VN - Ren'Py - Ravenous [Arc 1 Finale: Beta] [Lament Entertainment]

Well, this is a strange one to review. I'd give it 3.5 Stars if it were possible.

I feel that the 1* reviews are not justified and largely due to some weird and frustrating story decisions.

So, the basics: the art is great, the animations wooden and soulless and consequentially the sex scenes fairly robotic. It's a VN, no choices.

Thankfully the Loli stuff can be turned off, because it's... ewww.

Now, the story itself is fine...ish. There's mystery and horror and sex and stuff. It has a good basis. The problem is that the Horror that is being teased is likely to be Horror Light. Plot Armor is fairly obvious for the MC and all the girls, so it really doesn't add tension, more of a slightly edgy back drop.

Then you have the MC and every girl (and I mean EVERY single one) instantly falls for him. He might as well be the only guy in a town filled with sex-starved nymphomanics. So far, so... tropey. I can't say how tired I am of this, but I am sure most of you don't care.

There is also way too many women. What's the point in introducing yet more all the time? It leads to absurd scenes where on the eve of Armageddon, the MC sexts with some woman in the bath tub. Priorities, man!

Now, the source of frustration comes from everyone apparently wanting to fuck the MC and the Dev somehow trying to pace this, so it doesn't devolve into one big orgy. Unfortunately, that is not done very well. The MC acts completely out of character, desperately trying to slow things down with every girl he meets and if he doesn't, the girls have a sudden change of heart in the final moment or someone walks in or whatever... It all feels odd and unnatural for the sake of the holy grail of Porn Sex Progression.

So, it's a fine game, the story is better than most of the drivel you find here, but it's also sabotaging itself severely, which is sad.

Also: The Loli stuff is really kinda ick.

The Dev all the time tells us that this is not a porn game but a story with porn in it. Well, I respect such a point of view. But what we have in reality?

There is indeed not a lot of porn in this game, but the amount of teasing is just insane. All the girls and women are hot. They all walk around in sexy skimpy clothes or whithout them. They all tell the MC how much they want to fuck him. And the MC? I have an impression that he hates sex. Evey time a girl throws herself at him he is like: "Not today, my dear. May be tomorrow or the next month". He behaves like an old man married for many years, not like a horny teenager that he is suppesed to be.

Now about the story. It is very weird. It is supposed to be a horror story but the Evil in this game is so weak and pathetic that it feels simply ridiculous. The main antagonist (Eve) is a monstrous murderous 300-years old witch. Even her minions are scared of her. And she falls in love with the MC like a typical schoolgirl and lets easily trick herself. The MC kisses her on the mouth all the time which almost makes me throw up. And he pretends to truly care about her, though she directly caused death and misery of many of the townsfolk.

The other evil characters are even more dumb and pathetic. The policewoman Teresa tricks them all the time and they cannot guess that she is the mole among them, though she is doing it almost openly and she is the only one who didn't go through the blood drinking ritual. Also she is all the time with Isabella who is the main enemy of the cultists, but they still cannot add two and two.

The graphics in this game are good and the girls are very hot, especially the lolis. That's the only reason I give two stars instead of one. Also there are games with even worst stories, but all in all Arc 1 just goes nowhere.
I hope in Arc 2 the Dev will take better care of the story and fixes the pacing of this game striking a better balance between blueballing and the needs of the plot.

Not even really a game, it's just a poorly written book.

I realize that many people enjoy VN, even without choices, but this really doesn't have much to offer.

The only "Choice" seems to be setting the ages of the younger looking characters

Where do I begin, visually the game is quite good, technically it is easy above average, and that's where the positive goes, visually eye candy, but everything else including the story is nonsense, It's a game that's full of lolis, milfs, and the MC just doesn't want to fuck.

It's a game with a weak, boring narrative that doesn't even let you enjoy the sexual section in a PORN game, In the MC's house there are always 3 or 4 semi nakeds lolis, you know "18" women with the bodies of 14 or 15 year old teenagers, wanting to suck your cock and fuck all day, but the MC is special and is in a kind of eternal celibacy, in a porn game.

I give it a 1, because of the stupid story, because it is a kinetic novel, and because it does not even meet the minimum objective of being a decent porn game, are it has so many fake "18" years old "women" naked in the house, with a bunch of horny milfs too, and you as a player cannot do or decide anything, because it is a kinetic VN and very poorly written.

Mc is a dumbass that avoids sex like the plague. Usually slowburns have excuses, reasons why the MC cant fuck the girls, here theres no reason, they all want to fuck him he is just stupid and dev wants to save it for later I guess. Story is garbage, because yes sometimes slowburns can be salvaged by good stories and seeing how relationship grow and allow for the sex. Here nah, just silky shit dont expect much, kinetic so no choices, makes for a waste of time really.

