VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Wicked Choices: Book One [Remastered v1.0.1] [ASLPro3D]

Really interesting story, well paced and written. Also fan of the mystical

I like how there are branching paths at every corner, a great mix of kinks as well.

Also the models are refreshing, so used to DAZ assets, its nice to see this as well.

Giving Wicked Choices: Book One a 2.3 (below average) review score.

+ Renders are good enough for when the game was finished (~2020).
+ Ambient music is a nice touch, and changes with scenes
++ Has a somewhat interesting story, and is well written (though there's a lot to read)
+ Has 'some' sex scenes (see one of the negatives below), though no animations
+ Attractive love interests, though they aren't really used (again - see negatives below)
+ Choices seem to matter and change portions of the story
+ Somewhat useful in-game choice flowchart (only useful *after* choosing though)
+ A character bio section which while useful to remind you of who is who, is far too verbose.

--- A short story, only 7 chapters long. This was probably meant to be part 1 of 4, and as such there's very little progression for the MC with any of the characters.
- No animations (not even frame flipping) for any sex scenes.
---- MC is a bit of a wimp for being a heterosexual. Never goes after women in the game for sex. He'd rather open up a bottle of alcohol and simply drink himself to sleep.
--- Feels like the developer is pushing the NPCs in the game into having sex with each other FAR more than the MC, which just isn't interesting to me. A little of it here and there might be fine, but then see the next negative as to why it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

---------- The worst negative which is what I consider an AVN cardinal sin (getting a full -10 from me): The NPCs in the game get more action with each other than the MC does with anyone. Near the end of Chapter 4, the MC has been laid exactly one time only. All the other characters (especially the females) are getting far more action than he is, even with each other. One girl's had sex with a dog as many times as the MC's been laid, if that puts it in perspective.

That last negative is what broke the camel's back for me, and I stopped playing before even reaching the start of Chapter 5. If the MC's only gotten real sex once in ~60% of the game, I have no confidence it'll change for the better. Update: the game has exactly two full sex scenes for the MC, in ~7 hours of play (and I played the last 3 chapters quickly).

The story is somewhat interesting, but it isn't nearly good enough to prop up a game where the MC isn't getting laid. If all you want is a fantasy read, this AVN might be okay for you. If you want your MC to be involved with anyone sexually, you may want to look elsewhere.

Finished the game, and it was exactly as I suspected: only two sex (penetration) scenes in total for the MC over 7 chapters and 7 hours of gameplay. It's uninteresting and just not fun to play an AVN without MC sex scenes. At this point I can't recommend the game, time will tell if the sequels improve on the original.

I almost passed on this one...

As I do with most of these AVNs/games, I played through this one every which way I could. Every path was well done. The subtle changes in text, tone, mood, etc., excellent "craftsmanship".

There are plenty of 4* and 5* reviews explaining the various ways this one is so good.
I can certainly understand the lower ratings, as not everyone will like the same things.

My favorite aspect of this one, copied from another review:
"- The flowchart. I think it's a brilliant decision to include that into the game. I hate having to look at external sources to find out the connections between choices. This chart was done in a way that let me explore the game on my own and see the amount of interconnected scenes and possible other routes for 2nd or 3rd playthrough."

I'm looking forward to the next release to continue this story.

I cannot at all understand how this game is rated so highly. It's baffling.

The renders have for sure not stood the test of time. They are bad, like really bad. Posing, quality, quantity, literally every metric you can measure by its bad. Animations are not even worth discussing.

Story. Well, there is a really, really, interesting premise here. However, its unfortunately really poorly delivered. Most of this game is either monologue or description. There is precious little actual dialogue between characters. You might be looking at a render, but the dev chooses to spend forever describing it to you. They painstakingly take every opportunity to describe in painstaking detail every little thing. It comes across as more fluff than art, and its annoying as hell. I found myself trying to skip through as much text as possible while keeping a handle on the thread of the story, which was tough. It never gets better.

Lewd content. Its SUPER limited, and quite disappointing. If your are playing this game for lewd content you will absolutely be disappointed.

TL;DR Bad renders, fluffed story, overall disappointing. Avoid unless you're desperate for content.

What a ride.

"Wicked Choices" is a relatively short game, with a single playthrough only taking an afternoon. That said, the amount of player choice increases the replay value immensely. This game even includes a flowchart that lets you see which paths you haven't taken yet, to help you unlock all the content and scenes.

The game looks a bit dated, but this didn't get in the way of my enjoyment of it. Unlike modern AVN, it doesn't have any animations, and character's emotions are mostly shown through posture instead of facial expressions.

On the adult side of things... This isn't a porn game. While there are plenty of sex- and erotic scenes, the main attraction is the story it tells.

