Ren'Py - The Awakening [v0.4.4a] [SLim Games]

It is a great advance that they have removed all the crappy sandbox elements, but the story remains what it always was, incoherent, poorly written, the characters are mega flat, you just wait for some fairly erotic scene to pull the sausage and that's it.

I think the model of the mother has improved a lot in some angles, like the face, but the breasts are terrible, the other characters are basically the same, at this point of time using Genesis 3 models looks very outdated.

Positive point, the animated intro, the UI, the few animations that can be seen in this prologue are well done, technically it is a well done VN, easily above average, but it still has the same problems as always, a null story , and flat characters, mostly outdated models, for me it's nothing more than another porn game from the pile.

This is a typical fetch-quest open world type game. There are tons of females to pursue, which can be a great thing, but also a bad thing. In this case, some of the bad comes out. Progress can be slow (both for us players and for the dev getting content added), and some events of the girl you want are blocked by events from others. The art and animations are all mostly top notch (most of the sex scenes are a bit too slowly animated for me). There is audio which is nice. The voice acting gives it a nice polish but really isn't necessary imo.

Really what it boils down to for me is that it isn't very sexually compelling. Linda and her mom are fun, but kinda slow to get into. Was hoping for a threesome but due to there being so many girls, the dev likely hasn't gotten around to it yet. The sister is kinda cringe. The mom and teach are great but, again, just a slow pain in the ass to make progress with. The dev does not push the taboo topics much imo, makes the game more on the """"realistic""" side (many quotes for obvious reasons), but it's a sex game with a fairy and magic and incest; let's whip out the over-the-top dialog please.

Anyways, it's fine. I got semi-erect once. If you've only played a few H games, you'll probably love this. If you've played some or many, this will fall unmemorably amongst everything else. I also expect progress to continue to be slow. I was very surprised to find that the dev is still introducing new characters instead of building out the existing ones (two random characters were added late in the current 0.4.1 version). Who knows if he'll get on a whim to add even more and create additional distractions for himself. That seems like a great idea if a dev, for some wanted a game to take a long amount of time to develop

I really like the artwork.
Especially the animations are lovingly designed and even "stills" were partially animated.
Story is absolutely fine. It doesn't always have to be the literary heavy novel.

Nice Storytelling, loveable characters, very good animations it is a lot of fun - way better as the first version. Im really looking forward. Hope this game is going on for a while. The fairy is really a unique character.

Not much content currently but I'll review what there is.

Art is good. Story and pacing are lackluster.

Dialogue is boring and not realistic. More effort put into the story in both dialogue and pacing could make this a better game.

Animation and voice acting truly make this game great. If there was a quality ranking of these games this would be one of the few I place in S tier. just because it is one of the few that makes sure that Music, Visuals, Story, Voice acting and Animation is covered. Keep it up (would just wish there was a way to help you so you could make more content in a shorter amount of time).

Absolutely love the game. It has all the things you want and expect from a adult visual novel:
- Fun, wacky story, easy to follow and enjoy
- Rich of sexual content, beautiful models
Also putting different characters' voices to the game show how much work the team put into this game.

More mind control pls, love it when girls are mindless. The updated arts are really top-tier, you would not regret playing this game. If the protagonist can dominate all the girls with police, lawyer, and other career girls with husbands, even better.

The game was good in terms of gameplay and graphic. But since the progress is very slow, the standard has been raised much higher after these years. The game becomes mediocre now compare to games recently developed.
I don't see the point of playing this game anymore.

well.. this game is a sand box the way i like it and the game let you choose what chick to porgress and it all come down together those sleep sneak sex is great and all of the thing i said I just like it a lot!

Game version: [v0.4.0c]

A flashy amusement park ride that quickly loses its luster after you realize it's just some pretty wallpaper plastered over a cracked foundation.

The renders and animations are impressive, and the writing is decent. The actual plot... not so much. The game suffers from the common sandbox problem of having separate story strands that seem mostly disconnected and like they take place in alternate realities. Choices are just illusions or "pick the right thing if you want to get the sex scene," and the MC can't seem to stick to a personality or decide what he wants (not that we have any say in that.)

The game also indulges in my least favorite "harem" game trope: it lets you fuck all the girls but doesn't want to acknowledge that fact in the narrative, besides one or two exceptions. You go on romantic dates with girls, fuck your sister, your mom, your teacher, call another girl your girlfriend, seduce the neighbor, yada yada yada. It's really more of a cheating simulator. Which would be fine if the game at least had something to say about it, but it doesn't.

This is where the game fell apart for me. There really is no actual plot besides the amnesia/fairy framing device, which doesn't get explored in any meaningful way, and our horny Chad/dimwitted romantic trying to fuck every girl in town while pretending to be deeply in love with half of them. It's all just so fake and game-y that I can't get into it. Your mileage may vary if you care less about story or player expression. Again, the renders and animations are well worth seeing, I just wish they were in service to a better game.

One extra star for the fairy scenes.

