RPGM - Completed - And the Hero Was Never Seen Again [v1.04] [Circle Poison/Kagura Games]

This is a good game but let's face it, we know why we're all here. This is a game that happens to have R18 as an afterthought. This is a JRPG game first and foremost, and the R18 scenes are added on like as if the game didn't have the scenes, it wouldn't be sold.

A poor porn delivery device, a mediocre and tedious battle system, and a great story. The combat, gameplay and story aren't sexy at all - it's very much a few short scenes tacked onto a boring RPG battler. If you do decide to give it a try, keep the difficulty on "Normal" 'cause you aren't missing anything, but I'd recommend skipping it entirely.

The story is really well done for what it is. It has its share of tropes, but the characters feel distinct, their interactions are fun, and the little cutscenes you get to trigger round them out over the course of the game. That part's a lot of fun, and it shows the creators took care to make well-rounded characters whose relationships progress more organically than in most games. I'd love to see that touch get implemented in other games.

Particular care was put into the UI to make sure it wastes as little time as possible. Like the little mini-scenes I mentioned above, I'd love to see many aspects of it get implemented in other games. There are a couple teleportation systems, including one that lets you return home with the press of a button, which removes much of the tedium of map traversal. The quest log is always on-point: Players will always know where to go to progress the story, and also where/how to find the h-content. No need to guess if defeat will trigger a sex scene, or if something's been unlocked since you last checked. Just keep following the story, then engage with the optional sex content at your leisure. It's just a shame it feels like there's so little to find.

This game commits the cardinal sin of sex games: It's sex scenes mashed with a turn-based game, with nothing at all linking the two. There's nothing sexy at all about combat: no corruption mechanics, no mid-fight scenes. In between the h-scenes the characters never mention them - story wise it's really like they never happened at all.

The scenes themselves are few and far between. There's no way to get more beside plug along with the story. They're over too fast and they're too vanilla to leave the audience satisfied after waiting so long, which makes this game poor fap material. They're done just as they're getting started, then you'll wait an hour for the next one.

At first it seems nice that each scene can feature each of the three main characters. But audiences will quickly realize that all the scenes are practically identical - same setup, dialogue, same position - with only the character's sprite and a couple lines changed. This makes re-watches boring, which makes it a shame that the only way they even tried to integrate sex and gameplay is by giving each character unlocks after they acquire "lewd points" in scenes. You have to watch each scene three times in a row - once for each character - to trigger their unlocks. I don't think "thank God I can fast-forward through this" is what you want your audience to think during the sex scenes.

The less said about the combat the better. It uses stock sprites that have nothing to do with the story or setting. Each enemy feels identical to the last. On Normal difficulty combat is really "hold A to win". Higher difficulties make it feel a bit more challenging, but never enough that it's anything more than stock RPG maker combat. It never does anything new, interesting, or fun, and what's there is done poorly. Best I can say is that the developers don't seem to punish the player for playing on the lowest difficulty setting, where the combat gets in the way the least.

A great story with fun, well-rounded characters paired with a UI designed to waste as little of the players' time as possible is a great start. The complete lack of anything sexy at all outside the scenes - which are rare and mediocre - and the uninspired, boring combat drop the ball hard. As I said above, if you decide to give this a try, leave it on Normal difficulty to waste as little time as possible. If you're looking for good h-content, though, keep looking.

Let's start by saying that I liked the game, and I stress the game part.
This is a game, where the porn (like some other reviewers have mentioned) looks a bit like an afterthought.
Doing a virgin run doesn't leave you bored to death and with blue balls. The characters are well written, and there is enough interaction between them to forget that this is indeed a porn game (Let's not kid ourselves, that's why you downloaded it).
The game have plot twists, it is voiced, has songs and all the bells and whistles to make it a more than decent RPGmaker game.
The porn.... Well.... the CGs are nice. They are not animated, but there is quite a lot of variety, between virgin and not virgin, and different interactions in the scene.
All in all, a solid 4 stars. I would go for five if the porn was a little bit better integrated into the game, but sadly, that's not the case

In one word: No.

This game doesn't deserve even 1 star. It does not. It is a total sham. An atrocity. I've played incomplete Patreon scams that are better than this and I'll go into full detail elaborating on why exactly that is.

Before that I'll preface by saying that if you're completely new to HRPGs, or if you have no standards whatsoever, if you aren't particularly passionate about this hobby and are here perhaps solely to get off and merely CTRL through the garbage writing, this might be an acceptable title for you. Otherwise, I highly discourage anyone capable of critical thought from hurting themselves by playing this. You don't have to suspend your sense of disbelief. You need a lobotomy to enjoy this.

Now, to the good stuff.