If you are in this page and say u gonna do a porn game, better do nice porn scenes, this games is a blue ball machine, dont use this page, dont try to trick us.
The game doesnt have the quality of a real story game, not even close, so in my opinion if you have less, way less sex scenes than the other games of the genre, better do the best scenes, thats not the case, this is a huge 1 star, we have to use the same rate level than we use in steam or whatever.

Jeez,I had to bring misery out of myself and delete the game. Missed Potential here. I am not even allowed to decide if i want to be evil or good.

Imagine 2 Factions fighting for you and you cant even choose which side you want to join?

Kinetic Novels....The worst there is in gaming. No decisions,MC is at the mercy of Dev and its awful. Its like Playing Sexnote with an MC who is a huge blundering idiot of a whimp.

MC has the potential to be the Grand Partriach and be powerful than everyone,Yet he is out here playing Fucking HERO shit!!!!!!

I realy realy whish MC was able to be evil or not in many situation and he is not,But a good guy.

Like damn,I am very dissapointed with this game.

10 minutes of holding Ctrl and not once do you fuck the mother or the sister, the rest of the scenes are so far apart one could get an epileptic attack from the flashing screens. What a fucking joke, please cut out 90% of the story and at least 50% characters.

If this was a porn game instead of some boring occult bullshit storyslop with a few scenes sprinkled inbetween, like 3 of them with actual penetration, this could be really good.
For a game nearly 2 years in development there is nothing here worth anybody's time, since I assume people come to this site primarily for porn.

2* because I've seen worse games developed for longer. The golden game is there, just beneath all the unnecessary packaging. If the MC wouldn't be a wimp and threesomed his mom/sister when he walked in on them and there wasn't 10 minutes worth of filler to hold the skip button to, this could be 5*.

I must say this game really impressed me.
Not only the renders have very good quality with natural poses and expressions, but also the story and the way it's told; without walls of text, only a single line very easy and fast to read.
Of course it has some flaws, but they are "peccata minuta" for me.

What an interesting game this is... The many love interests, the story, the horror aspects being not too much but not too little, this weird amount of realistic female characters, sexy young girls and black magic mixed in the same game; there´s a lot for you to enjoy. You can even ignore most of the adult contents and just play for the story, because it´s so profound and sinister, you may forget to unzip your pants.

I´m still giving it a 4 star rating because, as good as the story and the advertures are, it´s supposed to be an adult game nonetheless. The game has too much teasing and buildup to great adult scenes that end up getting nowhere for some reason. Most of the times, you are unsure if a character getting naked in a certain moment, means something sexy is really going to happen, or if you may get just a couple pretty pictures of the female characters in enticing poses and move on to the next scene. I wouldn´t like it to be mindless sex of course, but ignoring the scenes when the girls undressed around them just to sleep together (because it´s just girls being girls, no worries), the game had more oportunities to satisfy the characters and the viewer.

Also, making sure the most intense scenes are not that short or get cut out suddenly, would make for a better feel of it. Sometimes, something very important is happening in the moment making for an interesting scene, sometimes it´s very dark and serious, but before it´s over, it gets cut into a happy and relaxed place for a minute, just to turn dark and serious again.

But as I said earlier, the game is great for several reasons. The Grandmother turning very humane and caring the first time she really met the MC in person, was a great twist. I really need more of her.

I'm giving this one 3 stars because I'm very much on the fence with my opinion for it.

Starting with the character models. They're pleasant on the eyes, whether it be cute or sexy, but nothing that stands out. My real issue here is that it's actually quite offsetting when nearly every female character in the game pretty much appears in their mid-30s or is a loli. There's like zero in-between. The MC himself does seem to fall somewhere in the middle but even he looks and sometimes acts younger than he's portrayed as being in the story. Worse annoyance for me is it asks to set the girl's ages as soon as you meet them before you have ANY clue what their personality is like. So given they nearly all have nearly the same height and body type, you're either gonna leave their ages at default (typically 18) or base it on their looks. But then some go and act way older and some way younger. It just screws with the brain and makes it hard to actually immerse yourself in the story.

In regards to story, it's another one of the usual tropes where almost every female the MC meets immediately falls in love with him and throws themselves at him. I mean, I guess at least it's not because of the horse sized dick syndrome of far too many VNs... but it's still dull not to have any significant buildup. That being said, it's not a terrible read. I just didn't find it all that engaging either and I never really found myself caring about any of the characters.

