VN - Ren'Py - Savior [v0.16c] [Purple Fellas]

Based on the (as yet) unfinished v0.10 Beta.

My usual disclaimers when writing reviews on here are that A. I am here for the "plot" not the plot and B. I am very picky with visual novels and think broadly they can be very subpar. So, take both of those into consideration for my review when thinking about this game.

Pros

• Kinky and fucking sexy – A big theme of the game is mind-domination/control, corruption, enslavement and rape (not in the brutal kicking, screaming way, but when the girls are being mind-controlled into it, that’s what it is). There’s also hints of risk of pregnancy (which I hope the game might lean into a little more down the line). Basically, all of this amounts to a number of my favourite kinks which aren’t really in enough games. For me this is actually a big enough plus that I raised my estimate of the game by a fair margin.
• Renders and visuals – The renders of the game are honestly pretty top tier. The girls are also all, to a one, super fucking hot. I’m actually a really big fan of the models for both Maeve and Amber which somehow seem more unique and interesting. I’ve said this in other reviews that this is never something I put too much weight on, and I can be happier with less high-quality visuals, but it does warrant saying that there’s a lot of nice stuff to look at here.

Mehs

• Daisy-focused – Somebody else (Anoxida) said this in their review, and I hadn’t really noticed until they pointed it out, but it is VERY true. The game has 4 main girls (the family and the girlfriend) and then at least another 3 regular recurring faces (the maid, the sister’s girlfriend and the work friend). Of these core seven, the sister Daisy gets the absolute lion’s share of screen time, even intruding into scenes with the other characters. While Daisy was actually the least favourite of mine of all the girls I didn’t outright dislike her, but I can admit in hindsight that I wish the attention would be more spread out between the cast.
• Gary Stu protagonist – The old classic VN trap where the MC is an absolutely effortlessly perfect male specimen capable of smooth talking, fighting, superpowers and being shredded as fuck with a HUGE cock all with 0 effort. As in other games where this is the case, I don’t totally hate it because I enjoy self-inserting on this, but it does make for some slightly cringe-worthy setups from time-to-time.
• Awkward writing – English is very clearly not the Purple Fella’s first language and it shows in the writing. There’s fairly often grammatical errors or just weird uses of language which are a bit unfortunate. The dialogue actually reminds me of Become a Rockstar in a way because of how stilted and robotic it often is as well with characters talking like their dialogue was generated by Dialogue-o-Tron 3000:

• TOO much dialogue – Along with the robotic writing, there’s also just too much of it. It should honestly be cut down by about 15% to remove a lot of the dead weight which drags the game down over time. This is particularly note-worthy in one of the middle sections where it feels like the protagonist cannot go 2 minutes without saying how Daisy is the “sweetest, cutest, best girl ever”. Like… Jesus, just tone it down please? To be clear this isn’t so obnoxious and noticeable that it's exxxaaactly a negative but it’s really treading the line.
• The black girl looks weird – A very odd nitpick here, but there is an early scene with a character called Samantha. This took place at night and so for 60% of the scene I genuinely thought her darker skin colour was as a result of the rendering being made to look like it was in very deep, dark shadow. Until I realised she’s actually supposed to be black. It’s really VERY bizarre that with how good all the other girls look, the black girl’s skin looks legit ash-grey. More like a fantasy dark elf than just a girl with dark skin.

Cons

• Meandering story – Unquestionably the absolutely single WORST aspect of this game and I’ll come back to this in the main body below.

In Savior you play as a police-officer who leaves his job in order to move back in with his family and finally solve the mystery of his father’s disappearance from many years ago. During this time you also discover that you have a bunch of super powers, in particular the ability to hypnotise and control other people’s minds. This is the basic premise and honestly it had a really strong start for me when I played v0.3 a couple of years back. However, as you might be able to tell, I now feel the game just does not deliver on the initial promise.

So, another user (taler) used the word “meandering” and honestly it is the absolutely most perfect word to describe the game’s story.

The game cannot decide if it wants to be a heart-warming slice-of-life game or whether it wants to focus more on the supernatural and otherworldly elements (and conflict) which make up the majority of the game’s backstory. It cannot decide if it wants to focus on having you dating and reconciling with your family or mind-controlling them and corrupting them one by one. It jumps between settings and characters basically on a whim and so it feels like it simultaneously never gets anywhere but also is moving far too quickly and not letting itself get into a groove.

