RPGM - Completed - Ideology in Friction Append [v1.05 + DLC] [ONEONE1/Kagura Games]

Nice story and characters. There was actually one moment where I got teary eyed. I don't have problems with the combat either. The art is okay. I don't hate it, but I'm not particularly impressed with it either.

It's just that, towards the end of the story, it takes itself WAY too seriously and the dialogues just keep going on and on and on.... Like, dude, this is an H-game, not an anime or smth. So yeah, my only real gripe was the ultra long dialogues towards the very end.

The plot is absolute bullshit, battles are atrociously designed (everything dies from 2-3 standard attacks), and all H-content is gated by defeat but it is impossible to lose in battle unless you do it deliberately.

deeply touching story,some chatacters and some reletionships in the game between those characters i didn't expect to see..if we are brave and bold enough to reach our hand and help each other,then anything is possible..and that's .i am not gonna talk about religion,although i think i should,but that would be a hypocricy. ok,so i completed 3or 4 missions,then i lost 2..and this is when the real game play starts.after the end of the game i ended up with Annette in the same room talking about this journey. i did not lose any other mission while i was doing work for the other team.also i did not complete a lot of the sex stuff,but the story herself is amazing

Overall not a good game. Art is very good. Story is dogshit - way too long and not interesting at all. Voice acting is good. The rape scenes mid combat are good, but thats pretty much all youre gonna get. There are a shit ton of scenes which I saw in the gallery, but i have no idea how to unlock them. I would enjoy this game way more if it was easier to obtain the scenes. It is way too much of a grind to build up lewdity to 'level up'. I had to get groped like 100 times just to level up the breast exp. Would not recommend. 6.3/10

I wish I could go back in time and assassinate myself for buying this game. Anyone who gives this a higher rating should probably donate their brain to be studied for bad taste. ONEONE1, in the span of one game, makes me never want to try their games ever again. The grinding for Hstats to see ero scenes are greater than a Tony Hawk game jfc.

Disclaimer: I haven't 100% completed this game—I've finished the Knights route and the Resistance route. I'm pretty sure there's an evil route somewhere but I lost all patience with this game. This is my first ONEONE1 game and it sure doesn't make me want to play any other.

So, where to start? This is a corruption RPG with a female warrior protagonist. No need to be an expert of the genre to know where this is going.

Story
Mediocre. It's clearly inspired from Attack on Titan which isn't an issue on its own but there's something as being too derivative. Pacing is a total mess with major problems being solved way too fast or completely glossed over from one route to the other. Very little of the world at large is known, this is clearly not a game you play for its story.

Characters
Very bad. Main characters are standard anime archetypes with little to make them original. The protagonist, Clacier, is a tsundere knight girl with a chip on her shoulder constantly bickering with her childhood friend Falke, which makes everyone ship them because of course.
You have the supposed second protagonist, Annette, who is really inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, only put in the forefront at the end of the game by pure writer fiat.
You have the noble with drill hair.
You have a nearly 1 for 1 knockoff of Levi Ackermann.

But as much as main characters are generic, the villains are much worse than this. They're so over-the-top evil their scenes become comedy instead. Imagine the following: a villain blackmails a man by kidnapping his daughter. Once the man did what was asked by the villain and asks to see his daughter, the villain gleefully tells him they're together forever because he just fed her to him. Then the villain shows a memory-playing device of him raping the daughter while grinding her flesh and bones to a pile of mush. All while laughing about how the look in the father's eyes makes him cum.

Yeah that's this game's villain writing. I'm not asking for a literary masterpiece here, but not even edgy shit like Akame ga Kill went so comically far. This is simply ridiculous.

Gameplay
Even if this game had been marketed as "baby's first RPG" it would still be insultingly easy. Final Fantasy Mystic Quest was harder that this. There is no risk of failing, ever, unless you choose to. Everything is so weak, battles are just a formality. Bosses hyped up as terrible opponents fold like tissue paper.

