VN - Ren'Py - Ravenous [Arc 2 Ep.15] [Lament Entertainment]

I held off rating this game until I nearly completed Arc 2. Thank you, Dev, for making some of the H scenes skippable. Good call on that (although looking at some of the other ratings, I believe it was implemented a little too late).

As it is, there is a lot to like about this game. Unfortunately, there is nearly just as much to NOT like. My main complaints in order are: the MC, the H scenes, the models and finally the storyline.

THE MC: wow, where to start? You have a skinny 8th grade twerp posing as a man. Although he has no muscles, is really short and looks like he's about twelve, all the ladies are swooning for him "because he's such a nice guy?" Sorry. If you are going to make a Shotacon character, at least make him clever, innocent or exceedingly likable. This MC is a buffoon who leaves out a magical bejeweled ring in plain view on his nightstand with a house full of females. Dumb move? Definitely, but he even leaves the lid wide open so that the ring is practically begging to be tried on, then acts shocked that the ring was taken... he is an imbecile...

THE H SCENES: "Too many girls, Too little time". It is a trap many Devs have fallen into and this VN is no exception. The main LIs (Mom and sister) have limited scenes due to being squeezed out to make room for the other side LIs. Why bother making them and the cousin Katherine (my personal fav) so hot if they are going to be placed on the back burner? Once again, thank you for giving us a choice on the scenes. If I had the moose Claudine or the hag Agatha forced on me, I would have been really pissed off.

THE MODELS: Why is every adult female a candidate for the WNBA? I mean, some of the ladies tower over our poor shrimpy MC by nearly a whole foot. What gives with that? Again, if the idea was Shotacon, fine. Only the mother should have been interested in the MC then. That would be at least semi-believable. But to have Amazon women lusting after an 85 pound little twerp is just silly and it ruined any immersion for me. I agree that some of the Lolis were too young looking except that I believe this was exacerbated by the fact that next to their mothers, most of the younger girls would be shorter than five foot since their Sheena Warrior Princess mothers were so much taller. I also wish there was some variance between the body shapes of the models. Even one busty younger model would have been nice. Ditto with the hot Milfs; they were pretty much built the same. A petite Milf would have been a nice addition.

THE STORYLINE: This is probably the lesser of my complaints because some of it was due to the MC being a moron. I believe that most of the low ratings for the storyline was because of pacing and the pacing was off because of the "Too many girls, Too little time" trap. The MC rescues Amber from a dungeon and after seeing the beheaded mutilated sex traffickers, he's like, "I'm going to take Vanessa on a date now." Really? This is clearly forced interaction with side LIs due to there being too many girls. Also, Theresa sees two of her fellow police officers get killed, her Captain is dismissive about it and suspends her so her first thought is "I need to talk to Isabella" not the FBI or the National Guard? I was very disappointed by some of the stretching that went on with the story...

All in all, this game could have been a home run if the number of LIs were reduced, the MC wasn't a skinny child and the story was a little more believable. The backgrounds of the renders and the animations were very well done. I hope for only the best for this Dev in future endeavors! Although this one fell a little short of the goal line, I believe there is a lot of potential here.

Might change later as i know more of the story. Not a whole lotta porn for a porn game, so i'm judging it based on the story and character interactions. These are pretty poor in the early story. Especially between Naomi and both Erika and the MC. She doesn't want the MC to be manipulated while at the same time manipulating him. She's jealous, while at the same time being unashamed of having her daughter go down on her.

All in all, it's a massive missed opportunity in terms of emotional manipulation from the MC - but I understand that would likely lead to some Maledom route that the dev likely wants to avoid... while at the same time leaving emotional manipulation from literally every female in the game untouched because... not sure why actually. Theres not enough porn yet where I am to make it "because porn".

I'd rather give it a 2/5, but considering some of the other VNs/games on here, 3/5 is more appropriate for now. I'll have to be very impressed from where i am at the story to go higher than a 3.

Yup, changed to 1. The more I read about the whole mother/daughter dynamic, the more I realize it's literally just a light form of NTR. Theres also way too much manipulation of the daughters and MC for my liking by others with no reciprocity. I knew there was a reason I couldn't stand it. Candace is the most annoying character i've ever had the displeasure of encountering - including the significantly worse reasoning for manipulating her daughter. I'm now at a point where time is of the essence in the story and theres random sexual escapades happening with no urgency. It would be funny if it wasn't so... sad? idk... anyway, wasted a few hours of my time.

