Review: Dreams of Desire

 Ed's H Game Review!

Dreams of Desire

Game Type: Ren'py Choice Based VN

Creator: Lewdlab

Version Episode 12 Elite (Completed Game), also "The Lost Memories" side story.

This game is one of the stupidest free hentai games I've ever played. The characters are dumb. The story is dumb. The sex scenes are dumb. The main character is really dumb. And gullible. 

It's no secret that H games have an incest problem. Well, maybe not "problem," but it's certainly the most popular subgenre of everything on F95 Zone. A lot of games try to do something with it, or hang a lampshade on it. This one, on the other hand, plays everything SO SO STRAIGHT. The MC has the hots for his mom and sisters. He bangs his mom and his sisters after corrupting them. It's all very rote and none of it is very hot, and it's all just... silly.

But wait, that's not all? You know what else is not hot? Silent Hill! You know what this game has way too much of? Weird Silent Hill Supernatural Shit!

Nothing about this works. The supernatural horror elements aren't impressive or scary. The characters are... kinda hot, but then the sex animations kick in and everything goes wrong. I don't even want to get into the details of the characters because honestly the only interesting character in the whole thing is Marcus, the MC's best friend. Who is the male lead. If a DUDE is somehow the most interesting character in a game about banging chicks, YOU HAVE GONE WRONG.

The story itself is a pretty by-the-numbers hypnosis/mind control/corruption story, and then this enemy cult called The Order gets involved and... none of it comes together in a satisfying way. The bad guys are blah and go down easily. It doesn't really matter. A bunch of extra scenes ruin the pacing anyway. Even in the standalone side story, for NO REASON. Hell, the main bad guys get more development in that sidestory than they do in the actual game.

I'm not going into details because frankly, it's not worth it. There's a ton of plot elements just left on the table, never explored, but I'm not convinced that exploring them is worth much of anything anyway. This was not written from a strong creative place. It wasn't even written from a strong sexual place. It doesn't work as porn and it doesn't work as plot.

I guess for what it is it's not offensive. It doesn't do much wrong, but it certainly doesn't do much of anything right. I know this creator went on after this game to do Midnight Paradise. I did play a version of that a while back that I like better, so clearly they improved after a while. I'll check back with that later game again once that creator is done.

Pros: Some of the characters? Are hot? I guess? Music choices aren't too loud... 

Cons: Dumb story. Dumb characters. Creator doesn't seem to know how sex works. Unsatisfying in all ways.

Overall: 2/10

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