RPGM - Ephemeral Gate [v0.351] [Wr1ckad]

this game clearly had effort put into it. Fleshed out dialogue and different paths with a lot of quests but, theres like 1 new h scene per hour of gameplay lmao. Usually when i play these games and see that theres detail in the dialogue and art it means the game is going to get me immersed and the h scenes will be better because of it. This game stands as an anomaly, like i dont understand why this game was created like it was.

There are these great companion characters, and like, In these types of games a party system with multiple female characters that all have dialogue written for them is a rarity, but despite a seemingly infinite amount of buildup and bond making with the companions theres barely any h scenes with said characters. Why is the world so needlessly large. There is just a seemingly endless amount of buildup for this story and like nothing sexual. Dont get me wrong its fine to have a story in an h game, but no one actually gives a shit about the story. Why is the only direction im given when trying to find new scenes is to "explore the map" when theres literally no fucking npcs to get h scenes from. Typically when im playing an rpgmaker game like this and theres this large world theres npc's scattered about that result in some form of h scene after talking to them. Why is there absolutely no npcs like that. Why is there so much detail relating to the characters yet the only way to get them to take their clothes off requires me to play a 3 hour bandit beater and listen to the npc's ramble on about some stupid fucking plot. No one, and i mean not a soul on this earth is playing a porn game for the story.

Genuinely it probably takes a good 3 hours of gameplay to see a scene with a character in your party that involves them doing anything sexual. Its like finding a needle in a haystack, like i just cant comprehend how this game looked so good from the start but theres no actual substance.

No one gives a dogs dick about playing a porn rpg if you need to play 3 hours to unlock the porn. I want to open up the game, feel immersed and jack off. This game is great at making you feel immersed, but it i dont give a flying fuck in getting THAT immersed over a porn game. I sound furious in this review but honestly i just cant wrap my head around the philosophy this game was made around. It seems so good in some regards but theres no effort put in other aspects of the game.

Ephemeral Gate [v0.351]

It was wonky, buggy, tedious, boring and just completely drawn out experience. Tho, there wasn't even that much of a content, when we consider alll the padding and time wasted. I wasn't expecting much when I started playing it, but dev really outdone himself, such boring RPGM game you won't find everyday. Try it only, if you REEEEEEEEEEEAAAAALLYYYYY like HS.

Story - ~0.6-2/5
Choices/Gameplay - 1/5 boring RPGM, brrr!
Characters - ~1.6/5
MC - ~0,5/5 D-tier Anime MC in its finest
Models/Animations - ~3.2/5

A little early to rate this as there's still much of the game to be developed, but for v0331, what's here is quite good. I like the characters. I like the story. I like the challenge level of fights. I like the buildup of erotic scenes. There's some good world building here so far, and the side events are fun even if you may want to reload to an earlier save afterward to pretend like they never happened. Looking forward to more, and hopefully this one will get completed.

Overall okey, renders and pacing are decent, characters look good aswell as of now the game is a solid 3.3 but if the dev continues to improve his work this game can easily be a 4. I hope the dev keeps on working on this work without giving up hope, and the reason I gave it a 5 is cuz this game has potential but if doesn't live upto my expectation I might change my personal rating later.

I'm looking forward to the future of this game. All the female characters are attractive. Especially Kasumi is really cute and attractive. I want to see a lot of Kasumi's ntr. And it's even better because it's optional ntr. And the plot of the game is so much fun. Please keep adding a lot of ntrs and updating them. Especially Kasumi ntr. I really want to see a lot of Kasumi ntr. It's one of the top 5 games I've ever played

Tried it and it was ok fun but it dident last long, i just got tierd of bugs and the slow progress, i got my MC to lvl 11 but i couldent since i had quests to find to people that was nowhere to be found and another quest to collect 6 flowers, but it only counted 1 of the flowers i picked up and since things dont respawn i couldent finish that quest either, pretty sure storyline got stuck since i cant get anywhere with the adventure guild since quests arent complete.
At another thing, if you talk to your maid after gives you a BJ, it can get stuck in the text so when you click back it dosent go back so you cant do anything but close game down, small thing but it all adds up.

I think game is mostly focused on NTR path since none NTR dosent have much, and the progress with your group/girls is proberly tied to quests since i could only do one date and then all other dates where blacked out.

If the game got the bugs fixed and got some animations then it could have good potential, but as it is now i wouldent waste the time on it.

The quest guide arent that good either.

