Others - Corruption of Champions II [v0.7.31] [Savin/Salamander Studios]

As the ancestors bequeathed, "I'd rather not touch it, not even with an eighteen-foot stick."

As a COC fan who can still play a couple of runs in COC XiaXia, COC 2 was a complete disappointment for me. I won't talk about the hackneyed gist of it, about the awful feeling of being in the story as the protagonist, about a bunch of unmissable and sometimes very persistent fetishes, about the sometimes overly THICC character artwork (slightly less awful than in TiTs), no, I'll touch on the aspects that pissed me off the most.

- Disgusting gameplay. The first installment had a very simple yet enjoyable RPG system, not too simple, but not complex either (if you need complexity and millions of numbers, it's in XiaXia). Here, not only the maximum level is very small (and it's very easy to gain it), but also the auto levelling is absolutely disgusting! Throughout the game, I never felt powerful, as it is supposed to champion, not only do I have two companions walking with me, taking on themselves part of the merits, often they are even stronger in terms of stats!
They added different types of damage and armor, which should have made it stand out qualitatively from the first part, but they forgot to work that system out. Few abilities, and if there are any, in most cases it's just a copy but with a different damage element or minimal differences. Few really worthwhile items, for example, I as a black mage, having received a staff on the quest of the wolf boy with a huge penis, did not change it until I found two sticks that gave me on... 5 more spell power! 5! And that's still a lot, there's a difference of 2-3 spell powers. And in general, there are no ways to level up outside of leveling up, only items and companion talents. Is it even worth talking about the system of transformation from the first part?

- The text is either not enough or too much, sometimes lacking a description of the situation, and sometimes 3 pages of text describing completely useless things, so the text itself is still terrible. Instead of working out the main story, they decided to finish the side-story about a wolf-femboy with a huge dick, of course, which also became a demigod, yes, of course, I'll just stand aside, I'm just a champion, of course.

CoC2 is probably the worst ERPG due to the creators wasting time on side contents that don't need to be expanded on or to be added later, companions being so boring and contribute nothing to the already terrible lore and story of the game, underwhelming classes and weapons, forced OCs, and contradictory stances on certain fetishes and theme. Unless you want to play as a male character with a large dick and a knot to impregnate every female NPCs, you're better off skipping the game until it gets fully retcon and modded by fans.

While the game may not be perfect, and some of the criticism I've read about it was warranted, the end product is still an amazing game with more raw content and hours of fun than 95% of the games on this site. The combat needs some rebalancing, and I'm not a huge fan of the card system used in the fights; I absolutely have a lot more stuff about the game I do enjoy, mainly the character-focused sub-plots and the sex scenes.

Literally twice the amount of content if you choose to play pure rather than corrupt. You literally can only get the bimbo bee companion if you DON'T turn her into a bimbo. That makes no sense, especially not for a game that claims to be a sequel to COC.

Even more egregious is how you can knock up more characters than you can can actually corrupt? Like- at least call it preggers of champions instead of implying that engaging with the corruption mechanics is anything but a trap that leads to no content and no updates that are relevant to your interests.

Remember the original CoC? Yeah, well, this one barely shares any resemblance to that.

Freedom? Nah, fetishes, content and NPCs will get shoved down your throat whether you like it or not, just like the LMBTQ shit IRL. The original game made you the main character, you explored a fucked up and strange land, encountered weird stuff and fought corruption or welcomed its embrace. Here? Nah, you are side content. Essentially, nothing that you do as the Champion matters. You are not the focus. Hell, in some cases you are a loser whether you like it or not... though luck.

No branching storylines, no immersive corruption mechanic, cluttered jank UI, unavoidable fetishes, inconsistent writing and visuals. Whatever this is, don't call it Corruption of Champions II. My recommendation would be "Furries and Demons" or "Furries vs Demons". If you want to keep this title, maybe make it so that the game is about corruption and/or a champion. Currently, this game is NOT about either of those.

I'm not one to throw stones as a writer though if there a project to stone the writing of it is CoC.

