RPGM - Completed - Fallen ~Makina and the City of Ruins~ [Another Story/Kagura Games]

Alright, so I've played Fallen ~ Makina and the City of Ruins.

I will start by adding a caveat; I didn't finish this game, but I did put about 3 or so hours into it, enough to get a feel of the game.
One more thing: I will keep this review free of spoilers. The examples will be kept vague enough to not spoil.

Alright, let's get on with it.

Makina is by and large a generic Kagura RPGM game. The story isn't particularly interesting, the decisions and impact on the story that you can have is very, very limited and the combat is rather repetitive.

One example is the standard blacksmith who, like in practically RPGM games, will suggest that you can get free equipment in exchange for him having his way with you. It's not even a surprise at this point. I will even say that it has become a boring trope.

I agree with many of the other reviewers. This is a standard assembly-line Kagura title. It's a cursed town of sorts, there's a dungeon that you can explore, and some evil dude who wants to amass power and supposedly abducts girls.

The Story:
Yet I have some problems with parts of the plot. For instance, one of your acquittances wants you to infiltrate this evil guy's operation. The argument is that they cannot do it because it would risk open conflict, but Fallen can because she's not very well known in this... Only thing is, she is very renown. It says so in the description of Fallen as well, she is literally world-renown. Alright, but maybe not in this small hole? Well, thing is that the various people you talk to knows who she is right-away. Clearly, Fallen is a poor agent then - I didn't play further, so perhaps she is recognized right away, but don't really expect so.

The Game play:
I didn't find it interesting. It is nothing out of the ordinary. You go out and fight repetitive battles in the dungeon. You then return to town. You can get corruption by being molested. How being molested against your will makes you want to be molested even more is committing to mind-gymnastics that only these types of games can pull off. But that's how it is, and it isn't deeper than that.

A missed opportunity is why not allow Fallen to see through some of these attempts? It must be said that does see through them. For instance you are at some point poisoned. Not by any poison, but one that cannot be cured. Shortly after you meet a dude who offer the antidote for free in exchange for fondling your breasts. Fallen then sees through his disguise and claims that he is the one that set the poison trap. But wouldn't it have been more meaningful if you found some kind of traces that allowed you to connect the dots? I think it would.

Decisions:
This game don't really have any, which is a real pity, because there could've been. There is a mission where you must find somebody who steals food. You are warned over and over about this thief being very cunning. Indeed he is, and as you find him he stuns you. "But you should have been prepared to counter that" - and I did. I actually wore a ring which made me immune to stun. Yet I was stunned anyways. In other words, there was nothing I could've done, and the story just progress like this.


Alright, here's the short version:
The Good:

• Battles are over fast

The In-between:

• Faulty world logic - why use a world-renown warrior as a hidden agent?
• Standard Kagura title. Nothing new.
• Fallen can see through some of the schemes that certain NPC's try to pull off, which is good. She can then call them out on it, which is nice. However, it may have been more interesting if you had to gather some clues to put the puzzle together.
• Alright art, but honestly I didn't really find any of the characters that enticing.
• Finally a MC who isn't a virgin.

The Bad:

• The systems to show you H stats is poor
• Blacksmith and other such NPC's asks for the same as they do in practically any other RPGM. It's a boring trope.
• Decisions doesn't matter, and there is no way to prepare better for any quests.
• Standard uninspiring corruption game. Getting raped/molested= now you want to get even more raped/molested. Much logic, very wow.
• The battles are repetitive and uninteresting, that is the case for 1st battle and the 100th battle.

"Lots of Ass but I Expect More for This Game"

This game is alright, the art is really good and if you love ass, you gonna coom a lot here. I have big expectations for this game after I play Tina Scarlet Swordsman and sadly this game disappoints me, maybe if I was an ass lover I wouldn't feel this as much.
The story is basic, it's not that short and there are many routes as well. There's a lot of one-off scenes though and again, something about those scenes is just not satisfying enough.
If you're pretty fresh with this genre, I can see this game will be worth your time.

Rating Distribution:
+1: Obligatory
+1: Red Head With Phat Ass Heroine
+1: Side Girls Are All Hot
+1: Nun Route Is Always Good Even if It Was Short
+1: Two Different Vanilla Ending Is Available
-1: I Just Have Big Expectation
-1: I Just Don't Vibe With This as Much as I Should

juxt played it and what a disappointmeent limited h scenes don't even try losing fights that fails, somebody said that this was one of the crators best games, if this the creators best game well I am not playing anymore, story is eh, I got stuck like 4 times because barely any hints on where to go, its just a very bad game.

