RPGM - Completed - Island SAGA [v1.0.5] [kamichichi/Remtairy]

finished the game so here is my review

pro's the art style is great
*i love the quality of the animations
*the voice acting is good
*even the story usually an after thought is pretty good there are some really good moments in quests
*the characters are great and distinct from each other

bad for the most part its the gameplay
*this game is ridiculously hard on normal and two shotting bosses with ease on easy there is no middle ground here at all
*the decision to make potions tied to the character is just dumb
the system half a dozen rpgmaker games uses exists for a reason you dint need to overcomplicate the mere act of healing via a potion


great game with some flaws im definitely recommending this one

The presentation in the making of the game should been 4 star,
but I'm just so frustrated with how they bastardized such a good Rpg mechanic.

Good enemy design, unique drop from enemy, actual synergy they have as opponent, filtered grind and rewarding core loops. all brought down for uninspired Eroge standard.

The battle system took notes from Alliance Alive or Legend of Legacy mechanic.
HP fully refill when battle concluded,
with each member gradually adapt to combat and gain weapon skill as battling enemy, creating a smooth grinding flow.
However, that game only has 3 party member, the inclusion up to 5 team turn the combat into a joke.
With how it's structured, the fastest party member would easily wipe the board and powered up,
leaving the party with only two strongest members carrying three deadweights.

And the story? Generic with no weight.
You play as a prince with unsavory reputation,
but that won’t play any part or deter the story from shoving that silver spoon down your throat.
There's nothing the working class hates more than officials using taxpayers’ money to fund their vacations under the pretense of “important business.”

The saving grace for the game is the H-scene.
It's a still image but animated as moving is a praiseworthy effort,
but any semblance of characterization are gone once the game reminded you that it's an Eroge.
When you're so inept to please the other party that they have to be the one doing everything is like:
"This is all for you. Oh baby, THIS IS FOR YOU!" Is an attitude I would expect coming from prostitute.

After Relatively nice, but unclear to navigate entry quests
player is tasked with finishing 50 sidequests...
making for absolute chore to play experience

On top of that i got stuck at mission 9 with immortal unbeatable Chimera on Very Easy...

Lewds: i got 2 tit fucks and some naked moments....

Summary: game is serverly unfinished aka game works correctly yet nobody tried to balance the experience for casual players
i had to reload hard for some of the past bosses before being stuck on this one
Game don't offer Gallery unlock or any bonuses to struggling players
i don't wanna get good at porn game, i wanna have a good time playing

Story 7/10
It's a relationship builder, each girl has her own little story.

Gameplay 6/10

Outside of the terrible combat, the other missions are interesting. You mostly go around looking for stuff.

Art 7/10

Girls are hot and the animations are decent.

Amount of Content 6/10

Not really much for the finished game, but still worth playing.

Fun game and good art. Very linear and not much dialogue, but it doesn't feel crude. Fundamentally written and paced well enough that you keep playing. Great scenes. Boobs are a little too big, but otherwise good for what it is. A 3-star game with just that little bit extra in every aspect that barely moves it up.

A good harem game. It's a fun few hours of game that just misses out on being a five-star game due to the minor things. If you are a fan of this type of body, I recommend you play it.

Gameplay doesn't offer much other than a slight twist on traditional RPGM combat. Don't expect much in this area. As for the story... It's just there, nothing big. The main story is quite ordinary and linear. Other than that, that's all there is to it, apart from the stories we hear about the world in a few parts.

This is where the game really shows itself. The women, sex, voice acting, music and graphics. All the sex scenes are animated and pretty good (though not perfect). Each of the heroines is hot and cute. I think voice acting is very good for such a game. The characters have voices and tones that match their personalities. For some reason, I really liked the atmosphere and graphics in the game. You can't help but praise the beauty of the world as if you were a character in the play.

In summary, I had fun! It's both cute and hot game, just go enjoy it.

+
great artwork and ero scenes as is the norm with kamichichi.
combat balance is good with adjustable difficulty options. you have a bunch of different viable weapon and magic options to combine and tinker with along with great consumables balance.

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none of the girl's personalities really stand out. they are all infatuated with you without you having to do anything.
girl's body-types are near identical (big tits, small waist, no fit girls.)
only one small city in the game and it's fairly dead.

