VN - Ren'Py - Mind Control: Twisted Thoughts [v0.25 Beta] [specialmind]

Very good game! I really like how the author handled the fetishes, with lots of options and all well developed. I much prefer a game with good writing and story options rather than fancy animations, it's a much better use of author's time IMO.

The only downsides for me are the weird translation and the fact that the renders aren't really the best, but don't let that discourage you. The rest of the game fully compensates it for me.

Rarely have i seen such a well written script. Best of it, people feel real not those came out of mindless porns. The graphic is not fansy but good enough for me. And also realistic. Keep the good pace.

The RNG system is not necessary at all tho.

Wait... What ?!
Where this game have been ? It's great, genius, enjoyable and so !
- Great Graphics;
- Awesome and Immersive Story line;

There are 1 major point of improvment:
- More liberty to reject the "mandatory" Girlfriend who's a fatass

Exactly what I want in a mind control story. Constant manipulation, both natural and supernatural. I've only done the evil path so I can't yet attest to the moral path but I have full faith that it's well implemented since the writing is very thoughtful throughout, at least I didn't notice any big plot-holes or character issues.
Really excited for the next update since it basically ended with a cliffhanger and I'm hooked.

The game is just incredible. I especially liked that everything happens smoothly - there are no sudden jerks in the plot. Well written dialogues - they are not long and read vividly and interestingly. The quality of renders is beyond praise. This is one of the best games on the portal in this regard. There is a variation of scenes. Leveling up really affects the wagering and it's cool. Characters have their own easy to read character - which is backed up by appearance.

The game idea is really brilliant and so are the game mechanics. It's a rare game where you can actually shape the protagonist's character. On the other side most of the girls are ugly or unattractive but there is one cutie - Elise which is not so easy to get but it makes it more interesting.

Very good game with lots of choices and consequences. Choices are not just window dressing in this game and actually lead to different outcomes, relationships and developments. The scenarios and sex scenes in the game are hot, I especially liked the last scene of having an orgy with your sister and GF at her birthday.

Amazing game. Good writing, decent animations and graphics... I really liked the first two updates. I'm usually not too much into mind control, but this was so good I think I'll keep playing it for a long time.

Review as of v0.2

Bravo! Wonderful! Great job! This is one of the few times I've seen a dev say they're taking time to make changes and rewrite things for their games and actually come back with something of substance. You didn't completely change the story of your game, you kept what you needed to and made meaningful changes with what you already had. The unavoidable lesbian is now avoidable, dealing with the dad and mom is now a choice, the blonde and the guy having sex is now a choice. You listened to what the people said and you actually applied it in a meaningful way. I was skeptical because of the amount of devs that take a "break" to rewrite/remake either don't come back or come back with something worse than what they originally made. But you actually delivered. Just because of the fact you came back with actual changes and improvements after a long wait, you're in my top 10 devs maybe even top 5. Great fucking work. I'm bumping my rating from 3/5 to 4/5 only because I don't give incomplete games a 5/5. I hope you keep up the good work, get more popular, and thrive.

Review as of 0.13

So first I’ll address the first problem people seem to have and I somewhat have with the game. Unavoidable lesbian, there is unavoidable lesbian in the beginning. You don’t have to see it but it happens. It’s between the sister and another woman who is a bitch. It’s especially frustrating since the MC gets shafted a sex scene. So I understand the frustration in the fact that we as the player in control of someone with these abilities is unable to have any influence on how something happens.I would say it would be better if the dev slightly rewrites it with an option of “They get in a relationship and have sex.” and “They get in a relationship but don’t have sex yet.”option. I will say that the Dev somewhat saves it by giving us the choice to stop the next sex scene between the two which was a good call. As long as moving forward we have the option to completely cuntblock then that would be good and save the fact we couldn’t do anything before.

Also I don’t see the reason why we had to get Emilie to stop being interested in Rosie. She was absolutely no threat to us. In fact it would have been better since we could humiliate Emilie as we fuck the women she wants.