You want a story without focus meandering as the writers interests come and go. You have it. You want a protagonist who is merely there to be a no personality camera to the scenes. You got it. You want half-assed bad endings. You have those too. If there were a race to the bottom CoC II will have to take the prize.

What redeeming 'qualities' does this have? Well, if you're a voyeur then every scene feels like your watching without interacting and that's that.

CoC II is a one star project with features tacked on haphazardly on top of non-existent story with unengaging gameplay for a text-based game. What more can be said?

A few years ago I bought the steam version of this game to support the devs, since I, for personal reasons, dislike Patreon due to some of their policies. On this way, you can see that I liked the game enough to want to support its development. Yet, it is with a heavy heart that I'm forced to rate this 2/5, for the reasons I'll disclose bellow.

Earlier versions of this game were absolutely amazing. It felt like a high fantasy tabletop rpg campaing with lots and lots of eroticism. The freedom of choice and progression you were presented with felt unique and added so much flavor to the experience that I just couldn't stop playing/reading through the game's story, and mind you, this is coming from someone who has no interest whatsoever in futas and furries.
The game was just that good, to the point where I got invested into a story with lots of things that I sincerely dislike. That being said, with each new update everything that made this game great is just getting buried beneath a pile of nonsensical mental masturbation and ego stroking of egotistical writers, in a convoluted mess of self-inserts and Mary Sue / Gary Stu OCs, that some very specific writers keep inserting into the story like there's no tomorrow, to the point that the MC (our chosen champion) feels just like an incompetent side character.

I could literally write a paper with how many poorly thought of pieces of content have been shoveled into the original project, in a way that make no sense and feel, at the very least, out of place when compared to the main plot originally presented. But, since this is supposed to be a "short" review, I'll stick to what I believe is the crux of the issue, that being, the point where I believe the overall quality of the game starts to nose-dive into a convoluted, unoriginal mess. That'd be the Kitsune related content.

I fail to understand how come so many resources, development time and focus have been wasted in something so outlandish to the originally presented project. A piece of contet that feels out of place and, quite honestly, like a work of fanfiction, forcefully inserted, as a joke perhaps, in what was otherwise a solid erotic fantasy story with lots of freedom of choice to mold it to your champions preferences.

When it comes to the Kitsune related content, from the get go we are stuck in a railroaded experience with close to zero alternatives of progression, that, in many instances, treat our champion as weak and/or stupid for no reason other than to show the reader how great the writer's OCs are. One specific encounter throughout this storyline sticks to mind like a sore thumb: The first encounter and subsequent fight with Nakano, the edgy samurai from the Kitsune Den.
By playing a massive, strength based Orc warrior, accompanied by Arona, another massive strength based (although you can change that with clothes sets)Orc warrior, Brint/Brienne -- another ENORMOUS and incredibly strong warrior, and dumpstering the samurai boi in a couple of turns, what do we get at the end of the fight? Of course, our characters are injured, extremely tired and oh my, would you look at that? Our party with two enormous muscular orcs and a gargantuan minotaur, all over 2 meters in height and ripped out of their minds, is struggling to even hold the 5 foot 5 samurai femboy in place! Amazing! That's what I call immersion! I guess Nakano had the power of anime on his side, huh? That and plot armor for being an egostistical writer's precious OC.

Such immersion breaking moments can be observed all throughout the den's content, with how other characters treat your champion, with their remarks, with the champion's passive and out of character reactions, etc. Basically, from all that I've observed throughout many different playthroughs with many different champions, you have no choices here; regardless of everything else, even the "choices" (more like illusion of choices, really) there's only one possible outcome to your interaction with the Kitsunes: Your character will be treated like a wimp who has no say in any matters, and can do nothing but follow whatever your fox overlords want you to do.

The kitsunes, at every opportunity, will show you how powerful and amazing they are, and how insignificant and unimportant your champion is. They will always stay in control , since they are, after all, written to be superior to your champion. They will treat your champion like a stupid joe schmoe whenever given the chance. They will also show how "cool" and "amazing" and "important" and "badass" and yada yada yada they are, and how you will be forced into the role of side character to empower their storyline.

