Wolf RPG - Completed - Niplheim's Hunter - Branded Azel [Final] [Black Train]

If i being honest with you - game is pretty weak by the end.

You play as Azel the Monster Hunter, who has been struck by a long ago lustful mark. How? Doesn't matter.
But basically you playing from perspective 2 characters:
1 Azel you main character.
2 . Blacksmith your side character - means you - from male perspective

What do you actually usually do? Of course, you hunt monsters and collect resources under a contract, in total you can only take 3 contracts per day, and basically this is what you do most of the RPG - leveling, Special skills affect the accumulation of lust, which will have to be satisfied in the evening by the blacksmith, i.e. you, or other side characters, if lust fills up to 100 then you will tremble in battle, and surrender to the monster
(if this setting is set).

If you have survived the monsters, you usually satisfy your needs in the evening, and in the morning it's the same routine, about 8-10 times for every 8-9 locations.

Costumes(yes 15 1 secret one - no scene) serve more as an opening to lustful scenes, although they have characteristics,
but every time you open an ordinary costume, and a more open version, without checking in advance in the Bestiary what rare "thing" you need to look for to open that very costume is more tiring than annoying.

Still, you rather like such interesting monster hunter mechanics at first, but until you get tired of it, and the scenes also almost repeat themselves, only the faces and partially the poses change, but mostly you do the same thing. Yes there is corruption and yes it can be achieved, but by the end of time corruption will be unsatisy you.
So yeah around 38-40 scenes in a gallery, good sound, sometimes game can give you bad perfomance if you not select setting option.
But for once trying this game is okay.
if you skip it nothing much you lose.
Because that game is pretty long
(9-12 hours) - but not justify her content
3,7 of 5

Starts off really strong. The art is fantastic, the character designs are top-tier, and the intro pulls you in right away. It really feels like it’s building toward something bigger — a full world with quests, stories, and side events to discover.


But sadly, it never quite gets there. After a few hours, you realize most of the content feels repetitive. There’s not much variety in the scenes, and the “world” ends up being smaller and more limited than it first appears. It’s a shame, because the setup and characters had a ton of potential.


Still, it’s worth checking out for the art and early-game experience. Just don’t expect a long or deep adventure — it’s more of a good demo for what could have been than a fully realized game.


Pros:

• Great art and character design
• Strong start with lots of promise
• Decent atmosphere and charm

Cons:
– Repetitive scenes
– Shallow world, not much to explore
– Feels unfinished or underdeveloped


⭐ 3/5 — Had potential, but didn’t quite deliver.

Probably one of the best games from Black Train. Solid and likeable main two MCs. Enjoyable NPCs who help make the guild feel real and an simply but unique rehash of the Monster Hunter formula with some killer H-scenes in both chibi variety for combat sex and traditional CGs.

8.5/10

Story

Pros- Story has some amazing character building moments in the very beginning of the game that not only sets the tone for the rest of the game but also really helps you connect with both the Blacksmith and Azel. It's a rare thing in H-games for there to be actual character moments were even through the perversion you get an honestly well written character.

Cons- Story doesn't stick the landing. The game has two twists that amount to nothing and is unfortunately a common trait in all of Black Train's game. Thematically the best ending is the worst for the player because it doesn't let you keep playing. Even though it would've been so easy to just change the 1 difference between Azel in the "good" ending and the rest of the game. The ending doesn't even answer a fundamental question that is central to the Azel's character arc. This doesn't make the game unplayable since you can just ignore the existence of this option but it is undoubtfully a blemish on this game.

Art:

Black Train's style is in full display here and is as good-looking as ever. The fact you can even see insertions instead of it being cut-off in other Black Train's game just adds to the sexiness of the cgs. Not to mention simply chibi combat sex scenes that are very charming though I do note that the artist does use the UI to hide a lot of the sprite art to cheat in animations.

Cons - some of the h-scenes are just different levels of the same scene and so the amount of H-scenes are less than one may think.

It has stylish battle UI but the mechanic ultimately very linear and not much depth, you'll finish this in less than 5 hour as long the h-scene doesn't overstay it's welcome.

Oh yeah, your self-insert is there too, don't know why he's there since in the finale only briefly include of him, but he's there!
Feel included in this not-committed-but-love-relationship.

Fun for what I played. While I didn't have the energy to finish it, I would still recommend it! It's got a great selection of scenes and kinks, the aesthetic of the menus is extremely welcoming, and the protagonist is adorable!

Meh pretty boring.

