Wolf RPG - Completed - Chevalier HIstorie Append [v2.02] [PicoPicoSoft / Kagura Games]

This game is just... plainly average.

Cons:
Everything is mid:

• Combat is boring as everything dies in one hit (even some bosses)
  • It's one of those games in which you have to lose to see the H-content. It wouldn't be bad if only it wasn't so easy.
    • There's an item that allows you to die in a single hit. But guess what? There's also (common) items that resurrect you. Even with that item on, the game is still too easy.
• The "animations" are sprite only, featuring only like 2 non-pixel ones.
  • The main girl doesn't even look all that hot, in my opinion.
• The story is just plain boring. It's not interesting, and it's stupid.
• The game doesn't even take itself seriously.
  • The game is extremely unrewarding. For instance, there's a unique monster in the game (one per playthrough) that is said to favor virgins. I expect a good scene with that thing, but said monster does not have a scene. My disappointment was immeasurable and my day was ruined.
  • There are also some items that give you infinite money and stuff. That would be very neat if you didn't get it on the first hour of the game (currency is then made useless). This means that you can max out your weapon and one tap everything in the very first hour of the game.
• There's hardly any exploration, all side paths lead to a dead end with an occasional (bad) reward.
  • And there's only like 6 different (short) areas.
• There's hardly any branching in the game.
  • You could bang the entirety city, or only one person, and still get the same ending. There's little branching here.
• The game is extremely short.
  • Unless you actually try to read everything (once again, it's kinda boring), you could beat the game and it's side content in 3-5 hours. If you rush it, it'd take about an hour or two.

The game does have some good stuff, though, such as:

• While I may not be a fan of still CGs, some are actually very damn good.
• I think the music was alright.
• The game prevents save scumming to the best of its ability. If you could save scum, the game would be even easier, so I at least appreciate that.
• It has lots of kinks, but it doesn't go into depth on them, so whatever.

At the end of the day, it's still a game. It can be enjoyed if you try to enjoy it. With that said, it's still painfully average. When I mean average, I mean the equivalent of those shitty Isekai animes that air each season. Same protagonists, same gimmicks, same everything. That is what this game is. Terrible.

finished the 40 levels dungeon first try.

I decided to leave it at that. kind of wish it was harder. story is meh, very typical of a mario game. combat is just hit and run. once you get the water spirit (which i chose first) you're pretty much done.

it's very meh. didn't even lasted 2 hours for me.

tough game to rate; for how barebones the actual gameplay (attack + directional roll) and story are, the artwork, scenes, and overall presentation are above average. outside of having to force yourself to lose on purpose 90% of the time (multiple times to the same bosses to get all 3+ of their specific scenes) there is a decent amount of game to enjoy with multiple endings. the corruption progression is shoddy as one of the first options available to you is to consensually get fucked by a hobo but if you ignore that it's decent. you can easily achieve 10+ hours of gameplay. i don't regret playing it but it's not worth a second playthrough.

Version: v2.02

A game with great art, sexual scenes and corruption mechanics, shame that it has absolutely trash gameplay. If that wasnt confusing enough, this game actually has a good story with many different path you can take and experience, i dont say this often, but this game would have been better as a visual novel, thats why i skipped the brain dead gameplay of "Z" attack and "Shift" to dodge by using a cheat engine, so that i could enjoy the game in peace without the filler.

3.5 star, but it only gets 3 stars, because this is a video game, on a video game forum, the fact that i have to skip the "game" part to enjoy the rest of it in peace is inexcusable.

The devs know how to use RPG maker, but this one could have been better.

Combat:
run, dash and use the sword in a small area of effect, not much of an RPG more like a dungeon crawler, bosses are really hard unless you know how to cheese them, you can beat the first 2 bosses normally, then go to the city slums after the even plays out and that punk blocking the way is dead, note - keep your virginity by save scumming for the best ending, after you clear the bandits on the top right there is a statue, break it with hundreds of attacks, this will get you insane ammount of money, use the money to upgrade your braces as much as possible in the blacksmith's shop. If you don't really care about the MC's virginity you can enter the slums earlier and bribe the thug with sex.
Now that you got the upgrades you can instakill most enemies and easily wipe the remaining bosses.
In the show you will find health potions and emergency teleport before game over items, don't waste your money, save scum instead.

