RPGM - Completed - Love Love! My Buddy X [v1.030b] [Megrim]

TLR a DAMN MASTERPIECE if you going through the artstyle barrier.

well like everyone who see this game at first ,I think "how the hell this game can get this high review with this kind of art style ?"

tbh I was planning to delete the game in 5 min but OH MY GOD I Find myself still playing after 2 hours.

is it because the art style getting better ? well...no but the game is carrying its own odd beuty so great.

first of all this game is a classing turn base RPG but there are tons of things to do . the is witcher 3 lvl full. for a sex game this is a highest praise I can give.

all girls (which there are alot) all are has its own perks in battle, different taste in bed and all has their own personalities.

not like "OH HERO SAMA YOU STRONG PLEASE F ME UWU" copy paste stuff but you need to focus on things they like in your actions and in battle if you looking for actual results.

for example there is a priest you'll get in early from church and she loves to get protected and you must do good-deeds and help people if you wanna get close, otherwise she simply stop following you bkz of your bad karma.(YES game has karma mechanic.simple yet effective )

or you can get your MILF assasin from tavern who loves to do dirty things and can do whatever you want as long as you are gaining fame.

or you can get your father's sister in arms to your side and go for boss hunting.

the examples can go higher but no need. the game has 4 mechanic: class, karma,factions and fame

class
you have to choose your class at the beggining of the game and it determines how you'll go for a very long time. just pick warrior. balanced and easy to shape

note:holy spells are broken

fame
its a thing that you'll gain by each guild mission you complete or boss you killed. its a need for doing things that you usually cannot

karma
its your bread and butter. if you do bad things your karma will raise and if you do good things it will go lower. you'll get the same buff at 0 and 100 fame but after 60+ the game wont allow you to do soo many things. you can get jobs from cities, %80 of your compainons will leave you and refuse to join you, bounty hunters will haunt you etc. etc.

having a high karma will only help for 2 girls only. the assasin MILF but she asks for 40 only and a demoness who you must have 100 just to talk with her. you good for until 60 so just steal some cabagges when in times of need and leave it there

factions
its one of the most important thing in game. there are 3 factions: blade,messian and arcana

blades are for warriors, messian is simply church and arcana is hogwards
whenever you do a mission from adventure guilt or kill a boss in open map you'll gain or lose relationship with each faction.

you need 60 if you want to go in their basmenents and 90+ for their special spells and at 100 you'll get a OP weapon from guilt . if you go lower, you need to gain and raise it again for benefits except the weapons will stay at your inventory

losing relationship with each faction is sucks but its avoidable

SPOILER
if you go for arcana HQ questline, you'll gain access to a fortuneteller and she can send you a special skill there that you can unlock many cool things and one of this perks at the begining part is disable that losing relationship mechanic so with that way you can get full all 3 factions without worrying about anything
SPOİLER

aside the spoiler part I recomment you to go +90 with messian and get their special miracle spells (3 is a good number. one for you, one for priest girl and one for your fav compainon) so you can break the game

there is an english guide for the game, I dont have the link but if you look at in forum you probably finding it and its high recommentable because the game has GIANT ARSE size maps that you can lost in it quite easily

- NOTE: delete the "Volume.rvdata2" in the game's root folder if you want the music to play. Thanks Qatalitoniss

Possibly one of the best RPG Maker games out there, simply because the author understands what makes these games interesting: story and character progression with a good pace. Your hero gets stronger, the story advances at your pace, your story with each girl advances as you solve their quests, money takes its sweet time to really start pouring in. While the max level is 30, it'll take some time to reach it and, even then, you can still power up your MC further. Marriage is the "end game", which rolls the credits but allows you to keep playing. More importantly, it allows you to use that save for New Game Plus

Another thing the author does well is not fuck up the performance. If you're new to this, some RPG Maker games have stupidly shitty performance because the authors have no fucking clue what they're doing, leaving hundreds of uneccessary events on maps, tanking performance no matter your PC. Now, the game can feel grindy as hell and most of my playtime was using CheatEngine to speedhack it to 2x speed. One of the best things to use, besides that, is holding Shift to speed up combat animations.

