VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Rebirth [Ep.1-5 All in One] [LikesBlondes]

Rebirth has some stellar characters, but where it really shines is its story and worldbuilding. Its a slow burner, and the sex scenes arent the best, but the story keeps you invested in every damn scene. It legitimately might have the most interesting and unique tale of any game on the site.

There is absolutely no nonsense or filler content, every scene feels like it's worth being there and every scene feels like it's going to have some sort of effect later down the road. Wonderful pacing indeed. I WANT to know what attacked Sharon, I WANT to know who Calisto really is, I WANT to know where Astrid is going to end up, I WANT to know how the ancient is going to be dealt with, and I WANT to know how the vampire world will be affected in the long term.

Though admittedly, I often forget it's a porn game. Clearly the creator wants to stick closer to the narrative, which im fine with, but my only actual gripe is the quality of the sex scenes is fairly mid. No animations (not even back and forth renders), too dark to see in many examples and quite honestly, they just feel like they're thrown in there to keep the game tagged as NSFW.

One other problem, SOME of the characters feel somewhat pointless. Carmen, for one. She offers basically nothing interesting to the story and feels more like a method to get to the next scene as opposed to an actual character. The others are slwoly starting to feel that way in the last chapter, and i hope this doesnt become a longstanding problem.

If you cant find anything useful for all of your characters to do, find a way to put them outside of the main story for a while. Dont become seasons 10-12 of Doctor Who.

Still though, put the horn aside for a while and play through this title. It is WELL worth the time investment, and I will absolutely be coming back in future.

Edit: Moving to 2 stars. This turned out disappointing. Rushed finished. Killing off characters for no reason out of the blue. Story got stuck in the mud and did not really end up going anywhere. Wish I could rate this higher but it just ended up being a not good game that was on the cusp of being awesome.

Another great game from this developer. Good writing and pacing, art isn't phenomenal but its good enough. The only downside is its development is much slower than it was for Life With Mary. Its slightly overambitious, but the game (after 4 years of development) is still on track to be finished eventually. One of the better plots in a VN on this site, would highly recommend playing.

*I will preface this by saying I have only played about 1 1/2 chapters of this VN*

What to say about this VN. Did I enjoy my time playing it? Yea, I did. Do I see myself playing more of it? Probably not.
Like I said above, I only played about 1 1/2 chapters but as anyone who played it will tell you that's a good lot of hours worth of content.

What I liked -
The story good. I first heard about this VN in a thread about games were the story takes precedence over the sexual stuff (which is my cup of tea). Although a story about vampires wouldn't have been my first choice, I'm glad I gave it a shot. It's interesting enough to keep you engaged

The visuals are great. Nothing spectacular but still good. There are some occasions were you get a close up of a characters hair and there's some nice details there.

My issues with the game -

**Some people might think this ventures into spoiler territory. personally I don't. The majority of these things happen early on in the game but read at your own risk**

The biggest issue of the game in my opinions is how characters relationships grow
Very early on your established as a Padowan to an already experienced vampire. Ok, cool. And your basically living in her house. That's fine too but its not long before your having an active role in what goes on. Its as if your partners instead of master and apprentice
You sleep in the same bed because her room is the only one with protection from the sun. Ok cool, it makes sense because they're basically corpses when they sleep but out of nowhere your character starts saying "oh yeah, I want you". And she's flirty back "but I don't love you so I wont sleep with you and you also can get it up because you don't have as much blood anymore and you need blood for an erection"?? umm ok I guess...

Your best friend from before you turned also becomes your Thrall (follower) because your told her you were a vampire even after being told not to.
I have no problem with this but your character just starts being a bit of a dick to her.
I get that your relationship has turned into a master/slave kind of deal but this is were the game desperately needs a mass effect paragon renegade system were you can be nice to her or you can choose to be an ass to her

And don't get me started on Andrew. I like the guy but every two seconds his big bald head is on your screen.

All in all its not a bad game by any stretch of the imagination but I just don't like the way the characters are going and reading some other reviews on here doesn't exactly fill me with hope of redemption

This AVN had so much promise. I even donated a VERY large amount to help out. Unfortunately the time it takes to get any real story is way too long. The true story that we have so far could be condensed into one episode if you took out all the unnecessary things.

I absolutely adored this story. I've always enjoyed VtM as a setting and have played numerous of the make your own adventure games on steam but apart from one (the road?) the writing has felt kinda disappointing. Not a problem for these games. Was gripped from start to finish.

This one's perfect for all who value a good story. The sex scenes are scarce and short but don't get me wrong. With a big focus on its story, this game is a masterpiece and I would love to have this as a movie.

I have been following this game for a while and just got to play throughout episode 4. I must say that this game is a major disappointment in story and sex scenes. The visuals and models are high-midtier at best and probably stock. The skill system doesnt make any sense as far as i saw it, there might be hidden things at work but not in my playthrough. There are just a few sex scenes that are in my eyes too basic, soulless and mostly with people unrelated to the MC, who thought that was a good idea. Overall a bad game but better than Boku no Pico.