If anything's bad about this game, it's the tiresome story along with unattractiveness of the MILFs, GILFs, and monsters. (Is a MILF really a MILF if you wouldn't "Love to Fuck" them?)

The larger issue is, I have no idea who this VN is for. Key elements:
1) Kinetic Novel (with content options)
2) Very heavily story focused (and mostly not sexual/romantic/flirtatious story)
3) Dark/creepy cannibalism focus
4) Lots of boundary-pushing lolis

I imagine the chief attraction for those into this is the lolis, but they're rarely in sexual situations in the first arc, and there isn't really even flirtation. It's very, "Let's band together like the responsible adults we are to overcome our cannibal overlords." Thematically, it's a major boner killer.

Do I even need to explain why this game is absolute garbage? Well, fine)

The writing skill, overall plot, characters, and their behavior are utterly imbecilic and super dumb. I can say with full confidence that I could write on the go a way more realistic, logical, and coherent story in a state when I didn't sleep for 3 days, drank 2 bottles of vodka, and polished all of it with a super dose of fentanyl. I'm not even joking and exaggerating. Very dumb and illogical behavior of all the characters, childish story writing, very obvious plot holes, and they are cringe as fuck.

AVNs have rarely ever gotten to me but this one makes me question why the admins/mods allow this one.

- The lolis looks like kids, no joke I have a sister and growing up she didn't look like this at 18 ..NO TEENAGER DOES. Even a cup girls look more mature this is legit concerning of pedophila levels.

- The story is beyond boring.. its dragged out like if dev is writting more of a novel crime/horror story than a porno game. If this is your "stepping stone" you need to rethink it.

- Finally it feels more like gore/torture porn than anything else, I get its optional etc but its featured a little too much like the person making this or his fanbase has requested it too much.

Hard skip, I feel like I got FBI over my shoulder now.

I don't understand how this game has so many negative reviews.
The story is well above average, pure entertainment.
Great character variety, well-developed, and quite charismatic.
A relevant consideration about anatomy. Great renders and good animations.

First time not rating a game 5 stars but I don't know if I can keep playing this. The only reason I stopped playing was because of the MC, I just can't stand him XD. He looks fine and a little like me with the long hair of the same colour, which is a nice coincidence, but his personality is terrible. As others have said, he's way too judgemental, mean, and loses his temper way too fast and there's no reason as to why. If there was a decent back story as to why the MC is so quick to judge and not trust strangers then I'd understand, but there is no story to it, the MC is just an ass. I only played about an hour ish, maybe a little bit more so maybe there is some backstory for the MC, but I feel that it should've been stated in the early game. Visually, the game looks great, all the girls/women are stunningly beautiful and the backgrounds for the town etc look really nice, aswell as the supernatural stuff. The story from what I played was pretty interesting too and I would love to learn more about what's happening in the town and what the cult is about, but I don't know if I will sadly. Overall, I really do like the game, the characters are visually good (maybe lacking in personality abit, not the MC though as his personality hits you in the face), the story is interesting (with some porn logic, but I didn't mind), the only problem is the MC. The MC's personality and quick to judge/insult attitude for no apparent reason just doesn't make the game fun for me, despite enjoying everything else so far. There is another character with a slightly similar attitude, but it's explained why she acts that way, so I understand it and I respect her, the MC sadly doesn't have that.

A VN that started out as promising but has begun devolving as it goes.

It suffers from entirely too many characters without really developing any. With so many characters it leaves less time for content with them Mom and sis are pretty much put on the back burner and all but neglected,

The story is becoming more convoluted as well. The whole thing has become too ambitious for it's own good.

There is also an emphasis on group sex. Some would be fine but the Dev goes overboard with it.

I liked this VN in the beginning but now it disappoints now. unfortunate.

I hope Arc 2 makes more plot sense than Arc 1 do's the MC often selfish, quick to judge and jump to the wrong conclusion,
for instance Internet Model And Cam shows some how equals slut and bad influence to the MC.
Gets angry for fuck all reason, slow on the uptake and even slower to learn. has no sense of urgency.
(paraphrasing) MC "oh never mind i'll take Amber that urgent ring in a couple of days time".
and the plots have more holes than a colander but thats ok because there writen with Porn logic anyway.
(paraphrasing) Selene "Grandaddy wants MC alive because he needs him in the family".
Followed by Porn logic time (paraphrasing) Selene "Theresa take you panties off or I blow the MC face off".
How the fuck does thretening to kill someone Selene the MC and her would be blackmail victim Theresa.
Should know its a empty threat that Selene can't or darn't carry out even supossed to work.
Simple a Porn Logic plot.

