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

I'll start off by saying I had high expectation for this game since its announcement. I had no idea how the game played but the unique art style and clear polish the game flaunted in every showcase was enough for me to get excited. Well, this and the fact I'm an AliceSoft fanatic.

Visually, the game easily lived up to the hype. I mean goddamn, the game is drawn in 720p and still looks miles better than anything put out this year by any AAA developer. This goes for the music too, the OST is a non-stop slapping Electronic/Drum 'n' Bass, top tier stuff.

Now I'll talk about the writing for a bit. I thought the characters were pretty fun in general. There's a good amount of fun banter and interactions, events and sex. You have the usual exception to the rule though, ALyCE is bit too immature for my taste and Torataro is an insufferable idiot most of the time, although both have their moments. Antenna and Zappa are the stars of the show in my opinion. Zappa is such a bro, he keeps the group together and is always supportive in his own way, and Antenna is simply best girl, quirky but doesn't cross into overbearing territory, great design, excellent voice acting, hot CGs, she's got it all. As for the worldbuilding, I think they did a fine job, they set up the conflict and the main antagonist early on but, sadly, they do the bare minimum with it, there's so much wasted potential here. You do the same thing over and over throughout the game, you go hunting > someone in your party gets nabbed > rescue mission > minor reveal or a fight with a rival clan because why not, rinse and repeat. The plot is still serviceable, mainly carried by the cast, so it's not a complete chore but it could've been much more. Also, for a group a rebels there's not a lot of meaningful rebelling and I get that it's kinda the point but it certainly doesn't help either.

Gameplay! I have mixed feelings about this one. I get that some players like this kind of simple and flashy gameplay but for anyone who likes a decent amount of depth and difficulty in their games, it's a bit underwhelming. Other AliceSoft titles have simply yet complex combat systems, they pull that off by creating these intricate little systems and have them work together, case in point Sengoku Rance and Daibanchou. DD's combat lacks that nuance, you have almost unlimited MP, you can swap characters mid-battle with almost no restrictions, the level scaling is broken so you're almost always overlevelled, it's just an unbalanced game or maybe it's meant to be that easy? I don't know but this type of "difficulty" curve is definitely not for me. However, what it lacks in complexity and challenge it makes up for in intuitiveness. Combat encounters are mostly short and sweet, sprite work is stunning and everything just feels snappy and impactful.

Overall, the game's presentation is in a league of its own, and while story is underwhelming, it never drags thanks to the fun characters. It's a fun title, and it doesn't overstay its welcome. 8/10

This is a high quality full fledge game. The art in this game is amazing. There are a ton of H content here with all sorts of varieties and fetishes. It has a turn base battle system with some tweaks involved. You are given two choices to either go on the map and battle or be a pimp. You can level up your relationship with your party members and get H scenes with the girls through battles and gifts. The pimping system allows you to make money and train girls. Only certain girls will give you H-Scenes when you pimp them out and they all feel like little side stories. The story is fun and exciting with the characters being likable. This is as highest quality as you can get with a full-fledge H game.

*****
I read some people don't like the pimping system with context to story and gameplay. People want that 100% vanilla righteous MC which eventually gets dull to me. The pimping system is not even hard at all I think some people are just lazy because it is a little bit of a grind. Training gets easier as you make more money and level up your girls. H-Scenes are censored so thats kind of a bummer hopefully we get an uncensored patch but I feel like it won't happen. There is ntr in this game but it didn't bother me because this is not a romance game where you have a crush, girlfriend or wife. Personal preference this is an Alicesoft game and I dislike lolis but this game gave me enough outside variety where it didn't bother me. If you like this game please buy it and support the creators so we get more content like this.

One my my favorite eroge of all time. This is an AAA quality eroge, as others are from AliceSoft.

Pros:
-The art is top notch. I love the style, the animations, cg, backgrounds, sprites, are all amazing.

