RPGM - Completed - Croix X Scramble [v1.08] [ninjinpasta]

The H in this game is really nice, the art looks really nice, and the scenes itself make sense in the plot and world the devs have whipped up here.- too bad that's the only redeeming factor.

Every scene is either Rape, or statutory rape, which if that's your cup of tea, play this. I'm not the biggest fan of rape-play but I can at least rub one out to it if its what I'm working with.

The plot was fine, I was bored enough because the space between any H content is hours between themselves, and the main story sections force you to wander around lost in a school looking for the right NPC or the right room to find the exact 1 RPG tile to slick on.
P.S go to the settings and turn on the Hint Mode, makes the game so much faster.

There was a lot of budget into this game, a lot of time spent, but it wasn't in any of the correct places.

Also the only real "Route" if you could call it that- I call it the only H Scene story line, was all about the MC being hypnotized into becoming a guys wife. So that's basically just the only Ending you will get because it's the only fucking H Story line to progress when you can Progress.
Absolutely fumbled the execution of this game

I honestly don't get why people are complaining about this game. This game should get a higher rating because it is one of the best games that I have tried so far. Good CGs and an evenly paced plot. Honestly its the best game that you can find out there right now.

It's a real shame that I have to rate this so low, because there was clearly a lot put into this game. It has great art, and is fairly polished for an H game.
But you know the only thing worse than an H game with a shitty story nobody cares about? Forcing you to go through said story to get H content.

It's bad enough that the combat is almost completely removed from any H content in it, but it's one of those "lose to see content" kind of games. One thing I see a lot of people complain about too is that it feels like a virtual novel, which is true until you get to free roam, but even the free roam sucks because you have to complete the story to unlock any of the free roam content.

It pains me because the H content itself isn't bad, but it's so convoluted to get to. It's so badly designed you'd think they're trying to cure you of your porn addiction and forcing you to play a regular game instead.

** No control ** Perhaps the biggest faux pas any video game devloper can make. You've got no conrtol over any dicisions in the game, you're just watching a badly written visual novel that makes you do all the work. Play Karryns Prision. It is the game you'll be hoping for every minute you waste playing this.

Even though the game is a lot less sex-heavy as I thought it would be. For some reason completing the game on a virgin-run felt right and it made the pacing of lewd scenes to gameplay better in turn too.

Personally one of the few gripes I'd have with this is 'if' I didn't enjoy the pacing and worldbuilding outside of sexual stuff, there seemed to be more variety than there actually was. (As the 'demo version' recollection room has a bunch more different lewd scenes that seem to as of yet, go nowhere. However there's also a holographic Aroma saying "stay tuned for more updates" So my guess is that more side content/sub-stories will be added later?
All and all quite good, I wish there were more tomboyish kind of nerdy protagonists like this without the magical girl setting. More of a slice of life thing with other fun stuff sprinkled in.

i find this game review is both overrated and underrated at the same time , nether 1 star or 5stars , overall this is a very average RPGM game on DL site that sold over 10 k unit , the game is neither good or bad , nice art and entertain story that all , the rest is basic city exploration and dungeon clearing with lossing Hentai section , there school section which can be interesting but served no purpose than to remind that MC is a student without next to no school activity whatsoever which is a huge let down.
overall just play for fun or get a save ,3/5 not good not terrible , very genetic .But for the price around 2000 yen at lauch this is pretty decent !
Edit , just check ci en and x dev said there will be more contest like 2.0 in the future . for now just bug fixed

painfully slow meandering bullshit 'plot.'

scant number of heavily re-used CGs

your typical trash "lose on purpose" h-system

it's a crap game with a decent production value, damn shame that effort didn't go into anything decent. the 3+ star reviews are entirely generous reviewers the game absolutely does not deserve.

