Ren'Py - Adventurer Trainer [v0.2.0a] [PastryIRL]

Version: 0.1.9a
Really well done game. Most game game I've played here as of this post, but the H-scenes could use a lot of improvement.

[Story]- Quite funny, and there's a lot of backstory being explored even in this early version. In this version, it seems like it's just at the beginning of the overall plot, not much to say about that. The dialogue gets a bit wordy, and I ended up doing some skipping.

[Gameplay]- I really like the time limit mechanic. It's really just fun, and, as long as you earn money(pretty much all the time), you really won't ever be in any danger of reaching it. It really is sandboxy. Events are unlocked as you earn the girls' affection, but you can't miss anything, as each event will continue to pop up until you activate it. The in-game "event tracker" is also very nice to go to to check what you need to progress. The game offers more than one method to earn money/items, and that's nice, because I didn't really like the combat.

That's not to say that the combat system is bad. In fact, it's the best one I've seen on f95 so far. It has strategic depth and the interface and battles are very modern. However, while there's both controller support and keyboard controls, they're buggy and cumbersome. Well, it's just downright buggy atm. When I try to select bottom row targets(with the keyboard, and the controller, because it really just inputs keyboard presses), it tries to open menus; so Mouse is the only way to play and it's slow. What I'd like are keyboard commands for all the menu selections (like q for attack, a for skill, and so forth...) to increase combat speed, because as it is, selecting commands is just too slow. It'd also be nice if there was an option to just turn combat speed Up, which currently is only available in auto-battle.

More on combat. In this version, the other characters were unlocked too late, or took too much work to be considered worthy of combat. I pretty much just invested in kazuma, since he's in every battle, is the most efficient solo, and useful from the start. Darkness, atm, would take 33+ days of training just to stop being a buff dispenser(actually, it caps at around 26, and only equipment can bring her to positive). Aqua's versatile as damage dealer, healer buffer. Megumin's spells were kind of optional, because you could usually just party stun AoE instead of using explosion. Well, she can be useful once you've invested into explosion fully+given her mana regen. Yunyun and Rin were unlocked late for me, because I had too many things to do in the day time that I didn't really need to quest by the time I got them. Chris was at the end of the playthrough, BUT I understand that this is just the beginning of the game, so I'm looking forward to more uses for All the characters Later. A plus is that you can UNLEARN skills at any time and get the gems back.

[Scenes]- Really fanatasic, anime feel. Visually, it's pretty much an AAA game. I'm not sure why, but it reminds me a little bit of Naruto: Rise of a Ninja. The models are Okay. I liked how the story leads up to sexy situations. There's some fantastic animations for the non-H scenes, but I didn't see any of that in the actual H-scenes. They were rather crude, and not very exciting. Maybe it's because it's so cartoonish. I don't really know how to explain it, it's just missing something. It feels flat. For reference, some anime hentai that I enjoy are Onii Chichi(mostly just the first one) and Accelerando/Stringendo.

[Sound]- I wasn't paying too much attention, but I believe there were nice sound effects for the attacks. No particularly unique music, but the music fits the game quite well.

Very much loving this game. Sadly i grinded for quite a few hours and got through all the content it has so far, but boy have i enjoyed myself!.

This game (as it says somewhere inside) is loosely emphasis on that, based on konosuba, and it does a very good job at it. The characters seem very much like they are at least in the anime (havent read the LN), there might be some points which they have a line or two that while within the ballpark of what you might expect they mostly stay within good reason.

Now for the more mechanical part, you actually get to do adventuring and have turn based rpg battles, so you also get to suffer just like Kazuma with very limitting teammates, however as you also progress you may get to expand your party with other well known secondary characters (Yunyun, Chris, Rin), which offer actually some very useful abilities. Talking about combat the game took heavy inspiration from the persona games, meaning monsters have a weakness as well as immunity to certain attacks, some more beefy enemies require more hits before going down but you get there eventually and get to do huge damage.
The leveling doesnt feel heavy nor too fast, is actually pretty good which is a nice surprise.