To make this worse, in order to access the Resistance route (and the third one which I suspect branches off from it) you need to fail repeatedly. When even failing once is literally impossible without choosing to. Several character sub-plots (and the H scenes associated) are also unlocked this way. You can beat everything the game throws at you easily without ever changing your starting equipment and with only the experience gained from bosses. It's a wonder why the game ever bothers with providing an "Easy" difficulty. This is downright insulting.

Don't expect the map exploration aspect to be better. "Dungeons" are not very long as are designed in very similar ways throughout the game.

Graphics & Sounds
Not bad, and the only reason I don't give the game 1 star. Production values are high, with fairly competent use of tilesets, a lot of character art, and full voice acting for every female character. Music, on the other hand, is only so-so with a few number of tracks.

Porn
It's a corruption game. Clacier starts as a prudish virgin. She can lose her virginity herself by masturbating with a dildo, but the quickest way is to get her raped by losing a battle... which, as said before, is something you'll have to do on purpose. The second she loses her virginity, she becomes completely OK with prostitution. Furthermore, her non-virgin pheromones allow 99% of enemies to now rape her in battle, even if they have to lunge at her and magically make her armor disappear. It also does nothing to help them win.

More scenes can be gained by upping sex stats but doing this is one hell of a grind. A really boring, terrible grind. The H-scenes themselves aren't bad, thanks to Clacier's VA, but I would hesitate to call them good either, with the exception of a few ones.

I could not unlock pregnancy content. My guess is that you need to lose against a certain boss, but I don't know which one and I'm not the kind of person who likes to play games with walkthroughs. It also may or may not be route-locked. A pity, but just a single drop in the ocean of disappointment.

Final words
I really can't recommend this in good faith.

Fucking waste of time

Grinding with simple ass unskippable sex scenes in order to progress.
Only one clothing option (the other one is naked)
No progression in sex scenes, constantly the same one

Threw one day of my life away

Ok so lets begin with saying how much i played. Both campaigns over the span of 6-7 hours. Didn't do 100% myself

So starting with the good. Art.
Moving on to the bad, pretty much everything else.

To unlock further in sexual stats you will need to grind the hell out of the old encounters since natural progression of the story and doing scenes once for completion is nowhere close to enough to raise the skills enough to keep finding scenes. I Actually went and scripted a AutoHotKey script that just spammed getting molested and let it run 5-10 minutes since that was the most efficient way to go about it. Now repeat this 3 more times for the other skills.

The difficulty is absolutely nonexistant so much i wonder why they even made a combat engine (I actually know that, its for the tiny in-battle scenes you can do). After the first 30 minutes the basic mobs don't scale at all for XP anymore so its all contained within boss fights. And they will be so easy even on normal you can 1-shot the final boss with no grinding. You don't even need gameplay to do it since you activate berserk mode which grants a attack boost AND turns on auto combat. So the strongest buff of the game actualy makes you not play the game.

I STRONGLY advice to just download the 100% savefile and go through the scenes list. Maybe you can play either campaign with NG+ gear/levels just to speedup the combat by not needing to heal, which saves you 10% of that time.

Choices and outcomes have 0 consequence for anything later. If you lose other characters come in and solve it and the net result is identical. The only exception is the very stupid route choice based on if you lose the missions in chapter one. Story is also mediocre and below. I


TL;DR. just download a finished file.

Right, having played Ideology in Friction by ONEONE1/Kagura, here comes a review. Before getting into it - I played this game, took a long break, and started it again, so I don't really remember the early parts of the game.

Ideology in friction tries to do a lot, and fails at most of it. The switches who you play as between Clacier (the blonde) and Annette (the blue/gray haired girl). It's mostly Clacier though. Anyway, the game is a rather standard RPGM game in the sense that there is loads of meaningless grindy combat. There is some in-battle sex/rape, but it's really not particularly interesting to watch.