Technicals. Pretty decent. Animations or okay. Sound is a step above most VNs. Menu is pretty typical. It's a purely kinetic VN so zero choices to be made.

Summary: Not bad and not a waste of time...just nothing to rave about either.

Another one in a long tradition of games on this site that looks amazing but drops the ball on everything else.

A game with girls that (for the most part) look this good had every opportunity to succeed, if it just decided to focus on the porn.

Instead we get a needlessly convoluted story where not even the characters living it manage to pretend like they care, so why should I?

The premise of the world that is painted isn't scary, it's silly and ridiculous.

For how many updates it has, it has very few sex scenes and the horror story is at best forgettable, at worst totally cringe-inducing.

The lesson here is that looks aren't everything and if you want a winner you need substance in at least some department other than just having good models. This game could have focused on having really great porn, it could have focused on having an actually compelling horror story, it could have even gone for broke and tried pulling off both. Sadly, it delivers on neither.

Let me start with I hate kinetic. I use it as "dose not" filter. But by the fortune of lady luck her self I accidentally downloaded this one a long time ago.... I was upset when I go to the end and didn't make any choices... but then almost a year later I forgot to filter and again downloaded the update. I knew going in there wasn't going to be any choices but remember enjoying the story and since nothing else was available atm thought what the hell.... OMG... I will be following because I feel like I'm back in the 90's waiting for the next season of incestuous teenage rob zombie x files to come out. 5 stars!!!!

This game is visually stunning with super attractive models, yet it's super disappointing - how ?

Well , let's start with the story - long lost family, you come back after X years and after few days you find out your own sister is eating out your mother regularly, no biggie right ?

Also yeah - she has to eat her out because your mother is a cannibal who will start eating people unless she is satisfied and it's not safe to go out at night because most people are evil cultists who kill and consume people to satisfy a copy of witch who has survived during 17th century. WTF is all of this overly complex and hilariously stupid story with NO BUILDUP whatsoever, everything is dropped on you RIGHTAWAY.

Now possibly the worst part - Ravenous is basically blueballing sim and no, I don't mean slowburn. Every scene seems like it's leading to something, characters are behaving like it's gonna lead to something, dialogue is written in a way which signifies it will lead to something RIGHT AWAY - BUT IT NEVER DOES.

The few sex scenes that are available as of v0.092 are seemingly rushed with few renders/animations (but you get like 20 renders just walking through your house to another room) which wouldn't be the end of all.

The worst part is sex scenes virtually have no dialogue during them, yet you have insane amounts of dialogue about the story (most of it doesn't make any sense - a slog to get through) and the "finishing sequence" is like 0.2 seconds long with 3 renders which pass by at light speed (no satisfying finish/cumshots) and back to 100 more renders which will take you from one place to another.

I hope I can give this game 4-5/5 someday because it can easily achieve that quality by changing a few key things.

Ravenous [v0.092 beta]

Pros:
Good renders
Good character models
Decent Animations

Cons:
No in-game options menu with a skip and auto function
Many blueballing moments
Storytelling
Writing
Pacing
Most Sex Scenes feel pretty dull
Unlikeable MC
Boring Characters
Mostly boring sex scenes

Conclusion:
Jeez, this was a rough playthrough.
I don't know if this was the developer's first project, but this one feels way too overambitious.
The storytelling and writing doesn't make any sense and is a chore to read.
And to add insult to injury, this game doesn't offer a menu at the bottom of the screen with an auto function, so you'll either have to play a clicker game or skip through walls of text.
The storytelling is terrible and makes you lose any interest in this game pretty quickly, and I won't waste much time writing about it because other reviewers have already done that job.
I can't tell you exactly how long this game is, but it's looong. So you'll have to read through mind-numbing conversations of hollow characters.
The MC is portrayed as such a pussy in this game that it's incredibly infuriating.
He doesn't question much of anything, and there are so many situations, especially in the first half, where the game teases the shit out of you, and shortly before sex could happen, he or others just decline.
That in itself made me go down from 2* to 1* because that is not only horrific writing but also insulting my intelligence.
The render quality is pretty good, and the game offers a huge amount of girls who look really good.
But the way they get introduced is bad, and you get bombarded with one after another, which doesn't make you care about any of them other than just waiting for the sex scenes.
There are some of those and some BJ scenes; the animations have been fairly well done, but I thought the majority of scenes were just boring.
Instead of just showing multiple angles of the same sex position, you could've added more positions to choose from and made the animations faster and more impactful.
This game just feels like the developer wanted too much and overestimated himself.
When you don't know how to write a story and characters, it's better to keep things simple.
There are many erotica novels out there with many themes, where you could look up how to write conversations and have a story that is somewhat interesting.
And the most important thing of it all is that the "game" must be fun to play and can't insult your intelligence by having a terrible MC get blueballed repeatedly.
You already have the tools, such as good models and being able to create animations, but the rest must be better.
I, for one, cannot recommend this game.

