Swirling through the gutters, I happen to find a rather pixelated gem floating through the refuse. Upon inspecting it I find that it unfortunately is almost beautiful, almost perfect, but is full of many cracks, glares, and spacks that may make a person toss it right back.
Before we get in, I'll say this as a bias, I pretty much gave into dl'ing a full save after about 20 hours of gameplay. I was probably 70 percent of the way through, but I threw in the towel and decided that even with a great premise, a man can only take so much in trying to get the crank. Take that as your first warning as other reviews point out, as this gem is great for what it is, but it takes a H O T minute to get to the good stuff. This is the mother of all slow burners for a corruption game.
Anywho, as always I'll try and be as honest as possible with what comes.
You play as a random girl that suddenly happens upon Magical Girl powers, and through this you discover that there is a separate dimension leaking into ours that causes that good ol' fashion lewd corruption (sound familiar?). In that, you go in, defeat whatever boss the rift has, which then purifies the rift so that society can keep on the keep on. The twist is that to access even more lewd rifts to keep on the magical girl grind, you have to also grind for EP, which at this point might as well stand as erotica points. You on paper, have to become lewder to access more lewd rifts so that you can combat the lewd basically.
For the psychos other players that like a virgin run, there are alternatives to get EP points that don't require anything sexual, but for those that do love the sexy grind, that's essentially the mainstay for the game.
So that's the premise for the game, as for the actual game part, most of it takes place in both an overworld as your regular kinda gal, with the ability to switch to a mirror-world version of it through an ability to turn into your magical girl self (essentially a lewd upside down world, this is how you sniff out rifts). Also, when you switch to said mirror world as a magical girl, either people don't recognize you as your regular self, leading you to do lewd things that your peers wouldn't know about, or they're just shadow versions of themselves that aren't your regular peeps. Irregardless, the more corrupt you get the more you don't need to switch to the mirror world to chase down lewd scenes, the MC just embraces her inner sloot openly. Thus, this overworld is basically just the main hub for chasing down rift points within it's city, while scene chasing in it as well, depending on how corrupted you are.
The dungeon part is when you get into said rifts and go through what amounts to masochism. The levels at first start off nice, you go from one simple scene as seen on the main page to the next through smooth level transitions. You fight rift raft, dodge (or not) erotic traps, and eventually fight a boss. You have a health bar that gets either pummeled by enemies if you get hit by them, or gets chipped away like a stamina meter every time you kill one, if it reaches zero, you get lewded and sent back to the beginning of the level. Rifts themselves are in three parts as you can't save within one, you have the beginning, the middle and the boss (end), all which unlock their own teleport at the beginning of the rift. It sounds simple on paper but there's a major hurdle that this game has.
The levels, as said by other reviews, are mazes. And it dives in deep on the whole maze fiasco, considering that at some point, you will have to memorize door sequences, go through constantly looping segments trying to find the right teleport and/or portal, and slog through ever increasingly challenging enemies. This starts to really stretch out the game, in all the worst ways.
On top of this, there are sometimes ambush parts of the maze (where most of the time you will get a save before then), where you have game over ghosts. These game over ghosts basically kill you back to your previous save without any lewd scene. Why they're there I have no idea but it is very annoying when you do encounter their sections.
All of this combined gets incredibly tedious, as you'll be spending more on trying to figure out where to go, avoiding the GO ghosts, and how to progress in these mazes than actually enjoying what this game does right, corruption over time that isn't just focusing the MC, but the town as a whole.
That in the end is what kept me playing (til I caved for the save), as the more you go through the rifts, the more the premise actually starts to reveal itself. In spite of most games where if there is corruption taking over a town, usually the MC is the only one that gets the short end of the stick on facing that, this time though, as you progress more and more through the story, you start to see the town fall into sexy shambles. People start banging each other openly on the street, wearing a shirt isn't cool anymore, it's fine to have open gangbangs in class and so on and so forth. You're not the only nymphomaniac prowling the streets anymore.
But to get to that beautiful part of the game and witness not just the fall of the MC but the town as a whole, you have to slog through these hellish maze levels (we're talking like, dozens of hours of masochistic gameplay) that stop being fun not even halfway through the game. This game with that just has a major pacing problem, as it is just slooty magical girl shenanigans for the major part of the game (which is still pretty good) until you get to essentially the last 5-10 hours (on the alleged thirty another reviewer points out, which I'm prone to believing) where you can finally experience a fully realized, burgeoning Sodom. This all wouldn't be so bad if you weren't constantly stuck having to suffer through yet another maze level to get through the next lewd story progression.
So as said, this is the mother of all slow burner corruption games. It is immensely enjoyable to see what new scenes have opened up for MC in the overworld, where suddenly you can now start thinking on just initiating a gangbang in an arcade, or have sex with your fellow store patrons as either a slooty magical girl in disguise or letting go finally and doing this all as your realized slooty real self. But to get to that part requires as stated, major time to grind, which, in itself stops being fun when you've gone over twelve hours to obtain the majority of it. If you do like that and want a game to reward you potentially three days worth of gameplay with a slow burner corruption grind, then by all means. But for those wanting not even a quick crank but a nice slow burner that won't overcook you, it's not here.
In the end, I do think it's a great game when it shines as one, but that major pacing problem it has locks away the majority of that shine only when you're in the twilight part of it. If it literally cut away 12-15 hours of it's own game loop, it'd be a wonderful experience, but overall, it's a slog. I want to say 4 for it's lewd content as it is good, but, it's just too sloggy to get there and it is a major caveat you have to chew on if you want to actually enjoy this game. Overall, a nice-ish experience with terrible plumbing, 3/5.