-I found the gameplay to be super fun. Its kind of like darkest dungeon but a bit more basic. I really enjoyed it though. Note you can hold control to speed things up.

-I LOVED all the characters. Main cast, villains, random side characters, everyone. They all appealed to me and had interesting unique personalities, and most have some kind of character arc and development through the story. They also all play off of each other well.

-I found the scenes to all be really hot. While they don't go too extreme on the fetishes I loved it because when you care about the characters it turns for example a missionary scene from something generic to something I look forward to as the characters develop their relationship. The dialogue during these scenes is also great and the images vary a fair amount to change with what the dialogue says.

-The overall story too is pretty intriguing. They develop the world well and I felt quite immersed in the story. They do this not through the main cast but also through the unique heroines that you pimp out.

Cons:
-I think unless you look at the wiki you would miss a fair amount of the bad ends. Check the dohna dohna wiki for help.

-The pimping minigame isn't that fun. Tip to avoid it: Every day talk to girls (never have sex with them, except one D/D/D girl you keep to skip bad candidates and get 100 sex training achieve) and buy all MEN/LCK items from shop, only pimp them to B+ or higher candidates if you need money, and only when you need cash or for events. The shop randomly has sales ranging from 10-90% and you can even reroll the shop by loading your days start save. I highly reccomend using the sales to avoid doing more of this crap minigame.


Overall:
I give out 5 stars fairly often because so many of these games are awful that a standard game is a 5 in my eyes. This game is AMAZING, a 6 stars if I could. This and Evenicle imo are the most high budget real game eroges I have played, and I have played a LOT.

Boring AF. The art is the only good thing in that game. I dont care for the music, its a porn game so I just mute it.
Most girls have small tits and butt, no much variety. The dialogue scenes are extremely long and boring.
The sex scenes have good arts but it don't happen so often as it should.

The worst part is the prostituition mechanic, it is what mainly maked me drop the game. You basically have to train the girls, but you dont got a SINGLE SCENE of you fucking them, you just hit a button and thats it. You dont got a single scene of them prostituting themselvs aswell, again you just hit a button and thats it.

It could be a wonderful game, but the execution are just poor and even a good art cant save it.

alot style and too little substance is what you can describe this game as. should be 7/10 but because its so stylish it gets a 8/10 from my bias

art 69/5- extremely great. probably the best i seen in a vn ever. has so much style in them other vn may have better looking art but they lack style, originality and creativity. The art alone tells you what kind of game this is gonna be its extremely expressive. One look you will think the vn is just gonna be chaotic fun with a bunch of misfits.

character 4/5 - why not 5/5? While the character interactions are great you barely actually know them. Hell, even the main cast you barely know. But it lands the interaction between the characters which is what this whole game is about essentially, wished there was more about who each character is

music 4/5- this is the good shit. At least for some of them, there's plenty of great ost in this vn that expresses what the game is about, and there's also a lot that falls flat. The start screen music tells you alot about what the games about that alone makes it 4/5.

story 2/5- This is why I said all style and little substance. How did the main cast meet? Actual backstories except for a few sentences? story about the other 2 clans? what is the secret organization in the game? Where did they came from? So many things unexplained that feels like its either extremely rushed and the writers just write things on the go without properly expanding on previous things. Like theres suddenly a sister to kikuchiyo half way through the story without any mentioning of her before? How did she get her group? Also extremely contrasting stuffs. The writers tried to cater to everyone which is why i think the story isn't well written. Like why the fuck is the main cast business to prostitute girls? It saids because they need cash but when in the story has cash ever been a problem to them? Instead of so many prostitution scenes. The game would have been better if most of it is removed. Why not all? because the other 2 clans actually feel like they do it. The game makes you feel like your the good guy than slaps you and make you kidnap and prostitute girls. Like what?

gameplay 3/5- The rpg part gets a 4/5 -1 point because of how grinding and repetitive it becomes but the prostituting part gets a 2/5 because of how disconnected it feels to the game.

