VN - Wolf RPG - Completed - Dark of Chroe [Final] [Sugar star]

Don't move, don't get attacked?
Bow are perfectly balanced?
That's the power of Yorkshire tea.

This game sure will scratch my itch for souls like games,
me being OP, and hentai games for the time being.

Art is good. Sex is meh, but voice acting hit my spot.

I hoped the voice actress got paid well for this because boy! She went all in for an indy game out of nowhere.

Story is just a porn level.

Its a nice short game. Combat is easy once you get the hang of it, there are multiple ways to play the game and you can skill differently. Its not a massive extremely complicated game however.
Nice if you want to spend a few hours and see a couple of lewds.
The scenes themselves are done really well. But what really makes it special is the voice acting of the voice actress. Really good.
I've seen some complain about the game lacking context to their lewd scenes which is only partially true. Most scenes are tied to the temple, however the temple is tied to the main quest. In which we learn after the second boss, that she is cursed and constantly seeks pleasure.
Since the temple is essentially like a form of wishing well, she can wish whatever she wants for. Which if the player decides to corrupt her, is always something lewd.
However there are also scenes with enemies and scenes with the guards.
I really liked it and can recommend it. There is also a virgin route by the way.

I normally love Sugar Star games, but... Let's break it down
Art: 4/5
Absolutely fantastic like usual, but I feel they put less effort than normal. Still, better than the majority of H games.
Story: 0/5
...Yeah no this effectively doesn't have a story. There is a blurb that can be condensed down to 4 lines of text without losing literally any details for the backstory, and there is absolutely no story beyond that. They tried to emulate dark souls story telling, but... lack literally any aspect of it.
Gameplay: 1/5
K, this had potential, but it is an absolute mess of broken half-implemented systems. It is an action combat system that tries to port dark souls to wolf RPG, but... Hitboxes are completely borked. Your attacks are strait (very thin) lines coming off of your model. They are longer than you think, but if an enemy is even slightly off from that line you cannot hit it. No sweeping attacks at all. Hitboxes seemed to only register half the time, with me dying multiple times because my character would whiff attacks on enemies they were touching, while at other times I could hit stuff outside of my actual range and kill them effortlessly. The axe is basically pointless due to how stamina-heavy it is, block might as well not exist (legit, never use it), dodgeroll is... It exists? I've had it fail on me many times for no apparent reason, so after a while I ignored it and the game felt easier for doing so. The game has a NG+ system that resets if you die, but... Okay I tested 3 loops. Loop 1 (aka fresh loop): zombie at the start hit me for 84 damage. Loop 2: Same zombie did 10 damage per hit. Loop 3: zombie did 60 damage. So the loop system doesn't work and your first run is actually the hardest. There also isn't really a point to it, beyond... the game getting easier sorta? It is supposed to boost drop rates and soul gains, but those seem more or less unchanged, so I have no idea what it does beyond make enemies weaker.
Leveling is dumb. Think souls, but only 2 of the stats matter (the equip load booster and the damage boosters). If anyone is curious, the 2 damage stats are identical in all ways without exception.
There are a grand total of 3 zones, 3 bosses, and 5 enemy types. No reskins, just 5 types of enemies. The zones are... They sorta reminded me of Zelda 1 on the NES, except you don't get a map.

H scenes: 3.5/5
The h scenes are technically good, but... almost all of them are you going to the temple, giving them 1 humanity (drops from bosses), and then selecting a scene. You can get enough humanity for all scenes with around 3 full runs of the game, which I got down to like 5-10 minutes per, so yeah. Go grab the save and use the menu to access the scene select because there is absolutely no context for those scenes, at all.

All told, this feels like a proof of concept demo that has a good number (27 or so) H scenes tacked on that have basically no context. Grab the save and use that to watch the scenes. You aren't missing anything by doing that.

Combat tutorial for you casuals. If you stand still, you don't get attacked! It seems bugged but the enemies will only attack you if you move within their range. Upgrade the sword, get close enough and just swing without moving. The axe is a waste of time because it's dps is way lower, and the bow is stupid good because it will let you cheese any boss without getting close. Bow is the best by far, you don't really need it, hold still and mash sword attack. Managed to beat the game first try at lvl 1 on another play through to get the pure ending.

Porn wise, I liked it. Art is good, decent variety in the scenes. MC's a bit of a masochist but it's not really taken too far. I can't in good conscience give the game a 4 because of the broken combat, but porn wise it's a 4 for me.

Game isn't anything grand, the combat is hard, but more in a frustrating way rather than just get gud. You have to contend with enemies that will get around you pretty easily which makes using the shield hard, so I recommend just running around with the axe if you can. There are a couple of items that you can stack to try and make the game easier. I basically would just knock enemies back with the axe continuously and gain health back after a kill.

The main issue with the game is there isn't a good reason to hang onto the souls you have, if you return you lose all the souls you can consume for points and then lose all your items and half your current souls. There isn't a way to recover them when you die and if you return then you are just making yourself die on purpose. Not being able to keep the income you've accured is dumb because you can basically beat the game's bosses and get an ending without spending them if you are patient and use items.

I actually never got a porn scene, she does get naked and there are scenes but there don't appear to be many of them. (Edit its all about spending humanity to get the H scenes )