VN - Ren'Py - Ravenous [Arc 2 Ep.1] [Lament Entertainment]

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.

Pros
The Renders are good.
The actual base storyline and setting are very cool.

Cons
The MC is completely unbelievable. A young man who puts on the brakes with every girl he meets and delays sex? Yeah. Not happening unless the guys a complete waste of space and air. He'll probably be crying about wanting to wait to get married and only be with one girl. Watching the mom play with his dick and then stop and say too much too soon? Yet she's been wanting him since the start and he admits he wants her. Retarded. If you're going to build sexual tension and take things slow fine, but that's not the way. What's been done is stupid as hell and no one likes it. The developer thinks he's being cute by stretching things out but he's making what could've been a fun game to play something to be deleted and tossed aside instead.

Another massively dumb thing is how everyone who knows some important information about the craziness going on in the town and stuff that could possibly protect the MC keeps giving him info piecemeal. Yeah, I know some important shit that just might keep you alive but I'll tell you in a few days because I'm dumber than a bag full of bricks.

"Don't go outside after dark!"
"Why?"
"I'll tell you some other time!"

"Be careful around your Uncle Charlie!"
"Why? I'm going to go meet him."
"I'll tell you another time!"

None of the characters act anything like a real person would. It makes it annoying and impossible to get into when everything is so unbelievable and I'm not talking about the magic but the personalities and their behaviors.

I could've overlooked the dumb behaviors if the sex was at least happening but the combination makes this game a waste of space. It's a shame because, like I said, the base setting and storyline is interesting.

Edit*
One major dumb thing I forgot to add. The mother explains how the father runs away with the son for 10 years because of his evil brother Uncle Charles and his plans for them within the 'family' yet doesn't explain why the hell she stayed behind with their daughter. Why didn't they all leave together? MC sees a decapitated body. No one cares. A wooden mannequin comes to life and attacks a girl. No one cares. Let's just keep living here pretending that things are mostly okay. Why don't they all leave now? Fucking dumb. At least make the shit realistic.

2/5 stars.

What an absolute mindfuck, like, oof.
Honestly, I was just bored and wanted to try this out, but wow I just pulled an all-nighter because of this game.

Very likable characters written with a lot of depth.
The story pulled me in like, it´s 6 in the morning. I wanted to go to sleep around 5 hours ago.
And as if that wasn´t enough, the models are just glorious.

Not sure what else to say, absolute 10/10.

Oh and thanks for the haircut if you get what I´m saying.

v0.089
I like and dislike this VN.

I like the theme and story it is going for. I like the art and the sex.

I dislike the dialogue, pacing, and number of characters.

Calling it a slow burn is inaccurate. It isn't that it is a slow burn, it's that like 80% of the dialogue is fluff and you aren't told anything of substance. That isn't slow burn, that's poor writing.
And I don't mean grammar and spelling. This is perfectly understandable english, and is almost decent to read. If it had substance.

I held skip more and more until I was mostly getting the gist of things via the imagery. Which was not bad, since I really could understand things with minor skimming and the visuals. But it wasn't very interesting.

And in case you were wondering, there is no real sex between MC and "Smols" yet. Just a bunch of titties. Which is nice but pretty lame for the length of writing so far.

At this rate, I'll probably check back either when it is finished, or when there is at least 2000 more images. Because there are a lot now, and little is really said.

Do I recommend this?
Currently, no.
It feels like a few prologues to the story and not the chapters after. It's oddly put together imo. I've seen worse, this just failed to keep me interested.

Just my cup of tea. overall decent quality. only negative from me would be i would like it to have abit more buildup. and less "young" girls., and more milfs. Story is ok, english as far as i know good.

Simply saying this game just bad. Very bad writing, weird conversations between charachters, unlogical conclusions, improbable reactions mc to events. Really the most annoying thing in this game is mc (meak and pathetic human being) and how he and others interact between each other.

He's annoyingly understanding and have "Im always wrong" syndrome, always apologize for everything, cant stand up for himself speaking with women. "Sorry" is the most popular word in his vocabulary. Zero masculine and strong-willed person qualities. *Hey man leave her alone* meme perfectly represents his personality when he deals with women.

