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

Knightly Passions is a game I've been following for some time now. The author develops his creation without ceasing. I can recommend this example of graphic art to everyone. The visual style is pleasant. The gameplay is concise. The humor is there, as is something hotter.

Gameplay is good for most, admittingly I would prefer fewer fully-fleshed minigames rather than many that vary between good and tedious, but otherwise the game story, art and characters are some of the absolute best.

I played this game a long time ago, when it was more "direct" and with less buildup. Recently I decided to revisit it and was very much impressed by the amount of improvement.

I think the story has become VERY solid and I really got invested into it. The characters are likeable and it pulls off its comicable style quite well.

I'm also surprised by the minigames they were able to add to the game considering it's in RenPy. The game is part of my favorites now, and I definitely recommend it. Looking forward to more updates too!

Only think lacking for me is pregnancy content but can't have everything I suppose

Version Played : v0.65

It's more of a 3.5* game, but I didn't want to be too harsh, as I can see the effort put it. The reason for my rating is twofold - it fails as a game and it fails as a lewd game.

First off, as a game : It's just boring. Writing feels pretentious (thankfully the default illegible font can be changed), but the jokes fall flat most of the time. Mechanically it is unsatisfying (slow to traverse through, combat is alright but skills feel lackluster and impactless, or marginal at best). The plot is all over the place and it didn't really keep me interested.

Music is alright.

As a lewd game it fails simply because the lewd scenes I've seen so far (~8) have been filled with verbose dullness of descriptions, and the scenes themselves are not very interesting or sexy, and are few and far between so far.

When it comes to the visuals, the drawn artwork is fantastic and if I was only grading it this game would be a full 5*.

The 2DCG and it's animations are just alright though, and clear lack of detail is apparent.

Now I'm not saying others didn't or won't enjoy this game, but to me it's a shallow and yet bloated, convoluted unsatisfactory experience with little to show for itself other than it's fantastic artwork.

The reason it does get the stars it does is the artwork, as well as the fact it does work competently and does seem to be very loved by it's developers.

Solid animations, solid art, could use interactive highlighting and better quest description but overall one of the best ones on site. Crafting could use a little work, especially with item hovering descriptions/locations. Didn't play the DLC yet (but will) yet looking forward to it. Very solid game gj.

Really good game with great visuals and surprisingly well written story and likable characters.
One of the few VN like games where I actually enjoyed reading the story and did so until the end.
The overlay and quest system are nice and clean, combat is okay and it's overall pretty fun to play. It can be a tiny bit grindy though, but if you get the cheat code from a kind soul here that's not really an issue either.
The scenes are very well animated and if it weren't for the incompatibility of savegames between builds I'd give the game the full rating.

My personal tip here is wait for final release and enjoy the entire thing at once so you don't forget half the story inbetween the individual updates, because it's actually worth reading.
If you don't mind that and are just here to fap, the aforementioned cheatcode includes a full gallery unlock option.

EDIT:
Sadly the game was "finished" in a hurry and even though I wrote this review half a year ago and the game was upgraded from 0.9x whatever to 1.03 in the meantime, there was whatsoever no content added apart from a rushed main story ending and some plot lines. No new scenes, nothing. Just endless side stories left unfinished and possible scenes left uncreated.
There was so much potential but sadly they threw all of it away. I liked the game for what it was but now it's just another 2024 version of blue balling.
Very sad.

The core game is decent to good. The game is one of the best looking 2D porn games of all time. Incredible artstyle and direction, decent world building and hot/unique character design. The card battle system is barebones but functional. The writing is a bit too verbose, but good, fleshing out the side characters and their personality. The sex animations are eh with the Live2D ones being good. Just wish that there's sounds and voice acting on sex scenes.

BUT, MY FUCKING GOD! IT'S FUCKING 3 YEARS AND WE STILL GET 30+ QUESTS & 20+ SEX SCENES?! THERE'S SO LITTLE CONTENT FOR A GAME IN DEVELOPMENT FOR 3 YEARS!

