Amelie Barbours Gimp Doll

Last normal restraint review for now, possibly for awhile till I find some that actually intrigue me.


Quality

This is well.. A bondage doll suit. It comes with a hood, mittens, gag, blindfold and boots. All of whicha re very well detailed and textured, I can't complain on that part. The problem is the beachballs. You can't remove them, you can't hide them, they are on, and thats it.

From others, most I've spoken to agree that it would be much better if they were, and hell some evn said they'd buy it if they didn't need to have the ridiculous bust. Unfortunatly Amelie Barbour has no interest or desire to make them optional at this time. Shame.

There are a lot of colours options, and the boots come in a seperate box if you want to wear them without the whole suit, which is a plus I suppose. The mittens are also optional if you;d prefer to use your own set.

The good - Seperate boots and mittens if you like, lots of oclours
The bad - The bust, which ruins it in my eyes.

Function

The functionality is.. Interesting.

Right off the bat, unless you want to be stuck for who knows how long, unable to be freed by yourself or others, do not touch the "I AM DOLLY" button.  This ridiculous option that has no description or explanation locks the suit on, gags you, imposes name and lcoation blocking, gives no way to escape and as far as I can tell, rather no timer, or an incredibly long one. This would be fine if there was some warning, but as there isn't.. Don't touch it.

Otherwise its the same as most of her gear. You set it to single key or anyone, if it gets locked in single key the keyholder can unlock it, even if its just you who has the key. Anyone does at it suggests, anyone can lock, everyone bar the bound one can unlock. Unlike most of her gear, this one at least has a timer. The startup menu also lets you adjust appearance.

The gag system is interesting. While the actual appearance of the gag stays the same, the options you choose change how the speech comes out. Quite a good idea in truth, as differant gags do muffle you in differant ways. You can also have a "mantra". From what I coudl tell, this is a message that occasionally plays in local such as "one of us". You can also adjust the name shown in chat when they speak.

If youa re the binder, you can also go into this and hit message, which will let you force them to say something via a channel specified in local.

The blindfold can be turned off, have it shown (imposes soem RLV restrictions such as location and anmes) or full, which of course blinds as well as everything the previous option does. No faux option without RLV restrictions in place.

If you are stuck in I AM DOLLY and possibly by someone else in Single Key mode, peopel get the option to force you to speak, grope you or I believe spank you.

The good - interesting gag system, simple menus, decent options, timer
The bad - lack of faux blindfold,
The terrible - I AM DOLLY button.

Scores

Quality - if bust was optional? This coulda got a 10. As not?  - 4/10
Function - 7/10
Price - 895 linden - 5/10

Moving on - Adding Furniture to the blog

Obvious my lack of reviews should be noticed by anyone who looks here more than once a month. Mostly this is down to certain RL things, as well as lack of motivation due to lack of new gear that catches my eye and I enjoy. Not to say I don't have any good pieces to review, but.. Nothing amazing.

Tomorrow I will review a normal restraint, then starting monday will mvoe onto Furniture. Obviously I'll need to make some minor adjustments to the scoring for it, as furniture tends to be slightly less functional with a higher price tag in my experiance.

There will be some teething, but at least I will be updating again.

Aria

DEM Iron Pipemare Yoke

Another from Dark Elf Manufacturing

Quality

The yoke is quite a ncie design, thin metal bars going from the collar to the wrists where two heavy duty cuffs are locked onto you.  Comes with a resizer built inf or good measure, so easy to fit. No colour change options (yet?) so its staying as black. best worn with lighter clothes unless you are going for that all black look

The cuff and collar design is fairly normal. Black iron wrapped around the neck and wrists with a ring hanging from the front for any possible leashes you may wish to clip on.

Good - Lightweeight design, easy to fit
Bad - Lack of customization

Function

You know the deal by now if your ead my reviews. For those that don't, the function starts from the top left of the menu.

Very first option? Expose. Always a nice one. If you hit it, you cannot turn ti back off however, and need help to get unlocked and unexposed. Next is help, gives the help NC, self explanitory. Then we have settings. You can update, resize, add an owner or turn on Yell alerts. I'm guessing yell alerts work by screaming the sim down when you break the rules in non-RLV.