porn- 4/5- caters to both vanilla and darker them fans at the same time and falls flat imo. for darker theme all i feel is thats it? The game makes it like it never happened in the story which is BORING. i want to see what happens after the rape but the game acts like it never happened. For vanilla ones too much reused art like wtf. If they removed all the pointless unique npc scenes and instead added to more to the vanilla or the dark scenes to make each scene connect to each other more it would have been better. All the scenes feels disconnected which would have been better imo. i rather have a full bowl of 1 kind of icecream than 20 different spoons of different icecreams.

tldr-Game has too much different variety but not enough quantity in each variety would rather they have less variety but more quantity.

Well, the haniwa's still kicking.

I'm a sucker for turn based combat, and although the difficulty was toned too far down compared to Kichikuou Rance or Sengoku Rance, it remains enjoyable nonetheless. The sfx and animations contribute a great deal in my enjoyment of said combat.

Cutscenes are numerous and fully voiced, which will cater to storyf..bros but there's a ton of min/max bullcrap and hidden mechanics for my people too.

Great tunes too, upbeat, but in good taste.

Overall, this title feels quite modern and polished, which makes it stand out in Alicesoft's catalog. Would recommend.

An actual, high quality game. Uh, yeah. Just... I spent almost 12 hours just playing it the day I downloaded it.

Gameplay, 5/5: Fun? Fun.
You go between a management game and an RPG. For the management, you have to manage captured girls and whore them out. You can't let them reach 0 Mental Energy, otherwise they break and you make no money. They can also gain traits or other resources depending on the client. So it's a careful balance of managing their mental state, pawning them out, Trying to keep it short, so lots of details are left out.
The RPG part, there's enemy weaknesses, and your characters have certain roles. DPS, crowd clear, support, tank, etc. So you have to manage who does what, and who goes in front and whatnot. Akin to Darkest Dungeon, really. Yeah uh, not much to say. It's just anime Darkest Dungeon. Sometimes it has rather high difficulty spikes though, where you just beat a chapter, enemies do 1/10 HP of your tank, then another map that unlocks, they two shot them.
Admittedly, there is a bit of RNG involved. From the item shop, to matching preferences, crits, etc. Sometimes you can just get RNG screwed, trying to get one stat (i.e. mentality) to a rank, but the shop just refuses to give you that item. Can be annoying.

Visuals, 5/5: Really Good for an H-Game.
Like, most H-Games, I'd give 5 for being "good for an H-Game" this game is actually, standalone, good looking. Cut-scenes, blips here, interactions there, attacks, etc. Like, everything is genuinely good. I haven't seen anything that looks bad.

Audio, 5/5: Good.
Gonna keep this short, everything's good. Music, sound effects, etc. It might get a bit droning, if you play it for like, 8 hours straight as I did. Voices are present (though MC doesn't have one in the VN part, just combat), NPCs have voices, battle cries, etc. Good shit.

Story, 5/5: Excellent, Not Some... Berserk Level Stuff, but Good On It's Own.
Without trying to spoil anything, you play as Kuma, broody, somewhat edgy, gets all the girls for some reason. You're part of an Anti-Aso group named Nayuta, basically fighting capita- I mean, this mega-corporation who's controlling people's lives. You get to learn more about your peers, and what-not. Obviously, there's more to it, like character motivations, traumas, backstories, tense moments, etc.
However, it's nothing particularly GROUND BREAKING, but a good story, nonetheless.

TL;DR, 5/5: Excellent Across the Board.
Gameplay is good, difficult in the beginning, sorta easy later on (for the Darkest Dungeon bit). The opposite seemingly (for me, at least) for the harlot house. Visuals are very anime, but very good nonetheless. Story is good too, but nothing ground-breaking or mind-shattering.

Shout outs to my best call girl, Mako Takimoto. Accidentally broke her; started getting too much to keep her sane. Sorry.

Art is absolutely top-tier, the story is great, the characters are interesting, and the gameplay is awesome. All the things you'd expect from Alicesoft.