What I think would be one good for the Emilie slave route. Complete humiliation, I want to humiliate her for her audacity, I want her to watch us dominate Mia as Mia says stuff like “Oh god! You’re so great Mc!. Show that bitch Emilie how much of a loser she is!” Or something along those lines. Along with her resisting along the way like you showed some of. I don’t want her to become an obedient slave, that;s no fun . I want her to be a reluctant slave as she watches helplessly as we ruin her and show her who owns Mia.

Another thing I saw people upset about was the MC using his mind control to help his parents' marriage. The real problem was that you gave the player no choice in the matter of an obviously important choice. But I can see where it can go as we only used it on dad. Where he really wants to win her back but we come in and steal her anyways or he’s so desperate to get her back that he becomes a cuckold. So I see the vision. With the Mom we better be able to dominate that cheating whore and show her that that shit isn’t gonna fly with us. And show whatever type of fuckboy Evan is a terrible time.

I just hope the dev actually commits if they’re gonna do a dom path. A lot of devs half ass it.

The game mechanics I actually really like, I think it’s actually well implemented. The rolls seem kinda pointless though with the fact you can just rollback but it’s no different from just being able to save scum so it’s fine I wouldn’t worry about it.

The biggest mistake the Dev made in my opinion really is the fact he created situations where we the player had no choice in some actually important moments and they shouldn’t do that moving forward.

I’ll give this game a weak 3 out of 5 mainly for potential alone and I may change it depending on how the game progresses. There’s potential but it had some egregious decisions.

Good game, with interesting interaction and personalized character progression. It would be good that there could be more interaction with other characters, including (at the choice of the player) incestuous relationships (with the sister and/or the mother) but perhaps it is planned for the Continuation of the scenario? I look forward.

Loved it; the characters seem real (for a game and such short interactions) if horny, which is rather expected on a +18 game. It has some of the best 3D art I saw in an indie porn game, good deal of scenes despite being an Alpha 0,13 built at the time of this review, doesn't run you into a wall with sudden "This will come later" message, nor does limit you in choices due to in game restriction that aren't justified by the story. The MC is a blank enough for you to mold to your own preferences, and the personality and level system affecting your possible interactions and choices, at least to me, worked out great. The game is easy to understand, mechanically, and you see the result of your actions in either stats updating or choices and story changing.
Most of the real Mind Control is probably yet to come, but you do get a taste and can try a few things, depending on how you play.

I recommend it if you don't mind actual story progression rather than just dropping the porn in your lap. Even at 0,13 you would had to play several times to take all paths, and you might not want to attempt everything, depending on your interested.

Looking forward to more.

To be honest I didn't expect much from game with such generic name and mediocre models. Therefore I was positively surprised, how much I enjoyed it. While plot is rather barebones (you get mental powers, have fun in Highschool) story and characters are enjoyable. I was impressed with many ways you could deal with any given scenario. Maybe no true branching story, but impressive nonetheless.

The game is pretty meh, with a protagonist who doesn't stand out much, abrupt story changes, and forced plotlines, like that whole NTR thing and relationships that seem shoehorned in. It would have been better if it focused on how the main character uses their powers more interestingly instead of throwing in forced plot twists.

Long first release, good renders and some good idea. It isn't like other mind control games. Usually, at least for now, girls don't become robots or zombie. They have still some control over their action

Mind Control 0.22

I like how each character looks like. The renders look good. There are a lot of choices that affect the scenes. I like having mind control powers. I like being able to do things with family members. There is a lot of content. The point system is interesting, and you can use cheats to max out everything. I like how the developer added a character renaming system for not just the MC and family, but for the MC's friends as well. This is a top tier game, one of the better ones.

Normally I avoid "school setting" games but this is a very promising start.

The "MC finds he has special powers" idea is nothing special but the way the characters react to discovering this is well handled. And the insights into characters' private thoughts is excellent.

The devs do need to find a native English speaker to help with the translation, especially with mistranslated grammatical gender.

But I wish this game every success and look forward to future updates.

Another game with beautiful graphics, but with a regrettable story, the MC has powers... great, but he uses them to give others an advantage, just another story where the MC is a dumb idiot who no one respects.

This could easily be presented with a revenge game or as a game where the central point is how corrupt the MC becomes thanks to power, but no, basically with or without powers the MC is a pathetic submissive... but HEY it is Avoidable (of course).

