Ren'Py - Hero Party Must Fall [v0.5.8 Test 1] [Nitrolith]

probably one of the games I'm most looking forward to on this site. some of the best character personalities I have played with and really good art. Can hardly wait for every update and the full release

very good story with somewhat less graphics but I don't dislike it in fact it improves it because it seems like pixels especially the scenes are good that you can see not only the torso of the girls but also the feet of the whole body and this animated very good game

UPDATED FOR v0.5.5
From 5* to 4*
This update is because the art style has changed in recent updates and I don't like it as much anymore.
The rest of my review below is still relevant.

The change in artstyle is a shame, I loved the unique pixel-art this game had since there are so few pixel-art games with detail on the market.
The latest images just look too generic for my taste, you can see images that look just like that on any image board.
It completely erases the characters' unique facial features. I don't mind if characters evolve visually, but when it's to make them look more like generic weeb-bait teenager-looking babes, that's extremely disapointing.

Killing a unique feature of your game to replace it with AI-assissted generic art is definitely... a choice :/

I suppose the creator have their reason to do so.
I'm less interested in the project now on my side when it used to be in my Top3 best adult games ever.

I wish the creator the best of luck though.

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V0.2.6

★ ARTWORK
Gorgeous pixel-art, varied fully animated scenes

★ STORY
Engaging enough, but it could be more "corruption" based instead of the gradual bittersweet romance. That's a choice, but I prefer my corruption with less romance. There's a bit too much dialogue I think, and the worldbuilding isn't strong enough to carry so much backstory for the characters. To put it bluntly: I didn't really care for the characters' backstory beyond their broad traits, and I also don't think it matters for the experience.

★ GAMEPLAY
Basic, but doesn't waste my time with useless grinding of stats, and I appreciate it. The speed at which everything unlocks could be re-balanced, but I think that will come as new content drops. For now it's fine.
I'm concerned about the "dungeon" phase however, I don't know if that will add to the experience or distract from it. A lot of porn games don't realise that sometimes a short intense experience is better than a long drawn-out one (well, that's an issue even in regular games now that I think about it !).
Same goes for the outdoor scene, it needs work ! (but I understand the intention and think that's a better way to add gameplay content than the dungeon. Or make it so the dungeonning feeds into the porn content instead of being its thing on the side)

★ SEXUAL CONTENT
The fully animated scenes really bump this game from a 4 ★ to a 5 ★

★ ENJOYMENT
I had a very good time with this demo and can't wait to see more !


FINAL VERDICT
★★★★★
This is a game I will easily recommend and follow as it progresses. It has a strong foundation with its pretty pixel art and kinky animated scenes.
The corruption content could be harsher on the main heroin, with more degradation, but that's a matter of personnal choice.
Overall a neat exeperience that doesn't waste too much time to get going and progress.

While the backdrop of the plot could be taken from a dumb H NTR story, the characters are a lot more interesting and less tropey than anime. Well written. I also like the art and character design a lot. Not only is the dialogue more realistic, the slight "imperfections" (well muscled or a bit thick) that you wouldn't see in most anime styles also set it apart in a good way.

An improvement in QOL I would suggest would be to add a marking of some kind to indicate whether characters have new dialogue to say or if it's exhausted.

Solid amount of content, lots of animations, high detail art, good dialogue, steady development pace, oh and they've actually focused on adding content to a couple girls instead of adding 20 girls with 2 scenes each.

I don't even like NTR and it's still one of the best games on F95.

This one's an absolute gem. The strength of the writing carries it over it's many deficiencies. Yes, the art is workmanlike. Some aspects like Dungeon raids don't work at all. Yes, there's a grind involved. Even with all that, you'll find the dialogue after every mini event highly engaging. The game tells a netori story to perfection and the corruption(literal as well as figurative) is intriguing to follow through. The primary LIs are part of a clichéd band of heroes yet still, their characterisation is distinct and well thought out. Even our hapless victim is written as the sort of sorry fella who's too far up his own asshole that you won't feel bad stealing his girls. The main character Mars isn't one note like many MCs and seem to be genuinely figuring his emotions out about the ordeal passed on to him.

