RPGM - Completed - Black Souls II [v1.3 Steam] [Eeny, meeny, miny, moe?]

One of the best RPG's I've ever played and a shining example of an adult game with actual gameplay. The story and characters are superb and the lore is deep.

TLDR: If you are an adult videogame *enjoyer* and think that the gameplay of your average VN doesn’t quite cut it, then this game is a fucking must-play. I would in fact recommend this game even without its adult content, that’s how good it is.

The characters are good, even with their limited interactions. The sex scenes are hot and plentiful, the dialogues can be heart-warming and entertaining. The horrible things you have to do to get to the end of the story (and fill your basement) makes the journey and the characters even more unforgettable. (Sorry Prickett and RRH. Retard bird Dodo is still best waifu) It's also one of the few games that made me cry like a bitch. (3 fucking times none the less)

The lore had me re-reading dialogue, sort screenshots and read the forums for days. I re-played some parts with the other game translation and read up on the IRL. connections. I even played BS1 and RRW for context. (BS1 is pretty good too, but not BS2 Tier.)

The gameplay among the best I've seen in an RPG maker game, its "AP-Turn" system feels fresh. At some point near DLC 3 your bullshit OP strats will make you feel like a demi-god and the system slowly falls apart. But then the game counters you by introducing new, even bullshittier mechanics, forcing you to abuse the system to the max. Boss fights in the late game usually take a few turns, but can take over 20 IRL. minutes of using 0 action buffs and having EVERY turn count, by making your character switch between and use 5 different weapon a single nanosecond.
This game is hands down the best gameplay experience I've ever had in an RPG maker game.

This and its prequel is one these rare series of games where the art isn't what you in it for. Dont get me wrong its charming in its own way which also makes it great but taking something so simple that other devs use aswell but make the combat fun and wants to make you grind is honestly a skill that sadly doesn't happen with rpgmaker games. I seen BS talked about before on here but also wrote it off since the art wasn't the strong point. Now after playing tons of Hgames especially ones that uses rpgmaker i thought i give it a go. Now my standard has been set high from games using the engine because having fun gameplay loop and interesting wolrd/lore even if its taking from something else is crucial for me atleast. You can make countless Hgames with some amazing art but if you dont have something in between all the "lewd" stuff it becomes boring fast and people just unlock the CG or looks it up elsewhere myself included. But BS i got hours and hours in both 1 and 2 and again much of the assets are whats been used forever but gets used probably and fitting. I played heart of darkness and the fear and hunger games aswell and seriously hoping we get more from every series because they have been some the most fun and engaging games i played. My biggest wish for if theres ever come a BS3 is more custom made things but i highly highly recommend the series for anyone on the fence. But i urge to play the first one since there is bits and pieces of things in 2 you find from the prequel but it isn't a must.

You play this game not for the H-Scene but the story and challenging combat, And for that I give it full star.
You should really play the first game first if you want the full impact of the story.
you fist play thought should be a blind one then in New game +, follow the guide.. or not.. just play the first game first or the story will become very confusing.

i was first drawn in by the rough, and dark art style, very quickly, however, I would see and hear much more then i was expecting. the music selection for this game sets the mood of where / what your doing fantastically and i was hooked immediately with the mysterious vibe i got upon walking out of the spawn area.

this game does many things right, one of which is it's setting. taking place in wonderland from alice in wonderland, a twisted version of it mixed with some industrial revolution era London environment. i don't think I've seen a game with such a unique environment like black souls. uniqueness is not it's only feature but the level design and music pairing for the environment is also great.

very memorable characters, many of which come from fairy tales you might already know about. you can make pledges with them to give unique buffs. they may seem cold and uncaring to you at first but they'll warm up pretty quicky if they don't already like you

in wonderland... you are free, truly free. though there is a main goal, once you spawn in you're let loose on the world to do whatever you feel. there's no one few around to judge you and even fewer around to actually punish you for anything you do. your free to be as selfish and evil or benevolent and self-sacrificing as you please. plunge the world further into darkness or be the shining light it needs, at the end of the day, you'll probably still get laid either way (or if you want, chastity is also an option).

this game's lore is plentiful, especially for a h game. the main character starts off with few memories and little knowledge of the world around him. he'll regain memories as time goes on letting you piece together what's going on. things may be much more complex then they initially seem leading to an amazing, interesting, and emotional story.

lots of inspiration comes from HP Lovecraft and classic fairytales, a strange but well made combination of the two that i personally liked

there are a few things that could have been done better still. letting us bring companions along to fight would have made for better emotional bonding, , although the artstyle is unique and conveys the feel of the game well, being erotic is a different issue and aside from a few specific scenes i didn't find myself too attracted (at least in terms of lust) to many scenes. and lastly balance can be a bit weird at times between one-shotting enemies and getting one shot.

i definitely recommend this game, however. it stands on its own even without the lewd and my 60+ hours of playtime can attest to it. many girls i absolutely love and adore, even cute despite being portrayed in such a dark art style

solid game i wish had more attention. merriphillia best girl.

