Unity - Completed - Nexus Travelers: Hero of Elocea [v1.0] [Flurki Games]

Its a 100% linear questline so a kinetic novel behing a sandbox.
Story it self is meh and nothing you havent seen in plenty of other games so it gets boring, its also alot of grinding by killing monsters then go to shop repair weapons go sleep and go back to kill monsters, its extremly simple and adds no value to the game, its just there to waste your time and make it look like theres more content then there really is.

Your given a few choices every now and then but none of them matters and even worse theres fake choices where it gives you 3 questions but you wont progress untill you pick the ones the dev wants you to pick, which is a bit annoying and only makes you wonder why even put in questions when your only allowed to pick a single one anyways.
At one point your also turning a shop girl into a whore which made 0 sense to me, it started off alright where MC and MC alone could get special services but then she goes full prostitute which im just no into and ofc you dont have a say in anything being a kinetic/linear novel/sandbox.

It also means your forced to fuck whoever and cant say no, so a mindless fuckfest which is always boring, kinks and fetishes is also forced since your never given a choice so expect foot stuff, anal, BDSM none of which can be avoided since its tied directly into linear questline.

Girls are meh and not unique in in the way of faces, builds are also pretty much the same.

Animations are below average and theres the standard grind starting with see tits, see pussie, see full nude, boobjob, handjob, blowjob and so on, each takes along time since you need to grind killing monsters to progress from one to the other and the reward are not really worth your time.
Also cant skip sex scenes due to being force to click all kind of shit to advance.

UI is no good either, cant get instant text, cant skip anything, only mouse click advance the dialogs, cant scroll back either.

This game turned out better than I expected. The graphics are nice, music is fine, gameplay can be slightly grindy, but not too much. The sex scenes were very good. I love corruption games and this one didn't disappoint. Overall, highly recommend it, game can be beaten in a few hours.

First of all, I wanted to like this game, the premise is fun and honestly who doesn't like being the isekai hero?
However, that fun premise is utterly ruined by the sheer tedium and deliberately designed utter wastes of your time this game is full of.

Want to see any of the art?
Grind combat.
Want to grind combat?
Better stop EVERY DAY to go and spend gold to repair your gear (10 hits is "normal")

This wouldn't be so bad if the combat had more expression of skill, instead of being "ode to maple story but worse".
You click enemies to kill them, nothing technical here.
The "fun" comes from what I can only assume is the dev being a sadistic bastard (or bitch, I don't judge) and deciding that despite you getting upgrades to "increase damage by 60%" you will, 95% of the time require 2-3 hits to kill every monster, due to damage being assigned, seemingly randomly.
You either swing on a snake (the apparent "sword weak" mob) for 150 and 1 hit it, cool!
OR
You hit it for 50, or 65, or 88, or any other random number, for NO discernible reason.
This is happening to every one of several (up to 5 was where I laughed and quit) enemies on your screen at a time.
Bearing in mind, your sword only has 10 hits before it breaks, very fun gameplay right there.

As for the shield mechanic?
It may as well not exist, you have to stop hitting to even use it, as for some reason, having a hero be able to swing from behind a shield (even for less damage) is impossible.

All in all, the combat sucks due to bad damage coding and poor swing timers, the grind to get the art is frankly insane for what is in the game (I ended up spending over 40 mins "grinding" this game to see a titjob that was a slideshow).

The only reason this isn't getting 1 star is I respect the art.

I find it hard to understand why this game isn't more popular...

This game is the definition of - Isekai - !
... and on top of that it's got a Western graphic style that comes as a surprise in this mainly Japanese genre.

The story is very classic, respecting the codes of this kind of game, but at the same time being very pleasant and with its share of surprises.

Graphically, the style is clean, personal and therefore exclusive, with a large number of fluid animations to choose from.

