Ren'Py - Hero Party Must Fall [v0.5.2] [Nitrolith]

[4.7 Update]

The game follows a demon lord follower who aims to destroy the Hero's party (surprising, right?). He enters the party and corrupts all the women who, unsurprisingly, have a thing for/with the Hero. Won't spoil the rest (that's what experiencing it for yourself is for)

The Excellent:

This is genuinely one of the greatest games on the site. The story, characters, and themes are top-tier. The story is a nice twist to the "hero defeats the demon" storyline. It humanizes the amount of pressure people with these expectations would likely have. The MC cleverly uses these pressures alongside their personality traits to corrupt them. Unlike other games, plot armor is unnecessary for sex (i.e. drugs, mind control, blackmail, rape). The main character, for all he is, is relatable and has a moral conscience. This is your guy if you like a "bad boy" MC.

The themes I was most interested in were: Corruption, Cheating, Harem, Male Domination, Male Protagonist

*This game is Netori, not Netorare (NTR), meaning MC steals the girl, not the other way around. * If you are a c*ckold, you are probably not the intended audience for this game, but I hope you give it a chance. *

The Okay:

The only area in the game I would slightly change is the mini-games, which can be grindy.

*You probably won't like it if you are not a 2dcg fan.*

The Bad:

Nothing. Its a 5-Star IMO for a reason

Overall:
I have to say the creator has the talent to create amazing games. If you want to spend a few hours on an excellent game, this one will not disappoint. If it does, we probably wouldn't get along

Wow...
I played this game way back when the first version came out in 2021 and didn't think much of it. I thought it was going to be another haphazardly thrown together story and setting just to have an excuse for, and glorify, the creator's fetishes. Little did I know how huge this game would become to me. The story, characters, design, and art have all grown so much since the initial release and they all work together to become one of the best games I've gotten off this site, if not the best. When I finished this latest update I was so confused looking at the icon on my task bar, because it was hard to believe this game with all it's weirdly deep designs and animations could be made on the same engine as all the dime a dozen games that I enjoy but don't leave an impression. I'm literally on the edge of my seat to know what happens next not just because it's fantastic porn, but because it's a fantastic game.

edit: Also I'm not a fan of ntr, but this game has so much more to it than that.

tldr: It leaves an impression

I would say this game is a goat in NTR. The well-designed theme, along with interesting and exciting scenes are just too much for play.

I have played for over 30 hours, and I still have a lot of content left.

But if there is one thing to make this game even more special is that, this game has so far the best storyline I have ever seen in any other games, I am not saying that other games are not good in storytelling.

I would simply say this game has its merit, a very special one, I would rate this game 100 out of 10, impressive work, I subscribed the patron right away.

Thank you for creating such a masterpiece.

By far the best corruption game there it is on this site, and one of the best VNs in general. The overall plot and world is very well built and written, the corruption aspect of the game fits beatifully with the story that is being told and flows naturally in tandem with the game progression, giving the player a sense of reward as the consequences of his degeneracy propagates towards the ending conflict.

The main and side characters alike have very good designs, the demons especially are too hot for their own good. The main girls have very distinct personalities, and it positively surprised me how different each one reacted and dealt with their corruption, varying accordly to their own flawed morals and beliefs. The MC stands out as well, that despite commiting heinous acts each and every update, he still somehow manages to fell empathetyc and beliavable, in spite of how tragic and destructive his path is.

The art is great throught the entire game, and specially shines during the lewd scenes. The scenes in general are very well crafted in dialogue, art and animations, and the ones where we reach a breaking point in corrupting a main girl, when the heavy music starts playing and the beat syncs with the animation loop, is one of the hottest i've ever seen.

I'm not a fan of minigames and sandbox but in this game they don't get in the way, there is little to no grind and the world is easy to navigate. My only gripe in this aspect is how most of the time you have just one event to do per day, so a few seconds are wasted in skipping to the next, but thats just a minor nitpick.

So hyeah, obrigatory game for every AVN enjoyer IMO.

I normally play just RPGM games and download vn's and renpys just for the gallery, but this is one of the rare few games that I enjoyed reading. I've sunk in a good amount of hours into the game without getting bored so props to the dev for making a good story. Great job!

Honestly don't know where to start; heroines, art, writing all are just excellent.