THE MAIN MISSING SISTER STORYLINE IS STILL STUCK ON THE ARACHNE QUEST?! WTF ARE THESE DEVS DOING IN THESE PAST 3 FUCKING YEARS?!

THEY STILL HAVEN'T FUCKING SETTLED ON THE CARD GAMEPLAY, MAKING REVISIONS AND CHANGES AT A SNAIL PACE! LIKE WHY?!

THE GAME AT ITS CURRENT STATE IS A WASTED POTENTIAL!

A great game crippled by the designers' blatant disregard for their players.

Most recently played the 0.46 version, which (again) required starting over as saves are incompatible. That was buggy, so checked and there was a bugfix 0.47 version...that was not compatible with saves from 0.46. They broke compatibility with a 0.01+ bugfix version.

That level of disregard on a game almost four years old is breathtaking. Instead of doing what conscientious game designers do and adding code to update saves, they simply lock out old saves. Bugs, on the other hand, throw exceptions and have an attractive screen telling players how to report them. It's telling that they prioritize tools to make up for their own lack of playtesting while not making tools to recover and update old saves.

The New Game + mechanism exists primarily to shift the burden of maintaining continuity to the player by making them memorize all of the quests they've done and skipping ahead. It's insulting and unhelpful because they've also added new content to older quests, so skipping actually misses some good story elements. Also, you can't load the old saves to see what you've done.

Apart from that, the game is polished and attractive.

Wait until it's finished to play. By 'finished,' I mean after the completed tag is on it, and the inevitable bug fixes are made, and people say they've completed the latest version without skips or other steps. Otherwise you will end up replaying it from the start again and again. Or getting disgusted, removing the saves (and shadow saves from the Roaming directory on Windows) and deleting the game.

Such an avoidable disappointment.

I absolutely love the game's characters, and the art style is just fantastic! I'm really excited to see what the game has in store for us next. Plus, the gameplay itself is so immersive and enjoyable. I'm having a blast playing it!

This is a pretty great game. But it's 2-3 stars at best UNTIL its finished. Saves break on update and this is a game with a quest/progression system - where you have to do them all over again. There is a system that allows you to start FROM certain quests, but it's not like you'll remember exactly what you did months ago to know where to go from, so you'll more than likely either miss quests or have to redo certain progressions because of the system, which is very unfun.

Will happily change review to 5 stars once its finished.

Felt compelled to write a review as I enjoyed the game so much. It’s not particularly filled with sexual content but I was kept playing by the beautiful character illustrations and clear task list. No need for a walkthrough, it’s all in game really.
Also the combat mechanic is well implemented. That was a surprise and another reason why I kept playing.

The visuals of the game are quite beautiful, I played it as soon as I saw it. The combat mechanism is also not bad, but it is very annoying to start the game from the beginning as the game's save system doesn't work in every update. Also the game is kinda grindy.

A truly great game with one fatal flaw, its coding.

The storyline is interesting, the characters are varied, the art style is original...
Overall good points on all aspects !

The gameplay, while a little grindy, is simplistic and intuitive. One of the few games that can justify a sandbox setting in my humble opinion.

The reason I rate it a 4 and not a 5 out 5 is because of the flaw I mentionned earlier.
It would be fine over the developpment of such a game to expect the message "old saves will not work" once or twice.
Problem is, this game is concerned by such an occurrence at almost EVERY. SINGLE. UPDATE.
This means that you're faced with the choice of either restarting from scratch (for each update) or using the new game+ feature which is not equal to having your own save with your own playthrough at all.

I personally choose the third option : drop it until either this particular issue is fixed or until the game is completed.
Truly too bad because it IS a good game but one that is chained by this very annoying default.

Though with all that being said, I still recommend it for newcomers that wonder if they should try it !

[0.38 Review]

Worth it to play. Some of the best art on the site.

Developers still have yet to address the fundamental game design flaws. Gameplay often does not feel rewarding for as much as you can do.

This is due to how much story is in the game which is a plus but it's a huge distraction and the game isn't the most intuitive still but that has gotten better. This update.

