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

Zeno is the creepiest creep you can immagine. In my playthrough the first name is Psycho just because Psycho the Rapist didn't fit in. The story is so weird... yet there is some potential and it's sure something new.

A bunch of short stories about Zeno, a bloke with nothing special about him.
But he´s still getting some very hot pussy. Yeah, plot wise, it´s not perfect.

But i actualy quite like it. Some of the stories are interwined, others dunno where its going, there´s one kinect novel.

Don´t know what is the end game here (hit me up if you do) but one thing is for sure: the dude knows how to make HOT women.
Some of the scenes are very erotic and blissfully sexual and the short stories fit perfectly here.
You´ll fap for sure.

This VN is clearly carried by the quality of the renders and a backstory that is very confusing but ultimately mysterious enough to keep you hooked.

What I don't like at all is the MC. His behaviour is... infantile, even when he tries to be a positive influence on the environment he is deeply sexist, reduces women to primary sexual organs and has zero empathy or sensitivity. He meets a girl who may have been a victim of domestic or sexual violence and all he can think about is how to deal with his hard cock. That's just bottom drawer. I could let it pass if one at least had the choice to behave in a more boring aka human way. But choices are deliberately excluded.

I thought about giving Zeno's Anthology four stars because it's still a huge effort and the quality of the episodes is really good. Extra points for trying an anthology VN, anything experimental should be encouraged. But for that, the MC would have to behave a bit more like a real human being and not like a prepubescent lecher.

Entirely perfect game ... So good visuals ... A bit of confusing at first but you get use to it ... Thier are different interconnected stories .... Form Same timelines but from different time spaces * like past , present, future* ( i know i know i am talking bullshit ) .... Take my word and give this game a try ... Story is good , Visuals are fantastic *no doubt in it* .... Definitely this one not Gonna disappointed you

The visuals here are just amazing, there is an obvious effort into doing something special and of the highest quality. The stories are intertwined so in the long run everything seems to be going coherently, also the character creation is very well done, one of the best I've seen here, characters don't look like your average models. One of the best creators in here, I hope he could develop a bit faster but such a quality product requires not only production time but also post production.

This game/VN surprised me.

The visual part of the game such as 3D render design and pose/expression is just in anther level. Animation is not necessary for this VN and would slow down the dev process.

I also loved its well-designed short-story format. I am tired of most games poorly designed and ill-maintained with mundane long stories. But even with the short format, this dev seems to know how to tell readers intriguing and sticky stories. Among its three stories, I couldn't find a single mundane moment. It's an unexpected quality in this type of games.

TBH, I am not sure that this game will survive against full of horny teenagers in this business.Nevertheless, I wish all the best with the dev and this game.

I would like to give it 5 stars, the artistic level, the quality of the renders, the use of D-force, the lighting, the post-processing work of the renders, all great, above average and by far.

The "problem", I can't hook into the story, that's the problem when you create a VN with a series of short stories, you don't create a connection, neither with the MC nor with any other character that appears in the narrative.

Honestly, I really like the visual section, the photo-realistic designs, the details, the good use of ren'pay, it would be excellent if all this already said were transferred to a more conventional VN, to a long story, with characters that not only come and go and short stories that at first do not have a solid connection between them, a criticism at the plot level, do not force the reader to do things he does not want, for example masturbate, if in one of the options he says no, be consistent and respect the reader's decision.


I recommend reading this VN, it's worth it, if you like eroticism and short stories, this is definitely for you.

Lewd episodes.

Yes, that it is.

Personally, i like them.
I think i like the first story the best so far.
Characters are so well made. I really think they stick out.

I am not an expert with stories but the seem to make at least some sense.
I think for an entry, this is above average and i like how its done.

This is a new concept (to me) to have short stories instead of a long story. So that is refreshing.
There is always something that could be better but i think its lewd, its engaging and pretty females.
Male seems ugly, which is good and you do not see him all the time. So for that narrative i think i am fine with it. Normally i prefer no face.

So yes, good to go.

