The Swordbearer

OK this is very simple really. MC is well, could be better but could always be worse without draggin on 4 too long. He's basically aren't with more 0.5x+ more brain cells (give or take) and obvious bullshidou chosen 1 plot armor cuz y tf not. Now that's outta the way, the "3 at worst 4 on a good day" outta 5 mc algernon us superceded by strong character writing (like how in lookism, even tho Daniel has perfect body, acquired ultra instinct and copycat abilities), as shown by the strong main cast (the King, ivar, ninja lady squad with Astrid etc) and gud plot so who tf gives a rats arse about the minor at best cons. Basically every1 versus vampires reminding me of hxh chimera ant arc. The main villain actually seems credible and scary with his fucked up/psychopathic world domination ideology as well as his cronies who aren't too far off from his levels of evil Whether ts gets a s2 or not will be up to whatever tf u believe in. Will hafta find out later so yeah. ✌. Edit: the comedic relief is also cool 2 an extent.

I liked everything about this game. From premise to story direction characters. And all character progress feels natural not too fast not too slow just perfect. So overall I liked it and waiting for more. All thr best to devs.

Really enjoyed the game Alot of content available and the story doesn't feel rushed at all Inaddition i found alot of the interactions in game funny Overall enjoyed it alot waiting on the next chapters

Why have a medieval setting if you're just gonna make everyone and everything behave like it's the 21st century? Everything from the characters to the world itself reflects none of the values and overall lives of people from the Middle Ages. There's some attempts at having the setting influence the story, but they're so half-assed it makes it seem like the developer knows nothing about the setting they've chosen. They don't seem to give a damn about making it believable. Incredibly lazy, and just pulls you out of the experience. Beyond that, The Swordbearer is a boring and poorly written game. The dialogue isn't awful or anything, but the plot and characters are extremely uninteresting. There's no emotional connections, no exciting story, nothing to grab your attention. The renders are good, which is this game's only saving grace, but beyond that it's just the usual mindless slop.

VERSION: 0.11 SUMMARY: Not as good as you would think or hope RATINGS: (out of 5): Models: 5 Animations: 4 General Visuals: 5 Characters: 3 Story: 3 Writing: 3 UI & Gameplay: 3 Content (amount): 4 Sound & Music: 3 Fetish & kinks: 2 Average: X of 50 possible points giving a X% rating i.e. X stars. PROS: Models are definitely good looking. Animations are pretty good also. Writing is good, structured well and reads well. BUT (see cons) Music and sounds are nice for immersion BUT! (see cons) Interesting story with good lore and history, clearly a good amount of research and planning went into it. CONS: Music does not always fit, this may be a personal gripe but some of the music is poorly chosen and sound cheesy or from some 80s sitcom. Music that actually works in a game like Timestamps, but not in a medieval game setting sorry. Writing can be annoying sometimes, where the humour is just not funny or even more, its not fitting at all or simply too much of trying to be funny. Some really long winded scenes happen to characters other than the MC and his troop happen often and really take up a lot of screen time and are kind of boring all which distract from MC who we really are interested in... MC also looks a bit like a boy and has really no appeal particularly in medieval times where facial hair was more prominent. All sexual scenes, which there are not many of are also fairly vanilla and boring. No kinky sexual scenes or fetishes at all... FINAL THOUGHTS & SUGGESTIONS: Per the above points, one would think that with the stakes being high that everyone is trying to get ready for a big battle that things would be more serious and intense but the jokes are going, our Ivar instructor is having a boys night and the MC and his companions are off alone on a trial just chilling on their way back. The main plot falls away and its story is almost forgotten, which is exactly what you dont want. Humour and fun parts are good but they need to be random and short and not such long extended scenes particularly where there is such a big threat looming. Per above point and to emphasize again, this story really feels like more lack luster than it should be or makes the player believe it to be. It all is suppose to be very dangerous, ominous and world changing, but the bad guy gets little airtime, we know next to nothing really about him and his motives and the people that know about it are all way to chill and relaxed to really make the player feel there is any threat or seriousness to whats happening. This is a major fail in writing and the game pretty much has lost itself at this point. There is no balance in the story and a "happy" less serious and shallow narrative was followed instead of a adding best of both, or at least 35/65 ratio. Speaking of scenes, some scenes in this game are way too long, too much time spent on introductions and other characters taking screen time and not our MC, its jarring and annoying. When its done its for pure context and needs to be way shorted than what it is now. Now we get this content and it counts toward lines of codes and scenes/renders? Its often very irrelevant to the greater scheme of things... Overall not a bad game but I believe 5 stars are much too generous and not an accurate rating of this game, there are other better by far, this game has a good amount going for it, but ends up boring as it can't seem to bring all those good aspects together in a good enough way...