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story is pretty non-existant.
game crashes.
the gameplay and dungeon maps are boring and just feel like assets are just randomly slapped around as is standard in kamichichi games. i always quit kamichichi games around 50-75% of the way through as they're all pretty much the same game without improvements from the previous.

This game is a solid 9. I'd rather rate this 5 stars, than 4.

As an RPG it works great, the NPCs don't get a lot of dialogues, but still the creator achieved to create a world that feels "alive"? What I'm trying to say is that eventhought it's story isn't going to win any awards, there's cohesion. People have their own lives and you help them achive whatever.

The animations are very well drawn, as same as before, it's not top level stuff, but it's really good. There aren't too many of them,so if you come only for the CGI, you may as well try to find it somewhere or download a gallery cheat if there's one. But I don't recommend it, the game is great, you grow some attachement with the main characters (not yourself, you act as if you were mute and it looks funny in the cinematics)

I'm not a huge fan of the RPG combat system on this kind of games, but if you are, you may enjoy a lot it's combats, there's like a hundred different attacks combined between all of you, and enemies have weakness against some kind of attacks. Personally I just wanted to play for the story, so I played it on easy mode, as the name says it's very easy and you don't need to grind levels to complete the game, bosses came as a challenge even on easy mode, so be aware.

This game is decent. I don't play RPGM games all the time, but the artstyle has me intrigued. It is beautiful, and it's hard to say no and not play. After a while, the gameplay did get tedious for me, but I kept playing to finish it. The sex scenes are animated, I think it's a tiny bit better than most animations of this style (Live2D, i think).

+ Beautiful artstyle
+ Hot big titty girls
+ A variety of girls to fit your tastes

- Gameplay is tedious after a while
- Could use more sex scenes
- Sex scenes are a clicking fest most of the time

The blue hair girl is best girl.

This game is the harem version girlfriend experience.
It's interesting the way you learn skills, I'm surprised that all the enemies have animation and the erotic scenes are very good. The only problem the game has is that some texts that appear while you walk tend to bug and stay on the screen, but I solved it by simply changing the scene when moving around the map. It's not a perfect game but it's worth playing once.

Amazing work by Kamichichi. I played Apostle first and then found out about this game. Huge sucker for overly big boobs and this game has that and then some. The gameplay is fun and the quests are easy but substantial. Definitely around a 20hr experience if you take your time with it and enjoy the game.

Review of v1.0.5
I played for about 6 hours before I decided to get a full save
Would I recommend? I think the scenes are worthwhile but the gameplay to get them isn't.
Art 4.5/5
Animation 3/5
Sound 4.5/5
Gameplay 2/5
Pros
Great art that has some ok animation and there are an ok amount of scenes, but probably not compared to time invested.
Voiced heroines adds a lot to scenes.
Cons
Gameplay is tedious and repetitive going back and forth to the same building after each quest and having constantly respawning enemies makes exploring a chore.
I had some weird graphical issues during combat that would mess up the sprites and would sometimes bring my game to a crawl with under 10fps for a turn cycle
With there being like 50 quests, it would have been nice to have more than 5-6 scenes per girl or have the quests reduced to the ones that give a scene

Overall the porn is great, but I found the gameplay messy and repetitive.

Overall, this game is alright. I've only played 2 hours, but often you can just tell when a game isn't going to improve and I think I can fairly say that this game is just OK/decent at best.

The high point of this game is that the art is very high quality and very good. I also really like the pixel sprites and the combat sprites, they are cute and well done. The scenes are also good, with the same high quality art and some small animations too. The problem with the scenes is that they are very sparse. I unlocked 3 scenes in the 2 hours I played, and due to the quest mechanic, I know that the next scene would take me another hour or 2 to unlock. The flow chart shows that there are 50+ quests and the gallery also shows that there are about 8 scenes for each girl. Not every quest has a scene and I can tell this game will take a while to compelte. It also doesn't make sense that scenes would be this sparse as all the girls in your party are horny and love the MC and want to marry him, so why is the game designed to be a slow-burn/slow-paced game ?