Pros:

• Quality CGs
• Hints
• Can avoid combat entirely(only have to fight boses)

Cons:

• Okay Combat
• Generic Story
• No clothing system.

Overall I'd give the game a 4.5/5

This is pretty generic as far as RPGMaker games go, strong heroine and corruption, can't really fuck that up.

Art is pretty decent, scenes are plentiful and frequent enough that it doesn't get boring, actually had fun exploring the game and getting all the endings, even though you could just flip a switch to unlock all the scenes once you beat the game.

4/5 because overall, it's pretty good aside from a generic setting (Red hair is always a plus.)

Another typical Kagura title. A cursed town, a slowly corrupted protagonist. Mindless exploring without much to really find. All of the content you want to see is locked behind a "Depravity" counter, which until you hit 70 is just a guessing game on where to go to trigger an event. Once there though, you can see most of the sex scenes/endings within about 10 minutes.

If this was your first Kagura experience, you'd probably think it was good. But for me, it's just tired. I wish they'd try some new settings, some new formulas, some new stories. But they never do. Which is a shame because they're one of the few companies actually putting out good translations.

PROS:
-Great art. Over the top tits and ratios as expected, but it's well done
-Quality translation

CONS:
-Same old uninspired story (curse, demon, monsters)
-Stock RPGM sound effects and music
-While art is good, scenes repeat, 1-2 photo scenes with "movement" effect layered on top just feel really lazy
-Tedious deviance meter
-Ridiculous cumshots

One of the best porn games I've played. The art is too simple and unrealistic sometimes, but it's a subjective thing. Gameplay is typical for RPGM, but at least there are hints and built-in feature to ease the fights. Maybe more locations and more elaborate plot could be added. All other aspects are rather good for this genre.

Decent corruption game with a lot of RPG elements. The town gets more events as you get more corrupt, and that's where all the action is. Combat is not hard, and if you take your time and grind a little you'll never be down on money or items. Fight are pretty much game over, so don't worry about boss fights and events, not going to happen. Hentai art is decent, but pretty much similar to a lot of other games of warrior chicks with big butts and boobs. Not a bad couple of hours for a game, but nothing worth writing home about either.

At the major "end" events where the story diverges you get looped back so you can continue to play and go on. No need to worry about the recollection room, hit up the areas where the people are and you'll have everything opened up at the end.

An okay RPG game with some sex in it

Pro:
- No bugs
- Finished
- Smooth
- Not much text
- Plays like a good pixel RPG like the old Zelda

Con:
- Aweful hentai art, with all female characters looking very unattractive, even manly, and hastily drawn. No gorgeous girls here. I mean, look at the advertisement picture of her: Those are basically boy eyes, not sexy women eyes.
- There is sex in it, but like most adult RPG games, it's basically a normal game with some scenes
- Biggest let down: The MC is annoyingly pure and noble, and though you can corrupt her, this seems to have little effect, except for what you can let her choose. If you are after hard core corruption, making a total slut of your character, this game is very slow and dissappointing
- I needed to google for solving quests quite a lot

Alright, this is just my opinion but I don't think Makina and the city of ruins is a great game or a masterpiece in the rpg corruption genre. Makina is surely the most popular game in the rpg corruption genre but not the best. The game is enjoyable, the gameplay is fun and the story and the characters at least enticed me to play the game. But what i feel about the game is that it isn't finished yet. The main-sub routes in the game for example the bardo and goblin route is unfinished. But routes had the same exact sex scene but the diaglogue is just different. For example : compare goblin scene 1 to scene 2, both scenes are the same cg but include different dialogue to rear you closer to the play the game. On top of all that there is no voice acting. Sense of corruption in Makina isn't that major. Compare Makina to the other red head heroine Tina. They are both from the same publisher Kagura and most people enjoy Makina for the art not the plot. The art style on Makina is similar to western art which attracts western audiences. The art style on Tina is more keen to the corruption genre. Each scene isn't mostly recycled but they add more content to recycled scenes to make it more interesting. This is what makina fails to do. Each scene in Tina is dark which emits the corruption aura filled in each scene. You actually feel for the characters in Tina. Characters in Makina just have sex anywhere and anytime. Hope you guys are not offended by my opinion on the game.