Fighting stuff is ok, but its slow and boring as fuck when your running in an area with low lvl things that attacks ya so your forced to fight for no xp no reward just waste of time and it happens alot.

I might revisit this game for another try and change my review for the better but untill it dosent have game breaking bugs i cant really recommend it.

4/5 but I would add +1 for the amount of efforts.

In general, for an RPGM engine, the game is pretty good.

GAMEPLAY: This aims for a standard role-playing game + dating simulator. Everything is pretty common for this genre: hand-guided prologue and grind. No less, no more. You kill mobs, you grind, you move the story. You talk, you give gifts, you go on dates. For an NTR-keen player, it's possible to control the girls from the harem and activate relevant events. It would be nice to have other than NTR events as well during such control, but it depends on the dev.

COMBAT: Everything within the standards. The character development system is simplified, and therefore feels more balanced.

STORY: Also rather standard for a heroic male fucker. Not that great in logic (the only decent of the royal line traveling with a bit of guards -- that's pure nonsense, of course). However, it's a player who decides whether they want a story to unfold or not, this is a big plus. Another big advantage is the developer trying to present alternative ways to pass a quest. Much better than most railroaded kinetic stuff released nowadays.

TEXT: As usually, I skipped most of the irrelevant stuff, and I still noticed some weird non-native phrase constructions (e.g. something with "familiarity") -- but at least nothing that cries for a reviewer.

GRAPHICS: Not to my taste. Still, the 3d models don't induce vomiting as well.

In its current state it is pretty unplayable. I think this must be the developer's first game and probably their first experience coding period, but even considering that it's too much to overlook.

+ The writing is not bad at all. Good English and a sensible plot.

- BUGS EVERYWHERE.
- This style of model isn't really my cup of tea. The females still look okay despite that, pretty good actually, but males are extremely bad in almost an uncanny valley sort of way.
- I'm a good hour and a half in and still no real sex scenes. Either they aren't implemented yet and therefore the tags are a lie and my time was wasted, or they are so few and far between that I probably will not bother. The writing is good but not THAT good.

There is no direction for the player to where to go to a location through a journal or quest log, You have to rely on the characters or npcs dialogues to where abouts is the next destination. And even that is no help either, just a generic conversation that gives a zero hint of where to next; one example is I need to sort out a rebellion of gangs in the eastern district, I talked to the commander, then I tried going north, the characters had a little talk & thats it... cant go north because he has something else to do....

Visually it doesn't seem bad, but the story is somewhat hackneyed and without creativity.

It's in RPGM so be prepared to go 30 laps before seeing a sex scene and having to fight every 2 minutes to level up, so be prepared for the grind.

At the sex level, it is another game that has no better idea than combining harem and ntr due to a lack of ingenuity, trying to please everyone, so that in the end no one likes it.

Maybe someone would like to spend their time on this, but being realistic if you look for ntr it will be very short and if you don't like the ntr this will bother you.

Conclusion: if you're fine with ntr (but you're not actively looking for it), if you like sandbox and turn-based combat and you've already played everything on this page, this might appeal to you.

I am only giving a 3 star because of how boring and repetitive and tedious things get pretty quickly.

There is no resting option, as such, you're limited to using consumables/skills, or pay a rather large amount of gold to recover.

This makes the whole thing quite bothersome and very slow, litterally killing the flow of the game, by forcing you to head back to church, or buy enough consumables to recover.

The combats, are extremely slow, and fairly long. This is due to how many characters are in your party, how many enemies are around, and how, generally speaking, low the dps is compared the enemies' hp.

Add to that, that you'll have enemies every couple of meters, on sizeable maps, it can take a very long time to fight off everything, and in all honesty, is barely worth the effort.

I had to edit the save to get me up to L25 or so, just to cut down on combats by one shoting most mobs, even so, it would still take a fairly long time to clear a map.

Graphically, the game, while it is in fullhd, the picture's quality is still fairly low in my opinion. It's not, bad, but it certainly could look better.

In several hours, the only sex I have seen, was a NTR event, and I had to look for it pretty hard as well, since the maps are so big, finding the events, is also fairly boring.

As for the MC, he only saw a panty and some boobs... Which considering the amount of hours and the style of the game, is way too little in my opinion.

The story itself seems ok enough, and the characters are fairly typical, but they seem fine.

The writing is not stellar, but is more than acceptable.

I stopped playing due to an error that crashed the game, and I'm just not in the mood to redo all the shit I just did (there seems to be no autosave either.)

The game is not bad, but it certainly could be better.