TL/DR: Okayest vamp game I've played. Super-duper average. Right down the middle. 3 stars. Nailed it! Very story driven vamp game that engages with the depth of vampire themes on a shallow level. Middling writing- but some fun tried and true tropes. Powers system is kinda fun. MC has the EQ of a piece of cardboard. Scene content is neither very erotic nor very well rendered.
Pros:
+ This is quite a long game with lots of story content.
+ The lore is pretty decent. Who doesn't love this sort "They dug too deep" narrative.
+ Lots of cool looking vamps!
+Power development / differentiation (in the code / story) is a lot more robust than most Ren'Py games. Big fan of that.
+ The blood sharing in the scene content was fun.
Cons:
- Very few sex scenes for a H game.
-Not many renders per sex scene.
-MC doesn't really have any cool powers that make the sex scenes hotter. Its just your standard- "I get so horny when you bite me" sorta stuff.
- A lot of the content is non-consensual and features weird power dynamics caused by the vampire's abilities. If you like giving chicks stockholms syndrome, addicting them to your blood, and then raping them....you'll like this title more.
- The characters vacillate b/t slightly considering the evil of their actions to not even thinking about it at all. There was a ton of casual evils committed by characters who were not supposed to be the "bad guys."
- The characters' voices are all strangely homogeneous. If they weren't separated by names- it'd be quite difficult to tell who was who. Except for one character every single one of them had the laugh "Hee Hee" MJ is clearly haunting this VN
- Pacing feels pretty erratic. Sometimes it is treading water as the characters ping from place to place doing very minor things- other times a BBE is removed in a rather not epic way.
- You have very little control over the protagonists personality / perspective. You can pretty much choose to be a dense sorta okay dude or a dense kinda assholeish dude. Either way your character will hard simp for Sharon (who I didn't care for that much) and blow off / mistreat Laurie (who I liked a lot).
- The romances feel empty and lifeless.
- Lots of typos.
- There are internal consistency issues- such as Sharon saying the MC has too many thralls to feed (when he only has one at the time) ect ect.
Pros:
+ This is quite a long game with lots of story content.
+ The lore is pretty decent. Who doesn't love this sort "They dug too deep" narrative.
+ Lots of cool looking vamps!
+Power development / differentiation (in the code / story) is a lot more robust than most Ren'Py games. Big fan of that.
+ The blood sharing in the scene content was fun.
Cons:
- Very few sex scenes for a H game.
-Not many renders per sex scene.
-MC doesn't really have any cool powers that make the sex scenes hotter. Its just your standard- "I get so horny when you bite me" sorta stuff.
- A lot of the content is non-consensual and features weird power dynamics caused by the vampire's abilities. If you like giving chicks stockholms syndrome, addicting them to your blood, and then raping them....you'll like this title more.
- The characters vacillate b/t slightly considering the evil of their actions to not even thinking about it at all. There was a ton of casual evils committed by characters who were not supposed to be the "bad guys."
- The characters' voices are all strangely homogeneous. If they weren't separated by names- it'd be quite difficult to tell who was who. Except for one character every single one of them had the laugh "Hee Hee" MJ is clearly haunting this VN
- Pacing feels pretty erratic. Sometimes it is treading water as the characters ping from place to place doing very minor things- other times a BBE is removed in a rather not epic way.
- You have very little control over the protagonists personality / perspective. You can pretty much choose to be a dense sorta okay dude or a dense kinda assholeish dude. Either way your character will hard simp for Sharon (who I didn't care for that much) and blow off / mistreat Laurie (who I liked a lot).
- The romances feel empty and lifeless.
- Lots of typos.
- There are internal consistency issues- such as Sharon saying the MC has too many thralls to feed (when he only has one at the time) ect ect.