Unity - Completed - Dusk City [Steam] [Suteneko Lab.]

I'm honestly disappointed. This game should've been a normal game, not an h-game; but its not good enough to be a normal game so it ended up having to be an h-game. The art drew me in while the beautiful world and pixel art kept me there, but the entire time I was thinking, "when is this going to get good?"

Good:
- The small and large pixel h-scenes are glorious. Even if you don't plan on playing this game, downloading a full save to experience the pixel scenes is worth the effort.
- The characters are visually appealing and well proportioned.
- The world art is beautiful. This game is visually appealing to play and explore.

Bad:
- The standard CGs are lackluster and, in some cases, not good. It's genuinely disappointing when you read the description of the h-scene and see that it's a standard CG instead of a pixel one. If you told me the CGs were made with AI, I wouldn't doubt you for a second.
- Some girls who are visually appealing, such as the mechanic's older sister, only have one solo scene. If you're going to have some "one and done" characters, make them plain instead of erotic. The mechanic's older sister, hidden farmer, and the receptionist are incredibly wasted designs. Hell the farmer doesn't even have a scene.
- The mechanic threesome scene (a standard CG) is disappointingly bad, not just because it's a standard CG but because the art is completely off from the overworld character designs.
- The story doesn't give enough to make you invested in the world or characters, playing the game just feels like going through the motions. Additionally, when it ends it just kinda ends. No build up, no climax, no falling action. It's just there.
- The gameplay is painful. Movement is slow, combat is chunky, and the platforming is annoying.
- Breaks rule #1 of h-games: Must be playable with one hand. I'm here to have a good time, not make a mess of my keyboard.
- No quest log and no direction. If you miss a line of where to go, you're going to be lost.
- Has a pointless "feature" to recharge your cum. It's annoying as shit.

General Scores:
Hentai Quality: 4/5 - This would be a perfect score if not for the CGs. However, the pixel scenes are so good it gets a four.
Hentai Quantity: 4/5 - There's a good amount of porn.
Sex Buildup: 2/5 - There is minimal reasonable build-up to sex. Some girls will follow logical escalation (bj -> titjob -> sex) but other will let you go balls deep in their pussy as soon as you meet.
Gameplay: 2/5 - The gameplay is painful. Movement is slow, combat is chunky, and the platforming is annoying and not fun.
UI and QOL: 2/5 - The UI is great but my god the controls are awful, honestly the worst controls in any h-game I've ever played.
Story Quality: 2/5 - There is a story but its bland as can be.
Character Writing: 2/5 - The Witch carries this score as she's the only character who has a smidge of development/exploration.
Sex Logic: 2/5 - A generous two out of five. The Witch fucks you for story reasons, but the rest of the girls throw themselves at you simply for being the only man in town and doing them one favor.
Sex Text: 2/5 - Too much sex text, I don't need to read onomatopoeia for 5 minutes.
Recollection Room: 4/5 - The CG room is unlocked as you go and the pixel room is unlocked once you beat the game. However, the pixel room lacks the overworld locations which takes away some of the appeal of the pixel h-scenes.

This game is an instance of an idea being better than the reality. It is 100% worth downloading for the pixel h-scenes, but it's questionable if it is worth downloading to actually play.

Its a serviceable 2-3 hour long metroidvania with some clear inspriations from megaman legends. Since most of the eye themed robots are very much like a mix of hyper light drifter meets MML reaverbots. Same artstyles and all. Its mostly linear and you will have most of the items just playing normally if you have an IQ over room temp. Not a difficult map to navigate and you can get some items early, which means you wont trigger the events at the shopkeep for some weapons like the laser beam, until the postgame. Worldbuilding is nonexistent and literally just copies elements of Megaman Legends plot play by play. Especially with the several consoles needing to be turned on to grant the player admin access and unlock the final boss fight.

