VN - Others - Completed - Starless: Nymphomaniac’s Paradise [Final] [Empress]

One of the masterpieces of hentai art, has all the fetishes that I need or didn't even think I needed. Art is amazing, beautiful, and luxurious.

Seishoujo didn't hold back one bit on the H scenes.
If you're not a fan of buckets of cum gushing through penises, landing on faces, tits, feet, etc, things going into holes that it isn't supposed to be in regular sex, bodily fluid and waste coming and going every single human hole possible, this is not the game for you.

This is the game for true perverts, connoisseurs of fetishes and beautiful women.

Oh man. It's been a while since I've played a proper visual novel. I poured 20-30 hours into this which always amazes me for a game that's mostly text.

Story 5/10

You're a poor college student out on summer break. You just got your driver's license but have no car. To buy a car you call up an job listing that's almost too good to be true. And it is.

You end up going to a mansion out in the middle of nowhere. The inhabitants include a matriarch, her two daughters, a son, and 3 servants.

Tons of sex ensues. This family is training you to be a sex servant and they have two weeks to do it.

The story has a mostly linear plot with the branches basically being extended endings.

Gameplay 3/10

For a visual novel there's basically one input: choice. A, B, or C. Sometimes it's just A or B. Those choices need to matter.

The problem is, there's tons of choices where the choice just doesn't matter. Why is it in the game? Most of the early game choices don't matter at all. To get access to the endings you mostly just backtrack like 3-4 choices near the end of the game.

And for choices that matter, they need to matter. There's this one particular choice, cum inside or outside which leads to two drastically different endings. Okay, I accept that. But the way the story wrote how that branch played out was completely out of your hands, made by a third party. What?

Art 7/10

Wow. This game is aggressive. In the first day of employment, Sawatari orgasms like 8-10 times. He loses his virginity and has sex with three different women in the middle of an orgy. And that's the first day.

The art itself is pretty mediocre but the constant barrage of scenes and the extreme content more than makes up for it.

I'm not sure why but the game self-censors certain scenes. Scat and beastiality. Why? There are other games which don't so I don't think it's a Japanese law or anything.

Endings 5/10

I really wanted a "conquer everyone" ending. But no, the household stays in control for every single end.

There's one good ending. You and a servant girl just... walk off the property at the end of your employment and you get married.

There are a couple of neutral endings that aren't good but not very bad.

Then there are clearly bad endings. One where your heart is harvested. One where you become a scat toilet. One where your dick gets chopped off.

Overall 5/10

This is one of those visual novels where the situation is exciting more than anything. The game does a great job of setting up the ambiance of a sex mansion.

Again, I was disappointed there was no "take over the mansion" ending. But I got to see the annoying servant get impaled by a thigh sized wooden dildo so I'll call it even.

At the moment I discover Seishoujo's graphics style, I was blown away.
It wasn't directly by his pictures but by some hentai clip from the Anime adaptation of one of his works (Discipline).

Further, I realized what it cames from and discover Eroge or I should say Seishoujo's VN cause if it doesn't came from him I don't play.

The reason is simple, the render.
This is from me what is the closest to the absolute perfection when it come to drawing a model whatever it is from 2D or 3D style.

I really love the "majestic" aspect of how he make all those body of women.
The proportion of the head with the body in the hentai industry is not really well respected in my sense and for me that make all the difference.

So that for the work of the artist in general but now about the game :
It has such a special vibe for me, start playing after done Discipline & Bible Black.
In some way it's a bit more inclusive, you're "locked" in a mansion and get "abused" every day.

The Mamiya's are very memorable as an antagonist's family (Marie Mamiya has become the Artist's most popular character).
Marie & Marisa are pure evil. Marika is more "innocent" but well she's still get along with her sis and her mom.

Mitarai is perfect for me as a lovely naive sweetheart who's going to make you feel sorry for what they're going to do to her...
Sachie & Mikako are also pretty remarkable

9 endings, only a good one ^^'

It's really a special experience to play, it's pretty dark that for sure, and some scenes are very "specific" so yes we can't say it's the kind of game you can recommand to everyone.

But the success is here, the game have some sequel who was released since, the last one just came out (Sleepness).

It have a special place for me as one of my most memorable adult content I ever watched/played.

