RPGM - Ren'Py - Completed - Alansya Chronicles: Fleeting Iris [1.18 + Ren'py DLC] [Heaven Studios]

PROS,

Renders are nice and have a unique feel.

Is not translated english YAY.

Lots of different paths.

Story unfolds quickly.

CONS

Plot and stories are, as most common in this genre, incredibly weak and ridiculous. It is a shame because there is not many well written corruption plots and these guys clearly have skill. I understand they trying to do a Western version of a Japanese style and they followed prototype but wish they didn't in this aspect.

Characters are weak and as ridiculous as plot.

VN in RPGM. Can't save except in outside dialogue in free roam and sometimes you go entire days without freeroam (for example in True path you can NOT save at end of current content (Dads visit) and have to save before last Melvin scene) So make sure you save often. Would have suited Renpy much better.

When shifting through smut, I try and be as honest as i can from what gets swept up.

This game took me awhile to get around to reviewing, considering that it's a large game, and I've been following it since it's very incarnation. So, do keep in mind when I try and sift in between the lines, these rose tinted glasses might get in the way.

The game premise is simple, you play as Ayame, you recently got married, but your marriage is slow and Ayame has the whole stuck at home wife that gets sexually frustrated, and to help with that about every person she meets in this city is a sexual deviant of some caliber. Here you then explore the city, get a job, and play this RPGM game more like a visual novel, rather than taking quests, as the quests in themselves are more like chapters that pan out for each route you take.

So, whats the good beefiness that gets this game up there? The corruption is great, doesn't take too long, but the beginning is a bit slow, but slow enough to be considered build-up with what Ayame is pursuing rather than to be just more fluff. There really is no fluff, nor grind in this game, since as previously mentioned its more of a VN, but without the walls of dialogue one must slog through to get three to four CG's in an hour. And the "quests" are rather easy to get through when going through these VN routes, such as the highly popularized Melvin route, which starts off with you getting your first job essentially and following through and choosing the appropriate responses to have Ayame fall further and further into debauchery. And that gameplay serves the majority of the routes, with others being a little bit more niche and being at the right place at the right time.

There's a ton of material as well, and the CG's are well drawn, with the artist and developer being very mindful of both adding content and redoing older content to reflect the better progress made as the versions fly by.

A con I hate in this game which can be negated with the teleportation ring (but isn't recommended of course for newbies) is going through the city. I know it helps build up the world and gives an area to explore for H-events, but for the most part a lot of the time it takes a bit to learn the streets, the areas, and generally the right direction to go. A bit confusing, even with the map. As instead of most games where you get a ingame map and fast travel to locations, here you truly walk around the typical (though gussied up) RPGM city and take busses/subways to get to the next location, thus making you remember where to go, certain routes/streets, and also looking at the city map in the game folder to read the layout of the land. So be ready to feel like a dad lost and busting out an atlas at times.

All n' all, its a great western RPG game, since the CG's are nice, the perviness is nice, the situations are pretty hot, Ayame once going through the corruption wheel is well developed, and the developer is a true stoic in the genre. I guess you can say here my bias lays, as with what he went through, that's enough life events to tank an indie game on steam with more funding than any smut game, let alone this one. But he got through all of it while having a lot of fans push the panic button of a developer going the patreon snail route, when instead he was facing a lot of issues back home. Reading further on the changelog here, alongside his own patreon will give more insight on that if you're willing to give a gander. So, that preseverance in this genre is rare and needed.

Overall, 5/5, and when you get tired of getting new versions and having to play through the same routes over and over again (I think they fixed the saves transferring over so this is an old problem thats no longer a thing but it was a problem back in the day), the developers are also generous enough to have a save file for those that already got to the edge of the last version, and to just go through the new stuff on their included saves.

Great game if you like corruption/NTR, or just in general don't mind NTR. A lot more content than most 2d games I've played. The art starts off a little meh and somewhat bland, but clearly improves as time goes on and you progress further into the game.

many endings, good scenes, too bad the have no sounds, but doesn´t matter. good text and characters, many options. maybe a bit overwhelming at the start, but you eventually get to it. Really looking forward to future updates. One of the better games i played at f95 for sure.

I really want to give this game more stars but...

The RPGM engine is really bad version and IMHO outdated. So much so it took me 90 minutes before I could actually figure out how to get this game to run, manually edit the init file to get it to run in a decent sized window, and then figure out how to navigate without mouse support, and then figure out how to access the main menu and then how to save...

After installing, the game would not run - I needed to really search the comments to figure out I needed to download and install a completely different version of RPGmaker from the rpg website - (this info should be announced in the Install spoiler on the first page) - then figure out how to get the game to display in a decent sized window.

I had to literally watch the hole damn intro 4 times - 2 in a tiny tiny window then finally was able to guess that F1 key would allow me to set the window size (2 works well) - then a few more time until I figured out how to access the main menu (X key) so I could save the damn game and not play the prelude over and over again...help menu is sorely needed right from the start.

