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

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.

I played this game on release and heres my review





Overall the game is nice needs more improvement, I hope they put a battle fuck on future update since its on the game files but we will see, and more scenes. They made us wait for a year btw a lot of delays per month.

Beat this yesterday on my own shitty MTL so for all I know a better translation would make this pure art somehow.
This works okay as a regular RPG, good art and cute characters. As a H-game though the content is spread too thin, and doesn't really ramp up to the satisfying 'corrupted into a slut' outcome you expect from a game like this, especially considering the in game tracking of sexual development.
Its all hypnosis, non-con, peeping, game over scenes and some piss content that I would've preferred not to see or hear.
I liked the characters though, there were some cute moments outside of the porn stuff I enjoyed.
I'd recommend it if you want to spend some time playing a game with some omnipresent eye candy, but might not if you just feel like going full coomer mode.

The game is sort of drawn out. The pacing felt much longer than was needed given the plot. The biggest downfall is the overuse of recycling H scenes. Some of those H-scene were incredibly weak compared to others. The developer has potential but, must polish the their H-game skills

A better H game than his last, though also worse in some aspects. Much of the HCG is noticeably reused, redone and repurposed from his last H game, in a slightly more obvious fashion than others circles like DIselmine, though you wouldn't know that unless you paid attention to the details all the same. Some of the graphics are also used from the last H game's unused assets that were in the game files. The combat and story go hand and hand, but does not play a factor H wise, so it's entirely skippable, except the defeat H scenes for the stage and the bosses though the bosses just lead to a what-if moment. This H game is best played with hints on as it's mostly an event finder H game, the impregnation mechanic only plays a role at the ending of the game for a standing HCG change, no content for it.

Overall, a title sorely lacking in HCG, the combat is filler and the title is mostly just find all the events per chapter or play the entire H game first. The art is very striking and the H scenes play out nicely at least.