During some of the sex scenes in the den, a 5 foot foxgirl will manhandle your gigantic champion like he was a bitch and, with the power of anime and the writer's personal fetishes, she will show you how much of a dommy mommy she is -- regardless of your choices, by the way. Oh, and forget about ever satisfying them during sex. Best your character can do is have a barely decent, sub-mediocre performance, which, in lots of cases, won't even bring them to orgasm. Your champion, however, will almost pass out and leave the scene limping, in a specific case while the other character spouts a snark remark to the effect of "that's it?" and "you're nothing much huh?". After all, they are too cool and important to have good, fulfilling sex with the champion, who is nothing but a meal to them. Ain't that cool? Ain't that amazing writing for an erotic power fantasy? Nothign better and more immersive for an erotic fantasy rpg than having sex and not being able to satisfy your partner! Oh, author-sama, how can you be so good!? You're a genius!!! Pfft...

There's so many, so damn many things wrong and out of place with that specific piece of content that if I keep writing about it this review will turn into a full blown dissertation on the matter. So, with that in mind, I'll try to be brief and just proceed with a few other points that I noticed about the experience and that made me particularly angry:

The Kitsune storyline as a whole feels EXTREMELY out of place when compared to the the story that was originally proposed for the game. I can say, with full certainty, that it feels just like a low quality fanfic from some over eager teen, which was, for some weird reason, inserted into the general CoCII storyline.

The whole Kitsune storyline has Zero variety of interactions throughout its whole extension, never taking into consideration your champion's background, race, alignment and behaviour thus far, and, above all else, it disrespects and disregards yours -- the player's -- preferences and choices by railroading you into what amounts to a kinetic novel (linear story).

So, you are playing a cruel, chaotic evil mofo that even kicked poor Liaden into the corrupt honey just for shits and giggles? Well, well, well... guess what? Time to be a bitch for the oh-so-incredible kitsunes. Go on, errand boy, move your ass! And do keep your head low while you're at it! You don't wanna upset the god-race, the incredible Kitsunes, do you? All that you can do during this storyline is speak to them respectfully, never talk back, and be super passive with every small ilusion of choice you are given, probably because your femdom mommies and cool, edgy daddies have to show off how "amazing" they are.

Oh, and while we're at it, care to watch your daughter getting fucked by an npc that openly hates you? Isn't it such a turn on, playing from your daughter's pov and watching her get fucked by a man that literally hates you and tried to kill you? This is LITERALLY daughter NTR. And yes, even if there's no relationship between father/mother and daughter, the NTR is still a thing, same for mother NTR, which is a full blown genre (very popular, by the way)-- just like the daughter NTR we are forced to see with poor little Kinu. You literally can't progress their storyline without watching your beloved daughter getting porked and cumming her brains out while bouncing on the cock of some dude who hates you! Peak fantasy content right there!Oh, and mommy approves of it, by the way! Because of course she does!
I'm actually surprised that we haven't had content where Kyoko (our Kitsune wife) bangs some other dude and we're forced to watch and accept it because "it's part of their culture!" -- the same sad, tired excuse given every single damn time the author railroads us into a plot point where others disrespect our character and force choices onto us-- most of which we would never, ever, ever, ever, ever agree with.

Ah, and, once again, while you're at it, grab a chair and go watch that other cool Kitsune from the den, that one hot guard you can barely interact with, get gangbanged. Oh, and would you look at that...! The ones you do interact with, the hot kitsune sisters, are getting fucked by some chumps as well! And OMG! The randoms are sastisfying them and making them cum their brains out-- something your champion wasn't able to do! Isn't that amazing!? Isn't that peak fantasy right there!?

