The First Beings feels like someone ripped a gothic manga apart, shuffled the panels, then smeared them with blood and sex and family drama until everything started breathing. You’re not some cute baby vamp here. You’re Iraáil, the old monster, the one everyone’s myths were secretly about, the parent who walked out on eternity because even slaughter got boring. And the game never lets you forget that. Every conversation with your kids or your old equal has this nasty double edge. They look at you like a walking nightmare and also like the parent who was supposed to stay. I liked how it swings from “I could tear your throat out” to “I remember when you were small” in a single scene, then lets you decide which mood wins. Sometimes I picked the gentle answer and then the text suddenly twisted it, reminded me that for them, my “gentle” is still terrifying because of what I did before. That part hit harder than the actual gore. Which is weird, because the gore is very much there and very not shy.

And the horny stuff is not just decoration, it’s baked into how screwed up everyone is about you. The sex scenes feel like arguments that got lost and turned into touching. One moment your progeny is cursing you for leaving, next they’re pressed against you with this awful mix of worship and hate, teeth in your neck, nails in your back, not sure if they want to fuck you or destroy you or make you stay by force. It’s not “aww soft romance”, it’s “our entire bloodline is a trauma kink”. There’s a sequence where you’re pinning someone you created against a wall, and you can either make it tender or cruel, but either way it remembers what you did centuries ago and pushes it into the scene. If you lean into the monster side, the game lets you be really mean about it: rough, possessive, using the body like it belongs to you because technically it does. If you try to be kind, it doesn’t suddenly become pure. Their fear and arousal are still tied together, like they don’t know another way to want you. Honestly it’s hot and fucked up at the same time. I had one route where I tried to “fix” things and it somehow made the sex even dirtier because you feel like you’re trying to redeem yourself while your hands are still around their throat, metaphorically and sometimes not so metaphorically. Only thing that annoyed me is the text box font on my laptop looked a bit fuzzy in Firefox, but whatever, I just squinted and kept going.

What I liked most is that you’re not playing a blushing newbie, you’re basically the final boss of everyone’s childhood trauma who also happens to be insanely fuckable if you decide to use that. The horror parts are not just monsters jumping from shadows, they’re in the quiet moments where your child flinches when you reach out, even if you only want to touch their hair, and the game lets you turn that flinch into a kiss or into a fresh wound. Like in one branch I tried to be “good” and refused to feed on a terrified villager, then an encounter later I was in bed with someone who begged me to bite deeper because they were raised on stories of what my teeth mean, and the whole thing turned into this messy blend of worship, blood and unresolved rage. That scene honestly felt like reading a late Berserk chapter where the panels linger way too long on skin and pain, except here you get to choose why it happens. The mystery parts sneak up on you too, all this lore about The Hidden and old memories that show up mid sex or mid fight, changing how you respond, like you suddenly remember “ah, I killed your mother in front of you”, and the dialogue option you were about to pick looks different. Sometimes the game almost drowns in its own words, but I kinda liked it, like an overstuffed doujin that doesn’t know when to shut up. And yeah, a couple of routes left me feeling hollow and dirty in a good way, like I just watched my favorite character make the worst possible choice and I was the one clicking “continue” the whole time.