Others - Corruption of Champions II [v0.7.8] [Savin/Salamander Studios]

Ok, this is a game where I see incredible potential, but also, issues.

Pros
-Fantastic worldbuilding.
-The writing is really good for the most part (See cons)
-Amazing characters, and interactions for most of them
-One of the best Antagonists from any game I've played in my opinion. And hopefully my Future Wife.
-Interesting RPG elements
-Really nice Art, at least the ones made by the Artist Moira.
-Companions are also great.

Cons:
-Although the writing is great for the most part, the fact it has so many different authors make it weird and have some huge gaps in quality.


-Too. Much. Unnecessary Scenes. Ok, this may sound weird, but let me explain. It's nice to have sex scenes, it's nice to be able to bang almost everything you meet (Commander Shepard would be proud). But, it's annoying and gets boring way too fast when every single thing you meet can end in sex, without any effort. Like, in every side quest or when you basically ask an NPC. How are you, then, let's fuck. Instead of all these useless scenes, it should focus more on scenes with the actual interest. the companions, the main characters. There are companions that basically have no scenes if compared to others. Give attention to them and PC instead of random NPC you met on the street.

-Unfinished Main story. This is a huge issue. For a game so long in the making, it's quite annoying that they keep focusing on random quests, npcs instead of progressing what should be their priority.

- Combat needs balance.

Overall this has been a great game and one of the best of it's types. It is only loosely based on CoC1 and seems more focused on fantasy elements rather than monster characters in general. Unfortunately the writing staff has become jaded, disorganized and at times spiteful towards their own player base which is evident in later content.

In a way, being a text based game enhances some experiences where imagination is involved. Toward this end I found myself turning off the avatars at times where they were not as high quality as others. This is hit and miss as some of the existing art is great and others mediocre.

Some of the writing in scenes is masterfully done at parts and sets a standard for text based scenes. Many of the characters are very enjoyable and the game covers many kinks. The only shame is the limitations which the developers put on themselves regarding some content due to payment platform limitations... Still, the extent and sheer depth of plot is worth praise.

The RPG battle mechanics can be fun but get repetitive and old quite fast. For some reason it seemed less intuitive than CoC1, especially the lust system for fighting which even after hundreds of hours playing I still haven't figured out how it works.
There are some parts which are better and worse than CoC 1
My biggest criticism is that random encounters get old fast and very repetitive. There needs to be a better mechanic for engaging NPCs and creating challenge rather than just randomly running into the same walls of text, time and time again, while travelling around the world. You eventually end up skipping a lot of repeated content simply because you have already fought the same NPC 100 times before.

In general, this is one of the best games out there for the genre and the developers have kept working on it for a long time. In the beginning this was great and led to earlier content in the game being some of the best. Over time though some of the developers have started to treat it as a cash cow and show signs of burnout. Writers like The Observer in particular have posted spiteful posts on the official forums showing his disdain towards players and how that has shaped his later writing. As one of the most prolific writers for this game's content, it has poisoned a lot of the later plot and characters.

A solid 4.5 stars. Overall, I recommend playing it.
Still, the game has.. issues. Especially if you are looking for something similar to CoC. It improves upon CoC in various ways (sometimes by using elements from TiTs, sometimes new), but also does some aspects worse.

Pros:
- Interesting companions. Several of them have alternate behaviors based on actions, though they aren't too extreme. (It is more sub/dom, than CoC's pure/corrupted)
- Good writing.
- Good art. I like text based but I also like having art to guide thoughts about appearance.
- Not awful encounter rate.
- Interesting combat mechanics. I like the powers system, though it does have some balance issues.

