barony sengia continues their tradition of making pretty fun games, but mediocre porn
The game consists of a world map with a base, a party member recruitment hub, and dungeons. You purchase and select party members, buy consumables, and upgrade your stats at the hub, along with some banter options. You mostly just level up and rest at the base. The meat of the game would be the dungeons, which are organized kind of like a game board, but with free movement along the paths. As you navigate the dungeons you pick up loot, which usually just converts into gold, and fight enemies wandering around the game board squares
Combat involves both sides automatically trading attacks based on their stats, your stats being determined by your party's total, and interjecting with active skills, again determined by your party member choices. Each party member brings 1 active and 2 passive abilities, which can heal, buff, debuff, or just do damage. It’s more interesting than that, and there seems to be potential to find fun, satisfying combos. Even if you just unga bunga with mostly your default party, choosing the timing for these active skills can be pretty engaging
The ability to mostly deal with anything with your starting party is a double-edged sword, however. It might be good news for those who aren’t looking to flex their gaming skills, but it hurts the aforementioned potential depth of strategy. There's no penalty for grinding as well. I prefer it when you don’t have to self-impose limits in order to achieve an entertaining level of challenge, but it’s pretty easy to steamroll by trying to optimize, which means planning a comp just doesn't matter as much as it could
The other problem is the porn. It’s mostly divided into hub orgies and a rape scene roughly per dungeon. I know art is subjective, but I really don’t find barony sengia’s art style kinky, and unfortunately the other aspects don’t elevate it. It’s all very cliche and disconnected and vanilla, with some voiced lines but no animation. The titular dragon wyrmling you play as starts out as naive but open-minded, and kinda gets scenes of escalating intensity, but there’s no real sense of stakes or juicy corruption. Your new female party members tend to be introduced getting raped in a dungeon, but it's more clinical than depraved, and everyone forgets that immediately, and they show up for hub orgies to spout some lines you’ve seen a thousand times before as they get pounded, then they’re gone. No continuity, consequences, or character development/exploration, which is the key to great female protagonist games beyond escalation of sex acts
Other than that, the lore is kind of interesting, but the story, writing, characterization is comparatively light and sort of there. Cute and somewhat charming, but just okay.
tl;dr: check it out as a game, skip if you want to nut
The game consists of a world map with a base, a party member recruitment hub, and dungeons. You purchase and select party members, buy consumables, and upgrade your stats at the hub, along with some banter options. You mostly just level up and rest at the base. The meat of the game would be the dungeons, which are organized kind of like a game board, but with free movement along the paths. As you navigate the dungeons you pick up loot, which usually just converts into gold, and fight enemies wandering around the game board squares
Combat involves both sides automatically trading attacks based on their stats, your stats being determined by your party's total, and interjecting with active skills, again determined by your party member choices. Each party member brings 1 active and 2 passive abilities, which can heal, buff, debuff, or just do damage. It’s more interesting than that, and there seems to be potential to find fun, satisfying combos. Even if you just unga bunga with mostly your default party, choosing the timing for these active skills can be pretty engaging
The ability to mostly deal with anything with your starting party is a double-edged sword, however. It might be good news for those who aren’t looking to flex their gaming skills, but it hurts the aforementioned potential depth of strategy. There's no penalty for grinding as well. I prefer it when you don’t have to self-impose limits in order to achieve an entertaining level of challenge, but it’s pretty easy to steamroll by trying to optimize, which means planning a comp just doesn't matter as much as it could
The other problem is the porn. It’s mostly divided into hub orgies and a rape scene roughly per dungeon. I know art is subjective, but I really don’t find barony sengia’s art style kinky, and unfortunately the other aspects don’t elevate it. It’s all very cliche and disconnected and vanilla, with some voiced lines but no animation. The titular dragon wyrmling you play as starts out as naive but open-minded, and kinda gets scenes of escalating intensity, but there’s no real sense of stakes or juicy corruption. Your new female party members tend to be introduced getting raped in a dungeon, but it's more clinical than depraved, and everyone forgets that immediately, and they show up for hub orgies to spout some lines you’ve seen a thousand times before as they get pounded, then they’re gone. No continuity, consequences, or character development/exploration, which is the key to great female protagonist games beyond escalation of sex acts
Other than that, the lore is kind of interesting, but the story, writing, characterization is comparatively light and sort of there. Cute and somewhat charming, but just okay.
tl;dr: check it out as a game, skip if you want to nut