VN Ren'Py Completed Tamas Awakening [v1.0b] [Whiteleaf Studio]

3.60 star(s) 115 Votes
Discussion Reviews (115)
79flavors

79flavors

Well-Known Member
Respected User
Jun 14, 2018
1,611
2,260
A playful game that delivers what most people would want from initial release.

My personal wishlist for some work/rework would be:

  • I'd like to see Rick attend some of the lectures with Professor Akbar. Extra points for some psychedelic style dreams about his Mom/Sis while falling asleep in class. Introduce the idea of mind control to Rick just before he starts to fall asleep, wake up to some weird symbols on the class board, ideally something that looks ancient Egyptian or Sumerian. Then the obvious "make sure you do the homework about Sumerian defensive wards so that the world doesn't end" warning at the end of the class. Rick instead goes home and picks up his homework book - only to be distracted by Anna doing some stretches outside on the decking. Do the whole lot of a series of 3 to 5 separate lectures, while you are still world building and introducing characters.

  • Double extra points if Rick accidentally breaks an urn alleged to contain the essence of an ancient Sumerian deity or mythical creature, while in Prof. Akbar's office.

  • After his initial failure to hypnotize Anna, I'd like to Rick return to Prof. Akbar's class to say he's been wasting his time and how none of this crackpot shit is of any use to anyone. Prof Akbar pulls out an ancient tome and suggest he reads it. Extra points if he wakes up the following morning with his cheek lay against the final page of the book - but with no memory of having read any of it. Alternatively Akbar could give Rick a ring, neckless or bracelet. Something to help him focus his power.

  • Oddly, I'd have liked to see Rick make LESS progress in the first release. Something needs to go wrong more often to make the eventual success all that much sweeter. But then I do tend to favor slow-burn games where the teasing is done well. I'm not suggesting the pacing is wrong, only that I'd prefer it be slower. Personal preference.

  • Another female character. Completely unobtainable. Preferably red hair and freckles. Seemingly resistant to Rick's influence... laughs it off, each time he tries. Maybe only initially seen in the background when going out for a meal, then again in the background at the library or something. Might not even speak to her for the first time for 2 or 3 releases. She could be Rick's white whale - where players need to make exactly the right choices throughout the game to have a chance of unlocking her.

  • I'd also like to see a few of the rookie "3 wishes" style mistakes. A loophole or failure to think through the full consequences of the instructions. Those annoying unintended consequences of saying "almost" the right thing. (Maybe Anna is brought back my Police, having gone running nude. Or Carol invites a friend over the house and sparks fly when both Anna and Carol can't understand why anyone would be upset about them sitting in their own damned house entirely naked.
Regardless... a good effort. The art style is what made me take a serious look. The humor is what will keep me looking out for the next release.

Good job. I wish you all the very best with your project.
 
  • Like
Reactions: GuardianZ
P

Plurmp McFlurnten

Member
Jan 12, 2020
105
247
hngg said:
The bitchy roommate gets "fixed". You aren't mean to like her initially; it's a setup with the payoff of seeing her change her tune later on. The main character's "power" over the household progresses fairly quickly, too.

This game's developer is on Patreon and has to follow Patreon's rules; so no incest(blood or not). Incest is (strangely) a popular genre right now, so allowing fans of that sort of thing to partake in your game while still technically following the rules is a game many developers are playing while they try to expand their target audience.

If your point is that not enough effort is put into the non-incestuous path on many of these games, I agree. Too often a game's story and dialog doesn't make sense UNLESS you establish "head-cannon" incest, which gives a sub-par experience to those not interested in such things. The developers of this game seem to be working on that, though it is still clear that the intended cannon is incestuous.



I started a "conversation" with you, I'm not sure if that is this forum's equivalent to a private message.
Click to expand...
I understand that they're setting up the 'stuck up girl becomes your obedient slave' thing but I've seen other games do the same thing without making the character a complete bitch (ie. Witch Trainer and Snow Daze). I don't generally like tsunderes but I can at least tolerate them if they have a good justification to be mad at the mc, and aren't just being mean for no reason. I have to like a character to some extent to want to see them corrupted. If I hate their guts, I don't care how slutty they become later on.