Wonderful game! I think all the scenes are really hot and the story is interesting. I wish you could choose to sway mum and dad away from a relationship but maybe you can do that later. Having the option to cheat stats if you wanted would also be nice or a mode to turn off stats. Love the game though and looking forward to further releases.

Very realistic handling of an unrealistic situation, that is many young men's dream. Dialog is very believable, which increases immersion, and if mind control has any kind of appeal, the immersion also increases fappability. The characters are well made, with villains you really love to hate, and damsels in distress made to drive the plot towards use of the powers. Sure, there'll be people who isn't interested in a religious girl-next-door type, and who wouldn't see her as worth corrupting, but others will be forced by their conscience, to corrupt her for her own good.

[v0.1]

I normally don't rate v0.1 games, but this one has enough content to warrant a rating.

The story is apparently intentionally made very simple: teenager starts hearing nearby people's thoughts and discovers he can also telephatically give them orders, which they will follow almost unconditionally (there appears to be personality/mind issues if an order is given, which the person would be totally against).

Total cliche, a clear cut powerfantasy harem game, but the important part, as always in such games, is execution, which in this case is excellent. At least so far.

The MC in this case is NOT an idiot and NOT a wet blanket, which two things are major turnoffs in a lot of power fantasy games.

MC has stats 2 major stats (domination/submission and "cleanness"/"lewdness"), which can be pretty maxed out by the end of the play. He also has minor stats of virility and stamina which seem to be quite OK with default values for the playthrough.

However, the major stats mostly don't seem to hard lock your options, they just give you % chance to make a choice, so if you have let's say only 25% domination, your options to choose some dominant option work, but with only ~25% chance.

On one hand it is superflous, as you can rollback and try the choice again, until you succeed. On the other hand, it turned out for me that I kinda like it much better than the hard locking of paths usually seen in such cases.

So, you can still mostly do whatever you want, you just have to spend some time to do it, if it's uncharacteristic for you. Weird, but actually works well for me. Better than having to replay whole paths from start in order to unlock a particular option.

So. Ratings:

Plot and Personalities: 5/5 -- very cliche, but very believable. Normal teenagers, different families, normal people in normal settings. European (apparently French) high school, where pot and alcohol is not some huge issue, is a welcome change from the American sitcom-style high schools portrayed in AVNs so often.

Dialogues: 5/5 -- YES. I know there are LOADS of spelling errors. Especially grating are the frequent mistyping of "he" vs "she", as well as some directly translated words from French that simply don't make sense in English. Nevertheless, it's made OK for me by the actual things being said. Again decently normal teenage/family dialogues. Very believable, especially when you can hear the thoughts. There might be needed some suspension of disbelief on the ease with which characters reveal their sexuality (MC's sister and her new-to-be gf), but that is addressed sort of OK, imo. Definitely better than a vast majority of games here.

Models, Renders & Graphics: 5/5 -- Good renders, lighting and backgrounds.

I like the fact that there are different bodytypes; that MC's first LI is not a thin supermodel, but a very attractive just exactly right level of plumpness girl with slightly wide hips and large (but not comical) breasts. One of the others *is* a rather thin girl with small breasts. Etc.

A special note and bonus stars for MC. Starting from the fact that he looks OK, not a creep and not a supermodel, and main thing -- HE HAS NORMAL SIZE DICK. Thank goodness for an adult game at last.

Maledom: 3,5/5 -- as it is of interest to me, I always put in a rating. So, currently you can be rather dominant, and actually sort of enslave people sometimes (up to the point of last 0.1 scenes, where you can directly tell somebody to be your slave).
It is tempered by MC's attitudes towards the people in question, he is not at the moment trying to make everybody his toy. As well as he does these things mostly on the go, and has no good scheme for correct orders for everybody. It is also somewhat inconsistent in that he can be harder on somebody he knows well, vs can't imprint his will on a stranger (eg. Joyce).
Nevertheless, there are decent options, and while the achieved domination is not very much expressed now, it looks something that can definitely be expected in future releases.

All in all a very promising start. I wish luck to the devs, bring it on. Perhaps in the next version the MC will be used to his power enough so that he starts to actually think what he wants to achieve with it.

Minor gripe: The stat values are in white, and can't be seen when the scene has a light background.