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

(If you have no problem with mind-control, you can skip the last part of this review and add a star to the rating)

The visuals and artwork are nice. It's nothing spectacular, not something you've never seen before, but it's good. The locations are detailed and the female models look realistic and diverse.

The use of English is flawless. There is some humor in the story and the dialogue, but apart from that I found the conversations to be kinda boring. There's a lot of empty smalltalk and because there aren't any meaningful choices and no real overarching storyline I quickly lost interest.

The sex scenes are mostly good, but they're also very static. The game has no animations and the lewd scenes often consist of just 2 or 3 different renders. It's really mostly the dialogue and the dirty talk that have to carry the weight here.

However, my main issue with this game is the mind-control in combination with the story. Or rather you could ask yourself the question: why would you even bother to write a story if there is mind-control involved? The main character can do anything he pleases without consequences, and that takes away all the edge.

In a 'corruption' game you have to manipulate someone to get what you want. In a 'romance' game you have to be nice to win over someone's heart. In both cases you have to 'work' in order to get what you want, and that gives a certain sense of achievement. But with mind-control you can just snap your fingers and anything is possible. No questions asked. You have your sister and your mom (or whatever you called them) naked and at your mercy within the first 10 minutes of the game. And for me personally that took away all the suspense...

Visual novel, no choices, giving 5 stars because the graphics are generally cute/well-done and can be very hot. If you're looking for choices that matter, there are none to be made. Just fast forwarding to the sexy parts, which works for me and is really all I want.

I love the art style, it's very much better than much of the 2D artwork here and certainly the polar opposite of the low effort hentai so many games have. The plot is standard "Guy finds McGuffin, uses it to seduce family members" but who cares when the art is great and caters to my fetish. 5/5.

+ decent game, was a fun playthrough can't wait for next update

The story has an overused plot which is kind of a "eh", "Hypnosis" and "Godly Beings in your mind to control people", very overused, but it does try to curve from that a little which is nice.
the art and character design is great, I love them long torso's, backgrounds could be improved, also whats the deal with the 2 couches(maybe im just poor?).
the characters stories are good, they could be improved upon though, they jump too early into sexual events, didn't give me much time to learn more about the characters.
the sound design was alright for the most part, could defently be improved in future versions though.
there were a few grammar mistakes here and there but nothing too outrageous.
I didn't notice any bugs on my playthrough, but i was too busy looking at the.. plot.
Overall:
Art : 7/10
Story : 6/10
Sound : 6 / 10
Performance : 9/10
Content : 7.5/10
i'd suggest it, if i had friends.

So far, this game was a HUGE surprise for me.

Good scenes and LOTS of dirty talk.

If you REALY like the dirty talk revolving the themes of this game, you will probably love it...

lets hope the game keeps its consistency and quality over the next updates.

good game, hope to see more of pregnancy and sister content. The art is really good by the way. I prefer renpy games when they are not grindy and this one isn't. Stay tuned

Claims its a game with a more 'linear format'. By this it means there are two choices in the game, and one is a glorified options menu. One choice that affects the story... for like 3 paragraphs. Should really be advertising itself as a kinetic novel. Or maybe it'll be a VN when there's a lot more content.

Right now it pretty much has two parts to it:
Art
Writing

I want to talk about the art first.
There really isn't much of it; the gallery shows this off well. One page of the gallery is 6 pictures... 6 of the same picture zoomed in or out with incredibly minor changes (like the dick being 1 inch higher). Padding to make the gallery look bigger, yet the gallery is till only 5 pages long.
The art itself is like... very average western porn game. But unlike most similar games, I've yet to see anyone who has 'bimbo' proportions'. And the characters themselves just have really pleasent designs.
Its nothing outstanding or anything, but, blatant gallery padding aside, I think its a refreshing change from the 50 foot asses and tits 3 times the size of peoples heads that are the norms for these kinds of games.
I really like the designs of the women, in particular the nerdy lesbian. Its a shame they barely have any content

The writing is... weird. The MC is initially written to be, far as I can tell, a nerdy stay-at-home loser. He tries to hypnotize his not-sister on a whim for no apparent reason. And it works.
And he does it to someone he hates, so him getting all pervy and power tripping fits.
But then he does it to his 'landlady'. Who its already established is a good person he loves.
It feels a bit jarring for him to go from normal wimpy guy to apparently having no morals in the span of maybe 5 minutes.


Now the final part that matters for a game like this: The sex.
If you are looking for actual, full on, penetrative sex, skip this. There's like one scene of that. And if you want that, save at that scene, because its strangely not in the gallery.
Most of what you do have is blowjobs. Like 3 of them. 2 groping scenes. 1 lesbian bdsm. 3 blows, including one where the chick is blindfolded and sucking random objects.
A pretty confusing scene when you have literal mind-control powers but apparently still need to blindfold her.

