Unity - Cyan Brain [Demo 6.14] [NEKOUJI STUDIO]

I'm not sure what the full game will entail, but for a Demo it's okay - for a full game I would expect a lot more out of it.

The game itself is relatively buggy and the gameplay is trivialized by how broken the dodge roll is. I struggled quite a bit until I realized that the dodge roll lets you simply dodge right through opponents, taking any urgency to move or otherwise reposition out of the equation.

The game knows what it wants to be, and that's full-blown gore focus - and I can respect that. There are too many devs that think adding zombies and monsters and then doing nothing grotesque with them is a good idea, and it's led to H-games with 1/5 star ratings all across the board, so I'm glad this dev isn't shying away from committing to the bit.

That being said, I'd still have to rate this a 3/5. The art is good, the gameplay is average and the map itself is rather unexciting and dull; sometimes you'll come across rooms that you think have something new for you to discover only to find out there are only 2 sorts of interactables in the game: Buttons and Keycards.

The final boss is downright irrelevant as you can walk past them to be met with a "Thanks for playing ❤". There is no door holding you back from simply walking past the final boss as you have to press a button to activate them, which you can simply choose not to. You could also just press the button, walk to the left of the arena and close the door... it doesn't really do much to help you beat the boss, but it's a tad ridiculous that the final boss area is open for you to simply leave and re-enter as you see fit.

The final boss itself can't attack you quick enough for you to knife it to death, resulting in a Tom & Jerry sequence of you hitting the boss over the head and cancelling every attack it tries to pull off. Your knife is guaranteed to stagger the boss and by the time they recover to start a new attack they're already staggering again from another knife attack.

What would make me rate this a 4/5?
- Greater polishing of the full game, including an actual ramp-up in difficulty by nerfing dodge rolls and most importantly bug fixing. I couldn't finish the Demo legitimately because I restarted the game after beating the last boss, which brought me to a black screen with the HUD on. I was softlocked pretty much.

What would make me rate this even a 5/5?
- More enemies / more scenes with existing enemies in addition with the aforementioned points.

I hope this game gets compeleted even though I spent half a hour trying to beat the spider boss without knowing the machine gun on the above, game is 9/10, -1 because there is isn't much to ammo refiller near the area of the crushing thingy area.

5 stars partly before I loved what I've seen, partly bc the reviewer below is blatantly unfair.

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I loved the mix of guro with eroticism, both are important and appropriate. It creates a great horror where you can't know for sure if the heroine is going to be raped or murdered (both of which are terrible but happen IRL)

The graphics themselves are few but well-made.

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Lack of gallery, I feel like it's an important part of the game even if it's still a demo.

Instant-death traps are mildly annoying.

More frequent save-points would be nice.

Cyan Brain Demo 6.14 Review
I want to give this 2.5 stars but that’s not possible. I can’t justify bringing it up to 3 because of a couple issues, some of which needs to be addressed

Edit: This will be a long one. Forgot TLDR: Art good, Difficulty too punishing, Too much emphasis on gore, lack of hentai and it's mostly futa, guns suck. Still a good game, has potential, just don't expect to fap

The Good
Visuals/Art Style - It’s incredibly good. The player character looks cute and the enemies look just as amazing as well.

UI - It also looks very good with the vital sensors but i feel like it needs to be more detailed. It certainly has room for improvement

The Bad
Difficulty - This game is punishing and i'd argue that it’s unreasonably so. Enemies can easily 1-2 shot you minus the facehugger (it takes 4). Meanwhile you can easily use 12-20+ bullets to kill someone depending on if you headshot (i actually counted). There is also no way to replenish your bullets other than the 1-2 ammo refill centers.

Hitboxes - The hitboxes can be…weird and frustrating to say the least. You’ll encounter a couple of death traps and there will be moments where you can clearly see you are going to make it only to be killed. It also applies in reverse, you see that you are clearly touching these things yet nothing happens. Same goes for some of the enemies as well, there are moments where your attacks or their attacks should’ve connected but they don’t or attacks should not have hit yet they do.