It’s honestly beyond frustrating because really you never spend any time with any one of the settings long enough to get settled before there feels like there’s a huge dynamic change and you’re off again somewhere else.

I can’t really decide what the core issue here is. It feels a little like Purple Fella’s are trying to do too much all at once and should have been a bit less ambitious with their ideas. However, I actually feel like they COULD have pulled off all of this stuff were it not for one glaring issue: there’s so little connection between the chapters and segments of the game.

I’ll provide a few major examples. In one of the later chapters you spend some time with your family maid Maeve, finding out about her history. When this chapter started I genuinely took a few minutes to remember who Maeve was because she had been introduced 5 chapters earlier and then just had been nowhere to be found at any point since. The other example also occurs later when your girlfriend comes over and is upset at you for not having spoken to her for a few days. You make up and have hot sex… And then after she leaves (I assume… She just seems to vanish) you proceed to not think about her for another few days of game time…

The absolute worst example though (and apologies in advance for the spoilers) was from the most recent chapter where you (finally) spend some time with the most unappreciated of the main girls (Olivia). This has you going on a couple of "dates" with her and SOMEHOW getting pulled into the relationship struggles of another girl (while hanging out with Olivia). Not only does this whole chapter feel TOTALLY isolated from everything else that's going on (there's no mind control options at all, none of the other main girls seem to be there and the central conflict is shoved to one side) it also drags on for-fucking-ever because of how long you spend trying to solve this other RANDOM GIRL'S relationship issues. Honestly... This whole chapter was easily the worst of the game thus far which doesn't exactly bode well given that you'd hope quality to improve over time.

Essentially the devs seem to be unable to weave the different story lines together. When the protagonist is interacting with one of the girls and one story-thread, that is ALL there is to the game. The other characters might as well not even exist, not even in the background. Because of this, there’s a constant feeling of bouncing from one story to another with no real cohesion between the various elements of the plot.

Add to this the slight frustration with the awkward writing and quite simply wayyyy too much filler text and the story feels like it slows to a crawl. It’s frustrating to read and experience.

Another aside here is that the game often will jump to interactions between two other characters, interaction the protagonist isn't party to, and these also can go on for far too long and feel like "surely I shouldn't know that this is happening?"

And then it lets you mind-control one of the girls and have some super kinky sex with them and it’s all juuust about worth it. Seriously, if the game just leaned a little more heavily into that roughness and force, really made it more about you creating a harem of mind-controlled slaves and I’d be ALL about it dude. So it’s just a real shame that I feel like I can’t rate it higher than I have.

Missed potential for sure.

There is a lot to like about this game. The renders are good and the underlying story is compelling. The girls are all hot and each of them are unique with solid stories of their own.

There are some problems with it; the MC is a Gary Sue and that gets a little tiring. Always saying and doing the right thing... His "mistakes" are just due to the fact he does not understand his powers, but otherwise he always says and does the right thing.

There could be more choices as well. It is more of VN then anything. The decisions you make for the MC really do not change the overall story, except as it relates to the LIs but dialogue choices are limited.

As I mentioned, however, the underlying story is pretty good and it keeps you guessing. Plus, the content is pretty good. There is teasing mixed with "full contact" and the interactions are well done, if not entirely believable. As the MC learns more about his powers, it seems like there may be a lot more choices moving forward, at least as it pertains to good and corruption. There is a scene the with the brother of the maid that could be considered almost evil but the player can control if it gets bad at all.

There are some other smaller issues, like Aubrey. Her character shows up early then kind of gets in the way and it almost seems like the dev was not sure what to do with her. Regardless, she is a great character.

Anyway, this will be a love/hate kind of a game for most people, but it's solid work from a talented developer. It's not in my top ten, but it's worth a download.

Good: The graphics and female character models are very pretty, with some nice animations, and most of the characters are likeable.

Bad: While there seems to be a persistent antagonist, the rest of the story seems to have a lot of events that don't really tie together or go anywhere, and big swerves that seem to render earlier parts of the story utterly moot.

While there are a lot of positive moments I've had playing this game, the whole is definitely less than the sum of its parts.

