'A Transforming Night to Remember!' is a light-hearted farce about going cryptid hunting and proceeding to indulge in some very particular kinks/fetishes. What's to say about this particular story other than it's just a fun romp, that almost plays out like a porno-plot, and I don't hate it for that. It also features two fairly uncommon kinks, in transformation into clothing and shrinkage with some macro/micro play. It stands out as being a blatant vehicle to have some fun with the pre-rendered sprites and to stick in as many weird and out-of-pocket moments as they could.
The story starts out with the group of friends going out into a cabin to search for a cryptid known as the "Automated Peacock", which was a clockwork peacock that was created in olden times and has just existed up until today, and he uses his sword cock to put his 'victims' into states of arousal so he may then transform them using automaton magic or something. Then when the suspiciously metallic peacock host goes off to bed, the guys start their cryptid hunt, only for the automatic peacock to start picking them off one by one. Of course, he catches the reader who then can choose to be transformed into something that might help his rocky relationship with his boyfriend (into a pair of underwear or shrunk down micro-size). Either way, the boyfriend finds you, and you have the option to indulge in some pretty hot kinky sex with the transformed you. Then you go looking and find out that the host was the automated peacock the whole time, and that now he has to go into hiding again, now that they know his secret. But, he leaves the reader with the ability to transform so that the reader and his boyfriend can continue to have sexy fun with this new ability.
The presentation really makes as much use as it can out of the pre-rendered sprites and animation to sell the fantasy of a sexy porno that features transformation. Featuring the automaton peacock's sword cock is quite a feat for a jam. Little extra details like zooming in the sprite to simulate being small or putting the blush on the undies to show that it's the character transformed are really cute bits. Even when the friend tanuki was just a cock and balls, really funny moments all around. And that's not to say there wasn't non-sexy funny bits, stuff like the obliviousness to the peacock's true identity or stuff like signing a release form are just fun touches. The writing is fun, it gets a little bit weird in which POV is happening in certain scenes, but overall, was easy enough to follow.
There's the hint of a folklore element in this one, it helps that they told the full story of the cryptid, but I feel like at some points it was taking itself to seriously that it feels disconnected from the overall tone the visual novel is going for. I'd say that you could've really leaned in more into the absurdity of the situation, and played up the humor even more. Part of me thinks you could've used another sprite as a stand-in for the main character, especially since once they get transformed it feels like they suddenly gain a position in the screen instead of being the camera view point. The creativity to just lean into the ridiculous nature of the plot really sold it for me. Seeing the peacock with a sword dick and going "yes, they will use that to cut off the clothes of the other characters anime style" is just a fun scene to watch. I would also suggest maybe to give the friends a bit more distinct personalities, just to help give some texture to the cast. Give them some differing opinions about the kink, just how horny they are, or other little quirks.
I can see that this is a particular interest to this author, and I'm glad that they could indulge it even more in this one. It's fun to see what can be done with the pre-rendered sprites, and I think does a fantastic job of even showing that sexual scenes can still be done, even if there aren't custom cgs made as big splash centerfolds. It seems as long as there's game jams with free assets to be used, there's going to be more of these fun sexy farces, so I hope you continue writing about your favorite kinks, I could see you expanding into other lesser used kinks as well, just for the fun of it.