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

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.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY too much dialogue. This game has a lot of padding and filler going on. Last chapter ended up crashing after spending about 15 minutes just clicking through dialogue and character cut-ins, and I don't have it in me to try again.

The H scenes are pretty good, the artwork is well done, and some parts of the game are even animated, like certain attacks or finishing blows and a few combat sex scenes. Unfortunately there's just so much padding in the way that you hardly get to see any of it. This game is about 80% dialogue.

One of the best HRPGM game I've played.

You HAVE to play the knight route first because the resistance route half are made for second playthough, therefore skipped a lot of the details and spoil the story.

Pros:
+ Amazing casts of characters that you will actually invested with and care for
+ EVERYTHING is voiced. Even talking with some random npc on the street,
+ Respectable 8-9 hour ONLY for the knight route. resistance is 4-5hr, drifter is probably 2-3.
+ Tons of different endings for every routes. Maybe around 10 total. Not everything is worth getting, but sure it's fun.
+ If you play on easy you don't need to grind. Also dying on battle is free +1 level.
+ A shitton of CGs and sex scenes.
+ ONEONE1 draws a fucking good and hot art. I think the artist is Ahemaru, but I'm not sure.

Cons:
- Not a straight cons but you will need a guide since there are some hidden choices for some scenes. Find a flowchard on this thread. make sure you get the one with append route.
- Corruption progression is terrible. The sex part is super grindy. It's weird since the battle is not. I used cheat engine. They are good scenes though.
- Getting to Drifter route is also super grindy on a different way. I also used cheat engine.

this game just wow i have a hard time describing it even but here we go

pro's:

the story

i originally played it for the sex but eventually i started actually getting invested in it, its like a good but generic magic school anime
but i legit teared up at certain points like characters are great but a bit cliche, including the child hood friend, the badass, the noble gir,l psycho/yandere, the silent but badass bookworm, and our main protagonists(something im not going to spoil just play the game) each while generic play there role well

cg's:
what's to say about them great there are allot of them that for fill many fetishes its a bit annoying that some get repeated but overall good

the meh:
gameplay

if you played 1 oneone1 game you have played them all in terms of combat serviceable but i ended up just skipping most of the fights
the real draw here clearly isn't combat

the bad :
the grind its nice that you can be a slut or a virgin in most if not all of the roads but trying to get towards a superslut level in the knights path(the path i have finished) was a downright grind of talking too the same 3 npcs over and over again(thanks god there is a fast forward button)

some design elements:
having to do random chance combat rapes in order to level up certain skills like anal in the knights ending boils down to random chance you rush the combat or dont get lucky the slut path of the knight part means you miss certain side quest and h content

rpg maker vx ace: you have these gorgeous cg's an animations
yet you scale them all down too 640x480 why? just why?
i manage to overcome this with a resizer however i really wish oneone1 would move towards mv with a resolution not stuck in the 80's

overal: great game with some flaws but mostly great

There are, as far as I can tell, many endings, and the choices you make early in the game will have consequential effects on the availability of the next choices, and hence also the ending.
Story: 5-7/10 (Wholesome route, I've heard is really good. I only got the *SUBTLE SPOILERS*: evil route)
Music: 8.5/10 , good music. I've unlocked the cg room after game completion and viewed the wholesome routes (main protag, and also the Anette route), and it's very sentimental
Art: 7-8/10 (Really into succubi + Big ass + Pregnancy (Birth is not an extreme thing)
Battle: Your avg RPGM battle system.

Overall experience (not avging, rather, personal enjoyment):
7/10. Not on top like Roundscape, Ariadne and such games, but definitively memorable

As for me, it's a very good game even in comparison with other oneone1 games. I was very pleased with the soundtrack, the plot is also quite interesting. The number and variety of characters is quite extensive, even by the standards of regular games. The battle was too simple for me. this is a very good product, I hope to see more games of this level in the future.

A fairly original but classic RPG, with very easy gameplay to learn, a very interesting story, possibilities that go beyond what we could expect, endings that depend solely on our choices, successes and defeats and full little things pretty nice when i have thought about.

On the other hand, for those who want an eroge with births and all full of things like a certain end, I would advise you first to play normally, without looking for the end you want and to make a New Game, because there, all the possibilities and others, will be more easily accessible because the problems of this game and that when we progress in LVL, it becomes much harder for the enemies and it limits our possibilities or what we want.