The scat, watersports, and violence weren't really my thing, but I think it's cool that people who like those things are getting some representation. My big problem with Starless is that there isn't really a good end or even a point in the story where the protagonist starts to enjoy his life or form a real connection with any of the characters. Even if you marry a character or choose an option that sounds like you're going to give consent, the main character's monologue is written with this tone of hopelessness and reluctance for being in his situation. Not only do I think it's sloppy writing to have choices that aren't reflected in dialogue, but it's a huge boner killer to play a character that never feels like he has enjoyment for his situation or a plan for the future.

As a smaller point, there were many places where the story slogged. There were literally daily story events that repeat with very little change or impact to the story. There were times I started to skip ahead because the pace was so slow. Overall, I wasn't impressed by the storytelling.

The art's amazing. The voice acting, although I don't speak Japanese, is done well enough that even the tones improved my sense of immersion. However, in spite of this game's undeniable quality and my attempts to play through all of the paths, I thoroughly did not enjoy Starless.

Story has a slow but great pacing with a uniquely darker theme than what is usually on an adult visual novel/game; Writing is decent at worst and has excellent attention-to-detail on past events; Art is very well made and covers a variety of kinks and fetishes - some of which can be eccentric

A perfect Visual novel for those with a taste for extreme fetishes, is hard to find such good quality with combining niche fetishes like scat and bestiality.

I had actually already seen this one years ago but had to search it here just to give it a 5 star review.

This game was really disturbing and had some really fucked up shit. It was really hard to continue and there are so much stuff that made no sense. After one ending, I literally did not want to see any other endings.

The G.O.A.T.

This VN got me into eroge. I can't overstress how good this game is. I think I lost myself and my mind for at least a week until I finished it.

This game has impressive art, holds no punches with its writing, and also introduced me to more extreme fetishes. Such an all around positive experience. I continue to pray for more Empress games to be translated.

This game may have a lot of repeating scenes and scenes that go on way too long but, you can just click through. I loved the borderline disturbing scenes and psychological factor. This is the gold standard for me in art and content, I love when a game is not afraid of what people may be turned off by.

From Sei Shoujo, the great mind that brought us Bible Black comes Starless. From what I can see in this game, he's only grown more perverted and audacious in the decade between this and his most infamous work..

What can I say about it? I hope you enjoy fetishes because you're just getting a lot of weird stuff in this game. In this game, the enduring theme is women hold power over men and other women and make them do humiliating things, things that you would never imagine. As the male protagonist you are the victim. There are many ending but only a minority are what you would call a good end.

The criticisms are obvious. Despite the legendary visuals there's too much text and you will skip large chunks, it's just a fact. You couldn't possibly subject yourself to 100% of this. There's a lot of moments where you go "that's not how sex works!".

And yet some elements of this game struck my fetishes so here we are, at 5 stars. It's undeniable that this is some of the best artwork you'll find in a VN and the imagination for the setup and execution of some of these sex scenes are to be watched just for the spectacle, if nothing else. This game is truly the product of a singular creative vision, you have to respect them for that.

Absolute and uninhibited perversion is the idea behind this one, a lot of pretty extreme fetish so not for everyone but the people into fucked shit like me it's a great one.

The girls are hot, not a fan of femdom but still enjoyed this one, a lack of diversity in body type but not that big of a downside.

Recommanded for people into fucked up and extreme fetish !

excellent story, graphic and sound can be better. the two things i dont like in it is excessive dialogue in some places and the mistress and momoko nipples should be a little brownish as they are lactating, otherwise if you are lactation fetish like go for it.

-Pro
- Lots of scenes
- Variety of sex positions and festishes
- Decent art

-Con
- I agree with other reviews: It has a bit of everything, and nothing in particular
- REALLY lot of text during each scene. So much so that I fast forwards skipped most of it. The text really kills all immersion and makes the game dull
- Not very much choices, story is mostly liniar

Boring, boring is the one word I can think of when I was playing this game (if you can even call it that). Text after text of nothing happening and the sex scenes were long and padded with useless text just to add to the game length. The game tries to cover as many fetishes as possible, lots of scat if you use the uncensored patch, even guro is there.
There are 10 endings (if I'm not mistaken) and none of them are good, all of them are bad endings.
You get maybe 5 or 6 choices during this 4 or 5 hours wall of endless text. each decision changes the course drastically without actually knowing what will happen. Like the decision to "peek" or "don't peek" could end up getting you killed. How the hell was I suppose to guess something like that would happen, there should be some sort of indication of what would happen if I choose that. I can keep going, but I think I said enough. also there is not one single likable character in this game, maybe only the driver in the beginning of the game.

