Libertas: Awakened Lust

Good visuals and decently written conversation, with workable premise, but no choices combines with a lack of fleshed out characters and very rushed pacing to make it hard to recommend. Game updates have also been extremely short. The "slip a finger into her mouth" was the correct speed to have the character reeling, but not actually quitting. Then have the needs not met by husband, and so it gets escalated a little bit next time. You need that time not just for believe ability, but to introduce the other characters the story should have. You work with the two you saw fucking, giving the awkward conversation is important to using them for anything more later, and for normalizing the corruption. This isn't even saying the story needs brakes on... you'd actually likely get to the protagonist being fully corrupted in the same time, but it needs setup and breakthroughs, then reflection/post-rationalization periods to run home to the player the impact, not 0-100 and the protagonist doesn't know why either. Also use the few characters we already know, Kimmy has been thought about a ton... why didn't we call her, instead of merely throw the background lore in cold? These are adults who have moved cities in a modern world, not been kidnapped and taken to a mysterious island where there isn't outside contact. Likewise it'd be normal to meet at least somebody outside of work in the first week in a new place, and thats once again badly needed plot hooks and motivation for future events that is currently lacking.. give us a art class (shocked by nude model?) or a gym (hot and sweaty? Or maybe corrupting influence of another gym bunny who overshares?). Even a church (counter force to corruption story initially, confession as useful reflection element, potentual secrets later?). Wife is horny can only do so much heavy lifting in the story by itself, you need more layers going on. As is we're 4 updates in without any user input. Let us choose the protagonist name. Let us choose something visual for one of the shorter scenes (hair, clothing ect) and give us some reactions to dialog (even if its internal monolog, am I outraged, am I curious ect) as this can give a stat to slowly track over time. It doesn't need to lock out options to feel important, most of the time don't change what occurs in the world, change our perspective of it. We can see the same lewd poster (and so get the same fan service as player) but have the previous points have a threshold to be horrified or excited by it. The power of Renpy as a game engine is its near trivial to add these variations, and better yet, the skip function lets players do a second pass over the game to make other choices in a fraction of the time, getting the difference highlighted for them. Kinetic stories can work (still no reason not to let us pick name though), but to be more than a retelling of a single sexual encounter, they rely HEAVILY on reader being regularly suprised by twists in the story, which take the same role as choice branches, the current setting is not well suited to that. The characters outside protagonist are all flat steriotypes, and protagonists hesitation to cheat will currently not be reflected in any way shape or form by any player, given the husband hasn't been shown a single redeeming quality. We know its a Futa game, we know the inevitability, but there needs to be a reason its more than that... and thats currently lacking. Also for main menu, the moan on mouse over isn't the choice I'd go for, but if you want to make it work somewhat, either make it noise on mouse down (so when you first click but with enough delay before you see the next screen), or start the sound only if its not already playing on first hover. As is it layers like 5x when you move the mouse quickly accross screen which just makes a very loud annoying noise.

Review for [v0.04] Why must I suffer in the presence of such an idiotic cohort of gooners? The fact that there are 3 (now 2) SEPARATE reviews complaining about the "lack of content" because they only saw "v0.4" in the title and installed it. Trusting illiterate mongrels for a good opinion of a VISUAL NOVEL? Seeing as how if they could read, they'd notice that not only does the page creation and most recent update dates match, but the change log also says that this is the first release. This is an initial release, and should be treated not even as a demo, simply as part of the introduction. Now, actually onto the review: even though this is VERY early on, I want to offer my two cents, to ensure at least there's two reviews that are actually talking about the bloody AVN being reviewed. First up, I like the dialogue writing. It's actually doing a decent job building up the eventual corruption; giving a real argumentative taste to the internal dialogue. You can see the potential for future storytelling. Since it's so new, I'm curious to see whether it'll be solely focused on the boss, or whether it'll expand to numerous women (both cis and futa). My assumption is on the latter tbh. While the husband is incredibly stupid, I think the kinda guy he is is actually pretty accurate to the environment described: he hears the words she's saying, but doesn't actually listen to her, and thinks he knows best. He's not cartoonishly evil like most of these AVNs, and it's refreshing. Onto the visuals, and I think they do a good job. A big thing with first uploads is that you assume this is the worst it's gonna be, and if it so, that's great. The expectation that it'll also get even better? Great news. Obviously can't comment on any sex scenes, as there's really nothing to talk about, but I'll update it when it's relevant.

The current release is similar to a demo showing the character without much content. Currently there isn't any sex content, but the characters look great and unique, and the story and setting are well thought out. This game looks like it has a lot of potential.