Review Update, June, 2021, version CG130d
After reviewing version CG130d (and the intervening updates), I can only report that the plot, strengths, and faults I noted in my first review of the game and Overview still remain.
This is not bad, per se, it is just
not the type of story or game I enjoy and is not what is promised in the Overview.
The story remains strictly one of corruption (definitely not emancipation) of a stupid young woman among a forest of rapacious, predatory troglodytes. In fact, I suspect it is a very good example of the genre!
It is
very important to note that the very good qualities of the game remain after all updates. Indeed, I believe the qualities of writing, pacing, and art are being refined as development continues. As I said before, I had great hopes when I first tried the game.
It is unlikely that I will re-visit the game again for testing—only because it is simply not the kind I game I wish to play and was promised.
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I am currently re-testing this game.
Because of this, I have increased the review rating to 2 Stars (at least temporarily).
2020, Oct. 26
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Reviews & News That I Wish I Had Seen for
Lolita Gone Wild (version
CG109b; 2020 Oct 20)
TL;DR: Game is a grindy railroad of abuse because Lolita (the MC) has absolutlely *no* freedom or emancipation ... In fact she is incredibly stupid—not naïve—and the player can't do a thing about it.
I wanted very much to like
Lolita Gone Wild and have watched the updates closely since its first release until playing it now
. I like the art and love the model of the MC
; I have no problems with the game's engine (RPGM) and its potential for
worthwhile grind. I didn't even find any inexcuasable language or grammar problems for an
English game (even though the story is, supposedly, in Frenglish—English with accidental smatterings of French).
I tried playing this version for 3+ hours, both as a normal release and also using two different cheat engines. I found basically everything the other reviewers of
LGW have found *except* that the MC is
*VERY* stupid and the story fails miserably ...
In the game's Overview, the writer/creator/developer claims this as the first and strongest character note of Lolita: "
More than anything else, she wants to emancipate herself and no longer wants to be [sexually] naïve." However, right from the beginning, the player is railroaded—forced without any choice—to abuse, molest, and blackmail the character. There are no other choices.
There can never be any emancipation or freedom for Lolita. Ever. Because until the game decides the she has been molested and raped sufficiently, Lolita is
not just stupid but brain-damaged stupid.
• You/Lolita
can't choose what clothes she will wear. She can't even buy clothes she
might want to try. However, inexplicably, she can buy (both varieties of (?))
sex lube and every sex toy available in the game.
• You/Lolita absolutely must follow her parents' tastes ... even though she lives in her own apartment, has her own scholastic career, and her own income.
• You/Lolita can't masturbate when & how she wants. Now, recall the first point where I mentioned her buying sex lube and all the sex toys and answer this: "Why not?"
• You/Lolita
can't close a bathroom door or changeroom door behind her to allow herself privacy.
Even after she is being blackmailed with nude photos of herself in a changeroom, you/Lolita can't close a bathroom door or changeroom door to prevent perverts and rapists! How did she ever survive long enough to become an adult?
So, I give up on
Lolita Gone Wild. Everything promised by the creator of the game is missing or unrecoverable.
Vive la emancipación? Certainement pas. (Live the emancipation? Definitely NOT.)
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