Graphics:
The devs have put a lot of effort into their environments, making the game stand out from the rest.

Voice acting:
It looks like only the first word of each dialogue is voiced, Maybe japanese players will be salty, but I am not japanese so I don't really care.

Story:
Princess gets kidnapped by monsters, you gotta save the 4 elemental spirits from the monsters holding them to acquire their power, or something, I dunno, and then kill the big boss and rescue the princess. Remain a virgin and don't get raped to get a good ending. There's a long list of endings and once you reach the ending, you can see help tips to acquire them. I didn't really bother because I was very disappointed that after clearing the game the gallery is not unlocked, I didn't bother grinding anything else.

H-scenes:
roughly 80% are 2D CG-s, they look nice, but I expected animations damn it, very disappointing, the remaining 20% are actually animated with some 3-rd person pixel art and a zoomed in view, very nice. These scenes are all the prostitution scenes (a.k.a. Seduce) and getting killed by normal enemies in one of the 5 levels, dragged to some underground torture room and gang raped. For each locked scene there is a hint in the gallery showing how to get it, very nice, all of the scenes in the gallery are non-consensual, because everyone is trying to kill you, lol, even the shopkeeper is trying to blackmail you with over expensive health potions.

Overall I give it a 4/5 due to the lack of animated H-scenes and medicore gameplay without any RPG elements.

Originality - 40%
Renders - 60%
Playability - 100%
Performance - 90%
Bugs free - 100%
Animations - 10%
Amount of content - 25 %

Total - 60%

Nice looking game with prostitution and sexual skills, pixel art is very good, but hentai scenes are repetitive and there is just few of them. Although they're pretty nice, it's just not fun. Game is way too long in contrast of amout of content. Even if player finishes the whole game (which is for about 5 hours) you'll still need to redo the game multiple times to get all the ending scenes. I ended up booting someones 100% save just to see them and they were pretty much boring so there is no need to bother in my opinion.

Playing this game is like consuming the most generic, staple, surface-level iteration on a genre or a concept, but at the same time it's so well-made you actually don't mind the lack of originality.

Objectively, there are some problems with this game, like the difficulty being so low you can easily complete the game without losing once, slightly clumsy pacing trying to occasionally feed you massive loredumps or dialogues you probably won't be interested in, the corruption system being kinda redundant since you can grind it to max. Probably something else.

Subjectively, I don't really care about any of that. The game still provided enough challenge to make me feel like I'm getting better and facing harder enemies, the worldbuilding was still good enough for me to suspend my disbelief, and the pacing for porn was good enough to not get bored of the same scenes. And the scenes themselves are great.

So overall, good impressions. If you don't like turn-based combat and want a quick and well made JRPG-esque experience, this is a good choice.

the combat system, and even traps are too easy and can be detected quite easily, a lot of it you can just game by standing in a relatively safe place and swinging indefinitely until you are no longer being pursued, i cant imagine being defeated in this game shy of intentionally, you are even given plenty of potions for some slight explorations and they are used automatically as well, effectively always making you difficult to kill, even against the most annoying boss, even if you fight them last so they are more powerful. the final boss is less than laughable with drastically broadcasted attacks, which do not even occur when it is tangible to damage, in which you have no distraction and can simply avoid the attack by being on one edge of the screen or the other (though i didn't even see it use its left hand, so just one side sometimes ig), that all said, none of these games tend to be especially in-depth, and that's generally okay, bc they really just arent needed to be, the game seemingly fulfils its purpose just 'ok', and that's alright, it's not more, or less, than to ask of it.

