VN - Ren'Py - Strong Desire [Ep.7a] [TheBlueInk]

First episode had decent writing and potential, looked like there could be some interesting storylines/forbidden relationships with multiple characters while dealing with the fact you're hiding everything from your fiance. Things were actually set up relatively nicely.

Episode 2, your fiance immediately turns into "I'm ok with and I actively want you to have sex with other women." and from there the game becomes your standard porn logic, smooth brained fuckfest of which there are hundreds of. How to lose my interest in a game 101, just disappointing and boring, awful.

STRONG DESIRE

Strong Desire is exactly what happens when a romance VN decides it doesn't need to choose between good writing and forbidden heat. It leans into both and so far, it works.


This isn’t the usual “everyone loves the MC instantly” fantasy.
Some women here are sweet, some are cold, and a few act like they woke up choosing violence. The jealousy, the attitude, the tension it creates an atmosphere that feels messy in the best way. You’re not just cruising through scenes; you’re navigating emotional landmines.


And yes the taboo energy is one of the game’s biggest strengths.
The dev clearly understands that the hottest moments aren’t the explicit ones, but the ones right on the edge. The “we shouldn’t,” the “this is wrong,” the “why does this feel good?”
That’s the engine of this VN, and it fires cleanly.

What’s Actually Good

• The character dynamics are spicy without being brainless.
• The writing balances tension, desire, and drama.
• Attractive characters look attractive no uncanny plastic faces.

What’s Annoying

• A couple characters cross the line from “jealous tension” to “just rude.”
• The MC gets disrespected more than necessary.
• Some choices feel like illusions early VN problem, but still noticeable.

For You If You Want:

• Slow-burn taboo heat
• Messy but believable relationship drama
• Women who aren’t cardboard cutouts
• A VN that gives you both story and spice

Not For You If:

• You want instant payoff or shallow fanservice
• You hate emotional chaos
• You want the MC to be a walking power fantasy

I've tried this one a few times due to the high reviews it gets and the overview makes it sound like it would be a really good story. There could have been something here, as it's reasonably well written and looks lovely but there's just not enough substance or focus on the (back)story and has some annoying issues that led me to quit early every time.

Firstly, the focus is always on incest, implied or not, instead of the story and there's no way to avoid it due to things that have already happened (we find out in flashback) and forced scenes. Sadly after a while you realise the incest is the only focus here and if you can get past this there isn't enough left to carry the story forward. In addition the relationship names never quite work, breaking immersion. The 'landlady' and 'tenant' garbage isn't a fix that works when the reality of the situation is hardwired into the story. I couldn't find a way to resolve it as the two 'Aunt' characters names are physically related and the sheer volume of female characters involved. It's fiddly and annoying when you just want to get on with the story, especially as incest is presented as a viable option in the introduction to widen the readership. Surely the MC being adopted would make more sense to give readers a chance to get through this.

Secondly, you're forced into relationships/scenes as default such as with Anna, Macy and Emy for the sake of the story. If you choose the 'no' choices with Macy and Emy, don't worry you will find yourself having sex with them anyway, a couple of chapters later with scenes and dialogue that make no sense as a result. The classic non 'choice' is used; are you sure? are you sure, you're sure? I'll ask again in the next chapter to be sure, followed by it doesn't matter what you want it's yes anyway, as I need you to agree for the story I want to tell to make sense, so you will agree! There's so many great non family member LI's that surely it must be possible for this not to be necessary. Is this poor writing or just laziness not to sort out a clear non-family route? You're also forced into seeing the doctor/psychiatrist with no reason given, so that the reader can be shown the flashbacks. Even a company policy health check would be fine as a one off visit to get I some important information in for the story but ongoing visits WTF!!! "Well you're going to be be my doctor anyway so yeah lets chat once a week". Why???? There's no choice as to what you say, again breaking immersion and giving a massive quit point here, as this whole scene is just so bizarre and irritating. The MC's responses are insane!

