RPGM - Completed - Mercenary Band NTR [v1.20] [Mijiishi]

A really solid netorase to netorare game, if you ignore the fact that there's too few scenes between the MC and the main heroine, making NTR weaker. I had skipped the gameplay and just watched some scenes when I played it a few years ago, but now I tried to play it properly as there's a decent translation, and it ended up being better than I expected. The side quest stuff isn't very good, and there's a missing scene with one of the one-star quests (the one where you find a mushroom). But the first main quest is amazing, and so are the brothel scenes with Kuno.

BIG WARNING!

The translation bugged the second main quest, so if you have a full save downloaded and the game offers you to skip scenes, you can easily get locked out of the game progression (you'll know it if you can't progress the main quest in the second chapter even after triggering a cuckold scene with Rodrigo and increasing fame). Check here for a solution if you encountered this problem, or just play with a fresh save.

https://f95zone.to/threads/mercenary-band-ntr-v1-20-mijiishi.114016/post-8067057

This is a direct sequel to the Netorase classic Ruins of Luxoria and I really recommend playing that game before this one for more context on worldbuilding and reoccurring characters.
Now before you play stop, get the because the default MTL is a horrid mess and playing with that would make this game a 2/5 instead.
Unfortunately this game is nowhere near as good as Luxoria, the developer split resources and time on a crapload of annoying dungeons, extra girls and mechanics. Most of the time more content is better, but this is an exception for this game, as it would have been much better if it had a single town, single dungeon and single heroine to get a lot of more focused content.
The saving grace is that none of the characters are bad, both the girls and the rivals are well written even if most of them are lacking in events and scenes.
I would still recommend this game despite the flaws if you are into Netorase, but if you are not into it stay away from it.

Despite the repetitiveness of certain actions, Mercenary Band NTR is a game with a very large content (both H and in these rpg mechanics). Also the quality of the writing is very neat, the characters are well built, and the sets are detailed enough not to be confused with yet another RPGM. I take off a star for the length of certain actions that one must do to unlock certain scenes, but this is what also gives a chronology for the development of the plots (everyone is the judge for this appreciation).

A cuckhold game, the MC has a NTR kink and enjoys it as he wants. Now for the plot to move, there is a succubus that rescues the MC, her girlfriend and adoptive mothers at cost of her vitality, so in other to pay the favor, and keeping her alive, the MC need to collect magical semen charged with NTR feelings. Or at least that is what I understood, because the MTL on this is not good.

The art is not that good, and is lacking in variety. I like some situations and ideas the developer implemented, but also there is a lot of wasted potential because of the lack of art and some gameplay decisions.

For example, there is magical semen that you have to recollect but there is no way to use it. Don't change anything in the story. Also, you manage a whorehouse but don't receive any money for it. You rarely explore your relationship with the other girl apart from the redhead, so the important element of love/corruption/pain is missed.

Also, gameplay wise, the normal mode is kind of challenging, and the way you get new skills is tedious, like getting them from a box in different dungeons.

Could have been a better experience with a good translation and better art, but it probably is not going to be the best work of Mijishi apart from Amour Academy.

This was a 9/10 for me personally.

I love the concept, though as for the execution I see why people would consider this a step back from Luxoria. Since this game has even more girls than Amor, it's not too surprising that not all of them get the same treatment content-wise, which can make this feel less like a sandbox and more like following a set number of storylines paced by the main plot missions with an additional sprinkling of unconnected side content.

That being said, while the mtl wasn't excellent, I overall enjoyed the characters and in particular found a lot of the ntr/netorase content to be just what I was looking for and the same type of content I enjoyed from Luxoria, so I'll probably be looking forward to Mijishi's future games even if I'm also hopeful that they iron out some of the issues.

Ok so the mtl is bad. It loses context to who its talking about and confuses with she and he. if this had a good mtl and easier to figure gameplay this NTR would be near godlike NTR. It takes you for a ride. It may have bad art but it gets the point across mixed with its sprite animation. But this game has some hardcore ntr scenes. it has Netori, Netorase, netorare. cucking on a level that hits you. It is hard to unlock all the endings and it has some grinding to do.

Things you have to do before going in.
-when doing missions guess the party to unlock scenes. a bookshelf will give you a terrible hint on how to get the scene after completing it once.

-The final boss mission of that chapter you have to lose with the right girl in your party. You can sometimes fail again to get extended fail scenes.

-Be sure to put your girls on the job when you get the job. its a scroll on a wall which i missed early in the game and didn't know I had to assign them. Also sometimes unassign them out to get them to do their own things.
-Be sure to change the game from normal to easy or instant kill, normal was way to hard, i played through most of the game like this, trust me.

Its a long game by the way and you have to work for the ntr but it was honestly worth it. at least for me.

My Gameplay Review of the game:

1. The main design seems to be a management game plus a full RPG adventure, your character is supposed to be the leader/ boss of a mercenary group. In reality you have no control over anything, (even less than in Amor) meaning that the game is basically just a linear VN made in RPGM

2. Speaking of the MC, this is the worst Male Protagonist of all time, he does not question anything and makes no attempts to be a leader. There is no excuse or justifiable reason for this character to exist, even going as far as to set up a rape scene, again the player has no real control over his actions (linear VN) and makes no attempt to engage in any relationships with the other girls.