Story is boring and has plot-holes.

Music is generic.

Art is okay.

Characters are boring.

Gameplay has some good ideas but fails to execute them, especially the monster battle sex scnes are just horible they are so boring and repetitive.

Wouldn´t really recommend it, it´s extremly basic and grindy with way worse censoring then mosaic.

Meh, I don't get the excitement. Poor game overall. Battles are useless, game is censored as in you don't see most of the lewd parts because they are covered by scene elements. It's essentially a "Keep pressing z to win and watch slide shows". Honestly, waste of time in my opinion. The content doesn't justify the time spent, as if it would in some other games

Very playable and not grindy once you figure out the mechanics - farm the rare items from the boss to upgrade the raw armour and weapon from the shop.

All stats are useful, though luck only affects the drop so probably least useful because you'll go through the same fights many times if farming the rares.

Sweet ending but I'm not sure about the corruption tag because MC is a pro at start of game.

Really good game with excellent visuals and not painful but quick combat system.
Especially I would like to refer to the story of this game - The plot is clear and not boring and I really liked the ending.
Personally I liked Azel much more then other female characters, that's why I skipped almost every scene with them.
But the most noticable problem is that the game becomes a bit grindy in the end if you want to achive "100%" progress, but thats not necessary to complete the story.

Not gonna lie the ending made me cry, whichever you chose will depend on what you deem as the "happy ending", tear jerking story and ending aside lets get on to the actual content

as the review below said its a glorified gallery hunting game but the core mechanics of it is quite enjoyable if youre not ultra horny with only one hand on the keyboard,

if youre here to jerk off just ask for a full save and enjoy the show but if you want some quick rpg albeit a bit generic story with a side of H then play this game youre not gonna regret it

The only thing i really hate about it is how short it is and the lack of interactions and banters between the cast, i was expecting a shallow gallery fest game but got hit with intriguing twists and story

Niplheim's Hunter - Branded Azel is a rpg with very fast and simple turn based combat made with the wolf rpg engine that is uncommon, but much more fluid than the normal rpgmaker engine. Controlling Azel you are tasked to find the evil person that branded her while growing in the guild ranks. The story is merely a background noise with no real interesting moments. It’s there to justify the game and it doesn't overstay. You just have to accept the boss fight at the guild, win, and progress repeating the process many times. The combat feels uninspired, boiling down to mindless button-mashing with no variety. Progression simply involves upgrading your attack stats to hit harder, without introducing any meaningful strategy or complexity. The experience lacks diversity, offering nothing beyond basic sword swings. Upgrading your luck completely unbalances the combat system, trivializing the already low challenge. Worse yet, the combat mechanics seem disconnected from the genre’s core themes, losing a fight doesn’t lead to meaningful outcomes unless you deliberately trigger an avoidable lust mechanic, which only unlocks an underwhelming micro-scene. To unlock the skimpy armors you are required to grind the resource gathering mechanic. You will need to run the same tiny map multiple times, killing the same four enemies that only change color to get the materials and kill the same boss two or three times. It is not bad, but when you consider that you have to repeat the same for ten different armor sets, it gets very boring. The great positive element of Niplheim is the art, more specifically, the faces drawn. Black Train can create incredible expressions with beautiful details and variety. But that is all there is to it. Every other aspect of the art department is not great, and it is plagued by a constant peculiar case of censorship. This game is unbelievably censored, much more than your average mosaic game because almost all the scenes are drawn in an angle to completely hide the content you want to see. Games that suffer from the mosaic censorship can later receive a non-censored version, usually by Kagura Games, but that would be impossible for Niplheim’s Hunter considering how the developer created the scenes. For a proper uncensored version, each scene would have to be redrawn. It’s absurd that this fantastic art is being wasted in this manner, and that this decision alone can drag the game down so much. There is no way that this game can be considered good because it fails its primary elements, lacking gameplay related sexuality, permanent censorship on every scene, and being reduced to a glorified gallery hunter. The good content is just a little aspect of something with far more mediocre and below average characteristics. If you get a gallery rip from this game, there is no reason for you to play it.

Its entertaining enough to play through it if you like a nice crawl. art is great, proportions are a bit strange around the head, but you wont notice most of the times.

the adult content is just a bit lacking. its enticing but not long enough to be able to stand on its own.

