Others - Completed - Dohna Dohna: Let’s Do Bad Things Together [v1.02] [Alicesoft/Shiravune]

Bros, I REALLY wanted to give this a 5/5 but I just can't.

This game made a fantastic early impression on me. The Persona flavor is chomped thoroughly from visual elements of the characters to the UI design and it is absolutely gorgeous. Vibrant colors, stylish character designs, catchy music... the production value here is unseen in the world of porn video games.
The high production value even extends to the main gameplay loop, where you will fight baddies in a turn-based, darkest-dungeon esque dungeon crawl. Each character has lovingly animated sprite work, with unique animations for attacks which are on par with some of the best pixel JRPGS out there. Reminds me of the Disgaea franchise with the over-the-top sprite animations. Progression feels good, with characters leveling up and gaining new skills, with their own custom animations.

So what is there to complain about? The sex is Mid at best, the writing is dull and filler-laden, the grind is interminable and the beautiful artwork can only carry it so far. Its a shame to see these gorgeous anime ladies animated in all the glory during the fight scenes, but when it comes time to bone, all you get is a a couple static CGs and voice-over. Now, the voice-over is also of a very high production value and it will save the sex scenes for a lot of people. However, if even a fraction of the animation work that goes in to fights went in to the sex then I would give this an unequivocal recommendation.

As it is, this game is missed potential. It is often dazzling, created with a passion and effort rarely (hell, never) seen in the world of Hentai games.... and thats why it hurts so much when I can't get horny for this one. I'm left wanting, and would much rather play a simpler sexier game with more effort put in to the coitus. GAHHH! Its so frustrating! I wanted so much more from this one. Give it a try; you may like its RPG mechanics and feel those are enough to carry you through this 40 hour beast, but YMMV.

Wanted to like it more but I have problems with it.

First off the artstyle, characters and animation are all very great.

Music is also pretty good.

But the gameplay is kinda meh, like there are way too many fights with the same enemies and the different hunting spot don´t feel worth to explore at all, the progression is also pretty bad you level up and get new skills and upgrade weapons but I always felt the same never like the characters got stronger. The Hustling minigame is also pretty underwhelming, and the Match minigame makes the Husting completly worthless.

The characters were okay but they are pretty simple for the most part and even their love events were often just okay nothing more.

Story really dragged itself out especially in the middle, I liked a lot of moments but kinda expected more.

The sex scenes aren´t good at all, too many feel too similar with each other and they are just way too long. It often felt like qquantity instead of quality.


I would still recommend it, but for me it was only alright.

FANTASTIC! EXCELLENT GAME,:10/10, cum for the fap, stay for everything else

Dare I say, masterpiece? This is one of the few H-Games that goes above in beyound when it comes to delivering us poor wretches with porn.

Not only is the visually great (H-CGs, UI, Sprites, Chibi models, etc.), the gameplay is genuniely enjoyable independent of the porn. Not to mention the compelling writing and voice acting; I found it very easy to get invested in the characters, story, and lore of the world. Don't let the bright colors and cute visuals confuse you, there are some seriously dark and sinister undertones to this game that up the intrigue.

My one problem with the game has to be the number of Loli content. Yeah yeah, I know some of my fellow weirdos are into that borderline stuff but saddly the loli's out number the proportional girls. What really bugs me is how well the dialogue is written so I feel invested in these cute girls (lolis) in brotherly way but then they "must" be fucked for me to progress their story and upgrades. Woe is me.

Luckily, this game has soooo much more to offer than it's short cummings (plus, all that loli stuff could be a big plus for you)

alicesoft is cooking fire on this game. the game got a multiple ending for each heroine, which is a plus for me. the gameplay got a mixed of dungeon crawling, VN, and brothel management. also, the vibrant coloring makes the game feel more refreshing.

Although it only has a few scenes, but the images, coloring and voice are good. The game also has many routes and different ending.

The combat is very good, has animations and sounds.

"dona-dona" thing is simple, we can capture, training and gift trait what we like. if only there is pixie or the like when hustling to make it more interesting that will perfect.

Kirakira and Antena are my favourite but all characters are really cute, sex sceans could be better but still are enjoyable , gameplay is pretty simple but i really enjoyed playing and story is soo good that i often skiped h scenes to get to the storry lol:3

HORRIBLE H GAME

It may be a good game, but it's certainly not a good porn game.

