RPGM - Abandoned - Chronicles of Leridia [v0.6.3] [Maelion]

one of the best game I ever play, good storytelling, a lot of missions, a lot of choices, unique style and only a few bugs at the end of the game, I hope it'll be revisited by the developer sooner or later to fix them but in the end is a really good game

A lot has been said about this game and i share the critism about flyimg cocks and sex with a green man.
The storyline is great you can not find this in any games
But i still give it five stars because i keep on playing it every time again at least 30 times because it's so much fun. The voice of Sylvia. Can't wait till 1.0

DISCLAIMER:
These are my very own personal opinions on the game It is not representative of the full experience of anybody else. This is a review based on my expecations and my understanding of what should be expected.
This is a review based on random parameters (not necesarily realted to the difference between release date and play date) to measure my gaming experience, the things that matter to me, you probably wont care about anyway.
This review is a guide for me, and weirdos like me, if you want to know the real game, play it yourself, dont trust me that much., im nuts.
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Graphics for 2022 are kind of horrible, (this doesnt have to be the only reason for a bad review, but an "if".)
The girl from the begining looks like a bimbo and a cheap whore, I mean who wears that make up? I understand making what other games of this type do, at some point making a bimbo route, but after some progression and some character development.
The fist costume its pretty much what other female protags would wear mid game.
She can be acomplete whore fighting perverted monsters, in no time. At some point there is a path decisions, but from what I played that decision comes when you have acquired stats to pretty much fuck everyone in the village, so the choice is kind of done already.

Th english is pretty basic.
The writing is pretty bad (or pretty good silly Russian comedy) the female is unidemensional at most. Her use of "rape" I dont think its aproved by linguists or feminists, and its used so much that it becomes comedy.
The girls boobs look bad, they look like someone went a little overboard with the sliders, they pop out and you see the crease. Since these 3D engines make the breast and the chest muscle into a single body, when you increase its volume too much it shows and it sucks.

Many monsters and NPC become shadows or default transparent assets with default "asset penis" during lewd scenes, even the slime gets one of those asset penises there floating.
The render quality is not good, it looks either blurred or simply low res or both. and the images over background are not very well tuned, if you look at the bottom of the screen you wil see the image border.
Everything looks cheap overall,from the MC to the overall look, to the build up of the lewdness and how easy the female becomes a cock hungry slut.
I dont understand how this can be 5 stars, even for a fast paced game, I barely understand how it can be 3.
I think i give it 2 because of the use of sounds, its the only redeeming quality of the game, they are not perfect, but at least they dont suck and they add something.

I understand that if you have a goal in your mind regarding what you want to see and a strong bias towards something that it offers you, you will not care about how the game looks or the quality of it as long as it provides that content, but being honest this game is not a masterpiece. Its average because of the amount of "content", but in this 2022 the game looks terrible by any standards, and its saved because of the use of "lewd voice clips", which is a nice idea.

I felt the need to post a review after reading all the glowing ones that this game has which I can not totally agree with.

Firstly the bad of which there is quite a lot -

The game flow is not very well done. Without chearing the grind is pretty heavy to be able to even survive normal battles let along "boss" mobs. There is then a further grind to achieve things like dancer quests where you fail often and have to go again another night repeating scenes over and over again.

The game also has some serius issues with pacing within a short period of time the main character is already a complete slut/whore willing to shag anything with a cock which doesnt leave any room for real character development.

The battles when you do them are very very slow in both the time it takes to see the actions on screen and the time it take to kill mobs with the abilities you are given.

Whilst there is a quest log it is at times difficult to understand what you should be doing first, where you should be going and over all what is going on.

It is far to easy to hit a game over screen (not just from losing a battle) meaning you have to save very frequently or risk having to replay significant amount of time.

Lastly the CG is showing its age using what looks like HS1 character models with mods.

The good -

The game is complete and there is a lot of content that will take a long time to see all of.

The addition of the mini events via hexagrams is a nice touch.

The plot makes a certain amount of sense and there are several routes and ways to complete many of the quests which give some choice.

Over all not a bad game but hardly the 5* review game that this has some how got from many people.

TLR -

If rape and is your thing and you use a cheat engine to make the battles easier and take out much of the grind you will find something for you here even with the sub par CG. A 3* rating is fair given the much better games available on this site.

