VN - Ren'Py - From the Sin [v0.10b] [Vorpal]

VN Review - Ren'Py - From the Sin [v0.10b] [Vorpal]
I'll try to be as honest and sincere as possible. From the Sin has an impressive start, and every now and then you come across a visual novel that feels like a breath of fresh air. This game fits that description, being of high quality and relatively unique within the genre.

Story – ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ (4/5)
The plot is well developed, with a lot of attention to detail. In simple terms, the story revolves around an MC who is freed from a scientific facility by chance and ends up being collected by a group of adventurers.

The world combines fantasy and science, creating a vast and mysterious universe, inhabited by monstrous (furry) girls and beings beyond human comprehension.

While the MC tries to understand his origin and purpose, various races across the continent fight for survival, as Mana is becoming increasingly scarce.

The presentation is a bit cliché – a protagonist with the role of saving or destroying the world – but the difference lies in how the story is told.

Art – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)
Simply perfect! All the characters were modeled with Koikatsu (Illusion) and CharaStudio, resulting in top-notch art. The female characters are well-made, and even the MC is handsome. The game immediately grabs your attention due to its impeccable visuals.

Audio – ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ (4/5)
The sound design is well done, with sound effects (SFX), music and ambiance, which makes the experience more immersive. Silent games give a feeling of incompleteness, so it was a pleasant surprise to see that this game didn't neglect the audio.

The only problem is that the audio seems to have a passive role, as does the MC's personality (but more on that later).

Worldbuilding – ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ (4/5)
The fusion between magic and science is well-crafted, creating an intriguing world where neither element overpowers the other. The game's universe has the potential to be expanded even further as the story progresses.

Negative points
Now, let's get to the problems...

1. Forced NSFW scenes
This is by far the game's biggest problem. The MC/player doesn't seek out the lewd scenes; they simply instead are just shoved in your face.
Out of the four adventurers, Eris, Lily, and Linea all have lewd scenes with the MC that feel forced and lack proper context or relationship development.

For example:
Eris and Lily’s lewd scenes are justified by the need to "stabilize the MC’s mana core"—basically an excuse for them to jump into his pants immediately.
Eris gets inside the MC’s underwear on the first day they meet—seriously?
Linea’s scene is slightly different but still forced—she sits on the MC’s lap, gets him excited, and that's it: leading to another non-consensual lewd scene activated.
Worst of all: there’s no option to avoid or skip these scenes.

I dislike forced lewd scenes, and the way they were implemented here is a major red flag. The MC barely knows these girls, and within days, they’re already all over him? Where’s the buildup? The relationship development? Also, in all these lewd events, the MC acts like a lifeless doll for the girls to play with—there's no real emotional depth or engagement.

If the dev intended to show that the MC is being "molested" by the adventurers, they succeeded. Maybe that wasn’t their goal, but either way, there should be an option to skip these scenes. forced lewd scenes is never a good thing and will drive away a portion of the player base.

2.MC’s Lack of Personality & Passive Role:
Another major issue is that the story uses the plot itself as an excuse to limit the MC’s decision-making and personality.

• The MC wakes up from a deep sleep and is taken in by adventurers. Sure, he has no knowledge of the world—but that shouldn’t make him a passive doormat.
• The game overuses the story as an excuse to keep the MC weak-willed and overly submissive.
• The dynamic leans heavily toward female domination (femdom), and while it’s not fully there yet, it’s starting to rub the wrong way.

I personally don’t like femdom, no matter how it’s done, but I can tolerate it if there’s an option to skip or refuse it. That way, the dev can please both sides of the community.

3.Overuse of Black Screens for Text:
There are too many black/blank screens with just text. I get that they’re used to show the MC being unconscious or transitioning between locations, but there are far too many instances of this.

• Instead of 20 slides of text on a black screen, why not show the MC in bed, a landscape, or even characters walking?
• Even a simple render of the MC’s thoughts would be better than staring at nothing for so long.

