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

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.