Overall, for a new dev team, this is an incredible debut. Can't wait for more.
Edit: One suggestion for the future even though the dev has hinted at this for the future: emphasize the corruption aspect more by having the girls change their behavior, clothes, and personal grooming habits. Body mod options would be cool to have.

Even in its early state, this is an absolute gem. The writing and overall concept are some of the best I've experienced and the art has really grown on me. The unique corruption angle this game takes on is insanely good, the last few updates have gone in a wonderful direction imo, loving it!

Sure it's not perfect yet but there's fair warning for that, and what's there is pure gold. Wishing the devs the absolute best of luck with this game, and am really excited to see it develop. I'd love to see it do well for itself!

fucking top notch game. game play is the roughest atm as its mostly a number go up and enjoy the view style. Dev has obviously stated their intentions to add to it down the line. Right now the greatest aspect is by far the art and story. Nitro's understanding of characterization and compelling naratives. the corruption actually makes sense and the seduction is perfectly written. art only gets better and better also.

Incredible game with lots of potential. A story that takes itself seriously with characters actually having personalities and relatable thoughts. The animation's fluidity and the way messiness is shown is the best I have ever seen in any 2d game so far.
The character design of the female cast is also fantastic, hopefully there will be more body-types in the future.
The art is fantastic with great details and shades all enhancing various body-parts and fluids, which add lots of flavour for the scenes themselves.
The only real negatives were sometimes annoying to find events not triggering and no way to lose curse faster, forcing me to grind and skip a lot. Another small nitpick, which might be a fault of RenPy itself is that I can't load back into saves after specific triggers have happened (automatic saves), which caused me a lot of headache when trying to find where my save broke and where it didn't. Ultimately I found a save online to skip certain parts to continue the story. Another issue for me is a lack of control for certain animations as I had to hold down the mouse button and drag it to keep certain actions going, perhaps I missed something but that's how I dealt with it. Also sometimes the animations would spaz out, doing the loops 5 times in the span of a second so I had to change the options just to make it reset (might have been an issue with Cecille specifically as only her animations had it happen, the part where she is teasing/grinding on top while squatting specifically).
Story-wise I really enjoy how the characters unravel like layers from an onion, showing depth and emotions rarely seen in many h-games, which also greatly enhances the h-nature of the game for me personally. I also found it satisfying to have a character in an abusive situation actually caring about the other person and having boundaries they actually respect and havings feelings for their partner, rather than being remorseless and doing things without any thoughts about the consequences of their actions.
My hope is that in the future the quality will be as good or even better and should this game be complete and I believe this has the potential to be a masterpiece in its class. With more voice-acting it would raise the quality another notch higher as well, albeit it's unnecessary if it can't be done well enough as it is fine as it is. Lastly I would really like to have an option to unlock all scenes/animations gallery, mostly because I couldn't access all content when locked in a certain scenario. and playing through the long story and grinding via skipping is tedious.
As it is I am most interested about Sera and Mars' storyline even though the game is linear and you can't really choose one path specifically.
My first review since this game was so good I felt I had to rate it. Keep up the good work Nitrolith. (played v.0.2.6)

v0.2.6

Easily one of my new favorite games on the site. The writing is amazing, the sex scenes are extremely well-executed, and the art style is simple yet endearing.

As it is still in-development, however, there's a few things that should be noted.
1. It's a bit of a grind
- Personally, I'm not one to complain about grinding, but having to skip through the days to see a new scene got old quickly and messed with the "erotic flow" of the story.
2. Somewhat misleading tags
- I went into this game expecting to see some trap content, as the tags stated. The hero is definitely feminine, but there's not really any trap content as v0.2.6. I'm definitely planning on returning when it's added though.
3. Linear routes
- The story itself is extremely linear. I'm not too interested in the Demon Queen (compared to some of the other characters, Vi especially), so being forced to interact with her to progress the story wasn't great. As I mentioned above however, the writing is great, so it wasn't too much of an issue.

In short, I can't wait for the next update!

