Ashley The Pirate: I give this game 5 Stars.
I spent literally hours and hours playing it, and I will tell you why. There is a lot that could be nit-picked on, the english is not good, the dialogue is not good. "Let's make sex." (Ha ha ha). "Okay." (Ha ha ha). There's grind and repetitiveness. I expected to the whole pirate thing to be way bigger, to be honest. Like, way more than just 1 available ship to buy and way more sea battles and treasures. I kinda would like to be a pirate in all my games, ha ha. AtP shows you ocean which is big, with big space that's completely empty and you can find islands only here and there, and usually there's just a 2-3 other ships you keep repeatedly bumping into, which is a pitty. On the other hand, there's many similar looking games, to give example, Tr.as.re H.nt.r Cl.ire offered me about 5% of enjoyment in compare to this.
First, it's female MC and I am a female player. I do like my lewd though, so don't underestimate me in this, ha ha. (I just did not appreciate the amount of blowj scenes in compare to Ashley being licked - THAT I discovered only very late in the game: I had to be in prison for that. For me, the prison was heaven! ha ha)
I love playing as a girl because I am a girl. So, that's why this appealed to me and I very much appreciated that the various companions, who presented themselves to be her aid, were optional. And I could quickly dispose of them and just keep fighting on my girl lonesome. For me it was more engaging, and each achievement more satisfying. Granted that the fights are so easy in this game, I did not really want the help, ha ha. Which brings me to the combat scenes. The new fighting system which came with the version 0.4 and higher (before, I had to keep the dog, because I could not quite get it on my own
is brilliant and better than in all these other games. All the other games have it somehow chaotic, I lose half battles because I missclick or something. This game has it neat. I know what I'm doing at all times. It even has animation. If you equip Ashley with a Bow, you will see her shooting a bow. Might look seem granted, but after I tried other "similar" games....! I love the use of the keyboard. Arrows + Enter suffice you to rule the whole game, not just fights but general movement and doing stuff (with Always Dash on). I like the slow "leveling up" through collecting experience in each and every fight. You also collect/buy new weapons, and Skills. The only "flaw" is, some Skills make you so powerful that any fight is won very fast. You don't have to use them, though;-) Actually every single fight here is easy to win, when you know what to do. It's not really challenging, but it's enjoyable for people who hate it difficult. All the fights are also meant to be erotic
You can avoid it, but again, you don't have to;-) And you can still win the fight!
Personally I love that there's no time pressure and you can literally "snack" a herb/potion to recharge and then continue beating each other to death, lol (well, actually not death, but sex, ha ha). The fights in AtP are not something to run from. If you want that, just turn on Always Dash in Options, you avoid most of the fights just by going past the enemies. But, do you know? You will soon seek them out, because fights bring you more power, stuff, money & fun (if you still somehow manage to lose, ha ha).
Art in the game looks beautiful. The small/map art is the japanese style. Character art is good. Ashley looks great. The men in the game are hot, too. They all have handsome face, it's kinda the same face with modifications, but I don't mind. In versions 0.5 they ceased looking like animals/children/dwarves to make the h-scenes more vanilla but I personally don't mind. The art could still be improved, but I don't actually wish for it. I like Ashley as she is, in current version 0.6. There were plans to update her looks to be even more appealing, luckilly it was used in the Luna Oddsey game, where the girl is beautiful but I just prefer Ashley as she is. It would not be her anymore.
H-scenes all have animation and are actually quite hot
There's a lot of them, many are similar, still there's decent enough variety. It's japanese type of scenes, so all the guys either completely mess the girl's face, or they cum inside, talking about impregnating her, or milking her breasts. Which is both a bit weird, but easily ignored. The milk content luckilly can be turned off, on the other hand, if you are into that, you can engage in milking A LOT. Then, you can even sell the milk (you won't be the only one in the game doing that, ha ha). You can't entirely skip thes h-scenes (once you let them happen). But you can move through them quickly, by pressing Enter quickly. You don't have to hurry though, if you do enjoy them, you can leave them "looping" longer
Nevertheless, in this game, with consistent gaming (like never losing a fight) and choices, you can manage to keep the MC a virgin. Also, you can even give her a romantic(!) partner if you decide that at any point later in the game.
The music contains tracks from some kind of shared gaming library I suppose, because I heard it elsewhere, some of it is quite pleasant, some of it sounds even beautiful (the Ice Labyrinth track), some might get annoying but you have of course the option to keep it low, both in game option and your pc sound card. So there's hardly a problem.
