Others - Completed - Dark Hunter Kuro [v1.10] [PIEROCK GAMES]

Getting used to the controls is horrific, just grab a screenshot of the tutorial in the menu and keep that open on the side.

This is a fast-paced 2D fighting game about fighting demons, lots of demons, the combat includes dodging, blocking, parrying to counter the enemy, special attacks that use u accumulated power, healing, ultimate abilities, finishers, you can juggle enemies and stun lock them infinitely. It's outstanding.

In terms of H-scenes, well, there's something, however first beat the game on the "censored" mode where H-scenes do not exist and then switch to horny mode. After beating the game the full gallery (which is not too large) is opened.

Hoooly shit it's 2D bayonetta with sex, I mean what more could a man ask for? you can pull off some sick combos if you're looking for that, but if not, i would suggest you turn down the difficulty cus the game kept kicking me in the balls and making me ask for more. i just wish the gameplay visuals looked a bit better and the game flowed a bit smoother. It's the dark souls of sex games 10/10 would animation cancel again

Good gameplay, decent story, but still decently buggy.

Gameplay, 3/5: Fun, Interesting, but Buggy
So it's a sort of beat-em-up sidescroller with platforming. Custom combos to be made, that sort of thing. The combat is honestly quite fun, but due to some rather common glitches, I found myself (at least in the side missions) clipping through the walls or ground a lot.
Additionally, it doesn't seem to be properly compatible with all controllers, as I used a Switch Pro Controller (instead of keyboard since there are so many buttons) and the movement was bugged, making moving left either slow, or I had to switch from D-Pad to holding right on stick (I rebound the controls to work properly but it still was weird, the ABXY worked, and everything else, just not movement).
The two things I listed were extremely common place, and the scarf movement is a bit finnicky at times, often either having super generous windows, or very tight windows from time to time.
Essentially, the core gameplay and combo system is fun, but there are common place bug(s) that you will most likely encounter.

Visuals, 4/5: Good
I'm only giving it a good because some of the H-Scenes look a bit funny. So, overall, the world design and stuff give off a weird... Old H-Game look. It's hard to describe, but it's somewhat nostalgic to say the least. Some may like it, some may hate it. UI, and everything else looks... Fine. I'd say "Good" but not "Great" because at least it's readable, and you know what each does and it all reacts, that sort of thing.
But the thing about "Some H-Scenes Look Weird" is, for example, the Pixel H where our protagonists face looks quite funny, and during the POV scenes, the tits bounce very... Very much, like they have a will of their own, rather than having a sort of gravity that keeps them more down.

Audio, 4/5: Good
I'd say it's great, because I don't really recognize the music and they're all fitting. None of them particularly hurt, or sound bad, just a bit generic. Royalty free, sort of thing. It's good, and have fitting music and cool sound effects like how your power charges up, or whatever. Just... Not great on it's own.

Story, 5/5: A Bit Generic, but Fun
So, trying to explain without spoilers, it's a standard "Fight Evil" plotline progression. Power of friendship and family and bonds, type beat. Still, I somehow enjoyed it. It's quite cheesy, so that's probably why.
Minor spoilers, but at the end after doing all side missions, you get a letter of Kuro thanking you for being with her. That's cute.

TLDR:
It's good, but is pretty held back by my issues with the controls and the common bugs I found when playing it, like movement not working properly and clipping through floors. IDK if it was due to framerate being too high, IDK if it's because my controller is bad (it shouldn't be, since it works for Switch games properly). Story is generic but decent fun, art is what you see on the front, with some animations, and music and sound are fitting but also a bit generic.

This game is in a odd place cause the combat and gameplay is really expressive and very fun but the H content is really average and nothing special. I spent time just trying to do fun combinations with the gameplay and skills I forget i was here to look at big boobs.

Why are you reading this? Go try the game, it's amazing.

Hot MC, well put combat, solid platforming, average plot, which is a pro, not a con in this genre, engaging gameplay.

In my personal experience, the limited (i lied here, editor remove this part) times I died were never the game's or its' balance fault. The combat is easy to learn and not hard to master, so take negative opinions about it with a grain of salt.

There's enough content for a solid couple of evenings and I'm sure, if you don't judge the game negatively if it's not UE5 or RTX ready, you will most probably have a good time here.

Voice Acted,have a Decent Story,Controller Support, and Action Packed.
not to mention got some of those action gameplay. Very NOICE.
hard to find Gems like this for me lmao. and the Adult scene is quiet Decent aswell

Decent game with a sufficient amount of content. Took a few sessions to complete, so hmm 4 hour speedrun possible I guess. The art is nice, and h-scenes are jork-able. You have the main girl and two other characters (and another 2 mobs if you count them as well). Might add that this isn't a lose to get sex kinda game, but you can get beaten into sex attacks. Combat is solid, but might be clunky at times.

