RPGM - Demon Hunter [v0.24] [evils]

Great game, but not so great combat for an RPGMaker game, even more when it has direct RPG themes built-in.
I think the combat would have been more fun with more reasons to actually have it. The name of armors and weapons is quite generic, which doesn't incentivize the player to buy them, and the fights are easy, so they only feel like something you have to go through, rather than something that is made to be pleasant.
OR if there had been more battle fuck in it, to make the combat less dull and less like a "thing you have to do to advance", since battle fuck turns simple combat into scenes to watch.

I think the accusations of copying Fujino's SAO game are ridiculous. The dev obviously took inspiration from Fujino's game, but how is that a bad thing? Fujino's game is great, and it's not like Evils blatantly plagiaried it. He made his own story, and the gameplay is still a little different.

I waited before playing this game because I don't usually like HS graphics, but I have to say that the scenes and animations are pretty well made. I liked the cut-ins especially.

An overall pretty solid game, and I'm eagerly waiting for part 2.

the first half of this game was so good, but it fell off after that. the way douche framed mc, ruined the whole build up for me. this could've been a masterpiece or even on par with sao ntr, but the dev ruined it by introducing that mediocre trope. but i'll still give it 3 stars for the first half

- Unless you do exactly what the game says, you will get stuck and reload. You will become invisible and reload. Expect all sorts of bugs.
- English is MTL level poor, but gets better with time.
- Quests are Fetch Quests, battle animations are slooooooooooow.
- Maps are big for no reason.
- The NTR story is SAO light. It's ok for what it means to do. The side stories with the sisters are fairly weak and the mother pretty standard. The main story with th GF and her friend has some potential though.

Meh. It's ok if you are into the genre, but really only barely.

I testplayed this game at first for my discord community to recommend - v0.17 - and later I found myself continuing to keep track of it.

There are 5 categories and one conclusion(opinnion) in which my reviews are usually structured. As a big focus will be the narrative and worldbuilding, so if you have little patience for long reading, or dialectics, you can find the result at the very bottom.


Art/Visuals

Demon Hunter is using 3d rendered images found in a big part of F95 games. The rendering looks pristine and the addect reflective effects together with moving scenes let oneself immerse pretty easily.
Proportions of bodyparts are not unrealisticly inflated, even though the honkabadonkadonkadonks of some female characters are on the larger side. (K-Cup to I-Cup)
I rate the visuals and the attention to details, scene by scene as a solid 9/10.

Story

The story takes place in a slightly futuristic modern age, similar to the technologies of "Sword Art Online", if not a little lacking behind. There are references to movies from our Real World, which lets me conclude that it might take place in an asian country in the next 25-50 years from 2024.
The world itself can stand on it's own and no plot developements are contrived in a DeusExMachina fashon.
The viewpoint of this story mainly plays from the perspective of "Boy", a pink-haired MC in his High School days.
The game "Demon Hunter" got released a little while ago and the MC as well as his school clique(MC's Girlfriend, Best Friend+Girlfriend) decide to start playing the game, which is praised for it's realism.
I the course of the story, you will find your siblings, mother and the females in "Boy"s life become corrupted by the pleasures of flesh, which you can either directly spy on, or get shown in cutscenes. I mean it's an NTR game, what did you expect?
The english skills of the developer are clunky - and I am understating here - which show in the first 1h-2h of gameplay. Nothing is incomprehensible, but you might want to get used to be able to read english in a more metaphorical context(No MTL poems sadly ), which brings me to the Narrative Result of 7/10

Gameplay

The Gameplay is the usual RPGM hero-quest experience, broken by logging in and out of the MMO "Demon Hunter". The fights are very easy and up and only become a minor (I don't even want to use the word) challenge in the later parts of the game. What livens the RPGM combat system up, are the 3d rendered sidegraphics, in which you can see your female companion harassed, molested or outright fucked to oblivion, while the MC is busy fighting. In combat you only have control over "Boy", and not the other companions, which make for an interesting experience so far.
There are easily understandable quest objectives shown on the top left of the screen, as well as a colorcoded arrow system that shows you the possibility of Events and progression.
This results in a score of 9/10.