Once again about bad writing. If this story was writen by middle schooler it would be okay, but its not. Dev skips a lot of scenes which need to show how characters develop, their conclusions and suggestions about what happened in previous scenes and their interactions between each other. They always do smth that contradicts their own words, or just create misunderstandings from thin air.

Charachters around mc know a lot about what is going on, they care for mc and they know that this info is very important for his understanding of situation and most of all this info can keep him safe. But they dont tell him bcause of "reasons" which in reality is poor dev writing skill which makes this story and charachters so retarded and unlikable for people with brains.

Lewd content consists with a lot of unlogical teasing which should lead to sex but it ends with mc being blueballed with brainded explanations why they cant do this right now and mc hapilly accept being teased and left with blueballs bcause he's "nice guy and all that shiiieeettt". From plot we know how badly mother wants her son and she knows herself how bad it to be left sexually unsatisfied. And then we have situation with mother when she after revealing her fellings in bedroom, kissing mc and stroking his cock, just leave him blueballed (not even completeing handjob) to sleep with her just bcause shes tired and want to firstly explore more, lol) This scene was apotheosis of devs delusional attempts to prolong their bad written relationship longer before showing sex.

One thing good in this game is renders and thats all.

GREAT start. Sexy Girls (some gorgeous, some cute, some THICC, only one kinda "meh"). Unique Story, like good Science Fiction plus Porno. Is Kinetic Novel (no Choice yet) but MC is not bad-guy or blank-slate. Dialog is not perfect, but better and less clunky than most. (Grammar much better than mine...) Cannot wait for next version. And Vanessa!!

PS: Boobs actually move/sway during Movement, so look more real! Dev knows what Gravity is

The story is good, but i am not really a fan of kenitic story lines since you have 0 options to who you want to be with, i was hoping it would be better in this one since you have the option to say no to MILF and GILF when starting the game but that really means nothing, you just dont see the scenes but the game still plays out as you have fucked them all, like whenn MC lost hes virginity it skips the sex scene but you still end up in bed next to her saying that wasent bad for your first time, i was hoping the story and text would atleast change to show you dident have sex with them when selecting no to MILFs, since i am really not into that stuff.

Ill still give this 2stars since it does have a nice story, and some damn nice looking girls, good animations but there is just way to much teasing, plenty of lolis but so far 0 sex scenes besides maybe a BJ.

Maybe once this game is complete it will be worth playing but if your not into MILF and GILF there is really no point in playing this game yet.

When/if it gets completet ill give it another go and adjust my rating, but for now and for me this was a waste of time.

Absolutely beautiful renders, great presentation with great characters. The story itself is interesting enough to have want to know more, though the writing and relationship buildups could be a bit better, but they are decent even as they are, but ill be honest i skimmed most of the conversations.
Overall its pretty good, especially presentation wise, and do look forward to see more.

What an interesting, and ultimately, so far DISAPPOINTING game. Beautiful renders, decent character development -- but after a year, I come away with LOLI TEASE! A lot of dark horror metaphor, and glimpses of erotica, but apart from a couple of vanilla-type sex acts, it's a middling 'horror-fest' masquerading as an edgy, loli-filled adult VN. Too bad; seemed so promising, but fear and politics seems to have derailed this piece. Not worth the DL.

Horror isn't usually my thing, but the girls in this are some of the best I've ever seen. A+ for models and outfits, and all the personalities feel unique. The girl/girl content is super hot too. Looking forward to more for sure.

If you're looking for a solid Kinetic Novel with great atmosphere, lore, and fantastically written dialogue and characters, this is a must. The sex scenes are probably the weakest part, but the ample cheesecake shots through out more than make up for this. I'm really looking forward to seeing how this progresses.

