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

Some of the recent negative reviews threw this game put it waaay below where it should be, let's look at what's wrong, hmm?

"Hentai games are always subpar to 'normal' and nothing will change it"
"The one sex scene I've found in ~1h of playing was also just three images."
""Porno" is an absolute whore which is kinda gross."
"see a lot of content is ugly-bastard/rape/ntr-ish stuff, also gross."
If explanation is needed as to why these remarks shouldn't stop you from playing the game, you really shouldn't be on this site...

The only legitimate complaints are that of the poor brothel management mechanics. And even with its flaws, this is literally the best game alicesoft has ever made, music, art, voice acting, gameplay, all screams quality, and obviously if the lolis plastered on the cover isn't enough to give you a hint that this isn't for you, I fail to see why engage in something you'd obviously hate.

If you're a fan of H-games to any capacity, this game is a must, one of the better, fuller experiences out there, but then, you'd probably have played it by now...

Pros:

-Flashy and stylish.

-Basically it's a game inspired by Darkest Dungeon in terms of combat mechanics and also has Persona vibes in terms of communication between characters and nature of dialogues.

-Nice positive soundtrack.


Cons (strictly personal):

-Zero alluring girls for me, only some typical 'kawaii' types from 'kudere' to 'genki' types, they don't have appeal for me, even in Persona series girls were better, here I have a hentai game with some shounen girls which lack personality and physical allure.

-Dialogues and 'funny events' are crap despite I like comedy in anime and hentai games.

-Kidnap women to 'hustle' them is pretty ridicolous and leave a bitter taste in my mouth, one thing is to make some dirty sexual scenes and another - making some anti-social crap as local version of 'progressive view on things' when women become prostitutes just because they were kidnapped, add to that all these smiley and happy characters around and it feels so fake and abnormal. How about to make it realistically grim then with kidnapped women forcefully become junkies so then everything will have some sense.

-Grind, If I wanted a game I would play a normal game not this.

-Too little of actual hentai.

Conclusion: This game tries too hard to be more than a hentai game since as hentai it's average at best, it has too little hentai content and too much of grind to satisfy fully. Hentai games are always subpar to 'normal' and nothing will change it, instead of making it all flashy and implementing all these gaming mechanics I would prefer to have fully animated and interactive experience at least with hentai characters made in different styles, not just in 'cute' style like It was made for 12 yo.

One of the most stylish porn games I've played, as expected from a titan like Alicesoft.

The story and setting is very interesting and the characters are absolutely brimming with energy and personality. The combat is fantastic, think Darkest Dungeon, and the animations are fluid and look amazing. The music is fantastic, and I still listen to their OST on occasion.

The sex scenes, just like with Alicesoft's other games, are top tier that cater to a wide range of fetishes.

Definitely check this game out. This is one of those games where you feel a bit bad for not paying for it after making it to the end because it's totally worth it.

Just keep in mind that this is a visual novel, but you should have expected that when you heard the name Alicesoft.

The game got recommended to me as a brothel management game but it's the most frustrating part about it. It's essentially a card-matching thing that can't even really be classified as a game, and then there's no sex scene or anything, the girl just loses looks, as if she gets uglier just by sleeping with some dude. What's she doing, collecting dried sperm on her face?

The battles are actually somewhat fun, but you can decide whether you want to battle or prostitute so it's still frustrating. There's a lot of text for the story, which I'd appreciate, if it were actually interesting. Maybe it is, but there's just so much to basically say "We're rebels" that I started skipping them.

The one sex scene I've found in ~1h of playing was also just three images. I guess that's overall fine if the sex-to-text ratio wouldn't be so high.

The MC is also a guy who basically forces women to prostitute themself, fucks them against their will to teach them sex, but then is completely flustered like a virgin when it comes to actual sex scenes.

It definitely isn't a recommendation from me and I'm not sure how it's got these good reviews.

Not even remotely as good as people claim. The entire game is animated except sex scenes (lol), the text-to-sex ratio is way too high in favour of text, and the minigames are rather frustrating.

For instance you have some really difficult to memorize random stats on your girls that you need to bring up, in order to match them to customers with the same needs.

So your girl can have a stat called like "tech" and then there's a guy liking tech, but you can't just upgrade "tech". You have to perform actions such as having sex or spending a day or whatever to bring stats up, but they all add randomly stats and decrease others. So it's already overcomplicated here.

The next disappointment is when you gather new girls that you "train", you can fuck them, but when you hit fuck you just hear a sex audio and then see that their stats got increased.

This is a NSFW game, why the fuck don't you animate/show tasks like fucking a girl that you fought for to get into your business?

In combat you have to kill all enemies and NOT kill the girl you want to conquer for your business (means she must be the last one living), but often because of the range-limitations of your party and the random placements, you have to kill her before enemies because you can only reach her with your attacks, which results in you getting nothing. This is bad game design at its best and really frustrating.

