VN - Ren'Py - Abandoned - Vanqwar [Ep. 2] [Helmeted Smith]

Vanqwar [Ep.2] abandoned

This kinetic novel really got beautiful unique art style have ever seen in this site. It got smooth animations and appropriate bgm which makes the game more immersive. Those long camera shots gave this one a cinematic feel. There is light humor in the game. Apart from some typos writing felt good. Really enjoyed this sad to it's already abandoned. I can play play this one for the unique art itself. It also got an interesting story. Sadly we don't get to see it's completion.

If this one somehow pops back i will surely play it. It would be a 5 star but it lacks choices so it's 4 star in my book. Since it's abandoned giving it 3 stars

This is really beautiful but that´s it.
Story is (don´t know) havent been any yet.
Animations are really good, but the game is just jumping from one scene to another with no explanation of anything.
Some explanation of what i happening would be nice, who is the princess? The keep your reader guessing is good and all but that is when when you have introduced at least one part of the games characters. This is just cut scenes that makes no sense whatsoever.

This review only engages me and my tastes, I will fully understand any contrary opinion and I will only talk about the game in the version I tested : Ep2.

History :
We know little or nothing of the story and it's this mysterious side that is very refreshing.
We discover a universe in the eyes of a MC who doesn't know more.

Atmosphere:
The music is perfectly chosen, the feeling of immensity is impressive.
It feels like being teleported into this world that is foreign to us.
Landscapes filled with a heavy emptiness forcing us to be attentive to the slightest anomaly in this journey.

Rendering:
This enigmatic princess is as beautiful as she is original (which becomes difficult with DAZ), the animations of her shapes are great and sometimes even bluffing.
We would follow her wherever she goes with such an... approach...

I recommend this game to everyone who want to relax for a moment and let themselves be guided by a fatal beauty to an unknown destiny.

Review based on Ep.2 version of the game

It's a game with a very interesting setting... Well we still know very little about the world MC was transported to but what we know or what was hinted seems to be shaping up to be very interesting.
The game's art style is very unique and I like it, even though it's less photo realistic than some other games on the site. The whole game seems to go go for being artistic which I haven't seen yet in an adult game. Until now I enjoy it in most cases, so this is a positive as well.
There are a lot of animations compared to the amount of content, which is also a positive.

The game would really need a proofreader as there are a lot of typos, misspellings and cases of dialogue incorrectly labelled to the wrong person.
In some cases the animation feels very awkward and that breaks all immersion. If the animation can't be made properly to support the scene then maybe it'd be better to leave it out.
In some cases there are some extra and unnecessary clicks required to progress the scene which makes it boring. One example is when you have to "charge up" a bar on the top of the screen before the girl uses her power on the MC. What's the need for that? Another is the too many repeated stabbing required to defeat the worm, it makes a scene that should be super exciting to be boring.

Overall I'm very curious about this game and I hope the worldbuilding and the story can live up to the expectation it built up until now, and certainly I hope to see some sexy scenes between MC Veldis, Cyra and maybe other women too.

Version: Ep. 2

PROS

• art - interesting and unique 3D art style. attractive female model
• animation - few but really nice renders
• story - a lot of storytelling is being incorporated with good to decent dialogue between the two characters
• sexual tension - currently no sex which, for me, is good. i appreciate the slow build towards it. i like the risk that is being implied by the woman concerning sex - similar to a succubus when having sex
• music - helps capture the desert mystic feeling

CONS

• transitions - not seamless. extra clicking required for each transition. during animations, the slide progression feels worse and jittery. what would work better is to implement fades for the transition without a click needed
• dialogue and spelling errors - the wrong character name occupies the dialogue often
• doll faces - barely ever any facial expression changes. it would be understandable if the woman isn't emotional but the MC looks even more like a doll than her
• not a lot of renders - a lot of dialogue is implemented during one slide without any new render to make it fresh and feel in motion

Despite the cons, I'm looking forward to this game mainly because of the good storytelling and seeing the female character get more comfortable with the MC.

So... I don't really know where to start... This game is somewhere in the range between 3 and 5 stars, so for now let's give it 4. But it's too early to tell which way the story and the gameplay will go exactly.

I wanted to give a short summary of the story, since that didn't become quite clear for me through the overview, but the truth is that after finishing Ep. 2 I still don't really know what the story is about. It's partially mystery and partially just weird (and I'm not sure yet of that's good or bad).

Let's just say you wake up on a faraway planet, meet a magic woman, and together you travel through an alien desert to her home city. You think her goal is to send you back to earth, but she seems to have an hidden agenda. And at the same time there is a second, darker power that's trying to corrupt you as well.

Sounds a bit vague right? Well, that has nothing to do with my inability to explain stuff (hopefully), that's just the story so far.

In terms of originality and artwork I'd rate this 5/5. The story is definitely unique and the artwork, although simple, looks good and perfectly fits the story and the atmosphere. The game is also very focused on animations, which look good but are also a bit unnecessary sometimes.

The story could really be anything between 1/5 and 5/5 at this point. The build-up is good and there is definitely a certain suspense. The woman's magic seems to be directly related to her libido, so that might give you a hint about the direction we're heading.

The grammar is a little bipolar. On one hand the sentence structure and the use of words is flawless, but at the same time there's a lot of verb errors ('did you found', 'have you went', etc.). Nothing that can't be easily fixed though.

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So, to summarize: ? ?

I'm definitely intrigued though so I will keep an eye on this one. There's no real sex in the game yet so if you're looking for a quick fap you might wanna check again in a few updates. Also note that as far as episode 2 goes, this is a kinetic novel.