Cons:
- Art. I like art in these games, but it can be at times notably inconsistent in style (such as those within the passage; but I think the most obvious is the title picture on this thread of Cait which has different proportions and 'feel' than in-game Cait pictures), and inconsistent in appearance (there is no pictures of the player, but for Cait there is a witch face picture but no body picture). This isn't major.
- Balance. The game can be weirdly balanced at times, though I'm unsure if this is due to planning on adding more content. You can reach a point where you're defeating all the enemies in the area trivially, but then you can't beat that story-character who is guarding the way. The amount of XP you get is odd, and so leveling up can take a while.
- Writing. Overall the writing is pretty good, but there some issues in noticeably different style.
- None of the companions really have romance. Mostly fuckbuddies, Cait is just the most on the nose about it. The most you'll really get is some tender moments and kissing, amazing.
- Some of the characters you find feel like they're missing something and are incomplete. I felt this most notably with the spider-woman from the right side of the town (then down), where she can give you a fortune and a little chat but not much else. She mentioned the spider-queen you see in the north, but nothing ever came of that.
- A lot of the talk content is of the style where you unlock the majority at once (or after one event) and go through them and they never change again. Some way to have 'you have already seen this' would be nice. This does make the companions feel somewhat empty whenever you're not doing their quests specifically.

Random Complaints/Comments:
- Silly Mode. Don't turn this on. It isn't Silly Mode (Wacky Wasteland or whatever) from Fallout games, where there's slight references in places and fourth-wall jokes. It is more referring to a character as your waifu or 'ELVES LOL', (Lusamine scene) at least that I noticed.
- Pregnancy content feels kinda meh compared to CoC, as in when the player gets pregnant. Though, there are more inbuilt story elements of it. I notice it a lot less. Another thing is that when you're pregnant it feels like 80% of the time it is eggs, since those are essentially surefire way to do it. I'd suggest making a chance that eggs from normal encounters have a chance of not staying, or something.
- Corruption is weird. You only get corruption from a few sources and it is usually huge jumps. Compared to CoC where it is a slow but persistent source that you may actually have to think about, this feels lacking.
- Transformations are large jumps compared to CoC. You eat a fox berry thrice and now you're a full fox-morph. This damages roleplaying the slow transformation, especially if you roleplay having to eat food.
- No 'need to eat' option. I liked this option in CoC since it meant I could start out as a pure hero that slowly gets transformed because they *have* to eat. Though, I do admit that in this scenario where you already have access to a normal town (compared to having to eventually find Tel'adre), noncorrupted food would be far less of a problem. Though easy explanations exist (ex: Kassyra messing with the player, but no one else).
- Kinu aging up is weird, and then getting immediately married was odd. I wasn't really against it, but it happening immediately from when you free her and her mother (skipping over name to avoid spoilers) just felt forced.
- There's a girl you find after the whole kingdom quest with Etheryn who is a dom much in the style of Evelyn (futa) if a bit rougher. I think the only real problem I have with her is the lack of content (I imagine it is put after that big quest because then you're jumping into the notably uncompleted content area?) but also that she could just be merged with Evelyn.
- I think the above does somewhat point out one problem. Some of the characters could just be merged with others to give them more characterization & content. I imagine this occurs in part due to different writers.
- The only femdom companion is Arona, who is more of the 'you are mine bitch' femdom than the Evelyn sort. Cait is switch, but is most often sub/equal. Etheryn is pure-sub.
- Far less forced or consensual transformation from other characters. Storywise, this makes sense in some areas since they aren't the same kind of crazy that original CoC had, but even from characters where it felt like it would make sense it wasn't coming.

There's certainly stuff I missed, but I think that encapsulates a lot of my opinion on the game. Certainly a great addition, but it does fail to capture certain elements of the gameplay that one comes to want from CoC/TiTs.

2/5 - Bad game; Did get me off

This game is more of a sequel to TiTS than to CoC. Let me explain what I mean by that: there are 3 main differences I see between the two games. First, CoC focuses on having a more customizable MC at the cost of shorter, less verbose porn, while TiTS sacrifices customization for writing detail. Second, CoC focuses on having less characters/porn that are more unique, while TiTS has more characters/porn where they are all similar. Third, CoC focuses on a balance of porn fetishes, while TiTS focuses on more submissive MC as well as futa content. In all of these aspects, CoC 2 is more like TiTS than the original.