The graphics is where most people will just turn around and leave the game, since it does look like what you'd see on the internet back in the early 2000s, when people were first discovering how to use the airbrush tool with Photoshop. I think that's part of the charm of the game, especially with some of the more grotesque bosses and enemies, but that's me. The animations, on the other hand, leave a lot to be desired, as they're as basic as possible - it's all linear movement and stretch-deformation. The mosaic censorship doesn't help, but it's a japanese game, so yeah.

Besides the characters that can join you - Lucia the huntress, Sylvia the busty cleric, Kei the thief, Lind the muscle barbarian, Vanilla the whore mage and Analcia the dragon warrior (who's also the protagonist of another game from Melgrim) - there are loads of women, important and unimportant, for your MC to fuck, including your mom and a half-sister. These events will only happen when he's alone, so you'll often find yourself dismissing your buddy in order to fuck someone else. NTR content is there, but the easy ones to find are the ones where you steal someone else's girlfriend or wife. If you want to see the main girls being fucked by other men, you have to raise their lewdness to 60 at least, then find the appropriate events - most of the time it's just you pimping them, really.

I spent well over 20 hours playing in a single save before marrying. Like I said in the opening paragraph, the game is interesting. I did nearly everything that could be done, including defeating the Remurugoas boss, and could choose any of the women to marry. All in all, I had fun, despite some grind.

Good for playing, not so much for gooning.

Excellent RPGM game.

It’s huge, with lots of characters, systems, scenes… I almost didn’t try it because the art put me off a bit, but in the end I gave it a chance and I even ended up liking the art. If you’re into hardcore, don’t hesitate to try it. NTR is optional, so don't worry if you don't like it.


Pro tip: When you start getting tired of the number of battles, holding shift is your friend.

Really fun rpg with surprisingly good characters and insane amounts of content. The very cartoony artstyle is not going to be for everyone but if you can put yourself past that this is one of the best hentai RPGM´s out there.

Honestly? Probably one of the best RPG porn games I've ever played. When I see either a Japanese or Western porn dev making a game with a male protagonist, I hope this is the result.

The entire game is basically a sandbox, pick a Buddy to travel with and fulfil their quests to get closer and have sex and as you do you can have sex in public or share them if that's something you are into. You can also travel alone, bang certain unique boss monsters, (Quest-giving) NPCs with which you built a relationship, or certain random NPCs if your Fame is high enough or you're feeling rape-y.

As for the downsides... It has a bit of a slow start, which I can see people disliking. Although personally it felt like a good start to the heroes journey. The art can also be hit-or-miss, I don't see everyone liking it. And the animation is a bit janky. I also feel like the random encounter rate is a bit high...but I'm sure there's some item that can help with that that I just missed.

Overall, I'd say check this out and I hope there's more games like this out there.

This game is big and filled to brim with to the brim with lovely ladies. So much to do and the freedom to go wherever. If you like games where the girls fall for you than this is the game for you. A fair amount of companions to travel with and to go to bed with. Gameplay is alright, can be a cakewalk at times until you hit a boss that all of sudden is much harder to kill and has so many status attacks. But if you grit your teeth a little it shouldn't be to much of a issue. If you got time than I highly recommend trying this game. So good I bought the game to show support.

This game is weird - not in the sense that it's bad, far from it. Love love is probably one of the best H RPGM games I've ever played

Which is why my time with the game was odd. Because I couldn't find much to critique about the actual game

Instead, what threw me off was not the art (which many people have pointed out, but I quite like), but the animations during H events. They're incredibly janky, looking completely unrealistic and breaking any connection you had to the scene

Of course, it's a bit ironic to be crying over realism in an H game, but where art can be tailoured to a specific niche in the absence of realism, this animation just takes away from what's happening. It completely ruined the game for me.

Now, if the game was the complete same but without those H animations, then this would easily be an easy 10/10.

If you can live with janky animations, then I can't help but recommend this game

The art admittedly threw me off but I decided to give the game a try. It blew my expectations. You are given a high degree of freedom and there's a lot of content to do. High amount of customization for characters, and a wide variety of sexual content.

