Ren'Py - Hero Corruption 2 [v1.50] [diogaoo]

Overall it's decent. The porn is good. The mechanics are good. The roguelite/roguelike/roguewhatever gameplay is good. What I feel holds it back is the difficulty. I've spent several hours with the game and done several runs, even to the point of getting about half of the meta progression tree filled out, but I still feel like I'm missing something when I just seem to get destroyed out of nowhere. I don't feel like I can ever get above the two star area difficulty with any confidence.

In addition to the difficulty being lowered just a tad, I'd actually like to see more "progression" for the girls between encounters. Bonnie and Nicole are two examples where it felt interesting to fight them several times due to the increasingly lurid visuals and dialogue, but it doesn't feel like this is integrated for every encounter (like the ballet sisters)? I'd also like to see several "endings" for each girl, especially the aforementioned ones.

This is a new favorite for me so I'll be keeping an eye on the development, and if those two areas are expanded upon a bit, I'd definitely see this being a 5/5.

The game is really cool, rather grindy but overall alot of fun. The girls are good aswell. I see myself just playing it as a game even without the porn.

Only thing I would recomend is that since it is a porn game make it just a bit easier (I know rogelikes are hard and require alot of runs to upgrade yourself but still) or provide more buffs the player can get. Ive had 1 buff in like 12 runs from the fairy and that was at the end of the day so it went almost instantly, it also is a rather hard minigame even without the distraction. Sometimes you fail one skill check and it snowballs into a loss that same fight. Ive made some progress but I have not touched a 3 star area since sometimes I just lose even in a 1 star area for reason mentioned before.

Overall a fun game with great girls, just a little to hard for a porn game.

this game is good but it can be very frustrating at first until you find a good strategy

I love those milavana games, but not the fap simulator with the ticking sound i despise them...

That's a genuine good game, progression, mysteries and grinding for good rewards.

The TS content is for people liking it... i don't. The fact you can't avoid it make a 1 star reduction for me.

Don't expect this game to be the best because it isn't (no erotic sound, no video, diversity of woman). Is enjoyable? absolutely!

way too slow of a grind fest its less of a roguelike and more of a picture clicking sim the gameplay is dry the characters seem to have no soul or tie the world is boring the characters are boring its just boring

this game tickles my brain in a good way.
The H content is all pictures, which definitely is something to consider. Combine this with the main hardcore content being only accessible by losing, and the game ends up being a lot of good eye candy, but nothing to cum about.

However, the gameplay loop is so compelling. It's comparable to a roguelite. The more you play, the more you'll understand the game's mechanics, enemies, and what works and what doesn't. Without fail, I can BREAK the game wide open and essentially guarantee my victory through 100 floors of the tower on pretty much every run I do. And that's because I spent way too long playing this game.

It continues to get good updates, and the latest one really expands the combat in a way I've been enjoying. Definitely worth a try, even if I'm not often blasting thick loads to it.

For the most part, this is exactly what I want out of a porn game. There is constant high quality lewd content and the gameplay loop is fun enough to be entertaining but doesn't take too much focus to distract from the content. The only issue that I have is that the roguelike death mechanic causes the player to repeat the early game content a lot and not see much of the later game stuff. It might be good to add some kind of checkpoint where the player can continue without redoing the entire game, or maybe a "training mode" to practice matches against enemies we have faced before and find their weakness or view their lewd endings.

Looking forward to how this develops with future updates!

Really like the progression system and grinding to get stronger and face stronger enemies. Had a lot of fun playing it.

BUT...

Considering its a porn game, its a huge letdown. No gifs/videos is already a pretty big downside for games using real porn, but it can still work. But having almost no good finishing cumshot pictures really kills it for me. Its really hard to have a climax when all you get is a blank screen at the end and just MAYBE get a picture of a girl with a little bit of cum on her tits or something. 0 good facial/creampie/bodyshots pictures

Hidden gem, simple but engaging gameplay that works with the artwork to get you horrny.
Out of all games that focus on femdom this is the only one I've played that really gets it right.

