Others - Completed - Magic Castle RePureAria [v1.23] [House of Black Dream Fantasies]

really good. Art style and game play is awesome. I actually got pulled into the story. all the enemies have interactions, sometimes with one form, sometimes with the others! it was enjoable and it is great to figure out how to combine all the powers.

One of my favorite pixel games. I can't wait to start the second game after posting this review. This game has a fun player character switch, with plenty of familiars to help support them or change their attacks. I quite enjoyed the story and how the main character is a boy with 3 female personalities stuck in his body, and their reactions to everything (especially him having sex/being sexed). It even has a new game plus feature, letting you carry over around 10 different options (items, money, familiars, health, magic, "energy", etc) into the next run, while only removing the sequence breaking key items. A couple of scenes are missable, but the game doesn't make it hard to figure out what you need to do to get said scene (example: petrified girl, can be saved with an item from a shop later in-game to get a scene, but not required to save her). Overall fun game, and the animations are simple but nice.

English
RepureAria 1 is a game of the metrovenia genre, which, even though it is considered an H game, is one of those that does not focus on only H scenes, but rather tries to tell you a very interesting story.
To start with the good, like any metrovenia game the mobility of the characters is very important, each character can do a different type of mobility, "Pure love" has the standard mobility, "Innocent" has faster and unbridled mobility the bad is that she does not have much friction with the ground, "Devil" has her downward slide that is able to damage and pass-through enemies, the other variants do not change this point only their attacks. Another point to highlight is the combat system that, although it is mainly focused on women since the male character does nothing and you have to spend your yellow spheres or potions, it is a very dynamic and fun system, all the female characters use attacks At a distance from different elements: ice, fire, air and psychic, each character launches a different type of bullet and element, 2 characters are able to keep their attacks charged to focus the number of hits and damage in one place. Finally, the best point to highlight is its story since even if there is a lot of text, you can understand the whole story, which <spoiler> is based on the fact that the demon king's daughter was sealed all the time due to a disease that afflicts a certain sector of the people, this disease is what attracts the red spheres that drives them crazy and they become enemies, but luckily the princess's consciousness falls on the MC giving the ability to change bodies and you will have to help the princess to recover her memories and body, discovering the truth of why the red orbs do not affect other people.
That would be all the good things to highlight, unfortunately in this first game of the saga it is the one that has the most negative points.
One of them would be the poor summoning system, which even though they help you with damage and certain skills that improve your gameplay, its probability of appearing in this game is very low and you can only carry 2 summons. The uselessness of the MC, this is the point that most people will agree with, the MC is a glass ornament, he cannot attack, his movements are very slow and the worst thing is that he cannot do parkour which he does very slow and boring gameplay, and forces you to always have at least 2 yellow spheres and always have potions. The last bad point that I want to highlight is the narrative since as I said at the point of the story, the story is not bad, the bad thing is the way it is told since it has large amounts of text, which can be boring very fast if you are not much to read history.
With all the above, I can conclude that Repure Aria 1 is a good game, with interesting mechanics and history, but it has flaws that sometimes are very frustrating, it does not make it a bad game at all.
Español
RepureAria 1 es un juego de genero metrovenia, el cual aun que sea considera un juego H es de los que no se centra en solo escenas H, si no que intenta contarte una historia muy interesante.
Para empezar con lo bueno, como cualquier juego metrovenia la movilidad de los personajes es muy importante, cada personaje puede hace un tipo de movilidad diferente, "Pure love" tiene la movilidad estándar, "Inocent" tiene una movilidad mas rápida y desenfrenada lo malo es que ella no posee mucha fricción con el suelo, "Devil" tiene sus deslizamiento hacia abajo que es capas de dañar y pasar por enemigos, las demás variantes no cambian este punto solo sus ataque. Otro punto a destacar es el sistema de combate que aunque principal mente se centra en las mujeres ya que el personaje hombre no hace nada y debes de gastar tus esferas amarrillas o las pociones, es un sistema muy dinámico y divertido todos los personajes mujeres usan ataques a distancia de diferentes elementos: hielo, fuego, aire y psíquicos, cada personaje lanza un tipo de bala y elemento diferente ,2 personajes son capaces de mantener cargado sus ataques para centrar el numero de golpes y el daño en un solo lugar. Por ultimo, el mejor punto a destacar es su historia ya que aun que haiga mucho texto, se puede entender toda la historia, la cual <spoiler> se basa en que la hija del rey demonio estuvo sellada todo el tiempo debido a una enfermedad que aqueja a un cierto sector de la gente, esta enfermedad es lo que atrae a las esferas rojas que los enloquece y se vuelven enemigos, pero por suerte la conciencia de la princesa cae en el MC dando la habilidad de cambiar de cuerpo y tendrás que ayudar a la princesa a recuperar sus recuerdos y cuerpo, descubriendo la verdad de porque los orbes rojos no afectan a otra gente.
Eso seria todo lo bueno a destacar, lamentablemente en este primera juego de la saga es la que mas puntos negativos tiene.
Uno de ellos, serian el pobre sistema de invocaciones, el cual aun que te ayudan con daño y ciertas skill que mejoran tu gameplay pero su probabilidad de salir en esta entrega es muy bajo y solo puedes llevar 2 invocaciones. La inutilidad del MC, esto es el punto que mas gente estará desacuerdo pienso yo, y es que el Mc es un adorno de vidrio, no puede atacar, sus movimientos son muy lentos y lo peor es que no puede hacer parkour lo cual hace el gameplay muy lento y aburrido, y te obliga a siempre tener 2 esferas amarillas mínimo y siempre tener pociones. El ultimo punto malo que quiero destacar es la narrativa, ya que como e dicho en el punto de la historia, la historia no es mala, lo malo es la forma en que se cuenta ya que tiene grandes cantidades de texto, lo cual puede aburrir muy rápido si no eres mucho de leer la historia.
Con todo lo expuesto anteriormente puedo concluir que Repure Aria 1 es buen juego, con mecánicas y historia interesante pero tiene fallas que aun a veces frustren mucho, no lo hace un juego para nada malo

[v1.23] Ok, there are a lot to say about this game... More negative things than positive unfortunately. I'll start with the + side and explain. First, this game has a fun mechanic where you gain powers with different personalities you meet (in this game it is called: Shape shifter). I really love this kind of grind in video games and that's why i gave this a 3 stars. Now the flaws... At first when i started to play this, i wasn't sure if i wanted to continue or play something else. I mean, the background design isn't really appealing when you start the game (squares everywhere with only one color for each level). The h-scenes aren't really exciting as well (quick animations with the same repeated voices). This is a huge minus for me because i mostly play porn games for the sex content. Also, this game has way too much text. At first, i was invested to the story because it has some wacky and corny conversations but when the game started to bomb me with text, i lost interest. Personally, i play porn game for the animated sex and not picture/text sex (which this game has). The protagonist, the male character you play as, is weak as fuck. He can't attack or defend himself (i understand why they did this but still). The only thing he can do is swim fast (when you get the 'mermaid fin' later on). Another thing that is annoying is you don't have an invincibility frame when you get hit. So if you get cornered, you'll lose all your health. However, this game has a ridiculous amount of save and heal zones so that's not really a problem. To conclude, the contracts to get familiars are insanely hard to get... I don't know why they put the spawn rate this low. If their h-scenes weren't so repetitive, it wouldn't bother me this much

This one is a hidden gems. the gameplay is like Megaman where you get more power the more you progress the game so i can say its fun, the character design is cute and the character feels alive maybe because some scene have voice acting, and the BGM is amazing especially the boss battle BGM. I even forget that i play an eroge when i play this game since its such a fun game.