Characters

Boy
The MC is a dreamy, dense and slightly subdued person. His older sister seemed to have emanciated him ever since childhood and his misunderstanding and slightly harsh mother doesn't make it better. Over the course of the story the MC developes a feeble individuality and some responsibility, which are guided by the childish expectations of becoming a provider through gaming.

Monica
The Girlfriend of the MC is a shy, but at times resolute, and loyal girl. Unlike most girls, she is as endeared with "Virtual Gaming" as her boyfriend and her longing for some change show in her choice of using a melee class instead of her usual support role.

Bob
Is a rich guy, living in the rich villa district of the province. He is a notorious player and a nymphomaniac. While playing "Demon Hunter" his eyes caught Meya - and later Monica - and his posessive personality felt the need to woo them at any cost. He is well informed and connected, which he uses to his advantages.

Meya
Is the Girlfriend of "Tom", the best friend of "Boy", and is a social butterfly. One of the divas of school, that had a good grasp on the social structure of her surroundings. Noone knows how she got into a relationship with an obese guy like "Tom", but her "easygoing" nature let her be at the forefront of solving social conundrums.

Those are not ALL the characters, but forgive me for I don't want to write a novel here. The developement of the characters occuring, even if side-characters, is logical and doesn't feel contrived. Considering the World they live in and the understanding of human psyche everyone makes relateable decisions.
Score here is a 9.5/10 because of the influences of backstory, interaction and worldbuilding.

My opinnion

I sincerely recommend this game. The game's data size is on the larger side, but well worth the wait. It's an immersive piece of developement by @Tevils which fans of VR-Game fiction might interest. The bugs, gramatical mistakes and availability on other platforms is still in a progressive state(Let's say there's lots of potential for betterment), which is supported by Tevils reliable update schedule and his regular responses both on discord and here on F95.
My slightly fangirly and biased opinnionscore gives it an 8/10.


Love and Salutations,

Morah Yaladim
(Writer for Backstory, Lore and Moderator for a Toaster)

I like the general story idea, even if it's nothing new.
Usually I like RPG Maker games with 3d animations and sound, but the game is very uncreative and scenes are boring.
Typical go kill 5 slimes, then go kill 5 bats, kill the boss etc.
At the same time basically all scenes are not simply NTR but are cuckholding.
Scenes POV is always from far away and often barley visible.

[v0.21]

A very generous 3*.

The only reason I rate it this much is because I do like the NTR ideas. The set ups, progression, and situations for the NTR. That said, everything else leaves a lot to be desired.

First and foremost, the English is atrocious. Not only is it hard to understand what the hell they are saying sometimes, but the limited vocabulary and grasp of the English language prevents the author from properly displaying characterizations and personality in dialogues. Naturally, this negatively impacts the NTR, which relies on character arcs.

Secondly, the gameplay is absolute garbage. At first, there is an attempt to do an open world-ish set up, where players can explore different places in town and surrounding areas to find side events and what not. It's a buggy mess, but at least there was an attempt. After some point in the game, the dev abandons this entirely and creates a completely linear RPGM game, where any place that isn't the next place to go is barred off. So you simply follow the arrows to the next place.

Not only that, but the RPG elements are non-existent. The combat is a complete joke, being even more mindless than stock RPGM combat. The combat elements only exist to demonstrate that the party is killing monsters and doing quests (and for the occasional battle fuck NTR). There is zero enjoyment to be found in this combat system. And that is not a personal preference thing. It's a 100% objective statement. That's... fine... I guess, but combined with the linear map, what even really is the point of playing this on RPGM?

Plus, having a quest to get MC a skill from a skill book, but him not having a skill menu to actually use the skill is pretty hilarious. The MC has a magic menu, but he learns no magic. He can only auto-attack which is retarded game design if I've ever seen one.

If you are being completely non-critical, you might say that the game design philosophy is to streamline the experience for the player and not complicate things with balanced gameplay and RPG systems. Okay, but let me ask you. If that is the thought process, why not go a step further and turn it into a VN?