4. Audio & MC’s Silence in Lewd Scenes:
While the overall sound quality is fine, the audio design feels too passive—just like the MC. But the biggest issue is that the MC doesn’t speak during lewd events!

• He just sits there like a sex doll for the girls to play with.
• Some actual dialogue or reactions from the MC would go a long way in making these scenes feel more natural and engaging.

Conclusion – ⭐⭐⭐☆☆ (3/5)
From the Sins has great potential, but it still leaves something to be desired in some crucial aspects. The game has an interesting story, a well-built world, and incredible art, but it fails in points that detract from the overall experience.

The 3/5 rating comes from the following factors:
✅ Positive points:
✔ Impeccable art – Visually, the game is one of the best in the genre.
✔ Interesting worldbuilding – A mix of magic and science gives it a unique touch.
✔ Good soundscape – The use of sound effects and soundtrack helps the story.

❌ Negative points:
✖ Obscene and forced scenes – No consent or option to skip, which can save many players.
✖ Extremely passive MC – He doesn't make decisions, doesn't react, and is treated more like an object than a character.
✖ Excessive black screens – The constant use of text on a black background takes away from the immersion.

If the game gave the player more autonomy, allowed the MC to have more personality and fixed the problem of forced scenes, it could easily reach a 4 or even 5 stars. But, as it stands, it is stuck in the middle ground – a visually impressive game, but one that may frustrate those looking for more depth and control over the story.

Reviewed v0.10b.

Very high quality assets. You can tell a lot of care was put into the presentation of the game, far more than most. Art looks good, the music and sound design is great. Most of the renders and framing seem to have had thought and effort put into making them look good. Even the UI has unique looking dialogue boxes for all the main characters, which is a really nice touch. Using custom music and UI goes a long way in fleshing out the game's identity.

Characters are all attractive, unique from each other and don't look like generic copypasted models you see in a lot of these games.

It's still very early into the story, but the build up is intriguing and I was interested the whole way through. There was little to no bad grammar or awkward, stilted writing. The setting is sort of a mix between Nier and a fantasy setting and I really want to see more of it since there's only a small slice of it in the game at the moment.

I really hope the developer sticks with this project and is able to maintain the high quality shown so far. It has a ton of potential compared to most games on this site and it would be a shame if it ended up abandoned or rushed.

Version: v0.10b

TL;DR: Solid start to a game! Visuals were appealing, and it's obvious a lot of care went into the 'overall presentation' of content. One of very few games I'm really looking forward to. Absolutely fucking peak.

Visuals: Personally didn't recognize any boilerplate Koikatsu models, and BG scenery is unique (with the sole exception being some of the desert shots which felt empty, but maybe that's just a desert thing?). One reviewer mentioned a lack of animations during H scenes, and to my understanding that may have been from an older version since the version I'm reviewing had some great animated H scenes! As for beyond the sex scenes I'm still left impressed with the overall design of UI elements, Character Models & the brief Character Introduction renders. This developer found a theme, created visuals around said theme, and truly stuck with it. Most impressively, the characters aren't emotionless which works wonders when you're trying to enjoy a story/character/scene (in every regard imaginable).

Audio: Admittedly not a whole lot to talk about here from me personally since I tend to instantly mute game audio for these types of titles, but for once the game didn't immediately blow my eardrums out so that was a nice surprise. As for overall quality it appears the audio design takes a bit of a passive role here (just like our MC), which isn't a bad thing (same goes for our MC)!

Writing: Not a lot of these games tend to win me over in the writing department- even ones that are self-proclaimed to be 'dedicated to story telling & world building'. However, this one did. Infact, I'd go as far as to say that this is the only title that sold me in the prologue alone. Yeah, sure, there is some tropey stuff to sniff out here & there, but tropes are there to be used and this one doesn't beat them to death. I love the mixing of Fantasy/Sci-Fi elements (Magic x Machina), and using these elements to develop your world is great (as opposed to just throwing them into a character and that's it). The characters aren't emotionless (as mentioned in visuals), so it's captivating in that regard as well. As for overall writing accuracy I found it very easy to autocorrect some slight things in my head, and with how early in development this game is I'm sure it'll be picked up & fixed.

