RPGM - Abandoned - KaguyaNTR: Everything Is Fair in Love and War [v0.45] [Cypher_66]

[For v0.45]
Animations 4/10
The animation are ok, but not really attractive, sometimes they are unnatural. At certain points, the animation were cut early.

Story 6/10
The premise is decent, but the things seem to escalate quickly at certain moments. The pace is not steady.

Characters 7/10
I am rating this high because the characters fit their anime characteristics mostly. Chika Fujiwara is too bland and absent, in my opinion, but let's say it was planned for later.

Sounds 7/10
Not much too complain here, sometimes there was no sound, but not for too long and for the sex scenes, the sound was decent. (Music quality is not one of my strong points, I won't mention it)

Started off quite nicely but as of this review, the developer has decided to abandon the game.

The game and story itself did go places but then stopped short of what we could be expecting. The developer had ambitions and that's great but I guess the planning process just didn't add up well enough.

The story is your usual NTR story however, it fails to identify itself as netorare or netorase. There are times that it feels that Shirogane gets off seeing Kaguya get cucked but then stops short. Then there are moments indicating Kaguya getting NTR-ed but then stops short.

There is a part where Kaguya is seemingly falling for Tucker's charms but then does a 180 like it never happened. You can chalk it up to mental resistance but it wasn't like that.

Sounds confusing? Yes because even as I played from start to end, it still felt confusing.

Another issue is animation quality. I know every H-game these days are big on having animations but the developer seems too new to the Koikatsu and RPGmaker engines. Probably could've gone with still-images instead of actual animations or used a different game engine. Would save a lot of time to focus on nailing the story, characters, and progression.

I hope the developer would take this experience and make more amazing H-games. Storyboarding is important. The start was a good start but the pacing is left much to be desired.

Amazing NTR and corruption game. Pretty underrated game imo. The build up is well done and hot. The teasing is icing on the cake. I hope there would be more exhibitionism and full on corruption. Please keep cooking.

Review (v.045):

"Great Concept, Mediocre Renders"

+ setting
+ story
+characters
+ pacing of NTR and h-scenes
+ hint system
+ use of rpgm (especially phone, map size)
+ seamless experience (no bug, other issues)

- renders (I don't mind too much but there are lots of games with better renders out there)
- some scenes are poorly written and end to abrubtly imo

Conclusion: Overall I recommend this game and I'm looking forward to see how it will develop.

Overall incredibly mid game. 4.5/10

++ The NTR pacing is very good.

= Writing is okay. Not good by any stretch of the imagination but serviceable enough to not be completely off-putting .
= There are a couple choices but idk to what extent they will actually matter in the end.
= Personally I do not like this style of character model in any game. For what it is though they're alright.

- UI/UX is very clunky and there's a lot of walking for the sake of walking. Don't see any benefit at all for this game being made in RPGM instead of Ren'Py. That's not just RPGM hate either; there are many RPGM games that I enjoy immensely.
- Animation is subpar.

Considering the other reviews being 5 stars, I thought this might be a new gem. Instead it was both poor writing and terrible koikatsu based graphics. You can make some incredible stuff with koikatsu, but it feels like the absolute bare minimum was attempted here. Also, the use of the Kaguya plotline and characters was also pretty bad. I was expecting something more true to the original plot and characters. Maybe it wouldn't be that bad if you weren't familiar with the show, but if you are, you almost assuredly won't enjoy this.

Very promising! Only half a dozen scenes so far, but premise is well set up and seems to be going at a good pace; slow corruption but not snails pace (bit of an assumption based on the early stage of this game, but unless the creator really ramps things up/down, I'll stand by the statement).

Interface/stats screen showing corruption/affection progress is very similar to Sword Art Online: The Trap of Breath Concealed Magic, which is a big plus for me.

Narrative seems pretty compelling with a rival that is taking a compelling approach to replacing the protagonist.

Really looking forward to seeing how this develops!

Honestly, this is 5 star for a demo . i dont encounter much issues. just some grammar. nothing really major. This is how i imagine kaguya sama with ntr. this have a ton of potential honestly and i cant wait for more.

note: i call this a demo but its really not. it have decent content. he manage to put all of the foundations in this prolouge which very rare for a demo. anyway you should try this one