Note: this is mostly for pre-remaster version, but still applies for most part to the updated one.

So...I had played it for several (6-8) hours on end, and I felt like...one - bored, due heavy focus on reading rather than, you know, playing the game, two, unconvincing story that makes me unsympathetic to any side, just to be done with, three, pathetic gameplay that is basically do stuff, talk then fight weak monsters and maybe a medium boss that may or may not kill you depending on how prepared you are, mostly spam skills that ensure their quick death or to ensure you'll outlast them, four, sex parts only starts for your character if you ever, lose once, which makes the stuff about the player character hating sex rather redundant once that happens. Basically failure is impossible unless YOU do. In fact, it feels more of a visual novel turned into a game with the amount of reading and stuff you do just to read more as opposed to playing the game. It would be more acceptable in such case, as it doesn't feel like a game for most part than a visual novel.

So, people say the story in this game is beautiful, but lemme break it down: there's the standard "good" path, where you do your proper job as a hunter to exterminate monsters and eventually, spoiler, killing your partner because she's absorbing both good and evil power, "neutral" path, where you ally with the rebels to make stuff even, and "evil" path, where you abandon all sorts of morals to become a evil god that even your partner only hopes to be. And that's basic as it gets - the good path is also the only one where sex can be entirely avoided, and just like the predecessor game with similar end, you can give your virginity to a male ally or just move as friends. So after condensing the basics of it, it's...predictable, characters have no proper chemistry, the serious scenes cannot be taken as good they are trying to be, and just idiotic at certain points.

The soundtrack in this is just generic epic battle ones, with 1 song being in Russian because that sounds badass but I didn't found it good either because of where it(and others)plays and how everything feels in general.

The most annoying part of this game however, is the fact you have to do VERY specific things if you want to get something more specialized than standard good ending if you do it right, or what you want - which means you have to resort to guides if you don't want to waste time experimenting and trying to guess what works and what doesn't. That's the reason why I think any review that tries to make it as if it's a good thing just a weak attempt at defending bad design. It's one thing if a game does enough to suggest what you should do, but not when you have to completely resort to them.

The translation is mostly fine, but again, its Americanized judging by dialogue, lots of non-sexual swearing and feel that they were saying something else, certain untranslated parts, and other things that make it quite not good.

It looks pretty, it looks polished, it looks as it is a badass anime, but real deep down is a boring, long story with no proper structure, unsatisfying gameplay, predictable endings, and no suspense or shock coming from all of it. I don't agree with pure low ratings but I also don't agree with pure perfection ones either because that heavily skews the truth, and also doesn't teach really meaningful to folk that can think.

Let me just cop to all the faults in this game. I dropped this game a million times due to its massive scope and its unclear, confusing plot branching and the confusing way it handles corruption, the uneven nature of the 'lewdness scaling' (you may suddenly 'become a slut' if you trigger scenes in a certain order), and I think everyone agrees this game has too much unnecessary grinding.

After playing most of the primary endings in a spare 3-5 hours I had (good lord), I can tell you something most reviews probably didn't realize because they dropped the game: it turns out there is a decent story in this. There are 3 sides. You start as a female warrior who fights for 'good guys' who are quite likable. There is a shadowy group of 'bad guys' and monsters plaguing the world. There are a group of 'likable rogues' who aren't aligned with the good or bad guys. Depending on your actions throughout the game and numerous twists and shocking reveals that you can choose to read or hold 'ctrl' for, you will align with one of these 3 groups and the ending consists of your character coming out on top (unless a bad end), some examples include 'one true couple' ending (optional virgin), a slut ending, an evil ending, and a few others.

So the story is actually a strong point in my opinion. It's just buried behind this insane 'lewdness' scale and a ridiculous amount of grinding that leaves you feeling powerless to do anything.

The story is also buried behind this novel but confusing concept of 'the flowchart'. Download it and use it if you intend to play the game. Like I said earlier, you start off with the 'good guys', this is the highest stage of the flow chart. If you fail a certain amount of missions you fall to the 'likable rogues' stage of the flow chart. If you become evil enough, you can choose to fall to the 'aligned with nobody/bad guys' flow chart. You would think as you fall you get more slutty but only the very end of the bottom flow chart mandates the loss of virginity, actually, it's largely up to you and what ending you're going for. This understanding is confusing as hell but after playing with it for a few hours I come to understand and appreciate the storytelling mechanic behind it.