Finally, there's also too many LI's with two massive families, adding to the mess. It really makes me wonder how bad this was originally if this is the reboot. A simpler version with less LI's, that really has the option without the incest, a real way of saying no to LI's, with more of the focus on the background business story would be much better. The art is good and if you can past the above and are into incest this is for you. For me it's 2 to 2 1/2 stars.

I really like most of the models and the characters. There are just too many of them. The main plot got goofy real quick, and I started skimming through it after a while. The renders are excellent, no real complaints there. The animation, on the other hand, is not. They recently added AI animation, and I'm not quite sure what I think about them. For the most part, they look nice, but they feel very out of place at times. One major complaint I have is with the MC. The model looks kinda "off". Like he doesn't fit with the other models or something.
I'm giving this a high score because I really liked the girls, and there is a fair bit of lewd content that I really enjoyed. I think this could be a really good game once it's finished, but I don't think I will follow it update after update.

A typical harem game featuring many well-developed characters. It includes young people and women of all ages, which is a good thing because it appeals to a wide audience. MC is quite successful because, for once, he's not a stupid idiot. Vulgarity is also avoided, which confirms the game's quality. The story, while convoluted, is rather well done, even if it lacks a bit of pacing. The end of the update concludes with a challenge to complete, and this is ultimately the true beginning of the story, the moment the adventure begins and which has the potential to elevate the game. The developers must therefore rise to the challenge to make it a great harem game where the two families interact more often and highlight MC's potential. I support this project because it has succeeded in portraying beautiful and diverse women, a positive and intelligent protagonist, and numerous settings. It gives a real positive boost and doesn't try to be negative or vulgar. On the contrary, it aims for one thing: happiness, solidarity, mutual support, and love. What more could one want!

The writing is average at best, nothing wrong with porn logic but the need to make this a fuckfest and something with more dept than a puddle constantly clashes, beyond the characters relationship to the MC and a few backgound problems most of the cast has no more to them than sex or to advance the plot. I understand the lastest version is after the remake and I think I'm glad to not have played the original because what I saw was awful AI animations and little consistency with the characters design, truly a shame and for the record I don't understand why this doesn't have the AI tag when a key component that are the sex scenes are done with AI.

The quality of the characters and the animation is state of the art. The story is nice, high class situation with a guy having a very unique mission given by his grandfather, which does lead to a lot of lewd scenes. Why not five stars. Sometimes it is even too much, even if you did not chose the path with impregnate all girls. I do recommend to play the path, that the male MC decides carefully, whom and whom not. Especially when it comes to his own household. Still, looking forward to the next chapter, entered my personal top 10 of novels seen.

Overall this is a very mid AVN.

The MC is nearly flawless and at the same time kind of a douche. He is young, athletic, successful and every woman around him falls for him within minutes of meeting him. He is a player that gets magically given a free pass by his fiancée to be with any woman he wants and he still manages to be sleazy with it.

How? well, at first she sets a single rule, he has to tell her beforehand, so what does he do? he doesn't tell her beforehand. She then accepts this without any issue and amends the rule to "ok, but then tell me as soon as possible". What does he do? he takes over a week to tell her about the next girl. So the reaction of the fiancée you ask? well, she accepts this and tells him it is ok, he doesn't even need to tell her.... and yet, the next scene is with one of her sisters, and she says that "she is not too close to her sister (the fiancée), so do not tell her" and the MC goes with it. Sure, he has been given permission, but this feels like totally dishonest and sleazy. So yeah, not a great MC to identify with....

Then there is the issue with the LIs. To be fair, they look good but.... some look older that they should, some look younger than they should, there are way too many introduced way too fast and looking alike because they are family so... it ends up being a mess. I have to check the journal quite regularly to see who am I really talking to.

Not that the conversations are very interesting, to be honest, it tries to give you a business intensive feeling but.... it fails. The author clearly knows nothing of this world or doesn't care. At some points the MC is asked to help with the business of his fiancée's aunts, and the solutions he gives are totally amateurish but praised as if he was some genius business mind.