Great premise, and the first few episodes are great but I've gotta tell you the premise is starting to wear thin. Talking with a bunch of annoying women in your mansion all the time about pointless vampire crap. Sheeeshus somebody shoot me.

You get vampired, and you morb all over the place. Classic fish out of water isekai vampire thing. It is great, you have sexy vampire mentor that doesnt care much for you at first but then you prove yourself and you become the mentor to her. Great stuff. Then you meet a bunch of useless low iq women and you turn them into your thralls. Great wholesome stuff loving it. One of them is sub 50iq redhead too BRILLIANT. She needs far more content. Faaar more

Problem is now that you have your thralls and vampire padawan also ex-mentor all you do now is talk about vampire stuff and how you are helping so much and how glad your slaves girlfriends(?) are that you exist. I just am not seeing the progression here it is becoming dragged out.

You saved your mother figure, but there is no sexy stuff with her. There is barely any sexy stuff with your slave thralls either. Why do you introduce all these slaves if you cant abuse your power position over them??? Imagine being Harvey Weinstein but you aren't allowed to nail jennifer lawrence for some reason. Like what even is the point.

Needs more vampire slave abuse. "oh my goodness master you cant be doing this what if mistress comes home?" And then you pick sexy time or coward time. But no instead you feed them blood. Why am I playing babysitter simulator over here??? It is more like a kinetic novel than a visual novel, which would be fine if not for the fact that the story itself is pretty boring I have no clue wth is going on and I can't even use my vampire powers ever. You have stats for sneak charm and prowess but I dont think theyve ever even been checked.

The game is treading water, I say end it and take the premise and start a new thing with new characters and updated new models as this is becoming stale. But this time, more slave thrall abuse and using your vampire powers for evil. AND MORE SEX SCENES jesus christ. Although it has to be said the sex scenes themselves are lackluster too, they just look lifeless no animation nothing.

A Visual novel from the well known developers: LikesBlondes (previously known as LifeWithMary) and PTOLEMY.

The main issue with this game is the story progression, extremely slow with small updates releasing each month.
Getting to the models, they look like something from 2019, not to mention animations and scene are very dry. (but at least somewhat the setting of them are interesting.)
Meaningless choices throughout the game. (Because budget limit and not enough work horses.)
For me, this game is the meaning of "average."

TL;DR:
Pros:
Good character development.
One of The first "Ren'py/Daz3d" vampire inspired novels.
Talented Developers
Cons:
Used models are drier than a week left on the shelf taco.
Story progression is slower than a snail.
tiny updates.

And as usual, do not forget to support your favorite developers, they depend on us.

Review up to Episode 4 Version 2
The Story of this game is very captivationg. It is linear with few choices and only small differences between them, however I still enjoyed the story being told and it was well worth the time to play.
The images were all well made and the characters not only visually distinct but with interesting personalities. The game worked great, no crashes also I don't recall seeing any typos or spelling error. The text was well written and easy to read.
Through all episodes available right now I guess there is about 12 hours of story. There are very few sex scenes but much nudity.

Twilight as it should've been. Fewer obnoxious boyband vamps, more MILFs, and some mean ass hickeys. Would rate this game 10/10, but alas, the scale only goes to five. This is a must play, nuff said. Excellent character models, "riveting" story. I'm done; play it.

Without a doubt one of the better story games on this site. Writing is great for both dialogue and characters. And the dev is also extremely fast with updates. The amount of content this game gets in a couple months, other games of simiar quality dont get in a year.

TL;DR: Highly reccommended, without reservations.

Game starts nice enough with decent plot potential, however once you get through the game, its starts to get irritating (i'm in episode 4)
I may be a horndog but i was expecting an adult game, the game has barely any sex scenes, it has plenty of nudity and around 3 sex scenes, you don't get to even have sex with your lovers, a lot of teasing and nothing rewarding for the reader of the VN.
Also every vampire except the protagonist has mind control powers, you ger a power that you can whisper and read thoughts of a person and you get to use it twice in the whole game.
Even what's supposed to be your servants, whom they love you and want to have sex with you, you don't do anything with them, also every other vampire in the game gets obedient servants excepts yours that are annoying.
Choices in the game are a f*cking joke, they are VERY ambigious and deciding between 2 choices can be hard, and not often you get choices during the gameplay, and your choices alter very secondary not the ACTUAL chances you'd want in the plot or with the characters. And don't let me start on the stats that depends on randomness for sole reason.
And don't get me started on the "Episodes" why wouldn't you as a dev have a single game that you constantly update, why we have to wait for updates on each episode, and an episode ends and you need to moves your saves to the newer version and omg its such a mess and trust me you will get atleast few errors doing so.
Idk why i got my hopes up for this so don't make the same mistake as me.

Been with this game since it started. Loved it, followed it, right up until now.

Honestly i am sad at how they developed the MC. Tbh he is just a huge annoying narcessist prick. Recently (chapter 3+) he's just doing whatever he wants without any regard to his partner/lover even though SHE is the Archon and hes a newborn nobody. The rest of the characters have dissapointing development (or sometimes none at all) as well. Poor Laurie, doomed to be side vamp for eternity, and Carmen to being his side meat...

