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RPGM - Completed - Blood School [v1.2] [N&R]

  1. 3.00 star(s)

    69ztare

    I'm not gonna judge the porn since I didn't pay enough attention (not the kind i'm into). But for those wanting to know about it, it's mainly gore. Almost all the gore are on defeat scenes, and all the non gore are through normal play (and still, most of them are rape and "practically rape", mostly with other characters). Speaking of "rape of other characters", our heroine, who have a baseball bat, a bow with deadly arrows, and even a motherfucking flashbang, and also a countless bodycount with mere flowerpots, won't try to save a girl from a regular asshole unarmed bully (even though she tried to save one from a giant corrosive slime with ranged attacks).
    Also, the "gallery room", is a room on the game itself. It's after a pretty annoying part of the beginning, and you will need a code, which is given at the ending of the game (or on a comment here). It doesn't show "the pics only", and also doesn't show the pics before you begin to play the whole scene, but hey! It got the later weapons from the game. Oh! And if you want to, the gallery pics are not encrypted on the game's folder.
    About the game itself, I expected more. You play ~40% of it with "throwing things" as your only weapon, and then you discover a metal bat, and you throw curses at the protagonist for not even trying to use one of the lots of brooms and alike she encountered during her journey. About the combat... It's ok, both the "throwing things" and the "with 'weapon'" part. I've seen worse.
    And there are the puzzles. Some of them are ok, others are simply unfairly hard ("you die and have to load last checkpoint" level), and other you will have to get the answer from a comment in this thread, because it's impossible (maybe it would make sense in the original language, Japanese...). There is also one near the ending which you will need to use the sound, which can block the progress for deaf people, tone deaf people (yeah, it uses notes), and people who is not using the sound for whatever reason (and again, you can be saved by a comment).
    At the end, there is a sudden increase of difficulty, one to extreme levels. I simply used cheat engine to lock my health at this point. It's also at the ending that the game suddenly decides to throw lots of bosses at you (with time limit), and you wonder if the dev simply had a stock of bosses and, while near to the release date but still with the game not finished, and they decided to include them all on a time span of less than 10~20 minutes.
    There is also the problem of the girl being on the screen ALL THE TIME. You can't turn it off. I heard that the newer version (1.3) makes it possible to disable it, but since the only version here (1.2) doesn't have this feature, I'm gonna complain about it. Not only it remembers me all the time that for whatever the fuck of a reason the girl decided to be showing her panties through the whole story no matter how many other clothes she saw in lots of other places (seriously, this is a nonsense level of stupidity), but for anyone, it blocks the vision, so the player may be unable to see certain enemies some times.
    Let's also complain about the fact that there's no way to change the little amount of configurations while in the game (which doesn't include key binding, so I had to play the game with crossed arms, which is somewhat "ok", since i'm a weirdo who always use the left hand to move). There is also no button to go to the title screen, so the player will have to use the F12 button (like in some other RPG Maker games).
    About the screen, the window is very small. It's small even on my 23' 1080p monitor, so I don't exactly wanna know if people with higher resolutions will have even more trouble (I don't exactly know how it works). You may try to use Alt+Enter, but the screen will become wrongly stretched.
    And about the translation, it's ok. There are some errors here and there, specially on pronouns ("I" instead of "you", and so on) and some item names, but it's easy to ignore. Something harder to ignore, however, are some parts that's not translated at all. This include some "'tutorial'/system" ones and also some rooms and a whole scene. The good thing is that these untranslated part are somewhat rare, and never truly needed to the story, and it's even strange that a certain porn scene is properly translated on the "gallery room", which doesn't happen on it's usual place during the game.

    In the end, like I said in the beginning, I expected more. I obviously didn't expect it to be the best ARPG in RPG Maker ever, but still...
    It's a good game. But there are so many small and "not so small" things here and there that one can easily feel no joy in playing at all.
    Still, I'd recommend playing it, specially if you are ok with decreasing the difficulty through the "super easy" mode (don't worry, it only gives more items). If you like it, you liked it, but if you don't like it, you can simply stop playing.
    And if you don't like guro, don't you worry too much, since you can easily ignore it (specially if you don't lose, or if you press F12 to "quick load" on defeat). I'm also not into guro, and the girls are not even my type, and I managed to enjoy it as a regular game.