The story seems good but OMG - it took me 10 tries to figure out where to stand to open that damn bedroom door and to realize I had to hit the Z key while standing in the exact right spot behind the door (actually 2 separate doors side by side which is so confusing and unneeded) where I could not see the character icon - navigating with the keyboard to someone like me with disability in their hands is AWFUL. This game needs Mouse support.

Then seeing that the character's are only portrayed from the waist up in the dialog window - dealing with a non transparent text box - this is a waste to me as seeing the whole character's body is a turn on.

Not to mention the many bad links to images for the best friend in the first few scenes of the game - come on, this game has been out for years and it still has broken links in the first damn day???????

After 90 minutes I have still only gotten through the first quest...figuring out how the X and Z keys worked, and so many cut scenes that it was hard to figure out when to save - and the save screen was not very intuitive - very confusing as it seemed it was going to overwrite an old save from the way the screen displayed, then no ability to name saves...OMG what a pain in the ass!

Have not yet got to a real scene yet after 2 hours of 'play' (work) so can not judge the renders...had to review this anyway just in case other new players have issues.

Most of this complaint is mega stuff, not game story related - could have been addressed by the devs on their patreon or walk through web site easily to give a detailed tutorial on how to install and setup the game.

I plan on trying again to get to the actual content and will update the review at that time. I really want it to be good as decent NTR story content is so rare.

Great game, good pacing, lots of kinks, most optional to your own fetish taste.

Good example of a nsfw RPGM game done right, always look forward to seeing more updates dropped, thanks to all those on the dev team for the solid game with great art, and not shying away from being a nsfw game like many games seem to be doing these days.

Keep the updates coming and best wishes!

Edit v0.94

So, after years of development, the gameplay didn't improve one bit, sure, walking pace is fast and we're spared some tedious things like dressing or coming back home, still, there is some tedious routines specially in melvin's pub and there's so much you can do in a day, worse, finding optional content is like searching a needle in a haystack.

I also hate branching, i barely want to play the game as it is so i'm cetrtainly not playing it 5 times to get all the content, this is particularly not fit for RPGMaker games.

Conclusion : poor porn ratio/ time spent and it's not like the story is so amazing, some H-scenes are good, art is good too but mostly, it's not worth the time spent, there' is so many better games to play, story, mechanism or porn wise.

Old review :

I played this game from the first releases in ulmf or hongfire, not sure.

As for the game, i like the main character and the pub route, didn't like the sato one which led to zero choices and boring sex scenes,

The swingers thing is alright but not as interesting as it should be, it's a game, we want public sex and exiting situations, not boring stuff almost everyone tried already or could easily try.

Also, due to the engine, even if it's customized, playing this is painful and even more because of the branching, seriously, who wants to endure RPGMaker this much he's going for multiple playthrough ?

So, it'd be so much better with more daring scenes outside of Melvin's route, less conventional ones, some choices and less or no branching due to the engine that makes it a chore.

Pros:

1. CG art is amazing.
2. Scene writting is generally good.
3. A shit-ton of scenes.
4. Story branches that adds genuine replay value to the game
5. Ayame lewdness progression is decently made for most of the routes.
6. Skin color customization.

Cons:

1. Game divided by routes that lock each other out needlessly instead of blending together.
2.Despite being it a NTR focused game, in some routes Ayame will almost always wake up alone and not interact with her husband for days, making one sometimes forget that she is even married.
3. Some of the routes could very well be VNs as the player doesn't have any input, which ties points 1 and 2.
4. MC bust art has very few expressions, and no legs.
5. No haircut and very limited clothing customization.
6. In the last stage of corruption Ayame is too far gone, and too unlikable for the final scenes to be enjoyable.

First of all, why "terrible"? (in free text)

Overview: (…) Having never met her father and having her mother die 2 years earlier

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Two years have passed since the game launch at 75% of content and almost finished (as the developers told), but the game world has less than half-content.
In the current version, you have several options ("routes" as called in the game):
Emptiness. And these are two years of development with 75% content ready, btw.
Moreover, the developers add contents to the above routes only, but only extremely rarely address the emptiness, unfortunately.

TLDR:
0) Empty world;
1) Blackmail x 2; Sexnurse x 2; NTR x 1.5; Swinger x 1;
2) No major differences between routes;
3) No pure route, No lesbian route, No win-win route;
4) 3.5 jobs, sturdily tied to the routes in (2);
5) Even more empty world if you don't follow the routes in (2);
6) Yawnful corruption.
7) Milking money development.

The game has some promises, but lacks on many respects.
I like the characters on most occasions.

The map is really big, and at version .91 you would maybe expect it to have more to it. There pretty much nothing to do in the city (unless the game requires you to play it pretty far into it before it lets you do other things).
For example, it has clothing shops etc. but doesn't let you buy any clothes. Theres also many places like restaurants etc. that you can't enter, or if you can, there's nothing to do there. I got into a point in the game where it lets you roam free, but on weekends there's absolutely nothing to do.

