RPGM - My Childhood Friend the Strongest Swordsman Got Cursed with Insensitivity [v2025.08.08] [yoshiyamad agumi]

A unique premise for an NTR game, one where you only see the real, full story only at the final act, and only on the bad end route. However this means you have to wade through mostly non-sexual content for most of the game with possible implied NTR being on the periphery. The bad ending is a real gut punch, being not only one of physical prowess, but also one of a real, battle-forged bond between lovers, a love arguably superior to yours, since you may have spent your childhood with Erica, but Gin is the one who spent 3 grueling months with her, he's the one who slightly got through to her in the tent through her curse, making her realize that she needed help. Erica even implicitly states that Gin is more her type even in the good ending (where she says she won't let a weak man hold her, deriding you and upscaling Gin).

The Good ending was unsatisfying, and I think that's on purpose. This is an NTR game first and foremost, having a good, sappy happy ending is an affront to the hard nature of this game.

I wouldn't play this if I wanted a quick and easy NTR experience, it's a slow burn with background elements being the constant implication of things beyond your control, something you might not ever even see if you choose the good ending the first time around. If you can spend an hour or 2 on non-sexual content to get the main stuff, this one might be worth it.

I liked the game overall. Especially the art, Erika's design; clothes, body, face, hair, etc. Acceptable variety.
To be honest, I liked the ending, especially Kyle's final interaction with Erika's mother.

Weak points for me:

-Animations a little boring, very static.
-Bugs that break the game. There is an event with bandits that triggered an infinite loop of Kyle with one life (due to training with Erika) being defeated by the bandits.
So I recommend saving the game often and in several slots.
- No work mini-games.
- Character progression is sad and easy (you only need to read Cain's book once and buy items from the only store on the map).


As the game progresses, it does something that surprised me: it transforms the map into a gallery of scenes. It uses a power that Kyle gains as an excuse. A power that ends up being the beginning of his curse.
Anyway, the main mechanic that the game ends up having as it progresses through the stages is cool but simplistic. It sounds much better than it actually ends up being.

En español para mi amiguitos.
Me gustó el juego en general. Sobre todo el arte, el diseño de Erika; ropa, cuerpo, cara, pelo, etc. De variedad aceptable.
A decir verdad el final me gustó, especialmente la interacción final de kyle con la madre de Erika.

Apartados flojos para mi:

-Animaciones un poco aburridas, muy estáticas.
-Bugs que rompen la partida. Hay un evento con bandidos que desencadenó un loop infinito de Kyle con uno de vida (por el entrenamiento con Erika) siendo derrotado por los bandidos.
Así que aconsejo guardar seguido la partida y en varios slots.
- No tiene minijuegos de trabajo
-El progreso del personaje es triste y fácil (solo necesitas leer una vez el libro de Caín y comprar items de la única tienda del mapa.


El juego cuando avanza hace algo que me sorprendió, transforma el mapa en la galería de escenas. Usando como excusa un poder que gana Kyle. Un poder que termina siendo el inicio de su maldición.
En fin la mecánica principal que termina teniendo el juego cuando avanza de fase es copada pero simplona. Suena mucho mejor de lo realmente termina siendo.

Really good, I didn't played before a game with this style of ntr and it's pretty good!

Gameplay: 4/5 normal rpgm combat but at the end of the game there is a special power that was really interesting.

Images: 4/5 not fluid animations but the drawings are pretty hot, and the girl it's very attractive.

Length: 5/5 short game that does what it needs, no need to grind or travel long distances.

Ending: 5/5 honestly amazing, and I'm happy for the girl.

Would recommend this game, and I could even want a tiny sequel to see more of the life of the girl after the ending of the game.

I love tomboys as much as I love big tiddies, so I entered the game with high expectations, hoping for good o’ corruption shenanigans similar to the likes you would see in doujinshi with the “emotionless girl” tag. Instead I was met with a gameplay loop that’s so numbingly boring, and an unsatisfying conclusion of a story that should’ve never been there in the first place.
(To be frank, I wasn’t even gonna make this review seeing how monotone things are, but the many misconceptions from the comments in this thread motivated me to see things for myself and explain in depth why this was an incredibly flawed experience despite the good art and neat premise.)