The combat: The combat fills a lot in this game. But it is exceptionally poorly balanced. For a game that is so combat focused you'd think that the developers would at least attempt to make it interesting. I don't exactly remember how early game combat is, but mid-late game it has become trivial. There is litterally nothing that can challenge you, and you can even get the damage you take down to zero. It's ridiculous.

There's also the issue with the battle sex/rape. It's a problem that is rather persistent through many of these games. The problem is: the enemy can rape you in-battle, which completely neglects all defense you / clothing you may have. On the other hand, having clothing durability can be quite a chore to manage.

The corruption: I imagine that most players of this game may either like the combat part or the corruption part. Well, the corruption is insanely slow. Just to really underscore it, I decided to raise my stats, which only to my knowledge can be done through H-events. I simply spammed those events. It was unenjoyable and boring.

The story: I often play porn games because I like the story in them. It makes i more interesting for me, and allows me to be invested in the characters, something which obviously is beyond standard porn. This game has a lot of story. It's inspired heavily by Attack on Titan, and some of the characters almost look like them. While there is a lot of story, it is also thoroughly uninteresting. I shit you not, I held the skip button (press enter and hold ctrl) for several minutes. The story is uninteresting, way too long, and that means that I'm not interested in most of the characters.

I'll summarize it here:

The Good:

• The art is decent enough, although not stellar in any way.
• Many different areas, and it is quick to get to them.
• There are not too many unnecessary areas that adds nothing to the game.
• The game actively tells you where to get the H-events, which really great. This way you can decide whether you want to go there or not.

The In-between:

• There are many H-events, which is great, but it takes forever to get to them because of the slow corruption system.
• Pregnancy system is really bland.

The Bad:

• The story is long, and thoroughly uninteresting.
• The combat is trivial. Not event the bosses gave me a run for my money. This would be fine if it wasn't so combat focused.
• Battle rape/sex has some mechanical issues - the enemy can rape you even though you are clothed/defensive. That doesn't make much sense.
• The battle rape/sex is really poorly made.

If I had to sum up my feelings after playing Append [1.04] is that it has production value with poor execution of almost all of its elements.

The story is so simple and surface level. It sets up a lot of characters and lore that could be interesting but fails to deliver a compelling story. A lot of the characters are one dimensional and wasted. The bad guys especially one was hilariously bad, he's written like what an edgy child would think a bad guy needs to be.

The RPG element is too easy on normal setting making it feel less like a game and more like exercising a finger as you pressed enter over and over. Even with minimal effort you're too overpowered so loss is a choice not a chance. The dungeons are short and boring and nothing to look at. No puzzles and it's very easy to dodge through the enemies.

The music is pretty decent and so is the voice acting. I don't really have anything negative to say about either.

The sex and story paths are convoluted compared to most games I've tried. This game actually punishes you for being overly sexual in a way but also is lacking on a balanced "good" path too. The sexual combat felt like an afterthought, it's pointless and really doesn't add anything of value sadly. Even elements like the "brothel network" just feel like a waste in how they're implemented.

The artwork was pretty good I only wish it extended more to the actual story too. Since the writing wasn't that impressive it would have been nice to have more to see on the battlefield. As far as sex scenes go there is a decent variety but just like with the story paths the implementation of these scenes is poorly done. Unless you read a guide before playing it will be easy to miss out on elements you may have wanted to see.

This game has no replay value, just trying to read the second main path was a chore which is really a shame.

Overall it's a strong 2/5 stars.

The Storytelling is a bit confusing at times and makes no sense at some point later on because of the choices the main hero has done ,the reactions from other characters are weird. Apart from that the translation is realy good compared to other jap. games.

So the the whole game seems to be copied from another one and changed but thats not a bad thing ,only the characters feel like a fake because of this

The game mechanics are quite fun,just the fact that alot of the content is
hidden behind becoming an evil maniac is hard to swallow.