Grinding, because yes, it's part of the rules that go hand in hand with the genre, is accessible and not too repetitive, thanks to the management of selectable hero skills and powers.
Above all, it rewards the player, who derives well-deserved satisfaction from it.
I even belatedly noticed a cheat mode, which I didn't use, but which will ease the progress of the most impatient players.

The background music is good and immersive.

The mise en abime (cocorico) is interesting, and it's easy to identify with the heroes.
The characters are diverse in both appearance and personality.

In short, an excellent game that I played in one go, for several hours at a time, without getting bored !

The only things I'd have to nitpick are the monsters' appearance and the lack of a "skip" button (made with Unity, not Ren'Py, we're becoming chronic with our little habits).

Thanks to flurki, the developer of this brilliant adventure, which I hope is just an introduction to his world, which I can't wait to get back to !

BRAVO !

A pretty nice adventure-trainer game, with art (with a few exceptions) that is solid and endearing.
The characters aren't very original but they cover some common tropes like the Tsundere princess and captain of the guard, greedy merchant girl and barely competent guardian of the Nexus.

So far I've finished about s 1/3 of the game and the grinding isn't too bad imo unlike what some of the other reviews are thinking and stated before.

The battles are fast, while the movement and town layout is decent and fast enough to get around even without quick travel function.

The game isn't groundbreaking or phenomenal in anyway but it is solid enough to enjoy a few hours of fun and relaxing gameplay, with progressive light corupption scenes (at least in the case of the princess).

My only major qualm thus far is with the complete lack of keyboard controls support for movement and dialogue proceeding, as it gets really annoying using just the mouse left button all the time to move and progress anywhere in the game.

Looking forward to similar future projects from the developer and hoping for better versatility of controls (for keyboard) and more art with the quality of most of the princess scenes and portraits here, just for all characters next time.

Game play is really not fun it's a total grind fest and characters all treat you the hero like shit. The world is EMPTY! Not even a bar or inn.

Here is generally the game play of this game.

1. Wake up
2. Go outside kill monsters (1 battle only end of day)
3. Go to sleep
4. Wake up
5. Go to repair shop to repair weapon

Rinse repeat.. earn gold and buy a tit scene for 100 gold.. this is basically the entire first week of the game.

Combat is absolutely boring.. it's just click 2 or 3 times.. monster dead.. repeat for second monster.. end of day.

Who the heck did this game get such a high review I don't understand as the art is good but the personalities of the girls in the game are all bitches!

The art is clean though the princesses face during the BJ scene is... off? Doesnt quite feel right at least the rest is good. The game premise is amusing however, the weapon repair system and lack of a quick travel system is annoying and feels purely like an imput tax that adds nothing to the actual game besides wasting time, which drags down my rating of it.

Version 1.0

This game had a lot of potential. The story is basic but well done. The characters are a basically the stereotypes you would expect, but there is a nice diversity of them, they all have their own clear character.

The art is good, but not the best I have seen.

I would say the main issue I have is gameplay wise. There is turn based combat which is enough of a challenge that you actually have to pay attention to it and you have to do it quite a lot. So you'll be grinding a significant amount. This wouldn't be so bad if you didn't have to constantly repair your weapons. They're cheeky about it, but in the end they do make you run to the repair shop constantly. It's annoying and unnecessarily wastes your time.

The game is also missing some basic functions. As far as I could tell you can't skip text or go back in any way. Text in general is a little too slow. Porn scenes also have a minimum watch time for some reason. Just let me skip it if I don't care for the scene.

Overall this game is fairly good. It's fully playable, with story, art, music, etc. For that alone, it is worth a try. But it is not particularly groundbreaking in any way. The dev does actually seem to care for the game, having discussed and even fixed some of the problems the game had/has. I'm looking forward to his future endeavors.

Good H material with solid writing and a combat system I actually enjoyed, even if it is quite simple. All and all, a promising start to what I'm sure is going to be an excellent game once completed. You can always tell when something comes from a competent team, you know?