VN - Others - Completed - SACRIFICE VILLAINS [v2025-01-21] [CLOCKUP]

The setting of this VN is nice and lighthearted. I wasn't expecting a lot from the story, but it ultimately was a fun story to get through. I think the translation and visual presentation is good. The Art and Characters are very nice to look at and I enjoyed the endings. Highly Recommend.

The characters and scenes look great, the music is good and Justopia is funny... that's about it for the positives.
The story and dialogue are so bad and boring that it hurts my soul, probably one of the worst stories I've seen in a VN. I know it's a parody but still, very uninteresting.
If you're gonna play it, skip all the dialogue

i dont really play much visual novels but the character designs and fetishes were right up my alley. i'd play more VNs if there were more focusing on unique costume designs like this.

i was waiting for this game to get its english translation for so long, but i was too impatient that i just used an mtl tool thingy for the first time a year ago, so i cant comment on the translation quality but i can say that i enjoyed the super hero parody world setting.

In spite of my 3 star rating, I think Sacrifice Villains will appeal to many. The illustrations, UI, and sounds all suggest higher production value than the majority of small projects seen on this site. My problems are with the story and the "game" aspects.

I love a story of superheroes being corrupted/conditioned, but Sacrifice Villains is exhausting. The story starts with an exposition dump of probably over 1,000 lines before you ever meet the cast.

Once the story actually begins, the main writing sins are an overload of monologue from the PoV character and so much repetition in scenes. For example, the objective is to train 3 heroines, and every training session occurs at the same time with little variation in: how the heroines react to the training, how they're trained, and how they change between sessions. This essentially means you're reading the same scene 3 times over each time until small variations in training methods start to arise.

Between each training session are also exposition dumps which I personally found tedious. I think this is in large part due to the lack of engagement. It's quite possibly the most flat example of a kinetic novel I've played on this site. There is maybe 1 choice to make for every hour of gameplay, and very few choices seem to have any impact on the story. This wouldn't be so bad if the story were shorter or at least more pithy, or if there were more visuals to look at than just stock background images, but this is not the case.

Overall, I wanted to like Sacrifice Villains for its great production value, but it falls short in what I consider to be the most important areas of an eroge.

TL;DR: I do like this Nukige, but I wish it was a bit more focused, a lot of fringe fetishes are showcased and not all them are palatable for my taste (tentacles, insect fucking, slime enemas, etc). Essentially the game gets better the more degenerate you are (so check tags people).

★ ★ ★ Presentation ★ ★ ★
Average and on par with other CLOCKUP games, a couple of hiccups that I have is that some of the standing portraits are underused or outright missing in some scenes, and the art varies a bit from scene to scene but it's polished and well put together overall.

★ ★ ★ ★ Gameplay ★ ★ ★ ★
It's a regular visual novel with some quirks, you pick 1 out of 3 heroines and the order you pick them gets you the ending you want (one of the three or harem) and during the story you pick some choices that lead to different scenes with other characters and this determines if you want to get the "good" ending or the "bad" ending for each character. So roughly speaking you are looking at 8 routes in total.

★ ★ ★ ★ Sound ★ ★ ★ ★
Top notch from CLOCKUP as usual, voice acting is great, sex slapping sound effects are great, a couple of catchy tracks. Nothing too mind blowing. It's good quality and it gets the job done.

★ ★ ★ ★ Visuals ★ ★ ★ ★
Butcha-U's art at its best, a couple of scenes have characters looking a bit off model and the Shiravune release didn't remove the mosaic. But other than that it's excellent.

★ ★ ★ ★ Writing ★ ★ ★ ★
There are plenty of creative fun choices and scenarios, character defining moments that scar or change them irreversibly *cough* Madam Venom *cough* although it does drag a bit in some parts it's good for a light read if you are into the super hero genre. There are a couple of plot points that feel like a missed opportunity and/or underdeveloped ie. Harley Quinn expy and the MC grew up in the same neighborhood but not much comes out of that. Porn is the main focus so it doesn't matter too much really.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Porn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
This is the odd (and very rare) reverse corruption game, scenes go from fringe weirdo fetish stuff to lovey dovey hand holding vanilla sex (if you go for the good ending). My one pet peeve is that each heroine is pigeonholed into a single category (NTR, Anal, Futa) with a small amount of overlap between each one. It's tragic how the dark skinned beauty gets ruined by the permanent futa dong one third into the game but that's just how it goes sometimes. My point is that there's bound to be a fetish that you don't like or pisses you off but even tho I don't enjoy futanari some of the Futa scenes are still hot so I imagine it gets better the more you are into it. In short, the larger your tag list is the better time you are going to have with this VN.

Last Thoughts
I really enjoyed this and I hope CLOCKUP and Butcha-U continue to make more stuff even tho these type of VN nukiges are falling out of fashion. Check preview images and check tags, there's still plenty of normal sex so don't be discouraged to try something new.