VenusBlood GAIA International Reviews

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A free 18+ patch exists, but it is optional, and not necessary to enjoy the game. Game is more expensive than most 18+ games on steam, but the quality and quantity of content that is standard for the Venusblood series makes it worth the price. Combat and team building remains largely the same as the other games, but the higher gameplay layer is completely different. This time involving basebuilding and defense. I found it more interesting than Frontier’s and Hollow’s territory conquest. 100’s of different units to use, each customizable. Dozens of stages and new game+. Multitude of difficulty modes to suit any taste, from having a literal “I win” button to extremely punishing. 127 18+ scenes, if you decide to use the patch. Full length visual novel in of itself, ignoring the 18+ scenes. 186 base cgs with over 1000 variants. I played the game before, which is why this review is after low playtime.

Compared to the other games, the translation is pretty bad and the story takes a long time to get started. There are battlefields to fight but they're more like Tactics Ogre than the usual Ogre Battle system Venusblood tends to use. The game feels extremely linear! I'm an hour into the game (skipping battles) and I haven't made a single choice yet. Unless you've already played them, I'd suggest grabbing Hollow or Frontier instead.

While it has it's flaws, Gaia is still enjoyable enough entry in the VenusBlood series. also Vanilla & Lucretia best girls!

This is the second game in the Venus Blood franchise that I’ve played, the first being Venus Blood Frontier. Although the aesthetics of both games are extremely similar, this title introduces a significantly different gameplay style compared to its predecessor. It’s worth noting that while the international releases came out in an unusual order, this game is originally the successor to Frontier. The gameplay adopts a strategic approach reminiscent of a tower defense game, where you assemble squads to defend your base from invading enemies. Strategy also comes into play when building your base, organizing your squads, and managing resources. The difficulty ranges from extremely easy to extremely challenging, depending on the chosen difficulty level. While the gameplay is notable, the game primarily focuses on being a visual novel. The story is engaging and manages to keep players entertained throughout. Even though the plot might feel generic by today’s standards, it still stands out due to its execution. As with other titles in the series, the game features two main routes: chaos and law. These routes determine whether the protagonist becomes a hero or descends into madness. However, I felt the shift between the routes is too abrupt, leading to a loss of character consistency. Nonetheless, both routes are enjoyable. A highlight of the game is its excellent soundtrack. There are moments when you’ll find yourself pausing the gameplay just to listen to the music. Unfortunately, not everything is perfect. One of the negative aspects is the game’s resolution, which doesn’t support widescreen. While the original release dates back to 2013, the 2023 re-release—with so much additional content—could have updated the resolution, but it didn’t. Another downside is the interface, which feels outdated and confusing for new players. As many are already aware, the games in this franchise are rated +18. The version available on Steam is an all-ages censored version, but a patch to unlock the full content is easy to find. Regarding the +18 scenes, they deliver exactly what you’d expect from this franchise: plenty of tentacles, mind control, body modification, and psychological torment. This particular game explores pregnancy as a central theme in its story, which may appeal to or deter some players. Interestingly, compared to Venus Blood Frontier, this title includes more vanilla scenes, which I find to be a big positive since the more extreme elements mentioned earlier aren’t really to my taste. Overall, I give this game a solid 7.5/10. I recommend it to anyone who enjoys visual novels or strategy games, and I suggest not letting the negative reviews mislead you.