The only thing H about it are the cutscenes, and there may be a lot of them. Even if your girls have the option to fuck, there won't be any animation or image, just a text saying that you've done it.
WOW CRAPPY.

Maybe they should put more resources into cutscenes and less into music and totally unnecessary combat.

You'll have to sit through boring conversations, fights, and minigames that I don't understand at all. It's a boring game. I don't understand people giving it 5 stars, it doesn't deserve even one.

The minigames should be tied to the hentai. And while you're playing the games, cutscenes should appear. But here you have to sit through boring fights and then watch a cutscene. WTF

Likely one of the best H games Ive ever played, so what the hell, let's review it.

Storywise this game is really not that different from many JRPGs out there. Its got the usual trope of highschoolers using the power of friendship to defeat god, except this one is more the 'secret society' side trope - where you use the power of friendship to beat the government instead. Oh, and in between that all you run a brothel. Yes, that's about it really. Just keep beating them bosses, make friends along the way, and hustle various, usually reluctant girls, to make money.

Gameplay consists of two parts. The first is the familiar battle turn based system but its sort of a weird take where skills are only available while the character is standing in specific positions, and yet since there's no penalty for moving your character about, its kinda redundant. The 2nd part is pimping girls to make money - Yes you read it correctly. While youre in 'hunting phase', you beat enemies, kidnap girls (mostly generic but some unique ones thrown in) and force them into sexual slavery, termed 'dohna dohna' in this game.

The best part of the game is mostly aesthetics. The artwork of this game rivals and perhaps even surpasses real triple AAA JRPGs out there. Its vibrant, its pretty, and the character design cannot fail to impress. And the best part is in battle its all sprite based, so its handdrawn and animated, with great attention to detail. Music, as you would expect from JRPGs, is excellent. Theres been times where I just sit back and watch the idle animations with the music in the background - just let it all sink in. Its all so weirdly pleasurable.

If youre perhaps wondering why Ive left the H for last, there is a good reason, and that is because its below par. Its pretty much VN style - there's no real action, choice, or indeed animations anywhere. You just spacebar until it stops. There are tons of H scenes in this game, ranging from all the female playable characters + the unique 'escorts', so the game's not lacking any variety, its just that in comparison with everything else in the game its so lackluster. And this being a H game, youd think the H scenes should take precedent but the game begs to differ.


In CONCLUSION...

I cant rate the game any lower than a solid 5 stars because Ive played the shit out of this game and enjoyed every second of it. Its basically a H Persona game, and if they have modded the H scenes away for regular dating scenes and marketed the game to mainstream I have no reason to believe this wouldnt sell, and sell hard.

Unfortunately, its a H game, and thus if I rate it only with that in mind, the score would drop to 3 at best, because there's not really much to do here. Great characters, but my hardon was about mid.


Last few points of bugbears, I'll make this quick;

The game is grindy, and there is no difficult setting (far as Im aware). Like all JRPGs, be prepared to drop at least 40-50 hours into this game, because you have to level up ALL ten characters individually once obtained. Its not for the faint of heart.

There's many endings, and even more event scenes across the game and its chore to unlock all of it. It'll probably take multiple playthroughs, and I can already hear the collective groaning.

Finally, there are NTR scenes here, very violent NTR scenes. Fitting, because its scenes obtainable only when you lose at certain points in the game, or otherwise miss out on certain mission deadlines. Just something to watch out for because if youve grown to like the characters in this game - like I did - dont lose, or you'll likely put the game down and never come back.

It was great until the bland ending.
It has everything from great voice acting, art works, concept, villains, world building, NPC, music, heroines, mechanic. It's the first time I've a game went all out in battle animation in a p0rn game.
It has NTR content but for me it's not enough to be called a NTR. They lacked in this. But when NTR happened it's really well done.
But here is where it ended. All the fun, and amazing you got and then you will have an amazing boss fight, and then ending cut scene.

Painfully mixed bag.

