VN - Ren'Py - Strong Desire [Ep.6B] [TheBlueInk]

The start of this game is way too busy, almost the entire first episode is nothing but introductions of more than twenty characters and story wise its a mess, it's hard to care much about the main love interest Anna because while the MC knows her we the player don't, after that the story gets so complicated you would need a business degree to know if it makes any sense
The MC is the weak link in this game, he gets led around by the nose so totally that he's barely more than a prop, at one point the person controlling his life literally says
There are no story choices at all, this is a kinetic novel.

As for romance choices again there are none, you can skip scenes but that has no bearing on how the MC will treat them or how they will treat the MC, you just don't get to see certain scenes and even when you don't see them the game still carries on as if you did which can make the game confusing as you don't know what happened when its referenced later
The MC's idea of "dominating" someone is woefully lacking, i.e. he still does what the person wants he just talks big while doing it.

At the start there was a lot of promise in the story and characters but it loses it when they start back tracking on things to make the MC be the perfect boring standard anime pro-tag who never gets angry at any woman, unfortunately this is done by removing any possible reason for him to be angry at them by making them responsible for nothing but by doing that you make the women identical, perfect, boring, predictable and very uninteresting(it gets really really hard to tell characters apart), also by doing this the story makes less and less sense as it progresses like the test
While the art is really really high quality, most of it is just standard stuff, there are some great sex scenes but again they are mostly vanilla.

Story 1/5 (over complicated)
Sex 2/5 (good but needs some spice)
Characters 1/5 (identical)
Art 5/5 (very well done if a little boring)
Choices 1/5 (skip stuff)
Kinks 1/5 (only one)

This one is not terrible, but more of a miss than a hit for me (Ep 6.B version). My main problem with it is the story. It throws at you a massive amount of female characters, gives them little development or interest and keeps moving and adding, which becomes increasingly confusing. So I just installed the walkthrough mod (which wasn't really needed, choices are in general pretty obvious which is the good and which is the bad one) and skipped through the whole of it after a few in game days. Don't have the sensation of having missed anything at all, images are pretty clear on what's happening and the story is quite obvious. And of course, all the girls just seem to throw themselves at you with little effort on the MC's part.

Render quality is pretty good, as are the character models. Animations are decent, but nothing too special and a few of them are a bit awkward and stiff. Sound is mostly annoying so I took it out. At least no bugs happened, which is nice.

So, all in all, this one is a drop for me. Other games out there seem to give me more value for my time and attention.

(Review of Ep. 6B)

NOTE: I didn't play the whole thing but only about 30 mins, I didn't even reach the first sex scene so take this rating as you wish.

This is a totally generic harem game if the first 30 mins of gameplay is anything to go by, with totally forgettable characters wearing random outfits and speaking random nonsense. Applying the incest patch does nothing to improve matters, as expected.

Technically the product is not bad, I mean renders are OK if you excuse the stiff characters, it's just the whole thing is a snooze fest.

I don't understand why this AVN is not famous. The plet and the characters are amazing, but unfortunately as others said there are too many girls. I can suggest the dev to not add any other characters and continue with the actual ones. You can make a great game by the way. I give you 4 stars, but this game can easily get 5 stars

This VN has a lot of potential that is being wasted by too much ambition.

There are far too many characters. This limits content with each one and also not much development. The Dev should have shown some restraint instead of continuously adding in new ones give more content and time with existing ones.

Things with the MC and his family are being dragged out, some probably due to milking it out and some again to having so many characters that their content and screen time is severely limited.

The models mostly look good ( Bella not withstanding ) but personally I would have liked to see more variety with boobs. It'd be nice to see the A and B cup ladies represented. Also Anna's appearance changes from scene to scene. I also noticed Vinna and Reyna's did as well a couple times. The Dev flat out did Mel dirty towards the end and made her less attractive.

The story gets more convoluted as it goes as well. The MC has a large majority of the company yet it's decided that he would compete for Frank's 30 percent. Why exactly? That was stupid and pointless. Weirdly Madison knows the truth yet she's content to let the farce go on. At this point keeping things a secret really serves no purpose either. Parts of the story aren't well thought out.

Also as far as writing goes whoever is writing the story grossly misuses the term cuck. They keep referring to Anna as a cuckqueen, cuck being short for cuckold. A cuckold is someone whose partner cheats on them. Anna encourages the MC to be with other women so she isn't being cheated on. Sharing is her fetish, probably voyeurism as well so that precludes her from being a cuck. As a writer not knowing term definitions is something I chock up to lazy writing, a pet peeve of mine.

I imagine the MC is something of a sex addict so I'd say he and Anna are enabling each other. She feeds his addiction, he allows her to indulge in her fetish.

I'd score this higher if the Dev trims back the number of characters and put emphasis on the main ones. Also stream line the story better.

