RPGM - Crossdressing in Camelot [v0.49.5] [Stickyicky]

Where do I even start?! Not only is that the theme of the review but its also the theme of this game. After the short prologue you are left in the top left of a bland uninspired RPG maker map. With "cheat" portals to different locations. I know what you and everyone are/were thinking the moment you see that screen turn from black... "now what?"

And that seems to be the name of the game... "Now what". Staring at the screen confused you start the normal RPG / WTF am I doing list:
-Search the map? Wrong! All the paths on the first map simply don't have a connecting map...
-Look in houses? Wrong! everything locked up with the same generic reason. (with the exception of one)
-Go through the RPG key item menu thinking you missed something? Wrong!

At this point a reasonable person probably looks at the game version... Version 49.5...? That sounds like it's had a ton of polish and effort put into it? The game has been on F95zone for FIVE years??? Surely you must have downloaded the wrong file? Wrong! That's just the game... a mess of half finished ideas...

Or better yet it might be more apt to say for every hour spent on writing this game 1 minute was spent on actually making the game. This is reflected in everything from:
-Map tile sets look awful, there's no inspiration in any of them at all, the Bar bedroom literally has one bed and one drawer in the whole room, the plains has grass and a flower every now and then, the town is a cross with square houses. The deep woods map doesn't even use the same assets, instead it's using weird blown out lower pixilation assets?
-The sex scenes, 1/10 have a picture or two associated with it so that's underwhelming , but even then the art is wildly inconsistent.
-The Skill tree, despite being something different and clearly thought out, looks like it was made in Paint and looks like someone spent 4 minutes slapping it together.
-Even when the Dev added the script to the game the lack of care was noticeable! White text is internal thoughts / narration and coloured represents a character speaking... Sometimes?!?! It's insanely inconstant and annoying to read.
But that said there's some really good writing in here! But the engine choice spoils it further, RPGM is not and never will be a great way to offer a text based adventure.

The Dev has never in 5 years decided to fix the literal first thing new players get to interact with? You have to use a couple "cheat" portals to go anywhere in the game? Because again the maps don't connect to each other?

Which leads me to this weird almost lack of understanding feeling. Why put so much effort and love into a game but also at the exact same time put an equal amount of blatant disregard for the thing you are creating? I simply can't square this box, or wrap my head around what I'm playing. It's truly the epitome of "Cutting off one's nose to spite one's face". The updates are massive! But what new players will ever see them if the game play has the same impact as a wet fart in a wave pool.

There's a weird scenes of melancholy or guilt reviewing this game and giving it such a low score. The writing, although often very long-winded, has a lot of personality in it! You can see the fun and passion the Dev has for the characters. I just wish the Dev took their writing talents to a game like CoC or TiTs, where they can really run with what they are great at, and leave the "game" side to someone who wants to make a functioning game.

The writing is entertaining, and the variety of encounters you have with different characters along the way adds a lot of charm. While some scenes could use more visual elements, the content that's already here is solid, with plenty of room for future updates. The game doesn’t force overly feminine roles on you, which is refreshing for this genre, and there’s a good balance in how you can handle situations, whether through combat or avoiding certain outcomes if you make the right choices.

The combat system is pretty straightforward, which I like, though there are some negative effects I'd avoid, and I wish there were more boss battles to really make use of your more powerful spells. The developer is clearly passionate about the project and consistently delivers new content, so the potential for future updates is exciting. All in all, it's definitely worth a try if you're into text-heavy adventure games with some RPG elements.

This is a good game with a lot of content. There is a lot of hand-drawn 2D art that makes the game feel very visual despite being text-heavy. There are a lot of hot scenes, covering lots of fetishes including feminization, chastity and lactation. The game does focus on submissive and sissification fetishes, but it gives the player some freedom to engage with the specific content they're looking for. There is also a combat system that is not too complex.