Reviewing info: How I rate/review and other info is HERE . W.I.P This sentence will not be included if review format is finalized and blog updated.
Review layout: Lazy/minimal format (others)
Review type: Game
Review format: Lewds
PROs
✅ Artstyle is both good in Cgi and Pixel art
✅ Multiple endings with interesting requirements
✅ Combat is simple but fun
✅ No typical item grind, instead you get only items that can be toggled on an off (cheat items, lewd items, combat helpers etc..)
✅ Story is fairly nice and „good endings“ are pretty sweet
✅ Main scenes are fully voiced
✅ Incombat cut-in scenes are okay
✅ Some pretty interesting game mechanics in both normal gameplay and lewd gameplay (feud system & endless brother sequence)
✅ Exploration is encouraged
✅ FMC can buy male hookers where you can choose between some options
✅ Virgin runs are easy to do
❔ Altough feud system is nice in reality you basically just get 4 dialogue options (talk, talk2, talk3 get item, talk 4 have sex, talk 5 get item from talk3/or something else)
❔ Full gallery unlock after finishing the game is available
CONs
❌ Got 2 kinks (only 2 scenes though) that are not my cup of tea
❌ FMC is adorable with that artstyle which makes lewd scenes kinda mixed feelings
❌ Lewd stats exist for visual fluff only
❌ Body part status screen exist but is essentially pointless
❌ Lot of features feel introductory that could be polished and used a lot more if they decide to make a new game
Comments
CGi and Pixel art was unique and beautiful. World was vibrant with few surprising interactions. Story was simple but enjoyable enough. H-scenes very okay… but nor particularly my cup of tea.
Overall.. I feel this same game with a bit more content and polishing would make a great pixel art non hentai game… because the hentai bit was quite lackluster. And with this artstyle especially the FMC looks/character it simply felt kinda off-putting for me.
Think I finished it in around 5 hours or so. Binged it in 1 go pretty much. It’s okay game, pretty, but nothing amazing.
Total Score: 6/10
Game status:
✅ Finished

It's average, for a a game with average ammount of effort put into it.

The main draw here is probably going to be the artstyle, so if the big doe-eyes do it for you, and you want to see some corruption, then go nuts.

There actually is a bit of effort to the story, but it's not very well told. The pacing is overall very slow, and the repetetive and simple combat doesn't help much. The corruption in here is standard for the genre, with linear leveling of two stats to unlock further/sluttier scenes. The blandness of the MC makes the scenes themselves lower quality, though.

However, the ammount of art and fully written scenes are pretty satisfying, even though you'll probably be watching most of them through the gallery. Also noteworthy that there are some hot boys to bang in this as well, if you want some female PoV-stuff.

The art and the ammount of content is amazing!
The story is quite generic, but nothing offputing since most players of this kind of games don't bother reading what the characters say outside the H scenes (am I right?).
Reminds me of Ambrosia quite a lot, from the mechanics to the story, I quite recommend it for those who enjoyed the afermentioned game.

Lots of fun this game is !! Art is amazing , has all kinds of sex you could hope , story is ok and fights made me remember skyrim . So what are you waiting for you horny person go ahead and give this a try !!

While marketed as a corruption title, you can go to the slums and hit a statue multiple times to max out your corruption stat.

While marketed as an RPG, you can beat a side-dungeon early in the game for infinite money and then purchase endless potions and upgrades.

While marketed as a narrative driven h-game, there is borderline no plot as you clear 4 dungeons then clear the final dungeon.

While marketing itself as a fast-paced action-style RPG outside the norm, almost every boss can be beaten with your eyes closed. I'm not exaggerating.

While advertised as having been in production for years, the game can be beaten in 2 hours or less.

Did I mention you level up so fast its impossible for this game to build tension?

I could go on but you get the picture. Do not let the cover art, kagura shills, or other smoke and mirrors distract you. The truth is, this game is uninspired and un-memorable. As if it were custom designed for Steam normies. But you, dear review reader, are not a normie. You deserve better than this cookie cutter drivel.

Nothing can go horribly wrong with Kagura Games' games. The plot is bland and the scenes are less than Ambrosia. (my fav) The arts have definitely improved and the fetish (loli, trap, futa) catered towards me so i give it 5/5. Tho I wish they could put more content into it.