I'm not really sure what the story is about, you are some kind of hero or something who is pretending to be student if I understand corectly.... game has too much text, in my opinion, so if you want to play it for story, be prepared for reading.
I haven't played a lot yet, but so far it seems like a game with big map for no reason, I hope it's just that I'm still in tutorial, but it's very linear - no benefits for wondering around.
Graphics of the game is pretty good, you can see it on images.
One thing to remember, only translated thing in the game are text bubbles and other normal text stuff, so when there is text on image, it's still japanese, kind of annoying, makes school map unusable for me.
Fighting is kind of standard RPGM. Actually most stuff is, so if you don't like RPGM games, won't like this.

good art, solid h-stat system. Aaaand i'm out of positive things to say about this game. Now on to the negs:

The story is boring, like, really boring. It's unnecessarily padded out and generally just a waste of time. Stories that could have been easily cut down to 5 minutes got dragged out to 20 (if you skipped through most of it like i did). This wouldn't be that much of a problem if it wasn't for:

STORY-GATED PORN PROGRESSION. YAY! No, seriously, this is the bane of my existence with these type of game. You basically trapped yourself in a loop of edging and blue-balling because 'new' scenes you unlocked are incomplete as fuck. Why couldn't they just do it like Shimobashira games where scenes are unlocked through stats instead of 3 hours of the most boring, predictable story ever.

Gameplay is boring, you might think the cool UI makes up for it, but no, there is nothing actually unique about it to keep me around. And most of time you're not even in battle, but running around the map for fetch quest or some shit.

Good art is literally the only saving grace this game got (really good art though). Everything else is just an annoying waste of time. The game locked away actual cool shits like convenient traveling and h-scenes behind paragraphs of pointless dialogues and making you run around like chickens. Battle is just you losing to collect h-scene then go back to deal with the bare bone rpg gameplay.

A solid game with a interesting story. Not your typical "fap fap" game. The slow pace is compensed by the design elements that is very well done.

There is no grind, just story. Most h-scenes are tied to the main story.

I like the game.You will like it too if you are not on "full fap-fap" mode, and are willing to enjoy a good narrative and cute artstyle.

Somewhere in here is a great art style. It's pretty hot. For real.

But it's buried under a fuckload of shitty dialogue and bad ends that require a restart. Fuck what a waste of potential

That said, if you're a big VN fan, you'll probably get a kick out of this. Stuck navigating? A helpful hint mode points the way without being super intrusive.

First off with the bad points:
The build up here is slow at first (true like one previous reviewer mentioned), battles are mostly fluff in-between imo and exist to give access to defeat scenes, so do not expect a too deep of an experience with that system.
Furthermore there is a lag whenever you move between maps and areas that takes a few seconds to reload each and every time, so there's that too.

With that said, the game has high production quality, UI, images, backgrounds and everything visual is just beautiful imo.

The translation is very good with the exception of the occasional wrong pronouns used here and there in a minority of the dialogues.

The sound/music track is decent enough and I don't think it's just stock music in this one(?).

Lastly the story and ero material throughout the game are more than enough to keep you entertained for its duration.
The scenes I've watched so far are very erotic (I believe there are more than 50/60 in total available(?) for both the main heroine and the side store NPC character).

No idea why some of the earlier reviews were so harsh on it, you can clearly see that the game is on top of the monthly sales on DLsite and with a near perfect score of almost 5 stars over there, so I'm not alone in deeming it 5 stars worthy here.

This would normally be a average 3/5 scene collector but the polish bumps it up. That being said it IS an average RPGM scene collector. For the amount of "game" it might have been better to just do this as a VN.

Generic combat with outfit destruction that dosent affect much ( few lines of dialog when talking to NPCs).

H-Stats are tracked tho they dont seem to change any of the dialog/ gameplay.

Preg Mechs: every internal cumshot has a dice roll. If it hits, you get an extra fertilization picture at the end of the scene and are marked "Pregnant" on the H stats. Except once again, those stats dont actually go to anything...

