Arvus Games desperately wants this to be a prestige RPG, the best that NSFW RPGM games have to offer. It... doesn't land. The writing and art are solid, but don't back up their vision (and frankly, for an NSFW game, 2 scenes per character is kinda pathetic). The mechanics are decently well-executed, but again nothing revolutionary-- and more to the point, the gameplay loop gets real tedious, real fast.
Despite my review and general negativity towards this game, I think it's *almost* quite good, actually. For the content and CGs as-is: cut the game time by a lot. Like, minimum 50% cut. It's just too slow-paced for what it has to offer. Even with that, I think the game is a little bloated with characters for what is on offer. If, instead of the 2 meh scenes with 3-4 characters, we got a much more focused game that had 8-10 scenes with just elf girl, I would have enjoyed the game a lot more. Again, contingent on cutting out gameplay.
If Arvus actually wants to have the prestige RPG that all their effects and attention to detail seem to indicate, they just need to add a lot more CGs, basically. I recognize that's not always realistic, as adding more art can cost a lot of time and money, but I feel real bad for anyone who bought this on Steam as-is. The time and gameplay investment would feel worth it to me if we got 5-6 CGs per character, maybe. More would be better.
Hope Arvus can learn from this in the future, this does have some promise.
Despite my review and general negativity towards this game, I think it's *almost* quite good, actually. For the content and CGs as-is: cut the game time by a lot. Like, minimum 50% cut. It's just too slow-paced for what it has to offer. Even with that, I think the game is a little bloated with characters for what is on offer. If, instead of the 2 meh scenes with 3-4 characters, we got a much more focused game that had 8-10 scenes with just elf girl, I would have enjoyed the game a lot more. Again, contingent on cutting out gameplay.
If Arvus actually wants to have the prestige RPG that all their effects and attention to detail seem to indicate, they just need to add a lot more CGs, basically. I recognize that's not always realistic, as adding more art can cost a lot of time and money, but I feel real bad for anyone who bought this on Steam as-is. The time and gameplay investment would feel worth it to me if we got 5-6 CGs per character, maybe. More would be better.
Hope Arvus can learn from this in the future, this does have some promise.