This game exceeded my expectations. It's built up a lot of intrigue and characters at this point, so I'm very interested to see where the story goes. The art and animations are top tier. The choices made between corrupt decisions and regular ones lend to extra play-throughs--though it's uncertain how that will play out in future releases.

Incohesive meandering storyline with no worthwhile emotions or really attractive or relatable characters. 3 stars mainly for a good technical quality VN, nice attempt at choices, no bullshit like commutes or grind. The dialogue is not totally cringe like many other stories, but yet isn't interesting either.

This is a game that takes fake incest to a whole new level. Important to note that there's absolutely nothing wrong with making an adult game that has no incest. The story is set up in a way that the main characters are a family. However, the story then reveals that no one is blood related at all and it tells you this multiple times to drive home the fact that this isn't an incest game, but yet everyone treats each other as family. It's a half-assed premise for a game; either do incest or don't do it all.

Although the story has an interesting premise of someone with genetic super powers, the writing itself isn't very good. One of the women in the game keeps calling you her brave knight which made me wonder if this game took place during medieval times; no, it does not. The writing can be pretty cringe at a lot of moments in time. If there's anything this game does right, it's that the models are nice to look at it.

Brilliant game with a deep story and characters you grow to love.

Pros

• Excellent renders
• Excellent character models
• Excellent and unique story
• Excellent writing
• Excellent character personalities
• Excellent character development (overall)
• Good and sexy lewd/sex scenes
• Excellent mix of story and sex scenes
• Excellent animations
• A likable MC (rare)
• A good amount of content

Cons

• More choices are needed. I understand that this is a visual novel but there were too many times in the game where choices were badly needed. There were too many times where I would have done something different than where the story took me. Several cringe moments for me.
• The story focused on certain characters a lot more than others while other characters (even main ones) are sidelined. The same characters are focused on in the alternate reality. Come on dev, at least focus on different characters in the alternate reality instead of the same ones!
• Plenty of English problems throughout the game. This seems to be common with nearly every game I play on this site. I rarely come across a game with near perfect English. Why? Is it really that hard to recruit a proofreader that is a native English speaker?
• Breasts sometimes aren't affected by gravity and stick straight out (unrealistic). It is especially noticeable when the girl is laying flat or near flat.

I put this game off for a long time to ensure that there was plenty of content to play through. I don't like playing brand new games for this reason. The wait was well worth it!

The game is brilliant in nearly every aspect! The game is a near masterpiece! The renders and character models are excellent but the best part of the game is the brilliant writing. The story is well done also and not your typical visual novel here on this site.

The game inspires deep emotion. I found myself very emotional during several parts of the game. This is extremely rare and is a testament to the brilliant writing of the game and the deep emotional connection to some of the characters.

The game has a good mix of story and lewd content.

I'm hoping the author will allow a deeper relationship to develop with Olivia and Allison in future content.

I highly recommend this game and encourage others to give it a try!

Pros :
1. Amazing looking models;
2. Hot sex scenes;
3. Well-paced story progression;
4. A very interesting story with a good plot.

Cons:
1. Sometimes it feels like characters have multiple personalities;
2. Dialogues are off sometimes.
3. Slow and lackluster updates.

The sorry progression and update speed are a disappointment at the moment. I will update the ratings depending on the dev's future updates.

The game is very much a comparison of the game and it is a series of games that are much better than the movie, with better graphics and animation to develop it, to pretend to live that character is too much.

Game has clear boundary issues between characters. in the first 15 minutes your bi sister convinces your girlfriend to get changed with her to see her naked and then grabs her tits randomly so she can cop a feel. no possible way to stop this from happening or skip this scene. sister is not only manipulative but a molester as well and the entire scenario is depicted as completely ok

Honestly this game far exceed my expecations. The animations are top notch and the writing is really good! I only noticed one typo the whole way through. I am really looking forward to more content for this game and whatever else the developer decides to do in the future

Male Protagonist face is hidden which I love but I believe they didnt want to showed the face because its the same Male Protagonist from College Kings but actually taller than the girls different hair color.

Dialogue doesn't make sense most of the time. There is repeated conversation when there shouldn't be at all. I just skip those when they pop up.

Some Spelling and Grammar needs to be fixed.

Good or Evil choices could be better.

MC has powers, read minds (only what the creator want you to see) and can force the anyone to do anything besides making them tell the truth.

