Since there are lots of reviews anyway, gotta focus on what I liked the most and the least.
The game is very good indeed. Souls-like, with fairly challenging parts until you learn the patterns.
The combat is good but it can be very frustrating. Animations will keep you frozen in place for ~2 seconds or until you dodge, so at least to me, it was infuriating that she would just stand there when I just wanted to start walking.
Another thing that could be good for challenging is that almost every enemy in the game dodges. Very few will just stand there and eat your blows but most will dodge to either side and usually counterattack, so combat can be reduced to try to parry or wait for dodge and dodge yourself and attack. Being parried I think I just encountered 1 single enemy that did it, and it was a "secret" one in the initial areas. Besides that one, no other enemy does that I remember.
Certain enemies, especially bosses, can toss you away an perform a fatality on you while you are downed, but you simply press some keys and get up. Same for the hentai content, that basically is non-existant if you don't actively look for it or play the event scenes.
Something that I don't understand is that you can get karma by helping certain nps. You also can save a few of the girls being raped. But for some reason most of them are just left there on their own. The camera zooms in to show the animations but that's it, you don't care at all. Even worse when they are girls that you met in your journey and you talked to them.
Some areas are also missable and since there is no map you won't know if you've skipped something. Your only tracker is the numbers on the teleport tabs. I skipped one of the areas, the 6th or 7th one, so I searched and found the crystal mine for a boss. I might have skipped "estus" upgrades too, since I finished the game with 8 HP and 6 MP ones and, if magic got the same amount of spells per tab, I might have skipped a thunder one and a dark one. Guns, fire and light all got like 6 spells but the others 1 less.
In general very good anyway besides the things I don't like, but I felt like it wasn't a hentai game in the end, just a regular challenging souls platformer. Even when you are defeated you just select revenge and that's it, you are still a virgin (???). So I ended up just seeing the event scenes, and probably for many the animations aren't good since they are those live2d animations. Not my fav kind of hentai tbh. And on top of that, everything is rape or gangrape, so if you don't like it better skip the content or the game itself.
So in the end, played it for the gameplay.
The game is very good indeed. Souls-like, with fairly challenging parts until you learn the patterns.
The combat is good but it can be very frustrating. Animations will keep you frozen in place for ~2 seconds or until you dodge, so at least to me, it was infuriating that she would just stand there when I just wanted to start walking.
Another thing that could be good for challenging is that almost every enemy in the game dodges. Very few will just stand there and eat your blows but most will dodge to either side and usually counterattack, so combat can be reduced to try to parry or wait for dodge and dodge yourself and attack. Being parried I think I just encountered 1 single enemy that did it, and it was a "secret" one in the initial areas. Besides that one, no other enemy does that I remember.
Certain enemies, especially bosses, can toss you away an perform a fatality on you while you are downed, but you simply press some keys and get up. Same for the hentai content, that basically is non-existant if you don't actively look for it or play the event scenes.
Something that I don't understand is that you can get karma by helping certain nps. You also can save a few of the girls being raped. But for some reason most of them are just left there on their own. The camera zooms in to show the animations but that's it, you don't care at all. Even worse when they are girls that you met in your journey and you talked to them.
Some areas are also missable and since there is no map you won't know if you've skipped something. Your only tracker is the numbers on the teleport tabs. I skipped one of the areas, the 6th or 7th one, so I searched and found the crystal mine for a boss. I might have skipped "estus" upgrades too, since I finished the game with 8 HP and 6 MP ones and, if magic got the same amount of spells per tab, I might have skipped a thunder one and a dark one. Guns, fire and light all got like 6 spells but the others 1 less.
In general very good anyway besides the things I don't like, but I felt like it wasn't a hentai game in the end, just a regular challenging souls platformer. Even when you are defeated you just select revenge and that's it, you are still a virgin (???). So I ended up just seeing the event scenes, and probably for many the animations aren't good since they are those live2d animations. Not my fav kind of hentai tbh. And on top of that, everything is rape or gangrape, so if you don't like it better skip the content or the game itself.
So in the end, played it for the gameplay.