VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Margaret's Sin [v1.1] [Red book]

Art in the game was amazing and main point of attraction. However, its vanilla story killed this VN. Reading the story felt like ChatGPT generated or highschooler-written - safe and narrow scope with fake conflict. Accordingly, I lost my interest in this dev's future work in the end.

A very good game. It's mostly very wholesome and pretty vanilla if you're into that.

I'm not religious, but I found the story and writing interesting. The 'corrupt a religious girl' idea is used in other games, but since it's the entire story here it's explored in much greater depth. In other games I've seen it really just feels like a half-baked cliche.

I really enjoy the art-style, and the voice actress does a fantastic job. My biggest complaint is I wish the game was longer. I'd love to see an AVN in this art-style but bigger and with more LIs.

A decent visual novel that tells a simple but sweet story. Definitely lacks in the game play department; there isn't even really a branching narrative as most choices are simply letting you make a mistake that will end the game. That being said, the art is REALLY good and the story, though linear and simple, is enjoyable. A good pick for those vanilla-lovers.

Beautiful art, but jesus fuck this story is bad.
It's basically a lesson in depression and religious oppression, and the pacing was bizarre.
The developer also tried to be artsy-fartsy with the dialogue boxe(s), but more often than not they covered the art, which completely destroyed any intimacy some scenes had.

Not even the art was enough to save this disasterpiece from a 1 star rating, don't waste your time.

Short and sweet love story about getting a second chance with the one that got away, and religious guilt.

As someone around the same age as the characters, I resonated a lot with the feelings they had at the start of the game. Those feelings of someone you once loved but never had your chance with, times you could have had but didn't. Love that never flourished. Many people have those feelings I'm sure.

This game is about getting that second chance, rekindling a love that never was, and moving on from tragedy and embracing life again.

As one can guess, a big part of this game is religion. The titular Margaret is very devout in her faith, having been religious her entire life and previously being married to a priest. Much of the game is her struggles with this reignited relationship with her teenage crush, and the feelings of pleasure and lust she is having. I wouldn't say this game is "corruption" so much as it is someone embracing repressed feelings. Yes Margaret becomes more sexually liberated, but she is not corrupted. She still has her faith and believes in love.

I also don't think the main character is as dismissive of her religion as some others say. He still prays with her when she asks, tries not to say things that upset her, and even thinks maybe there is some divine providence that brought them together. He isn't religious, but he isn't trying to take that from Margaret. He primarily hates how religion, and her former husband, made Margaret repress her feelings and not be who she truly is, and how it made her ashamed of herself.

Art wise, I find it all really charming. The sex scenes aren't super well animated, but combined with the voice acting, it is a fun watch. There are quite a few repeated drawings, especially in the few montage sequences, but there is a bit more variety later on.

The voice acting is great, as well. Margaret is fully voiced and the VA does a great job showing her evolution from demure and shy, to cautiously becoming more lewd, to finally embracing it all. The few emotional scenes there are are very well delivered as well.

Overall, if you want a cute romance story that can be finished in a couple hours, you can't go wrong with this one.

The game is fine but extremely short. The art is very good but the sex scenes are so short as to not really be in the game at all instead it's more of montage of some very well drawn erotic art. The story has some themes of religious guilt related to sex but again the game is so short that it doesn't seem the character has really gotten over it before the game wraps to a happy ending. If you want something more in depth and character driven there are probably better choices and if you want something short but easy to goon to there are probably better choices. If you just want a quick one and done story on two childhood friends reconnecting with a montage of hot sex in between them arguing about whether god sucks then this game is for you.

The art is beautiful and the plot is serviceable, but that's about it. It's a very short game that doesn't try to be very complex, but this brevity comes at the cost of depth. It basically feels like a gallery viewer with extra steps. The game also reuses the same images/animations several times, which makes things feel a bit repetitive.

The story isn't very believable and feels oddly... adolescent. The MC never gets over his school crush and spends an awful amount of time throwing a tantrum against Christianity. It just feels preachy and immature, but I guess that's the whole premise of the game, so it's not a surprise. But it's honestly pretty sad to see this guy gloat about fucking the wife of a dead man. Kind of hard to sell this as a wholesome game and pretend like this guy loves Margaret when he's so petty, arrogant, and constantly mocks her faith. Doesn't sound like love to me; more like obsession. His internal dialogues are pretty corny and he reminds me a lot of Japanese eroge protagonists for some reason. Highly emotional, edgy and lacking in self-awareness.