Okay, here is the thing.

This game is trying to be a Jack of all trades, but is, apparently, master of none.

What I'm trying to say, is that Starless is trying everything available, but time to get to these "things" is much too great. You either like all the kinks this game has to offer (and will still have a hard time trying not to fall asleep) or some contained within, that are either scarce, or prolonged.

Conclusion: It's all basic stuff in there, game put's everything in line, one after another without branching, thus is extremely long.

...That was painful on so many levels.
I'm gonna give it a like for showing me just how far I still can go in my depravity, and in hopes to never see anything like this again.
5/5, would recommend - was very enlightening.
*shudder*

There are a lot of games on this site that suffer from Bad Women's Anatomy problems. It's much more rare for a game to have Bad Men's Anatomy beyond just oversized dongs that can stay up indefinitely and shoot out a seemingly infinite amount of cum. This game has that and much more.

Storywise it's a pretty typical "the MC has some vague debts and is turned into a sex slave for some smoking hot billionaires" thing. The unusual part is that it's a man being made the slave here, and it comes off a little bit hard to believe when he walks into the mansion and is basically told this up front and his reaction isn't "you're going to pay me a ton of money to bang hot chicks, yes please!" but instead "Oh no! This is horrible!"

But then the actual sex scenes start and it's clear that he's just a cartoon anyway so it doesn't really matter.

This game has a LOT of words to read through, and multiple endings to see but it feels rather padded at times. The sex scenes go on and on for page after page of repetitive dialog. I wouldn't feel ashamed to hold down CTRL and speed through it, especially since you can go back and read the chatlog without having to double click for every line.

Yet another game that fumbles the back third.This is solid 2.75 our of 5 stars.

First and foremost goddamn are some of the sex scenes long and excessive, this is important because it pads the playtime I would say there is easily 2 - 3 hours of sex scenes that are just not needed to be in the game.

There are 10 endings of which I only cared for 4 of the even a little bit. And the biggest problems with these endings are that at least 4 of them are with the shoehorned in love interest that shows up in the first couple hours. Who imo ruins the plot the second they are introduced. The game before them being introduced is very interesting and has at least 3 "better" potential love interests in my eyes. Only one of those 3 really gets an ending, there is one ending where it is kind of harem. What this causes is by the time the endings come up you will probably get one you do not care about.

I am conflicted on this game because it sets up a semi interesting premise which is all too common for female protagonist stories in H content, and gave it to male. Thus the situations are somewhat more interesting. But then those premises start falling to the wayside for some forced love interest stuff. One example for instance is in the early game one of the choices is either to cum in a girl or pullout, this dialouge talks about MC potentially getting them pregnant(shows up a lot in this game) and if you pull out they will say don't worry you will be having many chances in the future. there is only 1 or 2 times at most that you ever have sex with that character again after the love interest character is brought in.

I am stressing how badly this ruins the game so much because it honest to god doe. I was hoping they would leave the game 30minutes after they showed up because they were derailing a fun experience.

Rant over.

Use the guide to find the endings after you have beat the game once, some are particularly annoying to find without it(cumming inside vs outside with a certain girl changes which ending you get) .

Mechanics are standard nothing really bad but nothing great either.

Along with long ass sex scenes and dialogue there are huge amounts of time without choices and that can get annoying because you are being railroaded into actions you wish you got choices for.


Total completion time for all endings is around 11 hours but like i said early on a chunk of that is sex scenes that don't need to be in the game.

This game to me had a potential for being a 4 out of 5 stars, since that was what i was feeling in those first couple hours but after events that kept on going down as the game went on.

Amazing graphics, Lots of sex scenes, though the language is japanese one can still enjoy voice - didn't find moaning annoying which is big bonus in my book. I love the intro music. Absolutely loved it.

Fetishes that will be way too extreme for most people.

The game is also ENDLESS filler text on top of loads of mostly the same repeating sprites and static backgrounds. Wasn't even at day 2 before I just went *fuck it* and started just holding CTRL to skip all the text..