Incredibly well written and coded, sen mechanic is something that I've never before seen in games (Bloodborne insight is to sen what pacman is to a modern triple A game).

H-Content is subpar however, mostly because the H-content is subordinate to the mood/theme of the game instead of vice-versa.

i thought at first that it would be the same as BS1 but how wrong was I.
50 hours in with end H done on sl1 dif9 and base stats lower than 5k aaand almost every item obtainable...(yikes).

anyway with that out lemme say the following:
with how deep it went compared to the prequels im just amazed mainly by how deep the story is, how unique and original the art style is, how open the game is, how seemingly simple yet complex mechanics can be used and mostly by how every small matter might be a game changer.

If there is something I dont like it would be multiple ones.
1.how after a certain point you can just breeze through anything not dlc3 related.
2.now the idea of play fields where some stuff are banned in dlc3 fights was a good one while some where good like nurse call, some of the bosses(mainly Unis and playwright himself) was just extremely annoying like the amount of rng was just ridiculous with playwright like i tank the first 5 hits then the rest its either first few hits then game over or the worse one losing on the last hit of his turn which can take alot of tries just to get past the first turn of his.

Likely one the better H-"JRPGs" out there. Combat against bosses is lots of fun. Good use of public music. Good atmosphere(especially the Asylum's).
A lot of great waifus(Pricket, "Miranda", Node, Mabel, Bill) and some very fappable sex scenes(looking at you, Bill).
The VN section on DLC 3 was also very entertaining and probaly the best part of the game. I highly recomment toro to put more of these in his next games.
I guess my biggest gripe with the game is that sometimes there are too many enemies on the map and you end up taking too long to one shot them one encounter at a time once your OP. Something like what Earthbound did where enemies could swarm would be appreciated.
That said, I'm giving it an excellent score but only in the framework of indie H-"JRPG" games.

Honestly, I don't usually play games with very high difficulty here on this forum. But this one, my friends, is simply the game with the best lore from f95z, it is on par with darksouls (of course, with its limitations and properties), and it is indeed worth playing, with due calm, when you get the Anyway, the game doesn't become as difficult as it was.

- the gameplay is simple but efficient
- the art is different, it didn't attract me at first glance, but currently I think it's beautiful
- the soundtrack has a postive point too
- the lore, simply stunning, wonderful and sometimes confusing*

* I really miss a wikia about the game, or some way to read about the lore, characters, like we have in Princess Conquest (a game that despite being different I really like), I hope that one day we will have where to read about the lore and its theories.

(sorry for my bad english, and thanks for reading)

I really wanted to like this, I admit to not playing the first one, but on a porn site, this did nothing at all for me sexually. The writing is nothing special. The sex scenes are censored, and honestly it just looks like a bunch of cartoons that aren't drawn very well in my opinion. I had to stop, maybe this might be for a lot of people, but if you are looking for something erotic, it did nothing for me.

One of the best RPG's I've ever played. The story is great, and the gameplay is the best I've ever seen in RPG maker. I'd seriously say this game is better than most of the triple a games that have come out in the last few years.

This review comes with a heavy hand and a heavier heart. Black Souls 2 is one of those games you're tormented by. You can't ever play it for the first time again. It's the second time I've felt like this, ever since completing MGS3. But as good as MGS3 was, it wasn't this. I have never been so utterly absorbed, attached, adoring and intensely inspired. I love everything about this game, even the things I hate.

The crowning achievement is the story, which will never really feel complete until you comb over its content way too many times, or discuss it with a group of people. Even then, there are so many competing theories and justified interpretations that you can't ever truly know. Not until BS3. Any questions you have about BS1 will be answered. BS2's entire plot is a jigsaw puzzle spread across the entire game world, sometimes across several timelines, and sometimes in the Lovecraftian madness that is the Sen0 perspective.

The story's opening is the best in history, especially since you know that Black Souls doesn't give a fuck. It gives you an ultra-defined goal in saving your Alice, and every step will make you feel like it's impossible no matter how many times you push yourself just far enough to overcome what it throws at you.
The opening also inspires questions that you know you're going to have to dig deep for. Like, wait a minute, could I just choose three different versions of Alice? Which one is real? Are any of them? Wait, is that the Cheshire Cat? I'm in Wonderland!? What happened to Red Hood and the others!? WTF!?