I could go on about how I love the fat asses and abs; because damn this is some great design. I love how you can really see the meatiness in the jiggle and the beauty spots and each of them really tick off a box in the heroine rooster without becoming cliché. Frankly the best parts are the eyes, this is made by someone who gets the erotic, not just porn.

However, what really sets this game apart is that the characters and writing is actually really, really good. Usually I just grow disinterested and start skipping parts but here every cuddle scene, date, or day-to-day interaction really drew me in. Some deeply touching, some incredibly funny.

Nitrolith has done a fantastic work writing genuine humans (or demons) that interact amazingly; every one of them, including MC, is truly the maker of their own misery, obssessed with unrealistic roles shaped by their mental damage. It takes a great author to see these traits of their characters and then really put them to use.

Frankly, I'd call this less a corruption game than a healing game of the Urobutcher variety. The more the characters are broken the more they can be put together again as functioning stable adults... maybe.

Are there flaws? Absolutely: most minigames are placeholders (don't really mind though), the art looks wonky at times, there's several more scenes I want to see in the gallery, and we're still waiting for the final 'heroine' route. It's a diamond, but it also certainly needs polish.

The art is super nice, the writing is phenomenal and the dev is super good with communication and stuff. The girls especially are super interesting and different and their corruption is really slow and well done. Basically anything you can ask for.

An amazing game, probably the best 2dcg I have played. Incredibly sexy corruption story with amazing art that continues to improve. Complicated characters with no clear villains and heroes. Very big quantity of updates with a lot of content. 10/10

A true 'erotic game', with many small mini-games woven into the story. Mini-games are fun, and the ones that are still WIP seem like they will be fun and add longevity to the game.

Characters that feel 'real', are abusive and mean towards each other, and behave in ways you would expect people who do not like each other to behave. Gradual corruption that feels like it happens naturally as opposed to immediately.

Art that is well drawn and stylistic, with many 'stat' pages to further show how corruption affects the characters. No body parts that are out of proportion, except maybe for the main character and main antagonist.

Appeals to different fetishes, but mostly focuses on corruption, domination, and training. An excellent mix of physical and psychological arousal, and an incredible understanding of how 'power' and 'control' is/can be arousing.

A story that asks some questions, and tries to find answers to them. Forces you to think about the issue, then lets your mind wander to truly debauched and depraved things until the next time the questions are posed.

A developer that delivers on his promises and communicates properly.

What more could you ask for? This is the kind of developer that should be supported.

So far the story is pleasing and the art is quite unique and great. it really does alot to paint the MC in the grey area, where he is certainly not a hero but he has justificasions for the actions he is doing. The hero is similar in that regard, as he is portraid as nothing more than a human with extraordinary powers. The female characters are amazingly design both visually and in writing, which makes the story really compelling and engaging.

The mini-game is under construction but writings are so good. The situation and lines are fantastic. Dot style grapic is also the charming point of this game. Lewd and erotic. Definitely 10/10. There are well-made background story for each heroine. And how the hero turn into a masoistic cuckold bitch is really great.

Starts off pretty decently but over time throws out all the carefully developed tension just to then devolve, with the help of an idiotic plot-undermining twist, into a straight up slide-show of cock-crazy fiendery.

Besides that, the game has a general problem with pacing. While some claim "slow burn", instead of an expected 0 to 10 progression it's more of a 9 to 10 one, just stretched dramatically and spread very thinly over an unreasonable amount of pillow talk of varying degree of quality and then further padded by a forced character swap.

Speaking of. Most of the characters who are not Cecille range from uninteresting to straight up irritating. Their arcs are lame, the choices and interactivity nonexistent, they serve as nothing but padding, intended or not. Having Sera forced on you just as you start to finally get somewhere with Cecille was truly the mother of all boner killers.

The quality of the art is bizarrely inconsistent. While some of the artwork is MAGNIFICENT (the character sprite you see during dialogue, the non-penetrative "training" art), in the rest of it the quality takes a nosedive and all the anatomy gets thrown out of the window.

It seems clear that there are at least two artists working on the game and while I genuinely don't wish to offend anyone, one of them is MUCH better than the other one to the point where it feels like false advertising.
Seriously, just compare the training artworks during a hand job and the ones during penetrative sex.

All in all, much like many other games, this one has plenty of potential. Whether it's going to be floundered to further bloat the game with more characters instead of improving the ones already there remains to be seen. Considering the fact that the main girl's arc is basically already done, it's not looking too hot.