TLDR:

Pros:
- Great art
- Great animations
- Great character designs
- Combat System Bugs Fixed/More Fluid
- Minigames in RenPy are impressive. A bit lacking but still impressive

Cons:
- This game should be in Unity. The use of RenPy feels like it's derailing the game's development schedule and its future goals.
- Incompatible saves. While cheats and gallery unlock are there, it's still irritable previous versions are incompatible. This is a design flaw that should be addressed and the answer is simple on the technical-level so the problem lies in the developers not accounting for this issue when initially developing the game. [I even built a small Unity VN library to test this out in the past week. Only feature I don't have is rollback]
- Too much story drop still. Story should be added with progressive scenes with characters. For example, rather than drop so much Nun lore from the witch, have the lore be dropped via talks with the blonde nun after every dream with a progressive scene of kissing -> tongue kissing -> fondling, etc. Now abstract this concept of slowly rewarding players to other parts of the game so it doesn't feel like huge lore dumps and the player is always getting something from their activities.
- Animations to CG art consistency is a bit wonky at times, especially with blonde nun.

This rating really hurts to give, because there is a good game here, somewhere. It's just buried beneath a mountain of trash.

First off, the good:
-The character design is great, though I wish the devs would lean a little harder into the fantasy aspect (and a little less hard into the nuns/priestesses)
-The dialogue is decent to good in places
-The sex scenes, at least most of them, at very nice looking and well done.

The bad:
-Holy shit this game will waste your time for even the tiniest drop of progress
-The card battle system just isn't that engaging for how much we're expected to do it. Please just let me skip it and get to the good parts without losing out on any rewards
-The story telling can be...dubious at best. I tend to forget what's happening with a character when I'm expected to grind wolves for half an hour between conversations
-It feels like we're getting less and less content as time goes by. I hope this is not a downward trend.

This could be an amazing game, if the developers cut out a lot of the mindless drivel between story segments, and maybe even reserved the battle system for important or impactful points in the game. This could easily be 4 stars, and quite possibly 5 stars if it just respected the player's time and effort a little more.

Excellent game.
Great gameplay loop
Great art
Only downside is that there isn't all that much fucking for the MC
Also, it'd be great if there were some gay options in the game.
There's at least a twink and a hunk, could be a nice addition for those inclined.
And perhaps you could have the girls fuck eachother too.

Amazing story, amazing arts, amazing everything!
Knightly Passions know how to make you anxious to every new release, the game is perfect. All characters have their personality, all quests make sense, and the combat is well equilized.

Review for 0.25

Honestly, the game is more 4 stars than 3. But i feel like the more the game have popularity and patreons, the less we see updates and the less they are good, several month for 20m of gameplay and 2 animations that are not even added in the gallery really feels like everytime the wait isn't worth the enjoyment.

So to speak about the game itself :

• Chara design : Amazing, the number one quality of the game
• Animations : Beautiful, but the models sometimes feels like they vary too much from the original drawing (boobs are bigger/smaller, body is different)
• Sex scenes : they integrate well in the story, almost no free sex
• Story/dialogues : Average
• Gameplay : Combat is a bit boring, but they keep improving it. Mini games are no fun.

Conclusion :
Could have been a great game but it is ruined by too few updates and a drop in the quality of thoses, feels really frustrating as they seem to have enough patreons to go full time on the project.

Come for it if you like the chara design and want some good animations in 2d.

Reviewing Knightly Passions v0.16
Story: Great! I like the writing, characterization and world-building.
Originality: Good
Art quality: Great!
Animations: Pretty good. Could add more in some scenes though.
Sound: BGM is decent. SFX is acceptable, but feels like it's missing in some places.
Amount of content: ~10h. The game is clearly unfinished, but there's a decent amount of content to get through.

Overall, I still rate this 5 stars because the game shines due to its art/writing/worldbuilding.

The writing is quite poor. The gameplay loop is highly repetitive and mindless, you'll spend too much time grinding enemies (the auto-resolve feature is brain dead). The sex scenes are sparse and totally unsatisfactory. The artwork is inconsistent, a few scenes were not even colored and others appear simply unfinished.

A dreadful result.