Great Game so far good, hot, enjoyable content, not the best, but exciting, partly because of good plot and easy gameplay especially for Monica and Miya in the game.
Gym trainer, Boss, Abel(?)(Guy in the hospital) I am not very interested in that sideline plot because there is no real relationship and interactions at all between MC and them, but some sex CG's could be good to look at when they will reach that phase, but I would still prefer Bob as main antagonist to NTR everyone around MC
Game is only in v0.21, but still so big of a game, so there could be lots more content. Overall I am looking forward to this game.

This VN has potential, but most importantly, it has an interesting start, has an idea, and a pretty fun pitch.
I really hope the author doesn't turn it into a typical Japanese NTR. It's when you realize that the game will not develop anymore, but all the interest of the genre is minimized: more absurd scenes with cheating, or more scenes for cuckolding, less logic. The girl becomes a vegetable without brains, dependent only on dick. We don't need such things, we need sensations, given in doses, and not leading to madness.

I couldn't make it through the whole game, I usually don't like RPGM games, I don't like click spam and checking every corner of the map to find an objective, but I'm trying to give them another go. Its the minigames, I just lost interest with all the time padding and minigames, also I can't even view the scenes properly because the text box is in the way, I couldn't find a way to hide it.

I didn't really know which character is who in game, I couldn't create any sense of caring for any of them, something about it felt too disconnected.
The scenes were decent, idk how I felt about the models but they looked kinda similar to one another facial wise, sometimes the skin texture looks too "wet" or "oily". Not a fan of that. Animations are decent enough

But that is just my opinions on the game. I might try it again once its near completion whenever that may be.

Some things I think would improve the game
-Remove minigames, they are not fun and just exist to pad out for time
-Better lighting and skin tetures in game
-Better UI
-Options to hide text box
-Autosave feature
-Fix bugs

Pros:
- not much yet but there is a bit of battle sex (just a bit tits groping)

Cons:
- bugs everywhere
- bad UI
- bad translation / or very bad english / a lot typos
- no ntr scenes

Summary: Not worth. There is nothing good about the game. The bad english or the translation ruins the mood of playing the game. Everything is buggy or not made correctly.

To the dev: Fix your game first before adding more content which is also full of bugs.

Most important thing first: If you like to explore inbetween Quests and Stuff, Safe before. Espacially at the beginning of the game I ran into some empty houses and got my character stuck. At a quest I had to restart the game. So remember so safe, if you do that, you are safe to explore the world.

Positive:
- I do like the mixture between the shown Pixelstuff and actual CGs.
- Obviosly NTR and Voyeurism, since I do like those.
- Usually not a fan of games/storys similiar to SOA. Not because SOA is bad or anything but other reasons, which are not important now, but this game does is somehow nice.
- Curruption is not too fast paced. One "slutty" girl for CGs and events for the player and the rest seems to open storywhise. Cant wait for more.

Negative:
- Mentioned bugs. Some are funny thou. Walked into the female toilet and got ported to the 3rd floor?!
- Typos but I don't actually mind those (just want to mention them), most people are not native english speakers, myself included, so no one should judge there.
- no gallery or whatever

When you remember to safe often, you should be safe to explore the game as you want to.

The game has some bugs and some parts are quite crude. However, if you are a NTR lover, this game hits the spot. Definitely a high potential game and hopefully the dev can update it frequently.

NTR-Rating 4/5
Gameplay 3/5
Visuals 4/5
Potential 4.5/5

Overall 4/5

Love the setup so far.

We got 1 already slut girl for the fast and easy sex scenes. Then the MCs GF who seems to be the strong pure type. Both those look to be getting taken by the guy they met in game.

Then outside the game we have the MCs mom who is getting blackmailed by her husbands old boss. And the MC's 2 sisters, who have we don't know who will corrupt yet.

This is a similar setup to Fujino's SAO game where you have the game world for the faster sex scenes and then the real world for the slow corruption.

The models and animation are great. And we may be getting some battle sexy scenes too. So I look forward to future updates.

Game has some major bugs, however I really enjoy the art and i think this has a possibility of being a pretty solid NTR game in the future once its been cleaned up a bit. So far do to the bugs I havent been able to get very far into the game so maybe pass on this till there is an update that fixes those bugs.