RPGM - Fragile Innocence [Ch. IV v0.4b] [Dark Love]

Reviewing for 0.9.6. It is a shame because the renders are pretty good and this is seemingly a more romance game than porn game, which is perfectly fine. However this doesn't make up for the boring fetch quests, pointless fights and confusing map design. This game is an NTR game for sure, but instead of stealing your love interest it steals time. This game was probably far better of being done by renpy, but I understand that the dev started in RPGM and didn't want workflow issues. The downside is that all the benefits of RPGM games, i.e make it an rpg which can offer different playstyles gets replaced by the worst of RPGM games, a walking simulator where you walk from one character to another with very little feeling of agency in the world.

best game story please release future fast and only one thing game heat up processor very fast bot it doesn't matter in front of a best game like this. and please make more games on Renp'ly engine because they run smoothly

This could become a 5/5 or a 1/5, as a slow build up corruption kind of game, the build up is solid and the render follow the same quality,
but a good build up without any kind of really ending make it hard to rate in this 0.96 final version, and if the endings turn short all the build up will go to waste no matter how good it is.

Even with more than 2 years of dev and this game becoming quite lengthy u still don't see any closure with any of the possible relationships. (This point of no return u expect to happen in this type of corruption game.)

So, if u seek a good enough story game with choice making and a good build up play it,
but if u want a good porn game with more than teasing wait for the dev to finish in a year or so (Hopefully).

TLDR: For now it's a porn game worth to acknowledge but not to play as such. or play it and wait a year to see the result of ur choice LOL

This game aims to waste people's time, confusing maps and boring tasks; the story itself is tedious, and guess what? You are banned from some erotic choices for no reason ... what is the meaning of the existence of this game after all? There is no game mechanics; the gameplay is "exploring" a confusing map only. One task asks you to visit seven soldiers on an intentionally confusing map. You have to do it literally, "go and click" those soldiers without any content(meaningful conversation or event) .....WTH?! the devs know the map is confusing and want to waste your time with it! If you want a good RPG game, forward to Steam, please; if you want a good story, go to Steam and Renpy games on this site; if you want a porn game, there are plenty of games on this site that are much better!

WARNING: there won't be a single sex scene in almost 2 hours of gaming. The most sexually explicit scene shows you a girl's breast...during this period, the princess will only kiss once and still keep single(the premise of the story is the princess' marriage, in other words, you would still be at the same point in two hours: the premise of the story, which constantly lectures you "lust is a sin" )

CAUTIOUS: eight out of ten users who gave a 5-star review are either newbies or new members, and the rest two are active members. Does it ring a bell?

Among the RPGM games of the same genre I've played so far, I'd say this could easily be in my top 3. The story is very compelling enough for me to say that the weaving of the story is similar to that of a fantasy manga you would regularly check for updates each week. Also, the characters are all well-designed in terms of modeling and plot development. Lastly, the dev seems to have intricately woven the consequences of each choice you make in this game which for me is a very big .

I am looking forward to more updates, and hopefully, the dev will push this project till the end.

I really liked this game. Excellent graphics, good plot. Quite often there are updates to the game, while maintaining the intrigue in the development of the game. It is immediately obvious that the developer is interested in his product.

PROS:
- Great story
- Remarkable characters
- Meaningful choices
- Good renders
- Cool mechanics on minigames
CONS:
- Can feel a bit slow paced/grinding when moving around locations on quests

Truly a hidden gem among RPGM games.

I really didn't want to rate this game that low, there is a lot of effort put into it and some parts of the game are really good, but the end product is to be completely honest trash.
Pros:
+ good art
+ good story
+ good world building/characters
+ choices
Cons:
- choices are unclear and some are locked based on previous choices with unclear and often indirect results
- completely meaningless battles added for no reason - battles are rendered in a cutscenes anyway and there is zero depth to it
- bad UI
- no questlog or anything similar
- not much actual content other than story (playing 0.95 version)
- the worst, most garbage design choice that anyone could do making an RPGM game: large, empty maps with confusing layouts
- main area maps get flipped when you enter a building, completely messing up my orientation

Ignoring all cons above other than the last two I would still rate it at 4/5, BUT the garbage map layouts is the exact reason why so many people hate this engine and here author tried extra hard to make it even worse. Half of the time I've spent in this game was figuring out where to go, where it is and how to get there. The fact that going inside the castle flips the map 90 degrees certainly didn't help.

Additionally, if you want to play this game for porn, I would urge you to reconsider, both main characters can barely even touch eachother as a couple a few hours into the game, so this is a really slow burn only saved by the story (and ruined by design) with almost nothing to show for it in the end so far.