I am being slightly mean for the most part the plot and story is not bad at all
Infact most of the time the story even points out some of the shortcomings of the MC its just on the odd occasions the plot go's porn logic.
Then atleast for that portion of the story it falls apart.

The game is Enertaining some times and cringely stupid the next.
I really wan't to give it more stars but it depends if Arc 2 when I play it if it is any better dont get me wrong I enjoyed alot of Arc 1. infact I like Arc 1 I do... just If it was less porn logic it would be less cringy.

I dont understand why this game has such low ratings.
MC is cool, makes sense and is quite level headed. I like his young look.
Models are hot, even tho they could be a bit thiccer, but thats just my taste. Not that much into lolis, but they are fine.
Scenes could have a bit better animations, but they still deliver.
Story is very good and captivating, I very much enjoy it. Even tho its filled with supernatural elements, the characters act sensibly given the situations.
Huge insane mega plus is the ANTI-NTR proclamation. More of that, please. Tired of cucks ruining good games.
Good job, Lament Entertainment, keep it up!

The reason that I like this game is the characters are realistically rendered. They aren't all perfectly shaped and gorgeous. The story is engaging. Sure it requires a healthy dose of "suspension of disbelief", but not so far as to make you want to roll your eyes. I like the MC as well. Thanks for the entertainment.

I really enjoyed both arc's so far, I like the art and concepts put forth from the creator and think Arc 2 really stepped it up in terms of design. I'm looking forward to seeing how it all ends up. I would really love more sound design elements to be included. More music or ambient sounds would go a long way as well as sound effects and voices. I feel those small improvements would tie things together really nicely. I joined the Discord and plan to donate to support development. Good stuff.

Ok, it might come off as white knighting, but this VN really doesn't deserve such low average rating. It's not a masterpiece by any stretch of imagination, but I've seen stuff much worse rated way higher, so here we are.

Here are some clarifications first:
⠀⠀This is not a horror, more like supernatural thriller/mystery. Sure there is graphic imagery but it doesn't come off as scary.
⠀⠀Right now there are 2 acts: first one features no choices and very few sex scenes and takes more than 5hrs to read, second one is not yet finished but takes almost as much time to finish, has more sex, and only offers one kind of choice - to skip scenes.
⠀⠀Character's ages aren't mentioned, but from the looks of it there are no LIs in the range between 20 and 30 y/o. Most of them look somewhere 14-18 y/o + several MILFs/GILFs. VN's kinetic so you don't get to pick and choose who to be with. As a matter of taste I have to warn that some of them are fat and even ugly, thankfully it's an exception and not a rule, unless you're a chubby chaser.
⠀⠀There are no complicated slow-burn relationships. Everyone (with few exceptions) craves MC, as if he was the only guy in 100km radius. It makes even less sense that every woman that he already charmed, for some unbeknownst reason automatically becomes his wingman and actively tries to help him to seduce even more women.

⠀⠀Plot is good. Mainly in second act, the first one was a bit boring with barely any drama or action. Act two has so much shit going on with many sub-plots that it really got me invested. Now, it's not a Stephen Kind tier read, but it did manage to keep me in suspense, which is already a success in my book.
⠀⠀Characters despite the majority being ~16yo, they have pretty mature mindsets and don't behave like brats (except Ember and Karina). There is not much depth to these characters outside of their affection towards protagonist, but honestly I don't care. Speaking of MC, he is okay. He is perverted goody two-shoes who's compassionate to everyone, but can be aggressive and hostile if need be or provoked. He did give one character a cold shoulder falsely assuming she's a slut, but that's about it.
⠀⠀Scenes are meh: animations are pretty mid, there is no camera work and the bodies are as stiff as wooden logs.
⠀⠀Game is silent most of the time. It has music, but only occasionally, in a few scenes, and that just feels weird. There has to be music/ambience everywhere or not at all, otherwise it will make audience uncomfortable.

This is actually a recommend if you want a decent erotic supernatural thriller and are not put off by a large harem at protagonist's disposal, the existence of which defies all common sense

Great Game Great Series.

If people done like loli then don't play.

Not sure why you'd play a game you'd never like because the chars are unattractive to you and then leave a negative review, but there's a lot of that going on here.

I have mixed feelings about this game. I _wanted_ to dislike it...

