RPGM - Completed - Nano-control [v1.01a] [Smiling Dog]

when your porn game needs the player to stick to a walkthrough like glue, you know you fucked up.
if the reward from that is even underwhelming, then it's basically dead.
the mother can be corrupted pretty early (with the help of the wt) and after that, pick your poison from the walkthrough.

This game is very good. It is one of my first games that got me into RPG maker games. Strange I know but I got into hypnosis image/scenes via Hypnohub and I discovered Nano Control images. I did some research and found out about Nano Control and became one of their supports for the game.

This is an very good game. It's slow peace and can be very confusing. Still for Smiling Dog's first game this is very good. There is an mod with is Nano Control Plus which I do recommend if you want a bit more content on the side. This mod isn't finished since it's still being updated by Trainboy2019.

Pros:
- Story is good. Could of been better but for an first game is very good. (Hey no one is perfect).
- The art is great and the scenes using said art are good.
- A nice amount of endings to go for. 6 character endings, 3 pairing endings and 1 harem ending with an good/bad ending depending on your choices.
- There is different personalities for the girls when you reach the end game.

Mixed:
- The text for the quests go out of the boundary so if someone were to use the quests page it will be difficult to understand what to do.
- Some scenes are animated but then some of them aren't and some of them are animated only once.
- Some of the mazes/puzzles need you to adjust the running shoes you have in your inventory to make your move faster to get pass certain areas.

Cons:
- The game doesn't tell you what else to do after finishing off an quest. Since some might not be following an guide for their first time it might leave them confused and will possibly be forced to look up an guide to how engage/start the next process of the hypnosis.

An good game. I recommend for you to try it and to use the walkthrough guide that is provided on the first page. Vanilla rating 3.5/5
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I know this isn't apart of the main game but I'm doing a review for the mod in it's current state as well.

Nano Control Plus:
This is an mod for Nano Control which adds an bit more content to the game. With some quality of life changes here and there with some new features.

Pros:
- More girls to hypnotized into your harem
- More main girls added (side girls in the main game but now with their own endings).
- Different ways to control 3 of the girls without going through the main game's way.
- Customizable names for the Girls
- More features added
- More customizable clothing/hair for the girls
- Scenes now reflect the personality of the girl(s)

Mixed:
- Difficulty added. If you downloaded the mod and not the vanillia/main game there is an easy difficulty which has no time limits for downsides for you.
- Girls able to escape your control (this is only possible on Normal or Hard Difficulty which is doubled).
- Deadline on Hard Difficulty to provide a challenge.
- Crystal/Aima unless stopped will try to hypnotize your harem to belong to her and you need to do an puzzle to stop it.
- Bad Ending expanded upon. Not going to say an lot about this bad ending.

Cons:
- The game says all characters are 18 or above but we can all be honest here, one of them isn't 18 or above unless she's got an growth spurt. I threw this con in the mod area for this specific reason since there is content for said character.
- Nothing changed with the quests page. Don't blame the mod creator since it's not exactly in the best of state and that could take a longer period to fix at his own time.

This mod is great, it adds more content and features for the player whilst adding alternative ways to get x character under your control. Mod Rating 4.3/5.

If anyone does download the mod I left an link to the mod page, right above the little description for the mod. It has the download page and schedule and profiles of all the girls. If anyone needs an updated guide there is an folder called NCPlusChangelog with 5 htmls. 3 of them are changelogs whilst one of them is an index/home page and the other one called details is the guide. Also save trainboy some insanity and make sure to extract the game properly and not just ruin the executable through the zip file please.

A poorly conceived and repetitive game with cringy writing and a sociopathic protagonist. The content is surprisingly scarce, each girl has a handful of scenes that repeat in different locations. Julian, the main netorase guy, doesn't even show a scene when you share one of your girls with him, it just cuts to black and you get some random item as a reward. The most fun part of the game is the various outfits you can purchase and experiment with, but even that got old fast. Only play this if you REALLY love mind control.