Saves - You can only save at certain locations but that isn’t the issue. The issue is the LACK of savepoints. You will encounter moments where if you want to save to prevent loss of progress, you have to backtrack a ton. Fortunately, there are checkpoints that you can respawn at if you do die, Unfortunately, enemies will respawn whenever you respawn or load a save, the same enemies that takes a ton of bullets to kill, bullets that are very hard to come by and are in extremely limited supplies

Map - There is no map, i’m sure the devs will add one eventually but currently, without a map, it can be extremely confusing as you traverse these dark and constantly twisting lab halls.

Lack of hentai - Yes i know this is a demo but there are only 3 scenes and they are all game overs. Furthermore the MC’s clothing can get ripped but that does nothing at all. There is no enemies pushing you down and a struggle ensues, they just keep stabbing and tearing.

Lack of Gun Variety - Once again i know, it’s a demo but when i say lack of gun variety, i don’t mean types of guns, i mean their stats. All 3 guns do the same amount of damage per bullet just at different firing rates and with differing mag sizes. When i first upgraded from the handgun to the rifle, i was expecting more damage only to be met with disappointment that it did the same damage as the pistol, only it was automatic and shoots faster. The machine gun is no different: same damage, faster rate of fire (so fast it burned more ammo than the previous 2 guns)

Gore - Yup there’s gore and unfortunately it appears to be the main focus of the game. Most of the time you just get cut in half or crushed to a pulp with blood, intestines, and bone on full display. The game does offer you an option to “skip” the scene when it plays but it’s less skipping and more “slow fade to black as the scene and audio continues to play” then you still see the end result of the scene you “skipped”. Personally i prefer the devs add a no-gore feature since most of us probably want to see the cute MC get fucked rather than ripped apart and a spike going through her throat.

Futa - Yea just like gore, there is an emphasis on futa. Of the 3 hentai scenes we get, 2 are futa. I don’t need to say that just like gore, futa isn’t everyone’s cup of tea and some would definitely want an option to turn it off for good old fashion yuri.

Unfortunately, i don't think the devs are even looking at this forum so i doubt any of this review will make it to them. I am looking forward to future updates.

Respawns are unforgiving, most enemies will kill you in one or two hits. Unfairly large instant death traps with wonky hit registration. Rather rough game to get anywhere at first no doubt but the models and such are nice.

good game for a first demo, the only thing i hate is the enemy respawns again after you kill them and if you die, and the enemy will one shot you after you die, regardless of health, and the ammo doesn't reset after you die and i don't see any ammo packs or something like that so it is a bit of a letdown.
overall nice game, just needs some improvement and bug fixes

I want to give the current initial version (Ch.01 Test Demo) 3.5 stars, but since that isn't possible, I am rounding it up to 4.

Imo it is quite well done for a demo as it is more polished than I expected for the typical test version of H-games. There is plenty to like here, especially the art style and character design, and I see plenty of potential although the UI could do with a few more lines of text.

Now onto the drawbacks. There are some issues that I couldn't ignore.
1. Deaths/Gore
The game is punishing, which is understandable, but for most of the deaths you will get gore scenes which while skip-able, will still subject you to the audio of a grisly death, i.e. it will fade out slowly while still playing the audio until you respawn.
I do not mind the occasional gore, but this is a game where you will die A Lot, and those scenes got on my nerves rather quick.
2. Ammo
I do not know if this is merely a bug or by design, but the ammo does not replenish when you die, while enemies will respawn, meaning you are losing ammo on each unsuccessful run.
3. Save points
So far I have found only one save point, which means a lot of backtracking and fighting the same enemies over and over again, with any mistakes or unfamiliarity with the map sending you all the way back to retry again, and there are plenty of environmental hazards to trip you up.

Overall, I would recommend trying it if you don't mind difficult games and like the stylistic design, but in the current state the mechanics can make it rather frustrating after a while.