It could be said that this game is not very challenging. Because it really is easy. But I personally hate too difficult games that make me stuck in a place, not knowing how to move past some point. AtP appealed to me with it's open nature, where I could freely choose where to go and what to do. The game always rewards you for doing certain things, on the other hand, it does not punish you for not doing it. All your options are left open, and you can re-visit them any time you like. Personally, I was engaged with many details as building my strength, earning money, getting new items, new outfits (those were so great!
, in the end even buying my own ship. I am the kind who doesn't mind some grind in my game. I toiled in other games for lot less, ha ha. Here, it pleased me even such details like I could buy more kinds of food
I concentrated on just Ashley as individualist-kind of player, but you can just as well play it team-like, with 1-3 people constantly tailing you, if you're into that.
Sometimes, I am the kind of player who rebels against what the game pushes you into. But I must compliment AtP for the concept of you collecting the Quests like you collect mushrooms in the forest. If you accept a Quest, then you move on in the game. If not, then you can enjoy yourself as you are. When you decide later that you'll do it, it still waits there for you. It's the same with people. You can develop a story with them, or leave them be entirely ignored. Except a few exceptions, you can enter a small space with them there, but they will not interact with you if YOU won't. Hell, you can sneak into their house and do whatever, they won't bother you unless you talk to them first, ha ha. I sometimes avoided certain things because I thought that would be ugly. And the game let me. Then I could change my mind, even quite late in the game. It just opened me new possibilities. Nothing really bad happens to you in AtP, not if you really don't wish it. And you know what? I somehow appreciate that, ha ha.
In short, I do encourage you to try. Yes, this game is not finished and might never be, nevertheless it offers so much fun already and you can spend literally days in it. Not just yours, also Ashley's. Yes, there is a day-night circle, so you should eat & drink at least a little, but that's not what most important about it. If the game offers you "Adventure Mode" or so called survival mode, don't be too scared to take that option. Yes, you should drink and eat every day, which at least motivates you to spend all that money, but really it's nothing major. Being too hungry never actually prevented me from keep doing anything, or anyone, ha ha (I later read that there were some scenes only available if my MC was sleepy, like guys trying to molest her in the pub, but I took such a good care of her that missed on that fun, damn, ha ha). Even completely broke, you can eat for free if you kill crab on the beach and eat its meat, or collect and eat carrots in Carrot Forrest among all the fighting, ha ha. One place has free water. On the other hand, with money you can stock yourself with 99 of each kind of food/drink there is, it apparently never gets stale or too heavy to carry, ha ha. So, there's no need to be scared of that mode much. Why I mention the day/night is most importantly because it affect which activities are available for you to do, some places change from being open/closed, some people change their location, and most guys talk completely different stuff when you talk to them at day, and at night. Even if your "days" can get repetitive, this will keep you engaged. Most times other people even react on what you wear. You can tell that the author of the game, YioruYioru, has both sense of humor & kind heart. In other words, if you're not that hung up on the main story, that she should eventually find her lost father the Blue King, bla bla... You should still enjoy this A LOT!
I still did not mention half the stuff. Find out on your own;-)
In the end, you might be like me. I'd like this game to keep on and on. I'd like more Ashley world to roam. I'd like new treasure hunts and bounty hunts and delivery jobs to keep coming. I'd like the sandy island to have different food in the pub than the volcano island. I'd like the merchant ships to actually offer something different, and something different every time (when they do bussiness only with other ships, not boats, and when they boast about selling ANYTHING, stolen or not:-D) I'd like vast variety of clothes and weapons and other functional stuff to buy. I'd like sooo much... Because I like this game so much. I'd like to just explore more, even without some firmly scheduled Quest. Playing other games, I catch myself wishing them to be like this one.
I spent literally hours and hours playing it, and I will tell you why. There is a lot that could be nit-picked on, the english is not good, the dialogue is not good. "Let's make sex." (Ha ha ha). "Okay." (Ha ha ha). There's grind and repetitiveness. I expected to the whole pirate thing to be way bigger, to be honest. Like, way more than just 1 available ship to buy and way more sea battles and treasures. I kinda would like to be a pirate in all my games, ha ha. AtP shows you ocean which is big, with big space that's completely empty and you can find islands only here and there, and usually there's just a 2-3 other ships you keep repeatedly bumping into, which is a pitty. On the other hand, there's many similar looking games, to give example, Tr.as.re H.nt.r Cl.ire offered me about 5% of enjoyment in compare to this.
