VN - Ren'Py - New Antioch [R0.6] [TheRedMyst]

Before starting this game I had quite big expectations as similar title is one of best porn games I ever played.

You’re going to play Kylo Ren MC look a like, but he's a capable and strong guy who needs to fight for surviving and is not afraid of it. Sometimes he's a lil bit too cocky for my taste, but I can live with it. Game is set up in postapo future plagued by virus, with a mix of medieval and modern environment, and everything is well drawn on the map. Some inspirations came from Ancient Rome, some from Fallout series and few others. Yeah, there's a version of Dogmeat and no, it's not involved, if you know what I mean. Game contains few tough moral/political choices that may affect what'll happen in future updates. I only hope it’ll stay simple instead of being divided onto branches, because development it’ll take ages to finish with current development speed. Writing style is good. Didn't notice any big mistakes and the only annoying thing is mixing emotions in text, but with only italic, so very often I was just reading it as a whole text and missed its purpose. I think someone mentioned it to dev as later episodes have much less of it. Pacing isn't the fastest, you need to expect a lot of text, learning about world, etc, before first scenes.

There are several LIs. Some better, some worse, but none is annoying. A nice cast with a gem named Aquila. Don't expect too much bonding and learning LIs, because this game's mostly about story. Most of your interactions with LIs will be plotwise. Sex and bonding is just an addition, at least in current version. If not netori theme I’d be quite bored with these women, so I hope for some pregnancy in future, because story have huge potential for it.

Visuals are very good, faces are pretty, if we take out weird expressions (sometimes when they talk they look like being caught on picture during this one terrible moment) and bodies are varied and beautiful. Animations are ok, sometimes weird (cum shaking women for example), but they're ok. Most of sex scenes are very short and poor. Sometimes it's just several sentences and cumshot. Not much passion, some dirty talking, some thrusts, moaning and finish.

For now I can recommend this title only to people who like games with huge amount of story, because interactions with LIs and sex scenes aren’t worth recommending. It has big potential for me due to settings and netori harem, but I don’t like rating only by potential. If it'd be just a lil bit better I could round it up to 4*, but not yet.

I need to get better at actually writing reviews so that I can remember which games were worth playing.

New Antioch is worth it. Not perfect, but I played through all six chapters in 4ish hours over one night, and that's a pretty big compliment from me.

Solid characters, good story so far that actually seems to be building to a crescendo rather than stringing along the Patrons for as long as possible. Good porn, too. Definitely want to keep an eye on this for future updates.

The worst thing a writer can do is fall in love with the sound of their own writing. I myself have been a victim to this many times. But such flaws, like many others, may be balanced somewhat with a healthy dose of self-awareness -- maybe you're just not as good of a writer as you think!

Unfortunately for us, the readers of this overly-verbose, utterly nonsensical "novel," this particular author does not possess that gift. And so on they go, page after page, talking about some matter of rank idiocy that only they have deluded themselves into thinking people care about.

In other words: if you are interested in people talking for hours about extremely annoying things, before moving on to talk about other annoying things, go ahead and read this. You might get a shitty blowjob scene for your troubles.

Two stars because the guy's hot as fuck, though, (actually, going back and looking at it: his body is built as fuck, no notes, but his head is shriveled and his face looks like a rodent, so you know, there's that too) and his dick is quite nice. The girls are nice as well, I suppose. Also, there should definitely be optional gay stuff in this 'cause there's a couple dudes I'd love to get into. That being said, to access those scenes I would have to listen to two really dumb people talk about bullshit for like, an hour, so maybe the dev fulfilling this one particular wish of mine would not be that useful.

To finish: if I ever rubbed a lamp or something and a genie came out, I would use all three of my wishes to make AVN authors understand that they are fundamentally uncapable of writing well, because if they could, they wouldn't be writing for a bunch of people whose right hands are busy. What a giant waste of my fucking time. You do get to fuck a dude's girl in front of him, though.

Version: R0.6

The premise is interesting. Some characters are properly fleshed out. But why the average rating, you ask?

1. The dialogue is inappropriate at many key points during the story. It sounds like something teens and pre-teens would say. That destroys immersion, especially when it's from full-grown adults with important jobs.