It's boring. You can stop reading here, anything else i will write just will reinforce that single sentence. It's like having an ideia for a build in a game, then putting in the effort to farm the itens, levels and etc, then testing it and discovering that it doesn't work like you thought it would; It works, but it's such a letdown that who cares, i rather create another character (Or in this instance, play another game) Story has a basic premise that doesn't evolve quickly enough, you know what is going to happen, the author knows, everyone knows, but everything goes so slow. MC has a dumb face that goes along with the fact that he is dumb, but i guess it's fitting when everyone in this universe is stupid to some degree. Exemple? Random exposition to their backstories when you say "Hi" or complete lack of security to some of the most important things possible (The royals, the princess, the swordbearer and the sword), a guild that has 0 structure or teaching, It doesn't have tense moments or deep enough connections with the characters you talk for you to care. If anyone in this game died, i wouldn't be bothered in the slightest, maybe Leliana since she's kinda hot, but that it, because of her looks. Plus it really doesn't feel like you should have options, it's either get content or refuse it, you don't trade it for something else, the thug attacks you? You can't try to fight him. She is a vampire? You can't be understanding from the get go because look, i made a super cool fight sequence.

You start in some village in the middle of nowhere about to leave for the Capital. The story takes too long to kickoff and the pacing is pretty shit with regular cutaways to other characters and constant exposition about characters you're going to leave. The girls look and act too much alike, this isn't helped by the fact that you're regularly romancing the daughters and their mothers. The sex scenes are rather mediocre, they're on the shorter end and constantly require input. There's not much effort that goes into the setting, whether it's the assets used that don't belong, or the lack of assets such as our party going on an adventure with only the clothes on their back. As for the good, the prose and English are good, the humor is solid, good music, you're not the only guy around, everything looks good, and that's pretty much it.

This feels like a highschool spectacle with medieval props rather than a genuine medieval setting novel. Peak reddit writing. Characters are referencing renaissance and modern culture while residing in middle ages. They also made four gay remarks in the first half an hour of playthrough. I'm beginning to think that this is some kind of obsession for the author. Not only script is boring and quite embarrassing to read but it's also drawn out. It's been almost 4 years and we aren't even past character introductions yet. I'm sorry but I don't really see a reasonable justification for a 4.5 star rating. High quality renders of DAZ models alone ain't gonna cut it.

10 episodes review. It's not a top quality vn with a lot of sounds, voices, big titties and butts. You won't find here top quality rendered and photoshop processed images and a lot of sex at the end of every scene. This game has it's own charm with light narration, kindly humor, pretty sound, pleasing to the eye images with realistic bodies in medieval setting with magic, vampires and many other races. And of course you'll have a few nice sex scenes where they should be. Good luck to developer. Bookmarked and waiting for season 2.

