VN - Ren'Py - The Nature of Magic [Part 3] [Slate Interactive]

Story immediately throw player on deep waters. Beginning was quite overwhelming, too much lore and politics in short amount of time and if I wouldn't trust recommendation I would consider dropping it early, because few first hours were like reading regular book. Core of the plot is similar to one cosy game, a powerful families and an outcast that can destroy the balance and unify them, but here MC have much more help and world is full of magic that he's easily mastering. Pacing isn't the best, story develops too fast and without too many breaks for intimacy, but when you break through all of the descriptions and lore, you'll find very good and entertaining story. There's also a kind of glossary with some summaries, so if you "accidentally" skip few walls of text or read just a part of it, you can fill gaps later.

As I've readen in recommendation, the best thing here are relations with LIs. It's early to say that every LI will be amazing and lovely, because few of them didn't have a possibility to spend time with MC yet, but basing on current events, I have faith in it.

Game have very nice visuals and not bad faces, if compared to other HS games. At the beginning I was afraid that this is another game with only huge tits and big butts (it's still majority), but diversity came with introducing more LIs. Body proprortions are nice and there are no ugly girls. Some may not be to my or someone's taste, but objectively I can't say a bad word about any LI.

Well, this game is definetely a slow burner, so I don't recommend it to people who just seek for porn. It's much more about story and (re)buildling relationships. It has porn later and it's very good porn, but don't expect it early. At the end I'm rating it as 5*, because I'm sure this production will be better and better with every update, but being totally honest I should give it only 4 due to overwhelming beginning.

Ch 2 Part 1.

It's a fantasy story with some fairly tame naughtiness thus far added in. Love the world, love the writing, love the redheads.

It is fairly slow-paced. I don't see that as a problem.

Just don't download this for some quick fap. If you rush through the dialogue without reading, you'll have an underwhelming experience.

Played version Ch.2 Part 1 with the Walk-through mod.

This is a great game. Very cool world and story, great dialog, and very attractive models with some variety. Definitely looking forward to see where this goes.

Be warned that the world is fairly complex, and that there's a lot of exposition to setup the backstory. I generally like well-developed stories, and don't mind a slower pace with the sex scenes, but even I was tempted to skip some of the story at times.

One other minor nit: I think the dialog goes a bit overboard in trying to make sure everybody is "comfortable". I get that these are good people that care about each other, and that there's some trauma involved, but the constant assurances started to feel like pandering.

Wow, this is an excellent game! It was a great surprise. Story is interesting. MC is skilled but needs to learn a lot, so he is a mix of being relatively weak BUT improving at great speed. LIs are all excellent and interesting. Can't wait for the next release.

I don't know that I can say enough good things about this game. I'll keep the review short since I have nothing other than a minor criticism.

Con-
Some of the animations are a bit choppy, while others less so. It's a little odd for the animation quality to differ in the same scene, but at least at the beginning that's what we're left with.

Pros-
Literally everything else. The game looks gorgeous, the story is interesting, and the characters are all distinct and seem to actually HAVE character. There is a degree of variety in the body proportions of the LIs, though they tend towards large chests so if that's not your thing you'll be unhappy with that. It seems that you can pick the nature of your relationship with each one, so while it looks like you'll have to be cordial with all of them, you don't have to sleep with anyone you don't want to. Maybe. There is one LI that you have to marry, and story-wise you'll likely have to sleep with women to make sure magic doesn't die out, but that may be an epilogue type scenario that never actually impacts the player.

If the overview sounds interesting to you, play this game. There's a ton of content for such an early release, and the content that's there is excellent.

Fantastic, excellent, beautiful, and brilliantly written VN. Don't expect a ton of choice yet in the game, though it does appear you get to choose every love interest, which is nice. The writing is incredible, with a good amount of humor and depth. The renders are great, outfits and models are all unique and varied and interesting.

I love the world building and how the harem is naturally set up within the setting instead of seemingly shoe-horned in, and the promise of lots of mff sex alongside the typical mf sex is super welcome.

If I had to make some contextual comparisons (not to compare the games themselves but just to give ideas to people not yet sold). Vibes wise it feels like a mixture of Now&Then, and The Fiery Scion. Absolutely check it out, and if you enjoy it, please support the devs!

A brilliant game that starts a bit slowly. There is a lot of world building to get through, which is understandable when the developer crafts a new fantasy world for their story, however it does drag a bit.

The exposition is an enduring plague clinging to the otherwise fun and easy to digest dialogue between characters. Forgive me for sounding like an English teacher but the game is at it's weakest when it is telling you about a world it isn't letting you see.

It is no suprise then that the game improves significantly with the gradual arrival of the wards, five girls that each represent (but also don't perfectly reflect) a world which you have so far only heard of.

This proves to be the remedy for the ailment of exposition, from this point forward you feel as is you are experiencing the story rather than reading about it. I found the game morphing from something I was playing because I had already downloaded it and the main girl was hot, to something I was geniunely interested in.