An excellent game, and one that should definitely be played for the storyline

Those looking for a quick fap should look away, for this is definitely a slow-burn, although what the game lacks in h-scenes, it more than makes up for with a gripping story full of interesting characters, a budding romance between our MC and the vampire he's working with and his relationships with those around him as he enters a world he didn't know existed

It would't be inaccurate to state that there are very, VERY few sex scenes in this VN, but by that same token, it wouldn't be inaccurate to state that you wouldn't play this game for those scenes; this is one that caters to players who are in it for the long haul, and boy, does it deliver on that front! Five stars!

Okay, the ending to episode 4 was kinda funny with Marcius. This is a good VN and reminds me of 'The Bite: Revenant'. This game, however, is a little more practical with its characterization (the vampires take humans knowing about them a bit more seriously in this game I feel). Both of these games also handle tension well (when Sharon looks at you with eyes pleading for you to be silent so as not to offend stronger vampires). If you only care about porn, you may not like this game since the sex scenes that they do have to seem softcore compared to other games on this site (which isn't a bad thing to people like me who value writing above all else).

It's a good game, better than 90% of VN (spy your landlady under a shower thing) but it has its flaws (I'm writing it after playing Chapter 4).

The story is not original and heavily inspired by Vampire The Masquerade lore but it's allright and well written although a bit slow sometimes.

The graphics are mostly good. I disliked small things like almost everybody having "pretty boy/girl face" (it's a common problem in VN) and passsing the same shop again and again while riding a car.

I would like more choices to be made in the game as most time you just click and skip dialogues. And when you actually make a choice you don't know how it may influence the story. People say here it may have impact several hours later, I have to believe I guess

Oh, and the sex scenes are very, very rare. There is a lot of nudity (pretty looking, I have to admit) but nothing comes out of it. And when you at last have sex, it's some totally unimportant random side character. So play it if you are more after the story and not erotic scenes.

I'm giving it 4 stars a bit in advance but the author made a lot of work and despite the flaws it's on the good side. Especially if you like vampire stories.

EDIT: Now the game is finished and has really a lot of content. I wanted to give an extra star for it as it doesn't happen that often and a lot of games get abandoned. But I can't.

Unfortunately towards the end the story gets worse. There is a lot of unnecessary talking and the ending is bland. The earlier chapters were better.
There are some sex scenes in the game but too few for a porn game and too much for an ordinary game. They would look okay 5 years ago but now are a bit outdated with old body models and no animation.
There are stats and skills but they are mostly "fake". The game is actually quite linear and no matter if you use some skill or not the final result will be the same, just a few in-between pictures will be different.

Still it's better than many other similar games. Maybe it just means that many games are simply poor?

I like it.

The story is *very* good. It's not perfect (there are some obvious plot holes), but it's written in an engaging way that had me up reading/ viewing later into the night than I should have been.

I got through all 4 chapters in around 3 days.

If you like V:TM campaigns with methuselah rules, you're golden. It reads very much like that.

That said, I pulled off one star for the gameplay or the lack thereof. It's not that there are no choices, and it's not that the choices don't affect the story - they do (or they seem to). But you can't tell how, and you can't tell whether, for example some of your newly acquired abilities are being used to your advantage - or at all - with the exception of the physical ones you can see or upon first use. You also can't tell whether or not previous decisions have impacted the story, because there's no omniscient hints that doing something differently would have let you see different scenes, or a gallery that shows locked scenes so you really have no clue what if anything you're missing.

Still though, love the story and am looking forward to more updates.

Pros:
-Engaging Story
-Interesting plot and world building
-Interesting characters (until the end of ep. 02)

Cons:
-MC is an Idiot and infuriating (from the beginning till the end) so r the side characters after EP.03
-Female leads get annoying or character development is done poorly or none at all in Laurie's case
-Side characters stray too much away from their initial self without any particular explanation/reason
-Flaccid penis plot and no sex scenes at all with MCs love interests and the little sex senes we get happens at the worst times and it doesn't make sense and it doesn't feel rewarding (Ex:First sex scene ever happens shortly after carmen is heartbroken by Gregor hitting her and it's the worst possible time to have hot steaming sex just after being traumatised/ second time u r scared by ur vamp mom and out of the blue u have the gut to take the lead with her and without little to none emotional build up and all powerful she just let it happen/ 3rd time laurie's dying in the other room and u got a ancient vamp trying to get up and out of the blue sharon wants to have sex after ALL THIS BUILD UP she wants to have sex for no reason and it's the worst time)
-Wasting characters with great potential without properly using them at all, so they become unnecessary (ex: Greggor, Elois, nightclub lady {see, can't even remember her name that's how useless those characters r for the plot progression], etc.)
-MCs powers r useless no matter how much he unlocks Cuz, he doesn't use them at all or some r not used at potential moments
-Some choices r useless cuz they don't make any difference

A pretty interesting vampire game held back by an "erectile dysfunction" joke that goes on for wayyyyyyyyy too long.

EP2 also loses something that made EP1 enjoyable.. the main LI becomes less likeable and for some reason you completely ignore that your thrall can't listen to your instructions worth a damn..