Overall a great game any konosuba "fan" would appreciate and a very polished experience to boot! which is a rare thing around this place, but a welcomed one. Im not the kind of ppl that would be paying patreons (particularly because no money) but this game makes me want to make it the exception. Lots of expectations on this game for the future, hopefully maintaining this level of quality even if it takes time

Story 3/5
Story is good but it is a bit too childish at times for my taste but i am still enjoying it, theres really just one thing i truely hated which is not being able to change MCs name, i always find the absolutly idiotic since name does nothing for the game or story so it could have been any name, personaly i fixed it by using the universal cheat and it works perfectly with that, but thats not due to dev and the game but something you have to do yourself.

MC has to kill a deamon king at some point which is pretty much the plot, first he needs to get stronger and learn about where the deamon king is and so far that part of the story hasent gotten anywhere, but you end up doing alot of quests for the adventure guild which includes alot of fighting monsters and at times humans, all to get money and help the town, if you dont you will get jailed and its game-over, there is a counter that you need to keep above 0 to avoid jail, its nothing to worry about since in my playthrough it never really went down and i did a no cheat game.

It does have quite a bit of fun dialogs and story parts but like i said also alot which is a bit to childish and it also breaks the 4th wall quite often which some might hate, i dident really care much about it but know it happens.

The sandbox and fighting is fun and dosent really feel like much of a grind and theres alot of ways later in game to make money and add days to the counter and late game you will end up having more money then you know what to do with.
The fighting is turn-based and has magic/thief/knight/healer like most RPGs, it has a very nice balance to the fighting as well, not to easy not to hard.

Where this game really shines is the choices, its just so rare to see a sandbox game where you are 100% free to pick who you want to have a relationship with but you really can in this one, you can even turn down any of the 3 main girls if you want to.

Girls 4/5
I liked the girls, they have diffrent personalities which works great and the diversity in builds is pretty good, i normaly hate bimbo builds but due to some having a nice or fun personality i still went for the relationship with them and i cant tell you how rare that is for me to say yes to a bimbo, did turn down a few though.

Animations 4/5
They are very nice and it seems to improve as you get through the game, granted it has it limits due to the character style but for this type its really well made and has some small animated scenes doing normal game as well which is pretty good and sex scenes looks great as well.

Music 3/5
Its nothing special but its decent enough so you dont get annoyed or tierd of it in the long run, but nothing with lyrics and such.

Choices 5/5
Like i said its rare to find sandbox games where LIs arent forced, but in this one you can turn down anyone even main girls and it works perfectly.

Sandbox 5/5
It dosent really get much better then this one, everything works, it dosent feel like a grind, exploring dungons and fighting is pretty fun and everything is easy to figure out and it has a event tracker if you dont know what to do next.

Adventure Trainer - v0.1.9a
This is a VN with high ammount of Erotic content, a semi fleshed out combat system and most importantly, made with love
(sorry for my poor English)

The game, as you may imagine looking at the current version number is quite incomplete, yet it still offers you a very high ammount of content, you will spend hours playing this game in it's current state, it tries to simulate as accurately as possible the interactions of your loved characters from konosuba and nails them in most regards, the sex scenes are quite good and you may even fap more than once to the same scene.

The main, and strongest point of this game is, as i mentioned before, the developer clearly made it with love for the franchise and respect to the player time, a combination that is almost always a recipe for a great game, i highly recomend you try this current version, you will not be dissapointed.

now, not everything is positive, the only thing that stops me from giving a perfect score is sadly a consecuense of it's early state, you only have a very handfull of sex scenes, some characters don't even have proper sex scenes yet, but as i said, the scenes are good enough that even thou they are scarce, they are very good, so i have very good faith in the future of this game, will update my review when an update comes up, as always thank you very much to the uploadres for this, all in all.

Grade: A or 4/5

To me these kind of characters look very generic.
I can't get anything out of them.