The scenes are... okay. Functional. This is more or less a power tripping game about a power tripping nerd but you don't really feel particularly powerful in these scenes.
This aspect I imagine getting better later, since right now it ends at the vaginal scene.

Great mind control themes, very appealing characters, especially the two darker haired "childhood friends".
It's still very short, but since it's still a new game that can be forgiven. Seems very promising, and what scenes that are there are very satisfying. Could use some tweaks, maybe blank the girls minds as you have sex, but I am very excited to see how this shakes up.

First things first: this is not a game, it's a kinetic novel. I think there is one choice (as of 0.5), and the decision doesn't matter at all. There is nothing inherently bad about kinetic novels though, I just want to point it out for anyone expecting gameplay.

The artstyle is nice and I like all the character designs so far. The downside to this is the slow development. In the 9 months or so since initial release the game got to around 30 minutes gameplay (if you read everything), with just one girl getting actually fucked.

The dialogues are OK, but the story is a bit weird, with mildly rapey mind-control being the main theme and comedy sprinkled on top. The jokes don't fire most of the time. Overall it is pretty light-hearted, with the girls being closeted perverts and the MC bringing them out of their shell.

I really enjoyed reading/"playing" it for the short duration it lasted. Personally I don't think it's fair or practical to factor slow development into the rating, unless it's extreme and feels exploitative. So five stars it is. I hope we see more frequent and more substantial updates though.

Tip:
The player is supposed to rename the relationships/characters when they appear, to make everything incestuous. The (only, apart from names) correct choices here are relationship: mother, name: Mom; relationship: sister, name: [leave blank], relationship: cousins, name: [leave blank][leave blank]. At least I think so.

Great and fun Game
The best Part for me was the Femdom Scene where the MC gave the black haired girl the control over the blonde. Do what ever she says .
The Pics of this scene where super hot.

Need more of this please

Hope there will be more Femdom fm and ff in future updates.

The following review is based off my personal experience with playing this Game/Visual Novel... I try to be as brutally honest and detailed as I can, and these are my own opinions and thoughts, from one or more play throughs... The version this review is based on is v0.04...

This erotic visual novel has a mix of story concepts that tend to be a bit over used in this market, along with some unique twists... You can tell it is meant to have Incest content, even though the developers allow you to customize the relationship titles for some characters...

The visuals of the characters are a 2D hand drawn format that look unique and are well done... The backdrops are a mix of ones I've seen before and some unique ones... Sometimes the story text is too lengthy causing the text to scroll over the bottom menu and almost go off the bottom of the screen, even in full screen mode... Some of the Name's in the story box are hard to see due to bad color choice... The font being used, while looking a bit more comic style, can make it somewhat hard to read sometimes...

The script is decent, even though it sometimes has some spelling/grammar errors... The plot (what little there really is) revolves around a male protagonist living with 2 women (one obviously meant to be the sister and one meant to be the mother) who treat him like a relative rather then someone renting a space in their home... He gains the ability to corrupt other characters through the guise of hypnosis (an over used story element)...

The sister/roommate character treats the protagonist like crap, which is another highly over used mechanic... And the mother/house owner is an older single woman who treats the protagonist like a relative... The protagonist has lots of inner-dialogue with an entity who is the source of his abilities... He uses his abilities to slowly corrupt the two women in order to do perverted things with them... But then 2 more women suddenly come into the picture... One is an overbearing dominatrix type personality, while the other is a naive submissive personality, and they are supposed to be twins, but not identical...

Now, initially once the protagonist gains his power, he becomes more of a dominant personality, but once the dominating woman comes into the picture he seems to reverse engines becoming more passive and/or wussy... It was like he was going through a reversion from content prior to the twins... In any case, the dominating twin seemed even more perverted than him, and was highly manipulative...

In any case, the story is pretty much linear in scope, using many inter character dynamics I've seen used over and over in this industry... The characters all seem to be shoved into these stereotyped roles, with little to no realistic personalities... There were moments where some comedy type elements are thrown in, but it's not really what this VN is about...

Overall, the story itself begins as many of this style begins, which didn't feel all that original at all... While the story telling itself is decent, there really is no deep plot or meaningful content that isn't just about the erotic content... The introduction of the dominating female character seemed to side line the protagonist as she took on the dominant role at that point... Here he was with an ability he seemed to like using, being the more dominant personality as time went on, but suddenly he was afraid to use it when the twins just show up, and becomes this secondary characters puppet, basically... Creates a roller-coaster effect in the development of the protagonist...