+ excellent production quality
+ interesting setting
+ good turn based gameplay
+ top notch combat animations
+ variety of characters with style
+ clean Ui

- no H scene animations
- mosaic censorship
- tone deaf and degenerate prostitution mechanic
- gets grindier after the mid way point
- weird main character
- pedo vibes


It really is weird seeing some of the best designed and sexiest adult fem characters being side villains while you have to bang the lolis.

like bruh >: /

version completed

it has voice acting, unique premise, compared to porn games unique gameplay (similar to darkest dungeon). nice art, some interesting but a bit cliché characters... so it all sounds good... but it's just a bad porn game. sex scenes are NOT animated. fucking/training your prostitutes have no a visuals just text (unlike games like Eld). sure it's a quality game where dev spent a lot of time and effort on it, which is rare nowadays... but it's still a bad porn game imo.

no battlefuck mechanic, sex scenes are boring since it has no animation and lots of boring talk, i think it's just a really boring game, i dont like the prostituting mechanics either. they tried to be real life like but it's just not good for a game imo. (with managing multiple stats including mental, all in all it would be more expensive to keep their stats positive than to dump them and find new prostitutes due to them being too "used"/broken)

there is no visual when you acquire "new talent" you just kidnap girls, force them to prostitute themselves and somehow they do it of their own free will? or are they forced? but regardless, it's handled really "nihilisticly" like it's a bad html game where ppl have no reactions or longterm consquences to anything. so it breaks immersion a lot.

so breaking immersion, no animation, boring+few sex scenes imo it's a 2/5 game.

One of the better games that exist here as this is just a full blown game with actual gameplay as well sick as hell sound tracks and good voice acting. The game contain good design/art as well a decent story!
So I suggest playing this game

Holy shit this has to be the best H game I've ever played, and may be one of the best games I've ever played period. Might sound insane but I didn't even get off once to this game, and I was skipping through the sex scenes just to get back to the gameplay.

Visuals - extremely stylish, just look at the images online. Even outside of an erotic standpoint, the art and pure style is fresh and captivating
Characters - the full cast of characters is extremely compelling, with full voice acting for named characters. Originally, I expected myself to be skipping through the dialogue for the male characters, but they are as compelling as the female ones. I think at the end I had the highest feeling with Zappa (a burly biker guy in sunglasses) instead of any of the heroines. Shoutout to Shimazu for being the gigachad/strict dad of the show - his lines are cold af too (got shot to pieces then commented he"liked having a breeze on his insides")
Sound - The voice acting is superb. I must admit there are some that are annoying if they speak too much (Alice...), everyone was acted with passion. Characters like Kirakira and Torataro really feel like your old friends after you get to hear them speak enough. In addition, the soundtrack is also superb, and the battle music really reminds me of the street fights from Yakuza 0 (iykyk)
Story - Decently well executed story about an evil corporation controlling society, being a metaphor for conformism. Nothing spectacular, and the moral greyness of their "hustling" could be explored a bit better. They just handwave it by saying the victims are part of an oppressive society so they deserve it - it would've been better to focus more on it. Nonetheless, the villains are very hateable (beating Kuina after becoming vastly overlevelled had me cackling) and the final boss fight was satisfactory, if a bit underwhelming due to my over-preparedness - the final boss's ultimate move, a literal ICBM, did around 5% of my party's hp
Gameplay - the gameplay is also really fun, and reminiscent of Darkest Dungeon minus the permadeath elements. In fact, I had been looking for something like this, since I wanted to find a game with darkest dungeon gameplay without the brutal difficulty and with party members I could bond with. Dohna Dohna perfectly fulfils this niche, but would've been made better with the "movement" included in moves as well like in darkest dungeon. One downside of the gameplay is that it is quite grindy - finding weapon parts is quite RNG even if you spam the maps that drop them. On the bright side, you don't need to max out all weapons to easily dominate the game (read above about the final boss fight), and I never even used a single consumable item so you don't have to farm for those either. Money is scarce at first but once you get "matching" going it's basically unlimited.

Overall, 10/10 and I would definitely recommend this to anyone, even if you aren't looking for an eroge

Dohna Dohna is one of the best adult videogames that I have ever played, and has so much going for it that it became one of my references, and stays that way to this day. If you want a good mix of setting, gameplay, characters, porn, production values, and a fun manager mini-game, then look no further, I can't praise the title enough.

