Stumbling out from the cyber gutters and finding myself being absolutely pummeled by a Cyberslayer for being a deviant, I wake up from my coma to try and remember all that happened, and whether it was worth it or not.
Overall I think it was, and I think it'll further be worth it the more the dev number goes up. Bias-wise, I've really only done one playthrough proper of the game, namely in consideration of it's noticeable grind. It's a sexy grind, yet, still a grind to get certain scenes, attributes and skills unlocked. I hear that the current version rewards those that go through it a second time, but I'm personally waiting for the next one to further flesh out the routes I want on my 2nd run. Another bias as well that you want to consider is that I do support Maelion as a patron, which if it's anything from some review schmuck you don't know about, I don't do that much to begin with.
Anyways, onto the game.
What is Cyberslayers? It's a game about essentially being a magical girl if you were in the dark future. You are Aline, you want to be a Cyberslayer which in this dark future means that you're essentially taking down beasts with either good old fashion fisticuffs with abilities as the lord intended, or go down the devil's path proper and become a total sloot to defeat them as such (or be willingly defeated, which in it's own way make sense gamewise). Either way, they're rampant within the world and need specialized sloots in denial Cyberslayers to keep a cap on the ugly bastard plague.
But there's a twist also, you on the side also work with the police force as well that helps manage the regular ugly bastards. There you'll be going on patrol, fighting off muggers, small time monsters and gangsters alongside pushing papers by manning the desks. Here you'll meet both as a Cyberslayer and as an officer a plethora of ugly bastards, other gals waiting to be further corrupted, and/or actually good guys stuck in a hentai plot, probably waiting for a vanilla run to free them. Either way, varied cast on how you want Aline to go down that doesn't stick you on just one route, with a grand handful pretty well fleshed out scenes (and featuring a large amount of repeatable interactive ones!).
You also get a partner named Kassiah, in which depending on your choices can already be a sloot by the time you meet her, a prideful warrior, or a little mix between both. There was a decent amount to her route when I played on .3.2, and with the recent version there's a lot more in regards to playing as her. She's also a Cyberslayer and is pretty much waiting for player input at this point to either join Aline in the path of debauchery or stay as a questionably dressed agent in dealing with the cock monsters through the power of fists.
So that's the context out of the way, why is this game five stars? This...well, this completely drained me once it clicked. Which is tough considering that at this point my senses have grown dull in wading through the various games out there that might as well be fodder for the recycle bin.
This game does corruption right, if you're alright with ugly bastard dominance being the driving force for the majority of content. This game reminds me of Karryn's Prison in terms of the many titles/kinks you can get that actually affect gameplay and dialogue, alongside featuring it's own corruption module that you see in a couple other games, in which you yourself progress Aline's corruption by spending points if you so desire. Hence, you'll be picking up passives from lewding up that'll affect dialogue, and spending points on the flip side to unlock more lewd choices for Aline.
This then affects the many routes you'll taking on of course making Aline more susceptible to lewd situations, and having her react accordingly the more you do it. Either way, the lewd side of this game goes leagues beyond many corruption games in having these two systems work together, considering there really isn't that three step progression that JRPGS have. More so, it's unlocking and grinding for more passives and abilities that will naturally mold Aline to be the ultimate pervalicious gal you knew you were going to steer her to in a multitude of different ways (much like Karryn's Prison).
However, I will say this, the game does have a grind and there is a teleport ball you can utilize to get around faster but the grind is significant enough to be a factor to warrant in this review. The grind in itself isn't about combat mainly, though you can make it as such, it's more so the curse of corruption rpgs in grinding out sexy events to get to the next tier, or cultivating points to then buy the next the tier. It will make up a large majority of the gameplay if you're truly chasing that sweet lewd.
Alongside this, in spite of the game being made in RPGM, it plays more like a sandbox VN in point and click being the main overworld, with battles being a heavily done-up side of RPGM combat (very passable for that standard). Interesting choice for the game, and one that's rather welcome considering that you're more so just clicking through the world rather than mind-numbingly wandering through it.
Overall, I think Cyberslayers is actually the gold standard in current corruption rpgs. Sure it has a grind, and it's got a little burn in, but God damn does it make it all the more rewarding once you get to the endgame (or more so end of version). Everything I've played so far up to the current point (7 hours~) has been developed, there's no worries on the MC only being stuck in the middle stages of corruption, no, at this point you can have her pretty much being an arch-perv magical girl Cyberslayer if you so want, with far more to come.
Hell, the creator even made it to where once you essentially finish a corruption arch that could be a whole game, there's like a chapter 2 waiting with Hearts of Corruption that can further the route (in future versions). It's actually mind blowing how far this game is with it being on 0.3.3 currently. Take it from me, if you have an afternoon to spare, and have a passion for corruption games, this is something you don't want to pass up.
5/5 easy, Maelion please give more Fred route I want that Heart of Corruption route please.