So how does this game improve on TiTS? Why does this game exist when TiTS isn't finished yet? The answer Savin would give you are companions. He claims these both add depth to combat and add romance to the porn. While it's true that the combat has more depth, it's still so easy for the most part that you can just auto everything and still win. And the romance fails because of Savin's reluctance to allow you to collect a harem in the game. All the characters you can "romance" still fuck around with others. So they're more like fuckbuddies than romances. But you could say that about all of the characters in the game. So every single npc is really a romance. Or rather, none of them are. Just like your companions in TiTS. Is there really a difference between Anno and Cait? I can't tell.

So why play this game? CoC 2 is strictly equal to or worse than TiTS in all aspects, besides development speed (for now at least). And it offers nothing new. So really the only reason to play this game is because its just more of the same. But does anyone really want more? TiTS has well over 1,000 porn scenes in game, and I'd bet most people reading this review haven't even read a quarter of them. So why play this game? There's no reason.

Still a job in progress, feels way more different than the original CoC but in a good way, the art just really is a plus with the writing and other mechanics. Just hope to be able to get more open scenerios and adventures considering other than main story line quest.

Even so this game rocks! with some music in the backgroun it´s quit nice to spend some time in it while just getting your character the way you like

After playing this game again after a year since I deleted it, I am both impressed and underwhelmed by the changes made in the game.

What do I mean by this? For starters, the art in the game is great as always and the version I played (0.3.48) even has new character busts for existing NPCs. There is slightly more content story-wise and the fetishes are well-catered to though this is subjective.

However, most of the problems that plague the game still exist. The MC still feels nowhere near as important as they should be as they are either railroaded into an NPC's tale or have very little say/choice in NPC interactions, there is still a clear bias towards certain NPCs (looking at you, Cait) in your party which makes the other companions feel pointless to have.

As someone in the threads have also mentioned, the TFs in the game only serve a cosmetic purpose and have negligible impact neither in combat nor character interaction. It's never stated outright that transformations are common in-universe nor are there NPCs that engage in bodily transformations anyhow which should give more reason for NPCs to react to your character changing.

The worldbuilding is pretty dumb too. Yes, I know the irony of complaining about worldbuilding in a porn game but if the devs and writers are going to put this much effort into it, I should at least be immersed in it, right? Do you honestly expect me to believe that a world where gods are real and have real interactions with mortals that they are just going to ignore one demonic horse-cocked fiend going about with their schemes? Even the most apathetic of gods bother to do something if their realms are threatened.

Other than that, it's one of the best text-based games out there. It's not as good as its predecessor but it does nail the fantasy feel quite alright. I do wish that they do something about the child mechanic. I know that it'd be a lot of work to implement but it'd be great if the children are more than just a stat counter in a nursery.

Sure, there's the kitsune content but I'm quite torn with how they handled Kinu.

I think the battle system and the risk really imbalanced. You will often fight against an overpowering enemy that will one-shot kill one of your party members even if you already in max level and pew-pew you are defeated. When the enemy won, they always have access to your butt/vag but, if you won the enemy often doesn't give you the options, even the girl will give you her penis, tentacle, or something similar. Even if you won, they are still the ones who chose.

Great game, which is in almost every way superior to its predecessor CoC and TiTS.

Granted, it's not for everyone. The game is 95% text and it can get a bit overwhelming at times, thankfully pretty much every character has a drawn portrait so you can picture them.

Also, a good chunk of the NPCs are futa meaning you are going to miss out a lot if you don't enjoy that. Furry is not that heavy and most furry characters are only half furry.

