Netorase is a pretty niche genre. Small crowd but the fans are loyal and will throw money at you if the product actually delivers. And in a swamp full of low effort cashgrab WEGs, Vulgar Reverie at least stands out with legit hand-drawn art which is also pretty good. That alone should’ve been a homerun for it, but it’s not…
First of all, VR is primarily advertised as a NETORASE vn. Since it’s been out for a while, let’s look at the meat of an erotic game: the sex scenes. If you go inside the folder \Vulgar Reverie V0.x\game\images\scenes, you’ll notice there are currently 22 H-scenes labeled by the developer himself as of V15. Out of these 22, only 10 of them are NTS, and the rest of them are vanilla stuff, which has better art and is somehow more detailed. So what about the limited number of NTS scenes then? Are they good?
Well, to start it off, they all follow the same repetitive formula. No intimacy, barely any foreplay, just “stick it in and done,” with dialogue consisting of screaming cliché terms like “FUCK” and “THAT FEELS GOOD” a couple of times. As for the sex itself, think of the most sterile and sanitized form of sex possible with must-have safeguards. Even vanilla games feel kinkier. The heroine’s reactions during the sex with the bulls don’t help either, they feel like she’s acting uncomfortably instead of enjoying any of it. It’s fine for the first time but makes everything feel superficial if that’s the case EVERY SINGLE TIME. One example would be the recent scene in v14, while Amelia is riding the bull, she says the name of our MC in the middle of it when her partner has no idea who the name she called out for is, not only is it a total disconnect with the actual scene, it also completely kills off the vibe. At this point, the bulls might as well be literal dildos, nothing would change.
That said, the teasing is pretty hot and more on the lengthy side, doing a solid job at building hype for the upcoming scenario. But this just makes the disappointment worse when the scenes don’t match up to the hype. It feels like waiting for a climax that doesn’t exist.
For some reason every single bull after the vacation arc turns into a douche, treating Amelia like a cliché cheating wife with zero respect. Understandable since she never tells them the real reason as to why she’s with them, making the sharing aspect underwhelming. It also makes the MC look pathetic, since he’s “sharing” without the bulls even knowing he’s consenting to it. And to make up for that the actual sex gets heavily watered down and we get way more vanilla scenes with protagonist than the content this game was marketed for to make sure the audience never feels like they’re getting NTR’d. This is where the game starts overcompensating and kills off the authenticity of the whole setting.
I’ll start with a recent example. In v15, our heroine confronts the MC while tearing up about the fact she had sex with a stranger, so they have a lengthy talk about it for some reason EVEN THOUGH she has done much worse with other bulls before and we’re already pretty deep into the story. Like…… what? Also the current arc is setting up our MC to seduce the mother of Amelia for some reason? What was the main genre of this game again? We’ve reached a point where the fetish is largely taking the backseat. If I wanted vanilla, I would rather play Majikoi for the 10th time. I don’t play a netorase game to see the heroine have sex with the MC most of the time.
There’s a reason why 99% of NTS games vastly reduce the sex scenes with protagonist compared to the NTS scenes after the sharing starts, mainly because they’re just very boring. Don’t get me wrong, there still needs to be some safety net so the audience don’t feel like the heroine is forgetting about our MC, you can make it interesting by incorporating these into group sex, off-screen sex, handjob with teasing, and occasional lovey-dovey sex in special cases without sacrificing the core fetish of the game. You don’t need reclamation sex each time a stranger bumped with your wife. It’s just funny to me they put so much effort into these scenes when the main aspect of the game still needs to be vastly improved upon.
The word I’d use to describe the writing is “stagnant.” Everything keeps repeating itself, the dialogue, the story beats, the sex scenes, all of it. This becomes more prevalent after the vacation arc. Structure of the game for each arc goes like this,
Teasing/build-up (50%) + NTS H-scenes (15%) + vanilla/reclamation scenes (35%).
You can always predict exactly what’s going to happen next because the status quo is fixed. Their fetish never grows past the first step either despite plenty of baiting to hook the playerbase so they don’t leave. In case you’re waiting for the natural escalation, don’t bother as you’ll just get blueballed for the umpteenth time.
Whole point of “netorase” is the immoral thrill of sharing your partner, with all the excitement and surprises that come with it while having complete trust that she only loves you no matter what. It’s a purely physical thing that allows you to reach for bolder heights. If we always have to run through a long set of checklist to clear any sorts of doubts, then there’s simply no room for any thrills. Maybe the couple isn’t even really into it.
So far, Amelia picks all the partners and the MC just goes along with it. The story would feel fresh if the MC proposed partners to surprise Amelia and encouraged her to try more hardcore stuff. That would make the relationship dynamic feel more balanced instead of Amelia controlling everything.
Look, I’m not asking for high literature, I know WEG storylines are bottom of the barrel anyway, but somehow this game still managed to sink lower than that bar since it has no clear vision of what it wants to be.
Now on to the crux of the matter, the dev himself clearly isn’t comfortable with this genre. His Patreon posts scream insecurity. Every now and then he reminds fans, “Don’t worry, there will be no NTR in this,” or “She doesn’t mean any of it.” Except anyone who actually read the description and knows the genre already understands what to expect. If you’re that scared of upsetting even a fraction of people every update, why are you making a game in this genre?
At the end of the day, this isn’t a game for actual netorase fans who want steamy kinky sex. It’s for hardcore vanilla fans who came for the art, don’t like NTS but pretend to, skip most of the bull scenes, can’t enjoy anything without self-inserting and only watch the scenes with the protagonist. Most of the scenes are vanilla anyway.