So why do I give 5 stars?
Simply because the game is really entertaining.

You can see that someone invested a lot of effort and love.
While there is still a lot of pontential for development, everything that has been implemented is not just a work in progress mess but delivers the impression of a mostly finished feature.

While not finished it's already an enjoyable game. The prospect that it will get even more content alone deserves 5 stars. Overall, this game is far above regular games on F95zone.

[ver. 0.1.8]

This is -almost- the perfect Konosuba fan game. Familiar characters act pretty much as they should and the humor is almost in tact from the original series. Character models are decent, and dating scenes are extremely cute. Combat, although the standard turn-based affair, is decent and appreciated, with lots of variables for tactical play. 2D sprites are nice as well.

Couple reasons why it's not 5/5, though. The use of AI art for backgrounds is distracting, to say the least. Although it has some original jokes, it likes to overuse jokes and gags from the original series a bit too much.

The biggest issue, by far, is that boss fights are just awful. Instead of being tough challenges that test your utilization and mastery of in-game mechanics, they're just horrible slogfests seemingly meant to burn down your time, patience, and will.

FOR me this one feels combat light game play light and erotic scenes light there's only about 4 scenes per main girl and a couple bonuses and many of them are kind of ungratifying to me personal taste i know but still leaves little room to work with but all in all i like 3d i love music atmosphere and the show this is a parody of and it was fun to play so solid average please make more

Wow! What a game. After each update, it just gets better and better.

I absolutely love the pixel art style and the game mechanics. I think they're fantastic and leave much room for expansion in future updates. The cast diversity is phenomenal featuring characters from your favourite animes like KonoSuba (of course), the Quintessential Quintuplets, Roxy and Ghislaine from Mushoku Tensei, Priestess from Goblin Slayer, Stephanie and Jibril from No Game No Life and more. Some of them have H-scenes already and I would assume that we are expecting them for the others as well in future updates!

Brilliant game overall! Well-deserving of 5 stars

Even though I'm not familiar with the world/anime that spawned this game, it's one of my better finds in awhile!

It's funny and light, the art is nice and sexy, and there's the right balance of actual gameplay elements so it doesn't feel like a VN, nor an overly long grind, at least not as far as the story content is concerned.

The characters are endearing and I'm looking forwards to future updates!

Review of v0.1.7 on mobile
Time played to get all scenes was about 6-7 hours
Would I recommend? As long as you are a fan of konosuba, I'd say yes.
Pros
The game uses the same models as many other games but the girls all look very true to character, giving the art and scenes a good boost to their effectiveness
The writing is witty and there is a lot of good banter between the characters
For the most part the animations seemed fairly fluid and did the job

Cons
The sound effects sometimes didn't match up to the animations pace which was kind of taking me out of the moment and some scenes had none at all, so that could use some work.
While funny at first, true to form the characters outside of Kazuma had very niche battle uses or were outright useless which wasn't too egregious since you don't have to battle a lot, but it felt rough in various fights particularly boss battles felt like they dragged on too long

Overall, I think fans of the series will enjoy this as solid porn parody game. In the future, I'd like to see more variations in scenes and perhaps scenes that emphasize a characters quirky nature like the darkness maid scene. If the dev can continue to improve the scenes and sounds while polishing the gameplay parts of the game, I think this could be the top runner for best konosuba porn parody game by a mile.

Short Review

Probably the best Konosuba parody game right now. Its well polished and the characters actually act like the characters unlike other parodys. The gameplay is a sandbox but its actually better than most sandboxes because you don't spend most of your time grinding stats and money or skipping days for events.

The combat is basically a Octopath Traveler copy but I expect the combat to get worse since Konosuba characters aren't serious fighters. I don't expect it to hold up at high levels.

I'm not even that far into the game, and I love it. 5/5 stars.

The gameplay, mechanics, and art are great. So far, doesn't seem to be too grindy.

But the dialogue... LOVE the humor! Has me laughing.