The first female character of the game is a bit poor in beauty, but the following 2 women are very wonderful, the character Cinder... is very young and charming, the other is very sexy and hot, the resolution of The graphics are very high, the background color is bright and clear, conclusion: 1 game worth playing.
And most importantly, the author updates very regularly, thank you author

Just played Cinderella (ZENO's Anthology v0.2.7.) Good renders. An average story though. Almost no sexual content, not even nudity , other than seeing the MC's dick, in Cinderella. I wasnt playing the game to see his dick, so I was disappointed. We are told that there will be more content in future updates. There have allready been a lot of updates, so I would have expected a lot more sexual content by now. I am not going to waste my time playing, any of the other stories, as the milf models dont interest me.

This started out pretty promising but the stories have become very bad and they really lead to nothing in each one.

Dirty Laundry is pretty decent but the "animations" are terrible. I get its not fully animated but they way that they have sex just looks really bad.
Cinderella has no sexual content in it at all, so you just play an older dude that creeps on a younger girl and he dies at the end.
Halloween story is just bad.

The renders and the women look pretty nice and I get what the dev was going for but the writing is bad and the English is poor. Zeno is just a overly pervy dude that cant control his eyes or his erection, he's completely unlikeable and really doesn't deserve to fuck anyone.

So, I'm a little conflicted on this one. On one hand, the renders are fantastic. I can't recall ever seeing these models being used in another game—a real breath of fresh air—but, the game has little else going for it.

The game currently features three stories. None of them are particularly long, and only one of them is finished(?) as of writing this review. They're a collection of short stories revolving around a man named "Zeno", one you can kind of name in one story but still remain as "Zeno".

I'm not sure what I was expecting going into this, but the dialogue is.. definitely not what I thought it would be. The english itself is fine, and maybe it's just me, but I felt VERY uncomfortable in the shoes of Zeno as I played the three seperate stories.

Not only is he a complete creep, but his internal thoughts also come across as borderline pedophilic in one of the stories as he goes on and on about how the youth and innocence of this one arguably teenage girl turn him on. I understand these stories are extreme sexual fantasies, but I couldn't find myself enjoying most of the stories when given no other choice than to be a creep, or a slightly nicer creep.

Aside from this, the other two stories were fairly run of the mill. The horror aspect was nice but not very fleshed out in the third, and the majority of the other stories have branching routes where half the choices are unavailable. Strange way of approaching a choose your adventure, but I understand why a developer might want to approach it this way.

If Zeno wasn't such a creep and the stories were a little more fleshed out, I may have rated this slightly higher; but for now, I'mma have to give it a three and move on to something else.

Update (v0292): The renders are still awesome. The game is aesthetically pleasing, but.. you still have to be a creep. There's no option here. You are "Zenos", unable to control your urges while somehow still "sounding" like you'll have a choice, but ultimately cornholing you into the creepiest decisions.

And hey, I respect that. If you intend to have the player sit in the role of a master creep, you're still doing an amazing job, and I don't mean that in a negative way. It isn't necessarily for me, I'd like a little more "choice" in it, personally.

You give us the decision to do things like stay quiet, or to straight up tell a women shes hot in a weird way—but the times in between, like when you force us to peek and/or say weird things, those are the parts I wish I had a little more control in. It's jarring when I can withhold a creepy comment one minute, but then I see a slew of them the next.

Still, good job keeping this updated and looking as good as it does. Bumped up to a four-star on that alone.

v0.2.6
Great realistic renders! Love the expressions of the characters and the stories.

Having more options would be an interesting addition for future updates. When there's an interactable arrow to look, grab or move somewhere, often there's only 1 option. It would be nice to choose alternatives or deny some of the choices to see alternative results.

I'm aware that it's at an early stage and the 1st girl, Laundry landlady is way more detailed than the others, but I do hope more choices will come for the rest of the girls.

There is great potential with these types of scenarios. Would be interesting to have a love/slave path with the escaped girl and perhaps some necrophilia option with the transforming zombie girl.

I do agree with some other comments that the face of the MC is not so appealing.

Good luck with future updates!

Pretty good game so far.

Positive traits :
- Top notch graphism
- Pretty hot sex scenes
- Very interesting and uncommon story setting and development (works both as good and bad trait).
- Hot female characters (mainly the young girl from the "Cinderella" storyline, very, very eager to see sex scenes with her).

Bad traits :
- Not a big fan of MC face, find him kind of ugly but at least he is a stud.
- The uncommon story setting portend a short game.
- A deeper story and more character development would have been good.

4/5.