So I like the story generally, but let's talk about the corruption aspect of the game since it's largely a corruption game. Firstly I think the open-endedness of it is a blessing but mostly a curse. There is a very in depth sex stat counting system but the outcome is this: once you lose an h-scene penalty boss battle (see the flowchart..), you're pretty much open for anything sexual immediately, save for the absolute sluttiest of actions. So it can be jarring when all of a sudden you talk to an NPC or fight a monster and get raped. This is unmistakably a massive con, especially for those who seek a coherent corruption narrative.

HOWEVER. By god if you can get past that, there is a host of content with a painstaking amount of effort behind it. A wide range of sex scenes are available with a few different clothing and unclothed variants, which is astounding. I repeat: the CGs and the sex scenes are excellently drawn and Kagura Games translation means they're pretty well written too.

A short paragraph on the grind: This game demands an unreasonable amount of time playing turn-based RPG through a massive amount of dungeons. This is surely a deal-breaker for many however I was fueled by the story and my perversion to get through it.

So my ironic conclusion is this: this is largely a corruption game but the best parts are the sex scenes, the 'true love' story line and the camaraderie with the teammates that you build. The irony is the corruption itself is..OK. I think people just totally missed the qualities of this game due to the disappointing corruption system and the grind.

Once you finish the game all the sex scenes are unlocked so just get to the end if you're curious about a certain scene, don't try to play multiple roads at once.

One of my favorite games, I originally downloaded for a quick fap but I ended up engrossed in the stroryline and characters, I also found myself liking the romance in this game, can easily be it's own RPG without the sex scenes although the sex scenes were good too.

If someone were to put a gun to my head and force me to make an argument as to why porn games should be banned, this game would be my opening statement. It seems to be more about being as fucked up as it can possibly be than it is about being sexy. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind storylines where fucked up things happen, but in my playthrough of this game I got significantly more descriptions of children being mutilated than titties on my screen. And if you want my TL: DR, that's it right there, this game is more about its "dark and gritty" storyline than it is about sex.

I've never played a hentai game with a storyline so bad it made me stop playing the game entirely, but here we are. The game feels like it was written by a 30 year old who never matured past their teenage angst, and as such seems to consider itself "dark" due to its macabre and gory content. But it's not dark, it's just stupid. If you're a child in this world you're just fucked, because in this world kids only exist to be mutilated raped and killed. The only children spared this fate seem to be nameless NPC's and the younger versions of those who will eventually grow up to be the main characters.

I realized I haven't talked about the sexual content in this game yet, and that's because it didn't feel very prevalent in-game. Don't get me wrong the sexual content is there, I just missed most of it because to access it you have to lose boss battles and get raped. You see, the MC is of the opinion that sex is icky and refuses to engage in it. So you need to have her raped until she likes it. (Because that makes sense.) I never saw this as this game is so stupidly easy to play through that I never lost a fight. Once I did see the rape scenes, they seemed way more focused on how sad, terrified, and in pain the MC was than anything else. There were some sex scenes that didn't involve the MC, but those tended to be pretty mediocre as well as pretty scarce.

If someone could message me and tell me if all Kagura games are like this I would appreciate it. Some of them look interesting but this game was so bad it turned me off from the whole company.

Edit: I have been informed that it is Oneone1 that is responsible for the content, and that Kagura is just a translator.

Bit of a grindfest but the H is really well done, also dlc just came out and I haven't even played that yet. Branching paths and animated H are always pluses in my book plus the game actually has a semi interesting story. Definitely one of the better RPGM games without a doubt in my mind.

My poor rating for this game has to do with a conflict of design choices to my personal preference. To start with combat is tedious though avoidable for the most part. Furthermore to me there is really very little variation from the dozen or so missions that I completed. Each mission is basically a fairly easy maze with a few treasure chests to be found and then a boss fight that is about 4 or so times as difficult as the regular mobs, which are all avoidable.
Next are the events. All non-main story events are basically on demand events. In this case you just walk into a particular square or talk to a particular character or open a particular door to start the events, I suppose making most of the events and H-scenes possible to skip because you need to find the event spot and go there to start it would be fine if the rest of the game was fun to play. In this case we have the events and the combat and then the missions that for the most part play out exactly the same for every single mission. I just found it not fun to play this game.

