RPGM - A King's Bane [v0.3 Part 2] [Delicate Games]

Rating of part 1 (final?) is a 5/10
Took about 6 hours to complete
Art: 4/5
Animation: 3/5
Sfx: 1.5/5
Gameplay: 1/5

Pros
Girls are a wide range of races and species, any game with dwarf and halfling girls get bonus points from me
Neutral
No gallery, but the movie folder of the game basically has them all if you want to rewatch stuff
Cons
Gameplay is bare bones. You can avoid the tedious, unbalanced combat, but then that still just leaves the "gameplay" as being wandering around a dozen maps trying to talk with everyone and then doing that all over again and different parts of the story.
While the animation is ok, it does have clipping issues in a number of scenes ike with the goblin chick where her boobs are clipping right into her legs for example

Overall, this game feels more like a kinetic novel that didn't do anything to the rpgm parts of the game. It would have been better to either flesh those parts out or remove them altogether. Hopefully this changes in future iterations, because the premise and variety of girls is great, the gameplay is just too rough.

i was fa of your previous games and like this rpg that separates it in 2 parts try to play it since the sex animations takes quite a long time not even to say already the other or next it takes me quite long never do a tritic but i always try to play this game but in the end i gave up.

This is... good, kind of, but it's more of a 3.5 than a 4, and I'm personally very bummed out by a couple of things.

First off, the good part about the game is the overarching story, characters, and renders. I like (most of) the renders, the story is funny and nonsensical but done in a very light way that makes it easy to not take it too seriously and enjoy where it's going. Usually, these two together is a quick send off into an easy 4/5 to me, since it keeps me interested in the game.

Unfortunately, the bad parts about the game make it VERY hard for you to progress the story. At first, I loved that I had such an expansive map to walk around and explore - but eventually, you've talked to all NPCs, and you've done all easily accessible "quests" you can, and then you just start feeling... lost. There's no further direction on where to go, what to click, who to talk to. None of the classic RPGM things that are done to make your life easier - heart dialogue boxes, or exclamation dialogue boxes, or markers, or anything! Not only that, but you can't see what edge of the map leads to another map, done all the more worse by the fact you actually have to press the interaction key to change maps to begin with. This makes the maps a bit of a hassle to navigate through after some time exploring and when you're more than fed up with it all. How to progress further into the quests is a bit weird - it FEELS like you should be able to continue that quest because there's nothing in it writing that you aren't, but you actually need to do another one that you didn't even really want or know to progress overall.

This makes the game feel a bit annoying - the first hour is magical, exploring and talking to everyone. Then, you'll realize "wait, where the fuck am I supposed to go next?", you'll read the quest log, realize that it doesn't help you out that much, and now you have to walk around that huge ass map talking to everyone again... and it's no longer magical, it's a hassle.

Also, some bugs here and there really bothered me. I originally missed the Princess Catherine quest resolution because I clicked a bottle 3 times instead of 2 (fucking really, mate?) and when I found that out it was roughly 1 hour AFTER that, reading the fucking walkthrough. Which meant that to get that scene, I had to go ALL THE WAY BACK to the previous save to be able to continue that storyline. Absolutely bonkers.

Also, while the game "pretends" to give you an option between combat and walking around enemies which doesn't appear to affect plot, I'm one of the few dumbasses that is generally interested in turn-based battles. I like them. Unfortunately, in this game, the protagonist is already capable of tanking every single attack ever, so you're never really at any risk of losing - made worse by the fact that you also don't kill the enemies that fast either. I'm a fan of JRPG battles and this game actually botched it so much it made me want to blow my brains out. Do NOT attempt to do the battles, it's essentially unlosable 5 to 10 minute battles one after the other. It's hell.

Other than that, the game IS quite good - I just wish there was a way that, when we're tired of exploring fruitlessly, we could turn on a quest marker of sorts that would direct us where we need to go.

Good concept, good idea, GOOD CHARACTER DESIGN. horrible gameplay.

The game have very good scenes, details in scenarios and story. or i think so.
due I got so distracted looking for how to move forward that I stopped paying attention to the story.

Pros

1. details in scenarios are insane: game details are insane for a game, the palace is so beauty. with many assets.
2. great variety of character : fattys, vampires, orc, black forest
3. ARCHMAGE GIRL IS 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000/10 DAMN, <3
4. Scenes are very good.
   
   
5. great variety of sprites for rpg maker.
   
   
6. Some chara facial expression are GOOOOOOOOOOD, specially archmage girl and king wife.
   
   
7. many options for different game styles, you can lock surprise battles. even avoid fights in the same using settings menu.
   