This is a great game. It always was, it was just hard to appreciate through the world building. Now though it is starting to shine. I eagerly await the next update.

The story reads like a book instead of a VN with way way way too much details on things that are completely unneeded, it feels like you are reading a long fan fiction of what is a pretty basic VN, the main story is at the moment very simple and predictable.

So many things are solved/done at the start that it makes you think, what do you need me the player for?
Getting engaged(with someone the MC likes and who likes him back) right at the start of the game cripples any idea of romance being a big part of the game, he gets a bodyguard for protection and a loving rich family to live with, so why do i need to keep playing?

After that you are given a long over complicated explanation of the relationships between the families followed by a long over complicated explanation of the people the MC is going to meet and then after that comes a long over complicated explanation of the way the magic works which is very reminiscent of that scene in the matrix 3 where they use over complicated big words for no reason, finally after all that comes a long over complicated talk on security, finally once that is done you get your first taste of combat in the form of a practice match and even through the MC is a very competent mercenary with several years of experience in battles that earned him the nickname "The Daemon" and who easily killed an entire strike team at the start with no effort is beaten/emasculated/humiliated all in under a minute by his new fiance(oh and even through it is said there were minor choices available in the battle, there were none as every "choice" let to exactly the same outcome in the same way)

The MC's role gets reduced to being nothing more than a cum filled dildo with legs, is he strong? no, does he make any decisions? no, does he have to do anything for the women to want him? no, is he helpful dealing with the families? no, and its even implied that his whole life he has been nothing but a puppet being led to this outcome.

Even with the huge amount of text the female characters still come off as one dimensional, and as the whole point of the game is for the MC to make a harem with them its very obvious how there story lines are going to play out making any conflict they currently have nothing but boring.

Art quality is low to medium at best, unfortunately i didn't get any sex scenes on my play through and i didn't like any of the women enough to go back and try again.

Story 1/5 (simple but bloated with unnecessary info)
Art 2/5 (ok)
Sex N/A (didn't get any)
Fetishes 0/5 (none that were obvious without seeing sex scenes)
Choices 1/5 (battle ones didn't change anything, and didn't try girl ones)
Characters 1/5 (like the story simple but bloated)

No doubt about this one.
It's got a decent plot, which appears to be getting better.
It's got good girls: diverse, real personalities, don't exist just for cock, fairly hot.
It's got good banter, and some humor.
It has good sex scenes, with some of the best dirty talk I've encountered in these games, and the promise of more kinky stuff later, which I'm looking forward too.

It can be a bit... mundane (ironically) at times, and I can't remember how to pronounce anyone's name, but this is definitely a top-tier game. It's sexy, gripping, meaningful, and sexy.

Although the story contains a theme about magic, it seems to portray more about emotional stability and social and psychological problems,
the MC with a history of having made wrong and childish choices in the past due to emotional instability and now seeking comfort in a new family.
a more psychologically sensitive MC, with a more passive attitude and gives the feeling of being a "simp" person in relation to the other girls, always accepting everything and not giving much of an opinion about what he wants.

My problem with the game was the fact that it forces you to marry 6 girls politically without giving you any choice for story reasons, at the beginning of the game a character with a daughter and 2 granddaughters, says that he will marry one of them, but does not let the player choose which one... and the other two that are left will not be available for marriage... since it seems to be a marriage with only one woman from each faction in the game, it could at least let the player choose one of the 3 initials from the initial family.

and this leads to another problem, the choices in general that the game offers to the player... it's not a real choice since it's always like this
NPC: "Do you want to go there with me?"
Answer "1 - yes 2 - sure"
What changes is the enthusiasm of the MC who gives the answer, if he answers in a happy and enthusiastic way he will gain relationship points with the girls (which so far doesn't seem to change at all), and if he answers in a simpler and weaker way the girls just say "ok" but the story continues as if it were all the same without changing at all.
It kind of gives the feeling of being a kinetic game.

However, the positive points are quite obvious, the girls' appearance and the magic theme in the game.

An interesting game that I'm still trying to figure out if I'll actually follow due to what I said above.

A pleasent read. Dev really deserves the praise he gets for all the world-building, design and thought behind the concepts. They are nothing ground-breaking. But it's clear he spend more than %95 of the developers in this site while thinking about the game he makes.

Setting and characters are nice. Nothing feels unbearable out of place. Except some scenes with MC. After being exposed to tons of paragraphs written by ChatGPT, I can recognize the cliche exteremely flamboyed, over the top language at first glance. Of course it's nothing to be ashamed of but I'd advise dev to take it easy with them a little bit. They might be some sort of royal family but, some sentences or words are painfully out of place.

Lastly, the other negative point; models are not great. They seem like exact copy of each other with different colors, mostly the same face and body structure, even to the breast size. Everybody has huge breasts here lol. Then again this might be some people's cup of tea.

Overall it's fun, would recommend. One thing I'd request from the dev would be though, please add incest. See ya.

