VN - Ren'Py - Zeno's Anthology [v0.2.9.9] [Chemical Fire]

Writing dialogues of an edgy teen trying to be dark, it has to be some of the most cringe inducing lines i've seen in VNs. Main MC feels creepy af and choices pretty much does nothing. Its a shame since Its an interesting format with the short stories. And it has nice looking renders and really good looking main girls. But yeah the writing is just a huge turnoff sadly.

It's an interesting game, but the fact that the stories are separate from each other and don't have a general story is annoying.
If it only continued the story of the basement, I think the game would be much more interesting
In my opinion, 4 short games are stuck together and the rest of the stories are not interesting, but the game had good graphics

Played v0.2.9.4-2

I get now why the other reviewers struggle to describe or categorize this. You simply need to play it.

* It's a series of short stories that are interconnected. Thus it won't take long to get through everything...even with replays to pick different options.

* Renders are great!

* Highly erotic and/or highly dark and 'raw'.

* A horror element to each short story, except Devils (regardless of the title).

OVERALL:
I'll be returning to future releases.
This is one of my top 20, regardless of how short it is.

This game is.... something. It just feels wierd to have sex and traumatic experiences so close together. All the sex scenes feel like MC is just taking advantage, even tho you choose not to. Thats the second problem, choices dont affect the gameplay at all, why even bother making them. The renders are great but this kind of quality is nowdays nothing unseen and is slowly becoming standart. The game doesnt really have a story, but it kinda does, its all conected but its cropped. There is a lot of missing info about some things. + it just feels wierd jerking off to this

Overall its decent, short and wierd. It has the same problem as L.O.F. that is connecting trauma and sex, but L.O.F. saving grace was that the characters were really well writen and felt personal. This has no character developement and things like that.

I really believe that this game is in a class of its own. It's gorgeous and honestly makes it probably the best game out there. I play the games once a year and within that time its evolution is unique. Just a big thumbs up to the developer. And of course to continue like this.

The visual part of these games are simply outstanding. The stories are short, but that is rather a refreshing plus - you are never bored and do not need dozens of hours to finish a game. Unfortunately, I found not all of the stories of the same high quality, but that is quite ok for a game still in development. If evaluated by the fun to time spent ratio this game gets 5 stars easily.

This is hot as hell, I think some ladies might even enjoy this one....about to show it to the GF see what she thinks tbh,might want to make the dude better looking though. More *Ero* than *Porn*...Nice and the art is astounding.

v0.2.9.4 Beta
I will keep following the games progression and will update the rating if needed.

Pros:
The Character models look breathtakingly beautiful and are some of the best i´ve ever seen in a xxx game.
Renders look great.

UI looks really clean

Story:
The game doesn´t really have one story but chapters or scenarios from multiple characters. It is still too early for me to rate them because the game is too short, but I really like the first one and the Halloween scenario.

Sex Scenes
The Animations are great and I love the first scene in the laundry room and the story of it.

Cons:
Choices don´t really have an impact.
There is too little connection or explanation between the scenarios like for example what happend with the laundy lady between the two scenes or how come that the 18yo lives with you all of the sudden.

I think this game has huge potential and it will be interesting to see how it will develop further and if we´ll see new characters and or kinks getting introduced and wish the Developer all the best.

I was not sure what to expect when I tried this one... oh boy; was I in for a ride.

This is actually one of the finest games available here. I love the butterfly effect and I just wish some of the choices were less obscure in terms of consequences.
I can see this one being easily one of the best AVN ever made.

I think I liked it lol. On the one hand I love the renders. Especially when it comes to an actual landlady not a "landlady" and her repression. Yet the MC kind of gives me mixed feelings he feels like he's trying too hard to be an "Alpha" and failing. Of course depending on what you choose you may also end up with the story feeling disjointed but I think that's more of anthology than anything.

Pros:
Great renders.
The girls are beautiful and original

Cons:
Plot
The pitch of the story.
The choices have almost no effect on anything

Overall, the potential of the game, great, but the game needs to develop more.

The renders are noteworthy in a good way and the laundry room scene was insanely hot. Unfortunately the decision to require needless clicking of a single icon on screen to advance the story when it isn't a decision point is beyond annoying in a VN, to the point it inclines me to take a star off the rating. Overall worth a try if you haven't played it though.

It's hard to find words to describe how much I appreciate the art in these stories. The story telling skills of this developer are rivaled only by their visual artistry. This is anthology is beautiful, erotic and compelling.

Now that I've seen how they're tying things together I'm even more impressed and drawn into this world that they've built. First and foremost, I appreciate such such real and nuanced characters in such a poignant and sensual story. I'm a writer, I've won both national and regional awards and I have such respect for fellow storytellers who have the ability to offer their storys in such a skilfull way.

These characters show their humanity, a real gritty depth of character that allows us to sense their inner demons, their current emotional struggles as well as the weight of their past lives. Their individual arcs are so sincere, and are tied them together so well. The budding sensuality of Anne, the earthy, primal lust of Lauren and the mysterious and erotic terror of Susan, all reach out and grab the reader, each in a different way that draws them into the story and holds them there, in much the same way that each character's desire compels them to stay.

Beautiful.

from the beginning i found the previewpics very appealing but had never tried to do a playthrough. with the change to renpy the drive to try it was awakened but i still waited a little.

today i tried it and i have to say what i have seen so far i like it a lot and so far it animates you to start a new game again and again and to make decisions you haven't made before. definitely a reason for me to keep watching it and to play the one or other update here and there.

good work, i like it.

Enjoyable rape courtesy of the magic weenie that women just can't resist. Games like this should not have rape tags. Nothing in this game is rape. Rape victims don't just start enjoying it halfway through. That trope was picked up from porn, specifically porn that was toned down for lawmakers.

Two stars for the 3D art which is higher quality than most games.

Zeno's Anthology [v0.2.9.3]

I can already tell this game will be great. I played through this version and it was pretty good. I enjoyed it and I can not wait for it to become complete. However, there are some flaws such as misspellings, compared to the gameplay though it's not that bad

You know, it is not like i came from some vanilla corner, i seen many games in many genres, not that i liked them all or even most. But! Even the most ntr ugly bastard didn't make me feel so much disgust towards him like this mc had. Seriously, just wtf, dude? We even have "choices" in dialogues (which do not have any meaning, it is still one track to creepytown) and need to pick some actions from time to time (which do not give us any choices at all, you will be forced to look at some psycho bitch hairy vagina), but none of the above have any options to act as decent human being. Even at a loss of some content (you can spy at the girl in shower as douchebag or go sit on a couch for example, but in this game you are forced to spy). And i mean, you do expect very poor level of story from porno game, but this is some new levels of low. Visuals good though, even very, way better than average, which is making fucked up mc stand out even more.
Currently v0.2.9.3 .

What a weird game, the protag is either super whiny or super rapey.
The game has some great renders ill give it that.
it hard to rate a game like this because it does some thing really well like that renders and honestly the Multi choice paths are pretty well done.

But my god. the protag is unpleasant.