Unity - Completed - FlipWitch - Forbidden Sex Hex [v1.5] [MomoGames / Critical Bliss]

4/5, guess this makes me the odd one out?
I really enjoyed my time with Flipwitch, it's one of those games you get baited into clicking because of the nice banner art, feel a bit sad the actual game is pixel art before realizing the pixel art is actually pretty damn good. If you're a fan of "Shantae and the Pirates Curse" like I am then you'll really enjoy the art too, everything is just brimming with life and character from the gorgeous backgrounds to the one-off NPC's you'll only ever see once. Again, it 'is' pixel art which is off putting to a lot of people but I can assure you the sex scenes are a bit higher resolution.

Speaking of which they really... Aren't all that great. I guess this site has totally destroyed the eroticism in my brain because vanilla just does NOT do anything for me anymore, which is what 99% of the scenes in this are. Blowjobs, full frontal nudity, missionary, cowgirl, yawn. This is really designed for first time fetishists and H-game players, whether that's for better or for worse I can't say.

What really surprised me was just how insanely good the soundtrack and voice acting is. No clue if it was AI voices or music found online but regardless I really really liked them both, in fact I probably would've given a 3/5 if not for the music. And yes, you read that right before, there's voice acting but very slightly. Just girls moaning when you talk to them or give 'em the ole donkey punch. For once it's worth wearing headphones while playing.

The gameplay itself is okay. Let's get this out of the way; porn scenes only happen at the end of sidequests and whenever the player dies. This is NOT one of those games where you can fuck monsters during battle sadly. Anyway there's a large emphasis on platforming. Guess this 'is' a metroidvania but I found the platforming to be a tad too slippery at times, often falling off or through moving platforms because idk fuck me I guess. To "flip" the witch's gender you have to press F, but the movement keys are WASD space is jump. Trying to move right while jumping and flipping genders is a pain in the goddamn ass. Luckily there's keybinding for all that so no worries. Except when you gotta use abilities. This requires holding down right on the mouse and clicking left. A couple of these were no biggy but Goblin bomb especially barely ever functioned. I notice some people are talking smack about there being input lag but I never noticed it.

The absolute WORST thing about this game is.... Why?
Why did this need to be a porn game? Having scenes of any capacity can really stigmatize your game, but everything about this screams "underrated metroidvania gem". Infact I honestly believe it would've been so had there not have been any porn in this game. I know, an F95 user complaining about there being porn in a game, what a shocker. It just made me feel sad during the ghost boss; great music, pretty neat mechanics, awesome animations, and I can't show or tell anyone about this because there's giant flopping tits on screen.
Oh well, 4 out of 5 I guess. Probably more of a 3.7 though.

[Review of Final on 11/19/2023]

The lower scoring reviews feel a bit too sensitive, although they have some good points.

Yeah, you move when you attack, and you can't touch enemies. It's really not so egregious as to be game breaking, though, and you can just take it into account when attacking.

I also don't feel the supposed "delay" that these players are experiencing with their inputs -- while movement probably needs a reduction in momentum to reduce the "floaty" feeling, the controls themselves feel plenty responsive to me. I did not feel that I was ever hit because of latency between inputs, but rather because I didn't pay attention.

The sprite work is actually pretty good, too, although the scenes themselves are a bit vanilla for my tastes. There's a lot of dildo animations, especially with the gacha animation unlocks, which I find boring. I also wish that the game over animations were enemy specific, but they seem to be area specific. Don't bother dying more than twice per area, once per gender, if you can help it. That even applies to bosses, which sucks.

The invisible text box glitch has occurred to me, which is annoying. I haven't been soft locked yet, but I trust the other reviews. Be aware that the game has bugs.

I'm also not a fan of how many items require a significant amount of money to purchase. The first item I grabbed after getting to Spirit City was the Fortune Cat to increase money drops, but you better buy that item quickly if you want for it to pay for itself; while it helps, it didn't feel like a huge game-changer.