Version 0.6.3

The good:
RPGM game done right.
World is full of action, but not too big,
Barely any grinding required.
Combat is decent and there isn't loads of it you have to get through.
A lot of different characters, with actually decent storylines for a porn game.
A lot of 18+ content, altough some of it feels like copied and paste.

The bad:
In order to see every scene you'll see the Game Over screen very often.(would be nice to have an option to instantly load before the game over choice)
The combat is a little bit slow, especially if you are not using items such as fire/thunder bombs.
The ending seems a little bit lackluster compared to amount of cg other scenes have.

Chronicles of Leridia is the best hentai game I ever had the luck to play.
Dont let the word hentai fool you, the game full of gorgeous art works and isnt censored.
The story is decent for an adult game, even if it takes some time really get there, fear not since even if you dont care about any of these there is still plenty of content to explore and I dont just mean the island of Leridia (which is worth to explore) but the astounding amount of content this game has: crazy sex, BDSM, rape and CRAZY SEX.
Its worth a shot

Good game and story until the end, the ending all feel rushed with barely any work put into it the first release of 0.6 with the ending didn't even had pictures to go with the ending until 0.6.3. There are to many story lines left open with no plan of going back to them. To me it feels like the creator just wanted to move on to his new project he is working on a update to 1.0 but I doubt it will make the game feel any better it will most likely be just small scenes throughout the game.

[0.6.3]
Ok, so CoL is the very first porn game that I played aside from flash animations like Meet&Fuck games. As such my rating of this game may be a little bit biased because of emotional connection to it (and I can't believe I say something like this about porn XD). This game showed me that the R-rated game characters can be interesting, that story can be intriguing and that I can have fun just playing, not only watching slideshows of poeple fucking. It was due to this game and the way it made me want to play it so hard that I haven't slept for an entire night that I found out about this forum. This game doesn't contain any of my kinks and is focused on ugly bastards which are kinda my anti-kink. But boy, it does focus on them so well that I forget about my preferences playing it Renders are hot, story makes them even hotter and dialogue makes them the hottest. They aren't Shakespeare level of course, far from it actually (I believe there are still some great mistakes in texts but I treat them as a part of the experience at this point XD), but they are hot and flesh out characters. I like the post-game and possibility to choose Sylia's husband, I like the fact that there are points in which not doing something may lead to consequences later (Redfoot). I like the sounds, I like the porn, I like almost everything. Almost. I don't like grind, which will be prevalent especially in the first parts of the game. I don't like the fact that if you don't save often (AND I MEAN OFTEN) you may end up losing literal hours of progress due to bad ends sending you to the main menu. I now like the renders of goblins, but beware first-time players, you will most likely end up more amused than horny. I don't like... nothing more. Seriously, this game is amazing and I love it. Go try it out, you won't regret.
Tl;dr
+Hot
+Very nice story
+LONG
+Fun
+Story arcs, easter eggs and stuff you may miss out on
-Grindy in the first hours
-Goblin renders XD
-Not saving often may lead to very sad moments

Chronicles of Leridia is a large open world game that focuses on the corruption of the protagonist, in a fantasy setting. The artwork seems very inspired by certain hentai rpg games, and heavily focuses on the ugly aggressor trope. The first half of the game feels rather more polished than the latter half, but it still has plenty of content. There's many quests to do, with several ways to finish some, with added consequences, your actions have some impact in the story. This also goes into the combat mechanics, while you can use a surprising array of more usual rpg skills, in battle items give you a much faster way to kill most things. There is a bit of grind to be found in some of the corruption scenes, but you can largely do them as you explore at a more relaxed rate if you don't rush them as soon as you can access them. Overall a lot of time and effort has gone into this game, and while it has some flaws, it excels in being a completed game, with great world building and corruption mechanics.

One of the best games i played, the things I liked was because of the corruption, see the humiliation the protagonist goes through depending of your choice, a lot of things to explore in the map at certain point you find the events and the majority is repeatable, the thing I didn't like was the grindy to increase the lust status making a
little boring.

It is really impressive the amount of content in this game.

When you start the game you may get the feeling of one of those grind-to-death rpgm games and it can make you close the window. The game has evolved way far from that initial stage. There is way more adventures than you can expect in a porn game. It can be difficult to keep track of the many quests you can follow.