Review for Fragile Innocence (ver. 0.95)

The developer put a lot of effort and heart blood in this slow-paced corruption fantasy vn. If you like low-fantasy settings, at least ok writing and don’t mind the slow burn, Fragile Innocence can be recommended without a doubt.

But first things first: My biggest complaint about this gem of a VN is the rpgm engine, which makes traveling between different locations/plot scenes somewhat annoying. Newcomers to Fragile Innocence will have a hard time to find their way around in the castle, whose outlay is somewhat confusing. Gladly an in-game map was introduced at some point, which is very much needed to navigate.

I really think, that renpy as engine would have been much more suitable for Fragile Innocence. Although the dev really put a lot of effort into his game by creating unique in-game sprites and graphics for rpgm. It looks nice, but it wasn’t really necessary to begin with (all that beautiful & unique rpgm art was a waste of development time), because FI is more a plot driven multiple choice VN than a game and therefore renpy would have been perfect as engine in my opinion, which would not only have saved some time for the dev, but also for players during their play-through. After all rpgm usually makes the gameplay tedious by the typical design of quests (Go A, go B, talk to X, talk to Y, enjoy cutscene, repeat, …).

Apart from the suboptimal engine choice I can only praise this VN for its beautiful renders, good animations, interesting story and at least not bad writing and dialogues. FI features in-game music, which is fitting to the setting. The dev doesn’t seem to be a native English speaker, so he made some minor grammar and spelling mistakes, but since I’m not a native English speaker, too, it’s not an issue for me.

Decisions of the two main characters matter a lot. Therefore maybe an official walkthrough is needed soon in order to make the impact of those in-game decisions more foreseeable for the player.
There are lots of different characters so far with their own motives and personalities, but most lack content. Anyway I hope that events & side quests with those characters already in the game will be expanded and filled with life, instead of introducing more and more npcs, which then most likely might lack depth.

For the time being there is already a lot of content, but don’t expect too much hardcore, (yet). It’s just the side-characters, who have sex so far, while the main characters are just being more and more teased. (It doesn’t really go further than a bj, kissing and groping concerning the two MCs). I’m really looking forward to the further development of Fragile Innocence and I’m curious about how the story will unfold in the future.

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Edit (game version Ch. IV v0.02): I've reduced one star, because after such a long development time, lots of characters got introduced, but hardly have content. The dev adds even new characters regularly, but this means, previous ones will remain rather shallow lacking content.

Worst of all some very tedious tasks have been included in the CH IV 0.01 version. It almost felt like a bloody farming simulator. Seriously that's not what the player base is here for and the dev doesn't value our time by forcing us to do such shity, time consuming, tedious and redundant tasks like carry 10 crates into the barn or weed several fields, plant and water them in order to harvest crops etc. WTF?!

The many almost empty large maps are also very much annoying to navigate.

Furthermore playing as Philip turns out to be very boring compared to Isabella. Despite the fact, that Philip unfortunately sees more action than Isabella, which is quite unrealistic, after all a beautiful woman will be confronted with way more advances of the opposite sex, than a male. That's just the way it is in reality: men are approaching women way more often and in a more direct way than the other way around, especially if the guy is shy like Philip. As a matter of fact the male protagonist in Fragile Innocence is seeing way more action so far than Isabella, which is a big disappointment (in CH IV v0.02 he has already received 3 blowjobs in the dirty route, while Isabella is still just fantasizing about sex).

Since half of the development time goes into Philip updates, Fragile Innocence is becoming more and more frustrating due to the very long waiting periods for way more interesting Isabella content (to give you an impression: it takes half a year and even longer for an update).

I begin to lose patience with this game.

Pros :The plot is interesting. The choices actually seem to matter. Plus the characters have interesting perssonalities
Cons : The map can be confusing as a beginner. Some parts of the map are not responsive and might need succesive inputs

I really like the game characters and story is really good, personally I am playing for Isabella side of story and she is not a slut from starting it is slow corruption that is the thing I like about the game on medival environment.

Great game. The story is good (played v0.8), the characters are distinctive and use nice models (a little too muscled for males and too curvy for females, but I'm not complaining). The rpg maker is not justified but there is a potential there because it has some fights. Maybe the outcome of the fighting system should play a more influencing part to the story. All in all we have a great corruption game in Medieval times (love it) and there are so many opportunities for this story that I can't wait to find out what "Dark Love" is planning for the future.

Very confusing level design/architecture, decent writing, decent renders.
I gave up on it after having run around for 15 minutes looking for entrances (which are sometimes pointed out by arrows, sometimes not).
The lighting system is too dark, the tilesets are missing charm.
Overall, don't recommend.