Pick it up and give it an hour or two before finding a full save

I don't believe it's fair to account for the amount of time a game took to develop when rating the finished product. I also believe that this game could have been much more, but I'm reviewing what we have when we got it.

If you've played Vampire Notes or the dev's earlier stuff you'd have very well known what they tend to focus on. Presentation, exceptional artwork, weak gameplay and weak corruption. This game falls into the same holes and has the same strengths.

RPGM games tend to be pretty ass in terms of gameplay but a lot of that comes from seeing the exact same format iterated upon a million times. You find AOE spell, spam it. This game does nothing to improve upon the base systems other than giving it a snazzy UI, and admittedly that's a flaw in this day and age. I can appreciate the puzzle sections but the core fights need to have at least something going on. See "Revived Exorcist Priestess (tentative)" or "Wolf of Shadow" for a fresh take on RPGM combat.

The H-content is lacking in terms of variety, and potentially amount, ymmv. Croix is extremely hot yeah, but how many of the scenes are just the same frame of her getting her tits grabbed? Yes it's an extremely well drawn cut in, but it doesn't substitute for full CGs.

The writing has pros and cons. I played this with MTOOL before dazedanon posted the AI version but I got the gist. The plot is somewhat basic, the characters are better. Quirky sure, but interesting.

Where this game shines is in the presentation, maps, and art. The transitions are a nice touch, the UI feels unique and doesn't hurt my eyes, the maps are most certainly not just stock assets or your boring rural RPGM town. You can tell that this is where the majority of the development went, and you either appreciate it or hate it for that. The actual character art and CGs are something else though. There's a legitimate argument to be made for the art being best in class, shame there isn't all that much. What we do get though is fantastic.

So all in all, it's not the best game, but it's a very pretty story. The art's damn good and with any porn game I consider that to be the most important factor. I'm biased, four stars.

While i did enjoy the game cause the artwork is so good, the story isnt that bad, well this game has many potential scenes that went wasted, the janitor, the thugs, the homeless guys,... no only the nerd who do hypnotize got all the spotlight(i really dont like hypnotize genre, now i despise it even more)

Oh and also the pregnancy content is boring as well (to any fellow who enjoy pregnancy go play Goblin Conqueror, you will see how pregnancy should be handled)

But regardless of all the lacking, i think this game still have many things to enjoy especially the artwork

Anyway thank to the devs and the uploader for this game.

Considering how many times this game was delayed the end result is incredibly disappointing

Plot:
croix is a high ranking member of a secret organization demoted after a failed job and sent in a different branch located in another city to restore her status and hopefully find the culprit who made her fall from grace.
shenanigans ensue
in terms of plot this is serviceable for a porn game
not great not terrible

Gameplay
this is where the bad news start
the whole game boils down to running from point A to point B and then facing a dungeon with a boss at the end of every chapter which makes the whole game a snoozefest
the combat(if you want to call it like that) exacerbates all of this by making it revolve around spamming one single skill to win every fight
so by the time you are at your second hour of playtime you feel lobotomized.
the worst part of all of this is that in the game's file there was some leftover code of battlefuck mechanics which were never implemented which could have made the combat much less of a chore
In my opinion this would have worked much better as a VN rather than wasting the player's time by running around empty maps and subjecting him to RPGM combat torture
so you ask yourself "well maybe the strong part of the game is the H content"?
Oh boy you are in for a disappointment...

The Smut
this is probably the biggest offender of the game
the art is amazing no doubt about it
Problem is that in terms of content this game is incredibly barren with a small number of heavily reused cgs
there are some unique scenes but not a lot of them
The side character Aroma has very little content and suffers from the same reused cgs problem
There is a H-status page and sexual development level but they serve no purpose in the game.
there is a pregnancy system but it's so simplified that it might as well not been there
On top of all of this there isnt a lot of actual sex with many of the scenes being sexual harassment focused and the few ones with sex are mostly rape ones(so the corruption tag is a bit misplaced in this game)
so the whole porn aspect feels unfinished and underdeveloped and this is a shame because the maps are actually well designed and could have offered a lot of opportunities for many different scenes (the downtown and school one in particular)
For this reason the intermission part of every chapter(where you can navigate freely through the maps) is pretty much pointless because barring some events there isnt really much of a reason to explore.

