VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Rosewater Manor [Ep.10 Final] [Daniels K.]

Pro:
* Decent writing. Not great, but usually good. Sometimes not so good.
* Some characters likeable. Believable flaws. Sometimes flaws bigger than I like, too much like real human, make me not like her.
* Game usually gives player choice for important thing.

Con:
* Exaggerated big prominent clits, all LI have. If you like clit to be more like tiny penis, good for you, but if you don't like, then game has problem.
* Squirting from all LI. If you like broken faucet girl, good for you, but if you don't like too much shower, then game has problem.
* Sometimes MC do thing without giving player choice, stupid thing I would not do.
* The ending is abrupt, cliffhanger. Feels abandoned, but with The End put on after last image.
* Sound options bugged. Loudly play moans in sex scene, even when sound complete disable in options. Don't play in public library!

This is a great VN for a first timer to play; it has attractive characters, basic progression & decisions, etc.

However, I was very disappointing from this Dev since I've played two other games so I expected his game development to be more advance, or at least be of the same quality. I give him props for producing steady, reliable content, but as far as quality, his earlier games were better in imagination & execution.

I liked it
Visuals are good and the story pretty nice and interesting
MC is ok (though i wish he sad more backbone) and as the LI i only really liked one LI (Billie) but thats personal taste i guess
Each Li have his own ending (like the other works of the author)
My favorite LI (Billie) had a nice ending and i quick run the other ending to see the story.
Overall its a pretty nice VN and its worth a play.

I'll be 100% honest, I didn't complete the game, I mostly skipped through the story. The story was pretty bland, maybe others will enjoy it, but just not for me personally. There isn't anything interesting that keeps you wanting to look forwards to anything in the story, and i feel like there just isn't any chemistry between the characters. I almost fell asleep skipping through the game. The animations and render is pretty average, not bad at all.

So, this review is a little long so I'll break it up into sections and throw it behind spoiler tags. Read the parts you want to know more about, skip what you're not interested in.

After some time with this, going through all of the endings, I think I'm going to give this four stars. I like the general direction the story is going, despite all of the twists and turns, but some of the endings are a little flat. Not all of them, rather liked some of the endings, but they don't get you to the end of the game. Endings in this game--and others under this developer's umbrella--are kind of like a highway with exits. When you get to an ending, you either get off the main highway to an ending or you keep going. Some of the later endings are a little meh, largely because of the events of Episodes 9 and 10. I'll leave it there.

As many've already mentioned, the story starts somewhat fine but the endings are basically not finished. No answers and even more questions.
Renders are average.
If you have some free time and do not have anything else to do, you can play it once. But I would have not.

What is going on here? The story wasn't the best, but at least it was. Now the endings completelly messed up whatever was left from it. Don't let me even start ranting how quickly game jumped from trying to survive one demon assault, into saving entire universe. It's like in the middle author just changed his mind and started to tell entirely different story. And you know what? It would be still fine.. If he actually finished it. But leaving like this? Unacceptable.

So what is going on? Yes, I will be spoiling some things, I'll try to be as vague as I can with this, but dear potential players, please read it anyway, so you know what kind of mess you're trying to get yourself into.

As I mentioned, whole narrative changed after few chapters, and not long after that Big Change you'll start having choices to pick your endings. Not chosing them will continue the story, but abandon girls. Yes, not only story changed, basically the whole female cast was dropped. But hey, at least those endings can be called endings, and even being short, those feel like ending should..
But let's assume you didn't want earlier endings. So you're in chapter 10, and there is only one single LI left, plus the older witch introduced somewhere during this major story change. Then you get introductions of another young woman(possibly new romance option?), you're told that there will be even more new witches incoming, to found entire new coven, and lastly you get a teaser, that some big story event will start. You litereally walking to destinated place, where event will start, and.. THE END. That's right is the current main story ending.

Are you fucking kidding me? I giving it two stars, the second one because of earlier acceptable endings. But finishing not finishing whole story this way... Horrible, absolutly disgusting.

Think this is the first game from this creator that i truely enjoyed which is a nice change

At times i would have likes the MC to be a bit tuffer instend of trying to be nice, but overall MC wasent bad.

Story 4/5
I enjoyed the story, but not a fan of no ending i tried a few endings but they all kinda just stops out of nowhere and leaves you hanging and that goes for all endings that i tried, i wouldent really call them endings.
Dont know if a sequel is planed to finish the story, i dont expect that to be true which is also why i cant give it 5 star rating.

Music 4/5
Always nice to have some music in games.

Graphics 4/5
Nice looking girls and nice in general as well.

Animations 4/5
They are pretty good not the best but still good.

The renders are pretty nice. The story is ok, at least above average. Apart from that there is not much of a game here. Every 200 frames or so you can make sort of a decision, which does not feel very consequential though. Mostly you can choose between a "nice", "neutral", or "not so nice" option and it's almost always obvious which is which. All in all the game gets rather boring after a while and you find yourself skipping dialogues to move on.

A very good game with beautiful models and a decent story. Big L to all the people hating on Daniels K. At least he completes his games instead of milking his patrons. Dude has developed 5-6 completed games.
Totally worth it.

normal danielsk game, starts good and that lasts until midpoint when game somewhat stalls, still story carries to end somewhat decently, several endings to achieved but none are much different from others..

overall nice game with good graphics but story doesn't carry to end that well and plot could been much better endings wise.