The story follows the MC and Lynara, and puts the player in control of both. There are choices for both characters, relating to promiscuity and morals, changing the path that they're on. Through clever writing, these paths merge eventually, though I suspect some choices will have long-term effects in any future titles.
The stories of the MC and Lynara happen in parallel. Thanks to a sort of erotic link shared between these characters, the writer smartly links the timelines together. In MC's timeline he'll climax, and Lynara will feel this sensation in her timeline, letting the player know when these events are happening.

The writing, especially during the early chapters, is long-winded and flowery, to almost being pretentious. Luckily, it becomes much easier to read and follow later on.
That said, there is a lot of attention to detail in the writing. I noticed how MC's language became more crass as his arousal increased. Going from 'folds' to 'cunt', for instance. It's small details like these that increase immersion while reading.

I liked the game but I can't give it 5 stars because of couple of things:
- Story looks like a mess at the very start. The first two chapters left me somewhat confused (one moment we're dealing with incest, the next moment we're suddenly in a medieval magic kingdom), I saw the small details that made the connections between the realms but I still think that introduction could've been made better.
- Renders felt really outdated. I'm not sure what's the REMASTERED part is about but it sure isn't about graphics.

And here's what I really liked:
- The flowchart. I think it's a brilliant decision to include that into the game. I hate having to look at external sources to find out the connections between choices. This chart was done in a way that let me explore the game on my own and see the amount of interconnected scenes and possible other routes for 2nd or 3rd playthrough.
- The cast. Usually, games have 3-6 main characters and maybe 1-5 supporting ones. This one has lots and they are fairly diverse with their own personalities.
- The story. Despite being a mess at the start, it becomes coherent and fairly well-written, and pretty much everything starts to make sense the further you get into the game.

Wicked Choices: Book One -Remastered [v1.0.1]

I´m not sure what this game tries to be. It´s like it pretends to be like a David Lynch Movie, where you have to guess what all of this was about, but worse.
You get thrown in to wildly different plots, that drag and drag along, and don´t create any connection or explanation for the characters.
It´s poor writing gives you headaches, and sadly, there´s so much of it, that makes you question, why you waste your time.
You get presented with so many choices, that don´t seem really transparent, making them incredibly confusing.
The renders look so bad and dull, just like the sex scenes that are really rare in this game.
This "game" is a massive waste of time, and there are better choices out there.

I can understand people might dislike the game, but I enjoyed it thoroughly due to writing, cast and kinks.

* Plot /Writing 5/5

- I give 5/5 despite the fact that I dislike having to deal with female protagonists at all. But as it was a parallel storyline, occasional enough and the theming/execution was good enough for me, I left it at 5.

- The whole thing is "starting small and turning out to have epic connections", but in a decent enough way while tickling the right kinks for me. So, gods, demons, angels, it's a bit convoluted, but here it goes OK.

- I liked the whole "holy on facade, but dark inside" vibe and reverse blackmail that is possible due to this; it is sort of preserved in the demo of the next part of game as well, so is a recurring theme;

- Not a LOT of choices, but they do lead to different scenes or outcomes. There was one choice that lead to gameover in the beginning, but I think afterwards authors understood it shouldn't be that way. From my perspective, optimal blend of straight narrative and choices, manageable.

- MC is allowed to express his dominant side soon enough, there is quite little "oh noes what I am doing" bs (and some of it avoidable due to choices), and even when it is there it is kinda believable. There is no "mc dominated" scenes, another plus for me. The kinks might be a bit darker, but hints to that are in the writing, sadly the next chapter was abandoned.

* Characters 5/5

- MC is a grownup, not a college kid, both in appearance and speech. Rarity in AVNs here; +2 for that alone;

- People talk in normal everyday sentences, none of the idiotic high school crap we see too frequently.

* Visuals/scenes 5/5

People might wonder at that, since model textures and details are quite dated and simplistic, the game is somewhat old. But for me it was visuals together with story, and the blend, choices of POVs, etc together worked for 5/5.

- Models are by and large quite believable! I like the fact that neither MC has uber-schlong/physique, nor others have biologically unbelievable breasts/figures. +2 for that alone Characters are quite varied, kudos for including characters that are unlikely to be found in your run of the mill AVN such as Father Ludovic.

- Sex renders are short and not animated. It is obviously a minus, but the writing together with the renders and their presentation does create the suspense for me, so I leave it at 5/5. There is also the unusual choice of showing several frames along each other, as in comics -- it actually seems to works very well!

All in all a great gem of a chapter for me, it's a pity the next part seems abandoned and the current chapter on Patreon focuses on yet other characters in the same universe for some reason, instead of going on with this story.

why 4 stars:
1. the story is really good if you love fantasy inside the real world.
2 . it delivers really well to its tags.
3. the girls are hot and look real and not disporportional.
4. unique look for characters and not the same old look of 90% of girls in RenPy.
5. choices matter.

cons:
1. renders could be a bit better.
2. some parts have a LOT of text, more like a novel than a game, so if you do not like it you can just skip through some of the text.
3. not really a con but i book 1 mainly introduce all the main subject and deal, but there is A LOT more for this game, that would probably come to life in the next books, but i just was not ready for it to be not long.

thanks Dev!!! hope we will hear more from you and goodluck in the future!