Next is RLV, which is off by default. Once activated, you can choose to limit touch to close, turn touch off altogether, block interactions altogether or hit detail. Under detail you can further adjust it by picking specific things they can and cannot touch.

Next is timelock, with options ranging from adding 5 minutes.. to adding 6 months. Be careful with this. Theres also punishment, similar to timelock except it just adds sometime on. The person who tries to punish you can have anything from 2 minutes to 30 minutes added to the timelock.. and cna press the punish button more than once. This can be disabled however, for those that are cautious.

Theres lock and hide yoke next, both self explanitory. Then theres Arousal.. This menu involves Xcite and Sensations and has a full options. As I use neither of those systems, I can't accurately comment on how it works.

Good - lots of options, timelock
Bad - Punish looks kinda like just more timelock options

Scores

Quality - 6/10
Function - 7/10
Price - 349 is very resonable - 8/10

Recomended stores and locations

As a sort of sideline to my reviews, thougth I'd throw this up, partially out of boredom, partially because my next planned review is tomorrow at the earliest.

So! Heres a list (In no particular order) of some of the locations and stores I frequent. Click the names for the sim LM.

Restrained Freedom - Both a store I regularly buy from, and a sim I visit just to seew what goings on. Lots of latex gear and some of the more niche fetish stuff like mummification and straitjackets.

Kcreations at The Little Shop of Kink - A great little store for the latex or leather in you. Lots of high quality outfits, thigh length boots of the mesg variety and of course the Bodybinder that I fell in love with.

Amelie Barbour at DXWs store - Amelie does a LOT of latex mesh gear, from a normal catsuit to full body bondage devices. Quite streamlined in terms of menus, but well made.

Real Restraint - Pretty sure everyone knows of Marines gear by now, shes also the creator of RLV, so every bondagette in SL should stop by if only to drop a donation as thanks for giving us what we use in our day to day bondage second lives.

Kittys BDSM club - A sim I frequent for the moment. A nice little club thats admittedly a little blue on the lighting, but still quite a nice hangout.

Powers of Creation - Makers of great latex outfits.

KaS - Do I really need to say anything?

Thats all for now. List will be updated/repupblished as and when I remember places I frequent that somehow didn't get on this list.

Aria

BWP Triple review!

I'm doing the Bondage Witch Projects Enchantress Muzzle, Magic Cuffs and Magic Yoke tonight. Of them all, the gag surprised me the most.

Enchantress Muzzle

Quality
 
So we start with the gag. First up, it has a LOT of customization. Using the pretty well buitl menu system, you can get a ton of differant looks from this thing, and its copy/mod to boot, so you can keep several copies to save changing the settings around if you have a favorite look(s)

One combo I found was to turn the framework and color to black, and use the solid texture. It looks like a nice tight tape gag, or a panel gag of sorts if you adjust it a little. All in all very nice.

It has 24 buitl in textures, each one with a differant visual effect on the main part of the gag. Ih has some accesories as well, such as some framework around teh face, a rune on the forehead and the option to put ribs over the gag to further secure it. You can also adjust how strong the glow effect of the gag is

The good: Ton of customization, some nice basic gag looks cna be made as wlel as fancy ones
The bad: With frills on, it looks like you have nosehooks.

Function

Right, we do the ever usual system of top left to bottom right for the menu buttons.

First option lets you secure the gag in place, making it unremovable. It also (at least for me) glowed green when I locked it, before turning back to the red/black combo I had settled on a couple of seconds later.

Next is Operators, whichw ill spam you with a few lines of text in local. You can add temp operators using a chat command (/70 tmadd <name> to add, /70 tmremove <name> to get rid of). You can add permanent operators via the NC in the gag itself (Right click > edit > Contents > double click Operators NC)

Next up is a readme, then Garbling. Theres six levels of garbling, from Lightest to Total. Total is quite fun, making you completely unintelligible. You can also set it up so the person has to use a channel as well. Next is Restrictions. In here is the ever annoying IM block and the option to allow long or short emotes (both should be switched to unblock really, but i guess the choice is nice.)