Version without Mod

Gameplay:
+ Demanding riddles and quests
+ Time system, events depend on.
- Some quest and event requirements are too complicated
- Unnecessary grind. At a point, too much walking around. Too much hassle to collect ressources
- Money earning too confusing, since you dont know which ressources are needed later or not, you just tend to keep everything.
- The Control Device is inconvenient to use. Especially the one in the normal Menu. But these are usual flaws in RPG Maker.
- Repetitive at one point

Frequency of Scenes:
- They exist, but grind-reward balance is not that good. You grind quite alot to get more scenes.
- Some scenes animated? Some animated once, then afterwards never again? (Bug?)

Dialogues:
+ The amount is acutally bearable. Even during sex scenes. Once read for a scene, you can fastforward them anyways, since they repeat.
+/- Story is kind of existing. The execution makes up for the usually flat story.

Others:
- Character ages?
- Some bugs here and there

--> All in one: The idea is not new, but not bad. The execution in this case was good. But grinding is too high and the game length is also high, if you don't use cheats or walkthrough. The amount of content and the repetitive gameplay don't really justify the overall length of the game. The game has good aspects and bad/inconvenient aspects. Especially mid and late game, the reward is not according to the grind. Nonetheless, worth to look into this. You can decide yourself, at what point it starts to feel too grindy or repetitive. 5 of 10.

My first review so I let's hope it will be useful or not, maybe my review is kinda confusing or make no sanse, but I enjoy some writing and review so i does not care, I enjoy the game the story, and the ending. I will explain it more... And sorry for my bad English, is my second language!
[NOTE: I'M ONLY PLAYING TROUGH THE GOOD ENDING ROUTE, NO CONTENT ADDED (MODS), NO MORE OR LESS.]

STORY [8/10]
The story is good, a little confusing maybe? But I do kinda understand it a bit. the heroine have their own story of why they doing their things. The ending for the good ending is great and I like it!

Let's just say... Enjoyable.

GAMEPLAY [4/10]
It's well not that good, typical RPG Maker controller and stuff like that. The gameplay is also repeatable for me, getting the money is also kinda hard. The running is slow as fuck, if you not activated the Boots Item in the menu (I'm helping you here).

Let's just say... Grinding till I'm death.

ART [7/10]
The art is a decent, not great nor bad. The H-Scene is great too, each heroine have their different sex pose, so it does not feel monotone. The tileset I believe is using an RPG Maker normal tileset, and the CharaChip also, this does not ruin the experience anyway...

Let's just say... Well made design and art.

CHARACTER [9/10]
The character are memorable, those it lovable... I like the heroine personality, especially Rika, Gwen and also... The MC is also have some personality not just braindead fuck there fuck here machine, it has feeling too just like me. While the side character is also "kinda" have personality for the character that has portraits, of course.

Let's just say... Personality over appearance, enjoyable over fuckable.

SOUND [5/10]
It does not contain any voice over, only contain some SFX and some of those are just regular RPG Maker SE, the music also if I remember does not change with the mood. And why the hell does the main menu music is like a space theme music... Kinda funny so I allowed it... Or is it?

Let's just say... My ear are not bleeding, but I'm bored hearing this.

*COUGH COUGH CONTENT* [7/10]
What good anyway of H-game, without the "Arousal Enjoyable Dayyum" content? Well in this game to access those type of content is kinda easy and will not if the character is outside, the scene is also decent nothing mind blowing nor revolutionary to the society. But it great anyway, no animation... (Except Lena BJ Scene HELLO?!?!) . Let's just say it's enjoyable.

Let's just say... My willpower is losing over lustpower.

BUG SPRAY [9/10]
No bug... But if you playin it on an laptop when is not charge, there sometime where the game will be soft lock, or the screen is freezing (or is my laptop just too old enough). And also some eyes missing and character stuff gone, gone. But its not actually that often maybe like 1 time, well I called it a well polished game!

Let's just say... 99% Bug free spray.

