Again, the 4 star here means 9/10...since this website can't give a half star rating.
Have you ever play a porn game so addicting, you want to skip the porn part so you can play more?
Well to me, this is the one.
Hell, I actually bought it on Steam, which this review will have some reference to the new mechanics in the later version.
Now don't get me wrong, the porn part is fine...is just the core gameplay is so good in porn game standard.
When you consider most other (completed) porn game is some RPG or graphic adventure games, with porn.
...or those with more action related gameplay and sims often stuck in development forever.
So this is a- I think I can borrow the overview for this one:
"Last Evil is a rogue-like strategy card game with mature contents. You have to go down to the deepest dungeon and wake up the Great Demon.
Collect powerful spells, defeat those who are blocking your way, and collect their essences to explore the dungeon."
The story is kinda nonexistence otherwise, I will just assume since you play as a succubus, so it makes sense to be with the evil overlord I think?
As 2.0.0 update (on Steam), they made the story more clear:
Short and non-spolier version: Revenge, to humanity.
But anyway, how is the gameplay? Well as mentioned before, this is a card-based combat game with some dungeon crawler elements. Every play through is a randomly generated dungeon layout.
Before the game start, there is a skill tree you can permanently upgrade yourself (if you have the points) and can choose one out of two buffs/debuffs.
In-game, You (I mean the player character) go from room to room through the map screen, combating slime, bandits, goblins, guards, knights, demons, etc.
Using a turn base, card(spell) base combat system which you draw like 5 cards(spells) from your deck with two different categories: Mana and lust.
Mana is basically "action points" in Xcom, represents how many actions you have per tern. Different card uses different amounts of Mana.
While lust is not bound by the mana meter and can use anytime as long as it is your turn, and you have the lust point to use them, which you get during combat.
Then after you win, you get a new random spell as loot and can either get their "essence" via magic.
Or fuck them till you get them out...you get more using the later method (and you got sex scene), but you lost all the lust point. Which can be carried from encounter to encounter.
The essence functions mainly as currency to buy spells from the merchant you can find randomly in the dungeon, to "heal yourself more" in the resting area...or be better "friends" with the merchant, to get discount.
There is also the "mystery room" which sometimes you get random encounters, events that either give buffs or hurts you, and treasure room that has treasure chests contain buffs.
Then there is the champion room, with a harder enemy encounter, and finally the boss room. Which you need to defeat to advance to the next floor of the dungeon.
It is worth mentioning except for the boss room, all of the rooms are optional...well not really since you need to at least move a straight path to the boss room, assuming you know where it is. But it is more recommended to clear a whole floor worth of rooms before tackling the boss since you need the loot to buff yourself.
So far, this sounds like a "real game", like this game exists not simply because of porn, but a normal game that can stand on itself even without the porn.
Yes, It is.
So what is the damage? Why only 4 stars?
Well, the difficulty of this game is all over the place though out the different versions.
I remember when the first time I download this game in an earlier version, the dungeon has a completely different floor layout, and you can only select one of two-room to go to at the time...lead to less combat encounter in the same level of enemies, less loot and buffs, which make the game severely harder.
The dungeon crawler nature means every defeat give experience that you can upgrade yourself in the next play, but since this version of the game is so brutally hard, the progression becomes extremely slow I throw it aside after half a dozen games never actually winning any.
The current version (1.5.1 as this is written) is significantly well balanced, and the dungeon map has been retooled. Mean you can actually clear a whole floor and get the necessary items before facing the boss...but that sort of only applied to the "sweet spot" between your first play and your twentieth play.
Basically,
I mean after enough play and you get the right seven or eight upgrades, you can easily mop the floor with even the final level boss as long as you know what you are doing...I know the game isn't finished, and the final level is only the second one, but still. This has become way too easy the longer you play, maybe future updates with new floors will fix this.
Speaking of which, Steam version (1.6.1) has the exact opposite problem compared to the early version I played.
Due to the nature of the save, I can't port the F95 version save to the Steam version.
I decide to regrind my progress back...only to clear the final boss (so far) in a mare three tries with like two permanent upgrades from the skill tree.
I mean, there is a slight chance I have become a better player through all the game I have in the f95 version...but otherwise, this is way too easy. Maybe it is to prepare for the next floor update will have harder enemies. So they soften the first two floors, but still.
5/29 Update: 2.0.0 version (Steam) adds a third floor (and the above spoiler story part), which causes a massive difficulty spike.
Granted, I am still only sporting the little upgrades I have, that probably need changing...
The other minor problem I have is with the gallery, some scene you need to (purposely) lose to unlock...which I find kinda unreasonable.
A lot of them are higher tier enemy defeat scene. This means I have to spend a long time getting to them, and in order to get their scene, now I have to be defeated? I come this far just to get a beat down?
Plus a lot of them are randomly encountered, you don't know you will meet this one until you meet them. Especially with the bosses: So apparently I got so far, just to get purposely beat down by a boss and let him pound me in order to unlock his scene? It just feels not worth it.
To be fair, it makes sense for you to get the scene when you, well, get one. But can't they make you get both if you win?
Or make the surrender button don't instantly end the game...oh yeah there is a surrender button. You click it, you get defeated scene, you game over...then what is the difference then just got defeated in battle?
How about make the surrender button not end your game?
Instead, you lost all your buffs, and, I don't know, half of your health or essence? While also get the scene, then the game moves on?
Tl;dr, great card combat dungeon crawler game with sex scenes, with balance issue here and there, plus mandatory lost if you want the full gallery.
Finally to end this review, here is a scenario I actually encounter in-game: