Chasing Setsuna by Troopage and CoreX

Chasing Setsuna has proposed so far the most interesting and intricate ideas for a drama that I have seen in the community, and its concept a lot holds the potential for an awesome story in itself.

What is the plot about? Nemuri dies for unknown reasons, and because of a mistake made by Setsuna while trying to send him to the eternal realm, Nemuri ends up as a ghost and decides to escape, since he wants to continue living, but Setsuna, as told by him in his life as a priest, can't let him wander around like a lost soul.

Why so? Well, in this story ghosts end up losing everything that they had as humans in their past life, their own personality, and everything that made them themselves alive beings, and due to their desire of living, they end up possessing people and causing mischief. Nemuri himself ends up possessing a girl by accident and starts liking it, then, due to his increasing nature as a ghost, he starts to like it more and goes on a rampage looking to possess more girls as he pleases.

After possessing a girl while trying to hide his aura from Setsuna, his own obsessions as a ghost turn to Setsuna, which he decides will be the best body for him to possess. This just opens the possibilities for an amazing drama and an engaging story, the implications for Setsuna are either to take her father, already unrecognizable from what she knew, back to the spirit realm or lose her body and life in the process.

The scenario ends pretty shortly, but the idea is simply amazing, Setsuna would be trying to chase Nemuri with the help of her friend, half spirit half-human, Izuna, who has a contract attached to her, and Nemuri would try to weaken her mental state controlling people close to her so he can find a chance to take over her body. This would allow giving a lot of tension to the story.

It is overall, two people who love each other, or that at least loved each other before, Father and Daughter, try to win a chase one over the other. In this case, we are sharing the perspective of the antagonist, which allows the audience to see some fetish focused action like MtF possession and where Nemuri gets the advantage of the bodies of who possesses, there is also some mind control since all the thoughts he has and actions he does while possessing others are felt like their own by the possessed when he gets out.

While it sounds like Setsuna doesn't stand a chance due to her lack of experience as a priestess, her friend, Izuna, is shown as a powerful being who carries a sword that can kill any ghosts and aberrations without any difficulty, and overall her character is given a mysterious aura; as I have said before, she is a half spirit half-human who was taken care of by Nemuri as a kid and now, respects him a lot, because of that, she is ready to keep Setsuna away to help Nemuri live his new life, nevertheless, due to her contract, if she is ordered by Setsuna, she has to take care of Nemuri; that just adds another layer to the whole picture of things, touching topics like loyalty, friendship, and some High Fantasy since Izuna is part of the spirit world.

Some people would say that this version of Nemuri takes too many liberties by making him the same as a horny teenager, but I think this depiction is quite fair with his nature as a lost soul. Nemuri going from a respected priest to lustful ghost plants a lot of questions and implications for this character, a complete mind degradation so to say. In the end, he could become an evil being with his plan of taking over Setsuna and become the new priestess of Izuna. Izuna as a half-spirit character that has to take both sides between the father and the daughter is interesting as well because that morally ambiguous, completely loyal, and skilled character interpretation, fits her a lot.

Sadly, this scenario was put on hiatus in very early stages, and even when it hasn't been totally canceled the last update was done 3 years ago, and this time it hurts a lot because the story and the plot it's just so good. It has several leads and has a big fetishistic appeal, yes, it's true, a lot of the possessions are used just to make you feel horny, but the story in itself can offer a lot for those who want some great drama, if you do not take it that seriously and let the scenes that are only for sexual appeal be themselves, you will enjoy this scenario, it really seems that it can offer the best of worlds, but the rest of the story is yet to be seen.

Overall, in the state it is now, I can recommend it if you want some MtF Possession action (sexually-focused) as well a bit of mind control, but I can also recommend it if you want to check out more about the whole concept by itself, which is sincerely awesome, even when not a fully-fledged story. (it ends just as it starts and plants the plot) it's a good concept for a compelling story.

Reality Twist by Kromar

 

Back to the usual quality standard of v2 scenarios. Basically, John, who is less empathetic and now resembles Calvin more, decides to test the remote and mind control of one of his teachers, he later possesses her and takes her body for a ride.

In the morning he realizes he has memories of her own life and his body has disappeared, thinking he might have used the reality alteration button of the remote by mistake, John tries to decide if he should live now as her or try to go back and get his life back in some way.

I thought the reality change function was cool, but the scenario lasts only 10 minutes and doesn't go anywhere after that, and since John is depicted as a minor, it has been removed only due to depicting minors in sexual situations. You aren't really missing anything though, the only thing I think was worth checking is the reality change rules, which I will post a screenshot of below.

Stuck by MissCelle

 

Published even before the Student Transfer Scenario feature was released, Stuck has been immortalized as the first scenario ever made and is now bundled with all Student Transfer versions aside from other scenarios that are chosen for each major version of the game. Is it really worth to withstand the test of time at a difference of other releases? Well, not really.

The scenario starts with a very fun concept: Serena, the naked bunny girl from the sprite files, telling us what can happen if you make wishes you might not be ready for, the characters act as if they were in a theatre function (which is a clever function taking into account in Student Transfer we always have static backgrounds and we only see the front of all characters), missing some of their lines and their cues.

Dominic's body is granted the ability to swap the consciousness it resides in, so Dominic can swap once but the person that swaps with him will retain his ability. After this, we are given 2 placeholders and two routes, the two placeholders are Rita and Jess.

Now, in the first route, which is really just a short end, Dominic swaps with a maid he sees on the street, tired of being a maid in a place she doesn't like, she decides to live Dominic's life, Dominic, who panics and doesn't want to go to the mansion she hates, but the maid refuses, offering him to be her maid instead, Dominic ends up as the maid of his previous modem, giving him fellatio.

The second route is the longest and the most curious of the two. Basically, Dominic tells Stevie, one of his friends at work, about his powers, which makes Stevie reveal to him something, that she is actually trans, and wants to be called Stephanie.

The fact that the first scenario ever made is a scenario with an explicitly trans main character is something I find really curious, trans characters are usually never mentioned in TF material, at least not until recent times, since writers usually depend on the character's refusal to accept their new sex to create conflict (which I find not strictly necessary, but that is topic for another day). Anyhow, is the portrayal good enough? Well, as you might expect, it isn't. 

Stephanie uses words like being a real girl and decides to trick a girl into a place she knows so she accepts swap with her body, allowing her to take it instead. Once Carla discovers Stephanie is AMAB, she complains and Dominic tells her to try out being a boy for a few days; since Stevie is younger than her, she can try and live again, go to college and grow up in the right way, which Carla surprisingly accepts.

Afterward, Dominic hooks up with Stephanie in her new body, and they live happily ever after. In the epilogue, Serena decides to cancel her class and is fired from her job as a teacher.

I was actually expecting this scenario to fuck up even further with the portrayal (something like mind break, maybe I have seen too much TF with that approach) but overall is still pretty bad. Transgender people wouldn't really try to steal the body of another cis person to make their desire come true, even more, when they could simply swap with another transgender person of the other sex. Stephanie could have simply found a trans guy and ask him to swap, but I suppose the idea of having two trans people swap doesn't make good enough conflict for such short time period. 

I was trying to get the appeal of the scenario to see how I can recommend it. Clearly, if you want a trans-wish-fulfillment story, the language is going to through you off, and even if you understand Stephanie's wish to be a cis woman, her attitude to things doesn't allow you to have empathy for her, so as a trans story, I don't really recommend it.

For people who look for TF to get a quickie done, I would say the maid TF route is kind of appealing (being the maid of your own body sounds really hot) but even then it ends up just as it starts.

If you like body swap stories and do not care about the trans narrative, you still have to take into account that the story has no lewd content, it's just a person swapping with another and then being happy, and even when some psychological conflict is shown when Stephanie steals Carla's body, things get solved quickly and we do not get to see if Carla at the end asks to accept become a boy forever days after. Still, you might like it if you want a simple and short body swap story with a good ending and some comedy sprinkled in between.

Overall I found Stuck lacking in appeal to people and even substance. The only reason the devs like it is because it was the first one and it was done before time. Although in my opinion, it is not worth keeping it bundled just for that.

As an addition, I found the story of this scenario really curious, I have said it before in the review, and is that writers think having transgender characters being part of a TF event is not worth it because a trans character would simply accept the fact and become happy without leaving any room of conflict. Of course, that is an outrageous lie, as I have been trying to show in my scenario In Praise of Being, there can be a lot of conflicts even with self-acceptance overall.

Overall, Stuck, aside from being recommendable to a probably very small and niche group of people, stays as a simple curiosity in Student Transfer history.