From there you're interrogating random mad lads on the whereabouts of a certain Alice (get used to that), and of course, they send you all over the place. Like a Chapel that houses a deity which you should NEVER, EVER, EVER piss off. Or a castle with a lit theme tune, strewn with the heads of those that dared slightly annoy the world's most adorable tyrant. Or a university that, fittingly, have you leaving with a fucktonne of questions.

I will share one moment in the game that had me dumbfounded in its profundity. Black Souls 1 was the best Hrpg I'd played before it, but that wasn't saying much. So when I wandered around as a sen-0 lunatic for a bit and saw one of those flickering flames... Well, let's say it wasn't long after that I came to the mind-melting realization that this game would become my obsession. It had gone from above average to potential GOAT. The dev had upgraded far beyond what most people do in a couple of games.

Questions, riddles you become mad with. Intriguing, puzzling lines of dialogue you can't figure out. Little things you didn't notice the first time. Things you find that, in a post-game context, chill you to the bone. It's a ride you won't forget. As I sit here, I just learned of an optional event in Beach of Grief that radically changes the map, and progresses a storyline I didn't even know existed. My backlog is about to get cucked again.

The plot's obscurity becomes defined when it counts, during the endings. The game gives you answers to a lot of your questions, but far from all of them. But you know they are there. You keep finding little fragments that have you piecing events and timelines together, over and over again.

And then it's over. You look at your playtime and it's over fifty hours, but... where did the time go? ...It's really over?

My childhood love of fairy tales and adult love of blondes had perfectly intersected. The music has you jumping up and down like that kid watching shounen you used to be. The maps are well done (mostly), and the aesthetics of each area are vastly different to one another, just like a good adventure game is. The game's basic progression is fantastic. It has a Metroidvania design as far as key items unlocking previous areas, and a very classic open-world design of enemies not scaling to your level. Sometimes you'll have to shelve an area when you realize it's way too tough for you (slaughterhouse says wattup). And the tension is sky high when you come back and realize you can tackle it now.

Then you get to the endings. Fuck. If you played Black Souls 1, you have some idea of what you're in for. But don't expect the same.

Now, I'm a blind fanboy of this game. But not completely blind. There are definitely problems. The gameplay isn't the absolute best. It can be a pain in the ass to play. I was too in love for it to be anything close to a roadblock for me, but man, the UI can test you. Not having any indication at all of what type of attack the enemy is even doing for you to build a defence is trying. The bullshit meter goes all the way up when you finally get around to the DLCs. So I will admit that much, the gameplay could be fucked.

But I don't care. This game changed me. It taught me what I valued in games, in plots, and even in life. I'm less of a slob now. I'm learning Japanese in my spare time so I won't have to wait for a translation of the creator's new games. I'm poking at the gym during my lunch hour and enjoying it. And I'm writing again, but I'm not going to stop this time.

Of course, I'll also be starting a search for an Alice of my own.

This game is a valid thesis on "Why it's not okay to lock people in your own personal prison* without their consent**"
* whether physical, metaphysical, or theatrical
** exception could be made when the involved parties are undeads with lack of sentience, homicidal/genocidal bitches and/or there's no alternative solution without bloodshed

10/10, Wonderland is wonderful land to visit, definitely need therapy.

This game raises some questions though :

- Are LSD a real life cheat item for instant creatively disturbing imagery? Lewis Carrol legally mandated to answer this, posthumously
- Why loli is never okay, and how to circumvent that law?
- Does imprison an innocent kind girl an acceptable course of action when the alternative is certain death* for her?
*For references, the aforementioned event happened after a certain huge chest and two xenophobic racist bitches of leader are coincidentally imprisoned in the same place together in sucession.
- Is Blackwell legally eligible as a waifu?
- Why no love for Lion?
- Is jealousy a valid justification for first degree murder? I'm talking to you, Prince of Hell
- Why incorporeal horror still manage to hurt you even though you're capable of coup d'etat on God? level5herewego
- Is locking armed, obsessive, dangerous, and deranged individual you, in particular in definitely disturbing and clearly haunted mental asylum an ethical, proper, and acceptable solution to spare the rest of the world from your holy jihad against the world itself?
- Are "Lindamea is the best waifu in the whole series, after Red Hood, of course" a de jure or de facto statement?
- Where is Alice?