KNOWLADGE POWER [10/10]
This game has their own wiki from the developer himself, so playing this game trough the ending will not be hard!

Let's just say... I'm 4 year universe ahead of you, thanks to this walkthrough.

MISCELLENIOUS OUT OF TOPIC [8/10]
There is something to do in this game other the main story, the side quest also feature it, and also a mod! (I'm not using it, probably). Anyway there is something here and there, good and bad.

Let's just say... I don't know what to put here, let's just say yes.

CONCLUSION ENDING [8/10]
I'm enjoying it, I like it. Maybe it can be improvised like the gameplay "life of quality update", the sound can also be added like voice-over. All of all it's a really good game, worth the download and play. Very cool!

Let's just say... Good.


[FINAL QOUTE: THE REVIEW ARE NOT FOR, IF THE GAME IS GOOD OR BAD. WHAT IT DOES IS "WHAT DOES PEOPLE THINKING ABOUT THIS GAME?". SO IF YOU WANT TO FULLY EXPERIENCE IT, TRY DOWNLOAD IT YOURSELF. AND ASK YOURSELF IF ITS GOOD OR NOT.]

Was a good enough game, a bit annoying to complete but the images were good enough, the characters were filled out and the story was strange but good enough to not be jarring. the ending cgs were quality and im glad to have had the experience.

It has too many glaring issues. Odd pacing, odd writing, awkward progression, and unnecessary RPG mechanics make this feel very amateur and clunky. Because that's what it is.

It also fails to hit home on the genre I feel. I don't feel like the 'kink' to mind control is making them do menial labor with you, playing dress up, and being a means to an end to having sex. Or having them resist you. Honestly at this point it's basically just a relationship meter in this game. You spend time with a girl stripping or pulling weeds with them then eventually it leads up to handjobs/blowjobs and then sex. What kind of fucking mind control is that? That's just like every dating sim game except labelled 'mind control'.

Anyways the 'gameplay' is essentially you just running around. Pass.

I'll keep this review short because I played this one a couple of months ago but just saw it pop up again. It really is a great game, just forgot to review it then. All the girls are really hot and the story is excellent, exactly what you'd want out of a mind control game. There are plenty of Hscenes to view and a couple different endings.

Would highly recommend

Nano-control is a mind control/trainer game in which the main character is granted mind control powers by a rogue clown and proceeds to corrupt every attractive girl in the village.

Yeah, you heard that right.

Anyway, while the story is exactly as dumb as it sounds, the girls, scenes and art makes the game reasonably worthwhile. Unfortunately, it's quite grindy, to the point where I can't recommend it without the built in cheats. Otherwise, you'll find yourself spending hours of real-life time watching the same scenes with each girl just to unlock an extra ending or two.

The game would have been a four-star with cheats if grindiness was the only issue. Unfortunately, the game also misses something rather unforgivable - the whole point of mind control.

I don't play mind control games to fuck the girls. I mean, that is certainly a thing that occurs, but that could be said about every H game. In my opinion, mind control games are about changing the love interests in real, palpable ways. You can make raging bitches serve you as maids, you can make stuttering wall flowers into assertive dommes, you can turn complete prudes into sluts, or every one of these examples in reverse. It's not about sex; it's about control.

Nano-control doesn't have any of this. There's a little bit of character variance after running characters' mind rooms, but that basically just unlocks threesome scenes. You can't change anything about the girls except their clothes and how much they like you which is something you could do in virtually any H game without mind control. I would have liked to see the MC be able to change the girls' personalities (besides breaking them), give them tasks to do around town, make them follow commands given keywords or gestures, ya know, mind control stuff. It could have broken up the grind, whether for exp or money. I feel like Nano-control kinda missed the point.

Anyway, the art is good, the scenes are interesting enough though few in number relative to the grind, and the girls' personalities and quirks are nice. Nano-control has some redeeming qualities, but they're not enough to make up for the fact that this isn't much of a mind control game.

