Dark Waters: Gino and the Witch of the Black Swamp

It could have had a faster pace to the storytelling, but was still intriguing. Images were pretty good.

So... Dark waters: Gino and witch of the black swamp man that is a mouth full is a kinetic novel that goes to very dark places. So you play as the main character Gino who is looking for ghosts in Florida at an abandoned place called blank point. In order to get away from his mundane life to which yeah I get it my man but along the way he meets a swamp witch. So he decides to head to the Hut with her in order to see that magic is real and certainly enough she does prove that's real and decides to stay there for the next seven days. But someone or something is screwing with his mind making him think of things he's never even thought of before. And as he gets closer to the truth you start to wonder is the witch really as malicious then she looks and honestly that's the best part of it it's never really said out loud if she is malicious. It's up to you if you consider her malicious. So the art style It's very soothing and pleasing towards the eye colors are used in correct order and when it goes for more of the intense scene it shows it. Music it works it's totally fine for what it is and when it comes to the intense scene it definitely can't rip you but don't expect a lot of music. And now the sex scene don't expect too much here but what is here is pretty good there are very few CGS three in total. And even then you only get two if you opt for the different choice. And as for the writing it's actually pretty good it's what got me into it and gripped me pretty hard especially with the psychological Horrors to it. And I'm a guy who don't really like horror too much. But overall I do recommend this game you can complete it in about two hours heck even less than that if you're just reading it fast. But as I warned before it's a kinetic novel there are only two choices you can make in a game and they give you different outcomes. And personally the only good ending is ending one two is not going to ending you'll see why. So that's it for me stay tuned for some next reviews so with that being said good night good luck and stay horny people.

I got this as part of a bundle, and I don't know if I can recommend buying it standalone. I understand there are people out there who really, really enjoy visual novels. I can't attest to the quality of [i]this[/i] one, because I skipped most of it. Despite this, I could still follow what was happening, even though I only stopped to read about one in twenty slides. It could be really well-written, I could just be getting lucky where I stopped skipping, or the writing could be incredibly redundant and borderline pointless: I'll never know. The CG's are good, and I wish there were more of them. For a "visual novel", it's pretty light on the "visual" element; you can count the number of CG's in the game on one hand. Which, y'know, is fine. I get that visual art takes time to make. But so does writing, and the game isn't shy with its words. Even when you skip most of the writing between CG's, it still takes about three minutes before you reach the next one. Just a few extra bits of art would help the pacing tremendously, and it'd give you a better way to indicate important scenes: like retrieving the pie from the oven, Gino finding the rune, or trying the summoning spell, could have some artwork to help set the tone. All said, it's not terrible. There's potential here, but the game is probably done, so we'll never see it actualized. Dark Waters isn't something I would buy on its own. There really is too much text for too little substance, and it kinda reminds me of bodice rippers in a way. You know: those cheap romance novels you see in stores for like $3.00 US, and spend most of their read-time teasing you for the one or two smut scenes. I guess if you're into those, you won't mind this.

Who knows but I didn't like it.

Ugh. Wall of text, no animation. If i wanted to read a book, I'd read a book. Skip this crap!!

Sexy Shiny Scales included indeed. never gone wrong with witches with golden eyes.

The story is good, the girl is really cute, I like me crocodile witch nyehehehehe. the art and the expressions are good. overall, for that price, ti's totally worth it.

Majestic <3!!!! Beautyfull artwork, perfect BGM, and a excelent story mixed up !!! perfect

Great game! Talk about a running start coming from an indi developer, we need more ppl who make content like this. Story is great, visuals are great, audio track is great, and just a great overall short casual (yet erotic) game (VN). People who come in with inflated expectations are not going to like it. Some quality of life features are missing, but that just leaves improvement for the next release! Looking forward to it!

Impressive. but sadly the story is short but still its worth it