VN - Ren'Py - Our Red String [Ch.14.1.4 Beta] [Eva Kiss]

This is a review of v0.10.

Our red string is one of my favorite games discovered on this site.
I played the last game from Eva, Good Girl Gone Bad, and you can clearly feel the same touch on this game but with everything improved.

The dual main characters feel unique and most of the supporting ones feel that way too.
There's not much bad to say about this game really.

The art is good, the story too, the characters are interesting and the animations are well made.
The stat system is a nice addition, I feel like it resonates with how Ian and Lena developp as people over your playthrough(s).

There's also good replayability with the story branching quite a lot.
One of my only complaints would therefore be that there's no official walkthrough maybe haha.

Overall a great game from a diligent dev.

I recommend you try it out !

Our Red String is a pretty awesome visual novel. The 2D drawing style is beautiful, and the characters are so well-designed that they practically leap off the screen.

But what really sold me on the game was the way the characters interacted with each other. They're all so fleshed out and realistic, and their dialogue is incredibly well-written. I felt like I really got to know them over the course of the story.

And speaking of the story, it's super immersive. There are a ton of choices to make, and many of which have a significant impact on how the story unfolds. It's one of those games that you can play through multiple times and still discover new things which is rare.

I must give a shoutout to Holly, who is definitely the best girl in the game. Holly is best girl? Wanna fight about it? She's shy, sweet, and totally loveable - I mean, who wouldn't want to romance her?

Overall, I'd definitely recommend giving Our Red String a shot if you have not yet played it. The characters, the story, the choices - everything about it is top-notch. It's definitely one of the best games on here.

Our Red String is a look into what peak porn visual novels can be. Eva Kiss has followed up Good Girl Gone Bad with an even more ambitious project that they are currently knocking out of the park. Everything about this game is superior to almost every porn visual novel you'll play.

The writing, art, and game design are incredible. It's hard to balance two protagonists and make almost all choices feel meaningful but Our Red String accomplishes this. I currently have three different saves just to go through all the different routes.

There's no negatives for this game. Sure, the updates take longer than they did for GGGB but the quality of the art and writing is so much greater that it is one hundred percent worth it. I highly recommend Our Red String if you haven't played it before as it has a lot of content even though it isn't completed.

Eva Kiss is an amazing editor. Eva Kiss's work, the characters and story are well built, they feel all authentic and charming with their unic personalities.
Graphics are amazing, love the evolutions between Good Girl and this one, this is another level. Would like more of this, I'm a fan right now

So, just got this game, just started Ian's Chapter 5 and I'm saying it now.

This game exceeds GGGB by a long shot, and that's a great game itself.

Art is better. Characters are better. Gameplay is better. Story is better.

Eva, you've made one hell of a game.

so fucking good, I loved Good Girl Gone Bad, this one is even better. Our Red String improves on many things. The art is certainly better and the story is more personal. Also, where the characters in GGGB were still a bit shallow and stereotypical in their personal development, all this changes in ORS. This might be the best game on this site.
It has a very unique art style and solid dialogues.
Decisions matter and the characters and story develop with your choices. The writing is solid. A few spelling errors here and there. Nothing major. Just stuff I imagine would have been caught with a proofread.The girls are hot.

Support her if you can.

really good story line keep your on your toes one of my top 10 storys yet slow/ med burn loves it cant wait for the next update would highly recommend and the story is super long seems like alot of time and though went into this

I only rate the game I really like and this is one them.
The relationship in this game feels so wide and connected, which makes me consider my choices, not just click aimlessly.
Some of the dialogue is quite smart and funny, though I still have to skip quite a lot of them when I know the story and can roughly guess what the characters are talking about.

[Version reviewed: Ch10]

Yet another great game by EvaKiss. I loved Good Girl Gone Bad, and although this one isn't finished yet it's been amazing 'till now.