This is a very good example of a nice RM game without good graphics and art, which just proves my point that you don't need a fancy cover for your game to be fun to play and explore. Although this game has enough flaws, you will have a good time playing it. No excessful lore, no annoying turn-based combat only quality time with 6 girls and a little bit of exploring.
+ H-content amount is more than enough for this kind of game.
+ In order to progress with girls you almost don't need to grind.
+ Game is not lenient. Player is free to choose what they want to do in the game.
+ It is actually fun to play! Enjoyed almost every piece of it.
+ I don't see a lot of games with mind control for some reason, so having at least one good is... good!
± While girls aren't completely lack of personalities, I would like them to have more interesting details and backstories aside from basic cliches.
± There are some options for threesome H-scenes and orgy endings, but there could be more.
± There's a little bit of grinding in the game.
± LV4 of mind control doesn't provide almost any benefit to the player in terms of content.
- A story behind MC getting nano-control abilities could've been better
- Art quality is inconsistent. Sometimes you get a cool art of Elaine it Rika having a sex with MC and sometimes you get a clearly not finished art with Gwen. Not good.
- Some steps to get to the next level of mind control are non-intuitive. Be ready to look for walkthrough guides once you'll stuck with progression.
- Game's level design is poor, especially in indoor areas.
- To be honest, the whole arc with clown in the basement is unnecessary and boring. At least he doesn't fart...


Whilst this game is actually goodand entertaining, I can't give it more than 4 stars out of 5. Not all of these flaws are critical, but there are a lot of them. Also, this game still has a lot of space for improvement! I'll look up for future games from Smiling Dog.

A bit grindy at times but a great finished harem game. The art is original and the story is coherent as well. Each of the twelve endings were mostly unique and thought out. Overall it was a satisfying game.

this game is great, the only problem I have with it is that it isn't long enough. Some of the routes feel a little rushed, and the town is a little small. Overall, however, i applaud the developer for actually finishing the game rather than abandoning it like so many other games on this site.

One of the best porn games I have ever played and definitely awakened something in me. This is my favorite ERPG and I highly recommend playing.
This game is very non consensual, however, so if that's not your style perhaps this isn't the game for you.

I remember this game in its infancy, and despite its neat concept, from the early builds, I was fairly confident when I thought the game would never be finished, or would be mediocre at best. Boy, have I been happy to be proven wrong.

The gameplay, particularly the opening bits when you're learning how everything works, is really clunky and kind of convoluted, but smooth once you figure it out. I'd personally reccomend using the in-game cheat menu, since it gets rid of the grindy parts of the game with no consequences.

The story is totally dumb, but easily dismissable. Its more just a shell to give a degree of meaning to your sexy shenanigans. And that part is very well done. And though I do wish there was more unique random dialogue with your brainwashed slaves, the sex scenes we do get are superb.

Rather then doing a big 'ol mechanical breakdown of the game, I'm just gonna say, its good. Very good. If the themes strike your fancy, I would absolutely recommend this one. And congrats to the dev for finishing this out.

Note: I don't believe a complex opinion can be properly represented by a number but I do understand some people are impatient so I don't use the star system normally, my ratings are as follows. 1 don't recommend, 3 unsure please read review, 5 recommend

I like incest games where the son of the family fraternizes with his siblings, parents, and extended family. That is precisely what you do in this game but you don't do it the same as other games within that genre. In this game you use nano machines to achieve this goal and that's fine I guess but it is notable that the girls don't want to do everything right off the bat and resist to some degree and you can make them emotionless fuck dolls essentially. I am not expressly into these 2 things. Not knocking the game or anything if that is what you are into that is in the game and you will probably enjoy it, and it didn't stop me or anything I'd play games that service these fetishes (in fact I am playing smiling dogs next game and it's very similar) I would just prefer them to be optional, which the mind wipe thing is so that's good.

