Others - Completed - Dungeon of Erotic Master Plus [v2.10] [Rusimarudou]

I'm writing this review after finishing the game's main quest in ~15 hours. (My save says 20 hours, but I've left the game open a couple times while eating etc). While this game (I will refer to it as DOEM+) shares a lot of DNA with its predecessor (DOEM), it is a true sequel that improves on the original game in almost every way.

To start, I wanna touch on a few misconceptions I've seen in the thread/other reviews. Some of these may have been true for earlier versions, but I'm reviewing 2.10:

- "Is this a sequel or a remake/DLC?" - This is a sequel to DOEM, not a patch or DLC. It's a new story set after the original game, and features multiple dungeons instead of one deep dungeon

- "This game makes me backtrack a lot" - While there is is a fair bit of backtracking, the game uses Dark Souls-style level design where passing further into a level enables you to open up shortcuts, such as doors that circumvent most of a dungeon floor. Once cleared, most dungeon levels can be traversed with a quick trip between staircases. Also, the dungeons are shallower, only going to about 10 levels instead of the original game's 50 (I think it was 50? 100? I dunno. It was deep!)

- "I can't skip the H animations in combat" - There is an option in the settings which allows you to skip them instantly with a button press whenever you want. I would highly recommend enabling this button; enabling it doesn't mean you always have to use it.

- "I can't save the game" - Doing this is buried behind a menu button, and the non-obvious selection of "Adventure Log". I also mistook this game for an auto-saver the first time I played.

With those out of the way, let's talk about how DOEM+ improves on the original game. For one, it offers additional characters (you now have a party of 4, and the fourth member is a different person in different dungeons, meaning more H-scene variety during combat). Additionally, it has more of a plot and a better sense of direction (as long as you read the dialog). For reference, I gave up on the original DOEM pretty deep into the dungeon because I just couldn't figure out where to go to progress.

This game is also a lot more forgiving than the original DOEM, both in general design as well as the fact that the fourth player gives you a little more leniency when going down in combat. At its core though, the original DOEM's Attack/Skill/Seduce gameplay still applies.

The biggest mechanical twist is "Humiliating Defeat", which was a really good addition. If all the party members are H-attacked at the same time, they are ganged up on by the dungeon's monsters. Rather than leading to a game over however, the characters return to the same spot at 1 hp. Why is this so great? Well, if you are ambushed (ambushed = enemies get to attack first) by a group of monsters with 4+ attacks amongst them, it's possible to have your entire team get H-attacked and instantly defeated in this way. It doesn't happen a lot, but when it happened in the original game (where it would kick you back out the dungeon) was extremely annoying. Also, your healing abilities in this game are very generous, so this feels like a fun piece of H-content and a mild punishment for being unlucky rather than resetting a chunk of progression as it did in the last game.

Although I really enjoyed this game, it still definitely has some flaws:

- The structure is really weird. Mild spoilers:
- The first dungeon dive is kind of "on rails" to introduce the mechanics, but the tutorial felt annoying/confusing/like a waste of time (especially since I played the first game).

- This one is just weird, but the character pictured as the "main girl" on the cover art (Marina, the redhead in the middle) doesn't show up for the first like 4 hours. I thought I was doing something wrong. I wasn't. It's just like that.

- This game shares quite a few assets with the original title. I played the first game a few years ago so it didn't bother me too much, but I definitely wouldn't play this back-to-back with the first one. (To this game's credit though, I'd probably recommend skipping the first one. This title does have more animations, both for the new characters and the original MCs).

- I don't know why defeating enemies through seduction doesn't give XP. I guess it would be kinda OP (since seduction "kills" give 5x money), but this is an H-game and the current balance means that seduction is usually not that useful, especially later in the game. Funny enough, it's most useful to enrage certain enemies so that they don't have sex with you. Make that make sense.

- The main story final boss is way overtuned. I got to the final boss room at level 35. I then spent another 5ish hours grinding to 55 so I could actually beat it. I did run from a lot of encounters, but you kind of need to to make forward progress, especially when you're super outnumbered (which is kinda frequent). The only cool part about this was that during my grinding I discovered a kinda-hidden area with weapons specifically designed to give you a leg up on the final boss. To be fair, I probably should have just tried at level 50, cause it was fairly smooth sailing at level 55 with said gear.

Overall - why do I rate this game five stars? Two days ago, I loaded up my save, which I'd abandoned 30 minutes in, right after the (frustrating) tutorial some months ago. Since then, I have been doing nothing but playing this game for the better part of the last two days. For me at least, this game was digital crack. It's a great game regardless of its H content, and the H content is really good too, so it's a great overall package in my book.
(It's crazy that this game is rated so low when the (inferior) prequel is around 4.5 stars, and the "I just made a Patreon"/"wow this game has great potential" shlock-of-the-month is usually pushing 4+.)

Ultimately - yeah it's good! Give it a try if you have some time; the (main story) difficulty is a little punishing but never unfair.

loved the prequel, i think the other ratings are a little harsh given the nature of this game, overall, they used the older animations + new animations for the characters and increased the variety, animations are actually really good, wish there were more updates and fleshed out story but its a game worth playing

Pluses:
+ Good animations (not a big variety though) both in fuckscenes and cut scenes
+ Personalities of heroines are consistent and held in cutscenes by emotion palette, dialogues and h-scenes

Cons:
Dangerous game design practices that replaces gameplay.
In one word NO CARE about players TIME and proportion of novelty in game progression. Hidden grind as a level and quest design.
- No floor choice - you always start from the 1st
- Unavoidable random encounter battles at each dungeon floor
- No players control of fast travels back to inn during dungeon (have one way base portal once on the floor and forced teleport by plot after which you have to start all the dungeon again)
- H-scenes are not skippable by button (may be only in menu but it will off all of them even the new)
- If you not reacting to 20th time of same 10 second animation there is no fun to beat same pack of NPS's 40th+ time, but you have to
- Non-clear conditions to proceed: need to recrawl all the floors to get sudden new option in dialogue with the NPC you already met and talked
- No autosaves, I lost 7 hours of pretty repetative maze crawling gameplay
- No clear save button (may be no at all) both in dungeon and between
still don't know where to save and don't want to spend more fractions of hours to search.

