Renai Bakudan Review (Kinxil)
TL:DR version
Renai Bakudan is generous for its price, with around 25-30h worth of stories and some small erotica novels to read as bonus, if you didn’t have enough. If you like wholesome stuff, cheeky puns, horny moments and even intense action scenes, this VN is an excellent experience in all regards. And if you’re less into those things, it will just be a very good VN. I didn’t expect an erotica VN to reach the top of my VN collection, but what do you know, it’s now around my top rankers with a breeze.
You’re not horny enough and you still have to be convinced version
I initially left some kind of half arsed joke as a review inspired from one of my favorite moment of Renai Bakudan, when I was done with 2 of the 7 stories. But now that I’m going with the last, I thought it wasn’t giving enough credit to how much I love this game. So I’m redoing that properly.
Renai Bakudan has everything you need to have a good moment. For a modest project (I assume from the kickstarter campaign and the credits), Renai Bakudan is a clear improvement from Good Luck Baby from a technical standpoint, the game is rich both in musics, sceneries, characters and animations (with some hilarious moment for that later part).
But that’s not the only impressive feat. I was already impressed with GLB having three stories, but seven of them with a reasonably different writing style, mood, and unrolling? And still keeping a logical connection even if they are seven alternatives (unless I’m wrong none are canon to another)? Just, wow.
And I’m still not at the best part, because although I still have a couple of VN above it, Renai Bakudan is the only VN that I can safely affirm without a doubt that I love everything single of its characters, without exception. Renai Bakudan confirmed what I suspected with GLB: Noodletub games writer(s) is/are stellar when it comes to write characters, at least the kind which speaks to me. I recently played a VN which was okay in my regards but was playing with its puppets. Renai Bakudan overflows with love and do its whims with its humans.
I didn’t mention it that much, but well, Renai Bakudan is an erotica VN with plenty of horny moments. But I wanted to highlight that, even though those are very enjoyable, the VN is much more than just that. It has nothing to envy even to the big names of the Yuri world and I do dearly hope that it meets the audience it deserves.
Now, it’s fair to say my review might not be totally objective (euphemism alert). It checks everything I could love in a VN. And I am still playing it, at this very moment that, as fate would have it, I have just met the crushing experience of mourning, one of the subjects of the VN. I’m grateful to be playing Renai Bakudan at the moment I need it.