Unity - Max the Elf [v5.03] [T-Hoodie]

Max the Elf [v5.03] [T-Hoodie] is one of the best femboy games i could play and enjoy, kinda hard enjoy fully with busy hands XD, is needed a better gallery that allow see better zoomed, same that while are you playing it , btw tysm for upload♥ Crazygamer43

The animations are superb, the motions are very fluid and the facial expressions very well crafted. I didn't mind repeating the same animations more than once, which I usually try to avoid in those types of games.

The gameplay is a bit meh, but it's easy enough that I never had to repeat the same level more than twice, and the ratio of new animations to time spent playing is very good, so it never gets boring. I will say however, that if you end up struggling more than I did, you might not have a good time.

It's a very short game right now, but mostly because it does not waste your time. I recommend highly.

Great animations, and good amount of enemies. I would recommend a difficulty selector of maybe easy/normal/hard to help some players. When this game is finished it will be a 5 star game. Also maybe another minotaur chick?

This is a great game but it not cmpleted yet and you can notice that in the lack of content, but aside that is fun to play and the animations and VA are great.
I recommend it to play it, i hope the Dev fisnish ths game one day but its seems kind of abandoned 7/10 (sorry for my bad english)

What is a good game? What is a good hentai game?

Story Time

The story is kind of like Mario where your friend gets captured by an evil succubus and you have to find her and save your friend. There is not much explanation apart from that and some new characters are introduced as level bosses but the story never gets really interesting but that's not what the game is focusing on. This game is a hentai game in it’s literal sense it’s not a good game sprinkled with some hentai scenes to spice it up.

Gameplay

The game is really monotonous and very easy your character walks really slowly through the 5 available levels and fights a boss at the end starting at level 2. Your character has some tools at his disposable to interact with the enemies. You have your jump which is very floaty and keeps you in the air for a long time but the horizontal distance that you can travel with it is rather small. You can punch which is a projectile attack that can hit back or destroy certain enemies which has sadly a abysmal start up and a lot of end lag. You also get a slide which is very strong you destroy most of the enemies instantly but it has a cooldown so you cant spam it and lastly you have a special attack that can wipe the entire screen but you can only use it three times.
While that sounds like a lot for this kind of games the options are poorly implemented and some traps are really difficult to get through without using your limited special attack and that's why it is good that the game is very easy because it would frustrating to repeat the level over and over just to get hit by a few luck based traps that are borderline unavoidable.

Hentai

Apart from the gameplay the hentai scenes are good there are about 4-6 per level and all of them have a game over animation. They also cover a lot of fetishes you have slimes, futas other traps and tentacles for the most part. The pixel art is also very well done you can zoom in and enjoy the action at a decent quality. You can do all that in the levels or by visiting the gallery. At the time of writing this review level 5 was not added in the gallery because I played the game one day before 5.02 came out and i don’t plan to revisit it that fast.
There are some bugs in the gallery or some things are not pointed out properly so I wasn't able to see how to avoid getting stuck when watching the game over CG at manual because you are, as far as i know locked in the cg and can only get out by exiting the gallery entirely, it’s not a deal breaker or takes much time at all but it feels very unpolished.


Closing thoughts


The game feels like a relic of old times where a lot of hentai games were made like this but I think hentai games have evolved over time to keep the players engaged with things like story or a good or innovative but fun gameplay loop. Max the Elf is a good hentai game if you look for a quick fap but the gameplay is very boring I think it would be even better without the gameplay and just the gallery with all the enemies. The time the game is already in develpoment is kind of long for what was delivered. It was posted nearly 4 years ago which also means that you get around 1.25 levels per year. Which is in my opinion not much but I’m not versed in game development and I also don't know how the resources are being distributed.

TLDR: Good hentai scenes bad gameplay

Look, as a gallery the game is good as hell, a lot of really good animations about a sub femboy getting fucked by other femboys, futas or slimes, there's a good variety of fetishes and everything is cool on the H part

The part where everything kinda starts to crumble is where you realize you're not just looking at the gallery from some porn site but actually playing the game and the playing the game part is actually kinda shit even by H game standards, It's not the Wolf rpg kinda thing where the game is hard as nails and you have to get used to movement or the eris dysnomia where the more you lose the more your character gets corrupted and it's easier and easier to lose, it's more like the controls feel like garbage, your basic attack/swept does jackshit and you only have 3 uses of your actual good attack

all and all the game is still incredibly easy thanks to fact that you can get caught 5 times and the fact that enemies sometimes to not spawn for prolonged periods of time

TLDR; Just search up the scenes in something like rule34

This is one of the worst controlling games I have ever had the displeasure of suffering through. Not only that, there's tons of bullshit forced dialogue that insta-kills you if you don't pay attention to every single shitty detail in a game you just want to be over because you can't even attack at a reasonable pace. Game's shit, dev's shit, this "game" is never gonna get finished, move on to better pastures.