The combat is good and bad. I like the originality, but it's far too complex and the game tries to do too much. There are so many things, such as magic elements, different weapon classes, party formations and I just think a simpler, even if it's generic, combat mechanic would be much more suitable. I think each fight also takes way too long. Even though there are buttons to speed up the fight/skip actions (which I do appreciate), it still feels tedious to enter combat. The enemy scaling is also not very good, I wiped every enemy I encountered, but then I reached some rat boss and he just one shot 2 of my characters in one turn.

The story is fine, nothing amazing but not shit either.

Other things to note: I appreciate that there's voice acting, but it can get annoying, especially Nadia and her super squeaky voice - if you're into that then maybe you'll enjoy the game more. The voices are also louder than the rest of the game sounds, even when they're all set to 10%, which is unpleasant.

Overall I wouldn't recommend this game. C-tier.

Following the beginning, this initially seemed like an interesting game with legit combat, and fantastic animated consensual H-scenes, but I rate this 1/5, let me explain why.

During the beginning, I don't remember if it was a combat encounter, or a dialogue scene with one of the characters, the game crashed with an error message about OpenGL, the graphics library used to render and display everything from the game's User Interface.

This instantly made me delete the game, as it is a symptom of bad coding. Sure, maybe if the game went smooth I would see the story, the H-scenes and rate this much much higher, but I Didn't reach any of these.

great giant anime tiddies, confusing game stat board, goofy plot-lines, and did i say massive, anime, mommy milkerz? i love everything by this dev, and the animations are done perfectly. not often you get this quality, but the japaneese tend to put better resources to these kind of games.

More then enough reviews, its good and worth it.

-1-0
Gameplay while great (love the combo system for a while like Agarest) can take a Long time, but here the thing you can turn off almost all combat ! Terrific option
You can also easily cheat
Walkthrough exists along with a in game helper "cat"

Could have used a bit more character development including main, harem, and side.
Without cheats/guide/turning off combat would likely have given this a -1
Ending Segment is bit of a drag and starts becoming meh... (and "2" endings are also very very meh at best).

Could have used 1 character without massive boobs, especially since there no story/lore reason they all must and more on contrary that plenty can not have massive, but hea whatever.

Worthwhile for anything and everything

So the reason everyone is crazy about this, should be totally disregarded, the entire fighting system and skills system and formation systems and how u learn your skills what stats you get when u lvl up, its all ripped off from a famous RPG by the name of romancing saga, saga frontier, and so on.
but that being said i am rating this game only for the quality of the sexual content, which i like, it lacks variety, but the scenes are varied enough, the girls not really.
the gameplay is enjoyable even though i knew from the start it was a ripoff, i still found it engaging and fun, and actually played the game, but i do recommend to just download a full save and watch all scenes, you can even watch the entire sequence of each scene to know how it came to be.
you have 24 scenes and 1 harem scene in the end there is nothing else, there is nothing outside of the gallery, not even dirty talk.

3gb for what? The scenes are awfull, the evolution of the story is really bad, tne only good thing here is the gameplay, everything else is just horrendous.
D'ont even think about playing it, you'll just lose your time.

I'm not sure what made me stop and delete this the first playthrough but I replayed it from the start with no regrets. The quests might be annoying without a guide but the progression becomes worth it eventually.

There's quests with nsfw situations and individual character interactions. It's a good balance. The drawing and animations in them are as high quality as it gets for any of these RPGM games. Gameplay can be braindead easy or hard as hell and be changed depending on your preference. The story is nice and simple, maybe a touch text heavy at times. The only issue might be is that there isn't too much variety with the heroines body-wise.

If you don't like giant tits and harem then you won't appreciate it for what it is. Maybe for the fetishists it's too vanilla Some missed opportunities is that there were no random women in the game that gave sexual rewards to the protagonist. I can think of a few that had sprites but no art that would have been great to see illustrated, and I can't emphasize enough how well done the artwork is. If the gameplay were any more time consuming or the art was poor then maybe I'd rate this lower. There is even an interactive mode with pretty decent animation on top of the polished art.

Definitely recommend checking this out.

Game is more like a standard RPGM with additional Hentai content.
- H-Scenes are oriented for boobs lovers.
- First half of the game lack of hentai content.
- The strong part of this game is actual gameplay elements.
- Animation quality and art style are somewhat acceptable.

Worth trying.