Maison Broceliande - The Corrector

Quality

Straight up, I love how this looks. Plenty of colour options, able to change the appearance by removing the boning, the bar and the cover.. And of course each section has access to the aforementioned colour options. It of course forces your head up like a posture collar.

It can take a little effort ot fit, but once its on, it looks really nice for the most part, and is of course suitably shiny and detailed. A few people may know what I mean when I say Mouth corset,a nd thats pretty much what this thing is.

There are 7 parts that can be retextured seperately, each with a fair few options, some more than others.

The bones can be hidden via the texture menu and hitting transparent, as opposed to show/hide which the bar and cover use.

If only I could wear this more often, but it has a major issue which will be covered in..

Function

I'll start with the good. It uses a basic menu system for changing which parts of the restraitn are shown. The bar, the boning and the cover. You can switch which channel is needed to garble when teh cover is up outside of RLV, and thankfully is has force/auto garble in RLV.  You cna of course set an owner, and they cna in turn set secowners.

You cna block it, to sotp random peopel accessing it, as well as drop poses in it for general use. Ther eis also a button for chekcing how much memory it has left. And of coruse it can be locked.

The owner can also multi leash a string of subs together, which seems fun and handy for those that have multiple subs/captives. More neat than having them clustering and getting stuck against each other certainly.

And the bad.. The thing that stops it been usable for general fun. The cover when shown gags you. This is good. It also has autp IM block, which cannot be turned off. This may nto be a big deal to some, but to me its a major issue thats losing functionality 2 points straight away. I don;t think I need to explain why, in a social networking "game" like program, I find this atrocious.

Now its possible I've msised something and there was an update to remove it, but hitting the update button does nothing for me, whetehr at their store or not. Nor do I get an error message or it telling me I have the current version, it just seems to sit there searching, another strike against it.

Scores

Quality - Like I said, I love this things looks - 9/10
Function - I like the leashing system, it has some good, but the IM block and lack of working updater is a severe strike against it - 5/10
Price - 650 linden. I'd give this 8 if it wasn;t for the messy functionality driving the value down. - 6/10

Maison Broceliande Latex Surrender

Another from MB

Quality

This box comes with a halfton of skin layer hoods, a latex catsuit, mittens, posture collar and "Isolation panels" that have two gags and a blindfold built in. All of them are very well detailed. The mittens are the hand sack style, just two bags over the hand and buckled in place so the finegrs scratch uselessly at the material. The gag has a panel style, and a breather gag style (more on this in function). Breather has a pump added, otherwise no changes.

I love the catsuit you get with it though. Since I bought this gear nearly 2 years ago now, its been one of my most used outfits. Shiny in the right places, very well designed and generally looks great.

The skin layer hoods use a similar style, but the ones that cover mouth suffer from the same issue as all Skin/Tattoo layer hoods, the lips seem just too clear. I'm all for tight hoods that you can see an impression of the lips through, but this just does noy look right. Thankfully when gagged you can't see them, and to be honest they do look better with the gag active. All the more reason to keep your sub quiet.

I (as usual) recomend using an alpha to hide your hands as opposed to resizing the mittens, far easier and better solution.

They can have their textures changed by saying paneltex, mittentex or collartex in open chat. I had an issue where only the left mitten changed colour however.

There is also a rubber labia and prim nipples in the box.


 Function
 
Starting with the Isolation Panels. You lock them merely by clicking the wearers face. Inside are 3 options. Gag, breathgag and unblindfold. The gag requries you to manually use a channel, else all messages come out as "...". The blindfold of course has a hud that it sends you should you have your eyes covered, but it seems ot only send once per blinding, so if refused, you don;t get spammed by it constantly.

The breath gag has its own quirk. When inflated, you will periodically be required to put a code into a specific channel (a window pops upt o tell you as opposed to a chat message). If you miss it, you faint.

The posture collar does nothing specific, no menus bar collartex, it just holds your head up.

The mittens seem to carry a little bit. Owners, poses and two binding options. The binding positions are simple enough, lock front and lock back. It comes with kneel and nadu built into it for psoes, but you can drop others in. They can then be used via chat commands.

Ultimately this restraint show its age with far too many chat commands and not enough buttons.

Scores

Quality - I can;t fault it much, it looks really good, especially for such an old item now - 9/10
Function - it does do a fair bit, but its quite clunky and needs some optimizing/updating - 6/10
Price - 680 linden. Most outfits of this quality cost more, so thats a plus, especially when combined with decent restraints - 8/10

Maison Broceliande Straitjacket

Another new store, an older one this time that cater mostly to the Ponygirls out there.

Quality

This thing is a unique SJ in SL as far as I know, been quite short, open breasted and made of leather. All in all the textures are done well, the bguckles and straps look good and the mittens used to cover the hands are well designed. Like most pre-V2 gear, it sadly lacks an alpha in the box, so you rather need another hands alpha or to make the mtitens bigger quite often.

My primary complaint about this restraint is the lack of a resizer, so you best be prepared to spend a lot of time resizing and moving the prims around if it doesn't fit out of the box.

Most of the gear from MB is primarily designed around Ponyplay, I think this style of jacket is often used in said play, but its fun for those of us that don't prnace around or neigh as well.

Function

It of course locks, and has 2 positons. A normal cross armed in front one, and a reverse prayer postion of sorts. All controls are done by rather clicking the left mitten or using chat commands. The owner has access to a few commands the sub doesn't, such as Secowners and forcing them into poses. They also can force a mouselook and no touch hud onto the sub, and a Stay command that stops your sub moving.

The sub itself can lock the jacket, bind themselves, set the owner, etc.

The major downfall here? No timelock. Why do so many toys lack them?


Scores

Quality - It looks good, is unique in SL and is all round just nice - 8/10
Function - Its.. not bad. It has some decent stuff sure, but lacks a lot as well - 6/10
Price - 450 linden - Not bad, not overly goood, but no bad - 7/10