I didn't remember that I hadn't rated this game yet, I remember that the first time Dev started the game the MILF was different, it was less beautiful, but it still had the appearance of an older woman, after all she is a MILF and not an 18 year old girl like many do in games with sculpted bodies and new looks and claim to be M...m!

Although I honestly don't like this thing about spells, hypnotism, etc. but I still really like the game!

Dev has an excellent quality to make the arts, and today when I was playing Halloween Version 2021, he surprised me even more, when in the same scene he provided 02 animations with different angles on the same screen, I had not seen this on any other game yet!

Genuinely one of the most fun games I've played. Variety of women with different body types, personalities and witty dialogue. The characters seem genuinely interesting and some of their motivations really make you want to see what happens next instead of just "skip to the next sex scene"

One word: Fairy sex!
Ok, that was two words. But I love her.
Excellent graphics.
I used the walkthrough mod, had a lot of fun. Story is not too heavy, but very good. Love the reference to other games.
5/5 will keep playing!

There was a part in the beginning were I nearly gave up on the game. Then the flow started and it was easy to go along with it. The MC is just a little too wishy-washy sometimes. But then I haven't been in a coma for 2 years so that's makes life easier for me.

Loved the girls and a little in love with the daughter (renamed her so I don't know her name). The development of Klara was nice, think I made the right choice. I didn't try the other one, but choose as I would have done in the same situation.

Of course, the game isn't finished, so my 4* is for so far. Keep up the good work 7767.

The game is average in nearly every way. The story and writing aren't anything to really get excited about, at least not in its current form. The character models are slightly above average and there are a few interesting events in the game.

There are two significant problems with the game (aside from most things being average):

#1 - The animations are too fast and don't feel natural because of it. They desperately need to be slowed down by at least 50%. Real people don't move this fast. The problem is compounded by the low frame rate of the animations. They are not only too fast, but quite choppy. Animations need to be at least 20 FPS to look good in my opinion. Between these two problems, it really ruined most of the lewd scenes for me!

#2 - There is a pretty big bug with the x-ray vision scenes. If you save your game while in x-ray vision mode and then hit the 'Return' button from the 'Save Game' menu, half the time you will be in permanent x-ray vision mode with no way to get out of it. When this bug occurs, the screen will never change but the dialog will. I was starring at the same screen of my nude mother all the way through the event where I go to the grocery store and purchase food for my mother. The same bug occurred two other times during the game. The only way to fix it is to quit the game completely, restart the game, and load a save game. I've never experienced this bug with any other Ren'Py game and I've played a lot of them!

I'm generally not a fan of mind control type lewd scenes. It feels like a cheap way of bypassing the corruption element through good writing (the best method). I prefer two willing partners without the use of mind control, drugs, magic, and other means. The best stories, in my opinion, are those with believable corruption that occurs through good story events and great writing! In the game's defense, the corruption magic used is only a "push" and not true mind control.

The voice acting was a nice touch and few games have it (I mean very few), but too many of the lines are poorly acted. It is like reading a line of text with no context, emotion, or feeling. Approximately 25% of the voice acting was good to great, I just wish all of it was this quality! The voice acting is clearly spoken and feels like it was professionally recorded which is a huge plus!

The bullying scene in the girl's bathroom with the MC was probably the best scene in the game in my opinion. It was fun, interesting, and well written.

The game does have a good amount of content.

The dev really needs to re-do all the animations in the game and fix the x-ray vision bug. If he keeps the story interesting and fixes these two issues it is really a 4 star game.

In the game's defense, the dev does slowly improve things in later versions. The prologue really needs to be fixed and improved. It left a bad impression.

The only reason I rated this more than 2 stars was due to the quality of the animations. The story is bland with no real defining characteristics that establish an identity or flavor for the game.

I was disappointed from what felt like a real lack of a showing from the tags: corruption, harem, mind control, monster girl, paranormal, sleep sex, superpowers and transformation. Some of these only had 1 or 2 events that showed up. I will admit that I may have been a bit prejudgement with the feel of this game. In previous games I have got into that included tags of things like: mind control, paranormal and such, they really had the foundation for which games had been built on. This game just lightly seasons with these. This might be more appealing to some.

this one is pretty rough, and i mean that in every way you can take it to mean. this is missing a lot of story "gating", meaning that it gets too possible for events to frequently play out before they're supposed to in the story. stuff gets referenced that hasn't happened yet at least three times in my playthrough...only to have it happen later on, and it just feels really disjointed.

and yeah, as some others have mentioned the "choices" in this game really aren't. more meaningful choices and better variable handling under the hood would really improve this a lot.

0.4 - Finally some love making with stepmom.
The animations are great though the breast movement could be more realistic and they could be also a bit smaller cause it's not looking natural (also the movement).
I appreciate that MCs face is not visible though.

Game is showing a lot of promise so far. Voiced dialogue is great and the voice actors are pretty skillful. The storyline keeps my attention, but the renders keep me really interested. Has a lot of good/bad options that can affect how things go in the game. I think the finished product should be looking pretty good!