As a RPGM game - I'd give it a solid 9 or 10 out of 10. It surpasses a majority of the RPGM slop on f95.

This game is the 'Baby bear's porridge' of RPG Maker games

Not too hot.
Not too cold.

Just right.

It's first and foremost an honest old school RPG with a variety of party members (around six?) that isn't overwhelmingly complex.

Maps don't feel obnoxiously large like some I've played and the difficulty is relatively low.

Art is subjective but each character has a couple of costumes which have their own battle sprites which is worth noting.

All in all, it's exactly everything you want from a H-RPG

One of the most fleshed out ero RPGM games out to date. The artwork isn't for everyone but after giving it a try it definitely makes up for the niche art with the hours upon hours of content. After playing this game it will definitely make other games seem shallow in comparison.

I fully recommend you clear the save folder that was provided with the download to start a fresh save.

This review is based on my lenghty playthrough of the game that I sadly lost the saves since my HD died.
Important disclaimer: I have NOT downloaded the current version available here currently. I had the game way back from the translation thread. Be careful and check if any links are safe to download beforehand.

Part I: Core Game Mechanics
We got turn based RPG mechanics, with random encounters for most of the common mobs. There are itens/gear for auto-battle and also lesser encounters, but you need to know where to acquire/find them.
At the beginning of the game, you can select your "path" (Warrior/Paladin/Mage) of sorts, since the game has like three different "Factions" for you to lean into/support. Basically, 2-Hander, Sword and Board or Mage. I always played as 2-Hander, but feel free to pick anything. I dont think you can learn skills for other paths, tho. You could teorically grind up reputation with all 3 factions, it just takes time.
You start your journey at home, killing bugs, chopping wood and all that, to fighting Succubi and weird monsters down later once you grow "independent" of your mommy and wants to thread in your Hero father steps. Simply RPG stuff, right? Oh, and you have Fame/Infamy. Specific NPCs/Buddies likes when you got some "bad boy"points, like the rogue you met at your first quests

Part II: The "Buddy System"
Oh, the buddies. They are basically the harem, the female cast. The game resolves around them. While you need to find them in their starting points/quests, you got more than 10, and each of them have their own personalities, questlines and more importantly.. sex scenes! You got archer childhood friend, busty cutie cleric, toned abs barbarian, draconic warrior-lady and more!. Not only that, you can also acquire/find UNIQUE gear for them, that changes their stats and also their visuals/portraits. Every buddy has at least couple Unique gear sets, so get going to acquire them!
While you can "switch" between them at will, you can only MARRY ONE per playthrough (Marriage is not ending, its a progression, where you even buy a house and whatnot). There is ONE downside for buddies, tho (something I dunno if its fixable with an item/mechanic): Their levels are indepent of each other, meaning you could have a LV20 Buddy.. then your new buddy is.. LV1. Have fun power leveling them all!

Part III: Side characters
Aight, so side characters are like the courtesans/harlots at each town Inn, or other minor characters you interact/encounter through your game. You could firm contract with sucubbi/demonesses (I think) and they act similar to buddies, but not quite. Heck, I remember you could even marry the MILF courtesan located in the Inn of your home village. My favorite thing was discovering every new town and checking who were the courtesans there, xd.

Part IV: The dreaded word... NTR
The "NTR" part: Ok, lets address this, take a breather and let me tell you: Its entirely optional, you need TOGGLE it as its OFF by default. And even with NTR ON, you dont get any dramatic.. stuff. In fact, MOST of the NTR is actually NTR-S, meaning netorase/sharing. While there are NTR moments, like creepy old fella at seedy Inn, the most "completed" NTR events is you sharing your current Buddy with a guy on a certain Inn, and you can "spy" on them. There is also a swinging partner in another Inn, and damn that woman was.. nice. With NTR on you could also see different scenes/comments on Hot Springs, for example.
(Let me tell one thing about the LLMBX project I heard/read over the course of the translation thread: Megrim (game dev) wanted to build up more content for the game (ntr included). Things... happened, and Megrim decided against it. Let me just say that, for the record, Megrim is one of my fav creators in terms of milfs. Does he create horrendous hags? Yea! But some MILFs are exquisite! (Also Lucia's face is soo cute! I love that busty, naive cleric). HOWEVER, Megrim is.. peculiar, to say the least. Some decisions, attitudes, tantrums.. it all makes for.. quite an individual.)
What did it all meant? It meant LLMBX did not receive more updates, nor the NTR got expanded (there were talks of "true NTR" with buddies being "stolen" once affection goes too low. Well, for better or worse, its not going to happen.)