Keep up the great work, dev!

Almost everything about this game is objectively masterful - the story, the characters, the humor, the presentation, the design, the combat...

I personally wish the H-scenes weren't so... vanilla... but that's subjective.

I didn't think it was possible to make Final Fantasy-esque combat using a "visual novel" engine like RenPy. This feels like the one RenPy game that most other RenPy games should be taking notes from. Mind = blown.

Adventurer Trainer is a Konosuba parody game that's a little RPG, a little VN, and a little time management.

The production is very high quality with crisp menus, better than average koikatsu models, and even an opening movie. I wish other games looked half as good as this one does.

That said, it's basically just lewd Konosuba once you boil the presentation away. The characters are straight out of the anime/novel, just willing to put out if given a little VN attention. The RPG is a turn-based pixel fighter with the Konosuba characters, quirky deficiencies included. The time management portion of the game takes place in Axel and you'll run into a lot of the Konosuba cast there.

If you like Konosuba but wish that the girls would get naked, you'll be pleased with Adventurer Trainer. However, if you're expecting anything particularly grounding breaking or unique, you'll be disappointed. This is a high execution fan game, following the traditional VN/RPG formula; no more, no less.

+ Good Renders
+ Good Characters ( Fits Konasuba )
+ Good Animations
+ Good Setting/Premise
+ Choose your women

= Decent/Good gameplay, Kazuma lacks extra skills atm
= Social Stats, not sure if they do anything atm

- Some grind, definately not the worst

V0.1.6a

good game with many potentials. Some of the scenes were unexpectedly good. The characters are also well crafted. Looking forward to the next update. There is still so much to do. But as the anime is discontinued, this game may also never finish

This game has a bit of a Klee Prank Adventure vibe to it, and just like it, it's a well made game that has provided quite an enjoyable experience indeed, even if you're not a Konosuba fan, though if you're a fan, this game contains plenty of content, even some from the LN itself.

Thus far I've been pleasantly surprised by how much stuff is in this game, good animations, nice aesthetics, normal-ish proportions similar to the LN art itself(I am looking at you, Darkness in the Anime). I'd say there's at least more than 3 hours of content to this game, maybe more if you play slower.

In terms of difficulty, it really isn't that challenging at all. Just grind on froggies to level up slowly, or just use the rather silly auto-battle system instead. Even the "time to arrest" pressure isn't that big, considering you can constantly extend it with barely any effort.

One gripe I have with this game, and it's just a personal thing mind you, if you turn down lewding a girl when given the choice, the option is gone forever, no future lewds will happen ever again. Thus, to experience the most amount of content, one has to play with a harem mentality. This is obviously a sensible game design decision and is realistic, but my dumb ass forgot to make a bunch of saves, so I'll just have to replay some parts and remember to save.

All in all, a game definitely worth your time. 5/5

great game of the great anime, lot of funny and lot of fun, animations look nice too, waiting for next update and on my watch list
This game is super nice! The writing is good feels like real Konosuba, the combat system is good enough for me me to play more and level up skills is nice addition, the Chris route was too short for me and i hope it to be longer,reputation system is nice addition

Writing's dead-on to the series, fun mechanics without being grindy, scenes are great, and it doesn't seem to have been immediately abandoned like 90% of parody hgames. All it really needs is more content which will come with time.

If you are a Konosuba fan, this is the game for you! Sure, it's a nsfw game, but more importantly it manages to simulate the laid back atmosphere of the Konosuba world quite well. You can see poeple who cared made this.

Artstyle: Very nice
Humor: Yes
Combat: Charming 8bit style 4 people dungeon crawling. All the members of the gang can participate and their quirks are neatly build into the system (fe. Darkness having 0 chance to hit whatsoever but makes for a good tank)
Music: Mirrors the shows vibe, very impressive for a fan project
Events: sexy

So basically it's like spending a few weeks in the Konosuba world, if that world was also R rated. I like it!