RPGM - Completed - Ark of Artemis [v1.1] [Otaku Plan]

it felt incredibly slow and exhausting especially with the cutscenes and the fight with the blond angel bitch, it felt like pulling out your own finger nails and teeth, the story is shit, characters are shit, the red head angel gets raped in a way that is not believable. the blond angel is supposed to be strong but she isn't but the game keeps hammering this inside you head that she is so the game will make you lose even if you weren't close to dying, it also the whole ''I will die for my friends'' and ''the power of friendship'' came out of no where. the fight with the blond angel is just one long ass cringey ass cutscene and you can't skip past it or make it go faster, the fight with the blond angel is like a more boring version of whatever the fuck kishimoto could write up. to win the fight the game gives up again and instead of just killing you it just gives you a insta kill abillity. then main character dies from no where and your supposed to feel sad but at this point I feel nothing but anger and contempt. oh but got ya while in the end everything is boring and slow and you get all your friends and walk slow as a cripled midget, when you almost board the boat the main character is actually alive, wow surprised? I'm not this game fucking sucks. to sum all of this in so few words I guess I'm offended, yeah that's it I'm offended That I had to play this shit I wasted Hours Of my life playing this sluggish game, I got this game for free and I still feel like I want a refund. also the sex scenes are extremely choppy and low quality. I heard this game is better then LAST EMBRYO -EITHER OF BRAVE TO STORY- which I can only take to mean is that game is so dog shit that underdeveloped Monkey's would also say it was shit.

Jumped on this right after I played the prequel. I think I'm playing these games wrong...It took a few hours to beat and I only saw 1 H scene! XD
This game is a complete upgrade to the first, it's better in every way. Well, except the combat system, which is more generic now. The rest of the review is a rant.

I really don't like the values these games are depending on, Mutual existence is not really something I like to consider when we've seen/heard of multiple genocides, all of which are for no reason now since no one apparently remembers the supposed "great sin". The bad guys are completely aware we have no clue what's happening and yet for some reason we're supposed to believe redemption is possible lmao. Claudia literally gets ravished, beaten, cursed, humiliated, MURDERED, by the big bad of the game and she's still going on about this crap!
We got some closures on the mysterious stuff from the previous game, that was neat. Still salty about how Sil's story ended up btw.
Well, at least they didn't give the game an ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE ending, that would've made me flip. It still sucked, mind you, but it could've been worse.
It's like they don't intend to give us a proper victory in any of these games. I just want to feel like I won! I get being the complete underdog in the stories but any small victory we achieve gets taken away the next scene! If the ending to the series is something like "Oh, there was this one very strong evil god, he's awake now. Everyone must fight together " I'll...not do anything, just feel really disappointed. Hopefully the devs make the baddies suffer for once in their next game. I need these people to cease to exist.

The loading screens are completely fake btw. I want YOU to remember this as you wait for them every time >

Probably one of if not my favorite game of the genre. One of the games i went in for the lewd not expecting much but after just a bit was completely overtaken by the story and characters. I ended up completely skipping any h-content as the game was extremely easy but it didn't matter since it was such a great game regardless, i can't wait for the update and sequel!

Pros:
+ Top - tier, beautiful CG
+ Top - tier pixel scenes
+ Varied and weird fetish like monster, bestiality, tentacle, lesbian/yuri/futanari,.... but not normal man x woman except boobs job and blow job
+ The kind of story that make you feel empty after completion
+ Best girl Satia
Cons:
- normal, RPGM standard combat with nothing interest or innovational
- if you like me and like to get your heroine to copulate with every single creature in the game, be ready to get annoy that heroine will continuous skip turn during combat because she cum every two turn.
- annoying combat, but thanks god, you don't have to grind a lot
- i want to see more Satia CG and stories

Overall, I'm satisfied with this game, and look forward to the update/ sequel of the game

Pretty lackluster. The story takes itself too seriously, combat is boring but very easy so no grinding required. Only 7 areas including 5 dungeons and 2 towns.

I should mention there are NO m-f sex scenes with male human NPCs (only blowjob/titjob), the only humanoid male monster is the goblin. Other than that there are a couple of tantacles, slimes and wolves scenes. Lots of futa/monster girl scenes. There are no brothel/prostitution events, there's supposed to be a 'dangerous part' of the town but you can never go in. There are about 10 pixel scenes but they're all boring 3/4 frames loops. Overall a pretty meh game.