My actual rating for this is 3.5 right now but is subject to change and I'm rounding down for the review. This can change depending on changes to the game.

The Good:
--The story is really interesting and compelling. The Dev has a clearer indication of what an Alpha Male actually is. Too many games assume Alpha Males treat women like shit, violate their privacy, and rape them. A true Alpha Male doesn't need to, especially the last, including sleep sex.
--The images are rock solid.
--I find the push-pull between the religious and sexual aspects to be well presented
--You play multiple protagonists so the potential for some interesting and spicy NTR is a bonus in this game.

The Bad:
--The biggest problem I have with this game is the UI. Several have pointed out the problem with the map. I can verify that this is the single most frustrating aspect of the game. I literally spend a quarter of my time finding the location I am quested to go to. None of the physical passages make any sense and it really is like a maze, making it easy to get lost or turned around even hours into the game (at least for me). The UI is a serious enough problem that I rounded it down to a 3 rather than up to a 4.
--You really have to be careful saving, because key decisions are many minutes deep into a LONG conversation or scene. So, to replay an outcome, the last save point was literally 3 to 5 minutes into a scene. Very frustrating.
--That said it's unclear how much impact these decisions are making on the narrative of the game. You will get very different scenes, but it doesn't impact the overall narrative, at least that I have seen yet.

I will happily revise my rating upward if the UI is improved. Right now it's the biggest problem with this game. If the UI doesn't bother you as much as it did me consider this review a 4.

This story is a slow burn for sure not like most rpg female games where the protagonist is dumb or easily corrupted. The renders are good. My only gripe with this game is the map layout can be difficult to remember and the player can get lost.

Took me a bit to warm up to this one, but I'm fully on board. Just a warning--there's very little actual porn at this point. The author seems fully committed to world-building and ratcheting up sexual tension and attending to multiple story paths. The map seems intimidating at first, but you get used to it pretty quickly. Also--like many RPGM games, be careful not to accidentally blow past major decisions because you hit the enter key one too many times (saving is your best friend). That all said, I really like where this story is going and the author has done well to create a unique and interesting world. If each character's internal thoughts about the princess come to fruition, this could be a juicy game indeed. [DISCLAIMER - I only played the corruption/unfaithful route]

I am really conflicted on this game. The art is great and the story is different and promising, but some of the design decisions really detract from being able to enjoy the game, notably:

- Map layout is a nightmare. Even after having played up to v0.7 I never have any idea where I should go in that damn castle. It is full of dead ends and perspective changes and samey art. It feels like it is made specifically to piss you off as a player.
- Slow game play paired with intransparent decision making leads to situations all the time, where you can't act the way you want (option greyed out). That is not a fun game play mechanic. It is frustrating. Since this is a very typical RPGM with lots of (useless) running around on (deserted) maps, you won't go back easily to change your decisions. Not that you'd know what you need to choose to get the option you want later in the game anyway.
- You dislike RPGM games because they make the same mistakes every time? You'll find it all here. Senseless travel across maps? Check. Basic fighting mechanics? Check. Rudimentary quest/inventory system? Check.

It is a shame. There is a good game in there somewhere, but using RPGM in its worst possible incarnation is really killing it.

Not enough content, the Quality of Life changes are not there. The gameplay is extremely generic, like its not a problem, but its implemented very badly. The graphics, however, is good. This is your typical game with good graphics, but very bad gameplay.

While being a bit text heavy, the story was interesting and the scenes were decent. Although, in its current state, there are not many branching paths. Also, you can be pigeonholed into making a particular choice based on much earlier choices (e.g., if you picked an 'innocent' option, you can't pick a 'slut' option, which then meant you couldn't pick a future 'slut' option and on and on).

The RPG aspects of the game are weak. That is, the battle system is uninteresting - you just mash attack or use a potion. The RPG world is frustrating to navigate as it is rarely clear where you can or need to go. To make the matter worse, most of your time is spent walking to and from locations. The free-roam design serves no utility since there is nothing to do outside the main story line, although it may be the plan of the developers to introduce side quests at a later date. Alas, in its current state, I would have enjoyed this game more if it was a VN.

This game needs more attention.
You can tell the dev is really passionate about his project, the renders and writing are awesome.
I'm a big fan of slow corruption and moral degeneration and this game is in my opinion doing the best job here on f95 so far. Both the female and male protagonists are exposed to erotic encounters and their morality comes into question, awesome.

Only flaw in this game is that the map can be quite confusing in the beginning. But thank god there is no grinding.

Short: You want slow corruption? play it now. You want to fap as fast as possible? Try something else.