Well, in any case... you better be into voyeurism with slight undertones of cuckold, because this power fantasy is turning into a sharing fantasy real fast! Jokes aside, I get that you don't have any actual relationship with the kitsune sister, nor that hot guard Kitsune girl... but seriously, passing by a random corridor and getting a scene to watch them getting gangbanged by some other dudes, just a little while after they slept with your champion, is something that shouldn't happen-- not even in the background-- unless you were presented with a CLEAR choice for it to happen. That's another instance of literally NTR being forced into the storyline. Oh, and don't get me wrong, I absolutely love NTR! It's my second or third favorite porn genre after corruption and mindbreak. But you see, I kinda prefer my NTR to be in the NTR games/other media that is specifically advertised as NTR or presents it as an option, not shoehorned into my power fantasy game, where the Champion was advertised--marketed even-- to be the badass hero chad/chaddete that gets all the pussy/cock.

Oh, and that dude that tried to murder your family? Do nothing about it. Because. you known, your family are strong, independent Kitsunes that need no Champion to solve ther problems.

And speaking of familly... you better be into disfunctional families where the children hate their parents, and you also better enjoy roleplaying an absentee dad that gets treated like a tool and has no say in anything that happens in the house, because... well... once you free your fox wife, that's exactly what you will be getting.

Hmm... Did I already mention you get to see your daughter fucking a man who hates you and tried to kill you? She cums a whole whole lot and is very enthusiastic in describing how much she loves his cock. Anyway... That happens more than once, and you have more than one daughter *wink* *wink*.

Since the author who specifically wrote that contet seems to like japanese culture so much, let me tell him this: Dude, you write like a fucking Chūnibyō. Stop trying to make your OCs more important and relevant than the MC of the whole damn story. And for fuck's sake, please stop trying to railroad your goddamn fanfic into the game's story! I want to play as MY CHAMPION, not your damn OCs. Also, if you want to add NTR/Cuckold content, then just go for it ffs. Stop trying to veil it by making us watch sexual interactions between characters other than the Champion -- characters that we don't really care about! Seriously, go for it. Just don't force it in routes/storypaths where the player might not want it. Give a choice for it to happen or not-- and for the love of god, make it make sense, instead of just dropping it like a turd in the middle of a public square.

Right... let's wrap things up.

You, my dear reader of this very lengthy and slightly angry review, might think that these rather colorful complaints of mine are reserverd to just this "tiny", specific piece of content (that actually makes for around 40% of all available contet in the game thus far, and, for some reason, keeps increasing at a faster pace than the rest)... However, as things are progressing, with each new update added to this once great game, the issues that were once specific to the boring, bland piece of garbage content that is the Kitsune den storyline, are actually starting to bleed out into what was supposed to be the main storyline. What was once a MC (Champion) driven storyline-- even being advertised as such on Patrean and other media where the game was being "marketed", is slowly but surely turning into a railroaded experience, driven by npcs (writer's OCs) that more and more feels out of place from the initial vision/project of the game.

Oh, and did I already mention that you get to see your LITERAL DAUGHTER, that you cared for, played with and raised (sort of) getting fucked into a puddle by a guy who hates you and tried to kill you? If I did, then let me say it again, just for good measure: you get to see your daughter, your beloved little girl, moaning, cumming and getting fucked into a hot mess by a guy who hates you.

Indeed, in order to progress the storyline, your daughter, your beloved little girl, must be porked by an unlikeable npc character that hates you, and to make things "better", she will marry him. Why? Because these characters are the author's OCs and that's what he wanted to happen. Fuck you, your opinions, your choices and your preferences. The god king author has decreed that there will be daughter NTR and you will enjoy it.

Ah... Yes. Peak fantasy writing right there from author-sama.

Only reason I'm giving this review a 2 star and not a 1 star is pure copium on my part that, one day, the main dev will get his head out of his you know what, and will force the entitled writers that are running rampant to actually comply with the game's original vision and stop railroading their fantasies and OCs into the story.