3. The girls, the character writing is terrible and the only purpose they serve is to be sex dolls for every male in the game (except you). The only character with any thought is just Shea and for me is only character worth starting a relationship with…

4. I would if I could, but the dating / invite out system from the previous games has been removed completely which means that outside of pre-scripted events, you cannot build your affinity (Love, Compatibility) with the girls. This means that the affinity system is pointless and does nothing. This is a linear VN.

5. Speaking of more pointless gameplay, the H stats are as well, due to the fact this game is just a linear VN. The fact the MC even has these stats, is a waste since you can’t do anything with the girls anyway. This also means that you have no control over how the other characters form their relationships either.

6. The pregnancy is the same as the above 2 points, it is very difficult to the girls pregnant. Could be a bug? Only really exists as a part of the linear VN story.

7. Was there any need for this game to be an RPG? No it is just as pointless, it does nothing apart from adding a grinding element. The quest system while the most functional of the gameplay the game has to offer, only really serves the purpose of preventing the MC from getting with girls and keeping the MC as the weakest character in the game.

8. The bar/ brothel on the upper floor doesn't generate any monetary income, only magical seamen. This makes it pointless, I would have designed it so that it generates income based on your reputation value (high reputation = more customers). You also cannot select just bar work only. You could then assign the girls to do prostitution work (handjob to full sex). The player should have the ability to fully manage the bar/ brothel, as it currently it has no real effect on gameplay.

9. The NTR is pointless this game has no Magical Seamen minimum target, and no time limit in which to acquire it. What this means is that, if you had full control over everything, you could just play the game as vanilla as you want. You could have had a full harem, none of the girls at all or everything in-between. This also means the game has no replay value as there is only one way to play it.

10. The entire story is pointless, since as I have discovered you have no way to hand over the collected Magical Seamen to the succubus, to be able to fully heal/ restore her. The succubus' complete form is never shown and I even unpacked the CGs and did not find one. That means the primary objective of the game is unfulfilled.

Summary:

This game could have been a turbo-charged Luxoria but we did not get that, instead this is just a linear VN with the walking simulator and grinding that comes from being an RPGM.

This game is fixable we just need full control over the experience, the dating invite events added back in, for the MC to go on the quests, to have repeatable sex scenes between the MC and the girls and for there to be routes and ending paths to go with it.

0.1/10 Would not recommend

images: 5/5
gameplay: 5/5
story: 3/5
combat: 5/5
Pros: NTR, japanese art, can play using only mouse
Cons: a blind 10 years old drew those bitches

My rating is 9/10, so I think is a good game to download
More than 10 hours of gameplay

Mandatory 10 minute dialogues. Every time you go to sleep, wake up, talk to an NPC, BREATHE!!! Mandatory Ten Minute Dialogues. I wouldn't be surprised if you straight up skip most conversations but if that's the case, why bother playing the game at all? Just get a full save!

Gameplay is the typical level grind, most characters are shallow and one dimensional, there aren't any real stakes since you simply do things because you feel like it. Everything progresses insanely slowly. Its all par for the course from this developer but the difference is - this game has no hook.

An NTR High School, an NTR curse of magic ~ the other games had a cool twist. In this game its just a repeat of both combined. NTR provides you magic power and fulfills a magic contract on your player character. That's it. I would rather play a predictable cheating game, than a half-assed scenario like this!

I don't see any reason to play this game over its predescesors. I don't see any originality at all.

A wonderful game, especially after the update with the new repeatable end game content! Definitely only for people who like the tagged genres, but I liked it about as much as the works from this dev in the past.
Do note that as of v1.20, the dev still plans on adding more content, but there is already a ton to enjoy!
Pros: very arousing netorare and netorase scenarios, with both gradual corruption and more extreme stuff. The missions aren't too tough nor are the battles. You can play around with different characters and even goof around instead of progressing the story.
Cons: a little grindy, not all characters have as much content as they should have, and the build up of the main relationship should have been a little longer I think.
Overall, a super fun and arousing game from one of my favorite devs! Highly recommend if you enjoyed this dev's other stuff, though bear in mind it isn't exactly like the other works.

The game's main content is NTR and Netorase. But sadly it isn't as good as the other games that Mijiishi has made. The premise of the game is that the succubus resurrected the MC as an incubus, and in exchange, the MC and girls has to cuck and get cucked to get some bullshit NTR energy that seems to be present in every one of Mijiishi's games to help heal the succubus.

Naturally the MC and redhead are fiancees, the blonde elf is his stepmother and the blue and pink haired girls are secondary love interests. And all the girls enjoy being NTR'd, but what makes me dislike this game compared to Amor Magical Academy and Luxoria was the poor quality of the scene context and abysmal story and lack of variety of H scenes. It incredibly irritates me that the MC doesn't even have the option to sleep with the redhead or the elf. Only the mage and idol are repeatable to have sex with. And even then, the redhead has the insane majority of sex scenes. And let's not forget the catgirl who has literally a single scene.

Nevermind the MTL and the fact that the MC doesn't do much of the cucking himself, unlike Amor, or have twisted true love like in Luxoria. Apparently, an incubus likes being cucked more than doing the actual fucking in Mijiishi's world, despite them, y'know being the male version of succubi! That said, there are some endings where he does take them back and the MC does seem to get thrown a bone at some points.

Even worse, going through the entire game is a very long slog, you will get trapped at a slow speed playing this game. The RPG elements were always secondary to the porn, but reaching it is such a slog it's a wonder why it was even made that way in the first place. I can't recommend playing this as much as the previous 2 games, but feel free to try.