The other problem is that power-ups are locked behind completing side-quests, and side-quests generally require costumes that cost the money you're after, and the side-quest characters are often in out-of-the-way locations... so, yeah, getting power-ups is a time consuming slog. It's a shame, too, because that's where a lot of the sex scenes are hidden. The developer clearly wants you to do them, but you'll suffer to get them done.

I know that it seems like I have a lot of complaints, but I actually think the game isn't half bad.

It clearly had a lot of thought put into some parts of it. It just feels as though the developer allowed themselves to think that their game needed to take a lot longer to play than it really should. It's a shame, since there's some genuinely fun bosses, nice graphics, cute characters, and a decent amount of effort put into certain parts of the level design.

It's not great, but it's good enough to give a chance.

Fan of sidescrolling Hentai-vania's? This'll be a good time waster for a few hours. This is all straight/lesbian content, which I am fine with.

The gameplay itself is simple: Explore, get new abilities, fight baddies and bosses, and do quests to fuck things! Meeting the characters is fun since most are voice acted, some in a surprising accent!
While the game is generally enjoyable for an avid side-scrolling fan, some may have difficulties with the slower response/moving forward with melee attacks. Most enemies take a few swipes to take down and leveling up doesn't make it much faster.
My biggest gripe is how most "quest" boil down to
>Hey I need ____
>Blank Outfit for sale at random ass location
>Oh thank goodness, sex

Grinding gold isn't my biggest joy in Hentai-vania's and there seems to be an easy mode that alleviates that.
As for the sex scenes themselves, they are fine, but usually doesn't feel like a big enough reward for completing a quests.Almost all are blowjob/titjob. Also, no Boss Fucking? Kinda lame.
As of 1.0, a few bugs and soft-locks have made the game a bit unsteady, so I'd recommend waiting for a few updates before playing.
Overall: Average. Average art, average puzzles, average game.

i had this game on my steam wishlist for 3-4 years and im really disappointed.

as another reviewer already pointed out, the controlls are just unappectably delayed.
and yes the worst part is, attacking moves you forward which means WHILE ATTACKING you will "walk" into enemies and thus take damage.
magic attacks (only got 2 so far) are slow and boring

the sex scenes, which i barely saw any yet, are nothing special at all.
the map is kinda boring to explore and limited, metroidvanias usually give you at least a bit of freedom.
also call it nitpicking but theres yellow blocks that make you bounce up and they are just... yellow blocks. they are ugly and boring, they look like an early beta test block.

a billion sidequests get thrown your away once you reach the city (which happens in like 15min id say)

enemies respawn whenever you exit a screen (which happens often and often into empty rooms aka you gotta turn back)
theres no exp system, all you get is gold which you can buy skins with which you need for certain quests... so killing enemies is not meant to give you a nice outfit, its meant to extend the grind for more sidequests.

extra weapons? nope.

puzzles for idiots "hey a pink block means go female, a blue one means go male" theres also absolutely 0 reason for you to switch genders other than certain quest dialogues and those blocks.
they could have made it so you can fuck defeated enemies + make it different animations for each gender!!

its a buggy mess aswell. ive somehow softlocked a handful of times and somehow also managed to make textboxes invincible, both times having to restart to "fix" the game again.
one time i literally flipped genders while talking to someone and somehow that softlocked me. couldnt move anymore.


overall, idk just a failure of a game. boring to play, barely any sex and its about as well animated as your average pixel art game on here, 3-4 years for this? im disappointed, i really am.

the only thing saving it is the graphics they are gorgeous



as always, drop me a like if you want and i personally recommend avoiding this game. it looks nice, but it doesnt play nice at all

The game has a nice premise and graphics. But it was all ruined for me because of poor controls. Response time on your dodge roll is super slow, which makes you get way more hits than you should get. Turning around is somewhat slow too, so you might get a hit just because character is too slow.
The last straw for me was automatic move forward while performing attack. It just makes you get hit because you are moved into enemy. It was somewhat tolerable with regular enemies, but became unbearable during boss battle - you attack and get hit because of that, not because you are actually hit.