By the way, let me put this here again, just in cased I missed it before... To progress in the Kitsune storyline you have to watch your daughter, your dear little girl-- yes, that one who you played with, cuddled and patted her head as a child-- having hardcore sex with an extremely unlikeable npc that openly hates you, thinks you are inferior, and has tried to kill you before. Oh, and he also gets to marry her and become part of your family! I'm also pretty sure that if Amazing-Incredible-Godking author-sama has his way with the story, at some point in time there will also be an oyakodon scene where this dude gets to fuck both your wife and daughter at the same time. But don't worry, it's all because of their different culture.

EDIT: Fixed typos, added some stuff I forgot to mention.

Love the game and updates, hope there is some mods soon too, very detailed and with some depth to the story, just wish it had some more foot content hehe.

Please keep the speed of updating the game fenoxo

If you have played the first corruption of champions than I implore you to ignore this game entirely. It is a shade, a poor imitation of the first. Yes there was incredibly nuanced sexual content however there was always a choice to partake or ignore the content. You had influence and power to effect the story in meaningful way.

COCII feels more like you are a background character. There is less choice, less meaning in what you do. There is much more pushback from authors to protect the characters that they introduce to the story (Cait, Kinu).

Let's get this out of the way before everything else. You play the game because you want to have sex with furies and all sorts of non-human critters. I play it because I get to beat the living crap out of them and sometimes kill them.

Now, about the game. It's like a stew, everything is mixed up with no concern for individual parts.

A lot of different graphic styles mixed together, obviously designed by different artists with different visions about how the final product should look.

Same goes for writing. Some scenes are going on like forever, while other are rushed like they had a limit on how many characters /letters should contain.

UI is also a mess. After combat buttons are almost never in the same position. Instead of a companion menu where each companion stat is listed, divided in attributes, perks, traits, gear, you have everything tossed in the mix, along with PC. You can't compare x with y. You have to memorize x then to go in the menu where y is listed. What that specific equipment does for the companion? It gives a power? A special trait? It boosts the stats? You don't know, you need to check wiki for that.

Gameplay. Somehow it feels like you are not the main character in the story. You do influence events with your deeds, but I don't know, if feels like you are there only to push story forward, not to actually change the course of it by your decisions. Fate of most story NPCs is already set, and no matter what you want to do, the decision is already made for you.

Max level is reached way too soon in the story, you literally walk around half of the game with max level, with no need for money, loot or anything else.

This makes you focus your attention only on story, and unfortunately to see all the underwhelming / unsatisfying things and crappy rewards. And boy... there was a lot of them. Example: you spend money to rebuild your own castle, and as a reward you get... money. You chase evil queen almost all the game, and in the end is imprisoned in your castle. You take a bee princess with you to help a dragon, the dragon dies, you get a shitty weapon and the bee becomes half-dragon.

Like I mention before, I dislike non-humans, so my party had PC and Tui, then later on PC, Tui and Vivi. Because of that I've been spared of sentimental bs about caged futa elves or orphaned cat-people, exiled foxes and whatnot. Only NPCs I was involved with were Tui and Vivi.

"But you are missing a lot of content". Yeah, not content I would've enjoyed, thank you.

I get it took a lot of work and dedication to make this game. That's why it got the second star. But I think the dev(s) should've thought at players wishes, not at their own fetishes when they made it.

Just my 2 cents. Cheers.


Later edit. I've read other reviews and apparently I'm not alone in how I feel about this game. There are actually a lot of people annoyed by the same things. Who would've thought, heh. Only difference - they wrote about those annoyances way better than I could. That's what you get when English is your 3rd language.

It was so bad that it made a lurker like myself want to dunk on it.

It's hard to start a review about CoC 2 because there's much to talk about yet I believe most of the negative reviews went over the points I would've gone with. Nothing improved. It actually got worse, come to think of it.

What resulted from all the time spent on its development is a load of stuff thrown in without the slightest hint of an end goal. The only solace I can genuinely think of would be some of the art.

Characters are insufferable more often than not while also being either OCs that will get things their way or playthings for said OCs so I dunno why one would even care. The fighting system is ass. The levelling system has a cap for reasons of salt which seems to be the justification for many other things in this collective effort. The story is essentially waiting for the backer money to dry up.

