I think Black Souls II is bad, and I recognize that just saying that isn’t going to prove anything and everyone’s just gonna think I’m trolling. So I’m gonna play through as much of it as I can sit through and give it my genuine criticisms live. QA testers don’t get paid to be nice, and I don’t get paid at all, so this isn’t gonna be a friendly time.
-Originally I complained about there being a “Fufu” in the first line of the game. I thought this game was made by American weebs for a long time but they’re actually Japanese so I’ll let it slide.
-Describes a character's voice as “translucent”. I don’t think they know what translucent means. Again I’ll blame the translator for this one, not the dev. I wrote this point when I thought they were American.
-Creepy loli incest in the first scene. Don’t pretend that anybody picked the options to make her different ages, you know what this game is and who it’s for.
-First area looks terrible. I know what they were going for with the Ludwig corpses and the Alice in Wonderland floating furniture, it just looks bad. There’s no depth or perspective, it doesn’t even really look like they tried.
-Bunny disco dance room is the second location in this atmospheric horror game.
-Cringy fake player messages. Could have been interesting ways to see the thoughts of other adventurers and flesh out the history and atmosphere of the area, but the area is a disco bunny dance hall and all the messages are just dark souls memes.
-Loli catgirl in second room
-This dev doesn’t know what a horror game is. It’s loli hentai first, horror never. People say this game is on par with if not better than Fear and Hunger. Is the loli hentai meant to BE the horror? Like “look how immoral this game is, you can do such evil things”? Because I’ve been on the internet longer than a week and after witnessing your eighth literal on-camera murder you kind of stop being disturbed by “what if cartoon character but evil?” I don’t think any of the pedophilia is meant to be dark or immoral in the context of the game though, this is a loli game so it’s considered normal I assume. In that case, the only “scary” thing I’ve seen is the talking bunny monster and I don’t think we need to go over why that isn’t scary given the fact that it’s a talking bunny monster.
-“Rape” option on NPCs isn’t a bad idea for a morally grey erotic-horror game, but all the npcs are little girls and there’s no horror so this is just a game about raping little girls. It doesn’t have the writing to make an option like that compelling.
-If this was Black Souls 1 i’d forgive a lot of these little things but you already had a whole game to learn not to do this. The more I play this game the more clear it becomes that all of the gameplay is just an incidental way to connect the sex scenes, which is the main problem I have with ero games in general. Don’t make an ero game if you don’t have any ideas for the game part. This could have been a comic and it would've been quicker and easier for everyone involved.
-Enemies look nothing like their overworld sprites, which are bad. The entire overworld so far is pretty weakly designed and the combat is just vanilla RPG maker combat reskinned with dark souls words. All the pixel art is extremely weak to be honest.
-This game really wants to be dark souls despite seeming to have learned nothing from the level design and atmosphere of the game it is claiming to be inspired by.
-The biggest upside I see people bring up about this game is its art. So far the vast majority of which has been premade assets that come free with RPG maker. The original art that I have seen is good. Not great, but extremely solid. It’s certainly not worth playing this to see. I’ve been studying art my entire life. I’m a self taught traditional and digital artist with 10+ years studying human anatomy and still life painting, and in my expert opinion this is an extremely solid foundation to branch out from. They’ve got a really great style, personally I wouldn’t feel comfortable selling a game drawn in it at this point though. I would do a bit more study and try to hone the style just a bit more first. A lot of the art feels like concept sketches or a first draft, and I get that a lot of that is the intentional style of the game but it doesn’t always come across that way. The game doesn’t have enough of a consistent style to justify those choices. When playing a game you shouldn’t have to give the devs the benefit of the doubt all the time in order to appreciate it. That’s the most frustrating thing about this game, there’s real skill somewhere inside it but it’s buried by all this annoying cringy clutter.
-”puzzle” where you walk into a door that you can’t do anything but walk into a few times.
-I can’t get mad at the mandatory death because Fromsoft loves that trick too but making me die to a bunny is stupid.
-No visual effect for hollowing whatsoever.
