Queen Beast

[b] un causa me lo recomendo, y lo entiendo por que lo hizo.... [/b]

Wish I could leave a "neutral" review. The goods: - Great artwork - Humor is good sometimes - Characters interactions are funny and pleasant to watch The bads: The first word that comes to mind is: wasted potential. The world and characters could have been much more developed and put into a more interesting plot. Unfortunately, this was not the case here. I'm not saying the plot or development is bad, it's just that it's barely good & nothing we haven't seen hundreds of times before. Not a single surprising moment for me. Maybe this was because I've read a lot of VNs personally & I went into this with high expectations due to the 93% positive reviews, but I finished it feeling disappointed. I'll keep watch for the developer's next project though since I believe they have the capability to make something great (& it's fine to make it paid if it'd make it better).

Très beaux graphismes, une bande son soignée et une histoire très prenante. Le jeu est long et très qualitatif, et pourtant il est gratuit ! Très contente qu'il soit enfin disponible en français :)

Really nice visual story! Like a love letter to classical fantasy. I had an absolute blast. (downloaded from itch, but came here just to give review)

Приключенческая RPG с элементами рогалика и фэнтези‑сеттингом: игрок управляет звероподобным существом, исследует опасные земли, сражается с врагами и развивает уникальные способности. Плюсы: самобытный визуальный стиль — запоминающиеся дизайны существ и локаций в тёмном фэнтези‑ключе; динамичные бои с комбинациями атак и особыми навыками персонажа; процедурная генерация уровней — каждое прохождение немного отличается от предыдущего. Минусы: высокая сложность на ранних этапах — легко погибнуть без понимания механик; скудная подача сюжета — история раскрывается фрагментарно, без чёткой линии; иногда неудобное управление в тесных пространствах во время боя. Итог: подойдёт любителям хардкорных RPG и рогаликов — впечатляет атмосферой и боевой системой, но может отпугнуть из‑за крутого порога вхождения и слабой проработки нарратива.

🎮 Visual novel superbe avec un style graphique incroyable et vraiment unique. 🎵 La bande-son est excellente, parfaitement en accord avec l’ambiance du jeu. 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Les personnages sont profonds et attachants, avec un vrai travail d’écriture. ⚠️ Le jeu comporte une légère touche érotique. Une très belle expérience globale.

I have no memory of how [i]Queen Beast[/i] got into my library, but I’m grateful it’s there. Studio Envelope’s debut game is a nostalgia-driven kinetic novel that celebrates the Japanese pulp sword & sorcery genre of the 1980s & 1990s, with heavier emphasis on ‘90s OVA. If you think fondly of Go Nagai’s [i]Devilman Lady[/i], you’ll like [i]Queen Beast[/i]. The plot is so familiar you can sing along: a lil miller boy goes on a big adventure, joins up with a woman warrior in bikini armor, saves the princess, and decides what kind of adult he wants to be. There’s high adventure, fantastical fantasy, gruesome horror, and bright, bright hope. While there is an attempt to overcome the patriarchal pitfalls of the genre, especially with the sister, villainess, and kidnapped women characters, the overall feminism does a face plant. There are [spoiler] multiple rapes of female characters (one on screen) [/spoiler] and an “ironic” dismissal of hentai (which I found especially ludicrous with how entwined the erotic and fantasy pulp genres are). There is also an inequality in which gendered bodies are put on display for the audience. With an exception of children and elders, female characters are pretty much full frontal nudity—maybe there will be a proverbial fig leaf. The male characters, however, are modestly covered in shadows and angles. Delving into this artistic choice leads down some distinctly un-feminist rabbit holes. What could be a shallow thought process of “I prefer drawing women” leads into how patriarchal societies are okay with the objectification and use of women as sexual objects, while only men are nuanced people, worth the dignity of clothes and bodily privacy. All that being said, I avidly played the game. As if to temper the horrors, the cast is majority women, and sapphic sexuality is embraced and celebrated on its own terms. The sprite, background, CGs, and chapter card art are drop-dead gorgeous—I took a lot of screenshots and shared them with friends. The music is lovely. The game is free, which is bananas given how much work it must have been to create. Despite some unsettling drawbacks, I’m still giving [i]Queen Beast[/i] a thumbs up, but the approval is tilted slightly more towards the artwork than the narrative.