The criticisms I would highlight are that some of the scenes are hard to find unless you follow the walkthrough provided. Advancement is not the easiest, and the combat system could be explained a little better in-game. There is also some inconsistency with locations, as most places are accessed through a shortcut at a central hub, making the game feel like a collection of levels rather than a contiguous world.

v0.47
I really don't know how I feel about this game. It feels like it was going 9 directions at once. It's confusing. You can be a sub or dom, but sometimes you don't choose. You can be confident or a sissy, but sometimes you don't choose. You can do body modification, but it doesn't matter very much. It looks like the game is going one way, but then goes another. It feels like a bunch of mix-matched ideas thrown onto a board and then it goes "okay, now let's just concentrate on doing dungeons with some gimmick to them". Really, it seems like the game was made on whims and thus feels like a mess.

In short, this game is the product of severe ADHD.

Despite this, it does have entertainment value. It doesn't take itself seriously and it's not outright bad, just messy.

Great author, the writing really stands out and helps you want to play. Currently 15 hours in, so heaps of content.
It also has a fun combat system.
And of course a wide variety of fetish content and well written sex scenes.
Highly recommended.

It's a fun game with a simple premise, You're a young man who has to save his father but you lack the power to do so.

So in this crazy world where you lack the strength to rescue your father, you find out you have powerful magical potential and thus do anything you can to become the greatest sorceress who ever lived and the fun is meeting people along the way.

The writing is fun and the scenarios great but like other reviews have stated, a lot of the scenes lack images which hopefully it'll be added sooner or later.

the developer puts out content monthly at regular intervals which is nice and seems passionate about this game. Hopefully they keep it up. Worth a try imo.

Side note: the skill tree still feels superficial to me but I might be doing something wrong.

I'm giving this game 5/5 stars. It's extremely well written, I enjoyed it thoroughly. It does however lack CGs/visual support for really 90% of the scenes and I think that if someone put in the work to provide it with graphics as good as the writing is, I think this game would become truly outstanding!

The game does have its charm, that's for certain but I don't really enjoy the writing and the characters. It's all very casually awkward.
Lose against the lizard man? He will talk to you like some sort of work pal.
The MC rarely seems to care about what happenes to him as well.

If you're looking for a silly lewd adventure, go ahead but if you'd prefer some proper story bits, interesting charactes or more believable reactions of the NPCs and the MC, move on.

As of v.040.6 this game is fun but it does has its flaws, the art and porn is good but misleading as most of the game is text based. There are sex sounds in the game SE files but they arent used. Still gameply is not grindy and there is a lot of sex. Overall fun game

Really liked this game up until I got to the dungeon where you're forced to turn into a woman, at which point I lost any interest I had in the game. I hate it when games do this, I want to play a femboy, not a transsexual, even if it's only temporary.
To be fair to the game though, everything up until that point was really good, and despite being an RPGM game it didn't have too much of the normal vague RPGM grindfest type stuff. It's still there, but compared to many games out there it railroads you into the content pretty well and it doesn't waste too much of your time. If you're looking for a game where you get to play as a bottoming femboy, don't mind a bit of dull RPGM moments and also don't mind getting turned into a girl at one point, then you should definitely give it a try. For me though, that was a complete deal breaker.

EDIT: The dev informed me that you can actually skip dungeons using an option in the hub area, so that effectively fixes my problem with the game. Star rating changed to 4.

Nice little game with a lot of fetishes, leaning more towards gay/sissy stuff, wich is not a bad thing for me personally. It has a lot of small details which makes the game stand out, and it is updated pretty regularly so far. Few things I can suggest to make the game better: Firstly, make more art in it( especially Kaf3 art is awesome). And secondary, make more chastity scenes)

[v0.37.11 review]
This is one of the hottest femboy games I've ever played. The scenes are well-written and the plot is better than in the most sissification games (when I first played this game, the whole "feminized to become a sorceress" thing made me snort tea onto my keyboard).
However, this game has one severe downside -- it has very little CGs, and that's why I can only rate it 4/5. I understand that it's not so easy to hire an artist and not everyone can draw quality lewdies, but I just don't like text-based games, and if you feel the same, you probably shouldn't expect a lot of fun.

I quite like this game and have been supporting it for a while. The scenes are well written, developer is active and communicative, story is fun and interesting.

Only downside is that the developer has had some issues retaining an artist to work on the game, so the story starts with high quality art that just kind of stops 1/3 of the way through. They've mentioned that they're actively looking for artists to take over the project, but for now it's a key missing feature.