Conclusion
the game is simply not worth it in my opinion.
This game is lacking in terms of H-content with boring gameplay and a mediocre plot
the dev did promise some content updates in the future but as of now considering how many times it was delayed this game is simply insufficient if compared to other,more recent games.
in my opinion find a a full save or search the cgs online but if you really want to play the game at least wait until the content updates come out(if they will ever come out)

Absolutely terrible, honestly a testament of how creatively bankrupt japanese devs have become. Almost the same game you've seen a thousand times with a new coat of paint. I say almost because this somehow manages to be worse than what its copying.

It goes to a very long snooze fest with barely any action to abruptly jump into sex way before it should given the prior pacing. But that doesn't matter because this isn't a corruption game, despite clearly wanting to be one. Every single event is non-con, either hypnosis, harassment, or straight up rape (a lot of it sleep related as if it wasn't boring enough). There is no progression whatsoever, the mc never gets into it. Also, tiny amount of scenes, in current year that just laughable given the abundant competition.

Gameplay and open world only gets in the way, the game is 90% linear and combat is bog standard RpgMaker.

In summary lazy, boring and tedious non-con fest I almost gave 2 stars for good art, but there's barely any scenes so you don't see much of it anyway.

Do. not. bother.

Balanced rpg gameplay is a weakpoint, its not a battlefuck game either. the game survives on its puzzles, story and its high quality art.


The translation for this game is also pretty good even if its chatgpt, I noticed someone bothered to resize the font (ai patch translators are getting smarter in here it seems)

The game is about superpowered agents fighting criminal superpowered people, our protagonist loses a fight and gets demoted, she wants to avenge her loss but her powers are temporarily sealed somewhat. Its a fight back to the top of the ladder as she tries to resolve her messup. The sex stuff happens slow, she sucks one dick that seems mandatory at the beginning of the game, and can't lose her virginity for a long timeplaying the game. How much of an abused slut she is - is up to the player. Theres also a girl genius deuteragonist who works at a convience store who is quirky and weird.


This game has pregnancy but not as involved as the first two games the developer made, anyways I recommend it

Painfully average.
Emphasis on the painful part because I feel that with just a bit of a push, this game could have been amazing.

It looks great: the designs, the colours, the menu, it's just overall a very aesthetically pleasing game.

Now unfortunately, I share a lot of the same sentiments as the other reviewers where I feel the game was lacking in substance. The combat was just your run-of-the-mill JRPG game,; attack, get attacked, and so on, with no battle H.
There is a pretty nice H Status system in game, except that there's not really a use for it. The scenes are story-locked rather than H-locked, and aren't particularly affected by the H stats, they happen regardless.

I don't necessarily believe that this was a step down from their previous game, but it does feel lackluster and not a step up.

I'm giving a decent rating here for one thing I think the game deserves some recognition for, that the other reviewers (as of writing this) didn't touch upon: the presentation of the game.

Is this going to offset the other criticisms the other reviewers talked about? No, absolutely not.

However, as a first time player of this dev's work, I really do appreciate the presentation of the game, particularly the chapter transitions, area introductions, and even the UI itself. It really sold the illusion that this game had much more to it than it really did. The story was also pretty simple and easy to follow so no complaints there.

The presentation stuff could have been simple RPGM scripts/functions for all I know, and the gameplay still revolved around relatively standard RPGM fashion. Despite that and the other reviewers saying a number of art was reused from old games, I really do appreciate the effort thrown at the presentation of it even if the end result was putting some really good lipstick on a pig. It's only a shame that the H-aspect of wasn't as much as the presentation let on.

4/5 would be let down again. I hope the dev tries for something more ambitious next time around.