2. Luciana's 'character growth' is frustratingly slow, which adds copious amounts of pointless drama. This is especially true regarding her boyfriend. It seems a huge amount of time is spent by the entire cast trying to convince her to leave her bf, only for her to resist. Her being constantly oblivious to the obvious is downright irritating and adds nothing to the story. Unavoidable Netori does not fix this!

3. The H-scenes and 'dirty talk' are honestly quite bad.

One of the few times i am actually invested in the story and am not just skipping through large portions to get to the sex. It is very nice to play as a properly dominant MC. Not a complete cunt, not a little nerd that simply gets lucky. You make the women want to be dominated and belong to you rather than being a rapey cunt. While some magic/sci fi and having the biggest cock in the world help with that, the Dom traits of the character feel right.

It is more of a kinetic novel than I'd like. I would like for more choices and more opportunities to revisit characters. It is a linear story that only moves forward. So you have no options to explore or have repeat visits with sexual interests.

As of VR0.6 the game is great, a solid 5-star no doubt.

-Story: I'm not gonna lie, episode 1 was kinda boring. I understand that the developer used it to set up the context, but maybe he overdid it a bit. After that, though, the game gets really interesting, and I definitely want to see what the hell happens next xD

- Characters: They're great, the MC and everyone else are very well written.

- Renders / Animations: Renders are great but animations felt a bit lacking, they're passable.

- Music: There are some nice tracks, but also times with no sound at all. that can be fixed easily though.

Overall the game is really good so far, and left me wanting to see more. so I'd say it's an 8.5/10 game (5-stars), defintely worth checking out.

Good grief this is good.

Superb characterisations and wonderful artwork, a gem to play. There is a depth to both relationships and worldbuilding that I've not seen in other VN's, New Antoich raises my expectations significantly.

Version: R.06

More of a kinetic novel. Little to no choices. Mostly "do u want to watch X or not" than anything impactful.

Writing is good, sometimes great and there is some nix mixing in the settings.
The girls are hot and the MC somewhat likeable.

There is A LOT of reading for somewhat little h-content.
It gets better in later episodes tho.

The only thing i really dislike and that is a 4 instead of 5 stars: POV.
The h-scenes are a mix of standing pictures and some short animations.
Animations are 90% from a third person perspective.
MC can cuck other guys more than once and its kinda odd that "the player" gets cucked by MC/himself in scenes by having to watch from outside, lol.

This gets better tho. Episode 5 and 6 had at least some short animated POV interactions. Hope to see more of that.

tldr: setting good, girls hot, lot of reading.

A nearly perfect game. Fantastic world-building, engaging plot, flawless pace, gorgeous visuals, and interesting three-dimensional characters. The writing is both intelligent and funny. Other than that the sex scenes could use some work, it's hard to find a single flaw at all.

Also, considering my username and the inspiration it seems to take from Red Rising, I'd never forgive myself if I didn't give it 5 stars.

Exellent Game, top notch renders and intriguing stroyline that i actually want to read every line of, Li's with depth and are superhot. one of the few games that includes a bunch of pop culture references that actually made me laugh instead of cringe and even tho they werent neccasary to the story i appreciated their inclusion when they popped up. this is a 10/10 game with tons of potential and already enough content to not disapoint with a playthrough, can't wait for more

4,5 stars rounded up to 5. There's an intriguing (and what feels novel) setting and wider plot that's as of 0.6 still mostly unknown to the player. The LIs are rendered very well and are attractive, though if you're not into them, I'm not sure how much agency there is in rejecting their routes. The MC is a bit too 'alpha male making the girls weak at their knees with his magic penis' but the sex scenes are still quite hot. I'd say the largest issues right now are (a) NPC development in terms of character feels a bit flat, and (b) while the writing is overall quite good, there's just a bit too much attempting of humour which can detract from the story at times.

There is an actual story to this, that a lot of effort is put into. It's ambitious, but rather confusing and somewhat hard to follow. Still, it's always awesome to see devs that have a vision beyond "peg-into-hole" haha.

The plot is not enough to prop up the characters though; while this VN takes the time to develop an MC that has depth, the LIs do not match up and are dull and flat. The renders are not attractive enough to make up for how unlikeable they are.