I'm not sure what can be said here that hasn't already been said but.... Do you like challenge? Do you like multiple replay options with a different ending each time? Do you like being able to build and power up your MC in a way that you see fit instead of set numbers on a level up? Do you like a great story with some absolutely knife-twisting twists? You've come to the right series. EMMM's work with both Black Souls 1 & 2 as well as what I like to consider a small side story, Red Riding Woods are all great in their own ways. If you haven't played the other two the order I recommend is BS1 > RRW for some backstory to this world's Red Riding Hood > BS2. Overall a fantastic series rife with action, good story and a favorite girl for everybody. What more could you ask for??

While not bad, it is a let-down compared to Black Souls I

Black Souls 2 begins good. Challenging and with many new more features. However, this game is the polar opposite of it's predecessor: It's so unfair that it's not fun.

The world building, characters, and music choice are still top-tier. However, the rest is much, much inferior than BS1. Before I keep going, I will let clear that it is impossible for me to not compare this game with Black Souls 1 because BS2 is supposed to be the sequel. If BS1 didn't exist, then my opinion of BS2 may be slightly more positive.

Combat:

• BS2 combat is great at first. It's challenging but not hard enough to think it's impossible. However, after about 3-5 hours of gameplay, it's just retarded. Enemies will kill you in one hit. Just like BS1, there are no builds, which means that you will die in one hit and there is nothing you can do about it.
  • This issue extends so much that there is a magic spell that makes you immortal for 3 turns. That spell is necessary. It's just dumb, that's not fun.

Questlines:

• This game questlines are also retarded. To be more precise, if you don't know what you're doing (and it may take multiple runs to figure this out), all of your NPC's will die. Making you fail all questlines. Like, what? Let's ignore this one questline that "curses" you by giving you a jumpscare every minute for the whole playthrough. Like fuck, I'm actually gonna die from a heart attack.
  • This issue results in one of two things:
    • Either beat this game 4-5 times until you realize what you're supposed to do.
    • You follow a guide closely. This will take away the whole "exploring" aspect of the game (one of its strongest points).

New features:

• Some of the features are good. But the rest are garbage. This game wants the player to really commit into playing multiple runs. In order to do this, they added the "Sen" system. To keep it short and spoiler-free, the world and the enemies will change depending your "Sen". This means that you would need to beat this game a minimun of 2 times before you're able to see most of its content. This feature is really cool if you want to spend the following month playing the same H-game.

Overall, BS2 feels like an ambitious game that really wanted to be better than it's predecessor but failed miserably. I will say tho, the music was on-point.

You don't find a Soul's like porn game everyday, not to mention a good one with it's own style, can't wait for 3 come out one day...
expect playing this game like a normal game, sex is just dessert after all the fight and...stuff you learn from the story, you don't need to play the previous game to enjoy this one, nor the very old one for one of the main female charater origin which I think you can find in F95 somewhere... just like Dark soul 2,but no fans hate it, from what i heard at least...
Overall, good game. best girl Azathoth( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

This game is THE gold standard for story and general setting in any porn game I have ever played, and it deserves five stars even without taking into account everything else it does right (and it does a lot of other things much better than just "right"). The gameplay is fun and satisfying, the music is great, the characters are AMAZING, and the sheer amount of content blows most other games out of the water. The only negative is the art style, and even then I'd argue it fits the theme and is still plenty good enough to fap to. But this is as much an actual game as it is a porn game, and it's stellar in both respects.

One of, if not the deepest games on indie stage that has adult content. Absolutely recommended to ruin your plans on total fap-planned game, and still fap in the process.
Other games in the series, that I find necessary to play prior BS2:
Red Riding Hood
Black Souls 1

How can this game can't be excellent ?
The bestiary is large. The battle are difficult but not too much if you think and use the right skill
THe ost fit to each map and monster.
There are many secrets

Amazing sequel to first Black Souls. It's not strictly necessary to play the first one but it's recommended. The first game was a bit barebones in places and this game really fleshes everything out. Story is even more disjointed than in the first one but again in the end comes to really satisfying conclusion. The combat got a ton more options and the enemies are much more diverse too. In the endgame it gets really crazy and pushes the RPG mechanics to the absolute limit. Absolute must play.

I will start off by quoting my review the first game...


Now take the first game and then make everything one notch better or more. That is the sequel. The story is told wonderfully in the Dark Souls style of ONLY showing and RARELY IF EVER telling, and it's pretty darn immersive.

I will add the caveat of saying that the game's high praise hinge highly on the fact this is the first game I've seen that has actually done everything right for once in the RPGmaker setting for me. I think the story and setting is great standalone though and probably the best I've seen just for a hgame... Besides maybe MGQ.

... Oh and the h scenes themselves while generally well written aren't depicted conventionally very well graphically, so if you're here for that, keep that in mind... Though I and many others think the art style fits very well with the game's tone and story.