[Rating as of v0.8 on 2/17/2022]
Well, darn. RPGM again. Curse my love of the corruption fetish; it keeps bringing me back to this.
I do have to play a little nice with this review, although this game really teeters on the precipice. It certainly tickled my meat bone pretty nicely, because I have a thing for lewd corruption and scenes with women falling into their own lustful desires.
I didn't actually cum, though, but that's not necessarily the game's fault. I was edging myself the whole time, waiting for one really, really good scene to pop the cork at, and I just, well... I went through the whole game instead. There were plenty of opportunities, you see, where I could have spilled my protein shake, but I just kept holding out for better, all the way until I learned that better just wouldn't happen.
So I found something else to finish off with. Yay!
That's not ideal when discussing a porn game, but hey, I can't blame the game's art or scenes. The artwork has some slight quality variation, with only one or two poses actually looking bad, but the rest of it is honestly pretty top notch. I'll just say, I'm pretty sure that the librarian elf's neck was broken during that blowjob. Rob Liefeld would be proud.
The dialogue is serviceable, sometimes good even, but I noticed far more grammatical errors than I would have liked. The game needs a thorough proofreading for these mistakes. Artistic license with grammar is fine here and there, but double spacing, random prepositions, missing capitalization, and outright missing words are all atrocious looking errors.
I also take issue with the hub town, Lumia, being too damn big and open for no reason, and the constant "go here" quests really highlight how annoying this can be to traverse. The horse carriages help, but they're clearly a band-aid for the poorly considered design. You can imitate grandiosity in video games at smaller scale for convenience, and they really, really should have done that here.
The combat... is. It just is. None of the fights are challenging, and there's not very many of them. Each of your three attacks, whose ultimate differences appeared to be about as significant as bubblegum flavors, comes with a simple minigame of sorts when you use any of them. It's all way too easy, and barely avoids being tedious by virtue of being uncommon. This game does NOT have much combat in it yet.
There's also parts where you're escorted by the titanous Royal Guard, wherein you literally walk them into enemies and watch the baddies pop like so many soap bubbles. I was tempted to say, "Hey, those were my kills!" ...but then I remembered that the combat is just another piece of meaningless drudgery between CGs, and I instead made a new minigame from those parts by trying to avoid all the enemies entirely. It was substantially more difficult to play by my imaginary rules than to play by the actual ones, and the end result was ultimately the same. Go figure.
"Hey, didn't you write that you were going to play nice with this review?"
Well, yes, and I am playing nice. This is not a good game. It just happens to have good porn. It also avoids having strictly in-cohesive design elements. However, the design elements that ARE in the game just... are. They just kind of float around one another, not interacting with one another in any meaningful way, not really helping the game's central themes or to create challenges for the player to overcome. Everything about this "game" is perfunctory, and a pre-text for the pornography and the character interactions leading to it. Good game design works to achive specific goals or fulfills functions in providing players with challenge, spectacle, or some other compelling element. The only thing compelling about this game is when characters' clothing comes off.
Which, hey, I don't entirely mind that, but you gotta know what it is you're getting into: 4-star porn in a 2-star game.