Definitely one or the best Hentai game I've played up till now. I bought it on Steam and wanted to come share with y'all. I played this game around 4-5 times over and over 100% completion.

Pros:
-Art is incredible. Beautiful colors and work. Vibrant and damn smooth.
-Main character Makina is perfect
-Corruption and depravity increasing each scene is just great.
-Combat is fun. There are ways for the lazy gamers (The ones who beg for a save file) to just breeze through the game by paying game currency for levels (Not microtransactions. In game gold).
-Some fetishes here and there. Each female falling further and further is just awesome.
-A pure love route is also available for anyone wishing to go a 'non-dirty' path.
-You can also beat the game without having to bang your way there or wanting to. That is also a steam achievement hilariously enough.
-Music fits well.
-A great CG room and easy to access. There are also teleportation points across the game for anyone wanting to run back and forth between town and outside.
-Good amount of stuff to do and areas to check out every now and then.
-Multiple endings that you can check out and it brings you back to the point BEFORE the ending scene so you can continue on while knowing what that route would have gone to for Makina.
-Once you finish off the last boss, you can still stay in town and do things that refresh every day

Cons:
-Kagura Games or whoever developed should have continued with this game by making a DLC or a second one. This one is the best out of all their games.

Take note: There is a modder on Steam who is creating a dlc for the game or a mod that adds more content to the game. Still working on it.

This game did an amazing job on beating RPGMakers biggest weaknesses (aside that there isn't anything for voice acting but understandable).

The story is really well done.

The combat can actually sometimes be difficult and it makes sense its not simply thrown together with random levels and experience points.

The map isn't stupidly large and unnecessary everything is basically bundled together in a tight nit. (Because for some reason everyone makes large maps without any objects or reason for being there.)

The girls are hot and the scenes are nice to watch.

The game even provides a fast paced way to get through the game with a cheat leveling NPC if you just want to get to the end of the game for the scenes.

Pretty fun, good story, great art, engaging plot. I beat the game using the hints available in the secret room. I did cheat slightly using the autoleveling NPC a couple of times, but let's be honest... no one's here for the fighting mechanic (although it IS a pretty well done one).

I took away 1 star because there's no voice acting. And the fact that lots of SFX are reused throughout the game (and pretty much throughout the whole Kagura line-up) kind of takes away the enjoyment of scenes later on in the game.

From the artwork to the scenarios that the heroine can find herself in, this is easily one of my favorite H-games. I wish there were more optional "endings" with some of the characters, but it was a fun time.

This game is okay. it is pretty much middle of the road in all things.

The CG's are pretty good, though most of them have a very rapey vibe to them.... sure sure you might say that comes with corruption games but I felt it was needed to be said. It isn't until very late into the game where the MC starts looking for sex, and by late game I mean your Derpravity has to be at least 90 from my experience with the game.

There is a CG Gallery and once you beat the game you unlock a switch to show you all of the scenes.

There are some things I got somewhat annoyed with, for instance the MC isn't a virgin; Great too many of these game make virginty mean nothing because it is almost always taken away through forced rape. 1 other charachter says she has only done it once; fine by me though weird that it was said and there, felt like devs just didn't want her to be a virgin. But then all of sudden there just has to be a virgin, who loses it under coercion with a sleezy old man. Then throughout her story it turns out she enjoys sex... Like come on we almost got a RPGM corruption game without this trope in it at all.

Other than that the combat isn't too bad since in the first dungeon there is a person who wil lvl you up once for 50 gold. You can do this all the way up to lvl 30 which is the max level in the game.

There is no "defeat" scenes in the game which while great just means it goes to a gameover and you have to load from a save, so make sure you are saving.

Yet again the pregnancy tag is only for endings. At no point can you get pregnant through the standard sex scenes it, there is a decent amount of pregnancy/impregnation "dirty talk" in the scenes but unless you are seeing a sequence of scenes which leads to an ending it doesn't matter.

When you do hit an ending it thankfully just throws you back to before you started the ending and gives you depravity points.

The story is yet again some thing is corrupting the people of this fantasy town and it is up to you to figure out what is causing it. Nothing really noteworthy here aside from the MC is apparently well known throughout the lands.

