I've come to find that games are made or broken for me based on how reasonable the erotic events are. Is the female protag just not the be-all end-all of combat and thus can be overpowered and forced upon? Go off. Is she being hypnotised slowly but surely and so her mind is eroding? Go off. Is she being forced to pay a ridiculous sum to save someone she loves who she can't save any other way, and yet it's impossible to come up with that sort of money without making compromises? Go off.
But in this game, none of that occurs. You play as Anna. Anna is a ridiculous prodigy who casually one-shots the demon lord of days long past. He's immortal and fought the prior hero for 72 hours, three days and nights, to be weakened enough to be sealed away.
Anna hits him once, and he crumbles. She IS the be-all end-all of combat.
The viscount of a barony hires you and your partner (both adventurer partner and eventual significant other) Leratone to "train his son". You accept because... well, money, I guess. The son is a petulant little brat who thinks Anna is his to "do anything he wants with" as his father promised, because it's weirdly common to have little boys in these sorts of games. I do not know why paedophilia is so common and basically accepted in these games.
Anyway. You proceed to have one training session where the son is exhausted and refuses to do anymore after ten practice swings. You then get blatantly told in a choice with a heart that if you block his surprise attack, a lewd event occurs. So I didn't, because miss me with that shit.
He proceeds to not be a part of the game for the rest of it if you just do the main requests, essentially the story, and every single side event is an entirely optional lewd thing. Requests the Viscount has of you to pay off the exorbatant 1 million gold he demands for the release of your partner, who he arrested under false claims of breaking an heirloom that your partner says the Viscount blatantly pushed him into to, I guess, "get him out the way".
Anna agrees to fulfil these requests because she doesn't want to be an outlaw, even though she thinks to herself that she could pretty easily just take Leratone back by force and we've no reason to doubt that. These requests are to destroy a goblin nest, destroy the monster-creation process under a brothel, and then recover herbs from the bottom of the most dangerous dungeon in the region.
At no point in the story is an erotic event necessary, except for one. There is a single tit-groping scene that is seemingly part of the story during the brothel when you work serving drinks there. Everything else you have to go out of your way for, and for no actual reason since the Viscount distinctly says that if you complete three requests he'll release Leratone; or, if it's too difficult, you can pay him and he has "ways" for you to earn money.
Except it's not too difficult. Anna one shots every single thing in this game with her basic attack. You are often put up against 1v1s. You have 5k health and even if something hits you it can't penetrate your defences.
You are under no danger, at any point in this game.
And thus, the game is pulled down, I think. Because all you really do is walk through the level by pressing forward twenty times. If you get my luck, you fight one thing in the goblin nest at the end other than the boss, the demon king at the start and end of the game, fight nothing in the brothel or dungeon, and get a single masturbation scene in the dungeon from gas that makes you horny, which may well also be random chance.
You beat each boss in one hit. Because you beat everything in one hit.
Then you tell the Viscount you did it. You do this three times and the game ends when the Demon King attacks seeking vengeance, because he's immortal. The Viscount begs you to save him and his barony and he'll let Leratone our immediately if you just kill the Demon King. Satisfyingly, Anna does just refuse at first, because he tried to go back on his "three requests" condition, go back on his word. But of course, she doesn't want to let tons of people die.
So, it's over. Leratone confesses and Anna hopes they can fight dragons, and the credits role. This felt incredibly lacklustre.
There was just no actual reason to go out of your way and do lewd events, they didn't get you anything you couldn't get otherwise. Seemingly most of the erotic events encountered are either completely optional in town that Anna has no reason to accept because they aren't related to the requests the Viscount is demanding, or you get an erotic scene if you lose to the few bosses in the game or a random thug in the slums.
But again... you have 5k health and no enemies can actually hurt you if they hit you, and they all die in one hit. You need to just blatantly choose to lose.
There is an entire event string with Anna's sister. She's also big-titted and a prodigy, but a mage instead of a warrior, and Anna believes she'll have a literal line of suitors out the door because she's so impressive. You arrive in town and find a smelly ugly bastard in the house who the sister says is her husband, which clearly shocks Anna. She demands to know in private what the so called "good points" of this person are, because Anna thinks she's being scammed somehow, and the sister literally can't even name anything because claiming "our love is real" and the scene ends.
I thought the entire thing with the sister was going to be that she was hypnotised or something and this entire game would be some conspiracy hypno story where you have to solve things quickly and efficiently or Anna loses more of herself.
Only to find out the sister is just sort of a horny whore and there's nothing "untoward" actually going on. She got fucked by this guy once, liked it, and decided to keep him, but she's super self-degrading about it during sex and he's actively degrading too. It's just a weird fetish for the sister, it seems, and you find this out in their first scene where Anna overhears them fucking.
In short, you can't have a "fallen adventurer" game when there's no actual reason to fall as per what the story puts you through; no corruption, force, anything. If you legitimately had to earn one million gold and each normal request was getting you 1k and they quickly dried up, then there could be a reason to feel like you were forced into erotic events to make ends meet. But you don't need to, so there isn't a reason to do any events other than to see them.
Sure, yeah, people play these games to see the events. But there's usually some in-world reason. I practically need one for these games to be enjoyable. But there's no reason for Anna to do anything but kill whatever the Viscount sends her at, since it's not just a gameplay thing that you can beat everything easily, it's established in the intro that she's a monstrous prodigy that easily one-shot the ancient Demon King.
Also he's... immortal. But the game ends with Anna just killing him again before the ending. I guess she just goes back there every couple days and kills him again? Or she killed him so hard this time that he's just dead now. Who knows.
I just didn't vibe with this one. I need there to be some tangible in-world reason for why erotic events are happening to the character and why said character would possibly allow it, and that just falls flat on its face when it's too easy to win and the character in-world casually one shots demon lords and her only goal for getting back the person she loves is "beat things up for me".