Art:
Charathers: Both of their pixel arts and CGs are amazingly well-done. There're custom walking animations which is a rare find in this kind of rpggames (but tbf, it does look a bit odd)
H-Scenes: Splendid! But I do wish there's more. These comprise of cgs and pixels art. cgs are mostly "interaction" with the side characters while molesters and monsters are in the minority.
Decor: Nothing particularly new here. It's all the same default rpgmaker asset that you've probably seen a thousand times. Which is disappointing considering the effort made in other areas (i.e. art and "art")
8/10
Gameplay
Mechanics
*Encounter- Avoidable, totally optional if you have skillz. Enemies' AI is as dumb as ever, do the ol' loop de loop and you'll be well on your way. Another thing I like about this which I haven't seen before is in the later game, you'll be able to insta-kill any encounter without initiating a battle. This is imo genius and i wish that rpggames would do this more.
*Battle- It suck even in rpggames standard. It's more slow and repetitive than usual.My playthrough is on the path of corruption and every fight basically went like: spell ->climax -> post-nut -> repeat (which in the meanwhile getting hit twice.) This combined with the fight animation can't be skip makes it a terrible waste of time. (My definition of skip is <5 sec, any more isn't one)
5/10
Soundtrack
Not the best but not terrible. Non really stick out to me except for There's also a lyrical piece and that was cool. Great work for whoever sang that.
6/10
Characters
Main Character:
Epitome of cliche heroine, but with the added twist of you're in a hentai game so prepare to get corrupted. Moan more than talk
Side Characters:
Underdeveloped
You don't spend much time with them except for the beginning. I feel like they are here as plot devices rather than actual characters. It's such a shame that they have so much potential to serve a greater purpose than be a fuck partner this more or less includes Satyr (despite her name, isn't a goat lady but an elf-like humanoid)
5/10 Satyr saved this one
Story
I know there's a prequel to this, set in the same universe. I might play that too. But from a perspective without prior knowledge of the universe, the story sucks. The story pacing is out of whack. Worldbuilding is only limited to plot relevancy. It follows story cliche down to a tee without no originality. Both of my hands can't even count the correct predictions I've made. Only the climax they did amazingly well but the same can't be said to the rest of the game. The grindy mid-part is especially bad. The ending has potential to be a real tear-jerker along with meat-jerker when the rest had done right.
4/10
Overall
If you only came for the boobies and don't care about anything else, than this is for you. It's still great art and I don't regret. 7 hours of gameplay to reach the end but most of that time is spent fapping, you could get less.
7/10
Ver 1.1

Ok my first impression is the game is actually good. If i remember correctly this is sequel of the previous work game.

This game res is good the gameplay is good and i like the RPG element in it. I hope dev able to do pushing the game engine more.

The game is fine and definite much better than the most HRPG in the market currently. It had great art, a good gameplay system, and a good general direction with the plot. However, it lacks much in content as the story doesn't really expand enough into the plot (as in it's too fast paced) and the character development. Overall, good game but it kind of fail to uphold its potential.

!Minor spoilers ahead for Elun encounter outcome

Art - 4/5
Character art was simple and clean. Shading was great and the color palette was chosen well.

Gameplay - 3/5
Not much of a grind with there being 6 major areas with a boss at the end. Combat was not difficult at all and just had mostly the default mechanics. I didn't feel the need to change my loadout or adapt. Mid-battle H scenes were nice but got repetitive. You do get bad status effects after defeats.

Story - 3.5/5
The premise of the story was very interesting but the execution could’ve been better. Some scenes were done really well and drew me in but the pacing felt awkward at times and the buildup seemed rushed. 5/5 on originality for a H game and the feels.

Winning and losing don’t seem to matter in the beginning though as you get the mark no matter what.

H Scenes - 5/5
Top tier. Very large selection ranging from vanilla, yuri, to monsters. Includes both normal scenes, mid-battle, defeat, and high quality pixel art. Pixel art animation was fluid. Voice acting of the main character was also included in most of the scenes.

Soundtrack - 4.5/5
Honestly the best out of any H game I’ve played. Was not expected to be hit with production quality soundtrack in cutscenes. The normal BGM was just above average however.