Wow, I'm really enjoying Strong Desire! The story has me hooked, especially because the characters are so interesting. All the girls are definitely standouts; they are gorgeous.

The visuals are also impressive. The character models are beautiful, and the environments are well-designed. The animation is smooth and adds to the overall experience.

Overall, this is a fantastic game! It easily gets a 10 out of 10 from me. The characters are engaging, the story is interesting, and the visuals are top-notch. Definitely worth checking out!

It's really unfortunate because this game actually has fantastic renders, it's just really boring interactions between characters with a story that is even more boring and uninteresting. Even though the renders are beautiful none of the characters personalities are memorable.

I hope this dev continues making games though because the art is great.

The idea has as much potential as any other of this type of VN

Decent renders, but the story is pretty dumb and incoherent, trying too hard to make a ridiculous scenario plausible.

There are far too many girls for the author, who cannot seem to keep up with them all and give them enough content to make them interesting. It's hard to keep track of the girls because there are so many, with so little time or effort devoted to them.

The MC is pretty much your typical self insert Marty Sue, smooth face mc long dick, expert in martial arts, business, casanova, etc, etc, yawn zzzzzzzzzzzz............

The writing is below average, verging to poor. A lot of non-sensical sentences, that don't really follow from the previous sentence, or into the next.

Great models, Great story, classic harem plot. What else one needs from AVN.
Women are beautiful, especially the redheads.
Good animations every now and then.
Good support of addition community made gallery mods. Good community made android ports(Thanks DA ports)
I appreciate there is no grind in game, everything is pretty much straightforward.
Not everything needs to be hard to get.

Minor grammatical errors and slight discontinuity issues but basically a solid effort. Animations are OK but not great.
But the story is solid and pretty well told. As with others, he may be getting carried away with too many women. But it's a pretty good harem story that's believable, well above the bulk of this kind of AVN. Hope the team finishes it - because that's what I dislike about AVNs in general - most never really finish the story! And when it's a relatively good one like this, you want to see it end well!

Stunning and lots of LI's. Pretty cool plot. Strong, alpha MC, not some sissy.
Good music, i would add SFX to sex scenes.
Very good renders.

As a fan of harem games, this is a dream game for me!
Thank you dev
Overall 5/5 game!
Keep up good work, looking forward for more.

There is a tendency that if an AVN doesn't include a "serious theme," it is taken lightly, resulting in unfairly low ratings... and I think this is exactly what's happening here. Sure, the games that touch your soul are great (you know a few games I'm talking about, they are my favorites too), yet games like this are also amazing in that they simply serve the MAIN PURPOSE of AVN, which is letting a man live the ultimate male fantasy!

Also, I love the fact that the dev didn't neglect one of the most essential parts of visual novels, MUSIC. I appreciate the dev's ability to tell what's important and what is not and to invest their effort in things that ACTUALLY MATTER!

I like the girls ngl.. Needs work on animations though.
Renders were beautiful but story needs a little push. I would love to see some corruption and little more effort on developing relationship between characters even though mc and all in game characters had some history.
Also focus on primary female leads instead of adding more of them believe me you as a dev will be feeling the heat as you go along.

Game was pretty decent, its fair enough to force a LI on you to start with but if your then forced to cheat on her and theres no faithfull route then whats the point of it and to make it really stupid game starts out being choice driven which it then dosent deliver on later when things starts to be forced on the player.

I hated the sister Macy told her i dident miss her and picked all the choices against being with her, but even when picking wait to talk to Anna, she is still forced on you and i just hate forced LIs with a passion, even more so in games where theres choices with proberly everyone else.
And why did it force that scene? just so Jessie would walk in on them to create some weird drama that arent even needed in any way since MC can do whatever he wants so why the fuck not make it a choice...

The hole Macy deal makes game way to kinetic since all past choices are 100% ignored by the game.

As for story its a bit bland since there is just to many possible LIs, so they will all lack in romance and build-up which results in having 0 emotions for any of them, you can pretty much play this as a pure mindless fuckfest if you like that kind of thing, you do have a choices with proberly most girls but not all.
More LIs dosent = a better game, Less would be a million times better so you can get more depth with each LI instend of them feeling empty and emotionless.

At times it feels like all there is to the game is MC meets girl say hi and girl goes hi breed me and of they go, when done MC will take two steps ask whos next in the que?
When MC gets the letter from hes grandpa on the airplane, about making a harem and make em all pregnant, i can see where dev got hes ideas from, another game with aloooot of sisters you had to make pregnant....

The writting aka the english needs a bit of an improvement as well.



Girls 2/5
Some does have good looking faces but its just lacking in diversity, main focus is big tits fetish so if you dont have that it proberly wont be for you.