In total it took me about 6.5 - 7 hours to beat the game about 1 - 2 hours was going around and seeing and finding whatever scenes I missed; no the scenes are not that long but in the CG gallery you can get given a hint for each scene so you can find them on your own and that is what I did for 90% of the ones I missed.

If you just care to see the scenes, download the 100% save. Other than that I do think there is some enjoyment in this game but it does have its flaws and I personally didn't care all that much for the last 40% of the game.

So with all that said I would say this is a decent 2.4 = 2.5 out of 5 stars.

Fun for what it is but I feel it could have used some more work.

I think my favorite aspect of this game was that it was intelligently written. Really. I see that phrase on so many games with mediocre writing, but the dialogue was, for the most part, organic and believable.

The corruption was good, but not great. I felt like the *amount* of content was there, but not the variety or creativity. Not that you won't experience a decent amount of different events, but none of it really felt like it made Makina stand out from any other games (don't get me wrong, the more games like this in the genre the better.)

I'm not a good judge of art and they only really stand out to me if they're really bad or really good - this game was on neither end of the spectrum.

As for the actual gameplay itself, I can see how the combat system would be somewhat enticing to someone that played it with that in mind, but I purchased levels from the level store because I don't care much for it (although it was interesting enough for me to never feel like I couldn't wait for it be over with.) That said, it was pretty standard RPGM combat.

Best of Kagura Games...
Thanks to the art of Another Story!!!!!

I also played other games from Kagura and wondered why none of these games are as good as the Fallen, thats where i saw Another Life. Dungeon was a bit boring but they added a "Cheat System" where u can cheat for bosses and dont fight a single enemy and u can balance the exp. so it stays highly fun and playable. And like i just said H-Arts are perfect. Character corruption system is beautiful i just love this game and think its better than Meltys Quest "artistically". Hope to see more games from Another Life!

It's a standard RPG Maker game, but one you expect as such. It's happening mostly in or around the small city. Almost no choices in the characters' development, however, the drawings are an eyecatcher so you want to see how everything continues. The dialogues are... okay. Few situations like the goblin or shota ones are to certain extents excellent.

Unfortunately, the potential of Makina's reputation is wasted. Her corruption process doesn't have a real flow to it (it's jumping) leaving a blank personality behind. What she really needed was a patiently slow, realistic progress at her starting level of fame, for instance setups like getting stuff->money in order to help an affectionate, starving family out or something and slowly develop softness from there & the same pace applied to an evil road, of course. Hereby, a surprise-rape destroys all future purity which is a common mistake made by many developers. Furthermore, even if she's at one point utterly corrupted, the creators shouldn't shit on her dignity meaning you need to preserve a sense of the sexual conquest. However, if she's (almost like poisoned) openly in lust everywhere, then what's the point of reminding you about her origin? She doesn't give a shit anymore, her only drive is solely lust now which kills any authenticity because it is simple horniness what we humans do identify with, not a magic spell overtaking your whole identity.
As a better illustration of a later stage, normal encounters with people could make her look at their dick and think about it so she gets more revealing while maintaining the heroic/notorious frame.
Thereof erotic examples to clarify: Let her daringly change clothes in an open, next room, let her organize sexual activities in disguise, going out (half-)naked at night (stealth quests), anonymous gloryrooms in the brothel with randomized money throw-in, have a fan or people she helped/wronged facialing her repeatedly when asleep which perhaps forms a secret, unspoken pact together with her, they can even joke about it. Hell, even a piss quickie with a traveling merchant or her friends while she's in the bushes - I don't care, as long she's up to keeping her STATUS as the famous Blazing Haired Makina while exploring sexuality. She needs to hide this inferiority.
But all of her reputation is just instantly killed, without being really creative.

In the end, overall average in my taste - and considering the horrible competition, 2-3 stars.
What you get here is at the worst bottom of being truly good. Well done pictures, undeserved unfolding.

great game with really nice translation.
The progress may be a little too strict (or straight forward), because the events are based on ur level in the ruins and u have less influence on what to do or skip but the art makes up to that.
There should be more games of that quality.

And the game isnt even that old. To think some people on ulmf are working for years on the same project
(not trying to talk bad about those guys, they are doing great work and im grateful for every game they do, just want to point out how fast (and good) this translation was made.