Overall - 4.5/5
I didn’t expect much from the story at first but later got invested in it. The gameplay was alright and some areas could be improved on but the game overall was an amazing experience.

Honestly pretty decent, and would be better if it was longer! I completed the game in less than three hours, and the gameplay itself was nothing new, but overall I think it's still worth playing if the tags tickle your fancy, because the H-content is pretty decent. Overall, I think it's a 4/5.


Gameplay - 3/5

The gameplay is pretty simple - it's your standard RPG Maker stuff. You know the drill: weapons/armor that increase your stats but have no visual impact, some spells or abilities but you end up just spamming whatever's strongest, buyable potions to restore HP, etc.

There's nothing special about the combat system - plenty of other H-style RPG games do combat better (Treasure Hunter Claire is a pretty popular example). In this game, it's just 'figure out what element the enemy is weak to, and then spam the spell of that element over and over until you win'. There's no strategy involved, you don't have defensive spells, other team members, or anything interesting besides mashing your one button until you win.

The one 'twist' comes with the fact that the sluttier the main character becomes, the more debuffs she starts to suffer (-20% defense, losing occasional turns, reduced HP, etc), but even this isn't really a huge issue, and doesn't make the game much harder. It's still extremely easy to beat either way.

Overall it's pretty average in terms of what I'd expect from a porn game. Generic, forgettable combat, but at least the UI menus look nice and there's some spell animations.

Story - 4/5

There are some H-games on this website with fantastic stories that make you forget you're even playing an H-game - and worth playing for this reason alone, even without caring about H-content. Ruins Seeker and Pronant Symphony are two of my favorites.

This, however, is not one of them. The game is pretty short - a fast reader could probably finish the whole game in 3-4 hours. The story feels rushed as a result, but to its credit, it's still quite nice.

The ending sequence does feel rewarding to go through at least once (the 'good' virgin ending, at least, felt pretty cute to me), and the game also does a good job of fleshing out the main character and her friends as you explore the city. Going into a bar, for example, might have the party enter a conversation about who liked alcohol, while exploring the shopping district might have them arguing over whether an item on sale was a good deal or not. These sorts of moments do serve to flesh out the cast of characters, and if the game had been longer I could definitely see myself getting attached to the crew.

Overall, the story isn't impressive, but it's decent. The premise is fairly interesting, and the cast of characters have potential - the game's just held back by how short it is. It's still worth playing through to experience at least once, IMO.

H-content- 5/5

This part is highly subjective depending on your tastes. If you enjoy corruption or non-consensual sex, both are featured quite heavily in this game. If not, you likely won't enjoy the game as much - but regardless, the scenes are nicely illustrated and there's a variety of H-content. You have your normal run-of-the-mill H-scenes with text, in-combat sex (normally a result of the main character being assaulted mid-fight), 'bad-end' type of events, and pixel animations as well. There's a decent variety here, and most of it is well executed.

You also unlock the full gallery upon beating the game once, so feel free to go for the virgin ending if you wish. I found it nice that the dev made the process so simple.

Translation - 4/5

I've only added this section because I've seen some complaints about the English translation. No, it's not perfect ('angels' are commonly referred to as 'angles', for example), but it's fairly decent. All of the story, H-content, and UI feels decently translated, and aside from minor spelling and grammar mistakes on occasion, the whole thing is perfectly fine. It's not professional quality, but it's not MTL levels of unreadability either. I'd rate this around the quality you'd expect from a fan patch, which is certainly more than can be said for quite a few games on this site.

Honestly better than i woudlve thought, it doesnt force you to play 4 charactes when you only care about one and uses the party as a mechanic and theres lots of different ways of play, and if youre really good you can beat a boss thats not supposed to be beatable. its definitely possible to play a virgin run and the gameplay is surprisingly god

This game is a sequel to Last Embryo, with same and new character cast, gameplay, world and a continuation of said story, with decent, just like it's predecessor, gameplay - but let's get on things that well, I have problems...with.

The translation, the main point of such games is...just like its prequel, just...better than machine wording, but with A LOT of misspellings, like angle instead of angel, broken English, certain untranslated Japanese and other things that make it yet another case of bad proofreading - I am not surprised why people complain about it, because when people do bad faith to such works...it makes it worse, unless it was already bad to begin with, in which case, its barely an good or bad thing, but an amplifier to it.

