Others - Completed - Harem Rush! Impish Fantasy [v1.01] [MenZ Studio]

Amazing game. Fun gameplay and tons of animated h-scenes. The game does have some rough edges, but it's still among the best action h-games I've played.

The game is also not hard and not grindy at all. I have no idea what the other reviews are talking about. Maybe they played an earlier version?

[GAMEPLAY]
- Combat:
Action "point click" game. Multiple enemies appear. You click them to deal damage. They start charging up their attacks. You must hover you mouse over them and perform a guard or parry to not take damage. You also have skills which can deal lots of damage.

Attacking, guarding, parrying, and using skills all cost different resources, so you must manage these resource while you prioritize which enemies to take down. There was a surprising a lot of variety and interesting enemies. I think almost every second stage or so introduces a new enemy, which helps keep things fresh.

At first, the gameplay seems incredibly boring. But as you unlock more skills, the game actually becomes pretty fun. I ended up running a combo where I would group all enemies in the center with one skill and then nuke them with another. I could melt through waves in seconds. It was very satisfying. I'd just wish more skills were unlocked early on, as the early and mid game are a bit boring.

- Grinding and Difficulty:
The game is not grindy, nor is it difficult. At first I thought the game was really difficult, but then I realized that I had not spent any level up attribute points. After I spent them, the game became reasonably difficult.

The game has 5 difficulty options, ranging. So if you get stuck and don't want to grind, you can always just lower the difficulty.

You can purchase healing potions from the shop and spam them during battle. Despite spamming them during battle, I never ran out of gold and I could always buy them. Though I would recommend saving before trying a new stage, as I don't think you gain EXP if you lose, but you still lose your consumables. So you might as well respect your own time and reload if you spent consumables and lost.

[H-CONTENT]
- H-scenes
There are tons, tons of h-scenes. Almost all h-scenes are animated. Every new enemy has their own scene. When the game starts, the scenes are pretty decent, but as you progress through the game, you can see that the dev gained experienced and became better as he made the game, as the scenes become better and better.

Overall, really solid stuff.

- H-combat
When defeat the enemy, you have the option to start a scene with her. This pauses the combat and plays the scene. Later on, you unlock an ability that automatically traps defeated enemies and play their scene in the bottom right corner of your screen. This is genius. It allows you to view the full scene without interrupting the gameplay loop.

So overall, tons of h-scenes during gameplay. This is not one of those games were you only see h-content every hour or so. You get bombarded by h-scenes if you wish to initiate the scenes.

- Kinks
Like 90% of stuff is male domination, where you, the mc, dominate the enemy. A non-significant amount of enemies also have their own grab attacks where they dominate the mc if you get hit.

Other than domination kink, there are only really stuff likea few tentacle scenes, like 1 or 2 slime scenes, succubus. No stuff like anal. It is pretty vanilla outside of the domination kink.

[STORY]
There is a story but I'm gonna be honest I skipped 99% of it so I won't comment on it. The story is being told like in a VN. If you enjoy VNs you might enjoy it.

[BUGS]
I encountered one crash as well as one bug, where the dialouge wouldn't proceed, so I had to restart. Both of these happened after I had beaten a stage, so I had to do the stage over again. A bit annoying, but not the end of the world.

[CONCLUSION]
Amazing action h-game. Lots of high quality h-scenes. Fun gameplay loop once you unlock a few abilities. If you enjoy domination type games, then this is a must play.

v1.00 "Harem Rush"

Solid art, solid gameplay (JSK: The Big Game), some fun challenge levels. Definitely recommend.

On the bad side, the dev grew bored (a year ago) and didn't really finish the game. It's janky here and there (most annoyingly, the lategame balance is off - either grind for hours or edit the save file). But maybe some jank will be patched.

I would have some sort of hook here but I'm creatively bankrupt and can't come up with one. This review is kind of scatterbrained, much as I myself am at the moment, so be aware that I'll be jumping around from topic to topic and might not explain things too well.

The gameplay is... not that great. It's decent, but it's kind of tedious with really spongy enemies (though that might just be because I was playing on the hardest difficulty for the EXP bonus it gives), and the Elden Ring level windup on way too many attacks. Because holy FUCK, I feel like I'm playing a Dark Souls game when I look at the movesets of some of the girls. A few have attacks where you outright just need to guess what the correct timing to parry is. Looking at you, lightning magic enemies. You should feel bad for what you've done.

The combat isn't particularly hard, even at the highest difficulty, just a bit bullshit. Miss an attack or two and oh, that's like half of my health gone, guess I'll just die. Not very hard to mistime a parry either, due to aforementioned attack windup issue. Like I said, might just be because I was on the hardest difficulty, but... Well, whatever, it's just my opinion anyways.

Two (optional) combat challenges really draw my ire, that being the "sinful Cleric" one and the second "Defeat all enemies at once" one. Don't particularly want to rant about them right now, but if you play them yourself you can probably figure out why I think they're shittily designed.

It seems to crash pretty frequently as well. Like if you try to use a skill after activating targeting too fast, that causes a crash. Or if you try to swap backgrounds in training too fast (or swapping to bg 4, not completely sure), that causes a crash. So... That's a bit, y'know... not great. But the autosave is pretty good at making sure you don't lose any progress, at least.

So, if I'm not saying much good about the game, you probably are wondering why I have given it 4 stars. That's because of the writing, which has given me a few good chuckles here and there, and the H animations.

