Ren'Py - Completed - Magebuster: Amorous Augury [v1.0.4] [Belgerum]

This game was a pleasant surprise. Basically just a 100% better take on the concepts explored earlier in their other game Demon King Domination. I enjoyed the variety of endings, the 'evil' ending is truly sadistic and the romance ending is genuinely cute, weird to see the very different paths these characters can take. Full voice acting is a nice plus, the artwork is better than the previous game as well. The game will really, really scratch the itch if you like non-con.

Complaints are mild but enough to just barely knock away a perfect score. Voice acting for the main guy isn't bad by any means but it also just isn't quite up to par with the girl who really sells it and getting the endings is way too cryptic and requires a guide. The combat could be considered annoying by some but I felt there is actually fun in the puzzle of it, also makes it more rewarding to crush her if it's actually hard to do. Also

A very short, simple VN with interesting but ultimately repetitive gameplay. The story is very small in scope, which works in the game's favour due to how short it is. However, I found the dialog rather drawn out and not particularly interesting. For how much the characters talk, they never seem to grow beyond basic stereotypes. The voice acting is a nice touch, though. Figuring out the gameplay is fun, but doesn't take too long, and once you do it gets repetitive very quickly. Given how much effort it took to reach the ending, I'm not sure the reward is worth it. Overall, a decent game with some good points, held back by unnecessary filler.

The girl is very cute and her voice is good (but voice acting for the girl and guy can be disabled separately if you disagree). I liked the different ending routes and how you get to them. Honestly my favorite is the ending without domination elements. He's still a bit of an arrogant jerk and she's still a bit of a tsun, but at least they're not both trying to be slavers.

The combat system was easy and pleasant enough to figure out and win, but I definitely felt it lost its charm on repeat plays when I was trying to get the other endings. (Gotta deduct a star for that, sorry.) I feel like this could have been mitigated a bit, maybe give the player one "win this round" mega-spell for each ending they've found, or something.

Magebuster: Amorous Augury is a great hentai puzzle game if I said it in as short term as possible, with a great deal of mechanics to figure out how to race to each ending from the start. Its greatest shortcoming is its greatest challenge, where you will learn how recognize patterns and use your abilities accordingly and figure out how to time your spells properly. It's highly replayable if you've gotten used to these kinds of games after honing your understanding of the mechanics in order to race to each ending.

If you're in it for the plot and story and the sex, then there's plenty of it and you're going to have to reach each ending. So it's a race from start to ending in order to complete the gallery and scene replay. Out of all the endings, Ending 6 is the most difficult challenge in this game, in which after the reveal you have to basically do a damage race before going down.

Its quire good, ended up just following a guide (that was made by the game maker) to get the rest of the endings, the gameplay is alright not crazy complex but fun non the less. quite a few good sex scenes wish there was a gallery.

A bit repetitive, but a cool game idea and mechanic and I appreciate the developer posting the guide to getting the endings. I like that all 6 endings felt very different and appealed to a wide range of interests.

Yep, Belgerum comes back with another amazing title. Simple but fun to play, kind of transport you back to those simpler times when all adult games were made in flash. Anyway to the story:
A young mage Sophia gonna have to learn the hard way not to mess with evil spirits, so who's gonna teach her? Why, you of course!
This game have multiple endings exactly like demon king domination, these vary between the logical thing that happens when you summon a evil entity to Reality and a sweet vanilla epilogue.
Cheers to the developer for expanding on what made his lat project fun to play. Worth your time, however you might need a guide if you get stuck, thankfully you'll find one on the 2nd page of this thread, hell there is even a youtube video to help yourself.

All things considered, I was a bit surprised by how solid an experience this was.

On the mechanical side, there's nothing super standout in either direction. The combat system is somewhat basic, and though you have to go through a lot of it to get to all the endings, once you figure out the patterns (the whole thing is determinsitic), you can easily hold ctrl and click through the game's fights in seconds.

The voice acting is a bit interesting - not many ero games have full english voice acting these days. The voices themselves are probably going to be something you'll either settle into or hate with a burning passion, but since the game has volume sliders for both the male and female lead, you can easily turn one or both of them off and play the game however you want.

The content here is what really jumped my expectations. Make no mistake, the game is short - you can probably experience everything in under 1-2 hours depending on how fast you read and if you just skip the combat by looking up a guide. Still, it has 5 endings that span a surprising range of interests, and each path has its own dialogue throughout the fight, which helps the whole thing feel consistent despite the pretty sharp turns the story can take. All 5 of them might not be to your liking, but they're different enough that one or two of them stand a good chance of it.

If you played the previous title - Demon King Domination - I'd rate this a solid step up from that. It really doesn't take much time to check out, so if you're interested, it's probably worth it. Especially if you're a sucker for the MC/slave end like I am.

Though it may be far from perfect, it stands out as one of the better works out there and it's refreshing that it's natively in English as well.

Unlike countless other works that have almost no thought put into them and exist as only a means to deliver porn, this one tries to deliver a narrative and game play that fits it's setting.

After playing Demon King Domination and then this one, I feel that the developer is making great strides in improving the quality of his work. And because of that, I am wholeheartedly supporting any future games published by the team and humbly ask anyone who feels the same to do so as well.

TLDR: Seriously don't bother. Many games have aspects in which they excel that make them worth playing even if other aspects are awful. Other than the combat system being a total waste of time that detracts heavily from the experience, nothing in here is awful, its just average, cliche, and very very bland. There is nothing in here that you cant get much better versions of in a dozen other places. Theres just no real reason to play this game.

Review:
The most glaring thing to point out is it's basically a clone of his other game. The story is similar. The characters both have the same personality. The two voice actors are the same. The art style is the same. The plot and endings are basically the same in a different setting. It's just really fucking lazy.

The writing is fine, maybe the only thing that is ever so slightly above average, but it's incredibly short AND padded. The cgs are meh, nothing special, nothing really worth seeing. The story is also built around seeing all of the endings in order to get the full story, but in a game where it is such a pain to grind the combat, and the story is cliche anyway, it just comes off as a pretentious hindrance.

The fighting system is similar to his other game. Take turns doing one of a few different actions. This one adds a time mechanic. But honest to god, if you can read then you literally can't lose. It's just a grindy waste of time to pad a game that should be over in 5 minutes or less per route. You have to do the fights over every time to get different endings. It's obscene.

Last thing to note, its fully voiced in english, but the voice acting is so bad and offputting that you may honestly be better playing it without sound. Both of the voices are hammy, the guy is a cunt who you cant relate to, and the girl is a dopey bitch who its hard to feel anything for. If the sound of a girl moaning in english gets you off, regardless of how poorly acted, poorly recorded, or annoying the voice is then you might get something out of it. Otherwise its a waste of money and time that couldve been used to get more art for instance.