I finally understand the negative reviews. The game is good so I WON'T mention any of the good parts, just the negatives, because if anything I write is NOT an issue for you, that the game is good, if not amazing, for you. NSFW comments Warning. Since this is for people who use the adult restoration patch to add the +18 stuff. Again, if mentioning the term "sex" is upsetting you, stop reading my review, see other reviews and DO NOT touch the Adult patch. 1st of all, if you have a birth and tentacle fetish you found your game. Otherwise, you need to be ok with this, otherwise, don't bother with the the adult patch since most scenes are fetish type... more into this when I talk about MC... (again, the bad part, will leave out the good part due to spoilers) The translation is like usually, converted to English culture, even if losing part of Japanese culture, as such, even if you clearly hear the character addressing others in a way, they are converted culturally, which makes no sens for anyone who cares about quality translation and accuracy. The typical example is someone saying sister or brother, and the translation says their Name.... Or the reverse, they say character's name, but the translation say sister, brother, general, whatever title they have despite their names was used. Like addressing MC as leader or similar, but instead, the translation use his names... And of course, copy-paste exactly that, but for people whose name was never even mentioned, or said, yet the translator gives little spoilers, nothing major mind you, those who don't care won't even understand why this is an issue. It's just what I am trying to say, I finally understand why so many people gave negative comment reviews due to translation, as in: the translator did NOT respect how the original work, was addressed and referred to characters in the story. Many of the story characters have an accented ego (aka more narcissistic & repulsive than strong personality) There are a lot of religious-like elements, mind you, I'm not talking about the brainwashed type we have in real life. Their "gods" are diving beats that do exist in their world, and the main enemy is even one of them since they are the rulers of a nation. Aka they are not worshipping an unexisting being. This, of course, does give a lot of their units a power boost (divine protection/enhancements).... what is not clear is that You also are a religious-like nation... however, it's more accurate to say, that MC's invention is the "divine" power, with MC trying for this invention of his to replace the divine beast, and his "children" to repopulate the current one... of course, while not killing others despite....sorry, can't say more due to risk of spoilers. Again, it will not be clear at any point unless you are paying attention that MC and the other nations are essentially acting the same way (like forcing others to their beliefs, don't care if others get harmed as long as their "beliefs" will win, even if they need to act friendly, and do "necessary" sacrifices, and of course, always claiming their believes is the the good one, while ignoring what they did to get that far...). And of course, with the last part, I mean that MC will use drugs and similar to get a woman in "mod" so he can breed and create his new soldier....well assuming you do trigger events or somehow manage win without all this (like using destiny keys for new units or the "instant win" from the easy difficult) Just now you realise the charm of this game. It's up to YOUR decision if MC becomes an evil or lawful being (aka endings and similar). Due to most humanoid beings, aren't pure humans, many non-human women, aren't put off by becoming mothers (aka in-human acts are ok with them, even MC is more against then the some of such ladies, and only does since no other chose). This means you can create new units, without MC becoming evil (again, many Women in this game are desiring this more than MC himself). MC himself is very badly implemented... Due to the game play element, he is a hybrid of being a "naive hero" type who saves everyone, even if he has a lot to lose and no hope other then to believe it will work if everyone helps, AND a vicious and calculated villain who doesn't care others are hurt as long as he accomplishes his goal... To put it simple, it's putting 2 personalities that are opposite, in one body, and one takes other then the other..... but not in a good way. Heck, he is even pathetic at times during h scenes, like using the tentacles from his new body or machine tentacles, but not engaging himself in sexual acts.... as if he is a pathetic "timid virgin" type you see in many animes and similar, who doesn't know how to treat woman during a sexual moment... I won't bother with spoiler since this are a repeated patters: seriously, the woman, who ACCEPTED to this, after being informed what will happen, keep asking him to stop because the way he does it's to forcefully... and anyone who played similar games (with tentacle and other extreme elements) with an MC who know how to treat the ladies, knows there are tons of steps he skipped, that, if MC would bother with, he would prevented anything that would terrorise or make the ladies hesitate. So what does Mc do? Oh, don't worry, the drug will kick in and you will feel the pleasure that will stop your mind... And now back to the "like 2 people but in a bad way", if tentacles don't work, MC instantly force himself on the lady to ensure pleasure takes over so they don't refuse=)))) This is why I said, MC is badly implemented. He has tons of women who are honestly supporting and accepting as he is, as well as his invention and what they do, on top, MC is extremely intelligent, yet is incapable of learning how to have a sexual act with a woman without treating them like a sex toy or worse.... Lastly, the gameplay pacing is bad. It's a non-stop Visual novel, aka NO pause (the type where you can do: "continue story" or "free battles"). Aka you need to drag time when an enemy invades since, each turn, you generate more income, the only way to obtain recourses, so you can't rush or you won't have any funds. This also means you can't check any of your units unless you are in a battle, this is due to the story happening during battles (interrupting/delaying battle). Are you horny? Well sucks to be you because you most likely need to way till such a battle to be able to trigger an event because there is no "break" moment where you can trigger character and h events, none of them exist. And of course, if you are extremely focused on the battle, at any given moment, a story might trigger, that, you just want to rush through since you want to continue the battle. I highly recommend playing on easy, since the gameplay is difficult until you learn it (and for 100% you'll need to replay anyways), plus you won't feel rushed due to battle and can enjoy the events, if not even H events, that happen during battles. Anyway, again, the Game is good, I just wrote the worst part, so if most I wrote is not "very bad/unacceptable", then don't worry, you'll enjoy the game.

Amazing game! Please support JAST continue providing great international localisations with additional content. English version has very very few issues, do not let the negative review brigade regarding the Chinese localisation tank this project on release! Over 1000 amazing CG's, extremely deep tactical and roster building, and staple humor expected from the Venusblood series.

For the 144 hours I have played of this game as of time of writing, I have not detoured to play any other game. So yes, I highly recommend it. But I would also additionally recommend playing it for the tactical aspect. ...and playing it on hard from the start, but also only if you're willing to treat failure as a teacher - because the game does not hold your hand and you will hit multiple walls before you succeed if you start your "Run 1" on hard.

This game is not ideal, but I just want to add good review because there are lot of negative ones. In gameplay terms this game is different from other translated to English games and plays more like tower defense. You still have invade missions where your squads invade enemy base and try to beat boss. Good Good voice cast In general good tactics/strategy battles Lot of units, so if you enjoy trying different combination to bring ultimate squad, then you'll enjoy it Lot of difficulties to play with Soundtrack. Unfortunately Steam has no Digital Soundtrack Bad I don't really like how my squads invade and decide routes themselves Number of squads for battle and autodef is the same. There were a lot of cases, when I wanted to manually fight 1vs3, but also wanted to have auto defense in 1vs1. You cannot do that, the number is applied to everything Difficulties are not balanced. But that was good played in Hollow. So in Hollow if you beat half of game and then stuck, you could start your game and carry over everything until you were blocked or lost. In this game you could beat big part of the game and then get blocked by some boss. If you cannot beat it, it's game over and no data carry for you, so you lose all your time, unless you use cheats. Every period is timed, so you cannot grow your force on higher difficulties or you cannot just wait to get more gold/food/magic and this could hit a dead end with enemy you cannot defeat because of lack of resources (which mostly affects higher difficulties) Go in general it's a good game to put some hours, but be careful with NG difficulties and be prepared to use cheats to not get blocked by some pesky bosses.

100+ hours playing the JAST version and I can say with confidence that Dualtail never fails to deliver. The game is really good. Also fuck the Kagura review bomb don't listen to them