I give the 5 stars for all the work done in this project. Even if not all is my cup of tea. But the story has some kind of soul by itself. Not the bang every dick around. You can do that of course. In a game of this size there will be parts you like, some you like less and some that you don't like at all. Most of those are (not easily) avoidable.

On the negative side maybe some maps are really huge. Like 1:1 scale maps. You can really get lost there. There are some weird situations like one NPC being available at 2 different locations at the same time. Also some skipping method for repetitive scenes will be great. Not just hit some key but an option to skip the whole scene.

But with the development cycle reaching its end I prefer the dev focusing on finishing the content and fixing bugs.

A great game overall. Thank you Maelion.

I used a pre given save of high level to explore the game. So I don't know how much grinding there is, and how much gameplay for each sex action.

It delivers on the tags and seem to have plenty of sex and kinky encounters.

The art is original, a bit crude, sometimes ugly, but often the MC looks cute, funny and pretty.

I suspect that if you play this game from the start you will have to work yourself through a lot of questing to get to all scenes.

This game has a really interesting gameplay, solid story and a good amount of quests.
But OMG how horrible is the art and sex scenes. They are so terribly awful i am reading most of the dialogues but try to skip every sex scene as quickly as possible (not the way you usually play porn rpg game)

I found myself really enjoying this game. The author has put real efforts and care in it, and it shows.
It's not perfect, but the whole package is well enjoyable enough that you brush aside the flaws you find.
I'm rating this game 5 stars, because it hits the right spots for me, but it may not be the case for everyone.

As of 0.6A :

+ Tons of content (both sex scenes and story). Scenes have many variations and are most often repeatable
+ Play corrupted or pure, or in-between
+ Immersive story : Choices shape the protagonist. The characters have some depth (for a porn game ofc), except for the clothes, but they're hot so...
+ Coherent world with good maps, atmospheres, sounds and cutscenes.
+ Good pacing between story, combat and sex
+ A mix of cool, funny, and serious topics
+ Combat is not too heavy, and skills/items allow to speed it up
+ The dev is active and responsive.

Points you should be aware of (not necessarly bad) :

o RPG Maker MV (with its shortcomings)
o Slow corruption start : the protagonist is a fairly innocent girl at the begining. There's some hot scenes right away nonetheless.
o The sex scenes all have the same kind of flair. (I personaly enjoy it, but if you don't you may end up getting bored).
o English mistakes.
o CGs are undermined by the engine (some Illusion game), though they're still hot.
o You don't have to grind much if you don't want to

Now waiting on Princess mode...

In some ways CoR is to porn games what indie games are to AAA games. There's a passion and willingness to follow one's own goals that really sets it apart from most RPG makers games I've played. It is deviously easy to recommend the game to someone : Do you like the idea of a hot female warrior being at the mercy of bigger, uglier and/or older men and do not mind learning the combat system? If you answered yes, this game is for you.

Yet no matter how much I stand by that statement, I can't help but feel that it is a disservice to the game and it's creator to bring it down to that simple question, which is something I'll get back to after discussing the bigger points. Mainly, sex and combat.

Combat

So you've played the introduction. You're told to go in the forest and fight some baddies. You fight the 5 enemies on the way, hit level 2, heal yourself on the Altar, fight the boss and get killed in 3 hits. "One of those games" you tell yourself, as you wonder if you should stop playing or grind.

It's unfortunate how many people look at the slow exp gain and then slap the dreaded grindy on the game. The first boss can be defeated at lvl 1 without taking any damage.

Items are powerful in this game. Ridiculously so. And anyone who wants to up their corruption game will have plenty of money from dancing (and other jobs). I've actually avoided most monsters, only sticking around to fight a few when the experience gains made it worth it.

Lightning bombs trivialize certain bosses. Nets make group encounters a joke (especially a certain forced encounter). Shell potions stack if you refresh their duration on their last turn. And luckily, there's enough things to juggle to make it stressful. How long do you wait to reset your Tame levels in battle? How about your horniness? Do you heal up, attack or Focus while the enemy is stunned?

I really can't stress how much items and quest experience is more than enough to keep Sylia right on the levelling curve of the game. The system is far from perfect. Yet the presence of a combat system easily elevates the game above other games simply pretending to have one.

