn’t offer game-changing decisions, which is a pleasant change, as most games offer such choices but then make them lackluster.

I highly appreciate the combat system, as it is very similar to Slay the Spire and similar games, while still keeping the simplicity without making it boring. The game doesn’t bombard you with an impractical number of lined-up combats that make you feel overwhelmed, as that’s the only thing you do. Quite the opposite, as you feel like you could enjoy a few more fights in the later parts of the game, when you’re trying to finish up all the side quests and enjoy the less explored characters as well. This makes it more one-dimensional in the later stages, as the fights become less challenging and less frequent.

The DLCs were also super enjoyable, both on the story and porn content sides. Unfortunately, while I felt sad about the lack of more content in the base game, the DLCs didn’t fulfill that desire in me. Still, I highly recommend this game to anyone, and for the sake of all of us, I encourage buying it on Steam, as it may lead to more great games like this one.

Just finished the Game + DLC's just now and I gotta say the art is pretty fuckin good, the scenes from Arachne and the "Between Life and Death" DLC was masterfully done. The only gripe I got is the sluggish UI for the card system where you need to either spam the "end" your turn button or right click to bring up the quicksave menu and it refreshes the sprites.

All in all I'll rate it at 4.5/5.

A five stars game even though there were some things that I personally don't like in games. The gameplay is pretty straightforward. I really enjoyed the battle system and the grind to get the better gear. I thought the system was pretty balanced until near the end of the game where you become just too OP with all the upgrades, gear, food, and potions.
I want to say the story was pretty good, but around the middle, toward the end, I just had to skip cause it was getting to me. I don't mind having some talks and lore but it just seemed to me there was just too many text.
The art is beautiful, hands down. The world, the town, and the characters were just beautifully drawn. H-scenes are far and between but I thought they were pretty good.
I'll surely buy the game to support them. I hope to see more games from them. I'm sure the next one is going to be even better.

the story is not really interesting and a little disconnected with the erotic work. the gameplay is... well, what you should expect from any erotic game. everything else is tolerable, and the aesthetic and character design are better

To enjoy this game, don't try super hard mode, or cheat. Skip the puzzles if you are lazy, you are not gonna miss any content.
And use the cheat code to avoid needlessly grinding: basically the card game is fun, but becomes boring after a while as unlike more elaborate games like StS there is no deckbuilding so the strategies are kinda always the same. No, you won't get a threesome or more in the main game: that's only for the (short) DLC. The scene in the banner will never happen.

Now for the positive points... The CGs are nice, the story is interesting, the exploring is not tedious. Each girl has distinct kinks, personalities and own story. It is a typical MC is good and best guy with the girls being damsels in distress, but that's typically the medieval fantasy anyway and it plays well into the setting.

The game has a massive promise, yet execution is rather... lackluster.
LIs are very nicely drawn, yet a lot of them feel rather bland.
So why am I giving it only 2 stars?
The story feels odd, and oddly written at that too.
Mayhaps because the game's story was originally written in Russian, and translated afterwards into English, but the English has Russian linguistic feel to it, but this is just nitpicking at this point.
Near the end, the game's story becomes all over the place, and the ending... the ending is really disappointing, as if the game was cut off just to make a sequel.

The DLCs should've been in the original game to not make it feel so barebones.

Cmon, you don't even get to fuck the sexy vampire...

Art is great. Writing is not. Some choices the MC makes is choices I wouldn't have made myself on occasions where your given no choice at all. You just have to go with it. Combat is meh. It's an alright game but nothing to hit home about. It's an alright porn too, it's better than the writing and gameplay at least. Sum it up stayed for the art, but nothing else really.

I wanted to love this game. Great original art, few bugs, serviceable story, and the scenes are good (though *very* far apart).

But the game has a litany of issues - most notably that it wants to be a full-fledged RPG, but its mechanics are broken or mistuned or irrelevant. (At least in the tactical "how it's meant to be played" mode, as of v1.21.)

A sampling of issues:

• Combat wants to be a deck-building game, though you can't modify your deck. Early on the deck-building is irrelevant, as your cards are all the same, but later you unlock lots of "upgrade" cards that are strictly worse than basic ones. Eventually the only challenge to combat is that your deck is full of situational cards you can't use.
• For the first half of the game, combat tuning is broken. It's designed around an extensive crafting system, but all the early crafted items require mats that don't drop until after the midgame's hardest boss (the rock golem).
• Combat feels bad, and every fight drags on forever (until you outgear the enemies). Monsters get tons of special moves - stuns, bleeds, debuffs, summons, taunts, heals, anti-heals, etc. You get nothing - no counters, nothing to be countered.

And that's just the combat! For the other elements:

• The story is verbose and often forgets it's a porn game. There are tons of very long exposition scenes, where someone delivers 50 dialog lines about their past, and none of it relates to the story or is ever mentioned again.
• There are lots of insta-deaths for some reason. Like you find a button - press it or no? And one of the two options is game over. But you can mousewheel up and carry on, so I'm not sure what the idea was there.
• The ending is very obviously not planned. Somebody clearly wrote a story arc, and the game gets through ~80% of it, and then stops mid-sentence. It's like if LotR ended right after Aragorn spits out Eowyn's soup. Presumably the devs ran out of time/money, so I don't mean to bash them for it, but still it's jarring.

tl;dr: if you like verbose linear VNs, play this on easy mode to skip the broken combat mechanics.

(All that said, still 3 stars because great art and okay scenes and few bugs.)

The art is amazing and the story is alright.
Tha pacing is a bit off though. You will hardly see any action at first, but then every girls questline reaches the final stages and the scenes happen one after another. Which, imo is a bit much. All at once. I mean, 1 gal in the morning, onein the afternoon, one in the evening, then one at night, and when I go to sleep, another one jumps in. MC literally wakes up half dead the next day, and the cycle continues.
The combat is great, however suffers from being too easy. Even on "hard"difficulty, once you get some armor or a weapon that is not a starter one, the fights become a breeze.

The developers, who are Russian, have done an outstanding job. The gameplay was engaging, the graphics were stunning, and the overall atmosphere was captivating.

However, I would have appreciated a bit more intensity in the storyline. While the plot was well thought out, it could have been even more gripping. Nevertheless, the developers have poured their hearts into this game, and it shows. The attention to detail in the art and the overall design is commendable.