- The characters are _very_ thinly sketched, and many are completely unnecessary self-indulgences by the author.
- The writing is painfully awkward and mostly revolves around how great everyone thinks MC is, how they are beginning to have uncontrollable feelings for him, and how they don't mind sharing him with current person they are talking to, since it's obvious that current person they are talking to also wants to fuck him.
- There are tons of female characters in interesting situations, but it doesn't come close to passing the Bechdel test (No, that is not usually a pre-req for porn games, but seriously "Hey, girl that I just met who recently enticed me to get into a van with a stranger while under the possession of a different ghost girl, I know that we just escaped from a lair full of cannibal cultists headed by my uncle and you probably have a lot of questions, but I have to get home quickly and see if my mom or aunt has been able to seduce MC yet"? Even the ancient avatars of good and evil struggling to control the town think about nothing but fucking this dweeb.)
- The female characters have one of exactly three forms: 14yo pseudo-lolis (7?), bimbos (5?), or hags (3?) with literally nothing in between. Even the MC looks pretty much like a (well-hung) 14yo pseudo-loli himself.
- No female character wears any clothes other than her underpants or complicated lingerie (well, the cop and the psycho have uniforms of sorts, but they spend a lot of time naked to make up for it).
- The MC, who possesses the moral ambivalence necessary to be fucking both his mom and a literal lich cult goddess (although not at the same time ... yet), is super judgmental about his cousin because she was a camgirl and therefore a whore, but not about the psycho who butchered his dad for meat?
- It really diminishes the taboo when literally everyone in town are cheerleading the MC to fuck his mom and sister, who are basically total strangers to him anyway (in order to cure a magical disease?).
- The plot is extremely derivative of small town cult-horror tropes and seems to draw pretty freely from sources like A Spell for All (town history, character roles) and Necro Detective (magic system), in particular.
- The lewd animations are wooden, at best.

Yet ... I just can't bring myself to actually dislike it. Sigh, I was even kind of looking forward to seeing what happens with arc 2 (although, I suspected it would include more hillbilly loli's in their underpants who just met the MC feeling conflicted about wanting to have sex with him, especially once they realize he's fucking his mom, but then join the harem anyway because it turns out they are ok with polygamy and the ocassional cultist abduction).

- The small town pseudo-loli harem girls are crazy cute as they attempt to flounce and flaunt themselves and flirt with MC, an amusing diversion from the typical parade of bimbo-dolls in most vn's.
- The bad writing actually kind of works for them, creating a vacuous, self-absorbed middle-school moppet kind of vibe, even in the face of bizarre situations (but I'm _almost_ positive this isn't the author's actual intent).
- Renders aren't bad, and there are some interesting design choices. I like that the characters sometimes change clothes or hairstyles or makeup, a rarity in vn's.
- There are worse things to be derivative of than small town horror stories, and it adds its own things to the mix (although mostly that's just pseudo-lolis in their underpants scheming to get into MC's underpants).

Eventually, I just tuned the MC's callow stupidity out (I can't tell my mom, who used to be a cannibal, that my sister has been abducted by her old cult, because then she might worry? The new girl that lives with me has been hanging out in the woods and is now missing for 3 days, but I'm going over to my cousin's house to fuck her and her mom and her plump little neighbor? etc.), head-canonned that this insufferable little whippersnapper must exert some kind of vampiric fascination over the town because of his apparently important genetic heritage (or maybe the girls have never seen a male before?), and enjoyed their weird cult-murder story with the occasional mom-plus-barely-illegal-daughter-tag-team event.

Sort of a guilty pleasure, like a Cinemax After Dark movie in the pre-F95z days.

I had passed over this VN several times after reading reviews. Generally, I take them with a grain of salt, but I read enough to think "meh" and decided to download something else.

Mistake.

Finally, after the fifth or sixth time considering Ravenous, I took a chance. It's just a download after all. Within 15 minutes into the VN I was like "Holy shit!"
It is more of a kinetic novel. There are few choices. Doesn't matter to me, but some may be disappointed. Also, it is basically a harem game. Apart from some lesbian action it is the MCs wang rules all. Only disappointing thing to me was no one else got to sample the smorgasbord of women on display.

Porn logic, of course, rules and the women find the MC irresistible. It's a given in most of these games, so deal with it or move on. The women, however, and their various poses and stages of dress the Dev taunts you with in between the sex scenes is most titillating.

So, don't be misled by some reviews. If you love petites, an intriguing story and high-quality renders and animation. Give Ravenous a shot. I was certainly glad I did. Did I write "wow" before? If not, "wow!" 5 stars.