I have no doubt that on completion an artist will be found and the game will be worthy of a perfect score - but for now 4/5 seems fairest.

It's an interesting game with unique premise, ompare to most of the other games on the site. Graphics are okay but sound design needs more variety. I consider this as a wait 1 year for next play. By then there is good chance that the game will improve significantly. Good luck for this team.

This game is still not finished so i will give a provisional review,i might change it once its finished,current ver 0.31

First things first the art is not bad however its too cartoonish for my taste,in many places there are placeholders,the city is mostly empty/just for decoration with no use.This is highlighted by the fact that you have a couple of warp points and there arent many location that they take you,as of right now its bare bones.

story doesnt seem to be bad but it tries way too hard to be funny and interesting,way too many cliches,the game is text heavy so if you dont like reading then this isnt for you.

Combat and skilltree for now is very basic.

scenes are meh,save for a few its not very encouraging right now,i get that its called crossdressing but seriously its too many M-M and its seems forced alot of times,i wish there was more M-F content to fit in with the premise of the game that you can remain somewhat or mostly male.

Why femenizing yourself granting you more magical power? This isnt explained and i'd like that to be better explained.

Characters seems kind of shallow.

music is ok.

Well, the the prologue of the game looks interesting and that's where most good content actually is.

There are dialogues, some choices, a few interesting and well animated characters...

It goes south after the prologue. A very basic "lose to get a sex scene" system, with a distinct drop in writing quality. Most of the content is just text, with very few animations.

Not worth the time unless you're really, really starved for crossdressing games.

This game presents itself as an RPG / RPG maker game but its really very barebones and is more like a visual novel really... Infact theres not a lot of visuals. Many of the scenes have just 1 picture and a ton of text.. some scenes dont even have a picture its an actual black screen with a ton of text. So if thats your thing this is cool but if not.. beware.

I sadly dislike this game although I am totally into nearly all fetishes which are included in this game.

To sum up what I hate about this game:

- Bugs, bugs, bugs. Expect to reload quite a few times after you can't see anything anymore or characters bug through the room.
- Some quests bug out, some events just disappear or appear too soon with no context / introduction.
- Text only. This is a 95% text only game. There are a handful of CG's but that is a rarity. It's really frustrating to see nothing and read a small text box at the bottom of the screen while anything else is just black.
- Bland MC. The mc totally accepts getting gangbanged after a few minutes of playing. Don't expect any character development. The MC is a total bimbo right from the getgo.
- Boring combat. Also it is way too easy. The basic idea of the combat is interesting but it is just unbalanced and doesn't matter after like 15 minutes.
- Outfits. Yes you can barely see a few pixels on the mc sprite but apart from stats it does not matter what you wear.

´The only enjoyment a player could get out of this game are the relatively long sex scenes. The writing differs from aweful cringe to quite good.
That alone does not make the game any more fun to me though.

In order to "fix" this game to make it enjoyable you would have to rewrite / rebalance the corruption and add a shitton of CG's.

I played the HTML twine version of the game way back when it was first released and I'm now trying the RPGM version. It suffers badly due to the change in platform because this is clearly a twine game shoehorned into the wrong platform. The writing and sex scenes are amazing. But there are no images. So you get treated to long sequences of black screens with lot of plot but no accompanying images... in an RPGM game!

If as a developer you are going for a visual novel with very little art, then RPGM is a horrible format for that. RPGM/Renpy scenes work great for scenes/screens which have short dialog and most of the situation should be conveyed using the art, not text. And let's be honest the real meat here is the story/plot and scenes. Not the mediocre combat. To make a decision to change platforms for better combat is missing the entire point of why anyone would want to play this game.

Not to mention, most of the game is very buggy. For example my game hung after the Sorceress dickgirl scene and I couldn't exit to the game world. You don't even have any immersion because most of the time you would be portaling to the locations rather than move there using some sort of map UI.

The tragedy about promising adult games is that most are good stories buried under bad gameplay which is what is happening here.

Version: V0.27.7

As of now the game is pretty early in its development. The beginning of a story is already here and im liking where it is going. The settings and characters seem interesting enough for my tastes.
Sadly there are only a few scenes with images, most of it is text based. Which is fine but somewhat disappointing. But in due time i believe that wont be much of a problem.