However its just meh. It ends abruptly with the dev shrugging and saying "yeah, the game ends here." while you will be like "THATS IT?". They also don't tell you the god damn controls. V is the special weapon attack button and you cycle through them with S. All you need to care about is the drill. Park your ass next to the boss, and let her rip. It basically refunds any "ammo" it uses for killing standard enemies too making it effectively replace the shitty lantern weapon from the start of the game. 10 second or less boss fights. This includes the final boss. Dont even bother with anything else. Every weapon compared to the drill hits like a wet noodle. The only redeeming parts of this game were the pixel art and that the dev allows you to roam around in the postgame collecting all the animations and items you missed. Also the drill having a rediculously long several second windup animation that locks you in place and leaves you vulnerable to enemy attacks is just unacceptable. Its a very jank and clunky platformer because of bad design like this.

There is also no quest log or waypoints beyond showing where you are on the map, and sometimes even that is unreliable if you find your way into side rooms. Absolute failure at basic game design with combat that is shitty even for a metroidvania with a pathetic "lantern" that has a shorter max range than pissing with a boner and you can't crouch to hit smaller enemies. Relying on the lantern's passive and unreliable aim assist to hit them instead if you dont just decide to fly right over them with the nier automata drone.

As for the sex? Limited to cumming 4 times and having to go park your ass on a park bench to recharge them. The pixel art is good for the few scenes that have it, but the cg scenes look ai generated. Its really fucking annoying to just get "oops! you came more than four times! cant have sex right now!" and the sex animations lasting about 5 seconds max. As they don't tell you this alongside the basic control scheme of the game, but they expect you to toggle the cum meter. Because your character will have already cum at least twice before you go to reach down there will your hand.

3/5. Its an meh game with some effort put into the porn and half of it looking like ai cg for whatever isnt animated pixel art. A forgettable and short metroidvania not worth playing through more than once.

I have mixed feelings about this one. Let's start with the high point of the game: The pixel art, It makes the world to alive and the animations, wow some of the best I've seen in a NSFW game. There are also non pixel art CGs but they are subpar in comparison (One thing I appreciate is that you can usually see what kind of NSFW event you're going to get so yo can choose to avoid the ones you don't like). In my honest opinion: H Large > H small > CG.

The story is just ok, nothing of note and I didn't get invested in the characters. And then there's the gameplay... It hurts. Movement is slow, the combat looks and feels horrible and the platforming sections are painful. I just wanted them to end to get to the next cg.

I will go back to it for the excellent gallery but I would not recommend to engage with it more than that.

I like the design, I enjoy running around and killing monsters and I like getting rewards from the women I helped with their quests.

Speaking of, the game is mainly about exploring, collecting and killing stuff while doing the mentioned quests- and since the game does NOT provide any help with either a quest log nor waypoints (you even DO have access to a map, but it is completely useless!), you will always have to run around the city (or even through the dungeons!), searching for ANYthing to trigger your next quest. This is annoying AF. And was the main reason to downvote this game.

So, 2 stars for the "entertainment section", and 1 star for the gameplay. I would have liked it even more if much of the lewd stuff wasn't just slideshows of pictures- the animated scenes are SO much better!

It's a shame, could have been so much better.

I don't care how good the porn is. You don't make a platformer where you jump with X and roll with SPACE. Fuck that shit. Ain't nobody got time for dumb controls like that. Plus the movement and controls felt clunky as hell.

Finish the game, the art is very great, having both pixels animation and cg, character having voices make it even better.

Gameplay was alright, no lag , a bit lacking in variaty of attack options,
could be better but still ok, just that after the ending for whatever reason my game was almost completely dark, manage to work around it after a while though

Story was eh and short, too many unanswered questions and the ending was abrupt, to put it nicely

Overall still one of the better games that I have played here though, so I'll definitely recommend anyone to try it

Poor MTL and some glitches hamper what would otherwise be easily the best exploratory game I've played in a bit. It's simple and straight forward with some funny references to some games (devs are clearly fans of 2B and of Elden Ring). The fact that it's not some shitty VN may filter some, as one needs to have patience to really explore and unlock all the content, but that's what 100% saves are for anyhow.
I hope someone finds and translates this or the devs at some point toss some money toward getting their work translated because it's a gorgeous game otherwise.

hug > cried > i don't wanna be horni, i just wanna be happy

probably the best H game i've ever played, you definitely need a good headphone to enjoy the game to the fullest because the audio is so good, even though the MTL are a bit confusing sometimes (it doesn't really bother me since i knew a bit japanese)

Edit: official english is out

*sigh*

The game is boring and repetitive and the story is almost incomprehensible, due to a very bad MTL.