Based on version 0.6

I see that game received a lot of hate based on the version 0.1 which was censored, but that aspect was long solved.

Story wise the game goes in line with some previous creation of the creator: magic being involved to create a space from where you can not escape. There are few twists involved that keep you going. There is not a lot of dialogue and not very much in depth but what we have is nicely written.

Models are good looking, good proportion but a bit similar. They do not have any definitory traits. Sex scenes are something that was woo a lot but to be honest I do not see them that bad. Not very diverse but still enjoyable.

The game involves the Good/Neutral/Bad but so far it does not impact that much the action: you get access to the same sex scenes.

This is a mixed bag. The animations and renders are excellent. The models are also excellent, which really stands out from the crowd - no alien proportions, no cuck-looking MC, skin details.

The plot is also great, the start had me very intrigued but that's where it fell down - once the twist on the girls needing sex from you is revealed, all the power is taken from the MC. Girls now just throw themselves and you're a passive wuss. It becomes much worse once you go to pocket world - you get forced into female domination

So you know what to expect with Daniel K games at this point. Good renders. Weak story. Characters without any depth. Vanilla boring sex scenes.

Except in this case the game is even worse because it's censored. Personally, for me, I am not surprised because the Devs games seemed overly formulaic like Daniels K was checking a box of how he thought a porn game should be or how characters should act without having the passion to create his own characters that felt they were something I had not seen done ad naseum in a million other porn games.

I keep giving the author a 2nd chance because I'd hoped with experience he would learn to write more interesting sex scenes with characters that seemed more real but after this, I am done with Daniel K. I haven't been able to finish any of his games because midway through it's clear he had lost interest in the project and what started out mediocre turned unplayable.

Quite honestly there are so many games on f95 that it's almost impossible to play them all. There are games that I haven't played but downloaded that are much more worthy of your time by Devs who don't censor and write interesting stories with fully flushed-out characters or at the very worst hot dirty sex scenes. This game like all Daniel K games has none of that. My suggestion is to go and DL one of the higher-rated games on the site and if you still have time to play this one you will see just how empty the writing is and how boring the sex scenes are

0.3

First one star reviews were because the very first version was censored.
They don´t deflect the game at all, it´s only purpose was to show the hate
because of censoring.

The game so far looks really promising. The story is something fresh, the writing is good. Maybe it feels a little bit rushed but i don´t mind.

The renders are really good, so are the animations. The mc is likable and the girls are too.

3.0 rating

Out the gate the writing is fairly rushed , it's obvious dev wanted to get to the meat of the story and didn't want to dwell on setup too long. It could have been polished a bit more but it's understandable and honestly I appreciate the decision to tie off the inciting incident quickly.

As for the rest of the writing, I'm enjoying the characters and the MC. The strength in this title (so far) definitely rests in "twists" and surprise developments. There are two with the last one taking place towards the end of EP3 that is fairly large and turns the whole story on its head-- looking forward to seeing where that goes.

I don't get hung up on graphics too much so I'll be short here: the renders are great, the animations are good. What you expect with Daniels K. Except I do think his animations are improving.

Feet to the fire, I'd say it's 3.5 stars or slightly higher. I enjoyed it.

This is for version 0.3. I will try not to let the fact that 0.1 was censured which is a HUGE dick move. Why advertise if the ad will turn people away?


Soound is a nice option...
Stats can be good or bad. I want a good story, and RPG elements can help explain progression, but more often than not are bad. We will see over time here. They just get in the way ATM.
The Stats UI box is ugly and distracting. Should be an option in the escape menu IMO and keep the screen clean.
The writing prose is good. Clearly the creator knows English.
So far the writing is actually good.
Player named character... some like it, but I personally think it is a weakness. This tends to make the writer leave the main character with no personality.
Main character appearance is acceptable. Generic but not the lazy bald faceless generic a ton of games have. Penis is exaggerated, but so are the women's breasts... I get it.
Females appearance are pretty...
Personally I think Lucy's implants are a bit much, but there are women who do that to themselves.
Eve is said to be petite but she isn't, just slightly smaller tits (C-cup). Small nitpick, .
Billie has the same body and breasts as Eve, yet she isn't called petite...


Overall, this CURRENTLY has decent writing, uses a big boob fetish but not excessively so, and has decent pacing with sex scenes.

8/10 currently, i's significantly above average and is good. Hopefully the writing quality doesn't drop.

Like all of the other developers titles, I downloaded the game (Knowing it was censored) and like all of the other developer titles I deleted it before getting very far.

First... I fail to understand how this game manages to make it on here without being removed by the mods. Censorship is one thing. You get that with alot of the Hentai/Manga titles here but to have nothing more than a black screen with just a dialog? What is worse is that there isn't a patch to uncensor the story (that we know of) and I suspect that there will never be one. I doubt there are even any renders to replace the black screens. I am sorry but that is simply inexcusable.

Second... Like previous titles, the story descends into a mess. If it were just one title, I would understand but again, you get a good start to a story and then its begins to come off the rails. It is frustrating best and anger inducing at worst.

Just avoid it folks. Don't waste your time and hard drive space.