Vaygren - Lustful Temptation [Ep. 1]
This concept is fantastic and the production quality is through the roof! But a monkey took a dump in it. More on that later.
This is pretty much a fully animated interactive hentai! Everything is animated! Let that sink in. Every. Single. Scene. And I'm not refering to "sex scene" here. Even mundane talking is animated. Wow!
This kind of project is crazy ambitious!
And it's voice acted! Holy shitballs Batman! This is the future of lewd interactive storytelling right here, mark my fucking words!
Though... maybe not exactly this project in this constellation. As a concept this really REALLY works but the problem is, the writing here stinks. As in: It's not on par with the rest of the production quality at all.
Coding: Expert. 10/10.
Animation: Expert. 10/10.
Cinematography and visual presentation: Expert. 10/10.
Voice acting. Good. 8/10. (It's not their fault they don't get full marks though. You can only do so much with cringy lines that don't make much sense.)
Writing: Intern with no experience trying it out for the first time. 2/10.
It's just not right to have 2/10 writing and fucking STELLAR everything else. It actually makes me kind of mad to see because it's obvious a shitton of effort went into this.
I need to rant about this:
The sex scene dialogue and narration is extremely cringy and full of unnecessary inner monologue. Half of the text in general is unnecessary inner monologue.
The choices are just scene selectors, nothing is explained and the pacing is off.
Each character in the team is introduced in individual scenes as if they were on a job interview. After they were hired. Does that make sense to you? Does it make you excited? Yeah me neither.
Whoever wrote this has absolutely no clue how to write a good script for a visual medium, or tell a story in general in an interesting way.
I sadly don't foresee this being the Next Big Thing if the current writer will be staying for the rest of it.
If this production team (I'm assuming it's a team because I don't think a mere mortal can do this kind of thing solo) can get a hold of an actual script writer then this would be at the very top of F95 and everywhere within a year. But that's a big IF. I know how these things go.
I'm just hoping to God the current writer of this isn't some kind of executive who can't be voted out. Because I see the potential here, I really do. It's the future!
Please excuse my metaphor here but this project is like a flawless 5 star Michelin meal that somebody let a monkey dump a big fat turd on.
There's a brilliant vision behind it and it's sublimely executed, but a very obvious weak link fucked it all up. Badly. It could have been GREAT but now it's just meh. It's so very close to perfection yet still so far away.
If you pick around the turd you can probably get a decent experience out of it. Just don't breathe through your nose and try not to think too much.
And definitely do check it out to see the proof of concept. It's truly formidable. The animations and the expert-level use of the Ren'Py engine really rocks my world.
This concept is fantastic and the production quality is through the roof! But a monkey took a dump in it. More on that later.
This is pretty much a fully animated interactive hentai! Everything is animated! Let that sink in. Every. Single. Scene. And I'm not refering to "sex scene" here. Even mundane talking is animated. Wow!
This kind of project is crazy ambitious!
And it's voice acted! Holy shitballs Batman! This is the future of lewd interactive storytelling right here, mark my fucking words!
Though... maybe not exactly this project in this constellation. As a concept this really REALLY works but the problem is, the writing here stinks. As in: It's not on par with the rest of the production quality at all.
Coding: Expert. 10/10.
Animation: Expert. 10/10.
Cinematography and visual presentation: Expert. 10/10.
Voice acting. Good. 8/10. (It's not their fault they don't get full marks though. You can only do so much with cringy lines that don't make much sense.)
Writing: Intern with no experience trying it out for the first time. 2/10.
It's just not right to have 2/10 writing and fucking STELLAR everything else. It actually makes me kind of mad to see because it's obvious a shitton of effort went into this.
I need to rant about this:
The sex scene dialogue and narration is extremely cringy and full of unnecessary inner monologue. Half of the text in general is unnecessary inner monologue.
The choices are just scene selectors, nothing is explained and the pacing is off.
Each character in the team is introduced in individual scenes as if they were on a job interview. After they were hired. Does that make sense to you? Does it make you excited? Yeah me neither.
Whoever wrote this has absolutely no clue how to write a good script for a visual medium, or tell a story in general in an interesting way.
I sadly don't foresee this being the Next Big Thing if the current writer will be staying for the rest of it.
If this production team (I'm assuming it's a team because I don't think a mere mortal can do this kind of thing solo) can get a hold of an actual script writer then this would be at the very top of F95 and everywhere within a year. But that's a big IF. I know how these things go.
I'm just hoping to God the current writer of this isn't some kind of executive who can't be voted out. Because I see the potential here, I really do. It's the future!
Please excuse my metaphor here but this project is like a flawless 5 star Michelin meal that somebody let a monkey dump a big fat turd on.
There's a brilliant vision behind it and it's sublimely executed, but a very obvious weak link fucked it all up. Badly. It could have been GREAT but now it's just meh. It's so very close to perfection yet still so far away.
If you pick around the turd you can probably get a decent experience out of it. Just don't breathe through your nose and try not to think too much.
And definitely do check it out to see the proof of concept. It's truly formidable. The animations and the expert-level use of the Ren'Py engine really rocks my world.