So what are those imperfections? Sylia's skills are lackluster. Most of them are balanced around their mastered status, which is a mechanic explained in a book given after an explanation of your skills. I assumed that book was the same tutorial and never read it myself until I inadvertently mastered a skill and I could see many others make the same mistake. Unfortunaly being balanced around their mastered state mostly means they don't get used at all : afterall, items get the job done just as well and your best damage tools are also the cheapest.

Overall, I think if Mastery wasn't hidden in a book and items were introduced in the game's beginning, combat would be regarded slightly more highly than it currently is.

Smut

Sex scenes are very hard to criticize. It never feels right to tell a creator to write what they might not care to write, and I want to make it clear that if Maelion has no interest in writing any other scene than "Bombshell is assaulted by ugly man", then it is perfectly okay.

This game has a lot of sex. Every town, every area is simply filled with. It's insane how many different angles have been found and created around that previously mentioned concept. For some people, that is they want. I thought I wouldn't mind it.

But there is so much of it. There's a limit to how much pizza I can eat and by the time I made it to the last major city, I just felt tired of it all. It doesn't matter if it's consensual or not, it doesn't matter if there's blackmail or not. It doesn't matter who initiated sex. Sylia will turn into a sexdoll and just let the other person do their thing. She never takes initiative into the act. She is a permanent victim in the scene, even if she was the one starting it.

Submission is a big theme in this game and an even bigger spectrum in real life. It would have been nice to see Sylia happily and/or hungrily serve someone. Instead it seems like she's about to cry in every scene. As Sylia's corruption grows, the only changing factor is how or why the sex started, never what happens.

I don't have much to say about the artworks. I like them! Mostly ... There's a constant wet effect in all of them, as if Sylia took a massive cum shower before the act. And while sometimes it works, more often than not it's either a bit too over the top or too soon in the scene. More importantly, the normal non-wet model actually looks quite nice and it would have been fun to see it a bit more. And with less "wet" CGs, the ones left would have made their respective scenes feel more unique.

Lastly, the grind word is thrown here a bit and once again I have to refute it. There is definitely a hurdle early on, but it feels less like a grind wall and more like giving you space to play the game. Most events do not go away, and those that do (with the exception of one freak case looking at your blowjob merchant) have low enough requirements to get them before too late. I'd recommend playing the game normally, experience what you can when it's available, and before long your Lust levels will far out-level every scene you encounter. While you can grind the early levels, you can also hunt the available for a smooth but slower progression

I said I'd come back to this

There's a lot of things in this game that I want to praise. Most of them are pretty small, but together they really make the game feel like a project of love and I don't want them to go unnoticed.

First and most importantly of all, thought has been given so that most things story related make sense (in the game world, anyway). Why is Sylia so easily corrupted? Why is she constantly targetted by big ugly men? Those things have an explanation beyond "this is a porn game and she hot".

I'm amazed how many thing can be interacted with that Sylia will comment on. It shows that maps were designed beyond simply bringing the player from point A to point B.

Every map has something hidden in it. More impressive still, an effort was made to put at least 1 event circle on all of them. Not always sexual of course, but always fun to find. Events will tell you what you need to complete them as well as if they can expire (mostly early chapter stuff), which almost makes up for the lack of gallery (Maelion has mentioned difficulties adding one).

I mentioned it before but the game is brimming with content. So many scenes. most of which having variants depending on Tame and Horniness stat and luckily, most of them can be re-experienced any time to see those variants.

The writing, for the most part is enjoyable. The characters are interesting enough to make me care about the story and while there is definitely a few typos, it's minor stuff for the most part.

What is less minor however are the puzzles. I'm not sure if they are simply bad or suffer from more unique problem. From my understanding, Maelion is French. As a French-Canadian myself, I can recognize a lot of unnatural sentences, because of course I can: I have the same problem, no matter how confident I try to be about it. In story segments, this is not a problem, it's actually rather charming at times.

But the puzzles definitely suck. Luckily, almost all over them can be brute-forced. Sadly, I said almost. One in particular tells you to look at blue lights. Which would be fair if the cave wasn't filled with blue crystals. Turns out the blue light was a particularly uninteresting blue pattern on the floor somewhere. Example aside, they just don't feel good. Again, I didn't get most of them, simply tried the few available options until one worked.