Animations 3/5
Average at best, they got so weird jerks going on with the screens in alot of scenes, but i will give them that they made nice virgin scenes with optional show of blood which alot of other games seems to get worng.

Music 3/5
Average background stuff nothing special, nothing with lyrics.

Choices 2/5
Forced LIs and relationships not just the fiance, Forced fetishes, Forced sex scenes, no faithfull route, just feels kinetic where past chocies are 100% ignored, Forced incest.

Game had the potential to be 4-5 star game but when choices dosent matter and are even ignored it will never be a good game, way to much forced stuff.

Hmmm-it's not a bad game. The women after the rework are attractive and varied. The models are one of the good parts of the game. So why average? Firstly there are still a few of those weird looking original models in the game. It's off-putting to see a bunch of fairly realistic looking women and then one of the original models wanders in with her fryingpan flat face with the buckteeth and weird nose. They're bad and need to be reworked. Cho for instance before the rework is nothing special-after the rework though she is one of the best characters at least looks-wise. So why leave her original character in for the sexy times? It's like going to the bar and seeing a five who after 6-8 beers will become a 10. She might look good at 1am, but you won't be happy in the morning. If you're going to rework things, do it all the way because leaving her original model in for the one sex scene just ruined it.

Another thing is there are just too many women. There is no depth of any kind in the game because the MC is largely just going flower to flower. Not only does this make building up the story largely impossible but the side-effect is you start to feel like the MC doesn't really care about any of them except for adding another notch to his GFs fantasy bank. This is the other irritating part. Sure cuck-queens are a thing but it doesn't have to play this central a role. At this point I feel like the only reason to have her there is to scratch the poly itch. Sure she loves it but if the Mc's and her family are just fap fodder for his GF then it's a shit story. At some point they have already discussed her watching the MC nail the family of which she is a part. It feels like a needless addition unless you're just going for porn style action.

Anyway I think average fits pretty well. Beautiful women (minus those hideous original models) and lots of action but little soul. The dev does some things well but the central theme of simply going around fucking everything gets stale.

3 out of 5 for now.

A rare harem where the story starts with Mc having a bride and for some reason she becomes a Cuckqueen( every guy's dream, isn't it?)
But seriously, this game is partly Netori, only so far Netori is just beginning, the story is already heating up in tension and Mc is slowly gaining competitors in the company, the game is already becoming better with each episode, and also the last two updates are visible as well the renderings and animation quality look, if you're looking for harems with two families and mysteries, you might like this!

Great renders, but ruined by d tier writing, an absurd amount of women resulting in no deep development of any, and a lack of meaningful choice.

Just extract the renders and fap to the good ones; it will save you time and brain cells.

Took all of five minutes for the constant barrage of bad grammar and poorly constructed, Engrish-ass sentences to do me in. If you're more tolerant than I am maybe you'll find something to enjoy, but it needs a bit more time in the oven before I can bring myself to bear putting any real time into it.

It's a fun game all in all. Like... the usual tropes are all present and accounted for but the issue is that involves the bad as well as the good.

The visuals are fine, everyone looks pretty, the cast is varied, the sets are familiar but at least well done it's not just the standard "generic room #4"

The plot is..... interesting but I still can't decide if it's good. The MC is a Cock God, everyone wants a piece. He's got a degree, a fiance and a good life ahead of him, but there's a TWIST. Granted this is at least partially explained by the plot but if anything that in itself makes it somewhat insidious. No spoilers but it feels like everything that happens is set up to happen, so the MC has almost no free will. So when you're interacting with women and they're wanting a ride on your bones, are they doing it for fun, or cause they have to? Obviously thinking too much into a AVN but it's definitely in your head as you play. The whole plot of the game has been orchestrated by others and sure you can choose to dip your wick or not, and I've not played that path cause.... who would? But I get the feeling that even if you say no, the game will make it end up the same way anyway.

The characters are good but it's struggling with overreach. Having a glossary of characters is handy and all but a sure sign of issues. I appreciate Devs feel the need to have a wide cast but really it makes the game feel hollow. I don't NEED 4 "sisters", 12 "aunts", 23 "cousins" that I'll maybe see once and that's it. If anything it's worse than that because the dev insists on throwing in work colleagues as well. Bar staff, chauffer's, randoms on the street maybe? Everyone gets a shot on the magic dick. A game with a cast a third the size and expanded plot for them would be infinitely better than what we have currently. It IS a fun game, but it feels like it's on borrowed time before it ultimately collapses under its own weight.

Really average run of the mill game. I've been here for years rocking my peers - shit is pretty stale to me. Way too many characters, boring dialog, ultimately unmemorable. This is why I am leaving a review, because I will undoubtedly forget I've already played this unless I make a record of it.

If you're new, maybe you'll like this. The one thing that makes it unique is unfortunately a negative - a massive cast who you will struggle to remember their names, relationships, history and more.