Great game, art and writing wise. There's a lot more content to this than the version number might leave you to believe. The maledom and rare femdom (pretty deep into the game) are both executed well and to me show a good understanding of what makes each side of the coin hot.

Writing wise it was sexy when it needed to be with the unexpected upside of non-cringe inducing unexpected jokes and references.

half-cooked, as the majority of patreon game, the gameplay is non existent and it slowly turn into a slideshow as time progress (it will proly be fixed in the future i guess, but the elena sequence is an ugly powerpoint presentation as it is). I found the story boring, it has good premices but it's poorly executed.

Play it only if the art and fetishes are your poison.

I am at odds if i want to enjoy this game or not. Some content is good (Mostly Cecille. She is by far the most interesting character).
But then on the other side, its marred with bad mechanics and old art. Like some of the art is good, and i like 2d art drawn with such care, but then that's only a small part of the game. Otherwise its really bad.

My biggest complaint, which is actually the major reason why i reduced 2 stars is Vi. Even after playing for so long, i cant comprehend her need in the game. I have a big problem with MC starting with a romantic partner, but here it goes further with her being so irritating and having that kid like body.
i dont care what creature she is, i absolutely detest such body types in porn games.
But even with my personal tastes aside, what's really her need in the story. Like if the MC needs an assistant, that very well could have been anything else, like some spirit.
Anyways enough ranting about "That" thing, this game needs a rework, possibly improving on art and mechanics and absolutely remove Vi.

Easily one of the best hentai games I ever played,

Just out of principle I hesitate to say 10/10, but for this game I want to.
Despite only being version 0.4.x implying it's far from complete, there's plenty of content to get your rocks off, there's a good bunch of hours and this game isn't stingy with sex scenes, you get at least one every in-game day.

I can't wait to see how awesome this game's gonna be once it's complete.

I tried to play this game a few times, and each time I had to stop. The obvious positive of the game is the art. I'm willing to bet it's what draws most people to it, and for good reason. It looks great. The gameplay needs work, but most reviewers already pointed that out. Having said that, I do think there are better pixel art games on this site (which I'm not allowed to name).

Now for the writing. I will preface this by saying that I know the characters don't stay 100% the same in the story, however, they still have their baseline archetypes that I will discuss. I'm increasingly becoming less and less tolerant of games that have "anime" or the honey-select style. The reason is that I noticed that a lot of games that have this art style use generic anime characters.

I keep seeing the same praise lobbed at these types of MC's. "OMG the MC is not a nice guy! It's so cool seeing an MC be tough for once!", etc etc etc. Meanwhile, every other anime-style game has this archetype of MC. It's not new at all. In fact, at this point, I'd say making an MC aggressively nice would be a breath of fresh air compared to all the "awesome cool cold steel the hedgeheg" style MC's I keep seeing in anime games.

Now I know what you're probably thinking. "It's a corruption game you idiot, The MC isn't supposed to be nice." I understand that, but that doesn't mean that the MC should therefore be a cardboard cutout of every other kind of corruption MC (especially ones with the anime aesthetic). In fact, I'd think it would be even more interesting if a game was made that could somehow make an MC try his hardest to be a nice person even though his actions cause corruption, but he was too psychopathic to understand. That's the opposite of what we get in this game and those like it.

I keep thinking of all the cringey anime I used to watch as a twelve-year-old and how "cool and dark" the characters were. Not to mention the copy-paste priestess character, the copy-paste fighter, etc.

I don't hate this game (In fact I wish the author luck going forward), but I do think it's overrated.

It's different from others in the good way. Must try!!!!!
200 characters hmhm
New style : Check
Good art: Check
Actual Corruption: Check (*)
(*): Slow-burn corruption with a good amount of content, if you tired of instant corruption this is your game!

Goated dev. The game is very straightforward, the writing is solid and the art/scenes are good. The characters do follow certain tropes but that is to be expected in an NTR corruption game. The dev is very active in their discord and responds to a lot of feedback and explains their gaps between updates. This is a dev and game worth backing

Very immersive writing. Characters that you love to hate. A great read.

I have to write at least 200 characters, so I'll just add that while some gameplay elements are unfinished, the character development of the main cast was the main attraction. Some elements are under development and are somewhat indicated, but it can be slightly confusing.