Do yourself a favor and don't touch this thing until modders pick it up after it's either finished or dropped. Go read the thread instead - it's way more fun.

Great rpg with the added bonus on boning most things you come across. If you've played trials in tainted space, you know what youre getting into. Characters are varied and interesting. The world and plot is engaging and interesting.

The game is just all over the place. The writing is so varied between characters and places, the characters are all over the place. It makes no sense. There are just soooo many characters that don't need to exist, and they all seem to play a more important role than you. It's like your MC just is there to push the story forward to see the other characters and zones, but not to bring your choices with you. It's like you are the side character to your side characters in your party. It's a strange feeling and it doesn't feel good at all. The art is also all over the place. There are sooooo many different artists and they don't draw all the characters so you will just see a bunch of different art styles smushed together and it breaks any type of immersion. All of this is a huge disappointment compared to the first game where the game followed YOU. YOU changed the world and all the characters were written to follow in your footsteps. That just doesn't exist here at all. Honestly a downgrade in every single way and I hope that the current writers and designers for this game never touch another, as it is clear that they do not have talent in game design.

Narration - You are not the hero or even the main character. You are a side character made to witness the stories of the OCs everyone shoved into this. You'll soon forget what your story even is.

Gameplay - Most classes are muted and your character could easily be replaced by any fucking party member without it making a difference. You might as well let combat run on auto then fall asleep for all the difference it makes.

I can't even be bothered to write a thought-out review on such a dumpster of a game to be honest. It's just bad even as a stand-alone. These guys just took a bad idea and ran it into the ground with worse ideas.

Hoo boy where do i even start...

Five years ago this project popped up and despite some clunky UI decisions was still a decent starting point. This game could have been really good however over time the "developers" started to spend less time making interesting encounters and more on cramming in half finished characters and throwing tantrums in responce to anything negative the CoC fanbase said.
The amount of incomplete content 5 years on is staggering and the writers ego's have only gotten more fragile as time went on.

Honestly the game should be renamed Cuckold of Champions because that's where the bulk of the content is other characters fucking about.

It's amazing how badly this game came apart due to it's creators petty, spiteful behaviors.

if you've played TiTS or the first CoC, you know what to expect. dense (and sometimes cringeworthy) writing, mostly optional TF fetishism, and good old turn-based RPG combat. the sprite art and UI are notably better than its predecessors, too, though this one isn't nearly as finished.

This game is not bad, just not what I expected from the dev(s) who made TiTs, and not at all as it is described to be.

Firstly forget about attempting to play/roleplay how you want. There is little to any transformation outside of rare potions, and even then little interactions or mention of the transformations outside of the original scene itself. You want to play a sub? No, you can have subby sex, but you will forever be treated as a dom and forced down a railroad path that forces your MC into situations that aren't exciting or fun for anyone outside of the creator's own fanfiction.

In fact that's pretty much what all scenes are, a collection of different fanfictions that don't corollate or mix together in any sensible way. The map reflects this. Apparently in this Fantasy world, the cities/environments are designed like neighborhoods with giant spider-webs comprising all movement. You want to go visit the Orcs? Well better hope you understand which direction they are in, and once there you hope you can navigate the god-awful UI. Want to find the next part of the mainquest? Well it doesn't tell you where to go or which direction to even go in, HAVE FUN!

I don't want to sound like I'm bashing the game, it was clearly made with the dev's intentions in mind and certainly is for some people. But for me and a vast majority of people who played and loved TiTs, this is the K-Mart version of TiTs with all the best aspects ripped out, not Kroger-brand, K-Mart brand, that's how disappointing it was for me.