Overall, if you came here for the art and are able to look past the cringeworthy narrative plus the bare-bones sex scenes, maybe you'll enjoy this one. It wasn't for me, though.

This game deserves 5 stars. No Cap !!!!! I am kind of a guy who don't really care about story line being mid if the scenes are fappable, but this game just what to make me know about all the characters in there.
Writing - 5/5
Animation - 4/5
Voice/Music... - 4/5 (I don't mind the game having soundtrack of voice over)
The Game is Completed - 5/5
Overall - 5/5
I hope the dev see this. I want this kind of quality to come out once in a while but every game that seem enjoyable never get completed. I hope this is not the only game that I have enjoyed in my life

Typical simping game about a guy too afraid to flirt with a girl only to get second chance 20 years later. Somehow both remember each other after this long despite it being clear that Margaret never really spoke to him. Yet somehow we’re supposed to believe that the feeling is mutual. Even worse is that MC has to walk constantly around religious egg shells due to her trauma (at this point if she’s so repressed she should straight up hate her deceased husband once she comes to the realization of her trauma). In short it becomes a “corruption” game except not really because MC caves in to her over and over again to the point that he prays and even married her through church that clearly did her wrong. Might have worked if this was instead about healing without being too preachy. However, worst part is that it clearly shows she’s still followed by the “ghost” of her deceased husband, which leads to an unresolved issue of do you really want to be with such a girl?

Ehhhhhhh, I had a frustrating play through of this game

Good voice acting, good art but not enough variants (I swear we had the same looking up at margaret pose 4 times, at least change the clothes so that they match the previuous scene!)

The sex scenes start pretty rough, very short and many details glanced over. They get longer and better and later ones are decently well written,

The character writing though oh boy
I appreciate what it was going for but the main character comes off as so obnoxious, sounds like one of whinny those ex-christian reddit atheists.
Look I'm no fan of organized religion but the condescending drip coming from the protag's lines made it hard to either step into his shoes or appreciate him as his own character.
the Protag trashes Margaret's husband for enforcing religious trauma, but the way he "heals" Margaret feels pretty pushy as well. it felt like it was in this weird grey zone tonally between a fun corrupt the cutie scenario and realistic healing of religious sexual repression and didn't do either well as a result: Too serious to be fun, too blasé to be serious
It really felt like the author was exorcising their own religious trauma at the expense of the writing quality

FYI this game may as well be a kinetic novel. forewarning people here most choices are for slight alterations on sex scenes or are fuckups thatneed to be reversed. Theres only one area where the choices matter and its for the ending variations

As mentioned, the art is fantastic, really enjoyable. The story is well brought on and you want to keep on clicking. It's really, really good overall.
I haven't got to the end of the game yet but hope there's more to come.

Quite a mix here of good and bad. The unique renders deserve 5 stars, in my opinion, but the animations are far less impressive. I generally like the story, but I find the actual writing gets tedious. This woman would be better paired with a more masculine man who challenges her fundamentalist repression more consistently and guides her to nuance and reason with less wallowing in her dysfunction.

What's worst about this game is the user experience. The opaque text box very often blocks the art, and in a way far more absurd than is common. This moving text box is very often located in the dead center of the screen. This means, if you want to see the art, you have to hit the "hide" button nearly every single time you advance the story. That's is wildly unnecessary and terribly annoying. Also, some of the hottest images appear only briefly before auto-forwarding, making this VN virtually orgasm-proof.

There's also the matter of a strange staircase that defies all architectural sensibility, leading to an exterior wall yet not truly suitable for the balcony which is present in game.

The art in this game is phenomenal; the artist absolutely killed it. The writer, however, did not. The plot is stock standard and does exactly what you think it will, and at least to me, the MC was super unlikable even when you're not picking the "be a douchebag" options.

she's a truly amazing character. The story could have been a little longer, but it was still pretty good—especially Margaret's facial expressions when she was being a little naughty. I loved it. After finishing the game, I put on California Dreamin' by The Mamas & The Papas and lit a cigarette. Thanks for everything, guys.