(Review of Arc 2 Ep. 6)

A very interesting novella combining sex, lolis, incest, murderings, demons and magic. The LIs are very nice, not only the lolis but the MILFs too. The storytelling resembles that of a gory movie and is never boring, despite the fact that nobody believes the lolis are 18+...

If I had to complain about something that would be the magical way the MC has the girls all over him, as well as the lack of variety in gestures. The MC has the same "I'm so handsome!" look 95% all the time, and the lolis also tend to have their right hand up while they talk most of the time; the latter makes some scenes to become monotonous. Also, sex scenes are pretty generic for the most part and they hardly make the most of the models. For example, Mom turns you on because she's your mom and happens to be hot, not because sex scenes with her are that great.

The only choices you find in the last updates are whether you want to play or skip the next sex scene as it's taken for granted that all girls belong to you...

I liked the second arc of Ravenous. I played the entire first arc and I already identified the error. There were no choices. The first arc seemed like a book where I had to accept the story that was told to me. And it was a wonderful story, but I wanted to be part of it. I couldn't. The second arc has choices, which makes the game wonderful for lovers of the genre, like me. Suspense, supernatural, intrigue. With so many VN games on the market, games that tell good stories, in my opinion, deserve at least a chance. My rating is based on that.

I would've enjoyed this if not for the extremely creepy models. Some light spoilers.

The story is good, at least it's trying to be somewhat original as a porn game story, but in the end it's garbage as an actual standalone story.

The issue of this game beside models, is that it's not sure what it wants to be. The dev claims to be "story with porn" but when the story barely holds up as a porn game, not a story focused game, you really start to wonder. Which is where the issue stems from, there's barely any sex or any decent scenes throughout the game, which makes me question what's the point if you don't do any side right? You don't get the porn nor do you get a time-worthy story. The game has potential but the dev really needs to fix up the flat story, add some pacing for porn... etc. it's funny cause there are so many opportunities by side characters with hot clothes but... No? I don't get it, the story wouldn't even suffer.

But all of that is just mild to me, the real issue for me is the extremely, extremely creepily young models.

You see, at first I was like, eh... his sister is slightly too young for my liking but it could pass.

Fast forward over 10 young models of the (mostly) same personality and creepiness, you find the ultimate, most creepiest fucking young character in an AVN I've ever seen. She's Karina.

Now, Karina is way too young just from her looks, but what makes it worse is how it's implied throughout the game by her family members (the usual mom and grandma lusting for mc). Karina talks, acts, looks, and gets scolded like a fucking 12 year child. Now spoilers about her that don't really matter, she sucks the MC's "pp" and thinks she's his "gf" and then the mom gets mad AT HER when she tells her about it, but doesn't get mad at all at the MC, and even passes it off as if it's like nothing (Karina threw himself at him so MC isn't guilty... Logical). Afterwards, the mom and grandma constantly scold her over why she shouldn't touch/suck strangers, and treat her like an actual child.

Overall, it was smooth sailing, but the point where Karina happened, and that scene happened is literally where I almost puked, I had to fast forward every Karina scene just so I can get over the main story.

Other adult models are hot, the mom for example is amazing and many other milfs look nice and not overly done unlike other games. The mom is one of the few hot characters that were serviced well, especially towards the end, she had a good plot throughout and it connects things together.

A major story issue with this game is the "anti-anger" spell, it feels like extremely cheap writing to let MC accept things quickly, and obviously introduces so many plot holes, and the story gets pretty messy at times, it's obvious that the dev didn't plan that much ahead (like MC constantly forgetting girls and promises). However some scenes and side characters were awesome, like that crazy guy with a shotgun, his scene towards the end was funny and done well imo, they bring life to the story.

Towards the end I realized there was probably a choice/option to turn this off, not sure why all options were turned on by default so idk (I don't like monster/beastiality or whatever), but the fact still stands.

Overall, it's great, and an easy 4/5 as a porn game, but the creepy models that the developer likes too much easily knocks it down to 2/5

The story start good and then... Nothing happen for a looong time. The sex scenes are just ok. The characters there's no charisme, the models are good, the scenes show us that the dev is trying his best, the gameplay flow is ok, and the mistery theme is rly bad. A medium game, but very boring, where you are not a player, because you play nothing, you are only watching the story going on. I dare to say that the only thing that keep ppl comming back is the loli characters.
3 stars.