RPGM - Accursed: Emma's Path [v0.2.24b RC] [MegaloDEV]

The art is very well done. Great use of color, shading and line work with really nice poses. Lot's of interesting details and creativity in outfits and facial expressions.

The rest though is a bog standard boring walk point a to point b RPGmaker content.

The story is awful. The RPGmaker areas are pure RTP / typical asset packs, no lighting, parallax or thoughtful design in the areas at all - they have extreme low effort in their design / decorations. The RPG "mechanics" are non-existent.

This is barely a game.

If I was the creators I would probably redesign the entire story / game pacing / game levels - go quality over quantity, make the levels match the art style of the portraits / cutscenes. This could take pressure off your artist by creating more "game" to offset the huge cost of Art : Gameplay you have right now where you've basically got an empty RPGmaker game that walks you from cutscene to cutscene making updates / content creation for the game very very expensive.

If all of that is too much work or the artist is also making the levels / gameplay - then just switch to renpy and save yourself the time pretending to make a RPGmaker game.

Man... such cool looking characters...
yet way too little content and somewhat of experience that feels bugged with the quests... event if so little already looking messy as you progres...

You had to pay in a week and then nothing happens... even the overall story/pace feels off.

It does have potential, there are some interesting scenes...
But needs more attention to game design, progression, etc... because right now with so little content it barely has enough content to properly evaluate it

Boring - don't know what else I can say. And it's not like this is some new experimental concept that didn't work - this "game" uses one of the most trite corruption scenarios that has already been abused dozens of times. Is there a unique twist? I don't know, maybe in the next couple of years there will be one?

There are already good explanations below why this is not really worth playing, no need to repeat them. But I feel like I need to focus on a single aspect.

Barmaid

Perhaps the most overused "job" in this type of games after prostitute. And you know what you have to do? Click on each sparkly table, then click on the bartender, then on each sparkly table again. That's it. You have no time limit, no interesting interactions, no minigames (actually, seeing what the sword making minigame is like, I am glad there is no minigame here), no need to remember anything. So, the logical question is - what is the point? To get groped several times at random? With 2 bad quality groping pictures?? Better do something else, anything else really.

Oh, and by the way, getting groped whole evening barely increases your Corruption, but watching someone having sex boosts it a lot. You know, this would have been great if it was a stealth jab on how watching porn makes you a degenerate, but obviously there is nothing like that here.

This game does deserve a second star because of its graphics though. Although I am not a big fan of the main character. When I am playing as a female character I am looking for something more than just a pair of unnaturally perky boobs.

Quality Art here is good, BUT that mostly was not deciding factor for my games to play, but plot and hot content. Currently game is full of disappointments.
FMC is not even hottest girl here without anything she would stand out except that she is in a relationship with guy in coma.
Boring gameplay running around to choose getting corrupted or not and in some cases ''forced??'' corruption.
Plot currently is meh...
Dev should focus more on FMC getting curse lifted and through that give obscene tasks to do in which she will get corrupted.
No Antagonist except demon lord? who is far in the background = FMC is not even desired much by people around her who would try to corrupt her and make her personal sex slave or something.
And Worst of all there isn't any sex sound effects or moans which is most disappointing.
If some core faults here listed won't change its not worth playing especially sound.
Overall for this v0.1.22a I give 2-3 stars. 3 stars high only because 90% or more games are not interesting at all or unplayable.

Look at the review of Sesinho. I mostly agree with it. Too little playtime in 2 years of development. A few issues when it comes to focus (teasing and buildup are not done enough).

The only addition I would make to Sehinho's review is that it is sad mainly for the reason that I feel if the game got more content in terms of quantity that is had so much potential to be a great game. Cause I really like the character design, the writing and the scenario.

Breve description:
The game is about a group of knighs, and you play as Emma who has a boyfriend that does some heroic shit and pays a price, so Emma has to """step up"" (more like down) for him. So you play this introducion and learn the plot and the "justification for the whore journey".
After this you have I believe 14 game days or less, where you do works and stuff around town in the tipical -morning afternoon evening night- thing.
Most of the events are 1 timers only and you are only left with the barmaid event that you repeat every day, and the sleeping event where ocassionally stuff happens.

My experience
I played for less than 3 hours, I think that is pretty much what it takes to finish the current content, maybe 3 and a half if you read everything slowly. The game is an RPGM, is easy to the eye, but it is so damn boringly linear that it makes the RPGM pointless.