EDIT (v0.4.7):
The game has only improved. I genuinely think this is one of the best games on the site. The dungeon is still a bit useless, but the worldbuilding is great. If you're looking for a strictly porn game, look elsewhere, but if you're looking for a good game in general this is it. Overall I'd rate it around 4.7

Absolute fantastic game! The history is really well made! I started play this game with low expectation, but it showed one of the best games i've ever played! can't wait to see more history and the development of characters

v. 0.2.6

tl;dr recommended

You know a game has good writing when even with all the superficial pornographic BS games offer, there are still parts where one can genuinely relate to. This game has it sometimes.

Otherwise, i like the art and the characters and weirdly the woman is this game have the most character depth
But the MC? Even the hero while beeing cucked all over the place isnt as pale as the MC. Hes just... i dont know... kind of boring.

Besides this there are two parts i dont like:
1. Its to "grindy" in the way that you have to do every day more or less the same actions till you get your curse bar full and even after this, you need several day more because there are a shit ton of eventlike sequences after every day wich are good nad all BUT its just tedious without a skip button for the training progress.

2. and thats my personal prefference -> 2 girls got a curse but you can only see it in the character overview. Would be a lot hotter if you would actually see its progress on the body while playing.

Great game, you are the one who cucks. Writing is kinda cringe and the game can get boring if u play in long sessions, but the art and animations are quite good, really impressive for a new developer.

Dis is some good shit right here, "corruption" and netori done right.

The description/ summary really doesn't do the game justice imo, you are not some sadistic asshole (well yeah, you kinda are) destroying some wholesome 100 party, these characters and the interactions you have with these girls have some depth to them. Don't want to go into exact details here but after finsihing all of the current content I'm getting some "you are the actual good guy" vibes here which I really like

Some people have complained about the art and honestly I'm not seeing it, think it looks grand and the fact that a lot of it is animated is a huge plus.

I don't like all the fetish stuff in here (milking/ cum drinking) but not gonna hold it against the game, some folks are sure to be into that stuff

Looking forward to finally being able to dick down the two party member girls, keep up the good work

Reviewing 0.2.6:

A pretty incredible find. I avoided this game for a while due to the off-putting art, but I was foolish to do so. The game is great, and while the art is hit and miss (I cannot lie, some of it is quite unpolished and bad) generally speaking the quality of the presentation is actually one of the best aspects of this game, with beautiful animations and a very 'soft' and organic way that the artist draws women (in contrast to the immovable bolt-on tits many other h-game artists tend to draw).

Combined with the strong writing, heavy focus on the mentality of the characters, the slow-burn corruption aspect and most important the effort and care that the game creator has given to making the character feel 'alive' - i.e. flawed and warped in their own ways, with very distinct personalities that make them feel so much more developed than the average HRPG fare.

tl;dr this game is great, go and play it if you like corruption/NTR or just beautiful animations in games. I've given it a conditional 4/5 rating, but really this rating only reflects the unpolished and incomplete nature of this game at the time of reviewing it. When this game is done I think it should easily qualify to be a 5/5.

A great game, one of the best I've played.

Positive:
- Plot and script - 9/10. One of the few games that is really fun to play and read dialogues.
- Corruption - 10/10. Seduction is spelled out perfectly, not too fast, but not too slow either.
- Art style - 8/10. The drawing is good, really lewd.
- Sex scenes - 7/10. In general, they are interesting and good, but after a while I get tired of looking at them, I want to skip in order to move the plot further.
- Soundtrack - 8/10. Surprisingly very interesting and pleasant music.

Minuses:
- There are few options for interaction. It is clear that the game is in development, but it would be great to add several different options to spend a game day, it is possible to introduce new characters with whom you can immediately interact.

Overall - 9/10.

(0.2.6)
The writing is really good, corruption is proceeding at a nice pace so far, biggest concern is gonna be choosing a route, but theres so much potential

Lavinia + (Planned Tags: Trap) = Holy Hellel

Most games on this site have acceptable at best writing, but I actually bothered to read the text and even chuckled a bit during character interactions.
My only complaint with the game is the lack of things to do, which will likely be fixed as the game is updated, I don't write reviews for porn games, but the writing has earned it.

I never think I will get netori masterpiece. Good story and gameplay . I really love milking scene lol.
Just be honest I really hope if not make priestess breast too big in the future.
For the future development I advice that the MC get more power to defeat demon king or hero after they fight each other (?) IDK just advice. I really get vibe that MC has mysterious power and will get help for the mother demon