The best thing about this game, it's a voice acting. Seiyuu did a magnificent job and I swear it made me hard just by listening to Ayame moans. It's such a shame that we see almost no Western games with voice acting. The second best thing is, of course, the animations. There are a lot of them, with many variations. They are very well made and even the usual Japanese censor not ruin them. Given that the developers clearly put more emphasis on the sex content, the level of character development is acceptable. The dialogue within the sex scenes is very erotic, especially in the later stages of main heroine corruption.
Despite quite simple story premise, I really liked how characters were fleshed out. Even though there is not a lot of dialogue, it still manages to develop the personalities of the characters. The game features multiple routes and approaches toward the main heroine. There are 3 girls, Ayame captured kunoichi, your ninja sister and third girl that look like servant (sorry for vague description, I didn't want to play her route). The only downside is that sister route don't have animations, only pictures. But nevertheless, it's quite sweet and somewhat sentimental.
Updated.
After the second playthrough, I must say, love route with Ayame is surprisingly wholesome for this type of game. I really find it hard to believe that they were able to add conflict to a story with such a simple plot and reveal it to such extent that I felt touched for heroes.(Love Between Enemies. And most importantly, the protagonist falls in love with Ayame but is afraid to admit to her that he is the same man who trains her during the day) In the love route, there are also many animated scenes, romantic kisses, long hugs <3, and finally sex. There aren't many dialogues, as I said previously, but I felt touched nevertheless. Maybe it's just personal, of course, that I tend to like plots where characters are constrained by fate and life circumstances, so they can't just show their feelings towards each other. The world and their personal circumstances stand in the way.
I'll say one last thing. There are quite a lot of games of this genre where you capture a girl and do what you want with her. Unfortunately, most of them lose in one area or another. The graphics, the voice acting, the story, the dialogues. In this game everything is done, if not okay, then at least well. I'm generally very picky in this regard, the game does not pretend to be a deep story and immediately declares itself as a hentai game. As I wrote above, the dialogues do not cause repulsion, the characters do have a personality, as far as the gameplay allows. Overall, I'm satisfied with this game.
Tips and advices:
- When you visit Ayame during night, you can't choose any options. It's a bug due to automatic translation. But there is a workaround.
Go to BepInex/Config/AutotranslatorConfig.txt and edit this:
TextGetterCompatibilityMode=True
But I reinstalled the plugin. So for me it was in:
Shinobi v1.2/AutoTranslator/Config.ini
- It is better to set the maximum text speed in the settings so that the translator can keep up better and you do not accidentally skip a dialog line when you click.
- Alt + 0 (zero) allow you to use translator settings. Deepl is the best one, but somewhat slower than the others. Basically, with deepl you almost don't see "poetry" at all. Second option is Papago, I find it much better than google. Translates fast and somewhat accurate.
- The game features multiple routes. It's advisable to save on your first day and try each location with an exclamation point to decide which girl you want to pursue. I made only one run and chose sister, but there is another girl (Servant perhaps, or something like that) and love route with Ayame.
- There are three types of training Ayame, yellow, blue and red. I don't know how they called since pictures not translated. Choosing one of this type, blocking the others. It's better to choose what you want in advance. And use different types of trainings in one section, as repeating them won't progress the corruption. Ayame will automatically become more sensitive to your training after a few days, and the game will inform you about it. But if you want, instead of focusing on one training path, you can combine them on the second day. The first day you do a training session from one path and the next day from the other.
- The game has 20 different endings. It can be difficult to open them all without a guide. But I'll give you a hint. You don't have to corrupt Ayame completely to 4 hearts. You can stop at 3 and then just come to her room every day, earning a relationship with her.