MC could force everyone to tell the truth and be honest about everything. Would have gotten all of his questions answered and all the pussy he wants in the world.

review for v0.8c

intelligent story, good graphics , only issue is the same for every story updates are slow. but whats there is good solid story. characters aren't yet getting to where they need to be but like all things in there own time I guess

It's a solid game. It may not be the best but it's definitely not the worst either, not by a long shot. The art and models are superb and the story, while mediocre at times, does have a certain charm to it especially as new developments continue to occur.

But that being said, it's not a game for everyone. You may love it or contrarily, absolutely hate it. So just give it a shot yourself and figure out how you feel about the game. Even if you end up hating the story, at least the models can keep you occupied then, right?

The art is terrific. In fact, it was the art that prompted me to download this and try it out. But the story doesn't grab me at all and the humor falls flat for me. The art is a 5 but the story is a 2. For me that makes my final verdict a 3.

Pros:

The girls are very well rendered

Cons:

Lack of good choices, it is disappointing
Player can hold skip for most part of the game, there isn't important dialogue.
Lack of good close-up in sex scenes, or good angle, this part sems to be made in lazy way.

Not even forfap this game is good

Pros:
if can ignore some starting decisions and like weak to strong mc then its a great find.
good renders
good models
great effort by the Purple fellas. nice thought of plotline idea, a bit average delivery
funny dialogues
interesting if you are into mellow mc and ok with being too humble an collapsing at most important times

Cons:
Complete waste of time if looking for an MC who is- Alpha, Normal, Adaptable, one who takes charge, cunning.
Many disappointing choices which make no sense with rest of his character presentation, especially the evil choices dont align with him. but you nee d Evil choices for moving forward and scenes.
Good choices are spineless and EMPTY.
In a fantasy world where he has been given the alpha gene, its disappointing how the story unfolds, forced plot.
Many infuriating choices which we need to do to get points. for example, 1 forgiving Allison without breaking few of her bones and being cold for atleast few weeks or move on. 2 should have confronted his mom ages ago if he wanted to really find his dad as she is his only clue. 3 being a dog for SIG. when they are clearing using him and his family. 4 the kidnapping incident, pathetically weak and useless. 5 100 percent written by a kid

Review for 0.7b

The art and character models are very good... It also has a decent story... But the characters themselves are dumb and shit... The same generic character types from a 1000 different games... Also the dialogue is really dumb... Feels like it's written by a 12 year old who just started watching porn... While the game requires you to make choices and keeps record of the rude and amicable choices for all characters, it does not seem as though they actually have any affect... The game will force on you all the characters it wants, whatever choices you make... Also the characters change the feelings they have for each other at a flip out a coin without any decent explanations.

Although it is a visual treat its not even good as a fap game cause there's a lot of story between the sex scenes.

If you can keep your mind closed or are not bugged by poorly written characters then it actually has a fairly decent story and is playable.

Great premise, decent writing and visually the game is pretty stunning. But honestly the enjoyment of the game is completely decided by whether you like one of the MC's sisters (Daisy) or not. She's forced on you and sadly, in my opinion, she's absolutely the worst written character of them all. Her whole personality is based around sex and she comes with kinks which you might not enjoy (mainly lesbian content and sharing). I'm completely baffled as to why the Devs, who seem to let you make a bunch of meaningful choices everywhere else in the game, completely removes your agency when it comes to Daisy.

If you like her as much as the Devs seem to then this game is probably a 5/5 for you because it's a very well done and beautiful VN. But extremely disappointing for those of us who don't find Daisy appealing.

I'd actually forgotten I reviewed this but I have to change my rating and expand on my thoughts. I'm half tempted to go down to 2 Stars, but we'll see where I go with this. One of the reasons I forgot I made a review is it's boring. And not in an over-written, unnecessary details way, but an "all the relationships happen the same" type of way. Technically, Amber is different, but she was the demo version of the game, now it's all about how you have feelings for your NOTfamily. I have to say that because they try to avoid the censors with that and to illustrate that it bugs me that everyone seems to need incest content to enjoy anything...

