VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Librarian Lust [v1.0] [Midnight Quill Studios / Casgra]

  1. 2.00 star(s)

    Gunizz

    # The good
    The renderings are decently made, posing and lighting are mid or a bit above average apart from sharpness and details. The female models are attractive because the developer did not mess up the original DAZ assets.

    # The ugly
    The creature is ugly as it should in this kind of scenery.
    The textbox is just ugly.

    # The bad
    The approach is very "comic style", very few texts and it gets very fast to the point. The novel is short, there are no choices.
    The erotic tension is a bit lacking due to the fast pacing, dialogues could have been better, the story could have been set up better to profit of the RenPy engine, otherwise it could be better to stick with a sequence of images in a zip/7z/cbr file.

    The extracted "game" is over 782MB because the images are in the wrong format and they occupy 403MB, using PNG instead of Jpeg or WebP. There are only 136 images, plus a few visual effects short videos (not lewd) used for useless transition animations. Sound effects are almost annoying, so no real benefit there. A comic that could fit into around 25MB was bloated to 782MB using Renpy and wrong image format. Maybe the developer should understand better what's the best way to publish his creations.
    What could have been a solid 4 star short comic was turned in a bad 2/5 Renpy visual novel.

    # Conclusion
    Download for the images for what is basically a single scene, finish the "story" in 10 minutes, then delete.
    I give it 2 stars, very generously, just because the images are nice.

    # Images only to download
    If you want to just see the images, I've extracted them and converted to WebP 88% quality, total size of images is now 22MB instead of 403MB. Download from Workupload. Developers should learn the basics of computer graphics!
  2. 2.00 star(s)

    smackdab

    The premise might be interesting to some, but that's really all there is. The novel itself is incredibly short and the script is barely hanging together. Not worth it unless the premise and preview pictures really tick your boxes.