First, it's female MC and I am a female player. I do like my lewd though, so don't underestimate me in this, ha ha. (I just did not appreciate the amount of blowj scenes in compare to Ashley being licked - THAT I discovered only very late in the game: I had to be in prison for that. For me, the prison was heaven! ha ha)
I love playing as a girl because I am a girl. So, that's why this appealed to me and I very much appreciated that the various companions, who presented themselves to be her aid, were optional. And I could quickly dispose of them and just keep fighting on my girl lonesome. For me it was more engaging, and each achievement more satisfying. Granted that the fights are so easy in this game, I did not really want the help, ha ha. Which brings me to the combat scenes. The new fighting system which came with the version 0.4 and higher (before, I had to keep the dog, because I could not quite get it on my own
Art in the game looks beautiful. The small/map art is the japanese style. Character art is good. Ashley looks great. The men in the game are hot, too. They all have handsome face, it's kinda the same face with modifications, but I don't mind. In versions 0.5 they ceased looking like animals/children/dwarves to make the h-scenes more vanilla but I personally don't mind. The art could still be improved, but I don't actually wish for it. I like Ashley as she is, in current version 0.6. There were plans to update her looks to be even more appealing, luckilly it was used in the Luna Oddsey game, where the girl is beautiful but I just prefer Ashley as she is. It would not be her anymore.
H-scenes all have animation and are actually quite hot
The music contains tracks from some kind of shared gaming library I suppose, because I heard it elsewhere, some of it is quite pleasant, some of it sounds even beautiful (the Ice Labyrinth track), some might get annoying but you have of course the option to keep it low, both in game option and your pc sound card. So there's hardly a problem.
It could be said that this game is not very challenging. Because it really is easy. But I personally hate too difficult games that make me stuck in a place, not knowing how to move past some point. AtP appealed to me with it's open nature, where I could freely choose where to go and what to do. The game always rewards you for doing certain things, on the other hand, it does not punish you for not doing it. All your options are left open, and you can re-visit them any time you like. Personally, I was engaged with many details as building my strength, earning money, getting new items, new outfits (those were so great!
Sometimes, I am the kind of player who rebels against what the game pushes you into. But I must compliment AtP for the concept of you collecting the Quests like you collect mushrooms in the forest. If you accept a Quest, then you move on in the game. If not, then you can enjoy yourself as you are. When you decide later that you'll do it, it still waits there for you. It's the same with people. You can develop a story with them, or leave them be entirely ignored. Except a few exceptions, you can enter a small space with them there, but they will not interact with you if YOU won't. Hell, you can sneak into their house and do whatever, they won't bother you unless you talk to them first, ha ha. I sometimes avoided certain things because I thought that would be ugly. And the game let me. Then I could change my mind, even quite late in the game. It just opened me new possibilities. Nothing really bad happens to you in AtP, not if you really don't wish it. And you know what? I somehow appreciate that, ha ha.
In short, I do encourage you to try. Yes, this game is not finished and might never be, nevertheless it offers so much fun already and you can spend literally days in it. Not just yours, also Ashley's. Yes, there is a day-night circle, so you should eat & drink at least a little, but that's not what most important about it. If the game offers you "Adventure Mode" or so called survival mode, don't be too scared to take that option. Yes, you should drink and eat every day, which at least motivates you to spend all that money, but really it's nothing major. Being too hungry never actually prevented me from keep doing anything, or anyone, ha ha (I later read that there were some scenes only available if my MC was sleepy, like guys trying to molest her in the pub, but I took such a good care of her that missed on that fun, damn, ha ha). Even completely broke, you can eat for free if you kill crab on the beach and eat its meat, or collect and eat carrots in Carrot Forrest among all the fighting, ha ha. One place has free water. On the other hand, with money you can stock yourself with 99 of each kind of food/drink there is, it apparently never gets stale or too heavy to carry, ha ha. So, there's no need to be scared of that mode much. Why I mention the day/night is most importantly because it affect which activities are available for you to do, some places change from being open/closed, some people change their location, and most guys talk completely different stuff when you talk to them at day, and at night. Even if your "days" can get repetitive, this will keep you engaged. Most times other people even react on what you wear. You can tell that the author of the game, YioruYioru, has both sense of humor & kind heart. In other words, if you're not that hung up on the main story, that she should eventually find her lost father the Blue King, bla bla... You should still enjoy this A LOT!
I still did not mention half the stuff. Find out on your own;-)
In the end, you might be like me. I'd like this game to keep on and on. I'd like more Ashley world to roam. I'd like new treasure hunts and bounty hunts and delivery jobs to keep coming. I'd like the sandy island to have different food in the pub than the volcano island. I'd like the merchant ships to actually offer something different, and something different every time (when they do bussiness only with other ships, not boats, and when they boast about selling ANYTHING, stolen or not:-D) I'd like vast variety of clothes and weapons and other functional stuff to buy. I'd like sooo much... Because I like this game so much. I'd like to just explore more, even without some firmly scheduled Quest. Playing other games, I catch myself wishing them to be like this one.