Whoah what a good game. The gameplay is very addictive, no boring quest and MC is very lewd and cool. Really love how the gameplay is very consistent with MC personality. Love how the interaction between her and her friend. Art CG also very good and lewd

overall 10/10

Sadly the game is too short imo. More content and more gameplay mechanics please

INTRODUCTION;
Chevalier Historie is a Wolf RPG game which for those unfamiliar with it basically means it plays more or less identical to an RPGM game.

In summary of my below review, I have given Chevalier Historie 5/5 stars as it is a thoroughly enjoyable JRPG experience. It is not that it does anything new or innovative but it is just that it has a decent amount of content that is high quality, one play through is about 4 to 5 hours long while there are 7 endings to go for and thus if you completionist this game, expect a solid 10+ hours of play time.


STORY;
The story is nothing particularly innovative but what I actually personally enjoyed out of it was how cute it is portrayed despite the content being quite harsh in theme (kidnapping and rape). It is your run-of-the-mill demon kidnaps princess and wants to take over the world plot. But it is in its execution that I really enjoyed.

The elemental spirits you have to free to save the princess are a cute factor and have their own personality and some additional scenes hidden in various places if you travel with them as your companion. My only complaint here is that you don't actually have an h-scene with the elemental spirit this would have really elevated the story and content a step further.

There is also a lot of dialogue in the town that the devs clearly put some work into which just help to build the world atmosphere. Again nothing super innovative but just really cute in execution and thus why I really loved it.


GAMEPLAY;
I saw a lot of reviews criticise the gameplay but I actually enjoyed it, it was fun and casual. Especially as you unlock upgrades for your combat such as special weapons and dash attack as well as the elemental powerups. I much prefer this real-time combat over the turn-based alternative most RPGM/Wolf games offer.

I also like how items have been implemented with passive functions that can be toggled on and off in your inventory and I like how the stat screen looks and what stats it tracks in terms of h-experiences.

There is also a healthy variety of enemies with each map area offering unique enemies each with their own pixel art animations and associated h-attacks some with completely unique animations in the standing picture CG on the right of the screen.

The way in which combat h-attacks have been implemented is also great and especially how you can toggle virginity protection on and off to avoid losing virginity during combat (unless you lose of course) so you can reach the virgin ending or save your virginity for a specific person.

The town gameplay is also great by really rewarding the player for exploring the town and talking to each NPC. It is always great when an RPGM or Wolf game is non-linear and has nice gameplay and events in the towns or in this case, town ---- singular....

It would have of course been great if there were more towns to explore and thus if the game was twice or three times longer but regardless it was still fun the way it is with unique multiple step CG art and dialogue for each town related event. Each of which has three or more phases as well.

One of the biggest gameplay issues though is that you can find clues and side quests in town but you don't have a diary or quest log to track these so it can be easy to forget what you had to do especially if you save and come back another day.

An added bonus of the game is that it has 7 different endings and thus adds a degree of replay value if you want to hunt each ending.


H-CONTENT;
On story and gameplay alone this game would probably be 2 or 3 stars but the h-content really bumps up my rating of this game simply because of how good it is. You have combat rape attacks that are animated and have pixel art as well, game over scenes for a variety of enemies all using quality CG art. You have CG art for NPCs and for your character for both boss game over scenes and events in town.

You also have a few generic prostitution scenes but there are enough different ones that they are worthwhile trying to see them all.

Each of the 7 different endings also have unique CG sequences and thus really reward you for trying to get them all (though for those not wanting to replay the game you can also just open the scene recollection book and unlock all scenes once you have completed one play through of the game.

One complaint I have here is that the scene recollection book doesn't actually have all scenes in it there are quite a few missing from the book.

It is also nice that with the non-linear nature of this game they have some harder to find h-scenes that really reward you for exploring and messing around in town.


CLOSING COMMENTS;
Now while I have rated this 5/5 stars I would not put this game side by side next to other, better RPG games and say this is as good as other games I have rated 5/5 stars. My 5/5 rating here is simply because on its own without comparing to other games this is a thoroughly enjoyable experience that should not be missed by h-gamers who enjoy JRPG games in Wolf or RPGMaker format.