But then again, if you get her, you can't really interact with her anyways.

TL;DR:
Complicated and unfun mechanics, everything animated except sex scenes in an NSFW game.

This is one of those games that tries to do (copy) a lot of things and succeeds at absolutely nothing.
There is some combat system which is basically a clone from Darkest Dungeon, but very simple and uninteresting. Absolutely no strategy required making it a boring grind.
There is an exploration system like FTL where you can only go one direction that just depends on you doing the same locations over and over and over to see everything making it a boring grind.
There is a brothel system where you kidnap women and whore them out. Here you see a portrait of the woman of the woman and that's it, no other form of interaction, all the action is "off-screen", no flavor text, nothing, making it a boring grind. Numbers go up and down and sometimes the girl mind-breaks and you throw her away.
There are story / porn sequences which feature the same static images with tiny variations. E.g. Woman next to MC. Woman next to MC with penis inside. Woman next to MC with penis inside and squiggly effect lines to indicate speed. Woman next to MC with penis inside and jizz coming out.
Story is absolute garbage and full of inconsistencies and garbage characters. Main character is a standard A-sexual Japanese protagonist which all the women fall head over heels for for no apparent reason that with some weird twist and faux logic gets into some H-scenes that don't make sense for the character.
All other male characters are accidentally also A-sexual and have sub-human intelligence.
Your main girlfriend "Porno" is an absolute whore which is kinda gross.
From the gamefiles is see a lot of content is ugly-bastard/rape/ntr-ish stuff, also gross.
I do not recommend this game, art is good but there is simply not enough of it for the 20 something hours they want you to grind this game. If you are dig the art just check a CG-rip on e-hentai or use a complete save.

This is my first game I actually can enjoy as there is an actual setting to play through and manage in it.
I love the art that is used, and the VO are excellent for every character encountered so far (still quite at the beginning of it).
Definitely will play it for longer than I could expect, and will use it as a starting point to evaluate each other game that I'm going to play in the future.

The question that comes to mind when thinking about his title is:

What's there not to like about Dohna Dohna? This is quite literally good in every regard (story might be the exception).

- The combat works just fine, and is easy to understand (similar to darkest dungeon system, not as complex)

- The talent (prostitutes) section, allows to customize favorites, and it's engaging (pretty much like monster girl club bifrost).

- The art style and characters/backgrounds are delightful.

- The setting is unique ("big crime metropolis") and has enough development, to pick your interest.

- The OST has at least 5 tracks that can go on any playlist, just based on quality, it's impressive.

- The adult content is plentiful, diverse, and more importantly bold.

- And finally the production values on this thing, put to shame most titles here, whether they are vn's, rpg's, or hybrids.

- If you want a negative, then Dohna Dohna cannot compete in any of the departments I just mentioned, with the top tier stuff. That's hardly a negative, because a mix of 2 genres is always at a disadvantage, in that regard (the unfortunate "lose to get rape scenes" is alicesoft's prerogative, nothing can be done there).

- Regarding morality and controversy, everyone who complained can go and do exactly what you are thinking. Buy products you are comfortable with, let the rest of us enjoy what we like.

This is an 8/10, and one of the best VN/RPG Hybrid, you can find anywhere. Highly recommend it, you can't go wrong with this one.

5/5.
One of my favorite games on the entire site. The premise of it's story is relatively simple, but it still captures your attention none the less. The art and stylistic choices are vibrant, but not gaudy.

As a small disclaimer, the combat in this game is animated, the scenes are not. Regardless, they are still very effective.

TL;DR, I really enjoyed this game, and I would recommend this to anyone who likes JRPGs. It's very polished, has good combat, decent management mechanics, great music, and hot chicks.

Gameplay is pretty simple, but surprisingly engaging. It reminded me of Darkest Dungeon at many points interestingly enough. Combat is turn based, but focuses primarily on positioning, with each side of the fight having four slots each. Your squad members have several moves that hit a specific slot in the fight, so moving your characters around to hit priority targets is necessary. Thankfully, there is no penalty to moving, unlike Darkest Dungeon, and overall there is a lot of quality-of-life and convenience features in battle. The only RNG factor in a fight are crits, but those are rare enough to be manageable. Fighting isn't extremely challenging, but don't expect it to be a cakewalk either.

Outside of battles, the game focuses on resource management. It's your job to run your gang, and that centers around — in a very generalized description — maximizing upsides, and minimizing downsides. There is a shop that you can spend your money at to help you make things more efficient and exponentiate your gains. However, the shop's inventory is mostly random. Drops are random as well, but the redundancy of a lot of systems makes the RNG tolerable. Save-scumming is possible too, and I sometimes used that during the Hustling section to get good traits to give to my Talents. Your mileage will vary when it comes to that area of things, but it is an option if you don't mind spending 5-10 mins trying to get an ideal outcome.

