RPGM - Completed - Bounty Hunter Kyoka [v1.0.2] [Hukidamari]

In a nutshell this game feels like the devs were shooting for the moon but ended up only gazing at the stars. There's a lot going on but the depth to what is going on is either shallow or unnecessary. It feels like they had this massive game planned but were only able to develop a small fraction of it. If they expanded upon everything, this could be a 4 or 5 star, but as it is it's a solid average rating of 3. Regardless, the game is short (1-2 hours) so as long as you're into NTR and are fine with 100% interracial scenes then go for it.

Story - Incredibly forgettable
Reading the premise of a story should never be more interesting than experiencing the story and unfortunately that is what goes on here. Nothing notable ever happens story-wise and when the h-scenes occur if feels like you're just going through the motions. On top of this, there is virtually no character development.

NTR/Corruption - It's there, but not actually there
The boyfriend is rather irrelevant to the game. In fact, if you removed him from it nothing would change. It also doesn't help that the corruption aspect of the game isn't good. FMC hardly changes no matter how far into corruption she falls and when she does change it doesn't feel impactful in the slightest. She doesn't have any real remorse for her actions and doesn't question if she should or should not fuck this random person. She acknowledges she has a boyfriend but never takes into consideration that the fact she has a boyfriend conflicts with her promiscuousness. This adds into the fact that there is no character development. One important thing to mention, but the corruption/degradation/ntr is completely unavoidable. Ordinarily I laugh at people who complain about the NTR in NTR games being unavoidable, but for this game that is a valid complaint. The premise of the game is to repay debt in a role-playing game. You absolutely should have the option to repay this debt by working and doing normal missions. You can avoid being raped by the neighbor, you can avoid fucking the random people around town, and you can avoid being raped by the dungeon bosses; so you absolutely should be able to avoid being molested and forced into fucking the debt collector. It's not just that, but if you do get corrupted there are enough paths available that you should be able to choose who corrupts her. This is the essential role-playing aspect of a good NTR RP game.

Gameplay
Combat - Too complex for the fight scenes.
There is no point in designing a complex combat tree and in-depth item system whenever you can (and should) CTRL + ENTER all battles (that you actually take part in) with the occasional stop to heal. It's worth noting that for a few sections of the game you will not enter a battle scene but instead simply run into the monster to kill it. Honestly, this latter system should've been used for the entire game.
Dungeons - Hey, these are great!
Revealing the dungeon as you explore it by removing fog while having monsters appear at points where you have to act quickly to avoid combat is fantastic. This is how all RPGM games should handle dungeon exploration.
Town Map - Hey, this is alright.
There's quite a few places to go but not a lot of things to do, at least do repeatedly.

Random Things
- There is a lack of companion h-scenes. You have two female companions and only two h-scenes feature at least of of them (one has one of them as the subject while the other has them off to the side). This feeds back into my initial belief that this is a game that had a massive scope which was significantly shrank
- All of the boss h-scenes fall under the "you'd only see it in hentai" fetish umbrella
- All of the other h-scenes are standard interracial NTR
- Features inverted nipples, which are still rare enough in h-games that they bring a certain allure to the game
- The grind isn't bad and it actually has systems in effect to remove grinding
- The art is great and the h-scenes are pretty good so long as you like the featured fetish
- Doesn't add bullshit fluff by forcing you to have to lose to see h-scenes (unlocks these scenes in the gallery upon victory) or partake in random minigames
- Quests (and the game itself) has a time limit but said time limit doesn't prevent you from doing other things, it doesn't railroad you. However, there isn't actually enough content (both h-content and normal content) for you to use this free time.

I found this game to be pretty good so here's a review~

CGs 5/5
The amount there were in this game and the way the art style went was definitely a plus to me. All was fappable and all was cohesive with the Live 2D making everything just perfect in my book.

Story 4/5
All round cohesive, nothing too special but it's at least it all connects with each other. bounty hunter girl has a debt needing to be settled but the debtor is the real villain is definitely a fun concept too.

Gameplay 4/5
the typical RPGM combat, nothing special but it does indeed make the playthrough fun with some (though very little) strategy. wish there was like an afterstory kinda deal or even a NG+ feature with more things to do but past that the game is pretty good.

All in all this game is worth a shot and even better would be to support the creator of this game. Check it out and hope you all enjoy it whether it's from here or the official site it's sold on.