Highly recommend as a genuinely fun game to play. The porn is there, and it's prevalent, but this one stands on its own.

LOVE THIS GAME! Love the artwork, has fun gameplay mechanics and has an interesting story to back it all up. The soundtrack is also solid as well as the H-scenes. You get loli scene within 5 minutes of playing so 10/10

tl;dr: DON'T SKIP THE STORY!!! 18+ video games with 3A quality.

The story is really amazing. I give it 10/10. I strongly recommend people to look through its storyline as well. The storytelling is perfect that it successfully tells a dark, deep story into some fantasies. It creates an atomosphere that is lively and bright, but actually it's cold and dark.

The artwork and H-scene is nearly perfect. The details and their facial expressions etc. It's just awesome. It contains some sad NTR scenes where it contains bad endings, but also some sweet romantic scenes. It's just great and awesome.

Nearly all the characters are shaped perfectly well, they have their personal qualities, unique traits and etc. What is presented to you are lively cute girls that you can feel them in someway.

The only disadvantage is that the H-scene is static. The ending are bit rushed, but I think it doesn't affect the story overall.

(Have a look on Alicemension after you have finished the game, it's pretty fun and amazing. It contains some description about the author and drawer and I found it pretty sweet.)

Gameplay : 4.5 / 5
Design & Animation : 5 / 5
Story : 4 / 5
H-scene: 5 / 5

This is an non spoiler review from my past experience playing this game even before it got translate.

General/story:

As expect from a game made by Alicesoft, its as fun and sexy as i imagine it be. The story setting overall can be summarize as somewhat the same as its predecessor, Daiakuji, where the main storyline is involving fighting againts the current ruller by capturing woman around the area to gain money to fund the organization to fight againts the ruller. But unlike it predecessor, this game has more stylish and more exhilarating gameplay suit for modern audience. The design as a whole is trully beautifully stylish and modernize to the point that its refreshing to look at and suit with younger generation taste ( Thank you Gyokai you just the best ). The cast is interesting, MC is a chad and the Heroine is great in term of both physical look and personality.

As for story goes, although i want to give it full 5 out of 5, there couple of thing that make it seem not that interesting to me especially with the whole shonen theme that make it too much predictable as it goes. Im not saying its bad, just predictable to the point that it almost linear. But overall, its still a fun story with good old adult joke and dark humor mix along with it as expect from Alicesoft standard.

Gameplay:

Gameplay is overall enjoyable especially on first part, but as it goes deeper to the story, it become more and more unbalance. The playable character become more abusable and making one shot hit is basically the norm on later part. There are some boss that can give you challenge, but the moment you overlevel them (5-10 lvl more than the enemy), it take away all of those excitement and make you basically invincible. The gameplay itself has so much potential and can be more interesting if they make it more balance and give out more challenging boses. But that just my opinion. I recommend for you to not overlevel your chara much to enjoy full experience this game has to offer.

As for H-scene:

Overall, The H scene in this game is great, offering different type of fetish and scenario that dosent make the reader bored. The lenght of each scene is also acceptable. The H-scene in this game has 3 type, One is between heroine and MC, another is between the UNIQUE girl you capture with some of their customer and lastly is from Bad decision (some of them lead to bad end). Although, unlike Daiakuji, the girl you capture only have scene with some of their customer not with the mc. So even if you train them, there will no CG with Mc (which is regrettable to be honest). Although because of these, the H scene of these girl with their customer has lot of variaties and most of them are pretty much hard play including rape, corruption and even mindbreak. Im guessing they dont want to make Mc as a jerk who only want to disgrace woman eventhough he not a good guy either. Anyway, the H-scene is fapable so look forward to it.

If you are looking for a game not just to fap during skipping dialogues - this game will suit you. Interesting gameplay and story. Definitely one of my top favorite games.
Although there is not so much variety, but it is clearly more of it than in hundreds and thousands of novels on F95.