VN - Others - Whispers of the Sirens [v0.3.1.2] [_BræinWayves]

Review for v0.3.1.2

Instant favorite, provided it keeps developing and continues to fill out with content. Only real problem with this is that it's incomplete. Always like when games try to break the mold, and this is probably one of the most unique lewd AVNs I've come across that also happens to be right up my alley in terms of the sexual content (more or less).

I won't spoil too much of the plot, not that it's necessarily imperative to play this blind, but I just think that air of mystery the game maintains does a lot of favors for it. It's just bizarre in a really fun way. You're a genetically modified, and hot as hell, researcher sent to investigate a formerly sunken ship that has resurfaced on the ocean. The game is sort of structured like a sandbox, but plays very linear so far. Not sure if this will change when more content is added, but I don't hate it.

It does unabashedly embrace its fetishes, which I appreciate. Lot's of REAL monster girl content for the enjoyers, tentacles, transformation, and consensual (?) mind control. I personally really love the art style as well, and it's super nice that everything is hand draw. Leto has some body hair which isn't really my thing, but I got over it quick and it's not really a focus. Game does a good job of teasing and raising the lewd level so to speak, but I'm eager to see what the real meaty scenes will look like. Not quite there yet, but the current scenes are still pretty good.

The writing is actually great as well. Love all the characters personalities, and the game really does take a less is more approach with them I think. It works too. One thing I found a little odd is how quickly Leto just says fuck it yeah let's transform, but whatever. Love that the transformation is actually monstrous too. The game strikes a good balance of that and still being hot.

Just a very solid game in all aspects for me. Love the art, characters are great (and hot), the writing does its job, and the soundtrack helps too. Maybe one thing I wouldn't mind is some SFX for sex? Excited to see this develop.

It's probably the best visual novel I've ever played. I liked everything: the visual, the music, and the story. The visual part may seem sloppy or dirty, but it remains quite detailed and pleasant. The music conveys the atmosphere and mood of the game well. The story is quite interesting and unusual. The H-scenes are damn good.

very weird game, u got a female with modified body and weird creatures with no face details that mind control you using their scent, and some random dreams, and fmc got long tongue like a snake she ate the dildo. overall i give it a 10 because somehow i got a boner in certain scene i dont wanna point it out cause im shy.

game is good. i give it five stars because i like mind control, the art and writing is pretty good i like the main character shes interesting i want to know more about her past. its serious sometimes with nice humor memes i love memes, thats all. give it a try it took me like 1 hour to finish the game wont regret it.

Fantastic art and music. Really eerie and unique atmosphere, really going heavy into the cosmic horror vibes. The main character's super hot on top of it. The entire premise of it is fantastic and it's a really interesting and novel game. Can't wait to see where it goes.

Art is hot. The hypnosis elements seem to be going in the right direction, although i hope the two other characters are going to get some action as well. Looking forward to future updates.
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Interesting one.

Artstyle is of course probably it's biggest talking point. It looks DeviantArt as fuck at first glance, and it's banner art probally isn't the best showcase, but the actual in-game CGs comes off as very much more charming and expressive than bad. There's definitely some skill behind it, the bodies actually have a solid amount of volume to them and the poses are quite dynamic and overall pretty well done, it's really only the heads that are 'bad'. It's heavily stylized, but very fappable. Overall, I like it. Way more interesting than just some mid Daz renders.

As for content, it's pretty unapologetic in it's fetishes. The MC is an ultra-curvy sweaty hairy girl with a hentai tongue and fuck nipples who gets banged by tentacles and erotic hypnotized by sirens, and that's what you're getting. If none of that's your cup of tea then it's probably not your game, but if some of that appeals then here's one of the rare games that has em. I personally appreciate it, both because I'm a card carrying member of the thick hairy girls enjoyer club, and also just in that I think more games should embrace being niche. Make your game, not another generic boy-in-college mass appeal product.

As for gameplay, it does have room navigation which I'm usually biased against, though it doesn't try to go full sandbox with it and it smartly uses the setting of an abandoned ghost ship so it feels more like exploration rather than navigating a generic suburban home. Imagebuttons are also laid out fairly well so you have a pretty good sense of how rooms connect. However, as with all sandbox-like navigation, the risk of becoming stale and just pointless extra navigation between content is gonna be there. Too early now to tell if it'll overstay it's welcome or not, but it didn't annoy me yet.

Engine wise, going with Godot is a mixed bag, on one hand I support it for being different and it's nice to see Godot used more, but on the other hand this of course means a lot of missing QoL features that RenPy has by default. I very much found myself missing RenPy's scroll rollback, text speed options, and especially my right click to save menu (not being able to save during dialogue before scenes is just brutal). And stuff like the web chat session in the intro would have benefited highly from using RenPy's NVL-mode too, as reading an entire discord log slowly line-by-line is not fun. I like Godot, but I'm not sure all the effort it's gonna take here to reinvent the wheel just to match half the features a bone stock renpy template has will be worth it.

Overall, an interesting one to keep on eye on. Unique sexy art and cool little paranormal setting. I'm perhaps being a bit too generous giving it a 4 for the limited amount of content it has currently and it's QoL limitations, but it is interesting and polished well, so seems promising enough to future-proof this review.

It's alright. Not much content so far, and I'm pretty sure I've missed a scene or two given the preview images, but I have no idea how to reach them. There is a log system to keep track of what to do, but I've reached a point in the story where there was nothing left to do, so... I guess that's it.

The sketchy-looking artstyle works relatively well to give that scribbly-handdrawn effect to the backgrounds, but I'm not a fan of how it looks on the characters, and they can lookk quite off-putting at times. Thankfully the sex scenes are better on that front, but the artstyle can sometimes make it hard to gauge some parts of the MC's body.

The story is nice I guess. I'm a bit dissapointed the mystery about what happened to the NPCs didn't linger on for too long; we still don't know who's behind their dissapearance nor why, so that's a minor gripe.

Sounds promising, kinda gives me those Teraurge vibes I've been craving for a long time, so hopefully this game keeps on going into that direction so we see more monster content.