Addendum: I had to LITERALLY BOOT UP CHEAT ENGINE to enable speedhacking so I could skip the 18 hour unskippable cutscenes that happen every single time you lose to bullshit hitreg and nonsense timing situations. This isn't a game. This is a cheap imitation of one. It shows that it's been made by an artist who doesn't know the first thing about decent game design.

Another porn game with stellar art marred by 2000's era gameplay and a lazy developer dragging things out as long as humanly possible. New content comes out hilariously slow, the gameplay never improves, and as the money goes up, results go down.

First the bad: the gameplay just sucks and would be 1-2 stars. Much to slow, clunky controls, not a lot of variety in what you have to / can do.

But damn, that elf is cute and the animations are good. Solid 5 stars there. I would totally love to play a game by another developer / programer, but illustrated / animated by T-Hoodie. For example Tales of Androgyny would be much better with this style. You can guess the quality of the art style by the title pic in this thread.

Version: v3.0

Favorite Game EVER
ART STYLE REACHES PERFECTION

---{ Graphics }---
☑ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
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☐ Very good
☐ Good
☑ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Want to Play Again? }---
☑ Every Day
☐ One Day per Week
☐ Maybe When I Feel Longing
☐ Just 1 Time is Good
☐ Of Course Not
☐ Just if you Point me a Gun
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☑ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
☐ 3
☐ 4
☐ 5
☐ 6
☐ 7
☐ 8
☐ 9
☑ 10

Not enough games like this out there - the animations are crazy good and it hits a niche that's surprisingly hard to find. Definitely worth a shot even if it isnt usually your thing - you'll find out pretty quick if youre a fan by the first level.

A familiar style of game, but with a breath of fresh air... cute elf boys. I love that we have a full-fledged, no bullshit H-game of mostly femboys as the characters, but despite so, I think the game's execution is still lacking to say the least.

Pros ++

Artstyle: This is honestly amazing. A pastel, vibrant artstyle is pretty uncommon in H-games. It fits with the whole femboy aethestic that T-Hoodie is going for, and I think it's genius. All of the enemy design is excellent, the levels looks great, the arts of game over screen among others is pretty nice. The only time I'd say this causes trouble is that the environment can blend in with the UI sometimes, so it's kinda hard to see information like your pleasure gauge. Other than that, I think the art is amazing.

H-content and animations: This is also easily one of the best part of this game. Basically all of it is hot as hell, very well animated and it is one of the best femboy H-game scenes for you. There's also not a lot of clone scenes, or scenes that are too similar to each other, so it's not boring or repetitive. I also find it to be somewhat "innovative" too. Most of the time, I see the character we're controlling accidentally bumps into an enemy, and the next nanosecond they pull out BDSM equipment out of thin air and your character changed outfit with a little cat girl ear on for some reason. Max the Elf, instead, plays out a little scene transitioning to the H-scene itself, which is basically a portrayal on how he got into that situation in between the walking into the enemy and the sex scene. So it doesn't feel bullshit when Max gets hit by an enemy, somehow turns into a female and get double penetrated with that enemy and another one that spawns in front of him, cause all of it is played out. I think it's a smart move, and I think if games add this little bit in, it could make the experience a lot cooler (and hotter).

Soundtrack: I think the music is great, the OST are fun to listen to, and it's not boring like most other H-games. I would unironically turn the menu's music on and bop whenever I want to.

The story: It's not completed, but for what is already there, I think it has potential to be good. Of course it has a rather simple premise, but the character you go around and meet over the course of the game is fun, and it has much lighter tone than most other games of the same genre, so I don't think high stakes is needed here. I think it'll be, at the very least, enjoyable to most of you.

--Cons

Gameplay: I think this game suffers a lot in terms of gameplay and mechanics.

-The combat in this game is pretty much unreliable, except for slide (down + attack). The normal attack is very slow, I count somewhere between 2-3 seconds per attack, and despite its range, its speed limits the use of this move a lot, rendering attacking almost useless except for some enemy that requires attack. Slide, though, is excellent as it goes very far and instant-kills any enemy in its range, basically stronger than most side-scroller H-games' slides. Now don't get cocky, there's a large cooldown each slides that is attached to a bar, which I think is very smart way of balancing the player's power. There's also 3 bombs to clear the screen you can use per level, but I think if you can bomb the enemy while being captured in a H-scene would have been amazing.

-Movement: Now because of the unreliable normal attack and limited pool of moves that actually helps you, T-Hoodie is probably encouraging a more evasive game perhaps. But the thing is, movement in this game is almost sluggish. You walk slowly, you can duck and you can slide, but it's more offensive and locked behind a cooldown, your jump is somewhat good and that's all. Enemies that requires (or is encouraged to) duck means you'll have to wait for them to pass you whenever you don't have/don't want to use slide. It doesn't feel very fun to move around. Just increasing your movement speed and proportionally increases the stage's length will make the game a lot more fun (in my opinion).

