RPGM - Completed - A Gentle Girl and A Short Escape 2 [v2.00] [Unidentified Flying Monster]

You come here expecting ntr, and that is what you get with this game. Granted, I and other folks do enjoy the option (and challenge) of trying to keep your girlfriend pure, to which as stated in another review, this game doesn't exactly have entirely. Now lets get to the main meat of the game, the ntr scenes and events.

As you travel around the island, you'll sometimes notice your girlfriend behind the tree line or high on a cliff, just out of reach. As the game progresses, you can even see her committing some of debased acts with another man all the while your character is none the wiser. The art is decent and gets the job done all while the cutscenes are well written enough to truly enjoy the situation.

Gameplay wise, you will spend some time running about the island solving collection puzzles in which you need to find one item to take to another location and so on and so on. First playthrough might take a while but subsequent playthroughs will be much faster. All in all, I think this is a good hgame in terms of the H aspects and the Game aspects.


tl:dr
Decent art with multiple small events and cutscenes that come together to make a good experience playing.

This game is quite disappointing, and that's coming from someone who liked the first one.

To answer the inevitable question first: NTR is not avoidable except via the cheat options on subsequent playthrus. At best, with a "Devoted Girlfriend" starting situation, you can clear the game before the NTR becomes enthusiastic and consensual instead of rape and molestation. The time between "your" girl being raped in her sleep and beginning to cheat on you consensually with her rapist is 2-3 days. There's no drugs or magic or anything to excuse this; she's just like that. Oh, and the game makes it pretty clear that the man she cucks you with knocked both of you unconscious and left you for dead at the beginning of the game. To put it mildly, the developer has a very strange idea of what a "Devoted Girlfriend" looks like (or a sane girlfriend, for that matter) - consensually fucking her rapist and her boyfriend's attempted murderer.

Personally, I hate it when NTR stories do this because it's very clear the relationship was doomed anyway if it's broken by something this flimsy. There's no (erotic) tension in a foregone conclusion, or in a virtually instant fall to rock bottom.

If you're a huge masochist submissive, maybe all that appeals to you, logic be damned. Even then the writing and H content is very thin. As you wander the island you'll get some heavily reused erotic poses of the girl appearing on the side of the game window, and if you enable a certain option (which is off by default!) you can get a whole 1 sentence in the status menu about the girl's most recent sexual encounter. You might also see some sprite sex in the distance. This does eventually unlock a more proper version of each scene where you get the girl's perspective (accessible only via the immersion-ruining recollection room) but it's still reused poses that aren't even full CGs, and there aren't many scenes in total. It really doesn't feel worth enduring the rather sexless main game to unlock these few scenes. The developer says the game is for people with good imaginations, which... well, they're clearly trying to see what they can get away with after the first game, and this is going too far.

Also there is some erotic content in the multiple endings (including the game's single non-NTR scene) but the endings cannot be viewed from the recollection room, and the guides that come with the game are not accurate on how to get each ending. If you get the "netorare end" (as opposed to the other netorare ends which aren't called that) you can unlock a postgame with a few more scenes that aren't in the recollection room. Thankfully there's a patch to force a desired ending.

There is a survival element to the gameplay with somewhat heavy RNG swing. It might be you never have to worry about finding resources, or it might be that you spend a lot of IRL time on the fishing gacha, or you might be very unlucky and make minimal progress each day because your daily diet is a water bottle and two mushrooms which isn't enough to keep your strength up. I think the developer was trying to make you feel like you're racing to beat the turncount clock and reunite with your girl before she falls into complete depravity, but as I mentioned before, that happens anyway and they could've made the pacing tighter with a more puzzle-focused gameplay loop. It's still annoying to play no matter how you feel about the erotic aspect.

This game has puzzles and they mostly make sense... except for the dialogue puzzle at the beginning where your dialogue options determine how corrupted your girl starts off. Sadly the difference in corruption levels is quite small in practice, but you do have to pick the right options to get the "happy end". But hey, you can instead start the game by damaging your immersion and letting the game skip the prologue and set the girl to pure if you're going for the "happy end". This actually ties into my point about the girl being too much of a slut from the start - if you don't pick the exact right options, she's already willingly cheating on you when you start the game. Because it's your fault if you... take her out for a dinner date? Apparently that's just asking to be cheated on. Obviously a superior male doesn't take his girl out to eat... yeah I dunno, it makes no sense.

The translation is quite understandable despite some minor spelling/grammar issues, and occasional untranslated or cut-off words whose meaning is easily understood from context.