If all the h-scenes would be a part movie it would be mentionable piece of art. BUt now it just exploits randomness (as Skinner box), hope to see the new scene while forced to re-watch 70+ time the old ones and sunk cost fallacy which makes to continue to get return from an efforts

I'm a fan of dungeon crawlers so I knew what I signed up for.
While the animations are nice, it's not the main focus and is fairly hard to, well, stay hard. But overall it's still a solid lewd, classic dungeon crawler.

The initial Steam release translation is rough but you get the gist of the story, understand what's going on, and what to do next.

Only one major complaint. The 1st dungeon is like the first 1/3rd or 1/4th of the story. After a story point in the 1st dungeon, your progress and items are reset. I would have preferred to know that before hand so that I could have sprinted through it and started making 'actual' progress for the characters.

Difficulty is 'medium' to 'easy.' If you return to base after collecting roughly 20 items while in the dungeon, you'll always have enough gear and money to buy all the gear upgrades and consumables you need.

You go into a dungeon, you seduce monsters and watch repeating animations, that's it. Then you return to human world, sell items and then go back again to let goblins fuck your team.
The only good thing about this game is animations, they are very good, but the gameplay is pretty boring.

Hello! It's me Illidan and it's another review of hgame. Well... This game kinda meh tbh if i say from start... But let's rate it by such categories like : Translation, story, gameplay, hscenes/animations

Let's start!
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Translation 3/5 - Man... TL kinda meh... Does chinese big brother force japanese hgame developers to put mtl english and chinese languages?

Story 1/5 - Man... Rape seems like a normal thing in this world and owner of dungeon, simply allows to kill monsters and leaves adventurers alone if they are incapacitated. As certain someone noted, it deprives any meaning from rape, because everyone shrugs it of as something usual

Gameplay 1-2/5 - Basic dungeon walker with questionable battle system. Man... They could have copy Rance 6 dungeon walking instead of making their own. Like... In one encounter, heroines talk about seducing monsters to ease battle, but they got engraged instead. I ended battle purely by killing them and in the end, they said that seduction was effective(IT DIDN'T WORK). On top of that, this appraisal system, item usage, inability to use healing skills during exploring. It all piles, making you feel like invalid, because healing potions are dogshit(100, 200 heal or full heal for tons of gold)

Hscenes/animations 3-4/5 - The only redeeming thing for this hgame. But at the same time... 2/3 of animations are on meh level. As for gallery menu of playing animations.... It could have been better. Stop... Did i even mention that 3 characters in this game, literally copy past from goblin walker?

Conclusion 2/5 - It's big pass. This game have very primitive battle system, dungeon walking and terrible balance overally. I won't recommend to play it or even watch animations.

I gave this a five star because I am biased and I like this game.

It is basically the same as the first one, with a few improvements.
Two new characters and their corresponding animations are the new H-content. Since this is a sequel, the story takes places after the events of the first game, with new dungeons to explore and new problems to solve.

People complain that it is grindy. I honestly never understood why grind is such a huge problem for some people. If it bothers you that much, cheat. This game is very cheat engine friendly, you can speed up the game, and increase your money and xp too. If you like the grind, or the game makes it enjoyable, then that's cool.

First are foremost this is dungeon crawling game. If you enjoy playing dungeon crawlers, you will most likely enjoy playing this one too.

I like the (few) improvements in comparison to the first game. Even though the animations are great the hentai content isn't the prime draw of the game. It's the nostalgia inducing dungeon crawling. A solid timewaster.

If you just want to see the animations, you can see everything in the guild under gallery, seems everything is unlocked from the start (maybe with the exception of bosses). Confirmed, some monsters have animations you cannot watch in the gallery, there is animation duplicates in the gallery though and the game just crashed on me while using it, so this might be a bug.

Wish it were uncensored but the facial expressions go a long way.

2.07

feels bad to rate this quite low because animations are decent, much improved from previous versions. pixel animations are fine too(although both censored) story is passable... but it's just too grindy. it's not fun to play. and it's very hard to fap to this.

i played previous game so i was not lost but i imagine new players will be lost about multiple functions of the game.

this is definitely a quality game, dev spent lots of time on it.. but very boring.

furthermore sex has no consequence to it at all... girls treat sex like everyday occurrence so the rape aspect of it loses its charm. battlefuck mechanics are just that if enemy does a H-attack then your heroine loses 1turn to rest. (if all heroines are on rest, then you get a "humiliating defeat" meaning you get raped in pixel art... sounds good but done badly imo)

game literally starts that heroines cant even fuck with humans anymore because they got so addicted to monster cock from 1st game... it lost all its charm for me.

2/5 rating is purely based on fun + porn aspect of the game. and i think that's mediocre.

the quality is nice so you might like it, but it's grindy and too frequent enemy spawning on you gets tiring pretty quickly, so this game is like a "cookie clicker" extreme time waster game with a story but with just for-fun added H-content to it.