I must start by paying hommage to the technical side of things. Simply put, quality improved a lot (not that GGGB was bad, far from it, but you get me): art is better while keeping the style, and UI/phone is perfectly organized. I played so many games with messy UIs that made things tedious that I'm always thankful when I see one that is so clean.

Now onto the game itself... You alternate POVs between Lena and Ian, sometimes 'repeating' events which gives you both perspectives and I must say it's both immersive and very well done. However if I'm being honest, I'm enjoying Ian's side way more than Lena's.

It's not the characters themselves and I love a good female POV in my games, but it can be summarized in 2 points:

- Ian's friends are very likeable despite their flaws, and overall looks like the people I'm friend with IRL. But Lena's friends aren't (except Molly, she's an angel and we better be able to save the cafe). Even if most of them have redeeming qualities, I can't get over the facts that
- This one might be due to my choices, but while I could improve Ian's life substantially (book, gym, better job, hooks-up/gf), Lena's situation still gets worse all the time and the only 'improvements' I can find seems to lead her down the corruption path.

And the crux of these 2 points is that it gives this game some sort of alternating tone, giving wholesomess then unease when the POVs switches. I would have been fine with Lena's sad story if not for Ian's side that kinda... breaks that mood ? Anyway it's a weird thing to explain, and while I'm kinda rambling, I love this game.

Now about the sex parts (funny that I'm only talking about it now), there seems to be lots of possibilities but I'm focusing on romance atm so more on that once I did those routes.

I must warn you that just like GGGB, this game is pretty long. Also there's a walkthrough available to help you, and it's very useful. I'll conclude by saying that I was glad to meet a certain tattoo artist that seem to be doing pretty well. Also take Emma's drug. And don't panic, there is no bug.

Edit: I've been diving into the sex parts of the game and it only reinforces my feel of double tone I was referencing earlier. Ian's sex scenes CAN be very basic "dick-in-hole" style but there's always some romantic possibilities, even with girls that are only interested in getting in his pants at first. For Lena though... it might be me, but the only genuine connexions seems to be Ian, Holly and Stan. Sadly, I ship Ian and Holly, and Stan is very unattractive to me personnality-wise.

Edit [ch12]: Found "my" romance path for Lena! And it only prove I was right all along

This might be the best game on this site.
It has a very unique art style and solid dialogues.
Decisions matter and the characters and story develop with your choices.
Also there are no extreme fetishes like rape or loli, not even incest. Very refreshing.

After playing GGGB I knew this game would be a smash, the art is even better and the writing is amazing with so many different alternative paths with different kinks. The only thing missing is some foot fetish scenes, with StalkFap being a big plot device it's a bit unrealistic with no one asking for feet pics just saying , also the stan storyline could certainly explore it as well. Other than that it's perfect , can't wait for more.

I didn't really know about this masterpiece and I don't know how.
This is one of the most well made game I have played.
Great art
Good story
No Bugs
One of the best game-play experience.
100/100 recommended

One of the best games out right now.
Not for everyone since it has a female protagonist, but if you are interested in those type of games you have to try this. Our Red String is another masterpiece in AVN by Eva Kiss. More mature compared to GGGB and deals with themes such as personal realisation Our Red String will go down as one of the best AVN if we get new chapters in a reasonable time. Fingers crossed.

I do not usually do a lot of reviews, but this I would give give more than 5 stars if I could!
The story is so enveloping, that I was completely sucked in, so many different paths, and the two I completed and one path about halfway were all highly enjoyable. i so look forward to more of this, and will probably play through many of the paths.
This has both slow-burn with plenty of hot material, while the Art took a minute to get use to, it grew on me and is so beautiful. The text wow, I don't often many games that can get into a girls head space like this one did for me.
The Dual protagonist is fun, but I can really relate to the female protag.
As I said I don't typically give reviews as is probably obvious but my haphazard attempt but I had to for this game.