For an RPGM the linearity and the lack of agency, as a player, is a problem.
The corruption is only implemented in the tags, there are corruption points but the events that increase them dont follow a discernable logic, so you dont know what scenes you can reject and what scenes you must accept.

The lack of agency and even control, and the linearity is very present in the "dream" sequences.
1-It is implied that in some momment someone has seen FMC naked, without her being conscious, ro the player seein it.
2- The first sex scene wth penetration it is a gangbang during a "nightmare"
3- There is almost an actual penetration scene when she gets drunk at a party
This is all unavoidable. There is an overall lack of teasing, but there is no lack of dicks.

And then you have the couple of bugs I found.
1- I got a scene with the gropper, the night before getting the quest to find the gropper.
2- I couldnt find Cassandra anywhere before going to the party.
3- I can not clear the 1000s debt cause everything is strictly scripted and linear, and I can not ask for an extra week to gather the money cause the option is there but is not implemented.

VERY obvious conclusion:
This game is not even half cooked. But that doesnt seem to be the excuse for the actual quality of the game, which is sad, cause I have seen it so many times in "latest updates" that I thought it was a lot bigger, but it is not the case.

In 2 years there are 3 hours of playtime, and maybe 1 and a half or 2 ot those are text. There is one hour left, and you still have to go from place A to place B multiple times, plus loading screens. There is not much more left.
Since the scenes overall are of those that are mostly static with modular parts added, and there is nothing of storytelling in those they dont do much in my opinion for the rating,

For me this is a 3/10, but since 3/5 is way too much and 1/5 is a little too low, cause it is not that bad to make me feel insulted, I leave it at 2/5, which I consider more than fair, being honest and real.
I hope i get to review it with better rating, but that will take like 2 years I fear.

What content exists is good, but for a game that's been in development for a year and half it's shockingly little. This is one of those games that you just know will never be completed with a good amount of scenes, decisions/routes, etc.

+ Very solid art
+ Above average writing
+ Proper English
+ Uncensored

= No animation (which is better than bad animation)

- Again, development is incredibly slow. The devs don't appear to be making nearly enough from the game financially for it to be their full-time job so I don't think it's outright malicious like some other developers who probably are just milking patrons for as long as possible, but even for a hobby it's not getting much progress.
- The free roam / sandbox / RPG format is pretty pointless currently. There's only 1, sometimes MAYBE 2 things you can do at any given time so having to traverse the map for the illusion of choice is just frustrating and a waste of IRL time. Hopefully by 2035 there are several things to do in each time slot. Seems kind of unlikely though with how events are linked to specific days.
- Saves apparently don't work between versions (did not take this into account for the rating). Including a save / option to start from the latest content is never a satisfactory solution.

What little content there is, is good.
I've seen this game being updated frequently and with a very high rating, so my expectation was pretty high. Was baffled by how little content there is.
Most game demos release today has more content than this.

Look at the screens in the thread and you've saved yourself the 40 mins of run from A to B to view 90% all the content.
This game would be quite promising if this was the demo.

Just awesome perspectives and events, def something im looking forwad to being finished, i played through it so fast and got sad when there wasnt more ;( I def hope the dialogue and personality of emma keeps going the way it is.

Great potential! A fun, popcorn-y smut game which knows exactly what it wants to be (with a fun twist or two.) Strong production values and surprisingly attractive men. Muddy dialogue and an underdeveloped heroine hold this back from true greatness, however.

[Written for v.0.0.16a]

Smut Art: A+
Finally, some cute fucking guys! For an NTR game, they've put a surprising amount of care into the female/bi gaze. Your party members are genuinely attractive, the villain is appropriately seductive, and there's a wide variety of different body types based on your preferences. Artwork is, as you can see in the images, quite good.

Atmosphere: A-
The opening minutes actually surprised me a lot! Care has been taken to make genuinely pretty environments, using overlay tricks to give weather ambience, shadows, and nice lighting. A clean UI gives it a lot of oomph. It's still recognizably RPGMaker, but polished and cleaned up enormously. Minor visual glitches or errors detract a bit from the experience, but I'msure these will be ironed out.