The H animations are quality stuff brother, trust me on that. Just for them alone, this was bumped over the edge to four stars instead of three. I usually try and play these types of games out before checking out the gallery, just so I can see all the stuff and figure out which I like best, but this one has managed to tempt me out of continuing the story twice already in just as many days. So if that doesn't say something, I don't know what does.

Overall, this was made to be in the vein of Parade Buster, and I can certainly see all the inspiration from it. But... It kind of falls flat on its face where Parade Buster succeeded, is the issue. The gameplay really isn't too great, and that really hurts for the people who want h-games rather than h-games. But if you can get through that, you will definitely appreciate the reward you get from doing so. I know I certainly did, at least.

Reviewed: v0.61

v0.61
Menz studio always delivers pure pornographic gold once every 5 years, but here there's loads of crashes.
You save at the start - crash
you spam too many abilities in combat - crash
you are trying to grind the dungeon - crash
I really hope the final version delivers these necessary fixes, cause everything else is high quality turn based gameplay, with a legit leveling system, with item builds to choose from,
oh and for the love of fuck ALLOW US TO REMAP THE CONTROLS!!!

v 1.0:
so they added some stability improvements and New Game +.
The gallery is not unlocked after beating the game.
They added some kind of single target tentacle stun attack which just teases the enemy, kinda useless tbh.

The game is fun and unique, but there's disadvantages.

The game is good, but it have terrible UX decisions, such as:
- Unplayable if your mouse lacks a middle button
- Sudden dungeon crawler scenario coming up with no warning, making you think it is a black screen bug
- Stage selection with buttons looking like labels, and a button for testing weapon placed exactly where "start next stage" would normally be

There are more UX-related grievances, of course. For example, I have no idea how some weapons work. They're sold, but why would I buy? There are difficulty settings... in the options menu.

The game is fun and nice, specially if you liked Parade Buster gameplay style, and it's both animated as uncensored. But these terrible UX decisions, even if you can get used to them (assuming your mouse have a middle mouse button, which is not so common anymore), makes it impossible to give it five stars.

Reviewed Version: 0.51

simple game but delivers pretty good

its animated which is alwatys a plus and there is a rpg experience if u are into that
the characters and the story are nothing memorable but manage to be funny enough to catch uor attention

A promising start, the game has some interesting real time battle mechanics and despite some performance issues even on high end hardware all the basics are there.

The sex scenes aren't very interesting at the moment, just slow/fast/cum animations with a couple of sound effects but assuming some text lines and different options can be added then this game is well on its way

The gameplay is genuinely good. It challenges you but is never downright unfair and makes you think about what weapons, skills, items and stats you use. In 95% of other porn games it would be just a faceroll. What i also like is that it's lowkey a BF game: the enemy can fuck you and vice versa while being well integrated into the gameplay.

However I'm not into that cutesy moe character design. If it didnt had that i would probably support the creator without a second thought.

As of v0.21:

I liked the game quite a lot. The fighting mechanics are easy to learn and quite intuitive. The X-3 interactive maps are a nice addition to the "go to the stage, foght, win". The story so far is quite okay, nothing extraordinary. (And Truck-kun had ONE JOB and he couldn't even do that right)

The graphics and animations are lovely in my opinion. (Kinda bored with the standard Koikatsu, HS etc)

I am looking forward how this game developes. Here are some things I'd like to see in future versions:

- Some kind of Gallery (Enemys and Events)
- Auto mode with infinite option
- Key assignment

Isekai Lost in Harem Review [v0.11]

Although the game is not finished and has a lot of lack of content, it is fun and original, the gameplay is quite good and it has an easy-to-understand interactive tutorial and it would not hurt to have some more languages, such as Spanish. As for the graphic aspect, it has animations, although having more scenes and more additions to the interface would improve it. The music and sound are good, although it is seen that they have reused from their other video games, I understand that they are starting to develop it, so if they change it in the future it would be phenomenal. Performance is good and I haven't found any bugs.

Finally, in section H it has a variety of girls, the quality is good and it is also animated, to improve it would be to add more scenes and characters, in addition, the game is uncensored, which is a hoot.

I give this game a 7,4 out of 10.

Harem Rush! Impish Fantasy [v1.01]

Since my last review of the game, it has improved a lot, although the final update has been rather poor and a little disappointing, as I was expecting new girls in the last level.

The story isn't anything special, but it's entertaining and fun. I think the gameplay is incredible; it has a certain level of difficulty, the possibility to create different builds, and an RPG aspect that you don't usually find in other games. Perhaps its biggest flaw is the graphics, which had some issues with the game's resolution that made it impossible to play in full screen. Other than that, it's perfectly playable.

In the H section, there is a wide variety and quantity of high-quality, uncensored animations, practically perfect. Perhaps it would have been nice to have some extra scenes with the NPCs, but it's hard to find fault with it.

Although I think they had the ability to do better, I think the result is very good, and I definitely recommend it if you're looking for something fun, such as simply the H scenes.

I give this game an 8.9 out of 10.

Written during 0.11 version with 1-B as the final mission.
It's quite clear where the game draws inspiration and I think they nailed it, animations are rather fluid, combat intuitive with different enemies having attack patterns and timings that do not have the same rhythm. Both molesting and "cutscenes" are top notch and I hope the game continues to expand on what it has done so far and will become a successful rival to the existing series.

0.21 Edit: New enemies are fun, stats system is a bit grindy but passable. Don't like some new enemies being basically recolours but that's a personal gripe.