Skip to main content

Indie game storeFree gamesFun gamesHorror games
Game developmentAssetsComics
SalesBundles
Jobs
TagsGame Engines
(+1)

Yeah, I'm not really the target audience here since this was mostly just a vehicle for the author's unique fetishes, which I do not share, but there were still a few moments that got a chuckle out of me and the fairly short runtime didn't overstay the welcome of the premise. 

Getting into more specifics, breaking down by rating criteria:

Implementation of Theme/Creativity:

Sure, we have our folklore here with the legend of the automated peacock, which is an in-universe cryptid with its own mythology. However, said mythology is very, very thin and basically exists as a barebones foundation to make the fetishes happen (the whole legend is only like, five lines long). This plays into creativity in my opinion too, since, while yes, I doubt I will see another example of a robot peacock using his sword cock to cut off people's clothes, then turn one of them into underwear for his boyfriend to jerk off into, from your past works that does absolutely look right up your personal alley and I'm not really sure how far outside the box you had to go to come up with this. Kinda felt more like quickly adapting the jam theme to something you were already going to do regardless.

Presentation/Writing:

Mostly stock assets here, and that's totally fine. As several others have pointed out, there were some creative uses of those, especially involving zooms for certain effects, and probably the biggest laugh I got out of this was the blushing underwear. Music for much of the VN was fairly generic, the horror ambience included, though at least this matched the intended tone, even if I'm not sure why that was the intended tone of the scene (more on that in a bit). There were a few points when the sound dropped out and it was awkwardly quiet, but there weren't too many long stretches of this. 

The writing style isn't going to set the world on fire or anything, but it was well done enough and usually matched the intended tone of the scene. Very few egregious proofreading errors, which is always great, though there were some hiccups like Percy waiting for "Percy's" input rather than Wyatt's in the campfire conclusion with Zack. I do wish you had picked a different color for Percy's name tag though to distinguish him a bit more in the intro. Since we're so briefly introduced to the group, it was similar enough to AJ's that I didn't even process him as a separate character and I had to rewind to figure out who the narrator was supposed to be.

Story:

It's certainly not deep, but for what it's trying to be, it's fine. The primary critique I have here, and I think this is something that Fuze was getting at as well, is that considering how short this experience is, I wish the tone was a bit more consistent. Like some of the setup is absolutely absurd - the cryptid they're looking for is a mechanical peacock, they're literally talking to a mechanical peacock, and seemingly nobody picks up on this. Presumably this is intentional since Percy makes a comment on it later, but between that and the waiver, as well as the whole ridiculous nature of the transformation power, I wish this would have leaned all the way into absurd humor. Like, tastes vary, obviously, but I'm not sure I needed a grounded emotional conversation before transitioning directly into transformation kink sex. 

Same kinda thing for the brief horror elements. Like, considering everyone seems to be super into the TF stuff, Percy found the note that says Zack does TF stuff, and Zack wants to do the TF stuff to them, why is there even a conflict here? (Also, tangential to the last point, since Zack likes doing the TF stuff to people, if he was worried about too many people finding out, why would he invite people to his actual residence rather than just renting out houses for the night or something? Seems like he could fix his moving woes pretty easily.)

Branching paths and player interaction is always nice, though I did feel like there was barely any difference in the routes besides the sex scenes, which also felt pretty short. Personally, I didn't mind that so much since, like I said, they're not my fetishes, but maybe someone who was more in to this sort of thing would have liked those drawn out a bit longer. 

Last point here, I do wish there was at least some depth given to the characters. I know it's a kink vehicle and all, but like, I couldn't tell you a single thing about AJ or Merlin's personalities (Merlin likes cameras? Maybe?). Having actual, defined personality traits is a great foundation for setting up jokes, and I wonder if this story would've been better served by cutting AJ and Merlin entirely and fleshing out Percy and Wyatt a bit more just to give you some more material to work with.

Anyway, like I said at the top, not for me necessarily, but I thought this was solid for what it was trying to be. 

Final score of 12 peas out of 19 cocks.