Reviewed: Version 1.10
Completion: Completed Transcendant difficulty twice and cleared Bonus 1. I cleared Transcendant a second time because I had to redownload to give a concise review.
The game runs nicely enough, and the scenes are nice, which is why this review gets 3 stars, otherwise I would have dropped it to 2. It firmly hits that "you're here for the sex, but you also want to win" note, which is really good for my tastes.
And now for the bad parts. Unfortunately, the gameplay of solving math problems while your girls get raped are rather contradictory. Maths is a game of focus, and you cannot get yourself to immerse into the H scenes while you're still at the risk of losing. And speaking of losing, game overing in this game is actually really hard to do.
This is because to game over, you sort of have to... Have both girls captured at 0 HP, or something? I don't know, because I never game over'd. (both Transcendent runs as well as Bonus 1 took only one try each) Anyway, point is this is way too lenient. It requires some real luck to even get close to this point on [insert your comfortable difficulty here] and, from my experiments with the immortal enemy on Bonus 2, it even takes a while after you fulfill the condition to truly get the game over and be booted to the menu. (At least it doesn't give you anything for fulfilling this ludicrous game over condition.)
But if it's easy to not lose, it must be easy to win, right? WRONG! The RNG in this game is ruthlessly stupid. The timer you get for each question is dependent only on the difficulty, and not on the question's difficulty. Oh, and did I mention the questions are randomly generated? Otherwise how can 822+174-2 appear on the same floor as 8x1? Getting the same amount of time (1.5 seconds on Transcendant, according to my stopwatch) on both of these questions is absurd, not to mention that to answer these questions on Transcendant means borderline guesswork based on split-second decisions and which digits you happened to see. Sometimes life and death can be decided by whether you flicked your cursor onto 994 or 694.
And even if you're a god that answers each and every question correctly, you still get screwed over by RNG anyway! Traps are impossible to avoid, and if you get a bunch of traps early, you're basically running naked with 5 tentacles attached to you and 0 HP into Floor 100. This is a complete antithesis to the nature of mathematical questions, and in general results in feeling like being punished for doing nothing. While such things can be commonplace in the trap dungeon genre, I feel it is done badly in this. There is no sense of surprise, push-or-pull, or resource management. Just two girls and the person behind the monitor slowly watching the HP bar drain without being able to do anything.
One last thing. This is more personal, but Bonus 2 shouldn't have been put on the difficulty list. You're just wailing on an immortal boss. Isn't this already covered by Endless or something? Unbelievable.
By the way, the Gallery sucks. Just put Auto on an Easy run, it's way easier.
Overall usable as material, but if you're here for a good challenge to run your brain, forget it. Go get a math drill off google and practice that, it's way better. By the way, I encourage everyone here to do it just to get a sense of how horrendous that difficulty curve is.
Completion: Completed Transcendant difficulty twice and cleared Bonus 1. I cleared Transcendant a second time because I had to redownload to give a concise review.
The game runs nicely enough, and the scenes are nice, which is why this review gets 3 stars, otherwise I would have dropped it to 2. It firmly hits that "you're here for the sex, but you also want to win" note, which is really good for my tastes.
And now for the bad parts. Unfortunately, the gameplay of solving math problems while your girls get raped are rather contradictory. Maths is a game of focus, and you cannot get yourself to immerse into the H scenes while you're still at the risk of losing. And speaking of losing, game overing in this game is actually really hard to do.
This is because to game over, you sort of have to... Have both girls captured at 0 HP, or something? I don't know, because I never game over'd. (both Transcendent runs as well as Bonus 1 took only one try each) Anyway, point is this is way too lenient. It requires some real luck to even get close to this point on [insert your comfortable difficulty here] and, from my experiments with the immortal enemy on Bonus 2, it even takes a while after you fulfill the condition to truly get the game over and be booted to the menu. (At least it doesn't give you anything for fulfilling this ludicrous game over condition.)
But if it's easy to not lose, it must be easy to win, right? WRONG! The RNG in this game is ruthlessly stupid. The timer you get for each question is dependent only on the difficulty, and not on the question's difficulty. Oh, and did I mention the questions are randomly generated? Otherwise how can 822+174-2 appear on the same floor as 8x1? Getting the same amount of time (1.5 seconds on Transcendant, according to my stopwatch) on both of these questions is absurd, not to mention that to answer these questions on Transcendant means borderline guesswork based on split-second decisions and which digits you happened to see. Sometimes life and death can be decided by whether you flicked your cursor onto 994 or 694.
And even if you're a god that answers each and every question correctly, you still get screwed over by RNG anyway! Traps are impossible to avoid, and if you get a bunch of traps early, you're basically running naked with 5 tentacles attached to you and 0 HP into Floor 100. This is a complete antithesis to the nature of mathematical questions, and in general results in feeling like being punished for doing nothing. While such things can be commonplace in the trap dungeon genre, I feel it is done badly in this. There is no sense of surprise, push-or-pull, or resource management. Just two girls and the person behind the monitor slowly watching the HP bar drain without being able to do anything.
One last thing. This is more personal, but Bonus 2 shouldn't have been put on the difficulty list. You're just wailing on an immortal boss. Isn't this already covered by Endless or something? Unbelievable.
By the way, the Gallery sucks. Just put Auto on an Easy run, it's way easier.
Overall usable as material, but if you're here for a good challenge to run your brain, forget it. Go get a math drill off google and practice that, it's way better. By the way, I encourage everyone here to do it just to get a sense of how horrendous that difficulty curve is.