My only gripe would be that the game is pretty bad at giving you important information. Like how you can't equip things before you get the backpack.

Rating v0.45

While I didn't really like the game in the first few versions, it really improved a lot.

Pros:
-good tutorial
-lots of hot girls/encounters
-many different personalities
-great writing which you can enjoy
-great pictures (while I don't enjoy normal porn, I could enjoy these real pictures)
-nice gameplay which makes it enjoyable to play regardless of content
-game over scenes!!! (amazing)
-sound (much better than no sound)

Cons:
-no story at all, but much potential
-no explanation how the "corruption"-stat really works, we just know it's bad
-fighting gets slightly boring over time, but there are some extras like quick-time-events that make it fun again (but far too little)
-no endgoal or ending, so once you're strong enough to beat everyone you're just stuck there forever until you intentionally lose
-to get all the possible endings, you have to start a new game A LOT - while this isn't an issue for the enemies of the first or even second area, but getting specific endings of enemies of the later areas is a big grind

Overall a good game, very enjoyable even now with lots of potential for improvement. Very excited for the full release!

Great game with a great progression. Gamplay is amazing and the scenes are great in their semplicity.
The only point could be the audio that sometimes is a little bit silly.
Can't wait to play the finished version.

So the whole concept of ejaculation = corruption/game over kinda ruins the game as a whole because you get punished for enjoying yourself and it makes you want to just turn off all the pictures and speed the game up (very unnecessary amounts of waiting for no reason) so that you can rapidly grind to being able to just beat everyone.
The concept is nifty, it's just a poor execution since it's basically all about edging and then losing pretty much everything all at once the moment you climax.
Like, maybe if there were some sort of religious reason where every sperm is sacred or something it would make at least a little sense, but otherwise it's basically edging simulator.

There is some sexy content in here..

Trouble is that to not get to a game over situation, you should try to see as little of it as possible. Also, what you encounter is pretty randomized so if you want to see the trans encounters for instance, you have no way to influence them occuring more often.

The combat system is also pretty simplistic, and to begin with you're basically doomed to lose out fairly quickly and it's game over. You get some experience that you can turn into a better start next game, but basically, it's grinding the same content over and over again, in order to get enough boosts to your next game to get further.

The sexy content could of course be better too, but the game mechanics is what is lacking here in my opinion.

I'd rather want the game to reward the player for doing all sorts of lewd bits

[v0.2b]


hmm. still images, no video, but there are plenty of images to make it hot. imo fappable to multiple girls.... some bugs but nothing serious.

it's a good timewaster. but without videos and the game in its current form imo it'a not 5/5. if it gets more updates i might change rating.

The Problem I have is that you literally stand no chance. Quite often you just 100% lose it doesn´t matter if you understand the game you will lose anyway. Again Aain Again and Again and than you hardly get any kind of growth at all. I have no problem with grinding but that here is just ridiculous.
But the absolute worst is that god damn fucking time limit. what was it, 14 days? thats the biggest crap of the game even if you somehow manage to build yourself up well the game just says fuck you and kills you anyway.

I never even managed to finish the first no matter how strong I was I had that map but never even found that miraculous castle people speak about. And than boom time limit again. Go back to start lose nearly everything.

If you lose because of your own mistakes cool. If you lose because the game fucks with you to force you into the same hour long grind over and over again than its just a terrible game.

Grindy, fun game, ton of content and hidden encounters that require you to read carefully sometimes, good kinks, and honestly, one of the few if not the only femdom battle fuck with game overs in this site, would like to see more of this type.

great game that still needs a lot of work. I have given it 5 stars cause i have played the original and really enjoyed it and expect a lot of that content to be added. One thing i would like are more comeback mechanics for when a run starts badly. Right now you might aswell restart if you get bad rng early and end up gaining a lot of corruption while not gaining a lot of money. Perhaps give the player more options when their corruption increases

Reviewed the game, even got to make the Console Commands be easier to understand! Link to the Full Review (and the Files I made on the game, Info and the Guides in using Console Cheats) here:
[The link]