The Combat Animations look a bit weird if the main heroine is naked while beeing seen from the side -her breasts look a bit out of place.

Im normally not a fan of games where the hero(me) gets raped over and over but this one is funny to play as i get the choice to be either a badass knight or an evil bitch.

Version: v1.03

The story is an absolute bore, its painfully long with a lot of background explanations, flashbacks and just a seemingly endless dialogue.
The gameplay, is alright, its good for a pretty basic RPGM, yet i feel that the very nature of its very default gameplay is detrimental to it, after all you got two pretty big Japanese hentai game studios working together to make a game, it should have been so much more.
Plus it feels very rough to play the game itself, bugs are numerous, level design feels very lazy and the progression is a joke.
Art and sex scenes are good, yet i really could not call it great, considering Kagura games made the art, it could have been more, yet it just feels like the gameplay, its nothing much.

A gem that could have been refined, yet was left in its rough shape.

I've shoulda trust my previous experience with ONEONE1 games. But despite it all. I gave it a try.

If you want pointless melodrama with atrocious corruption pace, you came to the right place. This game is match made in heaven for dudes with 4 working synapses that love to blueball themselves for 16 hours. And once you survive all that rubbish you are rewarded with broken battle sex animations that have 2fps loop cycle that last 4 seconds before they end.
So the way you gonna jack is pressing "seduce" button every 5 seconds until you reach that sweet bliss.
HUGE game with alot of pointless battles, pointless events, pointless progression, items and NPCs and 98% of dialog that will make you vomit 9 times per event. That's how interesting story is.
Probably written by a 14yo edgy emo thinking that blonde Sephiroth cool bookworm is a character I'll care for. Or that edgy big ass sword dude wanna be Berserk I don't even know his name. Annoying shit.
Pregnancy? What pregnancy. System pregnancy? - Lemme tell you something, you'll finish this game 7 times before you even figure out where that shit is. And how underwhelming it is. Is it even worth it? NO. Even if you follow a goddamn train(walkthrough)

Played any ONEONE1 game before?
If yes. THIS GAME IS THE SAME POOP.
Different sprites. ((except battle sprites they are recycled for fourteenth time)not joking).
And honestly I worry for every single person giving this game anything more than 3 stars.
Bloated mess gated behind some weird progression and even weirder story. Avoid it like a plague, or give it a try, if you wanna be stupid masochist like me.

Lots of hating here, but I agree with most players. The game feels like a parody of "Attack on Titan," only with a female MC. Conversations are too long, flashbacks and background stories boring and irrelevant, the plot unentertaining... I could go on.
However, the game has some pretty good graphics, conversations voiced - even though I don't understand a single Japanese word - but, well... it's an average game according to me.
The developers put in a lot of work to complete it though, guess that's why I don't feel the need to complete it - they've already done the completing for me

I wanted to play it, not to read a mediocre story that's jammed down my throat and interrupts whatever I'm doing, it's hardly related to the main character as well.

This feels like a complete downgrade of their previous large game and while a direct comparison might sound unfair, the fact everything got worse is undeniable:

the art is worse and resolution size is now unchangeable;
there's an abundance of 'important' characters, which have their own uninteresting backstories, the characters themselves are more or less an intrusive parody element;
the story does not explain enough and does not interest enough to care about it's pages of text, same for character dialogue.

The only new thing they almost did good was to make alternative routes for dungeons, except that when you go for the first time it's mostly open so you wonder in there with disappointment, this 'feature' comes bundled with random quest-giver NPCs, that can also request that you go explore and find your own way of getting or reaching something with a very lacking description.

Completely average tiny RPGM maker games are better than this 'interactive story' that doesn't even have an interesting story, characters or art.

Another Japanese game disappointment, how should I put this?
+5 for hot as hell drawings and many interesting tags.
-3 for everything else including BS screen resolution.

Such a waste...

