RPGM - Completed - Black Souls [Final] [Eeny, meeny, miny, moe?]

loved the game i really dont know what to say other than that. this game in it of itself isnt the best of the best sure, but compared to every other rpgmaker porn game out there it may as well be called a masterpiece, besides the sequel is really fucking good

A video game masterpiece. It's not just a 5/5 for an H-game. It's a 5/5 for a video game.
Really, you can play it for the porn, but you will find one of the best video game of all time.
The story, the characters, the exploration, the freedom, the unique art style, the athmosphere... This game is a fucking masterpiece. Really, just play it.

Good story, many girl for you to choice, combat hard ( because game has "soul" in the name. Many ending and big plot for the final end. First i look to art and think "this game draw in paint" but gameplay and story blow me away. I think black soul 2 will be next game I play.

I was initially skeptical about the game due to its less-than-impressive poster, but once I started playing, I was pleasantly surprised. The game offers a rich and immersive lore that truly captivated me. While the combat was initially challenging, especially for those unfamiliar with games like Dark Souls, it proved to be a rewarding experience as I honed my skills and developed better strategies. As I progressed, I found myself deeply engaged with the game's lore, eagerly uncovering the stories, secrets, and meeting intriguing new characters. The only disappointment came when the game abruptly ended, leaving me craving for more.

Just a thing, this is not a your typical horror game as you might feel sad after you try to achieve the true ending, the things you have do for it, you might not like that. So be warned, do not form actual attachments to any characters.

Overall rating: 2/5
Technical rating: 3/5: The lore-building sets itself from the sea of mediocre eroges. The combat is half turn-based, half-realtime. However, overworld graphics are mediocre stock RPGM graphics.
Enjoyment: 1/5: The early game experience did not give me any desire to keep playing. After playing for 15 minutes, i did not find any sense of direction, just annoying enemies in every direction, and bosses that 1-hit.

My new Favorite game on the site, Thought id dislike it because of the art style but turned out much better than i thought. Loved the scenes, characters and the story, though not sure how far i would have gotten without a guide.

epic game. i'll skip the art and gameplay details, as it's such a bother to write. but it's pretty good, though the lore is definitely the smoking gun

The Lore is a gem, like a sweet lover greeting you in the arms after a long day of work. If I had a Soul for every time I think about the game's lore, I'd have maybe 200-ish souls by now.

Don't be fooled, however, thinking that the game is meant to be played with one run. I recommend at least 5 runs, if you're a n00b.

I'm not here for a quick fap, I'm here for the story. It has my favorite atmosphere, mostly dark and gloomy. The characters in the game may be familiar to you from somewhere, but not in their happy state. It actually tells the truth of fairy tales. Before they were suitable for children. The music and sounds make the great atmosphere even better. The game is easy, especially if you followed the walkthrough. Art isn't for everyone, but it's definitely great for me. Bosses are quite different from each other. I've never encountered a bug.

Oh, without forgetting, you can be good or bad in this game. Up to you.

To summarize, this is a game containing porn, not a porn game. Which is better for me. I'm going to the second game now, definitely play it!

at first i dismissed this game as an over-complicated mess of half baked ideas, but giving it a second chance i fell in love with this game. if you're looking for a quick release (like me the first time) then this game is probably not for you. the game borrows heavily from the souls series and adds some ideas of it's own. the progression is really fluent and i haven't had any trouble with navigating the map, it all seems well thought out and neatly put together. the game takes about 15 to 20 hours and has multiple endings, the characters are great, and the art even better. i'm not sure why this artstyle appeals to me so much, but it's just so simple and elegant. sex scenes, although sparse are great and the combat even better. not gonna lie i've had more fun playing this game that any of the souls games, give this game a chance.

fromsoft hire this guy

Decent art for being drawn, I found the game very complex and unenjoyably due to how complex everything was. It was way too much work, and not enough fun.

As someone else said the sex scenes are lacking in the game, which is normally fine if everything else is ok.

I give one start for moderately good writing and one start for the artwork. As far a story a pliability, That is just lacking in this project.

Do you remember those fairy tales that you read as a kid? Have you imagined what happened to those fairy tales when the story is over? Have you ever imagined what it would be when you live with those fairy tales? Then wonder no longer, this game is for you *

"My son first played this game as a virgin, now he's a depressed virgin, 10/10", local dad

"My daughter played it when a stranger in internet recommend it, now she won't get out of her room. Sometimes i heard her crying from her room. Well, at least she won't get pregnant anytime soon", local mom

"My sister always bugged me to read her fairy tales stories before she go to sleep, even though she's 10 years old now. After i tell her the story of this game, she never ask me to tell her fairy tales again. Thank you BLACKSOULS", local brother

*terms and conditions may apply, sanity not guaranteed

AMAZING GAME, the turn-based combat is okay, but it's made better with the parry, evade, and that bar that indicates when your enemy will attack System.
But that's just the side content because this game's lore is magnificent, I loved the homage to some of the characters, Tortoise and Hare were Pate and Creighton , Caramille was Kalameet, and many more.
And most characters are uhhhh......