-I was gonna diss the stuffed bear but I kinda like him. He does cheer me on in finding my daughter, but I’ll assume he doesn’t know my character's creepy intentions.
-So many combat options with boring descriptions. Most viable thing to do is still just spam basic attack button.
-The bunnies talk to you. Almost closed out right there.
-Made it to my souls, the bunny monster attacked me anyway and I didn’t pick them up.
-The music is good. If it’s original music, I like it and they did a great job.
-The artstyle sort of reminds me of this old point and click game I used to play as a kid where you were a wolf man trying to hunt down a witch who was little red riding hood. It might have just been called Hood? Anyway it’s nostalgic for me so it gets points for evoking good memories. Honestly the more time I spend procrastinating in this monster bunny fight the more I appreciate it. Probably just because the annoying pixel rave is gone.
-I died to the bunny just as I was starting to enjoy the fight and have to run back through the atmosphere ruining disco bunny catgirl clusterfuck that reminds me i’m playing creepy anime bullshit and not Hood. Hood nostalgia points redacted, turned into negative annoying rave points.
-This game feels like I got my little cousin to play dark souls and they were like “um this is boring it would be way more awesome if it had dubstep and epic random bacon”
-You have to unequip your weapon to upgrade it. Also the bear is your level up maiden which seems like such a fucking weird choice in a hentai game. I was absolutely assuming it would be the catgirl. On one hand I want to give them points for originality but on the other hand it feels like they're taking the one little side character I enjoyed and forcing him to be a big unsubtle story point, like watching Planet Sheen instead of just enjoying the character in Jimmy Neutron. Yeah this list has Planet Sheen references, go fuck yourself.
-They made snuggly the crow but instead of shiny stuff it talks about licky licky. I wanna be mad at it but it’s too funny not to give it points.
-Hiding the master key behind me actually interacting with that catgirl is pure evil. I took it because whatever this game has in store for me to get to these areas regularly, I don’t trust it to be worth doing. I actually don't even trust the master key areas to be otherwise accessible.
-Dullahan appeared
-Does this game actually legitimately have fans who actually like it for its gameplay beyond the sex scenes? Like if the game had no porn in it would you still play it? We remember dumb one off NPCs from souls games, I was like “will anybody even remember Dullahan if I write that?” and I don’t know if they will. He’s not a loli so I don’t think anybody who played this cares enough about him to remember him. I remember you, Dullahan. For at least the next ten minutes, I remember.
-I can now drink a smallifying potion that lets me see how bad all the pixel art really is.
-The gun break dodge meta will live for a thousand years
-theres no rabbit theres no rabbit theres no rabbit theres no rabbit -note left by me apparently
-The horses are giraffes. Is there any original pixel art in this entire game?
-Dullahan respawns i’m not remembering him anymore
-Every time I walk past the catgirl in the disco room I remember the kill option exists and it tempts me
-Large rabbit is as dead as this game is shit
-The city past the big rabbit, I’m pretty sure this is where you meet the creature that made me turn the game off the first time I tried to play it.
-Yep. Detective Holmes emerges, because furries are to pedophiles as Marika is to Radagon. My desire to play this game is at an all time low. I don’t want to talk to this obvious OC. Catgirl is already closer to furry than I’m willing to tolerate and now you have given me a whole fuckwolf.
-I wanted to see if the gun break dodge meta could stomp Red Beast but then he attacked 5 times in a row so I guess I was wrong and this actually is dark souls.
-They remembered that werewolves drop blood vials but not why the game was good
-They made Crestfallen a crybaby coward instead of a nihilist. Complete and total misunderstanding of his character. He’s failed and defeated, not too scared to even start.
-Why even put in a secret door you have to spam to open if it’s next to a message telling you that you need to spam it to open it?
-I found a note in the mental hospital someone wrote talking shit about the furries and I think theyre saying I’m crazy for not wanting to fuck dogs. You have to want to fuck both kids AND dogs to play this game, one or the other isn’t good enough.
-We’re doing silent hill now i guess, and the nurses can’t be dodged or damaged. I think that’s enough for me.
In conclusion, game stink suck my dink.