Absolute banger of a game. If you liked SiniStar, EVE, Guilty Hell, this game is right up in that alley.
A MUST is to keep in mind that this is the first build of the game, and oh boy, for what the standard 0.1 release of H games usually is this is packing in both content and quality. About 1 hour of playing around if you take your time, and already 6 monsters and 2 traps to die to. Being a demo it has some bugs, but nothing game breaking, such as the ammo not reseting upon loading from a save file or the game freezing if you die at the same time as the npc that killed you (you have to exit and re-launch the game to fix these bugs). I'm not taking stars away for that as it's sure to be fixed with new releases

The combat is just dodging and shooting around, which is pretty standard for a H game, ofc nothing mind-blowing. The story seems extremely promising judging by the environment though and what the developer is saying on Ci-en

There are violent deaths in this so it might not be your cup of tea if you are distraught by that. There is plain sex too.

The "Graphic Violence" tag is poorly used here, it's an understatement. There should be a separate tag for extreme gore, such as this game. For a demo, it does better than most, so it's not a one-star rating.
Firstly, the shooting part is okay, props to the dev for adding headshot multipliers, but ammo is very scarce and given that the protagonist has only like 3 hits until she dies makes the game kind of redundant. It forces you to go back to the save point, where you have to do everything the exact same way as before, only even more boring. One-hit traps are everywhere.. Sure, they're easy to dodge but it gets annoying and repetitive.
Secondly, the H part of the game is very lacking. You only get a scene if you die, and you die very easily to anything. That would be somewhat ok if the girl doesn't get decapitated or ripped apart in every fucking scene. I wouldn't mind the enemies getting gutted and stuff, or rather an option be made to limit/turn off gore globally.

This demo doesn't put up a good impression. Demo is supposed to impress the player, make them eager to see more, motivate to support you, and want to see the whole game; like they say, first impression can be made only once.

Instead, we get:

• Buggy ammo reserves that don't replenish when you die; while the enemies do. Only way to get more is to reload from save.
• Repetitive one-hit-kill environment traps, with no save point after them, so you have to redo them after every death. They rarely work well outside of arcade games, and it's meant to be survival horror.
• Saves are buggy; you may lose the access cards with no way to reclaim them, and may respawn outside the map with no way to get back. Both would require full restart.

On the bright side:

• Good ambient music.
• Impressive visual design.

this game have a potential, with the current progress of the game, this might be one of the best horror side scroller game imo.

pro:
have a good and pretty smooth animation (kinda reminds me of Shadow of Yidhra)
pretty girls model

cons:
get hit 3 times and you'll die (kinda hope you can get raped more than once)

when you die, you only have the remaining ammo that you got before you dead

Gore but its pretty nasty for me idk if this is a cons or pro so ill put it on cons

NICE, I like it. We need more content involving blood and brutality and rape. This game has a lot of potential. Very cool level and character design. Looking forward to the next update! Writing this sentence just to be 200 characters)

I love side-scrollers. Not a bad one BTW.

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Good anims
Beautiful girls
No stupid dialogs at the beginning

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3 punches, rape and death? For real? Its a fap game after all. Please let heroine survive 3-5 rapes. Let us play a bit.

This game, right now, is as good as Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero.
Graphic are good the kinks are, well, guro, so not great. Gameplay is painful bad hit boxes and poor save spot locations. Sound is fine. The most annoying things are the insta death traps, they can block your path and are everywhere.

great game, even demo was so challenging, i really had fun while playing, but when you die your ammo doesnt reset so if you spend all your ammo at some point game can become impossible... (maybe when you die at least 1/4 perchenge of full ammo can given back)

Neat game, obviously there's some stuff to be ironed out, but gameplay is fun. I'm just hoping the character also becomes a futa at some point. Some TF is hot AF. Will definetly come back when it gets more updates.

Pros: Stellar art and assets. For a porn game. A lot went into the animation.
Two good sex animation. (Two if you're into the pussy hugger)

Cons: Defeat sex+all but two of the defeat animations is gore. Which to some is a plus. And if you're for that, then there's plenty of it. Even the normal sex animation is a bit bloody.
Only one ammo pick up for the rifle. Sure you have enough ammo to kill every enemy set in the stage. But hopefully when it leaves the demo stage, this is addressed.

One thing I wish was removed was the long segment with all the insta kill crushers and meat grinders. At least there's a save right before it. Though the segment could be shorter and with a shortcut to pass it after you clear it