Lewdpyon Hero Quest is a pretty solid game overall.
The art for one is pretty decent across the board. Don't understand why people get particular when it comes to small niche games like these having multiple artists. Especially in the case of this game where veteran artists like Setouchi of Monster Girl Quest fame is here. and the scenes are mostly varried and actually has something for everyone that goes slightly beyond surface level. Like instad of having a footjob scene and saying it has foot fetish content like most games on this site the game actually goes more in having sock smelling, and later foot smelling. tough if anything the scenes deserved to be criticized for is their length. Voice acted or not most scenes in this game take their time to the point where if you really want to indulge in scenes for a quick wank, then youre better off either scattering your succubus party and engeage in their scenes or use the request sex for story companions.
The Game part on the other hand is this game's weak spot. Dungeons are mostly short linear affairs with deviations that lead to goodies mainly orbs that seem simple at first has the potential to snowball into making your party extremely powerful leading to most regular encounters becoming a joke. What further cements this power scale issue is the fact that later in the game Cat Succubus (which is the game's experience and money pigs) become more common place leading to obscene amounts of experience. Bosses and Non Succubi enemies are extremely annoying to compensate however. Like they can do multiple things in a turn and with status effects being straight up over powered leads to boss battles that can snowball against your favor. Eska, birds (fuck them especially) and Lilietoto are especially guilty of this. and while ther are orbs that outright negate these status effects they are endgame items meaning they're completely worthless.
The game has a recruit party feature for some reason. Unlike in something like MGQ paradox there isn't very many exclusive scenes hidden behind this mechanic and more often than not any variatians of scenes are as deep as "does the ass fox wear her tights during sex or not?". Not only that but they are an extreme grind to get since it's a random chance that you'll befriend one after a battle with no way to increase these chances meaning that it might be a while before you befriend one. Like several levels later. Because of this, it is often a hard maybe in how good they are in proportion to the grind you've made to get them. For one, some enemies like the Cat Succubus starts off extremely underleveled when you get one within the second dungeon of the game compared to the other succubi around it and your own party members. 9 times out of 10 you're better off using the main four since they learn good attacks and are overall hyper specialized in their roles with any shortcomings of theirs being easily offset by orbs. You might want to use Lamia out of all of them every once in a while since Cat Succubi have really high evasion and since Lamia has the only move that negates enemy evasion , you basically can pick off easy exp from a Cat or two before the whole team runs away.
The story is definitely a story. It's pacing is fast and because of this the harem aspect of the game with the other party members confessing to you just comes out of nowhere (mel best girl) and leads to nothing. It mostly exists to explain why this Chad of a MC who overcame all fleshly temptation would all of a sudden want to throw it all away to get his rocks off.
Heres a nitpick and it's about the fan translation. While it's pretty good across the board, there are moments where it is clear that the translation is unfinished in the most embarrassing of ways. Like Typos and the occasional grammar error is one thing (something that this game doesn't have) But having a random line in a conversation be untranslated while the rest of the scene is translated is something I've never seen before. It's otherwise finished enough to take you to the ending and to the post game boss but next to nothing else after that. Some scenes that are translated aren't even translated in the recollection room. But again these are nitpicks so take of that as you will
In the end, Lewd Hero quest has the makings to be something great but isn't anything to write home about.
The art for one is pretty decent across the board. Don't understand why people get particular when it comes to small niche games like these having multiple artists. Especially in the case of this game where veteran artists like Setouchi of Monster Girl Quest fame is here. and the scenes are mostly varried and actually has something for everyone that goes slightly beyond surface level. Like instad of having a footjob scene and saying it has foot fetish content like most games on this site the game actually goes more in having sock smelling, and later foot smelling. tough if anything the scenes deserved to be criticized for is their length. Voice acted or not most scenes in this game take their time to the point where if you really want to indulge in scenes for a quick wank, then youre better off either scattering your succubus party and engeage in their scenes or use the request sex for story companions.
The Game part on the other hand is this game's weak spot. Dungeons are mostly short linear affairs with deviations that lead to goodies mainly orbs that seem simple at first has the potential to snowball into making your party extremely powerful leading to most regular encounters becoming a joke. What further cements this power scale issue is the fact that later in the game Cat Succubus (which is the game's experience and money pigs) become more common place leading to obscene amounts of experience. Bosses and Non Succubi enemies are extremely annoying to compensate however. Like they can do multiple things in a turn and with status effects being straight up over powered leads to boss battles that can snowball against your favor. Eska, birds (fuck them especially) and Lilietoto are especially guilty of this. and while ther are orbs that outright negate these status effects they are endgame items meaning they're completely worthless.
The game has a recruit party feature for some reason. Unlike in something like MGQ paradox there isn't very many exclusive scenes hidden behind this mechanic and more often than not any variatians of scenes are as deep as "does the ass fox wear her tights during sex or not?". Not only that but they are an extreme grind to get since it's a random chance that you'll befriend one after a battle with no way to increase these chances meaning that it might be a while before you befriend one. Like several levels later. Because of this, it is often a hard maybe in how good they are in proportion to the grind you've made to get them. For one, some enemies like the Cat Succubus starts off extremely underleveled when you get one within the second dungeon of the game compared to the other succubi around it and your own party members. 9 times out of 10 you're better off using the main four since they learn good attacks and are overall hyper specialized in their roles with any shortcomings of theirs being easily offset by orbs. You might want to use Lamia out of all of them every once in a while since Cat Succubi have really high evasion and since Lamia has the only move that negates enemy evasion , you basically can pick off easy exp from a Cat or two before the whole team runs away.
The story is definitely a story. It's pacing is fast and because of this the harem aspect of the game with the other party members confessing to you just comes out of nowhere (mel best girl) and leads to nothing. It mostly exists to explain why this Chad of a MC who overcame all fleshly temptation would all of a sudden want to throw it all away to get his rocks off.
Heres a nitpick and it's about the fan translation. While it's pretty good across the board, there are moments where it is clear that the translation is unfinished in the most embarrassing of ways. Like Typos and the occasional grammar error is one thing (something that this game doesn't have) But having a random line in a conversation be untranslated while the rest of the scene is translated is something I've never seen before. It's otherwise finished enough to take you to the ending and to the post game boss but next to nothing else after that. Some scenes that are translated aren't even translated in the recollection room. But again these are nitpicks so take of that as you will
In the end, Lewd Hero quest has the makings to be something great but isn't anything to write home about.