   
8. Ui of the game rulz <3

Con:
HORRIBLE GAMEPLAY: Basically you you spend more time looking for where to go than doing the events themselves. If I played 2 hours, calmly 1 hour was looking for where it was supposed to go.
There is no guide where i should go... i´m not retared but when you see scenarios that you don't know how to get to, it's because it's not intuitive,

-LACK OF SIGNALS: There are no markers where I am supposed to go. Despite the fact that there are reliefs on the map, places like the house of the dwarves are not well programmed. there is no relief and you even need to enter using a specific sprite.

-No map of the kingdom: there is no map of the realm where I am supposed to go in the absence of signs. at least I didn't find it and I was looking for it.
-unavoidable sex scenes: why should wait for end copulate with a monster that i not care too much or a character i not like it? i´m not fan of goblin or orcs girl, so i want to be able skip that event. but i must wait 30-1 minutes for skip.

the narrative of the game is horrible: honestly I didn't know what the hell I have to talk to my son (as MC, off course), I couldn't follow the thread of the conversation.

the game lacks any audiovisual language: Usually you need audiovisual a green door where i should enter, or a color for interact with something, here not exist.
you can clip some grass, LAST OF US STYLE. there is even a giant tree that blocks an entire path visual and doesn't allow me to see anything through it, does it mean something? no idea.

I think the game deserves a chance in the future, it didn't seem bad to me and I can feel that they tried to do things right. I hope I can see an improvement in the future, that's why I took the time to write this review.

My intention is not to detract from anyone's work. and i hope you as developer found userful and you as a player know what you are going for.

I give it 3 stars because I see a lot of potential for the future and I think it would be a complete mistake to discard it. i will update along the updates.

v0.4
I like the artstyle, the girls are very sexy. Huge boobs, thicc, not shaved.
The plot so far is interesting and I like the characterization.
Your wife is a literal cuck queen which is quite funny and very sexy.

As with most RPGM games you will experience a walking simulator with bad JRPG combat.
Combat is optional and can be skipped. Walking can be reduced via unlocking teleportation, but you need to walk a long distance to even reach those in the first place.
You better be using the walkthrough, as you need to actually unlock the teleportation ability via quest. and even then its painful to use.
If you are unable to find something in the walkthrough, then expect lots of painful walking simulator as you start searching for it.

The story is linear. You wander around until you unlock all the side scenes, that unlocks the next version's main scene and then you get a new batch of side scenes to watch.
The only choice I had so far is to peep on one woman, or not to. All other sex scenes just happen.

Sex scenes are a combination of still shots with text, and a video loop. the videos are a 2 second loop which loops for about a minute and you cannot skip or fast forward. you have wait for it to finish and then you will be asked if you want to repeat the animation loop or move on. It will actually say "continue Yes/No" and you have to know that this is a mistranslation of "repeat". Better be careful to not accidentally click yes or you will waste another whole minute.

Could really use a run through a spellchecker.

Overall this game has a lot of potential. But it is hindered by various mistakes and design choice errors.
It is hard to decide if I should give this a 3 or a 4 star... I am going to be generous for now and go with a 4. for all its flaws I do actually recommend doing a playthrough.
Just use the walkthrough when doing so.

Cautiously optimistic about this one. There seems to be a few issues with the quest log but I didn't run into any major bugs. The story is interesting enough to move move you along, the characters are done well for a honey select/rpg maker maker game and it appeals to what I like. Its a shame a lot of these games can't hire artists for backgrounds . It sticks out in these games but the scenario is interesting so I am willing to give it a pass. I have seen that the creator likes to abandon projects but this one is in the realms of what I am looking for. I hope for the best for this project and I hope you continue with this.

The battle in this game is so bad. The quest with the Drawf girl a the beastmen hunt is a slug quest when enemy hit like a wet towel but took a good 10 minutes to kill 4 of them.

The writing is bad as well, a good chunk of the early game, the MC acted like a wuss even after the god himself appeared and told him to go a fuck around. But the only thing he can think of is "oh no, I am a gentleman, sexual thought begone"

very good game with good animations interesting characters looks like a great game the only thing missing is more scenes and they add ntr or bukake scenes the story of corruption between the gods of the game for me the best characters are queen isabela the daughter is also very It would also be good if scenes were added with the son and the mc and his children would also participate in more scenes of battles and it would be good before finishing an update a book or a god that lets you see all the scenes or can be repeated or with the girls from the mc many for this good game

It's not a definitive rewiew, it's just the first release and i love the concept.
It's a harem game where you are the king for short.

The graphic are pretty okay.

The story is good, even if we don t have a lot of content yet.

I don t like battle system in porn game but if the creator want make battle, he will have to finish this one.

I hope the creator will work on the animations, it's too bad not to have more angles and not to be able to speed them up