RPGM - Completed - Ethereal Sunder [v1.3] [Wove Wolf]

[v0.11]
Even with the game having obvious faults, this is the most enjoyable and interesting "standard" heroine-game I've played in a long time.

The setup of the game and the story is very standard, with the "pure" heroine being stranded in a "corrupted" and dangerous place while being pressured to do dirty things to survive. The writing or assets for the scenario are nothing out of the ordinary for this type of RPGM-game.

However, what the game absolutely nails is it's MC. The characterization for Eilayda is built on standard tropes, with her being haughty, naive, sheltered X000-year old fairy-girl, but the game does a distinctly good job of never making those qualities detrimental to her character. She isn't made too stupid naive, or arrogant to be in a nominal position of power (or walk and chew gum at the same time), and she reacts to the plot and other characters fairly realistically, having an internal dialogue of trying to understand their motives and moderate her response accordingly. The end result is that she feels like a likeable, believable protagonist. The bar is very low for good H-game heroines, and Eilayda clears it with meters to spare. Sometimes, that's a sign that the story is going to do something pretty brutal to the MC next, but I'm sort of hoping that isn't the case in the finished version...

The game does a decent job of having interesting gameplay-systems, with many custom minigames made within the limits of the RPGM-engine. It also makes an attempt at having an original character-building system, in having the heroine's mana be used as both "exp." and a combat-resource, while also limiting your healing. However... this might also be an example of why these systems might not be that great of an idea...

As much as I enjoy the heroine and the concept, I have to agree that the game is very grindy. The amount of content in the current version is still pretty low, and there is enough things to do for one daily cycle of minigames to do, as you slowly grind up more mana and daily gold to clear just the second dungeon. The game makes the choice to stricktly limit your healing to once-per day, with no repeatable healing-spell, and then designs the dungeons to have combat that is stricktly detrimental to you, that needs to be cleared over multiple runs through. In short, the grind is pretty annoying, and the slow-corruption doesn't have enough tools or events in yet to make it interesting. (Not that I dislike the the slow pacing of the corruption itself) And, of course, the current version lacks a major payoff for all the grind, and it will no doubt be more annoying the second time.

On the art-front the game isn't doing anything amazing, though the quality is still good overall. Only the main character having unique art, without particularly many frills like extra facial expressions. As I said before, the amount of scenes is currently kind of low, and besides the welcome hints of MC-sadism, there isn't anything particularly unique about them.

In short, the game is mostly held up by how much you like the MC, who's a pretty likeable character, especially for the archetype. It's unfortunate that the game doesn't seem to be heading toward breaking the mold of heroine games, but if you don't mind the sameyness with many games that have come before, this is a well-above average iteration.

A nice slow going corruption, cute female protagonist and a really not too shaby story. It's a clear yes for me and I'm always looking forward to the next update. The battle system is a bit odd at first but it's getting regularly updated and improved.

A lot of the low reviews seem like they didn't read the mana system and are just bad at the game as I have no idea how you could run out of HP potions. Or they talk about some bugs that I have never seem so idk if they were fixed what they are on about.

The actual game, by which I mean the porn in the porn game is great. Nothing fancy like animation but the art, pacing, situations and writing are all great. Not to mention the " petite" protaganest if you know what I mean. We don't get all that many of these kind of games that are actually decent so you are goddamn right it is a 5/5

Some might say the updates are slow, I would say they are amaturs who don't know the meaning of a game actually having slow updates. Other might complain about "stock" enemy art or some other kind of nonsense, I say who gives a damn, don't waste dev time on useless art like that and focus on the good porn part. I saw some talk about it being "grindy," again I don't know who these people are but the "grind" in this game is a few minutes at worst and comes with your choise of mini game.

Now for combat, yes that is a weak part of the game. It is typical borning turnbased stuff, but I have seen far worse and im not here looking for the next RPG maker inovator in fun combat, you just push through it easy enough and move on. (I am a big fan of having H content in / during combat though, so if the dev wants to add a bit of that in, then the game would be even better)

It's crazy that this game is not rated 5 stars. It has the potential to be one of the best RPGM corruption games ever made. The art, the lewd scenes, the overall structure of the game and the corruption progress are all superb, all very nicely done. Althought it's still at an early stage(development started only 7 months ago after all) you can clearly see that it's gonna be brimming with content in a very short time, considering the developer's work pace - he releases a new build every month with atleast one h-scene(it's usually more than one). Really hard not to recommend.

This is an.amazing slow burn corruption female MC game, there's a bunch of lewd scenes already in the game , mini games and battle system.are fun as well, game gets updated on the first Friday of every month

Review for Version 0.6.1

Game in and of itself has a solid premise for itself and can be quite if the author won't decided to derail everything that's been set so far. I'd honestly say that if enough of both love and horny ( from author ) put into the game it can achieve an amazing heights, that I very much hope to see. In simple points.