Positive:
- Awesome art style - It was a breath of fresh air at the time, mostly because of the vibrant colors. It didn't break the traditional formula, it went above it.
- One of the best (instrumental) OST's ever - Same as above. They just pick up the mold, and shake it vigorously. So much diversity and quality. Do check it out.
- Gameplay - You have to understand that "hybrids" have trouble in this department, and expecting anything complex is not fair. With that said Dohna Dohna is a side view turn-based combat game (like darkest dungeon), and there's enough skills, characters, special attacks, types of enemies. Overall pretty good, I didn't find it too grindy.
- Prostitution Sim - It's the same principle behind collector games, and a nice system with unique characters, that can be customized. Some have their own H-scenes. Think Monster Girl Club Bifrost, but not as good.
- Lots of H-scenes and tags, in all of Alicesoft's greatness - Very impressive all around, great porn. The problem is that some scenes require you to "lose", in order to access them. The dev was (is?) still following that policy, for some reason.
- More than enough story content - I'll be honest, and say that the story itself, and the structure of Dohna Dohna, are nothing to write home about, but the characters, and individual scenes, more than make up for it. Again, it's a solid compromise between text adventure, and gameplay.

Negative:
- It think you guessed it by now. It does nothing great, outside production values. Dohna Dohna does a lot of good, but specialized titles can surpass it in most parameters. Being a jack off all trades is asking for trouble, when reaching for the top.

Score: Dohna Dohna is an 8/10, and a really great time. I have no idea what Alicesoft is doing right now, but here's hoping they can come up with more of this. Very good videogame, highly recommended to anyone who is fine (or better than) with the tags presented.

Really good art.
Recommend to use cheat engine, cuz Dungeon is really fcking boring later, raise character level to level 99 and enjoy, when you want to get bad end cg, change character hp to 10.

Use cheat engine again to get all main heroine CG before clear episode 22, raise their feeling to 10000, and spam Event. Play one ending, after that you can download full save to get all CG that you don't know how to get.


Enjoy like a monkey.

Played it a while ago and dropped it before reaching the end. I was considering revisiting the game but decided not to, I will explain what turned me off the game, but it has a lot of good going for it as well.

The Good:
The art is absolutely beautiful, the voice acting is fantastic, the interactions between characters are genuinely funny at times, and if not, at least interesting and worth reading.

The Bad:
The story and gameplay drops off around the mid point imo. The experience in the mid to late game becomes stale, boring grinding. What makes grinding through dungeons after dungeons fun in a game is getting rewarded for doing so. But you don't get much new in terms of story, it progresses to a crawl at some point; neither will you get any new interesting bosses or game mechanics to keep you engaged.

The Ugly:
The game does have bugs, it will crash from time to time, so make sure you save often if you do decide to play it. Sometimes the text will just disappear and you get blank text boxes. It might not be the fault of the game itself, but the pirated, translated version. That's why it is ugly, not bad.

I do think it is worth trying at least once, it is not a difficult game to pick up, there's even a comprehensive guide for the game, and I'm sure for many, the problems I had with the game will be a non-issue for them.

Summary:
Most certaintly not a masterpiece, and definitely not worth the 50$ price on Dlsite, but a good game nontheless, atleast in terms of enjoyment of story and porn content, gameplay.... not so much
With it's strange difficulty scale that requires alot of grinding you'll find yourself bored alot.
Though questionable, the story of the game still works, and it still manages to flow well without being bad or mediocre, and perhaps you could enjoy the interesting character dyanmics between everyone

While it has some downsides, I liked it.

Pros

- Colorful and pleasant visuals
- Nice characters and suitable voice acting
- Sex scenes are good
- Interesting gameplay

Cons

- Eventually becomes grindy
- The story doesn't even try to be realistic (especially at the point where guards break out lethal weapons)
- Some scenes with unique talents are hard to obtain or can be easily failed and locked for the rest of the game
- No replayability as there is no variability to the story (only the girl selected by the protag for the ending will change).

+ Darkest Dungeon combat
+ Persona stylish art
+ Beautiful characters visuals
+ Great voice acting

- Gets very grindy and repetitive
- Sex scenes are 5 images with little to no difference between them + tons of text per image.

The best thing about this game is the art. The gameplay consists of RPG dungeoneering and brothel management sim. The characters are charming, but the story isn't anything to write home about. The grinding for better gear is completely awful as you gotta go through dungeons over and over again hoping for random loot drops to upgrade gear. It would be far better to just have stronger weapons just show up in the shop just like in other RPG's. Some of the sex scenes are repeat. The MC is pretty awful as he is just some unassuming type that has very little interest having sex with others so it doesn't even make for great erotic scenes. The artist for this game is amazing though.