I really enjoy the story of the game – the character development is engaging and refreshingly different from what we usually see. It also introduces some original and unconventional gameplay mechanics, which I find intriguing, though it’s still in the early stages of development.

I appreciate the effort going into the magic system; I just hope it won’t be too complex to maintain for a small team. The animations during scenes are excellent, with expressive characters and compelling backstories.
I really enjoy the teasing between scenes; I think this is key for games like these.

Really looking forward to seeing how this one develops!

One of the most promising new releases so far. It has a really interesting take on magic, solid worldbuilding, and lore that mostly makes sense and helps drive the story. The game does a good job of showing the different motivations of the cast.


The love interests and side characters are very well done, especially in terms of visual design (mainly for the LIs — the MC and male characters aren’t as strong) and their personalities.


There’s not much to complain about, honestly. Most things here are done well: the plot, humor, characters, sound, visuals, and animations.


If I had to nitpick, it would be how quickly everyone falls for the MC — pretty typical for a vanilla harem game. Still, the story does a decent job of making it feel a bit more believable.

Review as of Chapter 2 part 1.

This game is really good. The story line so far has been a slow burn but it is teaching you about the world and how magic is used while still keeping the flow going with intelligent dialogue and humor. The models are good.

It uses a different take on magic. The combat system doesn't rush you to make choices and spells don't just blow up your enemies up with one shot.

After the big combat scene at the end of the update the first thing that came to mind was "Wow" and when does the next update come out!

[Writing this as of Part 3]

Pending for now, will edit this later. My overall impression fell off quite a bit, mostly due to personal taste and expectations. Regardless. I'm dropping my review score from 4 to 2. Will detail it once I edit this review at a later time.

This is one of the best AVNs I've ever played. Although there have only been two releases so far, there's already plenty of content, I haven't timed it exactly, but I'd estimate between 5 and 7 hours of reading.

What sets it apart from other AVNs I've tried is the writing. I genuinely think this is one of the best-written visual novels I've come across. There's some exposition in the first half of Chapter 1, I loved it personally, but even if someone finds it a bit slow, I strongly recommend sticking with it. The writing is absolutely worth it.

The dialogue between characters is a joy to read. The humor is spot-on, the romance is really well done, and both the build-up and the sex scenes themselves (while still few and fairly vanilla at this stage) are some of the hottest I’ve seen in any VN. Keep in mind, there have only been two releases so far, so there's plenty of room for that aspect to grow.

The girls are all visually stunning, in my opinion (and hey, there are three redheads! ). The characterization has been excellent so far. Each one feels distinct from the others and is a fully developed individual with her own personality, background, and problems. They come across as real people, each unique in a meaningful way.

The story has been great as well. I don't want to spoil too much, so I'll leave it at that, but there's a solid, believable reason for the harem to form, which is definitely a big plus in my book.

I really enjoyed this one its been a while since i did not want to skip at least a little bit in a game but that one is certainly one of them i enjoyed reading the conversations and the inner thoughts the LIs are awesome (funny, interesting and unique) the models look great and i enjoyed the facial expressions when making a dumb joke ^^
Iam looking forward for more (i kinda suck at the whole review thing but yea had to give that one 5* )

I love this game!!!!! The story is great. Love how characters develop with each dialog with them. Developer still surprise me with actions just like before end of current version-that was great. Anticipation for next version is huge. Thank you for you efforts!!!

Here's your fucking review, just go play it.

What? Still reading a random stranger's review? Okay.

I said, go fucking play it.

...fine, I will use more words to explain "why you should play The Nature of Magic?".

It is on the very, very, VERY high tier of writing, the likes of which less than ten other AVNs possess.

Chapter 1 does provide quite the exposition dump, although nothing too extreme, but it does deliver the basics on which the world the game happens in, works. And while other times, when the MC supposedly knows the characters but the player doesn't, it can be a bit risky and not work out in making the player care, in this AVN each of them is introduced in such a way that you as the player do get to know them, and pretty quickly.

And by god, the dialogues with said characters is really, really well done. Even if the yappathon of exposition that is Chapter 1 makes you feel this game is not for you, Chapter 2 picks the pace the fuck up. Much less exposition, way more getting to know (and getting down to business with some of the LIs), and the dangers that were explained in Chapter 1, start taking effect.

Next, visuals. As the dev's HS2 journey has only recently begun, there is room to improve a lot in some aspects, but the basics like lighting and image composition and cameras, are good. While Chapter 1's animated sequences are lacking (but not bad by any stretch of the imagination), Chapter 2 has proper animations that are *really* good, and seeing that much improvement with barely the second release, down the line we're in for a treat.

tldr, if you are not afraid of diving into an AVN which will require you to use more than three braincells (on top of your hand), I can very easily recommend playing this.

Just a fantastic game. Extensive and creative world-building, amazing and hilarious writing, and THE CHARACTERS. Varied, compelling, and three-dimensional. Very exciting plot, just an amazing game. Deserves much more attention