The last thing I want to mention is the path choice. I say last thing because I don't know how I feel about it. The Deviant path feels off because there simply isn't enough slutty events for it to make sense for Sylia to take it at that point. On the other hand, Sylia is such a massive slut at the end of the game that the Saint path starts feeling off. Both this system and the Tame and Arrogance one feel like they landed in the failure side of the experiment.

Thankfully, they're not annoying failures as much as disappointing ones. They never feel quite right but never feel punishing. Ultimately they get the same scenes, the saint side simply needs to lose the battle to get them. I think each side having a more unique set of scenes better suited for each path would have a been an interesting approach but at least the current implementation is harmless (and doesn't force a second playthrough on an already big game).

Last thoughts

More than anything, Chronicles of Leridia is a charming game. The only reason I spent so much time writing this is because it's clear how much Maelion loved making this game.

As mentally burnt as I am on this game, I don't regret playing it, and this is why I recommend it despite it's faults. I think most people are gonna get tired of the scenes and slow combat, a lack of variety will that to you. But I'll still eat my fill of pizza whenever the opportunity is there. The leftovers can be left to another day.

( V0.5 - 11H into the game )

This game is very good it might not look like it at first if you got used to the 2d graphic like me but give it a shot but even in terms of gameplay and story is very good, it's the type of game that time flys while you playing it.
With different paths and events is bound to keep you intrigue

But it has some negatives points too but I won't tax the game for them because I think it's my fault for them not the game not everyone will come across them

- The puzzles: When you go deeper in the game there will be puzzles and they are pretty annoying at least for me, not impossible but waste your time

- Enemies are too strong and you are too weak - At the beginning, the enemy can kill you from 3 strikes, you don't have the option to buy gear or something to cut from that dmg, even far in the game they are pretty strong I play the game with cheats one so I can one hit them and sometimes I still lose (Do yourself a favor and start with the cheats on)

- Bugs - There are some bugs like the heart icon disappear or some event don't play at first but they are not that bother 1, in particular, was annoying, in the village of masa at the guy who works at crops you get trap in that mountain and the only way to get out is to load an old save I save often so wasn't a problem for me but for someone can be hours of progress lost.

- You can't surrender: It has a lot of content that you have to lose to see it so it's a big - you can't do that.

- And now biggest problem I had with the game, in this game you save very often you have to but IDK why the save menu is very slow like when you open the game and press "Continue" will take like 1 minute before the menu of saves appears also in the game takes like 20 30 seconds is very bothering

Overall this game is a complete bomb, I like the content of it, I like the characters, the sounds, the story, the paths. Everything.

I want to congrats the dev for this majestic piece of art and hope he will keep it up.

I like this game because it's a GAME instead of a linear story of clicking a mouse button. Two things i wish from Maelion: after beating the last enemy Sylia should continue wondering Leridia AND more goddess bikini.

Have to admit that I skipped it at first. The preview pictures promised some hot action but the presentation style just weren't my thing. Boy had I been wrong.

After I gave it a try I was hooked. The game is a nice mixture of violence, sex and humor. The story is sweet and sometimes funny as hell, I really like the combination of seriousness and hilariousness. Presentation is better than I thought at first once I got used to it. The RPG maker maps are cool and certainly show how much work had been invest into making them. Voice acting is also pretty good and sexy.

A game that deserves a lot more attention than it currently has.

tl;dr: A grindy but very satisfying corruption game with a unique art style/setting.

It starts off as a quite old school grindy RPG. However, after managing to get through that initial surface you discover an arousing corruption story, with various sexual jobs/activities/events.

The game doesn't fully lose it's grindiness, even for raising corruption. However, the game does a much better job at corrupting at the protagonist than most fem. protag corruption games I've played, so I can forgive that.

While the art might look a bit outdated from a first glance, the sound effects and style are actually very fitting.

With lots of content, some amount of branching paths, and great playability as a RPGMaker game, not just a vehicle for porn, I highly recommend this game.

The largest potential stumbling block is the major influence of Japanese style into the game. Most, if not all of the sex scenes are hot women being fucked by old men, ugly men, or monsters, which can be exactly what you want, or the total opposite.

I do have to echo other reviewer's comments about the resource grind at first, to build up Horniness or Lust, but that's solvable on future playthroughs or for new players by simplying advancing through through Chapter 1 and 2 quickly. There's a few events that are gated, and need to happen before you end a certain chapter, but otherwise, the grind for Horniness becomes much easier later on.