But while those aren't my favorite fetishes the others in the game pretty much are with some optional exceptions. I like what I am calling the B.F.F. (boy fucks family) genre and the sex scenes are well drawn which makes it fine for a wank. But there is optional NTR and sharing they are mostly avoidable. If you fuck the neighbor milf then you are making her cheat and you can fuck her in front of her husband but you don't have to, and eventually you can send him away. Finally if you get the bad ending the main villain steals your harem so that's a thing.

The story is dumb and poorly written, really doesn't matter but it needs to be said, I think the dev is much better at sex dialogue than story writing which is fine, I've played few porn games with exceptional writing in any regard so it's good this excels in something. Essentially shady dude gives you nano bots to make a harem with for no discernible reason, then you do go make a harem and can end it a few different ways but the main good ending is you figuring out he's a creep and telling him to fuck off basically. The one thing I will tell you is it is worth it to got to school everyday, or at least until your "test" scores are maxed out, you need this for the "good ending".

The biggest crutch this game has has to be it's gameplay and it's engine. Most people rightly hate the RPGM engine and I understand why, it's clunky, annoying, and has to be difficult to work with. I mean it's easy to say as a critic that the world is far to large for the moment to moment gameplay and can make finding people a massive pain. But when I think about it I'd bet a lot of that had more to do with the limitations of the engine combined with and at that time inexperienced game dev.

The gameplay is basically for you to fuck the girls into submission, literally, which on it's own is fine. Only issue is you kinda sorta need money to do some of the things or to at least to get the outfits and and fuck the shop keeper. This is the most annoying element of the game and I am forever grateful to the dev for adding a money cheat (the book you do all the planning for the girls has another closed book to the right of it, click that and you can activate it.). If you don't want to cheat then the best thing to do is to go left to the forest and scrounge for supplies, you can get ~500gp a day doing that and if you do that everyday then you'll have enough in no time. The main problem is doing this takes like 10 minutes each time you do it, each harvest-able item has 2-5 text boxes associated with it and you can't just skip them so you have to drudge through them one at a time hoping to get a good expensive item to sell, it takes forever and that's just if you go to the forest, there is harvest-able stuff in all 5 outside areas. I advise cheating here, while the sex scenes take in game time even if they're just a striptease the harvesting takes real time and is incredibly grating. You could also work a job which moves time forward but you only get paid 20gp to do it and you'd need to spend all your time working in order to save enough to do all the stuff in the game. Finally the last non-cheating thing you can do to get cash is to whore out your harem, for me this was a non negotiable no, especially since you only get 500 a night for it which is about the same amount as harvesting so you still need to do both in order to make money quickly. Just not worth it honestly.

One final note about the gameplay, I don't like that I have to repeat scenes multiple times in order to get the next one. The idea is basically you need to increase the girls slut power (don't remember the term used in game) and to do that you need to do the sex multiple times each time giving them points then when they are fully powered up you can unlock the next set of scenes, the problem is watching the scenes looses it's allure after a few viewings and it becomes something i have to do as opposed to something I want to do. A simple solution to this would be to have a set amount of times you need to do each scene and change the dialogue each time, this keeps the scenes fresh while having the same effect and without adding a ton of work drawing new scenes. Other games do it this way and I much prefer them to this.

All that being said I still recommend the game if you cheat and eliminate half the grind then you get a nice game about creating a loyal harem and I am into that. I'd give it a play and if you don't wanna do RPGM games anymore well spoiler warning you can probably just play his new game.

Artwork
The artwork of Nano-control is decent enough, though there are room for improvement. There are a few scenes where the art style differs from the character portrait, as well as some proportion correction for a few scenes.

Literary
Very well done and presented in a way that is easy to follow. Each character's dialogue is assigned a unique color, and the font sizes are adjusted throughout the game to emphasize a character's intonation.

Music
Generic music, though serviceable.

Story
The story of Nano-control is relatively straightforward albeit a bit linear. However, it is definitely a cut above the regular mind-control series.

As you explore each character through their dialogue, dairy and mind, the personality of each character is fleshed out, and the way their interaction changes depending on your stage of the game is a nice touch.

