Ren'Py - Completed - Lucretia's Legacy [v1.0] [Amaraine]

A simple adult game that has both adult and game elements.

I played this almost 5 years ago and wanted to come back today to give it a quick rating. It was one of the first games I played on this site and maybe my expectations were lower then but I did enjoy it a lot for what it was.

The gaming element is fun. There is an element of survival which requires a bit of grinding, but you feel progress the whole time as girls become closer to you. And the fight is simple enough to not be annoying but a nice variation instead.

The adult part will be considered weak by many, especially with the plethora of options these days. Renders are fairly limited and never full screen. Text is used a lot to describe the action but it is well written and sexy. There are a large number of girls to score with, of all size and shapes.

All in all I had a good time with it and it left me with a feeling of time well spent. But if you're used to more modern VN games, you will likely not enjoy this more 'old school' adult game.

Maybe it's just me. The text takes the majority of the screen while the sex scene is the minority of the screen. That's just disappointing and wasted potential. Not to mention that this game is a sandbox grind.

Nope for me

1. Really SHITTY and WIERD dialogue/Text pattern. Why ?
2. Sucker scenes, they don't even occupy the whole screen but like 1/3rd of it, what's the point of playing an ADULT VN which can't even show decent scenes ??
3. Renders can be, no SHOULD be better since there are other games with way better renders so get up to the standard or change your style to artistic.
4. There is a concept known as Story, that could be optional if you make it up in other aspects which clearly you don't.
5. What was with the world map ? I thought this was a finished game. Even the lamest of all games have better ways to portray their world map and its icons

I would have enjoyed a nice BDSM game but it seems its too much to ask...

It's good for what it is.

So you just kinda grind up relationships with various women, occasionally biting them to sate your hunger (but not too often so they don't die), work on your own stats to increase your harem and whatnot... there's 1 antagonist and once you've dealt with him and turned all the girls into your slaves it's over.

I was hoping that the slave system might be a bit more fleshed out (I enjoyed renting one out as a pornstar for money), or there be more point to the person who sired you popping up in your room every now and then (they never did tell you how to make vampires, nor did any of their dialogue options ever lead anywhere) ... also at one point I wanted to handcuff someone (who I've got no idea why they turned into a vampire hunter) and it said that that wasn't implemented yet and I just killed them, which was a bit rough, I wasn't planning on that.

There's some images to go along with what's going down but expect it to be a mainly text based game, which is kinda expected from the very small download size.

All in all it was fun enough, I found it hard to rate as it's nothing exceptional or standout, but it's not like it does anything wrong... it's fairly small in scope and does that just fine.

When downloading, the first pleasant surprise was that it wasn't a multiple GB download. The second pleasant surprise was the quality of the graphics. All of the women are beautiful (ok..most).

The third quality approach was the quality of the content. A good story with a multitude of characters, many adventures, and the many different paths that are taken. Each character had a different personality, from nympho to goth, to a dominatrix and on and on, each needed a different approach.

It didn't have the animations of some games, but the content more than made up for it.

The following review is based off my personal experience with playing this Game/Visual Novel... I try to be as brutally honest and detailed as I can, and these are my own opinions and thoughts, from one or more play throughs... The version this review is based on is v0.0.7...

Originally Reviewed on 12/23/2017

For being a harem domination game I actually enjoyed it... It wasn't as grindy as I thought it might be, and it's very creative having the whole vampire motif... There is a grind, but there are also activities and random events to fill in the gaps...

The visuals of the characters are good, and the backdrops, although simple, do fit the dark vampire motif very well... The user interface is decent, with the stats window (although always showing) not filling up too much of the screen...

The script is decent, as I only saw a couple spelling/grammar errors during my play through, which is pretty good... The over all story is simple, the male protagonist becomes a vampire and now needs to survive on blood and sex... I liked the hunter twist and the rival vampire twist, as they added a little more depth to the game... Allowed for it to feel less all about sex to have the underlying series of events and danger...

Obviously the focus of this game is survival, but you also have the harem, and some BDSM if you enjoy that aspect (I personally didn't pay much attention the bdsm stuff, perhaps a little out of curiosity, but it wasn't my focus), but i did like that there were lots of options on how to really go about playing... I almost liken it to being sort of like a Dating Game as a vampire with plenty of dating/sex options... The sex scenes do get repetitive, after seeing them multiple times, but there are variations now and then with each character... And you can space bar through repeated text and/or scenes if you've read/seen it a bunch of times before... Randomly you also get a lot of fighting scenes, so you need to be careful when going places via the city map... And be careful when you feed, so as not to kill off all the other characters... The author's did a pretty good job of offering up warnings and details that give you a leg up on how the game mechanics work... Be fore warned, once your harem reaches 5, you can't add anymore, and at that point you get warned a lot about that (the warning in-game appears all the time, once the harem reaches 5, which is a bit annoying, and I would recommend to the author/s to allow it to not show anymore after a couple times of showing the warning)...

Overall, even though really the primary focus is survival and sex, it was not that bad of a game with some depth and sub-plots to keep you on your toes... It's not a visual novel, but I do enjoy adult games when they are entertaining and have some story that is fun and interesting... And what's really nice, is that this game is still in development, even with all the content it already has... I find that amazing actually, and look forward to seeing what gets added a little ways down the line... This game really does show a lot of potential, and bravo to the author/s with what they've accomplished so far... I look forward to re-visiting this one...