Reviewing info: In a nutshell personal feelings/opinion >> “objective/critical” value. How I rate/review and other info is HERE
Review layout: Lazy/minimal format (others)
Review type: Game
Review format: Lewds
PROs
✅ Art is pretty good
✅ Scenes are okay
✅ Okay kink variety
✅ Simplified gameplay
✅ Defeat scenes are unlocked in gallery room on victory, so no need to save-scum to see defeat scene
CONs
❌ Simplified gameplay makes gameplay way too redundant
❌ Lot of interesting gameplay ideas are wasted
❌ They took great stereotype for female lead, and made it boring
Comments
Not going tom bother on commenting too much. But in a nutshell game had lot of neat gameplay ideas if they would have developed into proper game, but instead we got essentially linear scene viewer that had “game” attached to it. Combat I did with fast-forwarded auto combat where I had to actually manually do anything twice in the whole game. For dull combat/gameplay I liked the option of auto combat…

While the art itself was okay and scenes fairly hot, I guess? I felt that they really managed to mess up “quiet type” stereotype in such a boring manner. Scenes had some variety and defeat scenes were short and obtainable even on victory.

Anyhow… rest of the game was really average… some cool ideas, but really wasted in lazy game design. At this point I would simply prefer simple exploration scene viewer with progressive story. Other than solid art and fairly hot scenes, rest was either bad or mediocre.
Total Score: 5/10
Game status:
✅ Finished

Finished this in one sitting, so it isn't one of those long, grindy games. I liked the varied equipment you can acquire, and the 3 girls have different enough skill trees to make developing their skills enjoyable. Overall, it was fun for the short time it took to complete, and I liked the "kuudere" mc.

Y'know when you experience something and even when it has some flaws, you can tell the creator put a lotta of care and thought into their craft?
This is a rare example,on a genre that usually just put some average to poor quality art( I'm talking not even properly cutting the images) or some basic gameplay loop or sfx into a game.
Bounty Hunter Kyoke has their fair share of faults, lack of solo scenes with the companion, a good portion of the scenes are tied to losing in battle, and you cannot preview the scenes in the gallery mode.
However those are no that big of deal, compared to the solid package that's this game:
-Good art in a sizeble amount, and some, albeit simple animations
-SFX are a nice touch
- It's short and doesn't overstay their welcome, especially if you CTRL in battle to accelerate the process
- Gameplay is quite simple, but functional, not disturbance the main focus
Overall, solid ass game, looking forward to this author work in the future!

Pros:
-Inverted nipples on a cool/calm FMC. That alone is amazing.
-Grind isn't that bad, and can be automated once you clear a dungeon
-Numerous scenes. Plus, "Game over" scenes automatically get added to your gallery by beating the boss, so you don't need to do the same song and dance of "Lose purposefully first, then win on the runback".
-Corruption is...ok?
-Very good art, very easy to find new scenes

Cons:
-Unavoidable degradation. You don't really get a choice in your corruption. Every few days, your uncle comes by and molests you, and you can't resist it.
-Even though there is "corruption", there is no actual attitude change. FMC stays the same calm and collected character. The lewdness bar matters very little, and only for a few scenes. Plus, it isn't hard to raise lewdness at all, so it ends up just feeling like a number.
-No outfit variety. There are 2 unique outfits you can wear, but those can't be worn outside of their designated areas.

All in all, its a fun game that'll make you bust some big ol' nuts, but that's about it. It's a "filler game" you play as you wait for the next "big H-game".

It's a solid HRPG. Not too complicated, but not too simple. Not too long. Pretty nice H scenes. Great art. Simple, but good enough story and porn scenarios. Decently enjoyable gameplay mechanics and balance, but lacking a little something to truly stand out in that department.

It's not a very long game. With some planning, you can do essentially a full playthrough watching most H scenes and still get strong enough to get the true ending. I clocked around 5 hours.

I could say more about the game, but I will just list 2 things that holds this back from being a 5*.

From a gameplay perspective, it lacks the character building element. There is a skill tree, and with just a bit more thought and polish, it could have been great. Alas, it's just too simplified, and your skill progression will be fairly linear without much room to customize.

From a porn perspective, the biggest let down was that your companions have pretty much zero scenes. There are 2 female companions in your party, but they somehow don't get any scenes when they were defeated together with the main character. Oh well.

NTR aspect is just kinda there. There are enough NTR dialogues in the game to still make it NTR, but it's certainly not the focus and wouldn't really affect the story at all if the boyfriend was removed from the game.