You then have Zap, a nasty little option that shocks the wearer. Then theres style. Under here is mostly optiosn for appearance, but a few for functionality as well. You can adjust who gets zapped by the gag, so if the general public touch it, they get shocked, as well as whether or not the wearer gets zapped. I'm guessing if wearer is set to on, you can't use your own gag, so I avoided that during the review due to lack of available ways to fix it at the time.

You can adjust the sound effects the gag makes, as well as which messages appear in local chat. You get color next in the main menu, which is the same as the one in Style, lets you adjust the gags appearance. Remote is next, which lets you decide if a set of BWP cuffs affect the gags locking, or colouring. Finally there is hidden, an option I always love, which lets you wear the gag in public without it always been on.

If you are not the wearer, then "Secure" becomes "Lock". Should you be blacklisted in the gags banlist, or public access is off.. Then you get a nasty zap if you touch it.

You can make/restrict public access to teh gag by going into the operators NC and adding/removing the "*" (yes, the little star from pressing shift+8)

Good - Lot of garbling, plenty of extras
Bad - lack of general RLV options (bad in the sense of lacking, not personal views), somewhat annoying public/expose system

Magic Cuffs + Yoke

For the most part these two function the same, so will cover the qualities seperatly and teh function together

Quality - Cuffs

Like the gag, theres quite a bit of customizaiton here, though you can't make them look almost like tape this time. You can adjust the colour of the mainc uffs, the glowing ruins, the sparkles that appear when clicked and the chains. Theres a collar, fore and upper arm cuffs, and ankle cuffs. They all seem to be quite high quality in texturing, once again like the gag.

Theres 7 poses for the arm, 4 for the legs. You can also choose to suspend, either from the legs or the arms. You need ot choose an obecjt to suspend yourself from as well. Once suspended, you can

Good - Quite a bit of customization, decent amount of poses
Bad - Not as customizable as the gag, lacking some basic poses

Quality - Yoke

Similar to the cuffs, only this time instead of wrist cuffs and a collar, you have a solid bar going from your neck to either wrist. Otherwise same customization options as the Magic Cuffs.

There are 6 arm poses this time, legs are the same as before. Also has the suspend option. Once suspended you can go in and using the Up and Down commands, lower or raise how high you are in the air.

Good - Quite a bit of customization, decent amount of poses
Bad - Not as customizable as the gag, lacking some basic poses

Funcion - both

The binding process is a little differant here. This time you select a pose for legs and arms, then can toggle arm and or leg bondage on or off. You can change pose while bound or unbound, good for setting up a specific pose for once the binding begins.

Now then, from top left of page 1. You have secure again, which locks the cuffs/yoke. Hitting commands gives a very long local chat message about the various things it can do, such as safeword or stripping. followed by the help button.

Theres then the leash, which works in the same way as all leashes. If bound, the next button is Release All., otherwise its blank. Then you have locking. Under this menu you can adjust whether its public or not a plus, as well as the option to leave the key hanging, adjust how long the timnelock is (toggable, like the arm/leg poses) and adjust what colour the ruins are if you set it up to be affecte dby the locking system. Theres also a get key option and the choice to turn safeword on or off.

Settings is next, letting you block the gag, secure it (again), get help (again), refresh the restraint, or access operators in the same style as the gag. Theres a fully functional RLV menu as well, and the option to lock certain clothes and attachments on to avoid nasty stripping attempts.

If you also have the gag on, the next button with give you the gag menus. Then we're onto the second page! On this page is the aforementioned posing system, Option to turn arm and leg bondage on or off, get help (again), suspend the sub, force sit, turn on sit pose, adjust the poses used and an options menu in which you will find the Appearance, hide the restraint and turn bling on or off. Oh and you can find help (AGAIN) and refresh(again) in here as well

Major issue I found was that the anims seem to be somewhat low prio. my AO caused my arms to often come out of the restraints for a few moments.