On the first play you may need to get used to the controls, just hop onto the training map and get yourself familiar. The game is pretty linear, there is some backtracking in the levels for bonuses and switches. You're handheld for most of the platforming, albeit you can't really mess up too much. The minigames are okay and puts the additional combat features to use, while also rewarding you.

However, there are some issues in my playthrough.
1. The game gets sluggish and begins pumping sub 20 fps, especially on later levels. This hampered the combat experience where I needed to make my inputs slower to register.
2. I was able to clip out of bounds due to enemy hitboxes and level collison a number of times, but the level will TP you back if you wiggle around.
3. Dialogue audio during scenes did bleed out of and onto the overworld, given I was skipping some fluff talk.
4. UI switches between pressing game registered 'A' key and the Z key to proceed, seen when interacting with the girl.

However, given these issues didn't severely impact gameplay and wasn't too frustrating, you can get a good kick out of this game. Most, but not all enemies have sprite animations of their own, alongside the MC, with an additional 6 CG cutscenes. Good game if you don't mind dips here and there.

genuinely terrible controls. the fight mechanics are way too serious. as in, its more of an action game than an Hgame. too much combat mechanics and too much skill to actually get to the hcontent. also, hcontent = game over basically. if you do get monster hscenes, you end up dying and having to restart. so the entire game is mostly action and not hcontent. really big waste of time. playing this game is like 5% hcontent and 95% action gameplay that is not hscenes or hcontent.

Easily one of the best games I've played.
5/5
Must be played with a controller.

Pros:

- Combat is addictive and responsive
- Parrying, blocking and doing 30 point combos in a cycle is really rewarding
- Piero Art is S+
- Good CGs + Animation
- Japanese Voice Acting is very good
- Kuro is hot as hell and her voice is almost as hot

Cons
- Some specific controls are buggy
- Some of the default key binds for menus are questionable

GOTY just GOTY, this is one of the rare gems you found once in a while where you can feel how the developer put real passion and effort into making a "real game with H", because it could easily have no sexual content at all and it would still be GREAT!!!
Summarizing:

The pros:
- The art: 10/10 - if you like Plero's style then this is for you.
- Animation: 10/10 - not only does it have sprite animation but the cg's are also animated.
- The story: 9/10 - Kuro is a kunoichi who eliminates monsters and one day she meets the mysterious Tachio, from there the story progresses to the plot twist, but the whole story comes with VA's that give it a more a "sentimental" touch.
- The ambient: 10/10 - every stage has it's own backgound music(the stage 5 it's by far my favorite)
- The gameplay: 10/10 - the icing on the cake, it's not the typical "one button throws a punch and the other blocks and that's it", but apart from that there are a series of combos (6 or 7) to combine between them and each combination gives different movements for the character. She can also accumulate combos to unlock a power up and she can turn instantly so that you don't get hit from behind.
And as fanservice, Kuro's suit is something like Venom where she uses it as a hook to go from one platform to the other so that you can appreciate her naked butt or her breasts while she "flies" from one side to the other. Also her special leaves her naked with an excellent drawing.

The cons:
- The translation: 6/10 - was ok but apart from the classic "he/she" problems sometimes the dialogue doesn't fit in the speech bubble.
- it needs a sequel because it was to damn short for some epic game!!!
- The software: 1/10 - using Pixel Game Maker MV was a HUGE pain in the ass for me because not only took 6 or 8 minutes for the game to start every time but also keeps crashing in every loading screen or while saving so i have to play the same section 2 or 3 times(can't complete any side mission bacause it keeps crashing)!
- Need more enemies with only sex attacks because i'm not a masoquist to let me hit like 6 times so my HP bar go low enough to suffer an H attack!!!!

I got interested in the art but I got hooked up on the gameplay

As many have said, it's the gameplay and combat that really gets you excited to keep playing rather than the sex scenes

I wish there was an immortal mode after you've finished the campaign so you can go to the maps to enjoy the sexual attacks of the enemies because in the gallery is not the same. The CGs are really good and the accompanying dialogue does them a lot of justice and would love to be more of them for animations and CGs

Even so I due recommend to play the game but if you are looking something to enjoy for pleasure maybe not the best choice

TL;DR: A fun game with great sprite artwork, satisfying combat, and overall polished gameplay that is severely lacking in adult aspects

+ I like the art quite a bit, the sprite art is top tier but the CGs are subpar IMO
+ Combat is quite satisfying
+ MC looks pretty good

- There really aren't a whole lot of enemies, and most of them are just kind of there to be combo'd.
- CG scenes are very scarce
- Animations are also not plentiful, the gallery only has a handful and they're kind of bland for the most part, nothing interesting there
- Game is extremely repetitive after a while even if the combat is good

I'd skip it, the combat is good but the enemies are uninspired.

A decent beat'em up game with fine both pixel-art and high-res sex scenes. Out of 6 high-res scenes you see 4 during campaign, these are animated. 2 are bonus 'failure' scenes you can see through bedroom recollection. There is stuff to fap on, there's a lot of stuff to do besides that. That is, missions, side quests, minigames.
All in all, well worth downloading and playing.