And yet... the H-Scenes made my brain rot from pleasure.
For this reason 4/5.

The only good thing about this game is the h scenes. Everything else is lacking.

Huge empty areas solely for walking through. Boring combat. Frequent loading screens. Story? Yeah, good luck getting anything from the machine-translation. By and far though, the biggest sin this game commits is just being so damn boring. It's just big areas sprinkled with some enemies that are extremely easy to defeat.

Positive:
-Gameplay fun, simple platformer with unique and interesting bosses(sky whale went hard as FUCK)
-Art looks absolutely great especially on the pixel art
-straight forward, not complicated
Negatives:
-MTL

A well crafted game
Lot's of good scenes from classic CG style to animated pixel art.
Whilst the story is MTL, it's relatively simple to understand the story of the game.
You can play the game straightforward or go out getting every chest or secret item to unlock more scenes.
For the studio's introductory work it's a good start and hopefully they continue to work more on this game as it's got a good base which can be developed more.
Starring the same artists who worked on "Summer~Life in the Countryside~" if you liked that style I highly recommend.

Very good balance between sexual content and actual gameplay. The art is clean and enticing with a mix of static CG's and animated scenes and you unlock scenes with story progression which keeps you hooked. The main characters are voiced in japanese and done so professionally. The gameplay is solid for an adult game. The only thing that may be lacking is a proper english translation but I had no problems with understanding whats going on in the conversations.

-good art style
-decent gameplay(could be better if i could remap keys,playing with Z X C isn't the best experience on pc)
-good sex animation,tho i dislike how the semen disappear instantly,if you could stack multiple when you cum on repeat would be hotter
-ok cg i guess,it's mtl so looking at a picture with broken english ain't getting me horny
why is 3 star then? because it doesn't make me horny as a porn game,it just isn't there i don't feel any progression it's lifeless,it has a story and good art but since it's mtl it literally doesn't matter
it could be 4/5 or 5/5 with good english translation but with mtl it can't be more than 3/5 imo when the art by itself doesn't turn me on like some god tier ntr art

I gave it this rating because they are overrating the game and dismissing all its problems. The game is good but its maximum should be 4 stars, if we compare this game with Eve's Quest it has many points in favor but at the same time many against. The art is very good and the erotic scenes too, but I feel that the game is not finished because there are rooms that are empty and characters that exist but do not contribute anything, also there are places that do not make sense like the greenhouse.

The gamplay is very good but it is not enjoyable at all, they add synergies for combat but it still doesn't feel fun to play. Most of the time I spent ignoring enemies when I could. And the map is horrible, it has parts that have no border and it confuses you into thinking that it is an unexplored area (this should never happen in a metroidvania style game) there are games like this that are worse but they do not have this problem or they simply do not put the map. You spend your time going around and trying things and it's very tiring, to be honest if this game didn't have erotic scenes no one would touch it.

The story is strange, I only came to understand that it is post-apocalyptic and that what you explore are laboratories that were left in ruins but I don't understand why there is magic. It also doesn't help that the texts fade 80% after seeing them once and you can only read 2 words.

The scenes are varied and have several in almost all the characters, they come with pixel art, images and animations (it is the only good thing about this game), I did not like the concept of randomly searching the ruins to unlock the scenes,

Finally I think that it is a good game but it was too ambitious and has many problems because of this (since they have a little of everything but the only good thing are the scenes)

This game is perfect: 5/5

The good:
-Fun to play: the dificulty is bearable and no grinding is needed, you can just evade the enemies for the most part. The controls are acceptable and the skills and tools are not bad
-The art: one of the best pixel games out there. You can see scenes with simple sprites and pixel art whole scenes, plus normal art.
-The characters: good variety of roles, personalities and bodies
-The story: not too deep, but interesting

The bad:
Not a game flaw, but the BepInEx is horrible. Not because of the translation but because in my case, the second time i viewed any text, it was cutted.