Reviewing v0.2.6 (using JoiPlay on Android)

Below is a 1 to 5 star rating that I feel contributed to my over all rating.

Renders: 4.5 ⭐ - The renders are some of the best I have seen with good scene compensation and depth of field giving a high quality appearance. The renders are what carries this game mostly for me.

Animations: 1 ⭐ - There are no animations to be found.

Models 4: ⭐ - The female models are good quality and don't look familiar with believable proportions but the face of the male model is not the best...kinda looks like he gets beat up alot.

Story 3.5: ⭐ - Only three short and incomplete stories in this version that are not related except for having the same PC/MC. All three stories in the current versions are good so far and have potential to go in interesting directions in the future. Can rename the PC/MC in one story.

Hint System: 3 ⭐ - Uses an interesting beaching tree hint system that is only available from the main menu before playing one of the stories showing where story branches are without giving away the choices that will lead down another path.

Lewd Scenes: 3.5 ⭐ - Only two of the three stories have lewd scenes but as stated before they are not animated but still erotic.

In the short amount of time it took to complete the three stories I enjoyed myself but I will probably be waiting a few more versions for more content to be added before playing again.

Quality renders, tension, parallel episodic format works well. Updates are slow, but very replayable. This probably won't be finished for a while, and there's not really a known size of each episode yet, but the potential is high.

Good Points
+ 404 not found... I'm not joking... There is literaly zero good point for this game... Espacily after seeing a lot of 5 star rating i was waiting someting good but all of them turned out missleading...

Bad Points
- Our game divided by episodes like our DEV told: ''The life of Zeno is full of interesting and lewd episodes, full of interesting and lewd women.'' and its kind of weird. Instead of making connected and straight story we have 3 divided/different lewd episode with totaly unfinished content.
- This is thing i saw in couple of games and probably hated most... Doing updates without completing that update. If i need explain with example: in our first choice game gives us choice: ''Should i casualy go there or stay slient?'' and then we got choices: ''Wait and see.'' and ''Coming ın v.0.3'' and thats not all, second choice have same nonsense aswell... ''The door was jammed. and ''Coming in v0.3'' again...- Seriously? So instead of starting two choice at same time and advance it like normal way you gonna advance just one choice, literaly not even implement other one and gone other way? So whats your purpose DEV? You want us lay everyting from begining after whole episode finished? Cool... I realy love wasting my time... The correct development goes like this: you will determine how much content you can add, you will plan your content, add two path starters instead of adding content to one of them and you will stop when you need. Then you will advance both of them for next update. But our game way is literaly most nonsense way you can make update and its annoying...
- Sex scenes looks terrible, angles looks awful and positioning of them are even worse than first two... And lacking animations not helps either...
- We have Static animations (made by 2-3 picture for second) or with my own words AKA ''Stashit'' LOL. They look terrible and i dont even we can call these things animation at all.
- Quality looks pretty bad, its have blurry and weird filter which literaly makes average render quality poor.
- There is zero story, the only thing you gonna saw is some lewd situtations like our DEV told us which literaly makes this game porn with a lot of text instead of game and i dont even think we can call this thing ''porn'' at all... At least porns have purposes for fap, this thing dont have any purpose and its even worse than common porns...
- Art style is not good, girls/women faces dont look attaractive enough and they need change.

For The End
Its totaly waste of time and terrible game...

After playing Lauren path, I am impressed. Writing caches me due to express feelings of both sides. Especially little surprises makes the story more passionate. I think passionate is the right word to describe the game. Renders are quite successful. Models are far more than beautiful.

Interesting game.

The quality is pretty up there. Good renders, good models, hot sex.

Ireally enjoyed the laundry scene. Was an interesting interaction.

The one I wanted most, the girl (I'm a degenerate I know =p) was disappointing. It was just sad and didn't really lead anywhere.
Definitely an interesting story though. I could easily be it's own VN and I'd enjoy it. With... like 10x more content.

The 3rd... You took that straight from supernatural didn't you? xD
It was good though.

With these 3 stories with alternate choices style and this high a quality... I guess I'll check back in a year.

[v0.2.5]
One of the best games on f95zone. Beautiful and original female characters ,absolutely stunning designs , fascinating immersive and interesting stories. This game is a creative work of art. 100% recommended.