This is by no standard an amazing OMG this will blow your mind game, but regardless it is an excellent adult game that will give you thorough enjoyment and fun for at least 4-5 hours of gameplay. A short quality experience and thus why I have given it 5 stars.

I tend to be more lenient with adult games as quality ones are few and far between and while short this is still a quality game. I think the shortness and lack of multiple towns is actually what hold this back. If you had more towns to explore, more events in those towns and perhaps even more dungeons for those towns it would definitely have taken this game to the next level even with the existing story and gameplay it already has.

I was looking forward to this game because it looked good, but unfortunately that's all it ever does.

Almost all "big" games(in this case, CH takes around 3-something gigs on your hard drive) are usually what's considered to be "good" games. I dunno why, it's just the way it usually goes. Even Thanatos, the game which size was inflated mostly by the same animations with different shades of tentacles, can be considered a good game, even if it kinda fell short in some respects. You can say something good about it. However, I can't say anything good about Chevalier Historie. I just can't. But sure, let's go over some major aspects of the game.

Plot: blah-blah-blah, ancient danger was sealed in the past and now is accidentally unsealed, right at this fucking moment the game takes time at. Your princess friend got captured and now you have to save her and the whole kingdom or something. Very engaging.
The problem is not with the plot itself, because, unoriginal and overdone as it may be, it could be easily circumvented by some good presentation. However, it's presented about as interesting and original as you can expect from a fifth-grader's essay, though I do doubt that a fifth-grader can write it as dull and frustratingly uninspired. I honestly believed that the reason why it's written in such a mundane way was because, later on, there'd be some cool twist to flip the unsuspecting player's expectations from tip to toes.

But no. It never happened. Fuck's sake.

What's baffling me is that you can clearly see they were trying to add some more stuff into presentation, make it look more whole, polished, bigger, etc. Like, you can frequently stumble upon optional flashbacks, which kinda hints the player on that there's "more" to the story and the characters. But there really isn't. It's a trap. There's literally nothing more to what you've already seen, and that's really bloody frustrating.

Characters are one-dimensional and forgettable. I honestly forgot about pretty much every single NPC I squeezed the flavor text from, save for that fairy dude in the randomized dungeon and only because he looked like an anime Peter Pan or something. MC is supposed to be a naive hard-working girl that we must root for, however she comes off as a totally insufferable imbecile. There's absolutely no pleasure in either helping her achieving her goals or corrupting her, that's how bad it is. I only enjoyed H-scenes by disconnecting from her in-game persona and taking a mental note that this is not the same person I controlled the whole game.

OST? It might have been there, but it's about as forgettable as NPC. Probably some usual RPGM stock music, I dunno.

Gameplay? Let's just say it's all about cheesing your opponents, an is about as fun as watching the paint dry. It's not turn-based. Yes, it's supposed to be fast-paced action, but here's the thing: you are very restricted in your movements. You can't attack while moving, you can't even move diagonally. You literally can't do shit the way it's supposed to be. And it's pretty unpolished, too. You think I was joking about "cheesing" your opponents? You can literally hit through the fucking walls if your attack reach is long enough. Oh, and that standing portrait of the heroine that is everpresent in most H-RPGs? You can't even appreciated the artwork because your attention is glued towards dealing with enemies or avoiding traps. Devs really missed the mark hard there, I am speechless.

Oh, and that's not all, by the way. Worst thing of all is that the game gives you more and more stuff right off the bat to take away whatever challenge you could have had. Don't wanna have your clothes tear anymore? Here's the item that prevents that altogether lmao, for just being present in one of the starting events. Don't wanna get fucked in a random fight and have your virginity stolen? Here's the item given away in a literal tutorial zone that prevents that, I am not even joking. Tired of earning spending money? Here's the item that gives you literally infinite money, after you complete a very mediocre dungeon. I can go on and on. This... "gameplay" is about as engaging as a VN's, basically.

Spritework and CG art is gorgeous though. Like, it actually is. The only good part of the game is that juicy art. It's literally the only reason why I rate it more than just one star. Can't say anything more about it, look at the screenshots and it'll speak for itself.