What do I mean? Well, he works at an investment bank, overseeing his fiancée's family's fortune. One of the husbands is embezzling money from the business, you would assume that the MC is uniquely placed to see this, alert the family, find a way to trap the thieving husband and solve the problem, right? well, no, instead, as the business is not working, he proposes that the sister goes shopping to one of the failing shops where they meet a totally cartoonish thug being the manager of the shop who then starts perving on the fiancée's aunt and when caught takes 10 seconds to spill the beans on the embezzlement. Totally porn logic instead of proper writing. Not a big deal, but enlightened writing this isn't.

For some reason it is then explained that the MC is actually the rightful heir to his fiancée's company (because of course he is), as his father explains that they own 70%+ of the company's shares. So he then gets put in a competition to be CEO of the company (really? he owns 70% of it and they make him jump through hoops?) and then it is revealed that he actually is set to inherit.... fuck all. Yeah, the conversation with one of the oldest aunts of the fiancée goes like this (I summarize):

"you must be wondering what you are going to inherit, right? well, there is a lot of money stored in the treasury (what treasury? nobody knows...) but we don't know how much or who controls it, but do not worry, I am sure it will all be revealed in time, oh, and by the way, you own exactly 0% of the company because your grandfather sold it to us and kept it from your father"

.... I am literally speechless. In previous scenes the father has been giving millions to his family, and has ran off on "holidays" with even more money. He has bodyguards, assessors, a private yet.... when his family thought he was a farmer. So where is this money coming from? in theory from the revelation that they actually own the company, but if they don't, where did the money come from? The writing in this is totally inconsistent and stupid, revealing new pieces of information to change the situation with a "trust me bro" wave of the hand that shows the writer couldn't even come up with a consistent plot for the business side of the VN.

See this: your father is a farmer - he has sold land and given money to the family and ran away (so all the women in the family are conveniently free for you to fuck) - he actually is a millionaire and owns 70% of this mega corporation - he actually knows nothing and owns 0% of the company.

Stellar writing right there.

So yeah, the story is bland and a poorly written excuse so you can go and fuck every single woman in both families, because every other male in their entourage is weak, stupid, dying, a coward or evil, oh, and because your fiancée wants you to fuck as many women as possible, your grandfather sent you a letter asking you to form a harem, and every businesswoman in both families thinks that it is a great idea to have loads of children for the future of the company... yeah, because we all know that heirs infighting is how you keep companies alive, oh, and splitting inheritances into as little pieces as possible.

That leaves the sex scenes..... so yeah, they are ok, nothing too good though, competent renders, not fantastic animations, relatively short scenes but they get the job done.

Overall a 3/5. A proper rewrite that makes more sense of the business mess, that makes the MC not be a douche, and that makes it so he actually has to work for the affection of the LIs could turn this into a 4/5. Then reworking how the LIs are introduced, how they look so they are not so confusing...etc could elevate it to a 5/5.

But this is already a rework so I do not see that happening.

[Ep.6D Remake]

Ok I have played this VN once or twice before so I think it's finally time to write my opinions down.

Writing:
⠀⠀⠀The story here is a classic harem power fantasy where MC is young, successful, attractive, charismatic, has a cute and very loyal fiance, all women fall at his feet with no resistance, and he is about to inherit a large company for no reason whatsoever, because he's a literal 'Chosen One'. When it comes to women of which there are more than a few dozen he's got no real rivals or competition, they're all down bad for him and all other men are repulsive assholes, dimwits and essentially MC's punching bags. It just so happens that when he began to feel tempted to cheat on his fiance, she reveals herself as a cuckquean. Just how convenient is that? Not only that but it turns out both his and her families have close ties with each other, yet him and her just randomly met one another at the library, what are the chances? BUT, that's not all, get this, protagonist gets a 'final will' letter from his deceased grandpa literally telling him to "build a harem" and "impregnate them all". Not gonna lie, after this point I've stopped taking this story seriously and just focused on the girls and lewds. This is definitely the "porn - first, story - second" kind of visual novel. It doesn't necessarily means that the writing is bad, you know apart from moments like "go ahead, my grandson, build yourself a harem, here is some company's shares to help you with that". Actually, now that I think about it, most of the dialogue is boring yapping about business and other slice-of-life topics, which I really don't want to hear about in my erotic visual novels, I'd rather the writer establish the characters more. Speaking of characters, too many of them are introduced too quickly to remember them all and it's quite confusing. First, we are introduced to fiance's entire family and family friends which is 10 women, then all the women from work, then the 6 women from your own family, and then about a dozen of other women of various backgrounds. Thankfully there is a glossary with all the characters, to refresh our memory, otherwise it would be a nightmare.

