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

4/5 stars

Excellent Writing and Voice Work That Leaves You Wanting More

High-quality visual novel that clearly excels in the areas it chooses to focus on. For an ero VN, its writing and voice acting easily makes it stand out from many of its peers.

The writing for the erotic scenes is particularly well-handled, delivering on the game's premise effectively and with a level of quality that matches the ero scenes intensity and "build up" .

The voice work & audio complements this perfectly, adding a layer of immersion that is often handed off to the writing (which very few vn's do ero writing well).

While the content that is present is excellent, the main thing holding this back from a perfect score (IMO) is simply the desire for more exploration of certain character dynamics and scenarios that the game teases.

My feedback is less of a critique of what exists and more of a wish list for what I wished to see more of.

My primary gripe is that I was left wanting more scenes focused on Natasha in a dominant role, especially those involving her aphrodisiacs; there are some that hint that these were coming, but they never did.

On that same note, I also wished for more content focused solely on the dynamic between Natasha and JJ. There was a romantic scene between them that by itself, led to a void when there weren't any additional scenes with that dynamic.

There was a fantastic but tantalizingly brief glimpse into a dominant Futa/Male scene with Matsuchiyo (Top), Madam Indigo (middle), and Tesseract (Bottom). This scene was an incredible tease. I wish the dev's dove more into the FoM aspect for the "Villians" >_< .

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Final Thoughts

Overall, Sacrifice Villains earns a recommendation.

My critiques came up from enjoying the characters that ultimately I simply wanted more of, as the game "lightly" broke the typical mode, but didn't fully break of the shell that quite a bit of JP Vn's do, that have the Male Protagonist & Futa/Trans tags

I'm not gonna say too much. It might be a bit extreme for some people, but it has a lot of stuff I'm into (and admittedly some stuff I'm not, but that's what the skip button is for), and I like Butcha-U's artstyle.

Compared to other superhero(villain) trainers this one is quite fun. Story is more original the most superhero trainers.

It has a bit of that superhero comic vibe in their text, and this might sound weird but its more realistic then some other superhero trainers which go to the very weird steps of handjob - blowjob - vaginal - anal.

Of course it has some porn logic in there but not as predictable as 70% of other games on here.

It has a wide array of fetishes, so be prepared to press the skip button if something appears you dont enjoy.

I would have to say other titles of clockup are a tad more interesting due to their originality (but they are much more extreme then this VN so be warned)

All in all certainly worth the read.

PROS:

+ Nice art and overall style.
+ Hentai lowkey parody on My Hero Academy.
+ Somewhat production quality.

CONS:

- Low resolution.
- Sex scenes are too basic, like one body position and 3-4 face expressions for scene, make me think that it was made with Stable Diffusion 1.5. I don't see any point in 'countdown' system with at least short animation.
- Ridiculous amount of unneeded filler text like it's not some silly hentai game in VN style but actual VN with hentai as bonus. But it's not Grisaia or any other actual VN where text is appreciated.
- I don't like aliens and Futa in my hentai, here authors combined them.
- Everyone is crazy basically, absolutely is not my cup of tea.

I am in two minds about this game. At the one hand it has a ton of content and a variety of fetishes. At the other hand, it does not deliver on its premise in the way I had hoped.

You have three characters, samantha, focussed on NTR (you steal her away), kitty, focussed on anal, and venom, focussed on futanari. However, the boyfriend is only introduced halfway in, before that there is a focus on body modification (not shown, just mentioned, you only see her getting raped). The same with venom. First half is just gang rape. And the moment she gets a futa cock she instantly falls. And I dont even know what they were thinking with kitty. She's still a virgin but that gets cashed in so poorly I dont know why they even bothered.

And that is a shame. There were some amazing scenes that I thought really set this one apart. But then they dropped the ball on the character development/corruption.

Finally, this VN is LONG. I know that might sound like a good thing, but a lot of it is spend on side scenes with 1-shot characters. And a lot of scenes are pretty unimaginative. Wouldve preferred if they spent more resources on getting the corruption right with more steps and them slowly falling.

From what I've seen so far, this is comparable, if somewhat better, than the previous clock-up games I've played and very representative of the quality of Butcha-u's work.

Absolute walls of text like most japanese games give you, but from what I read, it's a cool setting and very MHA-esque (especially with the main superhero lmao).

Hot art, but I don't have time to read aaaaall of the text. Just tried to get the main points. I recommend the game though. What I saw was well written and very well animated.

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.