Jesus, I can't remember too many games that got this many reviews/comments, especially during early access/development. Could I ask what makes this game so special? Genuinely asking, no hate.
I played it at quite an early stage and it seemed fine. Tsundere MC, ok art, unique-ish battle system made for what looked to be a promising game. But this is blowing the hell up. What's going on?
Part of it is that this plays the 'slow descent into depravity' story better than any other game I've seen; in most 'corruption' h-games either the protagonist follows a simple script with no variation, or the player makes a simple choice to either do a virgin run or force the heroine to surrender immediately when she has no reason to do so. The way Rem made this one, you can't just choose to transform her into a whore instantly; your only options are to
try to fight. And sure, you
can make bad decisions on her behalf until she's trapped if you want to, but even then it feels like a gradual progression that she's fighting against and losing instead of just a switch that was flipped as soon as you touched the controls. And if you play through honestly it makes for an even better story.
Part of it is because of the sheer mechanical depth of the game. In a typical h-rpg the parts you have control over and the porn are disconnected; first you have a typical fight, and then if you lose you follow a single scripted sex scene with no interaction; here you're an active participant even in the defeat scenes. In a typical rpgmaker game, you have one stat that actually affects your abilities, your level, and everything else is derived from that in a predictable manner; here you can focus on any aspect of Karryn's abilities and grow in the way most interesting to you. And during combat itself, this is about as far from the baseline 'press z repeatedly to get back to the plot' as possible, with every round having you balance your resources, keep track of your desire/pleasure levels, think about the current mental state of each potential target, apply buffs and support skills to yourself every time in addition to your actual actions, shift stances as the situation warrants...
And part of it is that Melty's Quest was super popular, and this is the same people doing an even more ambitious project.
does anyone have the save of level 3 subjugated ?
You won't be able to walk around a subjugated level 3 until combat in level 4 is open, because that would leave you with nobody to fight outside of riots. Without the ability to fight people, you've locked yourself in a corner because you can't gain any Order anymore so a Control score below 0 is a death sentence, and you can't trigger most of the sex scenes anymore because outside of side jobs and the guards at your door there's nobody to trigger them with. A save file without any floors in anarchy mode is a save where you can no longer do anything, except a few days of side jobs while you watch your inevitable doom approach.
Might be in v0.7 if v0.7 takes a long time? If 0.7 turns out to be a quick update with just the glory hole and other side activities, then level 4 anarchy and level 3 subjugation will be in v0.8.
Question about charm level, how does one actually level it up?
You get charm exp every time an enemy masturbates at you, and every time you flash in the bar. I think there's also some at the moment that an enemy becomes horny? And I think there's a little bit of charm exp when an enemy orgasms while fucking you, but very small compared to the dexterity and endurance gains from that same event, so you won't get much charm before hitting level cap that way.
Overall it's one of the slowest to advance. There's an accessory you can equip to raise it a lot faster. Or you can modify your game files to increase the exp rewarded for each event.
Sorry if/for broken English (not native speaker).
Is there a mod so that karryn will always fight using bare hand/ hand to hand? I am trying to get the skill "slow kick (?) CMIIW". It's so hard for me to get the enemy to kick Karryn's halbert when I purposefully make her downed. Please help. Thanks in advance.
You get the "prison fighter" title after you make like ten unarmed attacks total. It gives a small bonus to your attack and defense unarmed by unlocking it, but
equipping it means you always fight with just kicks.
Alternatively, after you get a loss scene your halberd is "defiled" and you fight unarmed until you get back to your office.
Masochist (Sex) runs are significantly easier than Sadist (Combat) runs, all you need to do is get engaged in a sexual act and remember to use the Energy recovery Mind Skills as needed, you really don't even need to worry about Stamina as a factor.
Add that with Energy and Willpower recovery through Titles, Passives, and Accessories and eventually the Specialization Edict that lets you use Mind Skills the same turn you recover from an orgasm and you've got a nearly immortal build that comes online within a couple of in-game days and largely doesn't even care about what stats you have.
It does still require the right stats. If your Endurance is too low, you get too much pleasure from each round of sex, and might get locked into back-to-back orgasms with no chance to recover. You also need to do what you can to get Energy and Mind up, which are both difficult to increase.
If you use mostly sex from the start, and use a willpower skill every round, you'll
probably be fine but if you were doing a virgin/combat playthrough and then failed one day, you likely won't be able to recover before you get dragged off to the bar closet/toilet and then just keep going back there instead of accomplishing anything.
It's another reason I really do not like the level cap as it's currently implemented. Without some way to respec, the build you start working on day one is the only build which will ever be viable for this playthrough, and the wrong passives could cripple it. Which is especially irritating because other than that, this game is really good at the slow corruption story, and everything in-game encourages you to just play your own way because the stats will supposedly follow that.