Just the fact that I can play as a girl and smash dude is amaizing. The art is amaizing and there are a lot of options too ! The only thing that I would add would be the option to wear a strap on for the people playing a girls and who don't want to become a futa in order to fuck a dude in the ass and the more dom women...

COC but with a better a UI where my first thoughts on this game and really after spending almost 5 hours in this game yeah it hasn't changed much of my opinion.

Let me be very clear I`m not big into fetishes but I can appreciate hard work and dedication and the series has had that in abundance, and I can proudly say I`ve enjoyed all 4 four games up to this point ( yes there are four we do not forget Eden WE DO NOT FORGET EDEN rip), and while COC 2 isnt a bad game if you enjoyed COC, TITs or Fall of Eden you will like this game, the writing is not bad at all a lot more NTR content, trans content, trap content than the others but the writing is not as good as the first one but its good none the less,

The best thing about this game about this game and all of the series are the characters, most people will at least at minimum find one character may it main or side that they will really really like in this game, and this has those characters in abundance.

Now the bad bits of the game and unfortunately there are some, the game is literally COC with a better UI and arguably worse writing (again if you like it more power to you this is from my personal perspective). The game still uses the tried and tested formula that they have been using for years now and while I do not believe they need to reinvent the wheel some minor improvements could have set this game apart from its predecessors such as showing full size artwork rather than the 2x2 image they show in the top left. One of the areas is just a complete almost like for like take from fall of eden heck even the art work for the crazy mare and the scenes were taken from that game so not everything is 100% original in the game

At end is COC 2 a bad game no, its not its certainly an enjoyable game and a serviceable sequel but does it do something new and fresh absolutely not its unfortunately just another COC and TIts which the fans will love but wouldn't attract new people or people that were tired of this game style/genre.

An excellent text based game with images. I actually first was a fan of the original CoC and TiTS(before the updates became sparse and inconsistent) on the Fenoxo site. This one is far superior to either of those games and has a really interesting storyline so far. Not to mention the amount of breeding that goes on in the game (if you're not into that, just stop right here). I'm hoping it doesn't become like TiTS though (bloated with no end in sight).

Ill start by saying If you want a fantasy version of TiTs youll like this game. The games has a simple but fun and well executed story with a couple of companions with really fun personalities and ok stories. Sadly this is where the main problem is right now. As of v0.3.36 there are only about 3 really flushed out companions and its a real shame I like the writing style for the companions but a good portion of them seem to have fallen to the waist side.

I love it since I love the last one the Corruption Of Champion I so , I know that this will be good, has good content sex scripts and fight, yes the fights are great for a porn game, rpg style and not easy fight because there is some fight you cant win unless getting stronger.

On its merits as a sequel, I give COC II two stars. While the interface and combat system have been improved, that's about it. It seems to be much less dynamic than its predecessor, which I put down to many of its contributors treating the game more like a creative writing project than a role-playing game. I certainly don't like my character's personality being fixed on a standard "hero" archetype. As a standalone, however, three stars seems appropriate. I've played better, but I've also played worse. If you go in with no expectations, it'll do.

Fenoxo has still got it. This is definitely a great game in every way, as long as you don't mind text-based (but you wouldn't be here if you didn't, right?). This is my second favorite title by Fen, right behind its prequel CoC 1. The new sprites are pretty hot and there is a lot of easily-accessible fetish and furry content (though that's all the Fenoxo games, seriously try them all they're great). The stories and characters present here are wonderful and immersive, you'll be sure to find at least 1 character you love if not 10. And chances are you can most likely bang them.

The only things I don't fully love about the game are how it can feel a bit grindy to level up and get new gear and abilities. But during the process of grinding, at every opportunity you have plenty of options to entertain yourself with sex scenes. The gameplay is really simple to master (even for dummies like me) and it feels pretty rewarding once you get stronger in the game.