Like above, Secure becomes lock when you are not the wearer.

The good - Lot of stuff to use, full RLV access
The bad - over-saturated menus (help), AO prio is too low

Scores

Gag
Quality - I have to admit to loving this gags looks. so many options! - 9/10
Function - a good amount. Public mode is annoying to get into - 7/10
Price - 120 linden is a steal for a gag this customizable - 9/10

Cuffs
Quality - Pretty nice, not as customizable as I had hoped. - 7/10
Function - Quite good. Tripping AO in the arm poses though, not high prio enough. - 7/10
Price - 400 linden - Seems fair - 7/10

Yoke
Quality - see above - 7/10
Function - above - 7/10
Price - 300 linden - also fair - 8/10

Slowing down

Yes I know I already post a lot less than I used to, but thats covered by this as well.

In short, I have something major going on right now that is taking a lot out of me. As such I am slowing down the reviews a bit while I try and get on top of it.. Some people know what I am talking about, and I don't think I have that many readers who I don't know in SL these days, so I think the majority of said readers understand whats going on

Bear with me, the reviews will continue, and who knows.. Maybe a new store with hundreds of shiny latex restraints will pop up that draw me in.

Aria

RF Scavengers Daughter and Ultra-brace

Yeah.. Wierd name. Anyway! Katies been chugging out gear lately, the yoke, and now these two restraints, the Scavengers Daughter and Ultra-brace/ The ultra brace and scavengers thingy seem to have exactly teh same functionality, so that saves me time.

Quality

Scavengers Daughter

This is quite hard to describe. Its all metal, and it does look well detailed as expected. To my surprise it fit perfectly out of the box, nearly making me think it was mesh. The metal looks like well.. Metal. Every rivet is in place, every bar connected properly as you'd expect, small padlocks on the cuffs.. What more is there to say than it looks really good?

You can freely recolour every section as well, each colour keeping the metallic look you'd expect. There is literally so many colour options in thsi that I'm not even gonna count em, it would take forever.

Theres also a resizer in here should it need some simple adjustment. Height can be adjusted seperatly as well.

The good - Well detailed, unique in SL, ton of customizaiton options
The bad - Will likely be difficult to fit for many people

Ultra Brace

This one I;m obviously biased about. Encasement and latex shinyness?  Yes please. 

Unlike teh daughter, I ahd to adjusta nd shrink this one down a bit to fit right. Its heavy duty. Thick rubber covering you from your neck down, tight straps running down your form, a strong metal frame holding you up.. All this of course leads to total immobilization.

Theres a small frame coming up from the top of the brace that has a small ball on it between two prongs, which conviently fits just where your mouth will be when locked inside as well. Like the Daughter, it has a half ton of colourization options. Same ones as the aforementioned restraint, just differant parts to be coloured.

My only complaints? It looks like a piece of bondage furniture, and may of worked better as one.. And the gags permanent.


The good - Very well detailed, shiny, looks as restrictive as it is
The bad - perma-gag, looks like furniture instead of worn restraint

Function

Going over it, its nto got much new to say for an RF restraint. The usual RF plugins for those little fun moments, leashing, RLV menu, and option to turn off style change.. An RLV relay and full RLV folder access as well.

You can get items out of it, Leash holders to be exact as normal. Post and one for each hand, and a help NC. Its exposable, blockable, has Verbose. Can be unbound to let you walk around freely with it hidden, always a handy thing and of course theres the ever important timelock.

Both restraints immobilize you, and the ultra brace gags you as well. No option to ungag sadly.. The ultra brace also is setup for alpha usage. Merely make a folder in yoru inventory called RF ultra-brace alpha, drop it in the RLV folder, and drop the alpha inside it.

The good - Simple menus, has everything they need in it.
The bad - Braces no ungag option (same as above)

Scores

Quality - Daughter - 7/10. Brace - 8/10
Function - 7/10
Price - 250 linden each - 9/10

Updates!

Sorry for the delay, RL has being rather hectic this past month and has made getting posts out rather difficult. So to start.. New Relea...