This game is good. Really good. So good that it’s made it onto my very short list of games which fill me with excitement when a new version is released. Rock solid story, beautiful renders with unique models, great writing, and while there are no animations, this is made up for by the quality of the renders, the quality of the dialogue, and the amount of variation allowed when you’re not worried about getting a few hundred frames to run smoothly together.
The plot has clear inspirations from other media that many will be familiar with, such as My Hero Academia. A world where most people have a special ability with the MC being a late bloomer. The one he finally gets is not only useful but heavily sex-dependent. I can’t think of a better excuse to mix adult content into an otherwise serious fantasy story. What’s important is that this is believable thanks to excellent writing. The reveal, the discussion, the way other people’s powers are sometimes sexual in nature as well but by no means all of them, blends seamlessly into the world.
I was honestly surprised to find this series with a relatively “low” rating of 4.2 out of 5. I just finished trying out a 4.1 rated game that began in 2019 and it was outright abysmal. Poor writing, poor story, poor animations, stock footage, tons of mental exposition every other line… it was a mess! This game is head and tails above that one and most others on this site and, in my opinion, deserves a seat in the top 100 at least. The sex scenes work great not really in spite of the lack of animation but because of it. Unless you’ve got a couple dozen 5090s running in tandem, animation takes a long time, and chaining decent scenes together often requires trade-offs, such as limiting the interaction to just two people. I can count on one hand the games that have strong unique animations that involve three or more people, and they’re almost all in the top 20 or so adult games in the world. Because Origin Story has no animations, the author can delve into group sex early and often (as the story demands) without spending an insane amount of money and time learning how to create high quality animations that, even if they were perfect, would still drastically reduce the amount of content per release and would barely improve what are already sex scenes that are, pardon my French, hot as fuck.
In addition, the story involves a lot of people with some kind of super power which is weaved into the sex scenes. For example, one woman can make a clone of herself, which you make use of, but then the person with you joins in, and then the woman who made the clone joins in, and suddenly you have a very hot and taboo foursome going that would have been hell to animate, but even without animations is one of the hottest scenes in a visual novel I had seen in months.
The characters are unique and believable. Specifically, they don’t all sound like the author. They have different quirks, ways of speaking, different ways of telling jokes, and they’re not merely one-dimensional caricatures. When I mean the writing is really good, I don’t mean “For an adult visual novel” but good writing PERIOD. The story is in the early stages but is interesting on its own, and characters interact with the MC and with each other in a believable way. Sure, numerous characters have special abilities that make fun interesting sex, but it never feels cheesy or unbelievable because the way it’s written is just so convincing!
Great sex, great story, interesting super powered weirdness, and a great sense of humor (“It’s not a fucking boss fight!” Had me laughing out loud) and an absence of any flaws that I can see make for one of the best games on F95. It doesn’t hurt that the author is present and honest about his creation. That he’s not good at animation and that (and I agree wholeheartedly) no animations are better than crappy ones. How many stock Honey Select or DAZ games have we played where every sex scene is a fully animated and boring as fuck? You won’t find that here, and that’s a good thing. Characters are sexy without all looking like super models and believably written such that you’ll quickly end up caring about them. An easy 5/5.
The plot has clear inspirations from other media that many will be familiar with, such as My Hero Academia. A world where most people have a special ability with the MC being a late bloomer. The one he finally gets is not only useful but heavily sex-dependent. I can’t think of a better excuse to mix adult content into an otherwise serious fantasy story. What’s important is that this is believable thanks to excellent writing. The reveal, the discussion, the way other people’s powers are sometimes sexual in nature as well but by no means all of them, blends seamlessly into the world.
I was honestly surprised to find this series with a relatively “low” rating of 4.2 out of 5. I just finished trying out a 4.1 rated game that began in 2019 and it was outright abysmal. Poor writing, poor story, poor animations, stock footage, tons of mental exposition every other line… it was a mess! This game is head and tails above that one and most others on this site and, in my opinion, deserves a seat in the top 100 at least. The sex scenes work great not really in spite of the lack of animation but because of it. Unless you’ve got a couple dozen 5090s running in tandem, animation takes a long time, and chaining decent scenes together often requires trade-offs, such as limiting the interaction to just two people. I can count on one hand the games that have strong unique animations that involve three or more people, and they’re almost all in the top 20 or so adult games in the world. Because Origin Story has no animations, the author can delve into group sex early and often (as the story demands) without spending an insane amount of money and time learning how to create high quality animations that, even if they were perfect, would still drastically reduce the amount of content per release and would barely improve what are already sex scenes that are, pardon my French, hot as fuck.
In addition, the story involves a lot of people with some kind of super power which is weaved into the sex scenes. For example, one woman can make a clone of herself, which you make use of, but then the person with you joins in, and then the woman who made the clone joins in, and suddenly you have a very hot and taboo foursome going that would have been hell to animate, but even without animations is one of the hottest scenes in a visual novel I had seen in months.
The characters are unique and believable. Specifically, they don’t all sound like the author. They have different quirks, ways of speaking, different ways of telling jokes, and they’re not merely one-dimensional caricatures. When I mean the writing is really good, I don’t mean “For an adult visual novel” but good writing PERIOD. The story is in the early stages but is interesting on its own, and characters interact with the MC and with each other in a believable way. Sure, numerous characters have special abilities that make fun interesting sex, but it never feels cheesy or unbelievable because the way it’s written is just so convincing!
Great sex, great story, interesting super powered weirdness, and a great sense of humor (“It’s not a fucking boss fight!” Had me laughing out loud) and an absence of any flaws that I can see make for one of the best games on F95. It doesn’t hurt that the author is present and honest about his creation. That he’s not good at animation and that (and I agree wholeheartedly) no animations are better than crappy ones. How many stock Honey Select or DAZ games have we played where every sex scene is a fully animated and boring as fuck? You won’t find that here, and that’s a good thing. Characters are sexy without all looking like super models and believably written such that you’ll quickly end up caring about them. An easy 5/5.