Part V: The lenghty journey
This game.. has a LOT of content. I'm talking NIGHTS worth of one-handed gameplay. You could use RPGM cheats for gold, XP, "noclip" to travel between areas at will. However, most of progressions of certain quests, especially for Buddies, depends on "time". In game time. For example, in a certain buddy questline you had lovey-dovey sex with her, now you gotta wait some "time" for her to "talk" to you and proceed with the next questline. If you intend to marry a Buddy, you need to complete her questline, iirc. You could mess with variables on CE to speed up the process, but I'm not sure how to do that, it could also bug the game soo....
But, what you get by spending hours on the game? TONS of quests, items, bosses, hidden NPCs and secret areas. I kid you NOT, there is a "haunted mansion" you need to "cleanse" before getting that sweet "harem hot spring event" and bro I legit got SCARED at some enemies dashing towards you from nowhere. I might be a scared cat? Yea.
So overall, the more you want to accomplish in the game, the more you are going to invest. Grind all buddies questlines, build reputation for all 3 factions, acquire all unique gears? Well, go for it. just prepare for a 40+ hour playthrough.

Part VI: I write too much Conclusion
While I could keep talking like a madman and creating an essay, I deliberately avoided talking about certain characters, interactions, mechanics and events, because I want YOU to explore and find for yourself. I was surprised by how much content you could get lost in. Heck, I netori'd a guy when grinding a certain faction reputation. Sex events and all that. Optional? yea! Was it a surprise? Yup.
This was my first 30+ hour H-game (other one was Struggle with Sin). While I sadly lost my LLMBX saves, all the fun, laughs, horniness, neuron activation and whatnot about the game are still on me.
In conclusion, I wholeheartedly recommend this game if you are a fan of lenghty RPGs, multiple female casts (from MILF, to amazons, to cuties) and enjoy exploring each town and dungeons to see what discoveries you could find! from BBW courtesans to dangerous succubi

P.S: Lucia best buddy ftw!

This is one of the most complete games I've ever played in this style, offering options for experience customization, campaign choices, relationships, lots of scenes and "character creation", so I recommend playing it, especially because they even included a save so you can play faster (giving you a new game).

one of the best ero rpgs I've ever played. And nothing is standing close to it. Your choices matter, you have multiple endings, you can level up in multiple ways and finish quests in different ways. Your reputation allow you to pick different quests or talk to different people. And Artwork is just PEAK.

We NEED more games like this. Finished and made with heart!

For me, one of the best games on this site.

The RPG side of the game is very well done, good difficulty, interesting quests and decent progression. Combat is interesting enough with a party of two.
On the port side, you have a decent choice of romantic partners, either combat companions or not, and the sex scenes are well distributed through the game. You can also have sex with some side characters that you can't romance, like prostitutes, and a few female monsters/ennemies.
My only downside with it is the main story. It's more of an open world, but there is the start to a story that simply stops. The game introduces important characters in a certain quest but don't do anything with them.

About the different kinks :
- NTR is almost completely avoidable. There's a couple scenes during gameplay where it can happen, but you can either avoid it (good) or choose to have it happen off-screen. But for those who like NTR, you can push your companions/wife into being shared, which will make her more inclined to fuck around.
- Incest is just one character, your mother. She isn't a companion but has special content if you make her your wife.
- There's a karma system, you can be good or evil, but I don't remember it mattering very much. I was mainly good all the time, though, so that might be the reason. There are a few scenes where you can rape a member of an opposing faction and a club where you assist at the degradation of women. I might have missed some things there...