Honorable Mentions: Forum presentation is honestly astounding. I love the framing (literally and metaphorically) of the header image, and that alone got me to download. The UI surprised me at the beginning and I love it. One particular render in the prologue (if you know you know) was so amazing that I genuinely had to look at every little detail after the goosebumps went away.


I look forward to future updates!

As of version 0.10:

• The plot is intriguing and fairly competently written (so far)
• The characters are good and feel alive/not just as some walking sexual organs for MC to shag and charm by just being a Mr. Good Guy. MC's somewhat introspective and introverted, which is not a bad thing on itself since he's just a fish out of water right now - which i don't mind at all as far as it's not overtly tropey/done with enough depth (animescue "shy of everything sack o potatoes" MCs need to go, along with girls being unrealistically bashful of anything romantic and sexual +-being violent about it. but i digress)
• The visuals are nice, evidently there's a lot of love and care being poured in em, which shows. Character designs are cool and varied, and they correspond with said chars's personalities quite well too.
• Sound design did not leave a big impression, but that just means that it worked well for me personally (sorry SFX/sound person, i mean it in the best way possible >_<) and was both unobtrusive/fitting enough, nor neglected too much, which is commendable on itself.
• The writing was good and to the point, jokes landed and weren't outta place/overabundant too. Can't remember more than a few grammatical errors and such either, so props to QCs doing their jobs~
• About the Dreaded Femdom©™ - not gonna lie, girls being assertive is nothing but good in my book, as far as it's not going into nocon/rapey territory, hence i see zero problems here rn - MC was never against it, girls were fairly gentle and kind to him, which is almost as good as it gets. and i ain't gonna call girls just being proactive an example of classical femdom either: it's just all too common for PCs to hit on and collect girls like they are some kind of trophies, along with all of them falling in love with him at first sight or something dumb like this. That's honestly the most tired trope of this male fantasy dominated genre, so any variety and actual agency of LIs (+relationships feeling real) is good. And regarding game's future updates: if said nocon content's gonna be optional (or at least not too graphic/violent or overly mean spirited) then i am all good too.

Tl;dr: game's good, play it if ya wanna poke a nice sci-fantasyish tale with nice chars holding their own ground without being sadists or pushing it too far past the comfort zone for those who dislike rapiness and all that.
The only possible drawback i see is that it's still early in the plot & development, hence some patience is required. Making a god game takes time, and that's exactly the case here.
Basically, give it a chance, and hopefully it will deliver more greatness in the future, - or at least that's all i can hope for from currently in-dev games.
Cheers, and good luck to the devs~

v0.10b

Story is good so far, I think, you are one of the only men alive and girls suck your dick for mana (because dicks have mana), bizarre adventures follow.


Pro:

- Fucking insane quality for animations and nsfw, like damn good stuff
- UI is really impressive and planned out for more chapters, there are replays for all of the different segments of scenes just in case you didn't save, there's stuff for girls which most likely will include gallery for each of them and achievement system
- Found a funny easter egg that made me go through the game in one sitting, when you are prompted for a choice of your name you can ask Cluster to pick you Zell, but then if you roll back and pick Zell yourself you get a reaction out of her (same as if you pick Cluster). More of those please

Con:

- Girls fall for you too quick.. maybe ? I mean to be honest if dicks would be a source of mana you would get hounded over real quick, just food for thought


Overall a really good first impression from me, not sure what are achievements planned for right now, maybe to unlock secret scenes or true ending, no clue

5 star

Review for v0.10b

Honestly a pretty impressive start overall. Every once in awhile you come across a visual novel that feels a bit like a breathe of fresh air in them being both high quality and relatively unique, and this fits both of those descriptions I'd say.