The story, just like its prequel, is a case of "but you are not a good guy expect you still are in the end as long you succeed", and "oh, you beat a boss to a certain line, let them shoot an super attack" instead of you know, continuing the fight like a proper prepared person, you get interrupted by secret backups and sudden awakenings - which last even longer, and detract from gameplay, in my opinion.

Now for actual story that this game has, which I'll have to warn about having spoilers, well, you play as a magician, who continues their venture from the prequel game, while knowing the events done by its protagonist - and after doing various stuff, like somehow losing to force of heaven and getting cursed with lust, then overpowering yourself through desperation, and defeating the holy evil - almost at cost of your life, just like the previous game protagonist. And just like losing all hope, it suddenly gets back - basically bittersweet moment that instantly turns into hope because we can't kill off an important character yet. Overall, fairly average, but it could be worse like other cookie cutter RPGs that are pure nightmare or boredom to play.

Now for gameplay, which is similar to the prequel, but instead of animated sprite doing the combat, and generating TP before unleashing your power attacks, you unleash spells instead - basically just get high enough level, upgrade your spells enough, get the best equipment, and you are set for the entire experience - which I thought of more than just that. Overall, the gameplay is average...just like its predecessor, expect you have the TP bar replaced with lust, which makes you want to kill enemies as quickly as possible before you'll be stunned for several turns - and they already die quickly enough before that one becomes prevalent...unless you lose too much, or fighting a boss.

Also, there's one minigame, that is in prologue ship area, where if you do not go to the deck yet, you can find a chest, that triggers a lockpicking minigame - and only 1 in the entire game, which makes its presence rather disappointing, because features that can make the game good if done properly should have a good enough presence before being forgotten almost instantly.

The sexual element, which is something I usually point out but never rate because I judge the general quality rather than that unless it has a heavy impact/main point of the product, well, is scarce and mixed with all kinds of desires, from bestiality(which is gross, in my view), lesbianism, and others - fairly decent amount of interests overall, nothing too abnormal, aside from creature intercourse and growing parts. But encountering them during normal path makes them fairly scarce, and even if you do get into it otherwise, its still fairly small amount of.

So...how this game fares overall? I'd say...fairly decent, but nothing much - just pretty stuff, a story that makes sense but falls into too many average anime tropes and could be better, gameplay that is fairly average...basically only thing that is really good is art, but whenever it has problems with proportions and such is...up to debate. Neither bad, neither good - I have seen games that do their supposed job much better, while also not being bad enough, which I am thankful it's not - the worse the bad element is, like a improper or not good enough translation, the worse the product overall - I would say, I felt nothing after completing it, however, the price tag of 15$ for what amounts to about 3-4 hour(maybe 5-6 if you try to get the alternate ending after knowing the normal story)experience like its predecessor, I do not think its good enough to justify the price for a fairly average experience. Pretty but not good.

Edit: So I tried to get the supposed alternate "bad" ending, and oh boy, the prerequisites are so ambiguous with intentionally losing to pre-placed traps to even get to that point, not helped by fact you have to do those repetitive acts like for eternity(increase/decrease in stats in final zone didn't help either)until you can even get onto that path - meaning it takes more effort to get that special scene than to complete the game!

The game states that all characters are 18+ of age, but the actual situation tells otherwise - there's a midget martial artist, who's referred as a child by bystanders when you try to free her off the box, and a underage boy, who you can offer sexual favors with...after you get cursed that is. Pretty bad excuse when you have scenes like that, isn't it? Not to people who's here for sex of course, but to hypocritical statements that everyone's adult here but still have childlike characters - which really kills the statement in the first place.

As for game itself, just like I said before, it hits between average to bad, which due to fact there words speak better than the rating itself, I'd say - average trope hitting story that cannot be taken really seriously, or funny for that point(but not bad), average gameplay that brings nothing new to the table(but not bad either), sexual elements being fairly uncommon(even if you try, they are unsatisfying), generic music(but not bad at very least), translation is enough to understand stuff(but very sloppy to be called professional for money), short and overpriced(now that's a bad point). If I only had a choice between yes or no, I would say no for sure, after all considerations.