Absolute fucking ruthless.

Overall, Great game 10/10, It may or may not be a biased opinion.

Not only a memorable experience, but one that will also leave you craving for more.

This game is pretty good. It honestly doesn't even feel like an H-game at all. Don't get it wrong, there's plenty of CG, but Black Souls simply feels like an actual RPG.

• The world is as fascinating Dark Souls'.
• The music was spot-on.
• Bosses all feel unique. Hell, it's been over 6 months and I still remember a few.
• The characters are really fleshed out and even have their own questlines with their own endings.
• Don't even get me started with the actual ending of the game, it's simply genius. I didn't expect to have such a difficult choice. I love it.

This game is heavily insipired by Dark Souls 1. It doesn't give you any directions, just a goal: Murder X people, reach the castle gate, and become king. Usual souls plot.

However, Black Souls is not perfect:

• The game is just too easy. Compared to your usual souls, there is no "builds" in this game. You simply level up and you are allowed to use whatever you want. This means the following: You can be a tank that can also wield heavy ass weapons in one hand while casting ridiculously overpowered magic on your other hand. By late-game, bosses simply die.
• Save system: I honestly wish this game had the souls save system: It saves whenever you reach a checkpoint. Instead, the game allows you to save at any moment, allowing save-scumming, which really reduces the already-easy-difficulty with a save system that makes it so that you can't die. Dying and learning from it is what makes Fromsoftware games unique. This game doesn't have that.

Black Souls is probably one of the best H-Games I have played. I honestly wanted more after beating it. It's a pity it's not on steam because I'd honestly be willing to buy this game.

git gud or alice trying
this is a very nice game. more strategic combat than the sequel.
you may or may not cry.

required reading before getting into the sequel.
in this game the abyss truly does stare back at you.

This game is incredibly difficult to actually get through, I managed to soft lock myself even with a walkthrough. Feels like lots of the content is cryptically hidden. Not a whole lot of sex scenes, but the art was good.

I really wanted to rate this game a 5, but the combat was too punishing in my opinion. It detracted from the enjoyment of the rest of the game.

The story is well written and the art style is very unique. I can say these are the parts of the game I enjoyed the most.

It's certainly worth your time checking out, you can tell the maker put a lot of work into it, and they've created a really cool world. I just had a hard time with the combat. I found myself avoiding it most of the time when I could. YMMV.

One of the best RPGM games out there, if not the best. Combat is very engaging and unique, lore is very interesting to follow (which on this site happens rarely enough to be pointed out), art is unique and for me personally absolutely beautiful since it fits the scenery, map is huge and game is filled with nonlinearity (meaning u can technically go wherever you want, you might get fucked if you enter somewhere if ur not strong enough though).

There is alot more to point out but you can get more throughout reasons why this game deserves all the attention it got from other reviews. This is without a question 5 stars, wish I could give it even more.

Amazing game full of SOUL
Don't be discouraged by sketchy art
Very engaging combat that really lives up to the game's namesake and feels like turn based dark souls. Story is sparse at first and you have to piece it together yourself but the ending is absolutely worth it.

I HATE, HATE, HATE rpgmaker games, yet this... THIS... Is THE ONLY GOOD RPGMAKER GAME.

I hope the needless styling conveys how strongly I assert this position. Most RPGmaker games I drop within minutes or begrudgingly play for h in the case of hgame RPGmaker games like Roundscape, but this game... I was hooked within the first five minutes and I played for eleven hours straight without eating.

5/5 - The best RPGmaker game in existence.

Come for the sex, stay for the depression.

Black Souls is a very high-effort Souls-like RPG-Maker game with sexual content.

I think it's a very good game overall but what really stood out to me was its ability to evoke a fairly wide range of emotions.
There are scene that are genuinely sad, disturbing, heartwarming, and even cute.
It's a much wider range than I expected from a "porn" game.
That said, it's a pretty dark game overall so expect that to be the prevailing theme.

I'll now go into a bit more detail about the different aspects of the game:

General Setup:
As the name implies, Black Souls is Dark Souls inspired.
- Game is set in a dark medieval fantasy type world
- You earn "Souls" which are both your general currency and used to level up
- There are bonfires which serve as heal stations and fast-travel locations
- There are fog-gates before boss encounters and combat is pretty challenging
- The map is not strictly linear and you have some freedom in the order that you do stuff

Additionally, you can recruit quite a few different (female) companions to aid you in battle.
I think there are about 8 companions you can recruit in total, but only 3 can be summoned at a time so don't expect to use all of them in one playthrough.

This also being a hentai game, giving companions souls to level-up comes with a sex scene and you can also fuck them normally in a few situations.
For the more evil-minded people, you can also rape any women you come across (including your companions) as well as kill any NPC.
The "evil" aspect of the game didn't appeal to me personally but there is plenty of lewd content even without it so it's not required to have a good time.

The premise of the story is that you have this fog that is turning people into demon-beasts.
To stop the fog you need to defeat a head demonic princess, and to even approach said princess you need to kill or make a deal with 4 other demonic princesses that are spread across the map.

All bosses you encounter are based off of a fairy tale, though they tend to be heavily twisted in some sort of dark way. As an example, one of the first bosses you encounter, Hansel and Gretel, have the modified backstory of "Abandoned by their mother during a famine, Hansel and Gretel hallucinate a house made of cake"


A dynamic changing world:
One of the signs that this is a high-effort game is how the map changes as you progress.
As you defeat bosses time "progresses" and you have NPCs appear, disappear, have new tasks, new bosses appear etc. etc.
Furthermore, this chain of events is not linear which is easy to miss if you only do one playthrough. Depending on what you do, different NPCs will die and/or turn into demonbeasts.

To give an example, on my first playthrough I rescued a companion after defeating a boss. Standard RPG stuff. On my 2nd playthrough I defeated the boss later and the companion was just dead. Had that been my first playthrough I would have dismissed her as just one of the many corpses you come across, but no. I could have saved her, but she died because I wasn't fast enough. Truth hurts.


The combat system:
Dark Souls has a very skill-based combat system, so you might wonder how that translates to an RPG Maker game where battles are primarily stat based.
You would be right to worry that instead of being fun challenges, bosses are just level-checks that you need to grind for.

Having done my second playthrough on the highest difficulty where pretty much everything will 1-shot you if given the chance, I can happily report that the game is beatable with very minimal grinding.

What makes the combat work are a few aspects:

1. Non-alternating combat turns
In BS each character has an AP bar that fills up according to their "Speed" stat.
When the bar is full, they get to take their turn.
So different characters take actions at different rates, which adds a lot of potential depth to the system.

"Speed" also determines who gets the first action in an encounter, though there is some RNG involved as well.

2. The "Evade" and "Parry" actions
The PC starts with these two actions.

Parry: Until your next turn, negate EVERY standard attack and attack once in response.
Evade: Until your next turn, negate almost everything. (if an action is evadeable, you will evade it every time, but some actions always go through)

Depending on the encounter, Parry can make you invincible while doing damage and Evade can make you invincible in general.

By using these abilities correctly, you can survived encounters even if taking a single hit kills you normally.

3. Status effects
There are numerous status effects, for example:
- Stun
- Sleep
- Poison
- Silence

to name a few. You can probably guess what they do from their names.

Bosses are resistant to these effects, but rarely completely immune.
A lot of battles can be won by figuring out which effects work and applying it at the right moment.

4. Buffs and equipment effects
The character can equip one weapon and up to 4 different rings.
Weapons can be upgraded and at their max level they usually give a powerful new effect.
Basic rings will just give general stat upgrades or make you immune to a certain effect, but some will also grant you very powerful effects.

With the right equipment you can gain effects like taking multiple actions per turn or having a particular stat doubled.
If you know where to find the gear, you can create some very powerful builds.

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With these systems in place, beating a boss is more like a puzzle where you need the right equipment, companions, and strategy rather than just needing enough stats.

That said, the combat is not perfect. My criticisms would be:

1. Taking the first turn is usually essential in order to even have a chance at beating a boss. In that sense, having sufficiently high Speed is a stat requirement for bosses.
This is alleviated a bit by the fact that you can specialize and spend souls to raise only speed, but still.

2. Even a "winning" strategy is usually a bit RNG dependent. It's common that you need a boss to not use a particular skill on a key turn or to not resist a status effect at some point.
So even if your plan is solid, it may only have 20% chance of success and just trying until it works can be annoying.

3. There is no way to check a character's stats in combat. This makes it hard to evaluate whether a buff is worthwhile or not. An ability might say "raises attack" but you have no idea how much it actually raises attack by. You just need to experiment and try to get a feeling for how effective buffs are.


Art-style:
The game uses a very hand-drawn and somewhat scribbly art-style for CG images.
I like it and I think it fits the mood of the game pretty well but I can also see it being unappealing to some people.
Take a look at some of the sample images and decide whether it bothers you.


Quantity of hentai content:
In what I think is a bit of a design issue with the game, it falls into an awkward spot where I don't think it has enough sexual content to be worth playing for that alone, most of the time you are fighting pretty un-sexy monsters, but the sexual content that is there makes it hard to recommend to any normie friends.

So it has a target audience of people who are fine with the sexual content but aren't using it as their primary motivator.


Conclusion:
Anyways, I absolutely recommend this game to anyone who enjoys dark fantasy settings and challenging gameplay.
The game has a lot of care and effort put into it and it really shows.