One of the biggest disappointments for me personally. It has good and bad sides so let's look at them.

Pros:
- Art
- Voice acting
- Well written (almost all) characters

Cons:
- Game is trying to be an actual RPG and fails miserably at it...
- Plot

Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of H-content so for the HRPG it's pretty fine. But what developers tried to do is to make well polished RPG game with deep lore and ecchi elements. Needless to say they only succeeded at latter thing. Game is very easy and linear (even though it has 2 plot routes!) which makes gameplay extremely boring after couple hours of playing. It's a big shame because what they did well were the characters - each of those is unique enough for you to care about them and be curious of how they are doing. But holy fuck the narrative and gameplay ruined it completely...

When I think good RPGs with ecchi elements, I think Leviathan and Lily Knight Saga. This one tries so hard but it's just not nearly on the same level...

4.2, i still wish that i had a male protagonist. This game is very fun to play, i played givin up every battle, so much fun, sometimes you wish to defeat the enemy, but you play as a female, no sex scene if you beat, so no fun. Great battle system btw. Good story, lots of things to do.

TL;DR:
Pros -
1. Voiced
2. Multiple Endings and various choices
3. Fair art with many variations (Fetish-based mostly)
4. Standard plot structure from OneOne1

Cons -
1. If you have no time/patience, skip this game.
2. If you have no fetishes at all, don't jump into this pit.
3. If you are tired of OneOne1 plot structure/losing to view system, skip this game.

Honest Opinion:
As a RPGM game, you have to appreciate the details go into this. Though you will appreciate less if you have been on OneOne1 wagon for a long time. The developer is lazy in the plot structure, the battle graphics and honestly even the art if you have played a handful of their games.
But what makes it at least worth a Good rating: fair Voice Acting (rarely seen for most other developers), the amount of fetishes they cover & the amount of variations they have created over the years.

OneOne1 games might never be the popular choice by default as they are time-consuming, grinding-heavy and a downward spiral that degrades your MC into the worst situation as your desire for all the H-Scenes drives you into making those decisions. But if you enjoys unimaginable fetishes; if you have a hard stiff wood that requires a good long hard stroking; if you just want to expose yourself to a vast amount of fetishes and see it all, this is the game from OneOne1 that will quench your thirst and make you sow your seed into the air for many, many times and more.

I solemnly salute to all the staff in OneOne1 who are able to survive another onslaught of fetishes and live another day after making this game. Your team is the best, surviving all sort of fetishes and keep producing the next game of the same structure and going through the same nightmare once more. You guys are truly the unsinkable heroes. Long live OneOne1 and may our wood survive long enough for the next.

But seriously, can't you guys give us some Win-to-Fuck variations or some other branches for Good Endings. And a small note on the battle graphics and animations, if you push a little harder in those tiny details, that will definitely make a Great game. Also, the amount of repeated H-Scenes to grind through for the Sex Experience is truly a pain.

surprisingly deep for a henti game. take out the henti and it could stand up as a game in and of it self. My only complaint is that pregnancy content only happens if you take the 'drifter' route; which delays when you can do it and also requires intentionally losing three boss battles; which somehow drives the completionist in me insane.

If you like TONS of text this will be your game.

If you are like me and text only enhances the experience but is not the core, this game will feel extremley overrated.

The gameplay is incredibly repetitive. Nearly every mission is to wander a mini-maze and defeat a boss at the end of it. There are SO many missions as if the game thinks the gameplay has that much variety. You can run past most enemies but this does not make it that much more bearable.

The illustrated animations are mostly excellent and a step above anything necessary. It is great havaing a stat for each bodypart for focused corruption. It also shows a picture of a womb making you think pregnancy is a central element. However, even using a walkthrough I was hours in and still did not know how much longer it would be until I could get pregnant. The game also has an invisible lock that no monsters will try to bang you if you have your virginity. It quickly goes from her being a prude to having sex with everything that you do not kill in one hit. I completely understand others enjoying the production value and this experience but it was entirely not worth my time.

Gameplay 2/10
Art/Scenes 6/10
(an average game for me is 5/10)