The ugly:
There were a few side girls that seemed to have a scene but not (farmer, and Osen girls)

Anyways: 5/5

awesome pixelart and animations, the gameplay is great too, there is a lack of enemies varietes, the powerups works pretty good, if i was needed to walk slow the entire gameplay i dont think that i will finish the game, waiting updates and more girls

This game's h-content is amazing but it is hampered by the shitty mtl translation (not to the game maker's fault), and the gameplay is too simple and time consuming for its own good.

The MTL implemented is not elegant - it is simply the basic BepInEx plugin that feeds translated text into the game and replaces the japanese text with english. You have to wait for the english text to fill in the textbox, there will be translation cut off, context is not considered, and the lines themselves are barely legible. Also, for some reason the way this plugin is installed it adds loading time when booting the game which I have not seen in other implementations. This greatly hampers the potential enjoyment of the game and if this was one of your primary concerns before playing then I would wait for something of a higher standard before playing the game.

The gameplay of this game revolves around exploring a town to meet new characters to fuck and advancing the story by delving through a large metroidvania dungeon to find artifacts and scrap parts to make new weapons. Every map in this game is 3-4 times larger then it has to be - probably trying to create the atmosphere of how large the environment is but it really sucks to have to walk around it. When an upgrade exists to make you walk at mach 5 speed and a jump upgrade that lets you scale skyscrapers crackdown-style maybe you should've just made the maps smaller in the first place.

Enemies can be easily ignored. Bosses can also be ignored entirely and you can loot the treasure they're guarding quite easily - beating them isn't hard at all either. The bosses are big and impressive to look at, however. There is a vital upgrade to unlock parts of the map locked behind finding scrap from chests that a character can turn into a weapon that will be the "key" to the "lock", but otherwise loot is mostly pointless. So all in all trying to actually play the game will be a shallow experience compared to what you might get from other games in a similar genre.

With these two factors in mind, I experienced a point in the near-endgame when the mtl was too annoying and skipped past it which had vital details to how to unlock the last dungeon, but because the game was too boring for me I quit then and there - i wasn't worth it to try and brute force my way through the dungeon or find the answer in the town. So now I will talk about the only reason why you'd want to play this game - the h-content.

This game features an expansive list of h-content to enjoy - fully voiced cg scenes, pixel animations both in-map and full screen, with the main girl alone having 11 animations and 9 cgs. Not to mention, pretty much every girl you'll meet will be included in at least one animation or cg scene. No stone is unturned.

The last thing I'll mention is that interestingly, this game foregoes having any bgm most of the time, leaving you silently exploring dungeons and the town with just the sound of your character running around. This, coupled with the always-night time and cyberpunk x rural x fantasy environment creates an individual mood that feels carefully crafted and a rare experience to have in an h-game. It also makes the boss bgm and the bgm that plays when resting at a bench particularly impactful.

Because there is so much quality in the h-content of this game and this game really tries hard to build a certain aesthetic and mood, I can overlook how bad everything else is and recommend this game as something worth at least trying out before you inevitably get bored/frustrated and grab a full save.

the animations are great, characters are sexy asf. a little bit tedious to unlock the next animations due to the translation being all over the place so you kind have to scrounge through the entire map just to get them "artifacts" (what you need to unlock the next animations), but it's worth it, nonetheless.

10/10 animations, good scene variety but I can't help but wish some characters got more screentime. Not much else to say about them other than the filler CG that's there should have been replaced with animations too.

9/10 characters, pretty hot npcs and not much else to say there, the enemy designs especially can be really cool when they want to be but that little crab robot thing gets used an awful lot.

7/10 gameplay, very tolerable metroidvania experience but levels often feel pretty flat and samey. Lots of fast travel and faster movement options open up to keep this from becoming too much of an issue.
Some bosses pretty much auto-hit you and you can see the devs have spotted this and nerfed their damage output to only tickle. Doors also hold you up a smidge every time you're moving faster than your standard walk speed which you'll notice a lot later on. There's way worse out there but the experience isn't smooth or satisfying, and simply hitting stuff by holding out a lantern and waiting for it to reload its bullets is pretty shit.

6/10 atmosphere, graphically everything looks impressive and the world is certainly unique but at the same time things feel pretty cobbled together out of random elements.

6/10 sound, the audio tells enemies make are super clear and distinctive but for some reason a lot of character voices are quieter than they should be.