The choices are not meaningful and player agency is almost nonexistent. You can reject an LI, and they will continue to follow you around no matter what.

Basically, it is DA: Veilguard levels of story interaction. Dislike this LI? Here's a choice to abandon them in prison, but WHOOPS!, they will get released and rejoin your party anyway. Cool. Great. Just what i wanted...

Overall 3/10

great story,very good renders,the lewds are very well done,this should be on everyones playlist,waiting for the update,the queen is so hot and her daughters too ,all of them have distinct features,the cuck scene is my favourite of them all.big thumsup dev.jet speed to u

[v0.5]
⠀ ⠀ Characters are cocky and witty, often talk in hyperboles, take long pauses for comedic effect, making gay/poop/ur mom jokes and use sarcasm in every other sentense. Oh, and also constantly making silly faces. If you don't mind this style, it's fine, but if you do, it stands out like a sore thumb, and throws you out of any kind of immersion.

• "I'm all out of my tiny violins"
• "My daddy owns this port! No biggie, but I'm, like, kinda connected. It's, like, whatever though, you know?
• "Board games are for fatherless virgins"
• "Spoiler alert"

⠀ ⠀Are they seriously discussing their D&D sessions while being in an actual fucking dungeon? On top of that a sent assasin decides to play a game of D&D with her victim, because why the fuck not?
⠀ ⠀Protagonists are taking their reverge on a "country". Not government representatives, not specific people, but a country, or in their words "an empire of deceit an evil". That's extremely juvenile, an actual children worldview.
⠀ ⠀Imperatrix audience with the senate consist of some silly playful banter. That's how a group of friends might talk to each other, definitely not people in power. She is also sucking someone's cock in front of a camera for promotional purposes, that's beyond porn logic stupid.
⠀ ⠀Animations look like they are AI-assisted. They're jerky, jittery and a bit uncanny.

Current runtime ~4-5 hours. Project has potential, script is interesting, in spite of characters acting and talking inappropriately. I would be looking forward to it, suggest maybe try it later on, there are very few sex scenes right now anyways.

good This game deserves mode recognition and funding! I was amazed by the quality and I'm looking forward to future updates! The writing and animation is top tier! Developer seems passionate which is good and hopefully he keeps updating!

Incredibly pretentious pseudo-psychoanalysis bullshit to the max in this game. Where you play armchair psychologist with people and read their apparent thoughts but the dev takes it so seriously it becomes hilarious.

Also the combat sucks.

The girls are okay. The porn is okay. The story is okay. That's all. No idea how this is 5 stars. It does nothing particularly well.

Definately one of the best story driven VN's out ever, and I have seen pretty much all of them, due to being disabled and bored.

The story is completely original, and keeps you wanting to know more.

Girls of different shapes and sizes, without any of them looking like they just came from pre school.

The graphics are top notch.

There is a good amount of depth and story between each update.

My one and only gripe is the pit fight scenes. Graphically it lost it's lustre during the combat, and the combat choice situation needs rethinking.

But apart from that 5 stars all day long.

Review of vR0.5

New Antioch is a high quality, well-written AVN. The visuals are great, the story is gripping, and the characters are easy to invest emotions in. The audio backing is good too. My only complaint so far is scarcity of sex scenes.

Dope I get to be the 100th review

Really enjoyed this game the more it went on. It starts probably a bit less interesting than it gets later on, and then it also struggles for a bit to really find its footing inside its world building and such.

Staying spoiler free as possible its a post apocalyptic world where you have a meld of almost historical times (think Roman empire) and future sci fi. This blending took me a bit to get used to but it got there eventually.

Characters are really cool, and a lot of the plot is really well thought out, dialogue too.

Character is a proper alpha type (in a good way) and I enjoyed that, his model is fantastic too which makes playing as him more enjoyable. Sex scenes start slow but more develops later on, they are not spammed and always a highlight.

Overall v excited to see where the story goes, defs give it a go and as I said, it starts slow but is quite good by the end

An evolving revenge plot set in a postapocalyptic sci-fi setting with ancient rome aesthetics, spiced up with convenient chad MC (where virility is so rare) with a horse dick kinkily fucking his way forward.