The plot actually has a lot of though going into it so I'll avoid speaking about most of it for spoiler reasons, but the dumbed down idea is that you've been broken out of a facility by happenstance and and up being taken in by a team of adventures, who you yourself end up joining, on a sort of quest to find a certain girl(?) among many other mysteries. There's a lot of interesting things and details honestly, pretty easy to get invested. Clear it's a game where the dev is actually thinking and planning out a story. Though there's some clear character archetypes you've seen before, they do have a lot of personality to them. The MC is a bit more passive and reserved maybe, but it makes sense given his background. Interested to see how things will develop on that front. A bit early to really delve into any of them.

Again it's really high quality in that there's a lot of unique assets I haven't seen before, good sound effects and music, the renders and models look nice, animations are very solid, etc etc. No complaints on that front. Hard to say how much choices really matter, and so far scenes are unavoidable.

As far as lewd content goes, yes this is a femdom leaning game. I'm someone who doesn't care too much for sub/dom dynamics no matter which way it goes, but for me this has been fine. It's very light femdom if anything from the few scenes available. Might change down the road given some details about the world, but for now I wouldn't call any of it extreme by any means. The MCs sort of passive nature is displayed in lewd scenes as well, and I do get the impression of him feeling a bit more like a toy for the girls rather than them doing it out of love for example. Mostly because it's still very early for any real relationship development and the scenes kind of come without much build up to them. Two of the three scenes were animated (with pretty good animations) but all three of them were hot I'd say.

Not a ton more to say, but given a few more updates to see where the game really goes, I'd say this is one to keep an eye on for sure.

I love the models in this game, especially the girls and their different personalities. I am looking forward to seeing how the game and story develop with future updates. I can tell a lot of love and effort was put into this game it has a lot of potential.

Surprised this game hasn't gotten more praise, despite it being early in development, you can really see that the dev cares about the story and characters. A very unique VN in a sea of copy and paste VNs

First thoughts:
You didn't screw up the the main menu by making it difficult to adjust the music volume, text speed, or full screen it as soon as I open the game. Appreciated.
Scroll back works (Thank god, I always have to scroll back when I fail to read something right and click too fast).
Right click goes straight to save, which is perfect. Feels like the save slot count was expanded. Arrows are properly there. Looks good to me.
Doesn't appear voiced, but I never could wait for someone to talk anyway. Has proper music and sound effect, so it doesn't feel dead silent.
Facial expressions look properly animated, so that's appreciated. I hate dead faces.
English is kinda flawed, but it's so far at the level I can ignore. Nothing really feels like a typo so far.
Art/Models are good.
I don't believe I've seen any animations in the lewd scenes. Though the current version has its charm.

Yes, I did see what the author did with the colors.

As a whole, it has potential, but there remains a lot of story to write. But I guess that's obvious since the story itself says we're still in the prologue.

So far the story is enjoyable and the renders are good, I do wish the scenes were animated but hey its still decent for what it is so far. So far the biggest con imo is the extremely long black screens, for some reason when the MC is thinking or the narrator is going over what is happening its just a black screen. The dev should really change this and just add a render or 2 to fill those gaps because a black screen is the worst possible choice imo

From the Sin [v0.01]

Absolutely amazing first release. Really really hope this doesn't get abandoned.

Lots of content for a first release

Excellent writing, characters feel alive and have individuality. Perfectly handled humor allows for varying degrees of extreme characterization or narration without becoming parody. The cast feels easy to get to know, but also don't feel rigid, they feel like they'll be able to grow and show their depth.

The setting is a blend of scifi and fantasy, and what we have seen and be told of both so far is blended beautifully, neither clashing with the other.

The music and audio is very well chosen and used.

The choices given, so far, seem largely inconsequential, with the story following a predetermined path but given alternate dialogue and reasons for the same events happening. This isn't a bad thing, but still worth mentioning. I have no reason to think we won't get more impactful choices in the future, and the end of the epilogue (v0.01) pretty much implies decisions will need to be made.

My one tiny petty complaint was that the harem tracker / character tracker wasn't implemented yet. It's there, but it's empty, shameless teasing to be honest.

Anyway, highly recommended