As for the quick-version:



All Scores:
================ Plot = ----
================ Gameplay = 7.37
======== Mechanics = 7
======== Complexity = 7
======== Uniqueness = 8
======== Replayability = 7.5
================ Scenes = 7.12
======== Visual = 7
======== Written = 7.5
======== Interactivity = 9
======== Replayability = 5
================ Development = 8.25
======== Stability = 9.5
======== Communication = 7
================ Obtaining = 9
======== Price = 8.5
======== Methods = 9.5
================ FINAL SCORE = 7.93

QuickView
Nice Run-based, RPG game, with a bit of difficulty to it, but with generally satisfying gameplay (albeit not huge in general size). The H-scenes are very Hot, and highly interactive, even with the limitations of the game's format (although they all use Pics from Porn Productions, with Credits provided both in the Corners of the pics, and for the Actresses' names, in the Codex entries for each Enemy). The price for the game is also decent (and the Dev is active and dedicated enough to currently deserve some support, too!). I do advise considering using the Console Cheats (that I also explain in my Files), at least after first Completing the game legit, to have the possibility of getting to any wished H-Scene immediately (as the game, sadly, does not have a proper Gallery for the Scenes).

It's February 2023, a year after my initial review, and seeing this game on the update page had me wondering if my initial impressions were a bit harsh.

Upon revisiting this game and playing through a few runs: No, they were not.

First, the good: The game's renpy port has far less wasted time than the online version, as there is no longer an imposed pointless delay between scene transitions, and you can click through text. Also, the fact that it's on Renpy means you can make use of the save editor to bypass all the trash gameplay design this game thrives on.

Now for the bad: The trash gameplay design remains terrible. Further, the Renpy version has far less content than the online version so people who actually like the gameplay loop must deal with the extraneous time-wasting features of the online version, such as unskippable text and aforementioned mandatory transition delay.

it's quite clear that the developer's design philosophy is focused on pointless grind and rng mechanics, with a few bits of simply wasting the player's time thrown in for good measure.

Some time during the past year, this game implemented a stamina system that adds nothing meaningful to the gameplay loop. The system serves only to artificially extend an encounter by reducing a player's attack power the more stamina you expend. While this sounds inoffensive in theory, a player only has three options in combat:
As there's no method of damage mitigation, defensive play, or even items to heal, stamina serves strictly as a way to extend combat and guarantee more damage on the player.

Meanwhile, enemies have no comparable system, and will always do full damage when they choose to attack. This is offset by the fact that enemies each have a set order of attacks they use, but there is no way a player can mitigate an opponent if they arbitrarily choose to impose status effects on the players, attack the player's lust score, or permanently increase a player's addiction.

Addictions themselves are another a terrible gameplay system, acting both as a damage multiplier when enemies of the addiction category attacks you with lust, as well as a skill check system to evade powerful enemy attacks. Unlike checks in other games however, the only progression a player experiences is an increase in difficulty the more addiction a player accrues. Failing a check results in a situation where you can no longer fight back, will take constant damage, gain more addiction, and require another check to escape.

See the issue?

Ultimately, the actual process of playing through game is a waste of time and effort.


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Simple sandbox game with a completely garbage gameplay loop.

The primary design goal of wanting the player to constantly replay the game is undercut by the simple fact that constant loss due to pure randomness is not an example of enjoyable replayability. Arousal system means that every encounter only furthering the danger of the next.

Nothing about the actual gameplay loop is fun enough to encourage repeat playthroughs.

In summary, garbage game design.

Way, way too slow progression. Starting over from zero doesn't even feel bad because starting after 2 or 3 runs through the game gives you next to nothing progress wise. Loot/material drops are too infrequent that at a certain point you're just waiting for the run to end so you can start with your negative stats reset. Also, the inability to click through about 90% of the text ensures the game will get slower and slower as you progress since negative conversations and losing fights are completely unskippable conversations. Do not recommend without some serious reworking and QoL improvements by the dev.