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

  1. 2.00 star(s)

    Mortimering

    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.
  2. 2.00 star(s)

    Fuchsschweif

    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.
  3. 1.00 star(s)

    klckr

    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.
  4. 4.00 star(s)

    IAmAUser4Real

    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.
  5. 4.00 star(s)

    Deleted member 6577935

    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.
  6. 5.00 star(s)

    astudentofheart

    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.
  7. 4.00 star(s)

    TexMexBlessFresh

    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.
  8. 5.00 star(s)

    celtaylo

    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.
  9. 4.00 star(s)

    -Yor-0728

    -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.
  10. 5.00 star(s)

    X Death

    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.
    Likes: mackb
  11. 5.00 star(s)

    Ackillez

    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.
  12. 5.00 star(s)

    Sh4mblz

    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.
  13. 5.00 star(s)

    BeatRush

    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.
    Likes: mackb
  14. 5.00 star(s)

    XXHUNTER

    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.
    Likes: mackb
  15. 2.00 star(s)

    Vadginator

    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.
  16. 5.00 star(s)

    Maddog321

    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.
  17. 5.00 star(s)

    zarzu661

    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.
  18. 5.00 star(s)

    peter1212

    Okay, so the story is really strange, but that kind of makes it fun. Its really noy realistic, so keep that in mind, but if you dont care about that its great.

    My only problem was the grind, it is real.. But luckily its nothing cheat engine cant fix.

    I would give this 4.5 stars out of 5, but thats not possible, and I dont think 4 is enough, so 5 it is.
  19. 5.00 star(s)

    XwXVioletsXwX

    I love this game so much! The game has amazing characters as well as an amazing story. The combat's great too.

    The sex scenes also feel like they have a place in the world instead of just occurring because they can. Alicesoft did such a wonderful job working on this game
  20. 4.00 star(s)

    myjammies

    A good H-Game balances the "H" and the "Game" aspects well. However, sometimes you get a title like Dohna Dohna which does both well but still ends up being less than the sum of its parts. While the H is absolutely fantastic, the characters are waaaaaay too young for my liking. Almost all of them are lolis and that's just bothersome. On the other hand, the "Game" aspect has a lot going for it, but it overstays it's welcome by about 5x. By the time you're at day 50, the novelty and appeal of managing your girls and doing the dungeon crawls to get more has worn off but you find out that you're not even halfway through the game. Thus, it descends into tedium. It's a great game for a small period of time - so if you're into lolis, funky aesthetics, funky music and can stomach overriding tedium in the gameplay loop, DD is a fantastic title to play.

    The gameplay is divided into two major portions - brothel management and dungeon crawling. The brothel management part is essentially just making sure the women (or girls, I should say) you have keep up their looks, improve their technique, don't let their mentality crash and don't get preggers. You can do this by buying stuff from the shop, or training them by fucking them, or simply talking to them. You have a limited number of actions per turn (or day in the game's parlance). You can improve your capacity (i.e., keep more girls), increase actions and increase effectiveness of items by buying obscenely priced knick-knacks from the shop. The brothel is your only source of income, you get diddly squat from dungeon crawling except women and items so you need to balance dungeon crawling with prostitution. However, the items are priced high, are randomized on every day and you can only buy one of them at a time. This mechanic is initially fun to maneuver around but over time, it gets fairly dull as the girls mentality drops rapidly and often mentality increasing items aren't present leading you to an annoying churn of women. The game expects this but over time it gets awfully annoying. What's worse is that apart from a few select women, most prostitution and training scenes don't have any CGs associated with them. Meaning no reward for min-maxing stats and grinding.

    The dungeon crawling is initially fairly fun. As your party builds up, you can also indulge in some form of strategy i.e. swapping characters out mid battle to conserve MP and use relevant attacks. It's a nice combat system - each character has attacks that can connect within a certain distance so you have to think about battles if you're not grinding. Not too much, but you still have to think. The visuals within battles are fantastic, the voice acting is top-notch and it's a really smooth and rewarding experience ... initially. Over time, you will do the boring battles over and over and over and over again, at least 40-50 times. And it gets super frustrating and the pretty visuals, sounds and special attacks aren't fun anymore.

    To summarize the experience, the gameplay loop is fun but it overstays it welcome by a large amount. If the game was 4x shorter, I would have loved it. I am not averse to long games by any means - I played the fuck out of Eushully's titles. However, the key difference is that the gameplay loop in those games has a lot more to it than the simplistic two-three pronged approach. There is literally nothing else to do in the game and it asks you to repeat the same things way too many times.

    The art itself is fantastic. It's made by a proper studio after all so it's to be expected. Lines are clean and crisp, characters are unique and the funky aesthetic is really memorable. The scenes are also nice. What made me avoid most of them was the younger cast of characters. That's what Alice Soft is all about, but it didn't make it any better for me. There's some heavier themes here which made me somewhat uncomfortable. It wasn't played for laughs as it is normally in H-Games.

    At the end, Dohna Dohna is a fun title to spend some time on. The voice acting outside of H-Scenes is fantastic (in H-Scenes it's the usual AAaaha, mfffffg, ikkkkkuuu), Antenna's combat entry sounds are really fun and playful in particular. The art style is funky and nice. And the BGM is also nice to listen to. The gameplay loop lets the game down.