Gameplay - Set up of the game is rather interesting. With the resource management between gold and mana it's fun and not too challanging to keep up with what you need.

Character - She's very cute and has a rather specific art style. It's always nice nowadays to get a character that is varied in look to the rest of the genre and not just a pair of tits with legs. Variety is a spice of life, after all!

Combat - It is in and of itself quite simple. Triangle reminds me a lot of the Fire Emblem series. To a point it's just too simple. I'd deeply recommend adding in mid-battle lewds and cut-ins or even sex-based attacks and stances, so it's not just player clicking one and the same button every time.

UI - It's not clattered. Simple and easy to understand, thankfully.

Lewd - It's so far the main weakpoint of the game. With those few updates it doesn't seem like much has changed and those who come here only for that should honestly wait for a bit longer. At the pace the possible lewd development it's going it's going to take a good few months to achieve any meaningful level lewdity in the game unless author will swap their attention onto it.

Over all, the game is in it's infancy and probably will be for a while but has a huge promise that I hope will be fulfilled. I have only best wishes for author and hope that one day - once it's sufficently developed - the game will become a big hit.

Ethereal Sunder [v0.18.2]
[Wove Wolf]
The vote for now remains a 4/5.
If the initial version seemed promising, now I confirm everything, it is a game that has the things I like and avoids the things I do not appreciate.

A good rpgmaker game without scenes with monsters (thank goodness), a slow corruption, repeatability that does not bore (except the dungeons, those are not exactly incredible, the fights are less strategic and more poorly done than I thought, thank goodness they can be avoided).

Does the game have bugs? Yes, for example the dance quests are poorly made. If you try to interact from above with the female NPC, the game freezes, since the itinerary of this NPC is programmed to go above, not being able to do this, it freezes everything and you have to forcefully close the game and restart from the last save.

I recommend the game!

Nice this game has very great potential, especially in terms of developing the eroticism of the main character, as well as a frantic grind in which the choice of an erotic outcome will seem logical. I hope that the author will add elements of costume changes and events associated with them. The most important thing is that I will tell others about the progress of the game and we will support the project.

This has great potential, and I can't wait for more scenes and scene variation. I don't think we've had a loli porn game with the "What does she think about ____" mechanic yet so that's a real plus, and I like th main girl's haughty personality.

Perhaps the grind could be lessened, but I have a feeling it will start to feel like less of a grind once more scenes are added.

i totally recommend this game because the main character is so appealing not only in term of appearance but personality too, the gameplay is also very smooth, i haven't had any bugs so far even tho i used save editor and you can tell a lot of work is being put into it, the story is also interesting so far I hope we get to see it finished and have more future updates

I very very like female protagonist corruption game. And this game meets the specs perfectly. The picture is beautiful, with a little movement adding to the mood well. The battle system is easy to understand, very basic. Please continue to develop it.

Review as of 0.3.6 version.

Game has potential, but as it is currently its takes forever to get anything done and bugs... bugs are everywhere. You can by just questing normally and exploring softlock your game, with only way to fix it is by loading the previous save or starting AGAIN because a flag failed to trigger.

Sex scenes: So far there are 4 scenes in total and all of them are CG scenes that are quite bland and spread apart.

Gameplay: Intro takes forever, it just goes on and on and on, as if there is content there. Author shouldn't have bothered with insanely long intro when entire gameplay is done in different area, with most of content not implemented and so far using free assets.

Fights: They are just free asset, there are no scenes in there. Why they exist? To make game longer. Nothing else.

Bugs: A lot of them. Most of actions are trigger based. Basically if you have not have done some trigger or it failed to work, you get soft locked, with only way to fix is reload last save if it wasnt borked at that point already.

Heroine: There are some moments when she looks weird. More male then female on some sprites. Its like whoever drawn her couldnt set his mind on art style or they were drawn with large wait time inbetween.

TL DR: Has promise this game. If dev just deletes whole RPGM garbage fighting system that adds 0 content to the game, except adding a quality drop. I would wait till v1 at least before trying this out. Its quite harsh review for such early state project, but Im not going to praise game that can just die out like hundreds other promising games before it.

Very fun game however gameplay can be a bit difficult due to the constant miss and RNG. Maybe devs can add some info regarding about the accuracy percentage or stats. (eg: dex?) Graphics is very nice and I enjoy the corruption of the heroine. Can add more molester not the thugs or bandits (Avoiding them is a pain in the ass when they can run faster than you sometimes). Hoping for more content from the devs

Fun game so far. It took around an hour for me to reach the end of the current build. I enjoyed the gameplay and the great art. The biggest issue I had was spelling errors, but that's to be expected as the game is still early in development. I'm looking forward to future releases. 8/10 so far

Gameplay-wise there are still quite a few areas to improve on, especially the difficulty and potential softlocks, but as the game is still quite early in its development, I expect to see a lot of changes in these areas. The art on the other hand is absolutely gorgeous, insanely high quality and great character design of the MC. Same with the writing. There definitely are some mistakes here and there, but the overall writing style is very compelling, both in terms of general story telling and also in the few H-scenes already available. I'm definitely looking forward to see where this game goes, best of luck to the developer. I will definitely consider supporting the developer, should future updates be on a consistent and reasonable schedule.