This VN is basically a porn fest wrapped within a decently wrapped box, yet missing the bow... The characters don't feel very genuine and are basically just existing to add varying fetishes... The protagonist's character growth at first was doing alright, even for a porn focused VN, but then took a big hit with the introduction of the dominating twin who he just capitulates to... Doesn't even attempt to take back the reins, at least not in the current content... I wanted to give this one a 4 star rating for it's attempt at decent writing and original character visuals, even with all the overused tropes... But the lack of character stability with the male protagonist just pushes it back down into the average range...

All that being said, this VN is still in it's early days of development, so it has plenty of time to work through the growing pains, and maybe improve itself... Only time will tell... Will I be revisiting this one? Maybe, but not until later down the line, once it's had more time to develop... Have to wait and see...

I must preface this by saying that this game is still in the early stages of development (0.04 at the time of writing), so a lot of changes could (and should) be made in the future change my opinion altogether.

I like the art style, but that’s about it.
In order to get through the game, you just click through pages of uninteresting dialogue until you encounter a scene; no choices, no interesting pieces of dialogue, nothing! Hell, the characters don’t even move when talking to them, they just remain in an idle pose.

The story itself is okay, it’s nothing original and there’s no player choice whatsoever, but it gets the job done. That being said, the main character is kind of a boring jackass who has the ability to hypnotise all of these girls, yet refrains from doing so, probably to extend playtime. Additionally, the weird alien character is absolutely pointless, serving no relevance to the plot besides being kind of like a character talking you into doing the dirty scenes, but could easily not exist at all without any problems in the plot.

Overall, I think this game has got the potential to be better, (less sprawling dialogue and more player choice) but currently has little gameplay, bar a few scenes (none of which currently even go as far as penetration) that keeps the player interested.

Oh and also there aren’t any nude scenes with the girl (willow) on the far left.

5/10

I absolutely like the drawing style, it has a kind of uniqueness. I love the young protagonist, sporty body nice tan lines. After a short clicking through the pictures I downloaded the game just for deleting it about 10 minutes later.

The introduction was OK, no need to name everyone, the following gameplay was static and boring. nearly no changes in the pictures, even in front of different backgrounds the landlord and the roommate were represented by nearly only one picture. It seems that you need about fifty clicks before something in the picture changes. I read about eighty lines of text without any immersion or developing of the story. Your simply not getting into any of the characters.
I guess this was the first game where I don´t even start to skip to see some of the scenes - it was simply too boring.
Result: one of my quickest deletes ever.

Perhaps the author could rewrite the text, make it a bit faster and more believable and please let the girls move or change poses from time to time, make it look as if I´m not talking to a picture.

My two stars are only for the tama drawing.

Early stages but great art and good dev engagement so far. First update has been slow but dev seems to be planning monthly updates. Promising early signs so far so this one has good potential.

+1 for tanline titties, not enough of them around!

The drawings are pretty good, but the story and writing are really pedestrian, I´m afraid. The story is too simple and absurd: a guy that for some reason has the "superpower" of hypnotizing his landlady/mother and roomate/sister, and make them undress and get horny about his humongous cock... How many games with a similar premise can be found in this forum? Maybe a thousand? Even more?

Sorry, but knowing how to draw and how to program Renpy doesn´t mean knowing how to make a game. It´s needed to know how to write a decent plot, characters, dialogues and erotic situations.

Not a bad start, writing is OK, few typos but easy to overlook. Really like the artwork, could see myself supporting this game if quality of writing improves and updates are consistant. Either way it's not too big or long at the moment so it wasnt a risk to try it.

Wow! That was really bad!
No build up what so ever.
Just: Let me hypnotize you for the lols *say 3 words* omg it works.
5min of game time later "be my slut".
There are no choices or anything either, its just a really badly written kinetic novel atm.
Honestly the only good thing i can say about it was that it was short.

I really liked the graphics of the game. Girls are hot, especially landlady is astonishing. Mechanics aren't hard, it's easy to play it. There are only a few games with such strong mind control, so this one is definitely standing out crowd.

v0.01 Bugs first, I could not open preferences without getting an error, but thats not important. I just used Un'Ren to scrol back and Alt+Enter for full screen
This has lots of potential and a nice concept. The characters are writen in a not super stereotypical manner for a first release, like the mother having a smoking addiction, its a small thing but a god thing. The characters look good as well, big titty milfy and perky teen so thats good variety. The sound effects add to the atmosphere, but consider getting some free background music. And pleeeaaaase DO NOT add grinding to the game.
I think the UI is bland but functional, dont make it more complex. The English is mostly okay but there are typos. Pls kill the rooster after day 2 that would be great. Some explanation on the serum the MC drinks on day 1 would be appreciated. Also maybe come up with a better explanation than being MK ULTRA'd although it did make me laugh (the sound was great).
For the future I hope to see something in the domination, rough stuff, bdsm and slave genre. I will certainly play and look forward to future releases.