The QRD:

+Decent art
+Voice acted with competent VAs
+Acceptable mechanics, difficulty, and overall game systems

-Detestable cast of absolutely insufferable characters
-Awful pacing
-Inconsistent narrative
-Disconnected H elements from the main plot
-Inexistant corruption system
-Terrible map design with oftentimes immersion breaking NPCs and a lot of backtracking
-Absolutely cringeworthy "banter"
-Vomit inducing degree of adherence to specific trope templates
-Repeated usage of entirely irrelevant OP/ED videos

Some spoilers included.

The game starts off by introducing you to the hero of the story, engaged in a death battle with the end boss. The side characters look very underwhelming, oftentimes of lower quality compared to the main cast, and the Demon King boss is a generic premade enemy, used by many games. Not that he appears for long, mind you. Once the blinding flash transition screen has successfully finished burning your retinas, you are presented with a more desirable version of the hero, a relatively cute blonde girl. Genderbending is a go. So far so good, but sadly the dev decided that it would be a great idea to have the girl version of the hero introduced naked, leaving absolutely nothing to the imagination. Here, the game makes its first major blunder by presenting the now genderbent hero as someone who is completely oblivious to matters of combat and almost entirely deprived of his common sense.

Introducing the mandatory tutorials for your run of the mill HRPG! Yes, movement buttons and basic turn based combat abilities! Explain them to me like every other game already does, assuming that I'm a retarded mouthbreather! Great!

So how is the Hero, the person who beat the Demon King, completely oblivious to basic things? It's amnesia, right? No, wrong. It's deliberate sloppy writing. His(her now) friend has to explain the most basic things. This is very irritating and immersion breaking. The hero, supposedly traumatized by his sex change (doesn't really show it), appears to have a complete hikkikomori personality, so much so that it would make you wonder how exactly did he become the hero who has singlehandedly beat the Demon King in the first place. Yes, without any outside assistance, peanut gallery aside.

But I can live with that. Surely it will get better, right? Think again!

The game does its utmost to stay within the confines of a certain template and utilize similar boring tropes accross all characters and developments. If the 3 heroines utilized the same model, I wouldn't be able to differentiate between them, because they're written extremely similarly, with very little deviation aside from particular reactions to certain scenes and situations. But those are minimal.

Now, what of the gameplay? Hold spacebar to kill monsters. Level up. Heal when needed. The end. Truly revolutionary. At least there's something to do with the crafting system.

And the H? Likewise as bad. The girls are all meek pushovers, extreme masochists, and act completely out of character! They immediately give in to both the enemies and the pleasure. There's no good pacing or corruption involved because who the fuck cares, supposedly? I can't say what the dev was thinking when he made this. The H is entirely separate from the main plot. Whenever a dev goes so far to even encourage players to do a virgin run for bonus items as so happens in this game, I immediately assume that it was done from a lack of confidence in the content. Someone who's confident in his work doesn't outright recommend such things, instead he presents options and tempts the player into debauchery. This game doesn't do that, as is immediately evident from the sheer number of copy pasted scenes. Yes, every girl has the same variation of (almost) every scene. Why are toilet or showering scenes available? Who knows? But they are, and the reactions are all the same. Who cares, though, these are inconsequential and it's already sounding like I'm nitpicking. But what of the other scenes? It's the exact same deal. Do a side job cleaning toilets and get molested by some guy. The reaction from the girls? The exact same. They complain, not really resisting, after which they orgasm. This is at the start of the game. The girl who assumed a very threatening posture after a certain event just lets herself be molested by some nobody. Imagine that! The open bath? Same thing. They undress, both of them in the exact same way, followed by the exact same reaction to the peeper outing himself.

But what about the good stuff? I hope you're a fan of losing, because you'll be doing that a lot if you want to see any kind of penetration. A good chunk of content is locked behind generic forced defeats against enemies nobody would lose against, unless they played on the hardest difficulty from the start, something not really recommended out of balancing issues.

The story also has so many pointless throwaway characters that exist solely for cheap exhibition and to present certain dilemmas. I simply could not grow any attachment to any of the characters, especially not the bimbo trio of protagonists.

And you know what else? I could drone on for another 2 pages, but this terrible experience has me so pissed off right now, more and more as I type, that I'll just stop.

Are you craving an exceptional story? None here.
Do you desire an intricate corruption system? Go elsewhere.
Looking for a nice variety of H scenes? Tough luck.
Wish to challenge yourself with the combat? If placing a paperweight on the spacebar fulfills that desire?
Want to experience a journey of wholesome characters? It gives budget anime vibes, the kind that doesn't sell even 10 BD copies.

I haven't been this disappointed in something in a long time and I felt like the game was actively insulting me every minute I played.