Rated: 2/5
Based on: Completed

Game is total shit and amazingly not cause of bugs, translation, plot or other things but how the game is like false advertising from the get go. It has higher quality then most rpgms not close to the best but fairly decent. Has stats, sexual progress and other stuff and so on but, it, is, all, total, fucking, shit. For a h game for all intents H dont even freaking exist. You gotta go out of your way to fail and lose and get raped and ugh it's the fucking the retarded lose for h shit that only the worst lowest tier of rpgm games do. This ain't even mentioning that you gotta FAIL to go on the other path.

More I played the more annoying the game becomes ノಠ益ಠノ彡┻━┻ but thankfully the combat is actually fun as in you can skip it for most part in hopes of seeing god damn something... but no all you get is ugh the facepalm worthy plot and other shit. Didn't even pay for the game and I feel lied too/mislead. If I did I'd actually demand a refund. At least in some pure garbage rpgms I've played there was something vaguely interesting or funny be it in the game or piss poor translation or some damn H content however bad.

Simply put this is the first rpgm I've ever touched that really truly looks like gold as the metaphor typically goes. Looks like it is promising looks like it will have all the kinky good stuff BUT.... this is just a gold plated turd. A serving of disappointment.

Review version: 1.03

Let's add my voice to the chorus of those who hate the plot.
I have a very different perspective on why, though: see, the evangelism is what's getting to me.

Now, there are going to be spoilers here, primarily about the blue-haired girl on the cover, so - fair warning.
You good with spoilers? Sure? Great, let's go.

Going through the plot for the "good" ending gets one of your friends murdered and another you get to murder yourself. And just to take the absolute piss, it's Blue, the prettiest girl in the plot and the MC's childhood friend.

Going on neutral will get the first girl to retreat safely, and Blue will be spared in the final fight, but will be scarred irreparably.

And naturally, going on the evil route will not only not scar Blue, but get her and the MC in bed together *AND* unlock Blue's special power to be used whenever she wants (even though this power was supposed to somehow destroy her if she used it more than twice - go figure!).
If this is what you wanted then the game says "Congratulations, you're a horrible human being who can only get what they want through the MC repeatedly failing, murdering and being raped".

To put the cherry on it, in both cases where a main cast girl dies in the "good" path, there's a big long-winded description about how they see all the good things in their life before they die. So what's the message here?

Be good and die happy for whatever cause you believe in. Be a lesbian and burn in hell, and if you wanted to see Blue and the MC get it on you're an evil, nasty person?

I'm good for that message, thanks. This isn't exactly where I look for moral advice, this is where I want to see well-endowed elven girls be exceedingly promiscuous - preferably with each other.

And can someone tell me what's with the male guy whom the MC supposedly loves? He's an arse. He has no emotions. He has no character. He has no flaws. At one point you beat this big boss guy, and the narrative just goes on about how *HE* does the impossible and walks through a lot of magical attacks to beat the boss himself. Hello? What did I fight all that for - for this worthless knucklehead to steal the glory?
And when you go through the "evil" route and kill him - God! - Oneone1 created an entirely unique armor piece that grants a whole lot more physical defense *just for him*, because if you don't equip that he can take you out with a single crit even at maximum level. It's like they fangirled over him so hard they simply couldn't help overstatting him.

In conclusion:
Oneone1 should take their evangelism and shove it. And while they're at it, they can shove that guy the MC is supposedly in love with as well.
1/5, only because a worse score isn't available.

Really good game overall. One of the best.

Pros:
Tons of scenes
Good plot
Multiple branches
Animation
Options to skip
Lot of replay value

Cons:
None?

One of the best games fron oneoneone till date. Very enjoyable.

Super game. Extra full and rich content. By elaboration, you can be considered a model for many and many games. I am very glad that I met this game. Although there is a little lack of opportunity to destroy those who put experiments on the heroine in the "evil" rute.