Unity - Completed - At the Mountains of Friendship [v1.4] [Apollo Seven]

[Review of v1.0 on 9/23/2023]

Apollo Seven! How've you been? I haven't played one of your titles since TF Card Battle. What have you been up to? Oh really? Oh... Oh wow. Yeah, that's a lot. Okay. Yup. Nice. Okay, yeah, I'm down. Let's try it out.

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At the Mountains of Friendship is pretty good. While the game is not necessarily mind blowing, I do think that this reflects Apollo Seven's relatively high skill and experience in the porn game space.

Let's do a quick overview.

The game is split into two phases -- preparation and battle.

The battle phase is fairly simple; split your party of up to five girls to do battle with up to three eldritch horrors and find out if they are strong enough to save the world.

The real challenge, however, is in the preparation phase before each battle. You can spend eldritch power each preparation phase to either add a new girl to your five-girl team, buy an item for a girl, add a boost to a girl's experience so she levels up sooner, or to swap out the active ability of a girl you already have. Each girl has a unique play style or intended use that is implied by their unique abilities, and figuring out how best to level them and team them up (or keep them solo) can change how effectively they can grow in strength for future battles.

As the girls battle on your behalf, your eldritch influence starts to make them horny and highly susceptible to their own unique sexual kinks. During preparation phases, you can watch short story snippets showing how much their corruption has grown. Depending on your team makeup, there are also scenes involving two girls at a time (and their relevant kinks).

The artwork is honestly just okay in my opinion, but the writing is pretty good, which helps the scenes a lot. Each girl has their own personality, which helps sell their kinks and styles of play.

However, I suggest only watching scenes the first time you try a girl out, and then watching the rest of that girl's scenes in the scene viewer later. Since scenes have to all be watched in order for every new playthrough, it can get a little annoying to halt all preparation phase planning just to hit the skip button on a scene you've already watched.

Altogether, I spent a few hours enjoying this game, and I found a scene I liked to finish it on a high note. This gets a hearty recommendation from me. Good stuff!

Its a rougelite puzzle battler. And, well, I really don't know much how to describe it beyond that. You get points every round to spend on a random selection of characters, buying them equipment, or giving them extra exp. Points can also be spent to reroll the current stock, and characters can be repurchased to change their random modifier. Then you take your crew against eldritch monsters, divvying them up against your foes and watching the battle unfold. Its actually all remarkably in-depth, and I found myself actually engaged with the systems, a rare find on this site for sure. To top it all off, there is a full range of difficulty options that make the game remarkably fun to progress through. My only complaint with the battle system is you can't return to the "shop" area and retool things once you have viewed the upcoming battle.

Story is more a framework then an actual attempt at narrative, and more a collection of small character pieces. Character stories progress as you use them and level them up, with every character getting at least one dedicated scene with every other character as they fight together, which is actually quite a bit of writing given the roster. Some stories feel like they have more depth then others though, but they're all interesting little stories nonetheless, and I am rather fond of how their progression goes, and how it is reflected in their appearance as it goes on. A nice touch for sure. Oh, and there is also a small amount of voice acting. Its just for combat rather then the VN-ish part of the game, but the voices are really, really well done.

Scenes are good, with really well done and interesting character interactions. Every character has a specific fetish you can see when recruiting them, and every character has at least 2 scenes for maxing out their relationship with a specific other character. None of the scenes are amazing or anything, but are still very well done for sure. Plus, all scenes can unlocked from the start in the options, for those who just came for a wank.

I was wishing for more by the end of it, and while I first assumed that Apollo might give it some updates as they usually do for their games, there was no point in assuming, as its clear from the menus that adding more content is the plan, and I eagerly look forward to it.

(Review made for V1.0)

This is surprisingly a very solid game.
Its challenging, but difficulty could be adjusted, and quite repayable.
All the characters are different skillwise, combining them to find a perfect set is very fun, Honestly, i came for some porn, but stayed for several hours for gameplay itself.
Graphic is fine for an american game, music and general design are also good.
I cut 1 star for that tiresome SJW shit , but for most of time it can be ignored.
All in all, it was fun

Quite excellent! The art is great, the characters are great, something for everyone here.

Each girl has their own little story that advances as you use them and a few scenes for maxed relationships between them. The game is pretty unforgiving on the normal difficulty so if you just want the porn make sure to toggle the difficulty down to -10.