I am not the biggest fan of kinetic novels. I like to have some degree of control over what the mc does, and that is the main reason why I am not giving this 5 stars. Visually, it looks good. It has a solid story and you have a good variety of girls. Overall it's an enjoyable experience.

oooof. This was bad. The story is absolute torture. I believe that this game could have been something good but the creator lacks any ability to write. The characters are absolutely terrible, they act and speak in ways that no human being would ever act. It takes you out of the story the entire time.

The x scenes are far and few between. Give this game a hard pass.

I know people have offered their reviews and I'll basically be echoing similar sentiments, but felt it was enough to justify a review.

I try and offer positives in a negative review and vice versa, so I'll say that the modelling and posing in the game are well done. If the quality of the story was as good as the visuals, it'd probably have a 5 star score. Now, the negatives:

The most important aspect for this story is the writing, because this is THE main aspect of the AVN. You're meant to want to uncover the mystery of the classic 'sleepy American town where everything is not as it seems'. The only issue is that this dev *cannot* write to save their life. Every initially interesting concept or aspect becomes worse the longer it goes on. One example of this is the MC discovering that his sister and mother are having sex. He reacts in a natural way and is rightfully angry, and storms off. That's good. Then, he wanders off and finds a blood ritual with a decapitated hobo, gets knocked out, finds a stranger in lingerie who holds his dick and casts a spell that 'protects him' and makes him 'more open' (doesn't actually do anything else sexually), then comes home and just goes "well it's weird, but I'm cool with it", and then discovers his mother used to eat people, and apparently now "needs other bodily fluids to survive", despite the fact it was his SISTER eating out his MOTHER, which means she wasn't actually consuming ANYTHING. The same level of moronics is applied to every single issue: an interesting problem is created, a stupid and nonsensical explanation is used, and then we're expected to just move past it 'just because'. It's idiotic.

This is paired with the fact that there are also artifically created mysteries. The mother knows a lot about the town, but refuses to explain anything to the MC, purely so we are left out of the loop. Literally everytime she does this, a negative consequence arises, and yet she continually refuses to tell him anything. He accepts MAGIC as reasonable, and yet she REFUSES to elaborate on literally anything. This act of dragging out this story and then delivering an incredibly middling response is just ridiculous. It happened so many times in such a short span that I just started jumping ahead to see if it continued, and IT DID. With so much utterly inane dialogue, it's a shock how many different variations of "I don't want to overwhelm him" can be said, despite MC finding magic rings and wooden mannequins come to life and blood magic users and literal dead bodies. The fact is that there's even a character that POINTS OUT the ridiculousness of the characters more than once: Amelia. So clearly the dev is aware of the poor writing, but either thinks it isn't an issue, or an issue that he can chalk up to 'character flaw' rather than 'developer flaw'.

So a kinetic novel that has a mediocre story. At least if the sex scenes are good, it'll be worth it, right? Well, at time of writing, there's all of maybe 4 sex scenes, and 3 blowjob scenes? It's pretty amazing to me that the give you the ability to enable and disable content at the very beginning, introduce dozens of women, and then you have to meander along the tedious and repetitive writing to see the amount of content some AVNs release in 3 updates. I mean the writer quite literally had the MC be affected by a magic spell that not only makes him accepting and HORNY, but also has the same effect on people AROUND him. The dev put in a deus ex machina to explain away any real human reactions and focus on sex, but still tries to have use believe that these characters aren't just sex objects.

Overall score is 3/10.

Animation: Solid, a few weird poses but very well made
Story: Well this definitely has the horror aspect! Slowly teasing out the main mysteries and I want to see how this ends
Scripting: Generally the characters work well together and give off personality rather then flat characters.
I am easily pleased person and I enjoyed this game. The only thing I worry about is the rate of new character introductions to content. It's a hard line, I enjoy all the characters and the potential lewdness they bring with them but I also know that i means a long long time before we see action.

Pros :
Good Renders

And that's about it...
Cons:

3k+ images and only 12 of them with actual sex. There is no sexual content besides a few kissing scenes at start and then after hours of silly conversations you will get a weird/out-of-the-blue quick 5 render sex scene.

Ignore the guys writing a good storyline ! Dunno about previous versions but this game is just a tease over a tease and with nothing to show like the dev has a problem of showing penetration or even oral.