This isn't a game, it's a headache that's not worth dealing with.

First of all the plot makes no sense. In one scene you're in the real world (?) fucking your relatives (?) while in the next you switch protagonists in a fantasy kingdom (?). You don't get an introduction on who these people are even if you did it would be hard to understand anything because the amount of verbose narration in the text would make you skip ahead just so you won't fall asleep.

But let's say you don't mind the story and just want to see the low quality decade old sex scenes. Good luck finding your way to the desired outcome and picking the right choices between 100 options without a walkthrough. There's a route menu in the game that tells you where you are but it won't say what you need to choose to reach a certain point until you're already there, and if you reload to go another way it forgets which parts you've already explored. You'd need to play the game with a piece of paper and pen in your other hand instead of your dick if you want to see every scene. I've seen people complain about this in the thread and asking for a way to unlock all gallery but they've all been ignored for some reason.

So yeah it would be a bad choice to play wicked choices when there are other choices out there much better than this.

I didn't like this game or at least definetely not to such rating which has it right now. The graphics are renders are not good even for old game. The story is in my opinion too complicated and player would need a walktrhough to succesfully play this.

I'd give this a 4.5 star rating for the overall quality of the story and impact of choices. Some parts can be a little text heavy, but it's in service of the larger narrative. There are a lot of kinks represented here and you can avoid the ones you don't like with the proper choices.

The story is good but it's really short, I mean it's book one in a series. From start to end it's pretty much world building. The models and renders are pretty hit or miss. If I were you I would at least wait for the sequel and binge them both.

The only problem this game has is taht maybe sometimes the text can be hard to read. In some moments the big chunks of textswithout conversations in between can become a little too heavy. This is onlly a problem cause the game is "erotic" and maybe the atention span gets shortened and that is the reason why all the text cane become diffitul to handle.
Storytelling is definetely good, if you can keep your brain fully fonctional, its awesome storytelling, there are also some smail details there like the way a girl gives her consent in a moment of doubt, or when in a week emotional moment one of the characters can see the concern of the other and reasure him.
Basically is the same "stories" already seen cause they are alread invented, and there are other 1000 games out there that take this same setting and make it as fast paced as this one, but the difference here is the ability to make you understand what happens with and between the characters and their interactions.
Graphics are not revolutionary, i dont know what engine is this or what assets, but not being absolutely awesome and groundbreaking, they work pretty well. Here i will make the analogy of the Ealier PES games and the fifa games in the characters appearance. There was a time where FIFA had the upper hand in the visuals, but their players looked like lifeless robots, and PES had poor character quality but somehow they could make the look more human. This is the feeling the game gives me. Its apparently quite inferior to DAZ visually, but it also has better parts and defiently works as it is.
And well sex scenes are believable and quite detailed, there are deatils here also that allow your brain to understand you are watching somehow complex humans interacting with each other.
The game has music and I it also works pretty well, and changes according to the situations.. So far i think the music sets the mood correctly, this is a relief.

As a negative note i would say that some times the dialogues describe a scene that doesnt trigger untill th nxt dialogue or couple dialogues show. Im quite picky there and I prefer it to change accordingly cause my brain interprets it as a spoiler, and when i see the image I already know what happened. I prefer to watch the image, and then read the text.

For this and the highly demand put in your atention span, i wouldn give it 5 stars, but:
Since its so hard to find decent sex scenes where people interact like humans...
And well since most of the time DAZ can't place vaginas correctly, and this game seems to have it pretty much figured out, I think im gonna round up and give it 5, cause this and other things this game has should be pat of the roadmap of every gameout there. and i think it should be rewarded so others follow.
Once again these are my opinions, take them as a guide to figure out if you are interested in the game, not as absolute facts.

• Really enjoyable storyline.
• Looking forward to part 2.

Only complaint really was I felt one of the relationships could have really used some personal closure. See spoiler for details.


***If the second (or third) part addresses the above spoiler issue this would easily get tagged a 5 instead of a 4.

Is Patreon the only place we can purchase this at the moment? I'd like to support the developer.

Story: extremely engaging, you will find yourself skipping a few sex scenes for the actual 'plot'

Writing: elaborate and descriptive. this might not be for everyone, but the writing took the erotic aspects of the game to the next level.

Art: the girls look good and have realistic proportions.