The arts are good, the armor that exists is cool to collect. But the fighting mechanics are pretty good and I also liked the music. The problem with combat is that if you have collected armor, there isn't really a strategy... you just have to do basic attacks.

short but amazing game with quite a good story, like i was really impressed with everything and it has a nice gameplay although quite linear. Also it has gorgeous art and does not look 'rpgmakey'

Recommend it 5/5

Great art
Decent sex scenes and characters
Sub-par combat mechanics
great music

The art in the game is genuinely great and consistent throughout all the scenes, a big plus.

The actual scenes are not bad and have good voice acting, but they weren't phenomenal either.

The combat is seriously lacking; upgrade your gear once and you never need to heal again, just mash the basic attack button. Level-ups restore your health and you will level up faster than you will take damage. If the devs had just given a hard mode option where you can't level (and thus need to rely on your gear for stats, the balancing would have been a lot better).

For whatever reason, the music in the sex scenes is better than the scenes themselves, in the sense that it's good enough for me to leave it running in the background while I do other things just to listen to it.

Overall, I had a lot of fun with it and would recommend the game to others.

Irrelevant staple kind of grindy cookie-cutter gameplay, but 10/10 art and game progression lewdness. there's some defeat porn to every mob though it's barely varies but really it's more of a beat level and get items and porn scenes type of deal and it does it well, it'll make you cum that's all you can ask

Not really satisfying, but has a quality art
Gameplay is too easy, won't even took 2 hours. Story is meh, it's more towards interactions than story telling. There are only some other character, but it was okay. The RPG part is good, but it doesn't really matter that much because the game is far too short, most items are useless, and enemy; even bosses is just easy.

4/5. Game is so-so, hentai part is great

Great Game, Highly Recommend! I'd give it a solid 9/10! The last point would be given if they included an enemy model in the "full lust" scenes instead of off screen or if they created sprite scenes for those.

Version: Final

-A game with a very polished and distinct art style, you can easily tell that this games art was made by a very skilled artist and this games art is one of its strongest point.
-Gameplay wise, its very similar to other RPG engine games, grind basic mobs so you can fight stronger scripted bosses and progress the story, nothing new on this front.
-The story is pretty meh~, its basic with its progression and its characters, but lets be honest here, we arent here for the story, are we now?
-The final thing to write about is the sexual scenes, and they are pretty well created, if not really that revolutionary.

Overall a good game with its own distinct look, would recommend you to try it.

I really wanted to like this game, I did. It ticks a lot of boxes:

• it's actually finished
• the art is very good, drawn by an obviously skilled artist
• the premise sounds very promising
• the whole game is really polished

But a few hours in, the game really started to grate on my nerves:

The writing

I don't know if that's the translator's or the developer's fault, but the writing is really hard to follow. Some lines are presented in a way that makes it hard to understand if it's Azel, the narrator or the blacksmith (who is supposed to be the player's self-insert for some reason) speaking. The NPCs you interact with are all weird, and not in a funny way. More of a "cross the road inconspicuously to avoid them" way.

The gameplay

I've come to accept that lewd RPGs have filler combat. Niplheim's Hunter is no different: trash mobs fall to your basic attack, bosses require one or two tries, maybe a heal mid-fight. You must go out of your way to trigger a mid-combat sex scene, there's no real pressure around this mechanic. However, filler combat doesn't mean you don't have to engage with it. Azel's outfits require boss drops to craft, and you must kill the same boss multiple times to obtain them.

The game, like most Japanese games are, is obssessed with tracking the precise volume of semen Azel has been exposed to and other ridiculous stats, but hey, if it makes someone more aroused, sure, why not?

The art

I cannot fault the quality of the art. But, like the paintings of Dali, it just can't reach my heart dick. First of all, the scenes are cropped really tightly. Second, they all feature invisible men. At least scenes with flying dicks can be unintentionally hilarious, but ghost dicks just mean Azel (or one of the other girls) looks like she's having a seizure in them. Mid-combat scenes are cropped in a way that doesn't even show anything lewder than Azel's ahegao face.

The lewdness

This is not a corruption game. By the game's start Azel has already been through a lot, she's not adjusting to the idea of succumbing to her lust brand. It's about as sexy as living with diabetes. Well, I am lying a bit, she still finds the whole process pleasurable, but without corruption or romance the sex in the game feels kinda mechanical. The blacksmith self-insert has some scenes of his own, but since we are treated only to the scenes and not the buildup, they do not deliver either.

Summary

Check out the screenshots. If Azel's plump cheeks and pouty mouth get you going and you aren't bothered by ghost dicks, go for it. I wanted to give it 3/5, but am giving it 4/5, since its technical quality is so impressive.