RPGM - Completed - Forest of the Abyss 2 [v3.3.11] [SweetSprite]

Who designed this game? Neanderthals? I can handle obtuse grind, but having said grind be equivalent to the smear of a fruit fly on my car window is an anathema to the time I bothered to invest.

You mean to tell me, the half-hour I spent grinding to level 20 is worthless due to the fact the enemy can simply disable my elemental abilities outright with no definable timer? And I'm forced to play a mage, who only has fire, electricity, and ice abilities? Oh, they can spam it, too? They can also knock you off balance, which I don't know what it does besides delay the game's combat menu. So, it's an in-built annoy feature?

It's a series of sudden roadblocks. You take one step forward, you're knocked on your ass by a wall of HP suddenly popping up and saying: "No, you're time invested is not worth spit."

Honestly quite mixed feelings about this one. This game has its good and bad points so let me get into the good first.

There are a lot of scenes with good animation and sound design.
The maps design is pretty decent for a RPGM game with lots of npcs with unique flavor text and quests.
Teleports to get around.
A lot of skills and weapons to collect that feel meaningfull with upgrade options.
Multiple outfits.
20+ hours of playtime. Quite frankly just chapter 1 could have been a game on its own, the game just keeps on giving.
Combat feels fast paced and quick with good balancing.
Very playable without a walkthrough if you take basic notes of things you can not do yet, but that you know you will have to come back to.
A good gallery menu that lists where to find each scene.

Now for the bad:
Saves are bound by a save location so you can not save on the fly and might have to repeat a section. (remember to save whenever possible)
Outfits are bound to your class.
The game is quite grindy with a lot of fetch and collection quests.
The maps sometimes feel bigger than they need to be, having you travel a huge distance to get anywhere meaningful.
The time between scenes differs a lot, sometimes you get 2 within 5 minutes and sometimes your grinding 2 hours to get to the next one.

Overall I would recommend it for anyone who is into the listed fetishes and who has a lot of time on their hands to deal with the grind. If you do not have a lot of time or if you do not like the grind then I recommend you look for a different game.

It is probably worth it to just download a save and check the gallery if your interested but do not have the time though, the quality is there. But I always recommend playing the full game instead since scenes just hit different if your immersed in the game.

Another Review, on this game (also it's prequel). Can't really say I fully enjoyed them, especially their grind, even with the pretty alright Scenes they have. I'll admit that this game is better than the first, bigger and with actual animated Bad End Scenes. Regardless, the full Review of the games, including the Full saves, right on my cool blog, with the proper link:
[The Link]
Moving on with the QuickView here:



Review TL;DR:

All Scores:
================ Plot = 5.5
======== Story = 6
======== Characters = 5
================ Gameplay = 4.75
======== Mechanics = 6.5
======== Complexity = 5.5
======== Uniqueness = 4
======== Replayability = 3
================ Scenes = 6.75
======== Visual = 8.5
======== Written = 7.5
======== Interactivity = 4
======== Replayability = 7
================ Development = ----
================ Obtaining = 5.5
======== Price = 5
======== Methods = 6
================ FINAL SCORE = 5.62


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2 relatively short RPG Maker games, the 2nd one being slightly bigger. Their gameplay is pretty grindy and basic RPG Maker stuff, nothing unseen as of yet. The clear focus is the Scenes themselves. The Scenes are quite decent, with good degree of Art quality, some uniqueness to the Artstyle, smooth animations where they are employed, and satisfying writting for those Scenes to complement them. Considering the general price of the game, I can't say I'd strongly recommend purchasing them, unless you find them on an offer, or you really like this Circle Group.

Surprisingly great RPG even without the Ryona stuff, I've replayed it a few times over the years. It's really long, has lots of great content. It had lots of love put into it and was updated many times over the years.

Wow does this seem like my kind of game merely by its screenshots and genre(battle bondage, vore, etc.). HOWEVER, This is barely one notch away from being a complete and utter embarrassment for everyone involved, player and developer. There's a quality of game, like this one, that only seems to invoke self-pity as you play it. "What the hell am I even playing, I really have nothing better than THIS?!" Really, if you don't even slightly value your time, give it a whirl!

V 3.3

I don't think I've played a better example of why RPGM porn is often the worst porn engine ever conceived. You're immediately greeted with 10 minutes of horrible grinding that is, at best, just a snooze fest. You spam fire and kill everything, all the while collecting apples and being unable to save your game.

Then, if you are unlucky, you'll meet a blue scorpion that 2 shots you and those 10 minutes are gone. Wasted. Lost entirely because this game was built with zero foresight. Couldn't even go back to before the intro sequence, which even being short as it is, makes for just a terrible experience. The worst part is that I've played this game before it had a translation, got 30 minutes in, and never saw this dreaded god tier enemy that just kills you and sends you to an immediate game over. I stopped playing back then because it was awful without translation, as it's just a complete cluster fuck of trying to find where to go otherwise.

Having come back to this and gotten the short end of the stick, why bother? The one scene I got (pre-translation) was boring, short, and lacked quality. It was 3 images, none of which capture much of anything to enjoy.

I hate giving a review when I have so little to go on, but when the experience is this immediately awful, I really don't have it in me to play more.

awful translation (i downloaded it before the MTLpatch). had troubles, cause gloves costed not 1000 but 10000 coins, and one man asked me to bring nuts from forest, where there're no nuts... yet game itself is nice. well, if you're not fighting some groping monster, that has a chance of swallowing/tightening you to death even with 50%+ HP while you can do nothing... and last save was 1 boss ago... f*cking love this!