RPGM - Completed - Metal Edge Girl Blazer RPG [Final] [Ankoku Marimokan]

It can be said that this is the first hentai rpg game I completed a few years ago. Ankoku's games always make me want to play again because their art is so pleasing to my eye.
Although the translation when I played was a bit bad, overall I was still very happy with it.

The game has potential, but is made for very niche player base.
The story, plot, characters is all meh - basically a super hero that gets violated and tries to keep public appearances. Overall the RPG elements can get tedious and boring, as the combat is similar to Karyn's Prison where you can get restrained and have to wiggle yourself out, otherwise be raped.
MC is masculine female, at the same time being very short - if that's your thing, recommended, but for me there was nothing intriguing or sexy around the main character.

Will not judge based on the mtl, the mtl is always good enough to get the picture.

This is a semi-standard RPGM style game where you explore the town for h-events and see the corruption progress of it and yourself in between going out on dungeon missions. This game does it exceptionally well though, and I enjoy all their games despite not really liking their chibi-ish looking art on the protagonists.

Fetish-wise there is a little urine and scat, which I don't like, however it is very light and wasn't near enough to turn me away. There is also ryona. Enough to be a turn on if it's your thing, not enough to trigger anyone but the most lightweight porn goers. HOWEVER this circle does do some guro, which is usually tied to running into a trap like spikes or a couple bad ends. For me it was the same story as the scat. It's there, but it's low enough for me to ignore.

There is also mid battle sex, which is always great. It means in every aspect of progression there's going to be an option for porn.

That's all I can really say about it. 4/5, not this circle's best, but they always do awesome stuff. Definitely one of the good rpgm games that a sea of copycats aspire to.

in few words:
This game is very niche, a repulsive game for many people, if you don't like urine, scat and rape and you cannot at least support them, it is not a game for you, otherwise it is a complete dish.

Metal girl is a beauty rpg maker game, graphics well done, (they seem to be done with pleasure) combat mechanics are quite problematic and perhaps a negative point, battles with minions are more problematic than with bosses
however it is very easy to skip fights, and within them there is a very good mechanic for losing clothes.


the music in the game is good, I have nothing to complain about, it has 1 boring looping, but it doesn't bother me.
besides everything, it is a game with good maps and a very good mobilization, the story is well told (even if I don't read a line) and it's very easy to find your goal, the only time i had problems it didn't take long to find the way.

the map could have more events, this is a possible improvement for the game, because after going through many areas they are useless.

Having said all of that, the game would be a good 7, at most 8 if it was not so niche with URINE and on top of that it has half a dozen scat as well.

for these reasons my grade is 5/10.
I recommend? no, only if you don't mind urine and scat, it was very problematic for me to reach the end

BUT if you have fetishes in urine, scat and rape this is a complete dish, probably 9/10

For a game with potential, it really fell flat on its face.

Bugs. There are multiple game-breaking bugs. I got stuck in a wall and had to reload a save. What if I didn't have a save?

Translation. It's not that great. Multiple scenes are MTL which is terrible to say the least. The human translations are a marginal step above MTL. Some lines aren't even MTL'ed, just left as plain japanese.

Hentai was alright. This art style is not up my alley, but that's personal preference.

Story had potential. Then it was rushed to completion. Like, abruptly. This game feels like half a game.

The fetishes were pretty hardcore. Many of the "harder" fetishes were bad ends.

Overall, this game is just bad. I don't think it's worth playing through at all.

Had the potential to be so much better.

Pros

Plot. This game has a really solid foundation to build on.

Some of the situations are really hot.

The inner combat losing of armor / sexual harassment attacks was really cool.

You can fail at the combat but still proceed with the story. I like the fact that you're given narrative "outs".

Cons

Some pretty gross kinks in here. Shit and piss being two of them. If that doesn't turn you off then enjoy!

The female's body is.... kind of gross! She has a prominent six pack but is also kind of chubby? It doesn't look good at all.

The corruption angle was played super fucking retardly. She becomes a hoe because some nerd has figured out her secret identity so now she's a sex slave? Dumb. As. Fuck.

Summation

Good ideas but piss (and shit) poor execution.

Okay action and fun art. One of those decent midrange games. I like Marimokan's stuff in general, but nothing ever sticks in my mind about them, and it's the same for this one.

Even though it's advertised as an RPG, I feel this is more of an ACT game.

So, what is good:
- The artwork is beautiful (partially).
- Animations are ok mostly, video may get stuck.
- This dev is not afraid to put some of the more mature themes in game (some are clearly overused, some are underutilized, and then some are cheap).
- And story is surprisingly decent for what it is.
- Writing is fine, it could be much better if it was properly translated.
- Not heavily pixelated (censorship).
- Does work on Linux and doesn't leak memory.
- It's short, but packed with content (even if it's lacking).
- Everyone's favorite allthewaythrough fetish is there (sorta).

