Review for Demo v0.1
I can really get into a solid RPGM game, and I love when games have some personality to them. This is both those things. While a clear work in progress, the game is a mashup of an over-the-top wrestling theme combined with a gang-ran academy full of delinquents. Our protagonist, son of a legendary wrestler, wants to become the top dog, or the Bancho, of the academy through the power of his fists.
The game actually starts off with a very dark prologue. You get an opening scene of a happy wrestling family that immediately makes you think something fucked up is about to happen. While your dad takes you out to the park, a crazed villain shows up and challenges your mom to a fight. He beats her, sexually assaults her, and kills her. Then your kid sister gets abducted. Time skip, your dad becomes a grief ridden alcoholic and you're a delinquent who can't seem to prove yourself. Suddenly a letter shows up telling you about this academy and that your sister is alive, the game doesn't go into detail about it. Right before you leave for it, you find a mask that transforms you into your dead mother when you wear it.
The game itself is essentially a big sandbox. I didn't go too deep, but it seems a lot of it is going around talking to people, fighting people, looking for events, raising stats, etc. Lots of things it straight up tells you aren't ready yet though. The combat actually is pretty fun, as it plays into that over the top style I mentioned and has a lot of crazy effects that make it enjoyable. Despite being AI translated, it actually reads pretty well too. Again a lot of goofy, crude, and over the top characters but as a whole it all feels very charismatic. It's fun, I think the dev nailed the vibe pretty well. I like the wrestling gang leader a lot, and the protagonist has that good-natured delinquent charm to him. I could leave the dark stuff personally, but I digress.
I imagine this is probably going to have a pretty wide variety of fetishes/get pretty depraved given that first scene and the fact you switch between a guy and girl. Plus the dev is asking for scenes people would like to see as well. One of the futures scenes seems to be taking the form of your mom to have sex with your dad, which I'm not sure I've seen before lol.
My one real complaint is that I'm not a huge fan of the current day/night cycle being constantly progressing. It just teleports you home when it turns night. Pretty solid for a demo though if you don't mind some of the content. Still has a ton of room for development.