RPGM - Completed - Maid Mansion Nightmare [v1.0] [Azurezero]

  1. 2.00 star(s)

    mdqp

    The game feels almost like someone wanted to practice using Live2D, and decided they'd rather get paid for it instead. The story is barely there (this has to be one of the most lacklustre intros a game ever got, short of not having one at all), the characters are equally lacking in personality for the most part, maps are large and kind of empty.

    Gameplay isn't terrible: very fetch-quest-y, but the game knows to at least throw you a curve ball or two (the logic in some of the events is questionable, but none of it is really difficult). Scenes are repeatable... Perhaps a little too much. Sometimes the trigger is simply entering a room and the exact same scene will play again. The scenes themselves are okay, nothing impressive, but they animate reasonably well and the writing is fine, even if they are a bit short ( your impressions might go up or down depending on how much you like the artstyle as well).

    I have not finished the game. After seeing a few scenes, and completing some tasks, I just felt it wasn't worth the time. It's a very bland experience (in fact, you also get long-ish sections without music, for some reason). The game is also not very-well polished: get invited to the bath on day 1? Can't go there until day 2. Enjoy wasting some time trying all the doors on the ground floor to see if any of them opened, since they aren't marked and you just got there so you don't know where anything is supposed to be (but of course being INVITED there, makes you think it should be accessible now).

    The game is full of small annoyances like that: watering flowers? Go fill your bottle in the hot-tub(?) every 4-5 uses, get a key to get a key to get a key, open 5 boxes in a room (4 are empty and 1 has the item you actually need), get "ambushed" by scenes (some of which you have already seen) when you are exploring. Some of it is padding, the rest is a lack of care that truly shines through. If at least one of the aspects was well made, the game could easily get an extra star and be at least worth a playthrough, but as it is I would recommend against it.
  2. 4.00 star(s)

    Myth1014

    The artstyle intrigued me so I was waiting for someone to review it, but I got tired of waiting and took the dive.

    The game itself is pretty cool and short - the H-scenes are animated and nice but nothing to write home about, the art is nice and I really like the way the protagonist looks.The part that I most loved about the game was the execution though. Usually you'd expect games like this to be more or less walking simulators but this one had actually fun puzzles.

    I've docked a point because I did encounter a few bugs - it crashed twice during my playthrough and the lack of QoL (like being able to change outfit from the inventory) meant I did spend a lot of time walking around - I understand that the project is too short to justify spending time on QoL but as a player I have to review it with a player's perspective (perhaps if there were a few warp portals here and there to help navigate the mansion it would've made walking around feel like less of a chore)

    All in all, the game is pretty sweet and I dont really have anything to complain about given how short it is. I hope the dev makes more games, I also hopes they might do slightly bigger projects because this one did feel pretty short and there were ideas like a corruption stat but they didnt seem to do anything here.