If you're looking for a game with lots of fetish content to pour tons of time and love into, this is your mark. Definitely give it a shot and don't forget to pet all the dog-girls/boys or you go to hell. Those are the rules I don't make em sorry. 5/5 why can't I marry cait this is torture

Review revised for v0.6.32:

I have some problems with CoC2 now, but let’s start with what’s still awesome:

CoC2 combines sexual deviance and epic adventure to create a story about a character who can fight and/or seduce their way through the armies of darkness to save (or corrupt) the world. The choices you make will change the world around you. Not only will interactions change and different options open based on whether you’re pure(ish), neutral, or corrupt, but you can permanently alter certain locations/characters in the world by choosing to remove the corruption from the location, or help it spread.

The combat can also be extremely challenging and rewarding. I remember while fighting the elf queen in the fortress, I kept being instagibbed by her nukes and getting frustrated, thinking the fight was just poorly designed. I realized it was a combination of things happening. Although she really does hit hard, what was really making the difference is that she had so much more agility than me, which allowed her to attack twice for every action I did. I could’ve turned on the game’s “Easy mode” to lower the combat difficulty, but instead I went back to town and tweaked my character, switching some my min-maxed stats into toughness and agility, as well as picking up the daily spell that gives a health boost, and I was able to beat her. That victory felt great!

The UI is very clean and beautiful. Now, to the cons and the reason for my revision…

This game’s direction has drastically spiraled out of control since my original review in 2020. The beginning of this game, and indeed the entirety of CoC1, focused on corruption, depravity, and ravishment (GOR). Every character you came across had been affected by corruption in some way and often had an interest in corrupting you. Corruption was a central part of their backstories and their motivations, and it was something that made CoC genre-defining as an eroge.

However, so much of COC2’s content after the elf fortress now feels focused on collecting curvy furry waifus and kids rather than corruption. There are so many characters and locations in this game that feel almost disassociated from the plot—the foxes in the den, for example. If you were to cut their story text and paste it into any other game, their stories would be just as relevant to the other game, and their loss would have no impact on the plot of CoC2. That, in my opinion, is a very bad sign for a very substantial body of writing.

I haven't been excited for any updates in years and I wish this game would return to its roots/main plotline.

Just a game that provides all my fetishes. I can play as a 8 foot tall Futa Spider/Cat amazon that can kick ass while also breeding every bitch in 6 foot radius. All what great hentai game needs.

No but seriously. Option to play as futa/shemale/trans girl is one of main reasons why enjoy playing this game. And impregnation in this top tire.

Great spiritual succesor of the original CoC, while at first it looked similar to TiTs, thankfully it's only at the first glance and the most important part of the game was changed - the movement system.
While the content is important, in TiTs the garbage movement system ruins everything - in original CoC to get to location or an even you needed to click two or tree times and done, in TiTs you need to get through 20 battles, 10 repeating events and a few transitions, this is just a waste of time.
In CoC 2 they took the best of both worlds - modernized CoC movement system for big location and TiTs-like movement system for small locations, which does a pretty good job in visualising location.
As for the content, it's similar to original CoC, but it's much more intense as far as i can tell from replaying oryginal CoC in last month or so, which is a good thing - depending on tastes i guess?

Progression system, characters, pacing, art etc. is really good.

Of course there are some issues - saving was forbidden in Winter Castle, where i had to replay it a few times to see all choices, equipment and inventory system is barely passable IMO and combat balance is a mess - but overall the game is awesome, with a lot of high quality content.

Feels like playing old CoC all over again.
4.5/5

It's CoC2, don't know what else needs to be said. Once you've got a hang on the gameplay, it's loads of fun. Amazingly written scenes and art. Updates are very regular. I'd recommend a save editor so you can have the body you want late in the game and can skip the rather boring combat.

I have only spent 6 hours with this game and already feel like I've barley scratched the surface in terms of content. There's just so much to do and decisions to make that multiple playthroughs is required. A great example of erotic rpg with a wide range of fetishes.