Bad:
- Does not deliver.
- A bit unpolished, kinda like they just cut it halfway (see below).
- Too much variation, but feels shallow and unfinished: they even have yandere and genderbender characters.
- Animations are glitchy (I'm using Linux but this shouldn't be why, it's possible, especially with older games).
- Translation is edited mtl I guess, most (all?) sex scenes is incomprehensible mtl (you can understand if you know what it's supposed to sound like in Japanese).
- Some lines are left untranslated.
- And some of the "side" lines look like machine translation.
- Many lines are unreadable because line isn't cut in new line where it's supposed to (well, it's unedited mtl), but generally it doesn't matter.
- "Virginity loss" dialogue is only for a few encounters. But then again, if nobody cares you were a virgin, that might be ok when intentional.
- It's lose to see good stuff kind of a game. Lose multiple times to see better stuff.
- Bad ends are kind of lacking (mtl ruined it if there was anything to salvage).
- Pink section is bugged and very unfinished.
- Pregnancy mechanic should've been improved, but I'm glad it's there at least. Probably the weakest part? Also it's clearly bugged.

In the end, the second half of the game felt very rushed, but I'm not sure how it can be improved. It's like you'd have to put tenfold the amount of work and effort to finish development and these games don't sell all that well, so I guess it's understandable. Please support the dev if you can.

Graphics are beautiful with animations in certain parts.

Gameplay is typical level grinding, but you can't return to levels you beat and can't leave a level until you win or get raped.

Story ends abruptly after 2 hours, leaving everything unexplained, possibly setting up a sequel.

Music/SFX are average.

Sex scenes make up for everything. Impregnation, birthing, public humiliation, degradation, sex stats, and so much more.

This game could use some polish but is still definitely worth a try.

TL;DR:
Pros:
1. A continuation of a series from the same author
2. Familiar battle system
3. Covers quite a number of irregular and gore-heavy fetishes
4. Fair CG quality
5. Very interesting story, quite original, but predictable

Cons:
1. IT'S NOT A VN, I REPEAT IT'S NOT A VN! YOU CAN'T FAP WITH BOTH HANDS!
2. It's going to be a long road of grinding and failures...Patience is a virtue we do not own
3. You are not going to like the CGs if you only like kiri type or refined type.
4. No VA...very sad, if only the author can ever hire 1 female voice...
5. If you have played one of his series...you literally play like 80-90% of the same content. Though, the CGs are more or less not the same XD
6. If you call OneOne1 lazy, you may have the same idea.

Honest Opinion:
It's not usual that we see an original concept. Even as the original creator, sometimes, there is a limit to how many times you repeat it. Moreover, if the CG quality is more or less stale, you will get bored very soon. Such is the issue of this game. It is original, it is fun, but when you cycle the system over and over while every other aspects remains the same, it's not going to attract new audience. Even the SE has nothing new to offer, there is no BGM variety...

We know it's hard to maintain a certain quality, but not having any improvements or surprises, that's just plain lazy. We complain much about how OneOne1 recycles their old work, but look at Ideology in Friction, they put the elbow grease in creating side-lines, stories and CGs for the supporting characters; they created a new Escort system so your MC can whore herself out anytime. That's a slight improvement (Oni & Blade, The Heiress have some of the crappiest and most recycled CGs they have ever made...so tiny bitsy improvement for CGs as well).

This author...honestly, you can praise him for the variety of genre he created, but for the RPG line...he really likes your MC getting raped every second...yeah, people come for porns, and you give them, but the same cycle repeats so many times for his series...out of variations and originality are really killing the vibe. It's not the first female hero game that is getting her raped+a high difficulty setting (yes, we can break this setting by cheating; or by a thorough grinding). Yet, the story is linear, your choice doesn't matter much. And that's a pain for RPG. RP means you have choices and freedom to do as the character explores the world.

I would give a higher rating if there were more differences and improvements from his previous titles, and damn, I would give his older works a higher rating because of that (recognition is undeniable), but for this one, I am truly disappointed.

Great game.
It's a lot like their other game "Kamikaze Kommittee Ouka".
Battle Mechanics: The usual round based combat. Enemies either attack you dicertly or use sexual attacks which lowers your Mana. If Mana goes below 0 your armor breaks and the Mana restores to full. After the second time you get restrained and have to break free before your HP reaches 0, or don't ;-). Most defeats won't lead to a game over, but better save before the bossfights.
Side quests all end up in something sexual.

Pros:

• Sexual content is completely voluntary, if you want a clean playthrough it's totaly possible
• gallery can be unlocked after playing through, so don't worry about missing any scenes
• nice graphics

Cons:

• Some content might be offputting, H-scenes might include scat, watersports, bestiality, punching, birth, fat dude... . Most scenes include rape
• Many H-Scenes are machine translated
• Can be a bit grindy to get exp and money, especially when trying to avoid corruption. Best tips is to grind at the puppet area, where you can heal and enemies will respawn. If you don't mind corruption you can also loose against the slimes so they will respawn and you can grind there. The corruption route also has some more options for earning money