Great underrated game with a great story, dialogue, and of course porn. This game should definitely be more popular, and I'm a big fan of how the creator(s) plan on continuing the series with each game being a "book" and I'm looking forward to the sequal. There's a lot of incest in the game though if that's not your thing.

I can't believe I haven't left a review yet... By far one of the best titles I've played, if not the best. Seriously, probably the most beautiful game I've ever played; every single render has been painstakingly perfected by the master craftsman that is Jack.

The mood that accompanies playing this game is the culmination of; awe - at the incredible beauty of the game, lust - over some of the most sensual and tasteful sex scenes I've seen/read from porn games, and anticipation - of the next reveal in an unfolding story of desire, betrayal, mystery and hardships.

I rarely find myself playing one of these games, and feeling instead as though I was reading some published smut novel. The characters are so believable (except for, like, maybe two xD) and the story so engaging, that at some point I found myself enjoying the in-betweens more than I did the sexy times. I would be down to just read an actual novel at this point. Jack's decision to entitle this game "Book One" certainly is fitting.

To get to the actual content of the game, it's certainly not wanting in options. You've got old, young, romance, rape, monster, lesbian, incest, futanari, demons, angels (though let's face it, they're elves), and to top it off, a cycle of male and female protags as you swap between Lynara and the Antichrist. There's so much to like, and even more to love, that I would be amazed to find a person that can say truthfully, that there isn't something for them in here.

There's a right and wrong way to do "choices matter" games. This, is the right way. Some people find it tedious to try and find all the possibilities, and I'd agree. But realise just how much content that means there is, and appreciate that. Seriously, though, take a look at the choice trees in game - it's insane.

What else can I say? The game deserves so much more that I can't even begin to do it justice.

Easily one of the best erotic games I have played so far. Great job ASLPro
I really loved the timeline added in the extra feature.

Here's my opinion:
Gameplay - 8,9/10 (not much is there to play, except making wise decisions)
Story - 10/10 (great narration)
Models - 10/10 (really gorgeous!)

I really did want to like this game but it just kept on disappointing me.

Given that it's a visual novel game, there isn't a lot of "gameplay" to talk about, granted it's a lot more polished compared to a lot of other renpy games.

However what visual novels lack in gameplay they are suppose to make up in choices/story, Wicked Choices doesn't really deliver in this regard.
The choices you do make doesn't really give a huge impact following the choice you've made.
This isn't usually a problem if it's tailored correctly SlutCraft: Heat of the Sperm & Fashion Business comes to mind, where your choices greatly affects the character and how a scene plays, while leaving the main story mostly in tact.
However in Wicked Choices, most choices you make only change a certain flavor of said event, with only a handful of choices influencing future events.
Not to mention that given how sparse the world of Wicked Choices implies (multiple monsters & creatures) it rarely wants to deviate from it's main story "races".
Essentially there is a lack of agency in a game about choice.

Artistically speaking the 3D render is quite dated at this point and it doesn't help the fact that some of the models look very similar to each other (Syria & Mike's niece comes to mind) especially body wise, everyone more or less has the same body type with barely any variation in skin tone, "assets" or even height (if we exclude Syria in the beginning).
And while the models facial expressions aren't deep inside uncanny valley, there are times that the facial expression of certain models make them look very... "undesirable".

The sex scenes are alright or passable, the only annoying thing is that there's not a lot of agency nor does the scene develop the characters inner "yearnings" beyond predictable (I love him, I love her) affection.

Now the story, Wicked Choices story leaves a very bittersweet experience and frustration.

One frustrating aspect comes from a similar issue Seed of Chaos has, which is that it has too many plotlines that it has to juggle while failing to justify why it is required.
The second frustrating aspect is how Wicked Choices at times will just dump loads upon loads of lore upon you with no organic build up and this is without ever trying to mystify or allow the player to indirectly figure out the lore, this only then dampens to the story telling in a similar way as to watching a captivating tv show and abruptly the show is cut off and you're treated to infomercials related to the tv show you're watching.
Since typically most games should only tell the absolute minimum lore while the player has "control", in other words unless the game gives you ways to access books or notes detailing the background lore, it only serves to cockblock the player.

All this while the characters themselves are quite well developed and there are various times you the player may start to feel captivated by the characters different struggles and flaws only to be slapped by 15 paragraphs of lore and 2 chapters later be able to pick up the captivating part.


While I appreciate the developer being on f95 and it certainly do have it's moments, it does however fall short on multiple fronts:
It doesn't really present it's more exotic worldbuilding (since it's pretty clear there's more than just angels and demons).
The game mostly teases us of "macabre" sexual deviation, but rarely fulfills it.
The conflicts between character are abruptly interrupted by a mostly unnecessary explanation of the lore.

And where we rarely get to really see the characters inner yearnings be exposed beyond it being tied to having affection for someone, let alone having their yearnings conflict with their personality (as opposed to circumstances).