- Conclusion -
Implications aside, I don’t really think the developer thought that far, especially with the game’s overall immature sense of humor and obtuse designs. So the story just comes out really unsatisfying, and the sex rather disappointing to see after holding our expectations high for the entirety of the game. Like don't get me wrong, Erika is well-designed and the artstyle is beautiful (if rather basic since you don’t get to see the peepee and vagina most of the time, and the fact that all the other female characters get equal-sized honkers), but ultimately it’s not worth the trouble putting in 1 to 2 hours of blueballing just to see mostly well-drawn yet cliche sex scenes.

I feel like there was a lot of potential if the game went out their way to subvert audience expectations and tropes from your average NTR game, but the final scope of the game is too small for anything grandiose or slightly groundbreaking, and we ends up with an otherwise average game with bad gameplay design that's only remember because of Gin and the tomboy heroine. If you couldn't tell by this long ass review, to say that I’m disappointed by this project and its conclusion would be a severe understatement.

While I still recommend you see the game for yourself, it's best that you use a full save to see the end of the game.
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I hope nothing but good will for the creator's next project, yet as it stands... the execution IS JUST BAD.

The game is short, but has rare content. Ever seen a game with a female masseuse that bullies MC? I think i've seen it only one time before, but here it is, the second time.

While art is nice - if we're talking scene-wise, pretty much 95% of the game is you looking at light teasing, and clues for the emotionless love interest having sex around, while not seeing almost anything. And then the rest 5% is you, time-skipped 3 months forward, and having ability to see everything she did in previous places you couldn't visit, so it goes like a barrage of scenes, all at once, at your choice what to see. It's not for everyone, that's for sure.

Story and characters aren't bad. Many events aren't even connected to anything though, like helping merchant, beating thugs and playing rock-paper-scissors has nothing to do with the main girl, or any other events. It felt more like living as a slightly-above-loser MC, than playing an NTR game with a love interest being focused upon.

Good ending is disappointing, bad ending is cruel due to how much more love content it has, and the whole choice between endings is dumb, i don't see how it should affect it at all. If the game was more fleshed out, it could've been a 5/5 unusual experience for someone who appreciates suggestive, non-explicit content, but as it is - it would be a waste of time to play if you're still not fed up with normal H-games, and would feel a bit too flawed for those who search for rarities.

Still good though, relatively speaking! As i was saying, give it a try if you like experiencing unusual H-games, ignore it if you want a quick and simple action for your appendage. 4/5 since it didn't make me regret seeing it, only took 2-3 hours, but did make me feel bad looking at how the dev handled this whole idea.

This game would be much better if the girl was the MC. The protag has little to no impact to the story. If anything, it feels more like a voyeur game. Going around working for gold is really not something most people care for and is honestly a rather tedious process.

Following the perspective of the girl would make a more interesting story, and possibly allow for more scenes as the game really doesn't have that much content. The art is good though, but overall this wasn't really that interesting.

Like everyone said it's not a bad game and not even that long and the art is amazing, but
-the fights while not a lot were just spamming enter after buying best gear(you can get a lot of gold by playing rock paper scissors in the down left corner beside the bathhouse, I think it's not even random just 2 this 2 that 2 third option and after 6 rounds I had like 360 000)
-the mc was completely irrelevant until the ending, would have been better with the girl as mc
-the scenes were kinda bad for me, there was like 6 full on sex scenes 1 or 2 with every character and only one or maybe two had her tits out properly which is a big point for me
So yeah I wouldn't riot to get my time back that I wasted since it was just 3 hours or so, but I definietly feel like I wasted those hours

Honestly the only good aspect of this game is the art; which also has a few scenes that have some sizing/perspective issues.