I finished this current update and I have mixed feelings about this game, I will share them with you. Appearance Characters 5+/10 There are a lot of them, I have the impression that they are made on one shoe, they are too pretty. So they are all either very pretty, or too childish and inappropriate for their age. The characters are divided into important and some kind of radomowe. A serious minus is that there are mature and older women and ugly, but what if you can't do anything with them or there are very small exceptions. For example, our MC's aunt. (Aunt is my favorite character, but building a relationship with her is slow as a snail). Mothers look the same as daughters, without signatures I wouldn't know who is who. It would be enough to add some gray hair to the mother's head or a few wrinkles. Female characters don't have a big bush between their legs. The appearance of the female characters' underwear looks not like from the Middle Ages. But like bought a moment ago from a modern store. Graphics8/10 nice The plot is interesting, but nothing groundbreaking 6+/10 But it starts at a very slow pace. Dialogues are sometimes boring. Many hours pass before we leave our boring village. Some mistakes in dialogue and plot Dialogues 4+/10 There are a lot of them but sometimes they are very boring Music 5/10 Something is playing Sex scenes 5+/10 I don't have too many of them, they are not very interesting Choices there are a lot of them 8/10 But they do not always have an impact. Sometimes we see the consequences of our choices in another place. But it is short and not very interesting. For example, we sent a letter to some character and I have a scene where this character receives this fox and there is a short dialogue. Interakrywna mechanics 3/10 I have very often but it is boring we can choose any character but not all. talk to her but dialogues are boring some rare random sex. Or we collect hidden objects unlock the gallery not too interesting. Or rarely we get some quest. To sum up if you like fantasy climates in the Middle Ages with a twist of the eye. You are not afraid of a long beginning of the plot. few mistakes in the plot. You can try.

highly recommended story and graphics are top quality I played the game for the first time with version 0.9, I didn't notice any bugs and the estimated playing time was 10-12 hours Lots to read and interesting story so far. What I particularly like are the jokes that are made and the NPCs are all very well written If you haven't played the game yet, I can only recommend it

I spent at least 6 hours playing the game(can be a lot more i didn't time it) and after i reached ep 4 i dropped it ! Sure the game has nice story and nice characters and i wanted to know what happens next but the story is so unbelievably slow you feel like a snail ! like in other games you think the introduction part of the game is going to end in like 1 episode at most right ? Well, i reached episode 4 and then i felt ok i just finished the introduction ! this game is still barely allowing the mc to leave his village lol and it's not because there is this huge big plot you need to solve in his Village No ! You just hang around talking to few neighbors and celebrating your birthday and that's basically all you do in 7 hours plus of gameplay time ! And the worst thing is the game tease this amazing plot cooking in the background where this vampire invasion is coming and how you will have supernatural sword as the mc to stop it and save everyone But out of the 5% of the game where it tell you that this is what is going to happen later, the rest 95% of the game is you talking to one of your neighbors about some random shit that doesn't matter for anything Sad i wasted all this time on it

Great visuals, great characters, nice story, funny and worthwhile. The story is not very deep and but it is okay so far, I hope in future updates it gets better. The sandbox is pretty short and easy to follow, so it's okay.

Renders are very nice, the sex scenes that are in the game are well done, Story is written without errors. The problem is it is a boring story and the overall game is not erotic. There is minimal erotic situations and everything is very vanilla to the extreme. By vanilla I mean the entire game and dialogue have vibes of "hand holding" level. That is very cute and wholesome, but not erotic,

A top tier VN that focuses on the story rather than a fap fest. I really appreciate the girls are generally petite and not the monster jug deformities you see in so many VNs. The writing is excellent, with a good mix of drama and humour and I really appreciate the slow burn nature of the game. Hard to find any fault at this point - looking forward to the next update.

Very rarely do I have the patience to sit through a RenPy story game. Often the writing is terrible and I am just here for the art. This game is different, I love the world and all the characters, Long live Swiftwind!