This is a full-fledged game.
It is story-driven and the story is good.
Combat animations allow for long combos with some juggling. There's enough moves to keep going no matter the situation.
Combat itself feels fluid, as long as it doesn't require a lot of active repositioning through movement (moving attacks are fine).
Parry and evade mechanics have decent windows to do the move.
Bosses are fun to fight with.

The movement itself isn't fluid, though. There doesn't seem to be movement animation cancelling between landings, jumps and other movement mechanics like 'grappling hook' equivalent, resulting in a somewhat clunky movement. It is tolerable, but could be way better.
Backgrounds are quite bland.
Level design is... there. That's the most I can say about it. It still does its job, but could be way better with less backtracking and more interesting rooms and challenges.
Enemy variety is rather poor, not all of those have sex attacks.
The game overall is not of stellar quality. There are places where stuff doesn't work as it should (like on one of the levels map is displayed with the same button as healing). You can sometimes fall outside of level (although this is band-aided with automatic unstuck). Etc. Nothing experience-killing, but be prepared.

tl;dr I had fun with this little game and recommend it despite its drawbacks.

As a casual player this game completely satisfied me.
I enjoyed the game because, even though it didn't have many animations and was relatively short, I was captivated by Kuro's design and her sprites. The game's lobby is simple yet fantastic, and being able to give Kuro massages and have sex with her both in and out of combat was satisfying.

I completed this game purely out of spite. Kidding, I had fun, but I am a masochist and wouldn't reccomend it to any other kind of person.

The porn is good but you can unlock all of it halfway through the game, so if the combat doesn't stick with you, I reccomend you stop there, because the story is nothing special and while some CGs (literally two) are locked at the later levels they really aren't worth it.

The main sins of this game are the platforming, which is really clunky and feels like filler, and the fact that bosses often attack you offscreen, which coupled with the fact that they can combo you for big damage leads to some frustation, at times rage.

Sprite work is excellent, performance so so (crashed on me several times, but the autosaving works so it was no big deal).

I reccomend playing the first two-three worlds and trying to engage in the combat system, if it clicks keep going.

Side note, I never got any game over erotic scene, altough it feels there should be ones.

The animations are pretty cool and hot, but the actual amount of h-scenes was disappointingly low. h-scene CGs were lazy and uninspired. Gameplay was janky and controls were fucked. Level design was pretty boring as well.

With some polish, this could probably be a decent game, but it looks more like they hired someone to do some art on commission, ran out of money, and had to build the rest of the game with a box of scraps.

Biased review, since i love Piero the artist. To see the animated version of his work was a amazing experience. Excellent VAs!

Gameplay wise, its pretty interesting. Theres a decent challenge.
The move animations are really hot as well. Glad this came out, might even support the dev

By far one of the most fun games I've played so far on this site.

Let's go in parts, the good parts are:

The combat is fluid, with a wide variety of combos that are both interesting and fun. Not to mention that the animation is also impeccable. 10/10 for the combat.

The music is fun, with a certain loop that isn't annoying to listen to. 10/10 for the music.

The story seems okay, it's something I can't remember the last time I saw, a person becoming a woman's armor, so at least for me it's something a bit “original” and different, I didn't go that far to find out more about the game's story for reasons I'll talk about later. 8/10 for the story.

The artwork is nice, it doesn't have that special or unique touch, but it's pretty enough for me. 7/10.

Now for the bad parts and the ones that really bothered me.

This game feels like it's been ripped straight out of a PlayStation console and thrown into a computer game with barely any effort to change the keyboard commands. The menu may look “right”, so to speak, but in games and the like, it becomes very difficult to even find out what the character can and can't do. I only found out everything I could do, especially those 4 special moves that appear on the screen, only at the end of chapter 3.

For a H-Game, the sex scenes seems... well, it lacks content honestly, and it's kinda hard to be grabbed by the enemy.

The initial art, before the game starts, is ugly and lazy, I almost left the game thinking that the art would be lazy like that, but fortunately I was surprised by more than wonderful combat.

The platforming in general also seems a bit... lazy, nothing much changes, at least a few more jumps here and there, but apart from that, it's just more of the same.

And well, something you can all agree on, machine translation is asking for your game to be called lazy.

In short, the game is a 3.5, but since I can't give it half a grade, just 3. It's worth playing, but expect bugs and a few inconveniences.

One the better games of this genre.
Gameplay = 4.5/5 (i play with Controller) maybe with Mouse & Tastatur too clunky
Story = 3/5
H-aspect = 3,5/5
Music = 4/5

And for all the other Pixellovers in easy Mode, there is a full gallery mode and uncut

Hooked by the H-aspect,stayed for the gameplay.
Sometimes a bit janky but not so game breaking.
The pixel scene is good too so i dont really mind having less cg.

Gameplay = 4.5/5
Art = Piero/5
Story = 4/5
H-aspect = 4/5 (could have added more but okay i guess )