Final thoughts? This is hands down the softest and most aimless take on “NTS” I’ve ever seen in an erotic media that advertises itself as “NETORASE.” A game constantly fighting against its own genre while pretending to embrace it.
First of all, VR is primarily advertised as a NETORASE vn. Since it’s been out for a while, let’s look at the meat of an erotic game: the sex scenes. If you go inside the folder \Vulgar Reverie V0.x\game\images\scenes, you’ll notice there are currently 22 H-scenes labeled by the developer himself as of V15. Out of these 22, only 10 of them are NTS, and the rest of them are vanilla stuff, which has better art and is somehow more detailed. So what about the limited number of NTS scenes then? Are they good?
Well, to start it off, they all follow the same repetitive formula. No intimacy, barely any foreplay, just “stick it in and done,” with dialogue consisting of screaming cliché terms like “FUCK” and “THAT FEELS GOOD” a couple of times. As for the sex itself, think of the most sterile and sanitized form of sex possible with must-have safeguards. Even vanilla games feel kinkier. The heroine’s reactions during the sex with the bulls don’t help either, they feel like she’s acting uncomfortably instead of enjoying any of it. It’s fine for the first time but makes everything feel superficial if that’s the case EVERY SINGLE TIME. One example would be the recent scene in v14, while Amelia is riding the bull, she says the name of our MC in the middle of it when her partner has no idea who the name she called out for is, not only is it a total disconnect with the actual scene, it also completely kills off the vibe. At this point, the bulls might as well be literal dildos, nothing would change.
That said, the teasing is pretty hot and more on the lengthy side, doing a solid job at building hype for the upcoming scenario. But this just makes the disappointment worse when the scenes don’t match up to the hype. It feels like waiting for a climax that doesn’t exist.
For some reason every single bull after the vacation arc turns into a douche, treating Amelia like a cliché cheating wife with zero respect. Understandable since she never tells them the real reason as to why she’s with them, making the sharing aspect underwhelming. It also makes the MC look pathetic, since he’s “sharing” without the bulls even knowing he’s consenting to it. And to make up for that the actual sex gets heavily watered down and we get way more vanilla scenes with protagonist than the content this game was marketed for to make sure the audience never feels like they’re getting NTR’d. This is where the game starts overcompensating and kills off the authenticity of the whole setting.
I’ll start with a recent example. In v15, our heroine confronts the MC while tearing up about the fact she had sex with a stranger, so they have a lengthy talk about it for some reason EVEN THOUGH she has done much worse with other bulls before and we’re already pretty deep into the story. Like…… what? Also the current arc is setting up our MC to seduce the mother of Amelia for some reason? What was the main genre of this game again? We’ve reached a point where the fetish is largely taking the backseat. If I wanted vanilla, I would rather play Majikoi for the 10th time. I don’t play a netorase game to see the heroine have sex with the MC most of the time.
There’s a reason why 99% of NTS games vastly reduce the sex scenes with protagonist compared to the NTS scenes after the sharing starts, mainly because they’re just very boring. Don’t get me wrong, there still needs to be some safety net so the audience don’t feel like the heroine is forgetting about our MC, you can make it interesting by incorporating these into group sex, off-screen sex, handjob with teasing, and occasional lovey-dovey sex in special cases without sacrificing the core fetish of the game. You don’t need reclamation sex each time a stranger bumped with your wife. It’s just funny to me they put so much effort into these scenes when the main aspect of the game still needs to be vastly improved upon.
The word I’d use to describe the writing is “stagnant.” Everything keeps repeating itself, the dialogue, the story beats, the sex scenes, all of it. This becomes more prevalent after the vacation arc. Structure of the game for each arc goes like this,
Teasing/build-up (50%) + NTS H-scenes (15%) + vanilla/reclamation scenes (35%).
You can always predict exactly what’s going to happen next because the status quo is fixed. Their fetish never grows past the first step either despite plenty of baiting to hook the playerbase so they don’t leave. In case you’re waiting for the natural escalation, don’t bother as you’ll just get blueballed for the umpteenth time.
Whole point of “netorase” is the immoral thrill of sharing your partner, with all the excitement and surprises that come with it while having complete trust that she only loves you no matter what. It’s a purely physical thing that allows you to reach for bolder heights. If we always have to run through a long set of checklist to clear any sorts of doubts, then there’s simply no room for any thrills. Maybe the couple isn’t even really into it.
So far, Amelia picks all the partners and the MC just goes along with it. The story would feel fresh if the MC proposed partners to surprise Amelia and encouraged her to try more hardcore stuff. That would make the relationship dynamic feel more balanced instead of Amelia controlling everything.
Look, I’m not asking for high literature, I know WEG storylines are bottom of the barrel anyway, but somehow this game still managed to sink lower than that bar since it has no clear vision of what it wants to be.
Now on to the crux of the matter, the dev himself clearly isn’t comfortable with this genre. His Patreon posts scream insecurity. Every now and then he reminds fans, “Don’t worry, there will be no NTR in this,” or “She doesn’t mean any of it.” Except anyone who actually read the description and knows the genre already understands what to expect. If you’re that scared of upsetting even a fraction of people every update, why are you making a game in this genre?
At the end of the day, this isn’t a game for actual netorase fans who want steamy kinky sex. It’s for hardcore vanilla fans who came for the art, don’t like NTS but pretend to, skip most of the bull scenes, can’t enjoy anything without self-inserting and only watch the scenes with the protagonist. Most of the scenes are vanilla anyway.
Final thoughts? This is hands down the softest and most aimless take on “NTS” I’ve ever seen in an erotic media that advertises itself as “NETORASE.” A game constantly fighting against its own genre while pretending to embrace it.