Garbage/5.

it is more of good/decent rpgm JRPG (fairly decent combat too) than HJRPG. The porn part is not that great and kinda limited (although the scene implemented different outfits based on what you wore, which is, kinda rare). the story is decent enough and the characters are likable. Think of it as jrpg with hentai on the side rather than hjrpg.
Btw, Astel sub weapon deals AoE damage and with the charge skill can make grind/encounter pretty short. just in case you read somewhere that the character is not that "great".
Man, i hate misinformation.

Am a casual gamer and also i have played all Poison 's games and doujishi so far , this game is 10 hours long and does have decent story , a very basic rpgm and well voiced , story telling is good at first and then latter on is very rushed like the dev realize that they need to wrap as fast as possible so end up speed run all the villain story arc and skip all the way to the end with a boss fight .
Art is good but it very boring along with the "rock paper shield"mini game, gameplay is super basic with crafting mechanic that you rarely use at all .
Overall this is another mediocre game from this studio
Just download save if you like and wait for Slave sword 3 which is under way

Okey when i started playing this game i was pretty much happy with it. Clothing system, other hair style, pretty fast combat, some story, side jobs etc. typical RPGM game. First half of the game i was okey with it but the longer you play the longer the dungeons are and even more monsters are just walking around (you can skip them without problem but skill you need money, exp or w/e) and after i killed every second monster because how long do I need to kill them (Maybe Khorne made this game to collect more skulls or something). The amount of h scenes were decreasing and the amount of monsters and walking increased. H content is okey but when you saw most scenes with 1 female character they are pretty much the same for the others just copy scene and paste new character lol.

Story: 4
I guess it's not a bad story maybe even for 5 but after playing this game for some time i had enough of it.

H content: 2
Around 25 scenes and most of them are the same for other characters so in theory you have around 75 scenes but they are the same. Pregnancy is pretty much a debuff in this game. When your character gets pregnant you lose some stats untill you "give birth" on your bed so you get a scene and that pretty much it so after you see it once just change to infertile on toilet not worth it!

Combat: 3
The combat is fine but you just fight way too many times. The only think you need is Imis (mage) cast her first skill frost needle or w/e it's called and when you get Disaster (huntress) you use sub weapon with normal attack any time of normal enemies should be dead. Atler (hero) is only usefull for boss fights or as healer and she isn't even good healer xD.

Crafting: 3
Crafting system exist but i crafter maybe 1 item the whole game

Cheating: Save editing doesnt even give you much because you 1 shoot packs of monsters and bosses aren't difficult only for money and clothes

Customization : 4
Well some outfits are pretty decent and second hair style is better for every character the problem is WHERE THE FUCK IS HARIOT OUTFIT!? Outside of cheating it with the nuclear codes i couldn't find it. The outfit for 5k in city is also useless it isn't even that good looking and you waste the gold for it.

Side jobs: 3
Pretty much no gameplay from them only h scene but you have outfit go work there scene that has 1~3 options. It's not even based on your corruption/lew lvl just do the job 3 times and you get it.

Characters: 4
Decent

Sex status: 1
This gives bonuses for being more lewd but farming this is pain in the ass. You must spam 1 fast side job for it or just buy tons of potions to increase.

Final conclusion:
I wanted to give this game a 4 but the longer i played the more i thought "Where is the end of this game?".

TLDR: I would say this game is the same as TLDR so if you dont want to spend like 5~7 hours on this game just skip it or just find save for H content.
It's okey but way too long.

I love this game! It's kinda of like watching an anime movie, but then they toss in RPGM elements. They have a good story, and interesting characters. They have a good combat system with adjustable difficulties. You can do a virgin run. This is how RPGM games should be done. There are different sets of clothing you can wear, and although some things can be a little confusing it's great once you get used to it. Like to change clothes you do so from the status menu.

Since this is a adult games forum, this game deserves 1 star for H content and overall being a bad adult game - unfappable.

So disregarding the decent story, good combat and soundtrack, the game barely has any h scenes.
The majority of scenes come from a rock paper scissors minigame, where you have 5 lives, and for each life loss, you get a proggresively more intense scene (kissing, bj, sex, dp etc.). The count doubles since theres scenes for being raped solo, or in a group.

Otherwise, the scenes from losing to boss battles (1 per chapter), losing to mid-bosses (repeatable, but 3 distinct scenes in total only) and a few jobs unlocked as you play.

There is no h combat, the lewd stats mechanic doesn't influence the game at all (not a corruption mechanic), it's very disconnected, an afterthought.

In theory, there's 3 variations of the scenes depending on the current party leader, out of the 3 main characters, but there's so little variation that it's not worth replaying a boss battle, losing, then watching more or less the same scene, with the characters in the same pose.

There's a pregnancy "mechanic", but like everything else h related, underdeveloped and goes mostly unused. You can toggle unsafe days for more lewd exp, but there's no change in the scenes, nobody comments on it, and you get 1 birthing scene per main character.

So overrall, this is a good jrpg with some totally detached, optional mid h content, best I can give it is an average rating.