Version: Episode 2 Beta 0.40a
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Summary:
This is one of those very few NTR games that NTR-lovers wait years for. It is one of those very unique and special gems that you search and hope to find while filtering f95zone and only finding trash. Sadly this great corruption/NTR story, featuring exactly the right amount of beautifully rendered female characters, has a big downside: The gameplay and the technical problems sadly totally destruct the experience.
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Taking a closer look:
Gameplay
This is where things get ugly. The game is a mixture of a freeroaming game and a visual novel based on the RPGM engine. While that itself does not need to be something disqualifying, the implementation is the real problem here. The game is totally not optimized from a technical and QoL point of view. I experienced heavy FPS drops, slowing the game down significantly. Also you cant fast forward or skip anything. These things make it a nightmare to navigate through the game itself and it is really sad to see, as this might be the only bad point of this game. But its impact is so heavy that it overshades everything else. I really hope the devs start to work on this, otherwise this game will remain an unplayable mess.
This section will be rated very negatively (--).
Content
Atm this game does not have a lot of content to offer. There are some harassment, groping and voyeur scenes but thats it for now. For the very short amount of time that is playable there is a lot to discover though, and the devs also made a lot of assets and stuff for the RPGM world. Thats quite unique I gotta admit!
This section will be rated neutral.
Art
The art in this game is absolutely beautiful. The renders are high quality and the different characters have a unique touch. Also the developers have an eye for good poses and positioning. The RPG Maker itself is comepletly reskinned with new assets and you dont even have the feeling of playing an RPG. You really feel that the devs put A LOT of emphasis on the design and art in this game and there is a lot of love for each detail. Astonishing!
This section will be rated very positively (++).
Story
The story is exactly what I as a long time NTR fan waited for. It features an awesome base for a great corruption/NTR story, and the beginning was already quite promising. Even though the english isnt the best and some minor parts arent translated, it already starts to do its magic.
The progression of the story works very well; you get introduced to the background of the family, get some sweet family moments and story input. Then the antagonist appears and slowly crawls into the family and love life of the MC. The game doesnt fall to common mistakes many NTR games make, such as instant corruption, sex and so on and rather takes its time with a slow corruption (featuring harassment and groping) whitout beeing boring or too slow (not AWAM-style).
The characters feel different and the different relationships also have their unique touch.
This aspect will be rated positively (+).
Adult and pornographical aspects
Sadly there is not a lot of content here yet. Mainly there are two bigger scenes with the antagonist (featuring groping and harassment) and several very small scenes with the MC. Those are done very well and I cant wait to see more.
This topic will be rated positive (+).
Development progress
Cant say a lot here. The game got released and we got one update so far. We will have to see. The dev seems to communicate with the community here on f95.
This section is rated neutral.
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Final conclusion:
The size of the different sections represents its impact. The colors represent wether the impact is positive, negative or neutral.
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Gameplay (--)
Content (+/-)
Art (++)
Story (+)
Adult (+)
Development (+/-)
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Recommendation?
Thumbs up for NTR lovers in search of a good game - but not for immediate digestion, rather to keep an eye on.
Fap you very much?
Mhh... not enough material yet.
Future sight:
This game has huge potential. People are craving for good NTR games as there are far to few. Still atm the gameplay is a huge turn off and sadly has such an impact on the game that I see no other way for the devs then to immediately work on the technical aspects or this game will never shine as it could. People will just give up playing it.
So there is a lot of potential, but not without fixing these huge problems concerning the gameplay.
Last words:
I really would love to see this game shine in the future. I am really not sure whether the bugs/technical problems concerning the RPGM engine can be fixed. If not - its going to be a big downside and problem and I dont know whether it wouldnt be better to switch the games engine to Ren'py. If the devs on the other hand actually manage to fix this and the game runs fluently and without any problems and with fastforward/skip options, then there this game really has the chance to get a place in the olympus of NTR games.