Now the H-scenes. The game does have a fair amount of choices. But sometimes the game makes choices for you that don't make any sense in the light of previous conversations etc.
Also, and this is my biggest complaint although it is a completely subjective one: Most of the h-scenes at least in the beginning are due to black mailing, taking advantage, etc. There's not so much "corrupting" or sexually "liberating" the MC, as there are just bunch of blackmailing situations for the MC. That kinda takes away the whole point of corruption mechanic, in my opinion. I like to advance the character and make her have her own choices.

I understand that blackmail, mind control etc. are fetishes on their own, for some people, but also a lot of the times, I feel like they are used due to poor writing. They are an easy way to force MC into situations fast, instead of providing an exciting route for the MC becoming more and more sexual and extroverted.

But again, if blackmail is your thing, this can be fun to you. I still think, when it comes to content, the map especially, more is not always better. If you really want to make an RGM game, you need activities in the map, and more chance encounters.

Game constantly crash either at the start of the game or later. The CG room provide wrong CG scene such as the one with "Ultimate Betrayal". There is also several other CG that either crash or shown black screen with nothing on it.

After 47 game saves & crash, I finally manage to finish Sato route & about 15% on Melvin route. I give up halfway due to the constant crash & decided to just watch it via CG room. After watching most of it, I got to agree with KinksterKitty review.

While the amount of content look enormous & wonderful, majority of those route share so much familiarity in the sex scene & with only a single female protagonist as the main stage, the author is better off reducing the amount of route instead of introducing nearly a dozen route that look identical. You can disagree with me however you want, but I definitely won't be the last person that seen it this way.

What I going to said might be a spoiler & might not be. But if you want to play this game, choose Melvin route. It isn't worth to choose other route.

And be ready to save a lot, I mean really a lot due to the tendency of it crashing. The FAQ at walkthrough doesn't provide solution to it.

Pros :
A game with a lot of content (and there is more to come), great art and stories. The map of game is very large (and it's great).
The mc is really hot . There is not a lot of bugs.
There are so much possibilities, that, for now, you can't find a complete walkthrough of the game.

Cons :
The saving system is not a 100% functional.
Bugs can lock your character (and you will have to start from another save).

It's a great game. Ayama is a beautiful young woman. The story is very exciting due to many sexual scenes that are very animated and described. I can not wait for every new sexual adventure of a beautiful Ayama

[v0.89] This game is yet another one of my favorites. It mostly has well fleshed out characters so far, the corruption is slow but steady and the different routes keep every playthrough 'fresh' while also giving you the option to ignore fetishes you don't like by not taking that route. I was also taken aback by the amount of content when I first played it, and it keeps on growing.

The art is good, the gameplay is good and the story is good.
Recommended!

the best RPGM game i have played by far, the diversity the game has makes it even more enjoyable.
i hope the developer does something with Fujiko, maybe give her her own route... as of now she is just there it feels like a wasted character to me.
you can get stuck in some routes which makes you feel like you lost control over the game and can't prevent certain events from happening for example (SPOILER!) Ayame losing her virginity to Melvin in the Clarke route.
Overall a very good game, there is a bit of lack of control, fully animated scenes will make it OUTSTANDING! hopefully in the future.

I think this might be the best game of this genre. Even though its not finished yet, there is alot of content already and based on the unused areas of the city, there is a whole lot more to come. The art is superb and if you love ahegao faces, you will absolutely love the CGs. The dialogue during h scenes are top notch. The plot is pretty typical, but there is only so many ways you can tell a corruption/NTR/cheating story. What sets it apart is the writing, and if you have these fetishes the game will absolutely deliver. There is pretty much nothing bad about this game.

I have been very adverse to playing RPGM games until just recently, but I am beginning to see some merits to it. In this case, they really outdid themselves on creating the city. Its HUGE... like you will get lost for a while trying to get anywhere (they need to add a city map). You can jack up the walk speed so its not tedious and the city actually feels like a real place so walking around does not feel annoying. The game on renpy or something just wouldn't convey the same feeling.

This is a really good game (on my opinion, of course).
Some routes and differents endings.
All CG are really beautiful and wonderfully drawn!
The story is simple but good.
The map size is OK.
Some customization of the character.
And other...

I really like this game and I'm waiting for too long
Keep an eye on this game and Heaven Studio.

Kisses
Love and Peace

Good game if you like corruption, NTR !
the dialogues and the scenario are excellent.
Negatives: a city too big, a screen too small and not enough image. I hope that a final version will be proposed very quickly

This game has given me many hours of enjoyment and several run throughs. It has beautiful art, and a story that not only believable but draws you in. The way the characters corrupt the MC is exiting to follow and I can’t wait for more updates to find out what happens next.