- Enemy: on a mechanical level, I think individually, each enemy is very well designed. Although, most of them isn't very clear on how to be dealt with. Many encounters are mostly memory based, you gotta have to be hit once to know when to dodge, when to attack, what exactly to do the next time you meet them. This uncertainty is further magnified by your variety of unclear options. With how weak my attack is, it feels like the game is not trying to enforce you on one way to defeat the enemy, even though there are situations where it's only attack or dodge. If attack was stronger and still fails to save Max from one situation, or if there are clearer ways to express that, then I think the game is much better. Also, the enemy can be very cluttered sometimes, due to the vast amount of different ways to avoid each one of them, most of the time it can be hard or impossible when there are multiple opponents on the same screen.

-Difficulty: this game isn't hard on the execution side, so for most of the duration, the game doesn't get substantially harder if you don't get hit. However, if you're hit, you'll have to mash between A and D to escape. Guess what? That mash is harder as you progress through each level, so the game gets harder at that instead of requiring you to get better.

Miscellaneous: I don't like the animations outside of sex scenes in this game. I know that T-Hoodie is focusing on sex animations more, and it shows. But the combat and movement among others is really disappointing and I hope that T-Hoodie at least adds a bit more frames to things outside of sex scenes. I also don't like how you can't skip or give up on non-enemy's H-scenes like the boss's H-scene when Max is hit, or when Max and Vick have sex to recover 1 corruption. It just makes the game unnecessarily more sluggish than it already has been.

-- Conclusion ++

I think this game has potential to be very good. If T-Hoodie ever get around improving the gameplay rather than adding more scenes to the game, I can see this becoming a much better version of itself than what it is today. For now though, I will give this game a 8/10. The femboy stuff was super hot, but it won't excuse the below average gameplay that it has.

Amazing game, Max is sooooo cute. I wish I could be Max. The art is great and the animations are wonderful. Voice acting is good too, max does lots of soft sweet moans. And the sound Max makes when sucking on a tentacle... mmmh. Of course very futa/femboy themed which is wonderful. Controls can be a bit frustrating, especially the A/D struggle to escape mechanic, as it's limited to a certain press rate no matter how fast you can tap them. So basically there hits a point where you can't really escape because the bar raises too fast and you can only hit one key per second kind of thing, pressing A/D faster just screws you up.

An epitome in the representation of the fluffy femboy archetype.

Artwork by T-Hoodie sees masterful execution, femboys brought to life in the most refined manner.
Each frame of this animated chef-d'oeuvre throbs with life, smoothly stroking the senses charmed by Max and the rest of the roster.

The voicework is quality, fitting to themes and character archatypes.

Whilst I cannot deny my parti pris against the genre the work resides in, it is perhaps the best I have come across. There is an adequate challenge to be found, occasionally with a few repeats, but nothing so demanding that it drains blood from where it is needed the most.

Should your palette accomodate the thematics, it is a project with a certain recommendation, worthy of all the praise that befalls it.

This is an amazing game for people who like cute traps. It is an sidescroller where you have to get past the various enemies. If you get caught they wil violate you till you are able to escape or they have had their fill. Are three times you get a game over screen

Probably the best 'runner' type h-game I've played. Gameplay is fun and just about the perfect balance of difficulty - hard enough to be interesting, but not hard enough you get stuck or have too many problems. The animations are all awesome (Riki is my favorite). Basically, this game has given me a new love of fembois.

Gameplay/mechanics themselves are a bit slow and clunky, but let's be honest that's not what we're here for. Even with just 3 levels done there is a LOT of content here, including, for the most part, two different beautifully animated scenes for each enemy. The art and animation here are seriously great. Idk if this message is going to show up on the board so

Nice game
the elf trap was so cute
its trap soo not gay i think? lmao

the cons are the game is not enough stage need moar stage lmao

the animation and side scroller in this game was fantastic

need more game like this !!!!

Artwork stands out! The character designs are adorable, the names work with the theme of the game too. I think the only issue is the gameplay. It could be a little more fluid. For instance, It feels a bit sluggish jumping in the air, feeling like you dodge an enemy only to be captured. The button mashing system feels a bit unresponsive. When mashing A and D buttons to escape, I don't think the speed of release matches the button response. Other than that, Very solid game and I look forward to its completion!

The artwork is spectacular. Seriously, every encounter is well designed and demonstrates a lot of time and effort in making outstanding H-scenes. The art style may not be everybody's thing, and it's a bit "softer" than what I generally prefer, but it works so well with this aesthetic. I'm generally not into mlm/yaoi/gay scenes, but if you're like me, Max will basically make you question your sexuality.
In v3.11, there still isn't a huge amount of content - 30 minutes from start to finish - but high quality art isn't quick to make, so it makes sense.
The audio is great, but a bit repetitive.
The story is starting to pick up, but there's still not enough to call a plot yet. I'm looking forward to seeing the plot, but it's pretty bare at the moment.
The combat is tedious, at best. I mean, if the point of the game is getting caught, it kind of makes sense, but it's still not that fun to play.
Despite that, the art makes it worth it. I can guarantee that even straight dudes can enjoy this!