VN - Others - Completed - Naomi's past [v1.0] [Ark Thompson]

Short version : Loved it. 5*

Long Version:
This is my first time playing a game that focuses on bestiality. My usual response to bestiality is its icky and not for me so I move on.

This time around I don't know why I decided to try it and boy oh boy was it not at all what I was expecting.

I was expecting mindless depravity and blatant disregard for reality at every turn to extract a few wank from peeps that are just plain weird.

Never did I think that there was gonna be any rime or reason behind peoples actions and an effort to make the B-content plausible. Yes PLAUSIBLE not PROBABLE. In reality things will not turn out like in this story but at least it tried making sense enough that the last few remaining steps could be taken by an adventurous player to make things digestible.

There are points in the game where the characters and their sweetness and naivety draws you in and makes to wanna see what they are up to.

Lots of text scrolling so it is a slow kinda game to start off but is fun for the Kinky and entertaining for the adventurous players.

Enjoyed it from outta nowhere!

Overall an excellent game in the SoV series and adds a really nice story to a side character. The game is quite short, it only took me 2 hours to complete, and has a good amount of content for the story.

The story is really quite good, there is a surprising amount of depth with Naomi and her friends at school. Naomi's journey into zoophilia is really interesting and well-done.

The character art is fantastic as usual, all the characters are hot and the scenes are all really good. I like how we see scenes involving lots of the different characters. I also do like the small details like the girls blinking during dialogue, even though it's such a minimal aspect, it does add to the general immersion of the game and makes it far more interesting to play. The scenes are also very easy to obtain with this game being a kinetic VN.

The game is also well polished; graphically, it looks amazing (in terms of the backgrounds and stuff), the audio is good. My only issue I had was that sometimes my mouse clicks didn't register, idk if that's an issue on my end or if it's the game. Either way, it wasn't that big of a deal.

In terms of lewdity, of course there is bestiality which is what we are here for.

Overall an amazing game and a must-play for SoV fans and bestiality fans. Definitely an A-tier game.

Not a bad VN game I say, good scene and build up. Slow start but it is engaging when you finally get the scene. I get bored with vn game easily but finish this one. This is more like a kinetic novel. H-scene is nice involving friend and the teacher.

When i see all the good review, I can't help myself, I HAVE to be the asshole who put a bad review ...


More seriously, it's not a bad game , but it's not a very good game either , it's a okay game

Maybe a little bit more since it's a zoo fetish game and there is not a lot of them out there, so I need to adjust my review to that fact and give 1 more star to this game just for existing and for not being a horribly broken MTL like 80% of others zoo games

So, the good/okay part :

- Good art like every others Blue Axolotl games
- The scenes are good, long with art variation
- It's not a grind-fest rpgm game ( but still use rpgm VN engine so still no rollback but a least a Log )
- If Zoo is your main fetish, I guess this can be one of your best game, but if like me you need something more balanced, as all things should be... you won't find it here, it's 100% zoo with a very small bit of lesbian content


Now the bad part :

- Slow paced, especially at the beginning, there is a lot of "useless" story that lead to nothing, it feel like it's just here to add to the length
- As far as I've seen, choice doesn't matter , it just change some line of dialogue and that's it
- The textbox is too opaque and it's really big, it hide 1/4 of the scene , so I know you can hide it pressing enter, but having to hide it after reading each line of text.... not fun, it would have been better to make it more transparent
- Loading is pretty slow I don't know why, when you load you have 5 second of black screen before you can play
- Not a lot of sexual content for the length of the game 10 or 11 scenes and that's it.. you have a LOT of text ( 10-20min of reading ) between 2 scenes , a little less by the end of the game but still a LOT of text
- The scene are good/average, not excellent but not bad.. but since they are "JUST good" it doesn't pay off for the wait , I don't feel rewarded by the scenes after reading so much text


So, if you are a big fan of bestiality, go for it, it's a great game
But if you just like zoo but not that much, still go for it but prepare your skip button

This VN had a slower, more realistic approach to lewdness than most. It was executed well here IMO, with huge payouts towards the end and plenty of buildup/teasing throughout. +1 for leaning heavily into degradation during the latter half.

There are a fair number of spelling errors unfortunately, though they are more than compensated by the solid story and excellent art. Overall it's an easy recommendation for bestiality fans from me; just keep in mind that it's essentially kinetic and (as mentioned) a bit of a slow burn.

Amazing Art, I think the best from all the series.
Is missing the decision mechanics of the other games, this is pretty much just click and read, no need to fear missing any action.
This makes it a little less rewarding as it was the first game but also makes it more relaxing and no have to do acrobatics to get all the scenes like it happens in the second game.
But if what you came from is the porn and story, then this just makes it better.

I understand why someone gave low score for the game. It's slow and relatively short, have few choices that affects nothing, but try to look at subject from different angle. Unlike other games from Mr. Thompson, this have realistic tone, free from magic and supernatural elements, that in my opinion slightly ruin impression in his other products (like SoV2). Plot is simple (and again, realistic) but well-written, art is brilliant. Very good result for game that wasn't main priority for developer

Sorry but this is not even a game. It actually has to have "kinetic novel tag", because there are 2 or maximum 3 choices in the beginning of the game and they does not seem to affect anything.
Tons of boring text and a few repetetive pictures through the whole game, of which 30% are mc scenes and 70% with other characters

Very well written visual novel about bestiality!

The Storytelling has a very slow build up. The Characters are funny and kinki!
The only downside is that is has less choices and is very linear but thats also ok for what it is.
What do want more from a visual novel?

A subpar game, there is a good image or two but the majority aren't worth dealing with the outdated engine and wonky gallery, story that doesn't stand out, and other issues that make it overall below average.
Give it a go if it's your specific kink and you've got time to waste or if you liked the devs previous work but, there are better out there.

Naomi's Past is the Backstory of Naomi from Slice of Adventure!

+ So far (v0.9) the Story is done very well
+ The Artwork and Character Design is better than some of it's predecessors!
+ Slow Buildup
+ A "must have" Game for Bestiality Fans.

- Somethimes to much dialog