Best of luck!

While I do have gripes against the character art looking like it's straight up taken out of very cliché anime not to mention the lack of eyebrows, the intro being a massive, overly long just block of text, the battle system and battle art being just free assets that are massively overly used, and most of the "gameplay" just being the very boring fights that have very little engagement, my main gripe is this game is damn near unplayable.

Constantly you'll have to save scum and revert saves because a flag didn't get triggered correctly causing you to be completely locked out of doing anything. As soon as I finally got free range to actually move and play the game (took quite literally 20 minutes), I almost immediately found myself unable to go into the first dungeon as well as unable to talk to any side-mission givers.


I will mention as well, this game is one of those that seems to forget both that it's porn and a game. The game takes most of its time setting up the world and setting while yet still leaving it incredibly boring and un-unique filled with incredibly badly written dialogue.

Usually with these games, I can at least find something to enjoy about it but... this game from the re-used free assets, to the weird looking MC, to the re-used free assets combat, and to the major lack of sexual events... This was just absolutely painfully boring.

really bad game if you run out of potions you are fucked if you run out of mana you are also fucked and you can't escape the blond bandits most of the time i got softlocked trying to clear a dungeon and the only way i could get out of this predicament was to start over again and i didn't want to do all of that again therefore this game is terrible if only there was a teleporter at least so you can get out of the dungeon and heal with magic at least it could have been more playable

Pretty good so far, the art is fantastic and I can see some half decent start at a corruption system as well. I just think more choices in the harassment based events like where you get groped giving apples you can just stand there and let it happen for a few seconds as a choice (that also helps show how weak she is to pleasure and secretly wants pleasure) and they maybe they get slighty bolder like for the breast grab it could be they pinch nipples and such. Options like these help show corruption and pleasure wanting instincts of the protagonist.

The problems I have are the combat being tedius and way to annoying as well as enemy tracking you even through walls, pretty much most combat related things imo. There are also bugs such as if you sleep at the in on the first day regardless if you rescued the people or not the quest advances and the custcene of them at the bar plays out. Another bug is being able to give apples before you are supposed too.

Overall I would rate this a 4 stars as I believe the combat is the only really bad things so far and the bugs will obviously be patched so I wont count that against the dev. This willy easily be a 5 star game once the combat is fixed and the corruption is more fleshed out with more and more options.

I would definitely recommend everyone trying this.

This review is for v0.3.5.

Short review: So far overall 4/5. Not a lot to do after ~40 minutes to an hour. Has a few promising systems. Has a lot of potential in story and art. Hope it does not end up as a short <3 hr game. Will look forward to final release.

• The rock-paper-scissors battle system is a fresh take, considering the quality of most RPGM battle mechanics on this website.
• You "level" up your stats and unlock spells by spending mana as a currency, but you have to be careful because you need mana to clear dungeons. And if you run out of mana, you lose. I thought this is a very unique and fun feature. On a side note, this system of currency is so underrated, I wish it was available in more games (the most recent one I remember is Metro 2033's ammo system).
• Doing "favors" for mana or benefits reminds me a lot of Ambrosia. Love it.

Critiques/Feedback:

• There should be an option to skip to end of the day or the next cycle of the day, instead of being forced to fulfill an activity every morning/afternoon/evening/night. Also would like a warning to know if an activity will move to next cycle of day, as it's not entirely clear.
• Would love to have more side quests and H quests. The game is in early development, so I expect there to be more in the near future.
• Being able to miss your spells is REALLY frustrating, especially when you're already limited by not being able to heal in-combat and needing to manage your mana. It's just not fun RNG.
• I think having two types of healing potions as "G" and "H" is redundant.
  • Would like to have mana potions as "H" instead. For difficulty balance purposes, you can have it be unlimited for casual difficulty, up to 3 for normal, and up to 1 for hard.
• When you escape combat, you can potentially hard-lock yourself to fighting when trying to run away from enemies, because they still move around the map during the transitions. Feel like you should be given a 2-second invincible grace period when escaping.
• Consider adding a quest log, or have NPCs give hints on where to go after dialogue ends. I have goldfish memory so I can't remember everything that's being said in cutscenes... especially when I'm horny.
• Losing mana = game over feels a bit harsh. Would've loved losing mana = defeat H-scene & teleport back to entrance of dungeon instead.
• Why are the predators/stalkers around the prison district faster than Usain Bolt? Slow their speed just a little lol.

Very promising first release, but there is really not much to do yet.
(Also: the game does not tell you when you reach the end of the current build (0.3.5))

I will be watching this with great interest and hope it will not get removed

The art is a solid 10/10.
Writing is quite well done too.