The story is very simple, but interesting enough for me to actually be curious how it ends. (Even though we all know it's probably never going to end to milk patreon money) Anyway, when MC was a kid, his NOTFather, was kidnapped by an alternate universe. Naturally, MC doesn't accept that he's gone and grows up with the goal, to find out how to save his father. Eventually a secret government agency kidnaps him and tells him, not only is he a test tube baby not related to his family, but he has a "Supergene" that gives him and his sisters super powers. MC is of course able to use every power and is super strong and smart and the best person ever. Do you see how boring that is? Gary-Stu if I've ever heard it. Back to the story, after learning all of that, "The Company" from the other world contact him and try to recruit him right after. But MC isn't buying anything after learning about the lies.

The MC joined the police to investigate his father's disappearance and the whole time his partner was a spy sent to watch him. So he felt betrayed. But you see exactly two interactions with Allison as his partner before her character becomes a background character even until the end of this update(v0.10). So it's ineffective as a story point. After all of that, MC gets kidnapped AGAIN, only its the otherworld "Company" that does it to find out his power. I think. They don't get into it because he is immediately rescued. By Allison no less. Because she fell for the MC while spying on him. At the same time, MC's NOTSister, Daisy, is kidnapped and put under mind control to find out the MC's powers. She is ordered to try to seduce you as well not only because it might help MC's power but because the person that is still faceless liked to watch.

So Daisy is brainwashed for one chapter, because the only story beats that transfer version to version is that all the girls fall for MC right away. And she sort of learns that MC has mind control powers because of a blowjob. Then later that day, MC and her are out drinking and his mind powers mess with her head so she falls off the balcony and learns she can fly. Then MC can suddenly control his powers and erases the mind control on her. After that MC is transported to the other universe. And as to why, I'm not 100% sure. But he teleports there and meets the alternate version of Vanessa, Olivia, and Daisy. (NOTMom, and NOTSisters)

In the other world you learn that all men are either dead or captured for no discernable reason. The Company made an artificial continent to fight off the death of the planet. And everyone lives under extreme martial law. Other world Olivia is a rebel leader trying to fight the company, and Vanessa and Daisy are just farmers living day to day. Outside of that, you don't learn why or hown they're attacking MC's universe and the only other main story information you get is the MC training his ability in a machine with Vanessa, but nothing happens with that.

The rest of the game is MC having all the women fall for him. Amber, MC rescues as a cop and she loves him instantly. Daisy is the rebellious teen that falls for him after he saves her from mind control. Vanessa is lonely and likes the attention, she kisses him then pulls away but he kisses her back and she falls for him. Maeve, the maid that is in the story just to have a character wear a maids outfit. She has a scummy brother that he saves her from, she kisses her savior, pulls away, then he kisses her back. ARE WE SEEING A PATTERN? Currently, lastly, there's Olivia (in the main universe) she's shy and MC just says "i'll always be there for you" after abandoning the family for a decade and she falls for him. They go on a date, she kisses him, pulls back, and he kisses her back end of story. He also has feelings for the NOTFamily in the other universe but he leaves too early to get laid so he's trying to get back for that.

Like I said, the story is semi-interesting so I wanna know what happens. But every girl's love story is the same, and they even set up the new girl Ruri to have the same thing happen. Even though there's still a couple women in the story MC hasn't had fall for him yet, the scope creep is coming. And I wanna say in the beginning they used the emotion CG's and used the big pictures for important moments. I prefer that, not only because it saves on size, but it's easier on the creators. I don't need a giant uncompressed image to show one of the characters moving slightly. But whatever. And the biggest issue is the grammar issues. They get exponentially worse every update. I'm not even exaggerating. The first part is stiff but only minor issues and by this last update, Matthew and Ruri sound like robots using google translate. And the stiffness of the dialog gets worse as well. A contraction or two wouldn't hurt anyone. And the "I LOVE the Harry Potter(trademark)(copyright) Franchise" stuff is so ham-fisted in too. It's the only personable thing written into this. Everything else is either "you're beautiful" or "Don't mistreat others, that's mean." I just don't like the M'Lady dialog.

It's animated well, and the main story is interesting enough, but the size is padded with uncompressed images and stiff dialogue that makes it hard to read. On top of the good and evil meter that will mean they will have to split the paths and render out even more stuff for a good and evil ending. It's clearly written for patreon polls outside of an initial story direction, which means no one will ever know how the story ends. Knowing the majority on this site "PRETTY GIRLS ME 5 STAR" so if all you care about is attractive models you'll like this. If you're like me and need to romance your dick with an enticing story, it will suffice but it's not perfect.