Aside from the 6 main girls, there are also 5 hidden characters that you can go for, though their role as supporting characters means that their content is limited.

You are free to play the game at your own pace, as there is no time limit and the story will not progress unless you choose to.

Gameplay
The gameplay aspect of Nano-control however, is where it feels slightly below average. There are a lot of content, but it seems lacking in polish.

One example is the money-making methods in the game. While you can do part time jobs or trap fish, none of those makes near the amount you can make by scavenging the forest. However, it is somewhat luck-dependent as the gathering nodes don't always guarantee loot. Time doesn't advance when you are gathering anyway so there is no reason not to gather them. This unfortunately gets old very quickly and it seems to extend the playtime just for the sake of extending the playtime. You need quite a bit of money especially if you are going to unlock all scenes. One idea is to have a way to make more money as you progress through different jobs. Thankfully, a cheat mode is incorporated into the game for players who doesn't like the grinding aspect of the game.

Another point of note is that while there are quite a few different costumes that you can get for the girls, they don't really serve much purpose aside from changing the character portraits. While the NPCs will make some comments on the wardrobe changes of the girl in question, it does not alter or unlock any new scenes. The only exception to this is the anal beads, and a special dress for one of the hidden characters.

The puzzles within the mind-room is a very clever concept, and the fact that it allows you the choice to alter the target in a significant way is something that is very rarely seen in the genre.

H-Scene
Nano-control's H-scenes are rather mild. Nothing wrong with vanilla, though it feels like a missed opportunity given the mind-control genre.

Endings
This deserves a special mention as Nano-control has a lot of endings available. Without spoiling, know that you unlock various endings throughout the game. The endings correspond to the level of control of each girl, so choosing the same ending at different points of the game actually yields different results. Kudos to Smiling Dog, as it must have taken quite a bit of work to design all the different versions of endings. The true good and bad ending however is rather well hidden, so I'd suggest looking at a guide if you are having trouble.

Miscellaneous Points
Playtime - Around 11 hours. Unlocked every scene, unless I have missed an ending or two. Note that this time is with the money cheat about an hour or so into the game.

Closing
If you are into the mind-control genre, Nano-control is definitely worth checking out. The story is easy to follow, and it is always intriguing to see how each character changes as you mold their mind to your liking.

Enjoyed the story and gameplay. The genre was right up my street. If mind control is your thing then you should enjoy this game. There is cheat in the game if you cannot be bother to grind for money and exp.

Pretty good game. I really had fun playing it, which is more than I can say for about half of games on this site. Lovely characters and multiple endings, if there is one thing that I didn't like it would be gind for money (do yourself a favor and just cheat it). Other than that it was a great game. 5/5

Easily one of the best mind control games I've played. If mind control and a little grinding is what you are looking for, then this is the games.
Love the fact that you can change outfits for all the girls and that you can impregnate them towards the end.
It's also awesome that you can break their minds or leave their minds intact.
Easy 5/5 for me.

Absolutely loved this game and everything about it. The characters are beautiful and they give you a wide range of them. The story is actually pretty interesting (but not very deep.)

I would say that the downsides to this game are not actually that bad.

being that I feel like there aren't to many animations (or images). But, the game makes up for this with character personality and text (imho).

Sometimes the game can be a little confusing on what to do next and I hate the idea that "clicking things" is the only way to figure out how to win. I don't think this is a bad excuse but imagine you go out and buy a game first and you are the first person to play it. You imagine "how do I win" there are usually clues laid out to you on how to do that. There is nothing that leads you to believe you should read things in the library unless your like me and you like to randomly click EVERYTHING. Even then you still wouldn't know you needed to click those things.

But, none the less that is just something I complain about with a lot of games that are on RPGMaker. I wouldn't let that effect your opinion and just use a walkthrough for the ending. (ignore the text that says "would you like to figure out for yourself" because it won't happen unless your randomly clicking things.)