VN - Ren'Py - Zeno's Anthology [v0.3] [Chemical Fire]

My rating for Zeno's Anthology
In advance said it not bad at all, but there are some points that bother me a bit. I find the episodes a bit short. The animations are rendered are great, but they are not fantastic. Especially some of Zeno's animations I don't like that much. My favorites are Anna and Susan and the woman in the alley (can't remember her name). Unfortunately she was removed by an update. The story feels kind of weird, but also kind of interesting again. Sometimes Zeno is the bad guy and sometimes he is the good guy. I personally find the decisions a bit boring.

I still recommend it.

I wish the developer Chemical Fire continued success and all the best.

Love this project. The story line is interesting in a good way, the renders are of high quality, the animations are good, even the characters feel real and have depth. I love this project and can't wait for more updates.

I enjoyed this game. The concept of an anthology adult VN is a super interesting one. Though some choices felt kinetic, there are still many branches paths and endings to obtain, here.

The renders; even using the compressed version; are beautiful, as are the animations. And I really loved the character designs, as well.

Only real complaint is that the grammar isn't great. With some jarring instances of typos, even ones occurring on the story selector screen, which is baffling.

Still stunning visually, and with an overall unique concept that warrants 5 stars.

Edit: taking off a star because the grammar is *really* poor and it kinda' hurts the experience. Sorry, Dev.

Story is like a fine stake and ice cream. Great flavors individually but should not be eaten together on same plate. MC character behavior is different from story to story. Eclectic kink preference. Landlady story is pure rape fantasy and Dom. The best story was with Susan. It was an unexpected pleasure.

Very nice renders, finally a bit of a different story than most of the games have. Also like the timeline feature, it could be very interesting in the future. There is a huge potential to this game, wish the best to the developers.

I get that this game is an anthology, but its too short for my liking. The animations are renders are okay, but they aren't great. The story feels kind of weird. Its an okay game, but I don't get the hype. Cheers.

amazing graphics and storywise i loved the story with the landlady more than anne, but anne's story is still very undeveloped and there are many parts that the dev haven't put out like why is anne's mom beating her and even going as far as basically nuts like endangering zeno's life. also what is up with that story in the car, all i could hope for is that this game actually got finished and polished. Good luck devs

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.