I didn't know about that Patreon rule. That seems very strange that they would allow sexually explicit games but ban anything with incest. If I was the devs I would stick to my guns and find an alternative. Censoring people's fetishes in a fictional game is such bullshit.
 
  • Like
Reactions: GuardianZ
GuardianZ

GuardianZ

Active Member
Jun 12, 2017
648
490
Plurmp McFlurnten said:
I understand that they're setting up the 'stuck up girl becomes your obedient slave' thing but I've seen other games do the same thing without making the character a complete bitch (ie. Witch Trainer and Snow Daze). I don't generally like tsunderes but I can at least tolerate them if they have a good justification to be mad at the mc, and aren't just being mean for no reason. I have to like a character to some extent to want to see them corrupted. If I hate their guts, I don't care how slutty they become later on.

I didn't know about that Patreon rule. That seems very strange that they would allow sexually explicit games but ban anything with incest. If I was the devs I would stick to my guns and find an alternative. Censoring people's fetishes in a fictional game is such bullshit.
Click to expand...
I agree. It's really bullshit. Now everyone wants to ban HENTAI. It's the NO1 source of income for Patreon and they want to BAN it? They must be full of DOUBLE MORONS.
 
anubis1970

anubis1970

Engaged Member
Mar 1, 2018
2,152
2,431
GuardianZ said:
I agree. It's really bullshit. Now everyone wants to ban HENTAI. It's the NO1 source of income for Patreon and they want to BAN it? They must be full of DOUBLE MORONS.
Click to expand...
It's not actually the owners of Patreon that are trying to ban hentai/porn. It's Paypal and the credit card companies that are putting pressure on Patreon, ban porn or we stop letting people use us to pay on your site.
 
  • Sad
Reactions: GuardianZ
B

Blood-Lust

Newbie
Jan 13, 2020
88
31
Plurmp McFlurnten said:
I understand that they're setting up the 'stuck up girl becomes your obedient slave' thing but I've seen other games do the same thing without making the character a complete bitch (ie. Witch Trainer and Snow Daze). I don't generally like tsunderes but I can at least tolerate them if they have a good justification to be mad at the mc, and aren't just being mean for no reason. I have to like a character to some extent to want to see them corrupted. If I hate their guts, I don't care how slutty they become later on.

I didn't know about that Patreon rule. That seems very strange that they would allow sexually explicit games but ban anything with incest. If I was the devs I would stick to my guns and find an alternative. Censoring people's fetishes in a fictional game is such bullshit.
Click to expand...
Well they do bypass it with an incest patch , patreon bans alot of things cause they dont want legal liabilty towards those things
 
79flavors

79flavors

Well-Known Member
Respected User
Jun 14, 2018
1,611
2,260
I'm not entirely convinced it's "legal liability" as much as it is "moral liability".

I don't know US law concerning this. But it strikes me that if the depiction of incest were illegal - Game of Thrones couldn't have been made. I'm sure there are other examples, this is just the most obvious one to me in recent times. There are whole porn industry studios that exist purely to create content that Patreon would ban a game developer from doing. Which makes me think it's less about the law and more about virtue signalling. In the same way that shooting someone in the head is illegal, the depiction of shooting someone in the head can't be surely? (Or else John Wick, Rainbow 6 and Far Cry would all be banned).

The reality though is that it's (probably) not the law NSFW developers are fighting. It's the Terms and Conditions.

I don't know if it's for the same reason... Audible (which produce some very niche NSFW content), don't accept PayPal either. Though that could be that they're owned by Amazon and Amazon don't like supporting businesses that aren't owned by Amazon.

Anyway, this is taking the topic off-topic. There are lots of other "Patreon is being pushed around by PayPal" threads.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Master of Puppets
A

Alberic

Newbie
Sep 5, 2017
31
48
I know it's more of a linear experience but choices beyond naming the characters really would not be a luxury. That being said, nice writing and great art.
 
  • Yay, update!
Reactions: Whiteleaf Studio
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom
3.60 star(s) 115 Votes