Story: C+
The dialogue needs another draft and a proofreader. Exposition is clunky, dialogue is sometimes unclear, and background plot is hard to parse. It's miles ahead of most of the stuff on F95, but I really believe these devs can put together something great here. The use of the crystal rooms to represent curses was a genuinely clever mix of story and mechanics and I laughed to myself upon realizing what they were doing. It's pretty open about its contrived plot, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

As usual for these games, Emma is unfortunately quite bland, unsure of herself, and without strong characterization. Disappointing, because this game scores pretty highly on my female-gaze-ometer. I think it would be significantly more fun to watch Emma get corrupted if she'd actually, well, show some backbone about the whole thing!

Pros:

• Art look nice (FMC is basically Anna + Hinoka from FE)
• UI and graphic looks pretty good.
• Decent story.
• Goddamn Male characters looks hot

Cons:

• Main quest is basically a fetch game, walking around the town is boring.
• Quite heavy in dialogue. This game does not need to be RPGM, it should've been a VN style instead.
• Low content. There's some side content, but only some.

3.6/5 A lot of missed potential here in terms of gameplay. Come on, it's a RPGM, Let me explore caves to find some kind of rare artifact to save the Hero or something at least it will give change of pace. It's a decent game with nothing to be excite about. If you're looking to fap there's better NTR RPGM games out there.

Game is in a very early stage, obviously, but holy moly the art looks great, I hope the developers have enough money to make the whole game look like this, music is peaceful and something that I didn't hear in RPGM games before, interesting combat prototype, and the story is somewhat captivating even considering that I'm not an NTR fan. Looking forward for the updates, this game definitely have huge potential, good luck for the devs

Damn, these people basically made the game I was planning to make

It's a pretty promising little piece of work, the art is nice and the devs have added a bunch of modern QoL stuff to the RPGMaker engine which makes it a lot more comfortable to play while still remaining true to the engine roots.

Writing and plot is nice, nothing amazing so far but generally believable and well-edited, which is always a joy. A bit too fast on the corruption trigger IMO but it's not terrible and it mostly fits with the 'light' nature of the game.

Overall ait's lookingpretty good and I look forward to more content

[Rev @ Accursed: Emma's Path v0.0.11b]

Art's lovely, and even the normal RPGMaker chipset maps are nicely done.

Writing is fine. Like the demon lord's characterization thus far.

Porn's fine, but there's not enough of it yet (early version so not surprising).

Gameplay didn't contain too many gripes. Appreciate not having a billion random RPGMaker battles pad the runtime.

TLDR: Solid~

Decent enough, but very light and shallow at the moment. Yet another game that, at least for now, doesn't need to be RPGM.

Good art, ok writing, but very little content and doesn't make any use of the RPGM platform.

Could be interesting eventually, but other than above average art, there's not enough get excited about yet.

I don't know why but game is very laggy for on my computer, i played many RPGM games and many games that were looking much better than this one ( well this game looks not bad ) but i have like 10 FPS???

Girl is cool and well at least its RPG maker so You can access pictures / sex scenes without playing game :x...

If not 10 FPS i probably would play a lot of this game... but 10 FPS is unplayable and i dont understand why i have so many laggs with this game...

Great artwork and an intriguing start, but be forewarned this is just the extreme beginning of the game's prologue and has only a handful of scenes and no real gameplay or combat just yet. Definitely intrigued to see more and enjoy the setup and characters, but I'm betting it will take awhile before we get any substantial gameplay and meat to the story.

A beatiful game, I really got caught off guard when it ended, a pity there's so little content as of now. I wish developers good luck and I'll be looking forward to seeing more of this game.

A little more in-depth.
-Graphics: Fenomenal, liked it very much!
-Dialogue: Pretty well-made, don't feel cringe reading (most of) them.
-Gameplay: Hard to tell, because there's not much as november of 2022, but I do like that there's no grinding and the system looks pretty easy and smooth. The only gameplay you get now is just walking, talking and choosing options for scenes(I bet there would be different endings later on)

-Forgot to add, that the quest-following option in the right corner of the screen is what most h-games need nowadays, it looks pretty simple and makes completing quests way easier!

Great game overall, keep up the good work!

So far it's good, game is going in a good direction and has some good NTR potential, I hope to see some good NTR writhing and I like this group of friends that the female MC can get corrupted, also the demon will make things interesting

Art: Great, a few proportions were a bit off, maybe the artist need to work on certain angles. Character design was fairly well developed.

Story: A reasonable groundwork, with a logical foundation for future corruption. The main storyline is presented a bit to fast, and can push you away with the exposition dump.

Gameplay - nothing major yet, but an odd lag in mouse control.