Ravenous keeps you thinking that maybe the magic, the mystery, or the spells will explain its foolishness away. Maybe the magic is making every character fall for the MC.. Maybe the mystery will explain why they all talk so similarly. Then you reach the end and there is no explanation. They just all love him because it's a lewd game. They decide to be a harem for him because it's a lewd game. What little hope you had? Gone.
The OP in this thread is a good example of the writing: too many commas and run on sentences. There are awkward line breaks where there need not be. What you won't see until you try the game is how each girl's dialogue feels the same. You can see the art, some of these girls are young, some are old. This doesn't stop them each from sounding like an old man. That is, unless you know some very young teen girls who oft use "therefore" in conversations with their friends.. It's not the worst it could be, but it's not fitting nor is it unique. You think maybe the mystery will explain their awkward manner of speaking.. as you could guess, no such luck.
There is a surprising lack of emotion present. Not in a superficial way, as characters supposedly have emotions and do at times express them. It's as if a robot was trying to imitate how humans interact. Too logical, too cold, too precise in the rationalization of their selves. Why are they all so mature and introspective? Unfortunately it seems that rather than writing convincing characters the author's personality comes through in them all. Countless times a "conversation" plays out as
'I feel bad about thing',
'you shouldn't feel bad because *reason*'
'okay you're right i don't feel bad about it any more.'
Are these conversations? In form, surely. There is a distinct lack of heart present in Ravenous. It's as hollow as can be. Too bad, what seems like a slow burn is actually not burning whatsoever. As such it ends up slow, without emotion, and only sexual in appearance.
At least they fixed his hair.
v0.087 beta

There is way too much text to read, and the story is supper weird and dark. Also, the animations are very basic and boring. you also get to see things where you are not even there. the thoughts you have are also way too long. there is also the occasional narator who talks which is also very irritating.

The timeline is out of wack, and there's way too much expositionary scenes. Too many times people sit in front of the protagonist and explain everything to him. There's also the cliché of the slutty wine aunt, who's very easy and will want to fuck as soon as you meet her.

But even so, the girls are hot, and it advances nicely. Not too fast but not too slow. And it's foreshadowing threesomes, foursomes and maybe even fivesomes, including mother-daughter action.

Well-done game... beautiful girls and sexy content. If you are into the tags, you'll dig it.

I wouldn't quite call it a slow burn, but it's not in a hurry. For example, there was a truly amazing tease very early on ("turns out many of the teen girls in this town go down on their moms!") but it has remained just a tease several updates later. I have hope though.

Pros: Good looking renders, plot that moves right along, an MC who is a bit annoying but not your typical AVN retard, very little branching so you don't have to maintain 8 saves to see the new content each release.

Cons: Writing is adequate but uninspired, relatively modest amount of sex as yet.

Regular updates with fair amount of content each time. No engrish, only sparse minor dialogue quirks. Great models and fluid animations. The story is actually interesting and the dialogue has a good pace, so I never feel like I need to skip it. Because of these I have confidence in the game.

If you like the tags I would highly recommend this game.

It really has become a step above most others in a relatively short amount of time.

v0.089

Straight up Sweet Home Alabama and not even shy or ashamed of it. "I wanna sleep with my son", "i wanna marry my brother", straight to the point. Not the other way round like in other novels where MC is trying to bed his family. And family is trying to bring friends and their daughters in to join the fun too. Its refreshing really.

There's some occult, supernatural elements in the story which is likely the main plot and taking the helm as of late. I'm pretty intrigued and looking forward to the story unraveling itself. Theres a couple of players here who are butt hurt that this VN has swung over to story focused instead of loli sex fest.
Personally the main plot only made the VN much more engaging. If i wanted a porn game i'd play something else.
This is already indicated in the front page with the VN being described as a kinetic novel with a slow burn story but they only look at pictures and never read synopsis and tags, figures.

Its still way early in development so theres not much to talk about with regards to the characters except i'm liking the models for the Love Interests. Personality wise, what we have now is pretty shallow, again its still like alpha development stage but i do like their straightforward attitude and open mindedness. They have a variety of archetypes, like the loving, caring mother type or the tsundere kind. The cast is somewhat huge, i hope they all get the proper amounts of screentime. MC is a sweetheart, i'm liking him so far.

This VN is on my bookmark, hopefully it don't disappoint.

To be honest I like the idea of how the game is structured. The graphics and animeation are really very good in my opinion. The story is also interesting - in my opinion a bit strange with the horror aspect but still interesting 5 stars!

the game is decent. the character is beautiful and all, but this is not actually a game, more like a visual novel.
if it were not for the fact the only decision you could take was to name you character, I would give it a much higher score, but you only can name your MC then all the rest is "click next" until the end of the game.