The story is lacking, there aren't any noticeable plot holes but there really just wasn't anything on the line. Girl has a curse, MC likes her and wants to prove himself but actively tells other people that he doesn't love her in that way, and then in the very ending scene it's a 180 flip to the MC all of a sudden being like, I was in love with her this whole time and now I lost her. Many other NTR games will either give you the option to prevent NTR from happening or will give you a sense that your actions have some impact on at least the speed in which the girl gets corrupted - in this game, it's very much just a visual novel with running between scenes.

There are a few bugs in the game, the most noticeable one of which will get you hardstuck when you speak to some bandits out in the town and aren't strong enough to beat them, you will get stuck in a loop of fighting and losing to them with no escape unless you had a save file to reload on.

The sex scenes are fairly few and not animated, again the art is pretty decent but for the amount of time you needed to spend in the game to get to those scenes (and fairly large maps with a lot of dead/pointless space) it's not really worth it. This game could take a tip from a few other games of this nature that just allow you to either fast travel to a different location instead of running through 3-4 map tiles of dialogue-less space just to get to where you need to go each time you want to progress the story.

As a few other people have said, this game is one of those: 'Get a completed save and just watch the abridged version of the story with the scenes' type of games.

It's not BAD, but it falls short on too many fronts to truly be worth a full playthrough in my opinion.

I would hope that this developer will use the skills they learned from this game to make a new one though, because I think they have a lot of potential.

Pretty alright game. I would honestly give it about a 3 star gameplay and story wise but the unique art definitely bumps it up a bit and sadly there's no 3.5 star. If you go into this game for a quick fap you're gonna be sad as it does this really annoying thing where you gotta beat the game and only then can you see every scene. This leaves little incentive to actually search and just makes the scenes lack substance as you see them in one big burst. I also like the kuudere vibe, but I really didn't like how easily she gave up her body. Sure she cant really feel anything, but she just straight up hands herself over to anyone who asks because it doesn't affect her. Combat is extremely boring as there's no leveling up and you just gamble until you have enough money for max equipment and then speedrun to the ending. All in all, just an okay game. Nice/unique art with a slightly lacking story. Cant really bring yourself to like the fmc as she has such a "don't care" attitude even with her lifelong friend (mc)

Average at best, there are not enough full on sex scenes and although it's hot she's a squirter, you can't break her with pleasure until the ending scene. Give it a look if you find it interesting but this one is short and rather dull.

Honestly don't waste your time playing this game, don't get me wrong, the art is amazing, and if you are into emotionless stuff the scenes are top tier, but the gameplay itself revolves around tediously running around aimlessly looking for exclamation signs to advance events, and you don't get to see any of the good scenes, just the POV of the main character, you get to see all the sex and stuff at the end, running around the map is horrible, as the game doesn't really try to guide you at all, the "gameplay" part is horrible because the whole joke is that that MC is really weak, so you can die very easily and have to re-try some fights and it's not engaging at all.

Just look for a save and watch the scenes there, maybe play 30m to get a feel for the story and characters before doing that. A shame because it could be a top tier game, but they fumbled on some basic elements for a game that revolves around running around and getting NTR'd.

As everyone has already come to realize, this game has so much wasted potential. There are no "stakes" here to work for or against, so the whole ntr aspect is pointless and feels tacked-on. Sure the art is fine, but it seems hollow because the game doesn't actually DO anything with it. Unfortunately this game falls into the category of "probably grab a save, otherwise skip."

Also the endings are bad regardless, so don't bother wasting your time if you would try to get a pure run.

I think it’s pretty good,especially if you like tomboys and emotionless characters. It has great scenes, mainly thanks to the creator’s distinctive art style. The different routes are very varied, and not all antagonists take advantage of the girls—some could even be considered somewhat vanilla to a certain extent. I really enjoyed it overall. My only issue is that you only get to see the full scenes at the end of the game; at the start, you only see them from the protagonist’s perspective. Other than that, I liked it a lot