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 v1.1...
This is a very short low to moderate quality demo, more so then a good VN/Game introduction...
The visuals are 2D hand drawn, for both the characters and the backdrops... The art style looks decent enough... The only current female character has her left hand grasping her chin for a majority of the pictures, even as she gets undressed and dressed... The only time she isn't holding her chin, is during the animated sex scene (which was done very well for a 2D animation), when you answer her question as she gets undressed, and when she goes to wipe the protagonists memory... There are only a few backdrops, but they looked unique and done well...
The script was a mix of good English and bad English, along with the occasional grammar error... The way the male protagonist's inner monologue reads, didn't really sound right, all the time... It felt kind of artificial, and if there was an attempt at humor, it failed... So the mix of some broken English, along with an odd story telling style, lets me feeling a bit blah, with what little story/dialogue/monologue there was... In the lead up before the vampire woman shows up, I could sense the author was trying to explain a little bit of the history of the mansion, and put out a certain vibe... But it felt forced, even to the point where he/she couldn't quite get the point across, so they used "The Great Gatsby" as a comparison device, to get their point across... But what if most folks have never read it or even seen it? (I have read the book and I didn't get the comparison)... Even the events with the vampire woman, and the protagonist, felt very rushed and slightly just thrown together...
The plot (what little there really is) revolves around a male protagonist answering a job advertisement to work at an old mansion, owned by this mysterious family... Once there, you get a bit of inner monologue regarding the history of the mansion, and then he has some very quick interactions with a dark haired vampire women, after which the content ends... An extremely short introduction, that is basically just pointing out that it's vampire themed (as if the title didn't give that away already), the protagonist is going to be a bag of blood with a side of sex, and that's basically it folks...
Overall, there isn't much to this one, and it has less content then most demo's I've tried... It feels more like a proof of concept fishing net, thrown out to try and catch some paying donations, and that is about all... The writer really needs to hone their craft though, as the story telling feels odd and has issues... It's also too early to really tell what type of VN/Game this one is going to be... Will it be a kinetic visual novel? Will it have choices? Will it be a grinder? Will it be story focused or just a porn fest? (As quickly as the sex scene occurs, and based on what the vampire lady said at the end, for the moment I'm leaning towards porn fest) Nothing is really revealed at the moment, with so little initial content... The visuals look unique and promising, but even in this limited demo/intro, the characters need a bit more variety to their stances, especially with the constant holding chin thing... It's way early into the development of this VN/Game, so we'll have to wait and see what direction and quality we'll end up seeing, as it gets some more meat on it bones... Will I revisit this one? If it can clean it's self up some, and get out of the concept stages, perhaps... Only time will tell...