Still a solid short game that can be worth playing for both the H scenes and its decent gameplay. As for the translation, this ChatGPT translation is not too shabby. It's on par with moderately edited MTL.

It's a good game.

• Each quest has a time limit, but it is not very difficult to make the deadline and to also do the other events that open up after each quest. I dont think it's not necessary to gather extra crafting resources. Atleast i did not spend time on that. I thought the progression worked quite well.
• On battlemaps, most of the area starts hidden. and while walking it becomes visible. The sight radius is a bit small, but it hoguht it was an interesting game aspect.
• There are quite a lot of battles with repeating enemies. I did not lose one battle, except for one in the arena. After each quest i tried to upgrade my equipment as much as possible, mainly focussing on attack and speed. Sometimes it's not possible because you lack the resources. You could go search for them, but i dont think its necessary. The bosses are also not very special. There are more interesting games in regards to battles in my opinion.
• It is possible to avoid bad ends. I'm not a big fan of bad events so that's another plus. Also if you win you can always go to the recollection screen to watch them anyway.
• Good scenes in my opinion. besides the bad end scenes, she seems to be enjoying herself, altough in some scenes there is some drugs/rapey stuff involved

Quest pacing is good,
Translation is way better then average,
It's a quick hot game, HQ Drawings..
NTR story arch is tied to quest progression.

I find that the Battles are perfectly balanced,
not requiring 100% Grinding all enemies of an area, but still more then 50% to lvl up, and it's challenging, but not impossible..

Overall a decent experience. The characters and story are nothing to write home about, but the game's fun to play and the sexy stuff is ... pretty good. I do think the boss's at the end get a little bit of a damage sponge problem, and I wish that certain items were easier to find so I could get better equipment easier. On that note, the time management is pretty tight in this game, at least in the early game. Once you get to the end, it becomes a little more open, but at the same time, the sex stuff slows to a halt. There's a couple of scenes that lead to a game over, but all the stories feel like the end prematurely.
This has one of my most hated problems that plagues a lot of Japanese games, and it's done in the worst way. I strongly dislike it when there are H-events tied to defeat, and in this game, not only are they tied to defeat, they lead to a game over. I don't like purposefully losing battles to get sex scenes. It just feels bad. This goes double for the later boss's that are decently hard. This is mitigated with a recollection room, but I don't like exiting the game are reopening it to see a scene I missed. I just really wish they would put those resources into something ...better.
Rant aside, it was actually a really fun game to play and excluding how rushed the ending felt, had some really good sex content.

A massively forgettable game, but nothing about it is bad per se. An extremely minimal and forgettable story, essentially no character development at all aside from the H, there is nothing to them. Kyoka does slowly corrupt which is nice, and the scenes are well drawn. Combat seems a little grindy but nothing terrible (I cheated tho). All systems worked fine, there was a very clear quest log which is nice, on-defeat scenes are gained to the recollection room if you beat a boss without losing first, its just overall "meh". Play it if you want an uninspired corruption RPGM.

This game is grindy, the NTR es non-existent, is boring, the story is extremely lazy, the cg's are repetitive, the black guy is as generic as they come, there's no point playing this game, if for some reason you want to try it, go for the save room

solid 4.5, pretty much standard JPRG games but compared to other games around:
* battle is grindy but well balanced so it feels only a bit tedious, also in some parts autofight is available
* girl is got, CGs are varied and good
* translation is surprisingly good
generally I enjoyed playing it, recommend it when you have evening to spare

It's an ok game to play. if it was longer and made you lose a lot of time with bs going around or minigames it would not be worth playing.
i played with mouse teleport so i only fought the bosses.

but the scenes are decent and the number is plenty for such a short game. so that is why is worth playing. sadly no history to make those scenes pop up more and the NTR is just to add the tag. the boyfriend doesn't even have a sprite or appear much. Neither does she seem to care much about that while getting fuck.

You will enjoy 2 or 3 hours with it and forget it ever existed like most middle-of-the-pack games.

3.5 stars

Above average game, with decent art, decent premise.
Play as a bounty hunter/adventurer trying to pay off debt in a certain time limit while ntr, corruption, prostitution occurs

+better than average art
-NTR is unavoidable
+Machine Translate is really good
-grind heavy if you don't use shortcuts, very hard to avoid fights
+short cuts make the grind much easier.
+boss fights are pretty good gameplay wise
-lack of scenes of companions, main character only
-main character is boring

I wish there were games with more playable endings.