RPGM - Cyberspace Battle Maiden Academy [v18] [Team Desire/Aquin25]

Review of version 18
In some ways a step up from the dev's previous work in Desire Guardians. In other ways a step down.
If you've played Desire Guardians, the core gameplay will be much the same with a sci-fi seasoning. The game is split between multiple gameplay phases, with one phase dedicated to running through a dungeon to try and beat the boss. CBMA has two "free" phases where players can explore the map, shop for items and equipment, and interact with characters, and a night phase that's essentially plot-mandated stealth segments.
Enemies in dungeons will move in pre-set patterns, and timing to dodge them and avoid battles to conserve energy and resources for the boss is encouraged, as enemies do not give EXP, only money. The game at times will feel more like a puzzle than an RPG, and that's not a bad thing.
The majority of fetish content like DG is locked behind either losing to bosses and getting a game over or progressing far enough in character interactions. Nothing too major. Like DG, stat boosts and abilities can be permanently unlocked by sacrificing special equipment, at the cost of progressing the main character's TF and burning the dungeon phase.
The stealth is...clunky, and not in a good way. Saving is disabled, there are no tools or items to support sneaking around, and getting caught once is an instant back to start, no second chances, wait until the next night. And it IS mandatory. There WILL be plot progression gated behind getting far enough in the stealth.
Between that and other factors that slow the game down, this is NOT a game where progress can be made in a quick pick-up-put-down session.

Tl;dr,
The Good

• Character interactions are kinda cute
• Puzzle-based dungeon traversal

The Bad

• Unskippable sequences slowing the game down as a whole. Exhibit A: pre-title screen text crawl. Exhibit B: Two separate game over screens when trying to see a bad end.
• Timegates on boss respawns artificially inflates time spent farming certain bosses for their gear, either to use for skills, synthesize new gear, or sacrifice it for permanent upgrades. There's a shop that sells items to instantly respawn bosses, but that's far later into the story.
• Repeated plot-mandatory stealth segments that feel far too much like [game I am not allowed to mention under Rule 2]

The Debatable

• TF is avoidable, though that also means missing out on permanent stat upgrades and skill unlocks. Be prepared to spend a lot of time farming for money, items, and rolling lesson gacha for stats if you eschew the TF.
• TF content itself remains relatively softcore, with lewds pretty much relegated to nudity.
• Like DG, character portraits and models are rendered in Kisekae2 paperdoll engine. Looks good, but some may be turned off by cutscenes rendered entirely in static shots that sometimes proceed to the next scene in jarring cuts. Bad Ends are rendered in drawn pictures instead.

The other review makes me thing their talking about another game after playing this.

The story is very original, it's not step mom forcing you, or guy goes to collage and gets roped into being someones slave or anything.

You also don't get any lewd scenes for lossing, at least so far that I've played, just game overs, and man is there a spike in difficulty on the 3rd dungeon. (Charmed Status Effect Spam, with only 1 party member that can treat it)

This being the only black guy that gets sissified game I've seen also makes it a stand out, in a sea of copy cat games. But that's off topic.

Stories good, arts what you see, nothing special, sounds and music are generic likely stock from RPG Maker.

Game-play is both slow, and janky, handing in items also made me restart since I didn't realize crafting takes your currently equipped item, rather then letting you select from unequipped items, or giving you a prompt or anything, it then ends the day going into night phase.

The Stealth parts feel worse then typical for a RPGM, I assume it was just poorly done, since the vision cones don't seem to match with hit detection.

It's also not very clear that V was money, and I don't see any XP drops ever, so I am still unclear how leveling works, I didn't skip any tutorials or anything either, making the game even more cryptic and punishing, since the game outright tells you to run past and avoid random fights.

Recommend using M-Tool and cheating, game has no cheats that I'm aware of, but hacking with M-Tool will save you so much sanity, your not going to miss much.

Ladies Genleman and any one in between.
As this game is in a fairly advanced stage it need a review.
Graphics: kisekake (forgive me if misspelled) doll
What is this game?
RPG, transformation, bad ends ,a fairly linear story of a black guy into feminity, also kind of 'dating' with girls.
Any way lets go point by point.
1.RPG: one shot kill ws trapped to the death. The dev probably gave up.
2.transformation: well it is there kind a but poorly illustrated.
3.bad ends :well ...the only fetish content is in the short bad ends.
4-5.Story content: Decent near carbon copy of the previous work.
Summary: If you like a good feminisaion story then it is for you. If you are looking for porn or a h-erotic game you will be disappointed.