H-Scenes are hit or miss. Some are good, some are meh. I personally appreciate that it caters towards some of my own fetishes, but objectively it doesn't make the whole game look better. Some setups are crazy hot(like that chain of slum Inn or the bathhouse events, just, muah, a chef's kiss), some are ordinary plain-ol'-rape or "tricked into sex" thing. But what is good there - it really is.

My verdict? The game is trash. Probably the first Wolf RPG game I played that is actual trash. I don't recommend buying it, I don't even recommend trying it if not for some H-Scenes, and if that's the case - download a full save and snoop through the gallery. You really won't miss out on much.

I was positively surprised about this game.
Usually I am disappointed with this kind of game Japansee RPGs which are make just to be "click bait game" (games with all possible fetishes, just to have lot of tags, and with same story and content as most ohers because its proven that this is good for salle in JP, practically just protagonist is diferent)

But here can be seen that creator make some extra work, to make this game little bit more original, with some side things to do ecxept main quest (like option to tame that dog and etc). Also Art is enjoyable.
And so, overall I did quiet enjoy this game.

It's a shame, I was looking forward to this game since I enjoyed Rune's Pharmacy. But, unlike Picopicosoft's previous work, this one just falls short of everything it tries to do.

Meaningful feeling of corruption isn't there. The two stats, sensuality (sexuality) and naughtiness (I guess... criminality?) go up quickly and the only thing stopping you from maxing them out immediately is story progress.

However, there are more than a few events that can just happen at any stat level, such as being able to just give up virginity to get past a thug. Both before and after doing so, there is zero brevity and weight. She doesn't even really care she gave it up. She also gets talked into guilt BJs and such almost effortlessly. The reasoning is that she's selfless and wants to support the country and its people, but the reality is that it's just really lazy writing. Once sensuality is level 2/3 (which, again, takes no effort), she's basically a nympho slut. What's problematic is that she'll still act like an innocent lamb for other events so there's always a feeling of the game not ever having a cohesive narrative.

Next issue is the gameplay. On one hand, it's not turn based. On the other, it's one button attacks and the only depth is special moves you'll never actually use. Everything dies quickly and the dungeons are so short and uninteresting that you won't really have time to get bored or tired of the battles.

Game is also very short, will probably take you about 2-4hrs and that's being generous.

Overall, highly disappointing considering how long this game was being developed and what came before it. I'd download a save for the animations which are decent, and move on. Forgettable experience all around.

This game somehow ticks all the boxes of the genre but either fails in its execution or just does not manage to stand out, ending up being an average game.

Gameplay
Combat:
It is an Action-RPG and not a turn-based one which is a nice change. Unfortunately it is very basic, you spam the attack button and that's it. Worse still, you cannot move during the animation and the range is literally 5 pixels in front of you. At least the game is very easy so it is not too much of a hindrance...
Sex:
When it comes to sex, it is a "lose to get raped" system, which you have to do on purpose so meh. There are some other ways to get scenes which adds to the variety, through interaction with NPCs in town.
There is a system of character corruption (for sex and evil) but they only have 3 levels each and apart from unlocking quests they do not have much use.
You have stats for her "body parts usage" but it serves no purpose whatsoever, apart from showing semen on her mouth/boobs/crotch (on the menu screen) when used a lot

Story
Plot: So it is the story of... Just kidding, it is the usual, nothing to say here.
It is fairly disappointing that her level of corruption does not reflect at all during sex scenes. Hearing her say please stop when she's been doing it all day is just meh.

Art
The drawings are fairly nice, but is is mostly static pics with small cut-in animations for mouth and xray vagina/anus, or the typical VN full screen pics. The latter ones are drawn with "invisible dicks", so you get to see her open vagina/anus (I personally dislike that, but to each their own)

Sound
The dubbing is rather generic and lackluster, and it annoyed me that when in a situation with several people (gang bang etc) the voiceovers actually stack instead of having them one at a time, which makes it like she is several people at the same time, which is really weird.

Conclusion:
The game is ok in what it does but will be quickly forgotten in my opinion.
You cannot even just download it for curiosity easily because of the huge size of the game.