Which I don't understand, CoC 1 was actually pretty good. A little confusing to get into, but it's smaller world, even with less characters, scenes, and mechanics, felt far more exciting, meaningful, and IMPACTFUL than this game. Yes impactful. In CoC2, you can make whatever decisions you want and there are almost 0 consequences or bad ends. Even the good in this game is dredged down by the lack of consequences from that decision such as the Orc Chieftan or Elven queen, or most importantly THE MAIN ANTAGONIST/DEMON!!! You want to submit to the main demoness? "ehhhh best I can do is a love story", you want to dominate the demoness? "ehhh best I can do is some casual sex", we'll when can I even see her again regardless of my choice? "ehh maybe in 40 minutes or so after the next major event". Will anything I chose in the last encounter matter or open up more spicy options? "No."

In CoC 1 you didn't see the demon much either, but they felt like a serious threat/enemy that was intimidating tofight and hard to conquer, but in this game she's like an ex-girlfriend you see every few weeks. You have a "moment" for good or bad, and then move on until you see each other again. What kind of story/main antagonist is that? I would recommend cut out all the fat dev(s) and make your options clearer and add more spicy stuff to her, with encounters being less but more impactful with larger consequences. Because right now your main antagonist feels like a fuck-buddy and that's not fun for either side of the spectrum of dom or sub players.

Still for those who try and like this game, props to you. I am genuinely glad the creator is continuing the game for their sake's. However wish it didn't come at the cost of TiTs getting less content, and more content like in this game (random and unfun/unexciting). I genuinely hope if the dev makes a TiTs 2, they do not make the same mistakes in a sequel/remake and actually pay attention to what people liked about the game. They have the talent and the skills, I am just confused on the direction of this game and their content going forward if this is their new direction.

Hope this constructive criticism helps and I mean no hate towards the devs, I'm not mad just confused and disappointed.

This game only succeeds in making me want to play the first one.

Your character no longer has any agency in ANYTHING happening around them, you're basically dragged around from scenario to scenario with little to no input. In the original you could shape the entire world around you, but now there's barely even any interesting interactions.
It feels like the new writers are just pushing out fanfiction and forcing us to watch it, to say nothing of the constant weebisms, or how boring the combat is when they keep nerfing things people find fun. There's entire swathes of game where you're just reading overly long and descriptive text only to have a pointless response that doesn't change anything (Fallout 4 style) and then move on with your life. The entirety of the Kitsune content, the way your supposedly very important character is treated, and every single response you have is like you're some kinda useless brainlet barely managing to fuction enough to meander between locales.
It's such a drop in quality, and the writers don't care. They're immature and so far up their own asses it's hard to believe they can breathe in anything but their own farts, they'll randomly pivot places and drop in content that makes no sense with the same overly descriptive and bloated writing that feels like it's meant to pass a minimum word count in a school paper. Every single NPC in the original game felt unique and interesting, in this game we have 3-4 varieties of the same stereotypical boring slate.

This game's a disappointment in every aspect whether it's in the combat, the writing, the characters themselves, the UI being a mess or the MC mostly functioning as a camera with no input. With that said Fen himself is working on TiTS, and that's the main reason this came out the way it did. Play that, or the original game.

A very flaccid pass on this one.

This game just went downhill. Honestly, im tired of seeing them disrespect the players, write stuff no one asks for and essentially just pad the game with lame fillers so they can keep milking their customers. Just lowered my rating because, if people can give this game 5/5 for BS reasons, I can give it a 1/5 to balance their nonsense.

I really tried to enjoy this game, but it just didn't stick to me:

For the Pros:

• The game has a wide variety of content, I went pretty far into the main quest, completed some side quest and did some exploring for at least 20h and by looking at the wiki I barely scratched the surface of the game
• Many mechanics, It is pretty much a sandbox game
• A very wide cast of characters, one for every taste

The cons:

• The biggest problem for me was the UI, It is the most important part for a text -based game:
  • It lacks colors, making important announcements missable during repetitive actions such as combat
  • Support actions are not that noticeable because of the UI
  • Again, some colors would be appreciated during quests making it easier to understand the context
• The combat is incredibly repetitive and lackluster. You can start important or over leveled fights without knowing it, also I encountered enemies that insta killled my party i the first zone.

TL;DR

A lot of content, overshadowed by a mediocre UI and combat system