This one is definitely not good as the first game. Its narrative is very difficult to follow. I was expecting to find something like the first game where the direction where the game is going was very clearly visible. But this one is not not like that. You can try to make a pairing , and it just doesn't work because the stat system sucks . You need to know before hand which attribute to choose if you want to chase a certain character. And now there being two player characters , you have no clue how the other player character will react , because you are supposed to fill their story. But the fact that now there are two of those character . Defies the very basic structure of a Choosing game. for example :
if you make 1 character naughty and other nice. then their choices do not reflect my choice . They reflect the one which author decided. so now instead of 2 character you have 0. because now both characters have their innate character filled by dev , which I do not like , or opposed to immersion of my story. Very confusing really.

V 0.10

Our Red String, a very catchy name for the term romance.
But despite having the romance route, it is not the strong point of the game.
Yes, the romance even has a base, but the game encourages you to play the routes of depravity much more.
Even if you try to follow the route firmly and avoid the dauxuaria side.
The corruption option always appears.

So what I mean, is that the name of the game, the summary of the game.
It was supposed to be a romance game.
But the game pulls much more towards corruption and betrayal.
An example of this is that you are encouraged at all costs to make Cindy cheat on Wade.
Either with another guy or with the MC.
Even though there is the possibility of their reconciliation, we have to follow the route of this to not let it happen.
That is, if you want to focus on one (Romance) we also have to be careful that the game does not become a game of corruption with the other characters.
And that's awful.

It really is a game to be split in 2.
because he took something that could be very good.
Which was an excellent FMC. To become another corruption game like the others.
Only the others don't try to disguise the bizarreness.

I'm definitely dropping this.

Eva Kiss is easily one of the strongest and most thoughtful writers in this space. She has an eye for character and a mind for sexy situations that spring quite naturally from the people involving them.

This is a more complex and ambitious project than Eva Kiss' earlier game and I can't help but wonder whether the forest might have been lost for the trees. The earliest builds suggested that this was a game about two people (both protagonists and viewpoint characters) who meet quite early on and hit off. Not yet ready to be exclusive, their lives progress while they continue hooking up, meeting people, and evolving. Then, come the end of the game, they drift back together having both changed and grown.

As of 10.0 Beta, I would say that that narrative string has kinda disappeared. You still have the viewpoint characters, they still change as they move through life and have different experiences, but the 'Red String' binding them together has been somewhat upstaged by all of the other characters.

This isn't helped by the fact that the game-play is still the same as in Good Girl Gone Bad (Eva Kiss' first game) in that you run through the game and hit an ending, you then run through it again and see the endings you missed, you then keep doing it until you've unlocked all the scenes.

As a dynamic, it still works really well HOWEVER, in good girl gone bad you really got the message that going after different people and different outcomes involved you becoming a different person and here it's more implied than anything else and so some of the thematic force of the game is lost.

This being said, this is still a really good game that features a load of interesting characters and some really hot scenes. My only really substantive complaint is that I kept wanting to see various relationships unfold and that's just me wanting the game to go on for ever and that's neither practical nor possible and is really just a reflection of how much I love and admire Eva Kiss' work.

Fantastic stuff.

I really love the game and its characters.
The story is well written and the dialogue choices matters in the long run.
Preferred it better than GGGB. The art have also been improved.
Update takes a while tho but i think it's worth the wait.

Okay, Eva Kiss made me eat my own words with this latest release. I was just complaining to my girlfriend a couple of weeks ago about how these creators can just not release content for 10 months and still get paid. I went on and on about it. I may have been a little angry because I was one of her subscribers. However, the content of this latest release was fantastic and almost made up for it. This game is one of the best as was Eva's last game. The only reason I am not giving this 5 stars is because of the 10 month hiatus, which is unacceptable for any monthly subscriber games like this in my opinion.

Excellent game!
The art and the story are top notch!
We can find interesting and lovable characters.
There are multiple meaningful choices which lead to distinct routes.
This is the game that brought my attention to the VN world.