The Story is mostly character-focused, like lots of JRPGs. Don't expect anything too wild, but I did find the narrative quite compelling, even though it was a bit simplistic and down-to-earth. The story is presented through dialog sequences, so expect a lot of reading if you care about the story. You can probably get by with just holding down the CTRL key and auto-skipping dialog, but be warned that there are a handful of times in the game where you will miss important details if you do. Without spoiling anything, there are at least 4 times in the game that your actions (or lack thereof) will matter, and paying attention will be the key to avoiding certain negative outcomes.

The Ero Scenes are visually appealing and very high quality. There is little-to-no animation, and it's generally just flipping between still-images. Thankfully, there is quite a lot of variety. The main cast members fit into several different tropes, the girly-girl, the shy girl, the tsundere, etc.; each with their own Endings. So you'll probably find something compelling. As listed in the tags above, there is NTR, noncon, etc. content that may not be your cup of tea, but generally the game treats these scenes as a failure-state, and is therefore avoidable by making the right choice. A core gameplay element involves sex trafficking, but thankfully it doesn't shove it in your face too much, so if you want to disconnect from that, you can. That gets harder if you seek out the unique Talents, but you aren't forced to trigger their event scenes, and if you do, you can just hold the CTRL key to skip through them.

Audio and Music is very very good. It was pretty damn catchy. With the exception of one song which got a bit boring after hearing it so often during my 60 hour playthrough, I loved all of the music. It has some light Electronica and Hip-hop elements, with some fast-paced Breakbeat type tunes for the more exciting moments of the game. There is some electric guitar, but the soundtrack mostly used synthesizer and keyboard for instrumentation. The game has a couple unique songs it busts out for big moments that fuckin' slapped. The final dungeon and final boss theme were appropriately sick.

Also, Kirakira best girl.

This probably sounds like heresy, but Dohna Dohna is my favourite Alicesoft game and it's not even close. The gameplay loop is compelling and deep enough to keep you going through a whole (long!) game, with secrets and nuances galore; the style, both visual and auditory is unmatched; the girls fantastic, varied, and with a lot of scenes each. As long as the obvious content warnings don't steer you away, this is a perfect game.

-Character Design/Visual: 10/10
-Background music/sound: 10/10
-Plot: 6/10
-+18 Animation: 4/10
-+18 Scenes: 7/10
-Gameplay: 4/10
-Interface: 10
OVERALL: 7

The game seems to me to be well done, but I'm not much of a grinder or a farmer. so from my point of view, all that grind and farm are not worth it for a plot that well I don't understand it much. Apart from all that grind and farm I think they are not worth it for the scenes it has, there are very good scenes but I feel the above takes a lot of weight from this.
It is particularly well done, if you like to take time to get things if you are a fan of farming it is your game, for my part it is not.
Still, you can play it.

Epic hentai game ive ever played, this game involved strategy, skill and tactic. the gameplay itself is good, the battle is turn based, has good story, has futuristic color like cyberpunk style, romance. although this game could be grindy and has lots of secret, fun for someone who likes exploring and grinding.

The core gameplay involves sex trafficking. All the same, as long as you can overlook that and the wacky story the soundtrack is full of bangers and the art quality is incredible, which definitely makes it worth checking out in its own right.

Great stuff. Worked perfectly with the locale emulator (as admin), game ran in english.

I did have an issue with repeated error messages such as "failed to save AFCGMode.asd" and solved it by changing SaveData folder to read only.

Uncensored patch seems to working correctly as well.

Easily one of the best H games I've ever played. It's colorful, polished, well translated, and FUN TO PLAY. Seriously, the combat system is delightful, and the prostitution system is smartly executed. You'll give this game a standing ovation without having to get up from your seat.

Gameplay: 10/10
Art: 9.5/10
Voice Acting: 10/10
Plot: 9/10
Overall: 9.75/10

Alicesoft/Shiravune KILLED IT with this game! Probably one of the best games you'll run across in f95zone. If the lewd content was exempt, this game would still be a thrill to play for the game mechanics, art style and narrative.

Meh.
The option to have sex with your "talent" is followed by the sound of a moan and then some numbers increasing. That's it. At least Club Bifrost had some graphics and options with how you train each slave.

The addition of combat and the lack of a timer mechanic to get things done within X days are interesting upgrades over Bifrost, however. Still, the conversations between the characters are very uninteresting and makes me not really care about any of them.

Also, though this game is tagged "animated", there's really no meaningful animation except for the combat. No sex scenes or training is animated. Just the combat. Pass.

So far it has been fun. Really good game play and good characters and good art. I used the uncensored patch and changed my PC location to Japan and haven't had any issues at all. Im not sure if there are more games by this developer but if so i will have to try them out.

This was one of the better alicesoft games imo - the gameplay is great, lots of CG and I really did enjoy the character design.
Equipment upgrades, skill unlocks, etc were decently paced, sound design is good too.
Premise of capturing girls to have them work is great too.
Definitely doesn't feel cheap.