Choices:
⠀⠀⠀There is a very simple binary choice system. The first (upper) choice is the "good one" and is either enter a relationship, engage in sex scene or gain valuable stat. The second (lower) choice is the "bad one" and is the polar opposite of close character path, deny sex scene or lose stats. I think all of the choices so far only regard your relationships with women and don't affect the direction the main story-line is taking, so kinetic novel, kinda?

Erotic content:
⠀⠀⠀Sex scenes are fairly frequent, but not to the point of it being a fuckfest, I don't think. They're average in length, renders and dirty talk. The AI animations are ....... of a ....... varying quality, let's say. Yet they are still better than the original ones, which are stiff, choppy, low FPS and lack dynamic so, whatever, better than nothing. There are no sound effects. Scenes are mostly vanilla with basic poses and some threesomes. There are some hidden sex netori scenes tho. Heavy emphasis on breeding. There is no gallery.

Idk, I'm kinda torn between 3 and 4 stars for this one. Probably closer to a 3 for now, but we'll see. It doesn't mean that the project is mediocre, it does have potential, yet there are many setbacks.

Disclaimer: I first played with VN about a year ago and honestly there is very little content that has been added since, so I have my doubts about the future of this project.

playtime: ~9 hours

I played to the end of the current update (6C) and have been enjoying the game so far. I disagree with those who cut the rating "because of badly written story".

I played quite a few games on this site and shall say that for a porn game the story is rather good. Not perfect, there are lots of plot holes and the MC is a total Mary Sue but I tell you 9 out of 10 stories on this site are written much much worse and still have better rating.

At least the Dev is trying to make the story coherent and relatively plausible.
The models are hot and the renders are mostly good though occasionally they are not consistent in quality.

Also as the game progresses, the quality of the models improves. And what I like that the Dev is trying to justify it in game that the girls went to a beauty clinic to make a face lift )))

I also like that there aren't any oversized boobs. Just for that I give an extra star. Though I wouldn't mind if the youngest girls still had smaller boobs.

Unfortunately, as many have noticed, the Dev couldn't avoid the common mistake of harem games - too many LIs, which results in spreading the attention and slower progress with the main LIs.

All in all, I believe the game deserves solid 4 stars. Again, inspite of its shortcomings, it is still written better than 90% of shit on this site.

This VN is clearly inspired by telenovelas and other harem games on this site.

The story is ridiculous and overly convoluted, don't stress if you get confused it will change soon.
The characters are mostly tropes but look good, and will have some good dialogue and don't worry the MC is inoffensive and keeps the story moving.

Just sit back and watch it like you are watching a soap opera, and pass me the popcorn because Ijust need to see where this game goes.

First of all thank you for making and uploading this game !
I have to say that i like the game.Its very well made and the stroy kinda makes you wonder whats going to happen next.
Pros:
+Good looking girls and MC
+Very good Renders.
+If you are fun of incest this is all about it (Your girlfriends family included)
+Story is very good so far.
+Writing is perfect
Cons:
-Animations are not so good
-Maybe i shouldnt expect this from a porn game but MC gets laid rather too easily.
-MC's girlfriend is a bit too nice and understanding of everything.
Overall i liked this game very much and i suggest you guys to give it a try.

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.