Was curious about great reviews all around, tried it out, turned out it's geniunely really good and deserved it's high rating. Game is pretty short and it took me less than an hour, artstyle is fantastic, voice acting is absolutely great and translate emotions well, it's a sweet and well natured story overall, perfect for romance lovers. On that note, however, i do have one critique that stopped me from giving it 5.

For such a romance heavy story it does very little emotional foreplay and buildup. There definitely should have been more meetings before eventual reconnection, more time to emotionally grow closer again after 20-ish years of separation, it kinda feels like it's missing first third of the narrative experience, know what i mean?

But while this issue is notable, it can't overshadow how good the rest of it is, if you are fond of pure romance stories, absolutely give it a go, great stuff.

i found the game hosted by ping notification
Honestly it was very mid

at 1st you make a shopping with a list and buy cornflakes as single
in most stupid fashion game want you to SELECT 1 out of all 1 choices
and this is not just shopping THATS ENTIRE GAME
just select only option on the screen!
SEX IS SHOWN FROM WORM PERSPECTIVE ALWAYS ITS CREEPY
my character act like possesed lunatic and out of nowhere grabs lady's urn and start screaming.....BRO WTH

Okey lets focus on the good things:
Some of the Sex scenes AT THE END are from normal perspectives
You can marry your sex pet or whatever is this story about
Margaret is voice acted and actress did her best with the role (just author had to put 0 options choices everywhere)
Artworks are amazing and consistent with backgrounds and expressions

Game let you:
Name protagonist
name the kid (game ends 2 seconds later so don't get too excited)
select one of 3 rings to propose
select 1 toy to use on lady before clicking continue 3 times in a row for no reasons

Summary:
Terrible Design/gameplay
sex scenes suffer as result
good artworks
good voice acting
mediocre story
Sex is painfully badly made vanilla sex (i even prefer vanilla sex, but this is just sad)
my biggest problem with the game is:
HIGH PRODUCTION VALUE IS WASTED ON THIS WORM SIMULATOR SEX AND 1 CHOICE STORIES
i can't get over it, overall game is still good

Loved this game so much, I bought it and left a tip. It's a beautiful story about healing and making peace with one's desires in spite of what others have told you. It's slow, but makes up for it with great voice acting and art. Also the pregnant sex at the end was unexpected but very appreciated. Hopefully the dev puts out more games that are just as good if not better.

Edit: I should also add that it was nice to be able to pick the MC's skin color and choose their name with the script and voice acting accommodating the name change

The art was beautiful, with good character design for both the MC and Margaret. Margaret herself was designed perfectly and I say that as somebody that typically prefers more fantastical proportions. The variety of scenes was also nice. Pretty vanilla, but I like vanilla. I would say unless I missed it there should've been an anal sequence, but aside from that no complaints there. The story was perfect. A simple story but told well. I love the progression, but also how understanding you can have the MC be. He may not like Margaret's late husband, but he isn't a dick unless you make him a dick. That's not to say he doesn't make mistakes, but he pushes past them and uses them as an opportunity to grow.

TLDR: Beautiful art, really sweet but also hot story, spicy scenes. This literally was everything I wanted it to be. Pure perfection.

I was attracted by the amazing style of the drawings but I couldn't resist to play for more than half an hour, those big textboxes appearing in different parts of the screen and all over the drawings and the useless singular choices that break the flow of the scene made me give up. Too bad, maybe in the next game they will take these flaws into consideration and avoid them.

This is one of the best corruption/romance visual Novels ive seen.

The art is absolutely phenomenal. In an age where beautiful hand made renders are being replaced by souless ai, this art truly stands out.
The artist does a great job of drawing sexy scenes, and most scenes are animated.

The voice acting is amazing. Every line is voice acted, and the actress sounds sexy as hell.

The story and dialogue are great, at times it even managed to make me feel something (which is rare, especially here).

The vn is mostly kinetic, with some choices, and maybe one or two paths.

The ending was really great (no spoilers).

My only critique is that its short. (about 2 hours of content maybe)