The description sounded good, so I played the game. But I was really disappointed. Yes, renders are nice. Yes, the story might be nice (I could not be bothered to find out). For me, the most important thing of a VN and similar is the storytelling, followed by the story, and then everything else. The game started very bland and boring, with anything but a novel story. There was nothing new or exiting, just boring old tales. I started skipping, just to see that for some time nothing changed: just boring old tales. Then I stopped playing, because just skipping to the fap scenes is not how I want to experience a game. For me, it was 1 or 2 stars. I see that this might be too opinionated, so I give 3. This game is very, very far away from 4 or 5 stars.

Based on v0.8 I started out liking this game, then I didn't, then I liked it again, but at the end of the day, it's a solid entry, especially in the fantasy AVN genre. Let's start with what I don't like. Believe it or not, it's the humor. Even though I find a lot of the banter enjoyable and I have actual laughed out loud a few times, it's relentless. Once the humor started, it rarely takes a break. I would like the MC to be just a bit more serious, and perhaps as the story progresses, the seriousness will naturally take over, but right now it's a bit much. The biggest problem I have is with the Vampires. Uuuggh... I just hate vampires. It is such an overdone plot device. At least this time they are not friendly and are appropriately bad guys and gals and so far I am okay with how they are being handled.... well at least until this latest cliff hanger. If there really turns out to be a vampire LI, I am going to puke. Fucking "Twilight" ruined vampires... ffs. I am also not that excited about the future harem tags. Harems just ruin every decent AVNs out there. Seriously... harems are not a kink, they are an easy way out. You don't have to deal with any drama with harems, especially harems where all the women are faithful to the MC but the MC is welcome to "spread their love." <looking for my puke bucket> Otherwise, there is a whole lot to like. The MC is great. A little too corny at times, but he makes mistakes, doubts himself and is concerned about his friends and other people. No Gary Stu here and I appreciate it. I also like the writing. It's really good and it seems like the dev has the story mapped out pretty well. Nothing seems like it was just added as filler. Everything seems like part of the planned story. And while the graphics are not earth shattering, the dev has gone to the effort of creating unique and attractive looking LIs and NPCs. All the characters seem to have well thought out backstories with some depth. The h scenes are a little on the boring side, but it does not take away from the story. So many of these AVNs start out well and then flounder because the dev did not map out the entire story, but this dev seems to have it together. If they are just winging it, they are doing a fantastic job of it. Anyway, if you like fantasy, humor, hot LIs and a good story. Give this a download. It's worth the time. Looking foward to the next release.

I played through v0.8 in a few evenings. The game is set in a medieval world, where magic works and the usual fantasy races exist; though it seems the big bads are vampires instead of orcs this time around. So far the story has been mostly human-centric and non-magical. The MC looks goofy and often acts like a spoiled child, but seems to possess a strange attraction to all the females in the story (and some of the males). The game looks good, and many of the LIs are quite attractive. The sex scenes and animations are few in number so far, and are on the simple and basic end of the spectrum, but I thought them adequate. In playing it I got the feeling that the dev was absolutely desperate to avoid, at all costs, advancing the story. Scenes stretch on for ages, filled with insipid dialog, and even after their end is telegraphed they take forever to wind down. When it seems that the story absolutely must progress: time for a flashback, or a silly dream sequence. How about a mini free-roam? It comes with bonus images, just hunt for things to click on! The tone of the game is all over the place, swerving from serious drama to slap-stick comedy. Horror and comedy can work together, but having the MC playing the clown doesn’t cut it. There is also far too much injection of current-year sensibilities into this not-current-year scenario; with the dev being careful to check every box in the latest DEI guidelines. If you really like medieval fantasy settings and have a high-tolerance for retarded humor, this might be worth your while.

Fantastic game! It's a Fantasy comedy-drama that delivers a great story, with both tense and funny moments. Having inherited a magical vampire slaying sword, the MC joins the knights guild to prepare for a coming vampire invasion. He also mingles with his guildies, meets a princess and gets his butt kicked over and over during training. If you like comedy in a fantasy setting, you'll love this!