Unity - Completed - Ntraholic [v4.2.2c] [Tiramisu]

Review for version v2.2.2a.

This game is heavily inspired by NTR Legends (NTR Densetsu), with the author himself claiming to be a big fan of it. And I would say it does NTR Legends Justice, having good sprite graphics and complementing with some nice well drawn CGs.
It is really hard to say it is a real improvement though, as of now there is very little content to the game, which leaves me annoyed to try playing it now. But I would say that, as of now, although I encountered some bugs, the game looks very promising.
I will be coming back to review it better when the game is finished. But I would recommend you wait for it to be finished too in order to play it, unless you want to support the author, then I would recommend playing it now/buying it on DLsite.

P.S.: English Translation is excellent.

I very much enjoyed this game, but with some fairly hefty caveats that make it difficult for me to recommend it without a couple of bold asterisks that might determine if someone is able to get the same level of enjoyment that I did.

Pros

• The art is very good. Easily one of the strongest points in the game's favor. It can look just a tiny bit 'off' with certain animations, but never in a way that brought me out of the experience. I think the game's pixel art is perfectly suited for giving that NTR vibe of being able to see the characters doing all sorts of lewd things in the game's environment -- especially when the husband is involved.
• The story starts out on a pretty strong note, even if the corruption can feel a bit rushed for what I personally prefer. I really enjoyed the early dynamic between Chiho and her husband, which made them feel like more than just a couple of generic characters ripped from a ~20 page doujin, and having the husband also start to show some signs of corruption over time is such a novel touch that I haven't seen other games try to implement.

Cons

• The protagonist is the weakest part of the whole experience for me by a mile. His interactions with Chiho feel so effortless and bereft of any dramatic tension that I would find myself getting bored during most of their texting conversations. It doesn't help that he is just about the most visually bland type of NTR antagonist that you could possibly imagine. Thankfully, there are at least a couple of points much later in the game where other men get involved, but I couldn't help wishing there was more variety.
• This is just a matter of personal preference, but I feel like the pacing of Chiho's corruption would've felt smoother if there was a bit more work involved with those first few steps.
• The gameplay started to feel a bit grindy after awhile, where you get less of Chiho's dialogue and instead are expected to fulfill arbitrary gameplay requirements in order to advance the story. With how fast the game feels at the beginning, this feels especially jarring when it suddenly slows to a crawl.
• As much as I loved the game's pixel art, I wasn't very impressed by the "full" art scenes. They don't look bad in the slightest, but I felt like they just couldn't match the appeal of the pixel scenes.
• The spy cam that can be placed in Chiho's apartment feels like a total waste of potential. At least from what I found in my playthrough, there seems to be nothing worthwhile that you can see in her apartment other than two very tame animations of her playing with herself.

All in all, a solid game. Not one that I am likely to be raving about or pushing all of my NTR-appreciating friends to play as soon as possible, but still worth checking out if it piques your curiosity and you have some spare time to burn. If the developer keeps adding content or decides to make another game with a similar focus, I very much look forward to seeing how they might improve on this.

Astonishing art, and annoying minigames. Hope there will be an easier mode for even minigames. I got stuck 3 hours at the tea minigame, such a waste of time.

Version 2.x used to be much easier, dont know which part of the game got revamped with the newer version.

Grind, gring for grind for the sake of grind. JESUS.. Why?! I really thought that at some point a donation shop or something would pop up offering to reduce the time for grinding. But it's not! What a bad game design.
I highly recommend just load saves and watch the available scenes..

Very grindy, it feels like things could be expedited quite a bit. That being said this GAME is beautiful. Really liked the story and characters (well dynamics and corruption). One HUGE negative is the lack of anal. So many scenes and there is only one anal animation, it is never explicitly described or emphasized. It would be nice if there is an actual scene with anal.

Do not miss a 10-day event after your husband gets corrupted do more than 3 strikes (suspicious+1)... it is fun... but no anal at all

Finished on ver 3.12
Using cheats and walkthrough is suggested.
Very grindy.. Very Very grindy
Nice Art.
Quite good story.

UI would benefit a redo.
Encountered few bugs- nothing game breaking.
Would benefit from better design of minigames and rules. Very unintuitive.

Overall decent. Worth playing.

Hands down this is the best h game i have ever played, progression, art, even getting such a huge extra as voice lines, easily surpass NTRLegend and the game isnt even finished, i cant wait to see the next upgrate

TLDR: This is a good game, but has a lot of problems and is all over the place. It's unfinished and unpolished, maybe too ambitious. If you plan to buy it, wait the dev finishes the job. Enjoy the seven seas meanwhile.

+ Live 2D art is really good.
+ Concept is fun.
+ Animation are well done.

+- SMS System is fun, but really basic and break the story because of how nonsensical conversations are. Also, once you start texting, you can't skip dialogues you've already seen. We are LEAGUES away from Nebel or Scars of Summer.

+- A lot of repetition to achieve your goal. It is a corruption game so it is expected, but since there's no dialogue or bubble during the Animation part (which could gradually change with her corruption, would have been fun), the woman lacks a lot of personnality. She's basically a submissive piece of meat, but some people like that, so let's say it's a matter of taste.

+- Voice Acting is here, but I feel like this could have been way more exploited, especially in the animations phase of the game. Also, some part of the text are not in sync with the voice, and some sentence are reversed.

- The story and the flow of the game is broken and out of touch. You have access to Animations, like doing her without condoms, or with cosplay, before seeing the story events. It's a confusing mess and this can't be fixed, this was a problem very early in dev phase, and fixing it would require tremendous amount of time. Dev was maybe too ambitious, and it's all over the place.
The flow of the story must be mastered for a NTR game to works, either by dialogue (Scars of summer, short Raiougar combat phases), or natural game flow (NTR Legend, 0 dialogue, perfect and understandable flow).

- Most mini games are boring or too long, you likely will do the Tea event once and never touch it again. The Onsen catwalk mini game is very simple but fun, and that's a win, all mini game should be like this. Aside from that, it's not spectacular. (It's troublesome to be fair)

- Money system is useless and automated (so why is it there ?). Just give the player the items he needs when he unlock specific powers. The Stamina stats is pointless aswell, you don't need to spend a second in the gym and be perfectly fine. Job mini game, do it one time, and press skip... Even the dev acknolwedge how useless it is.

--- Dev full charge in an official Market (DLsite) an unfinished product. As of now, don't buy the game. Be fully aware that you're not buying a full experience with a beginning, a middle and an end. I don't feel like the ~20 bucks charged were worth it.

It has the makings of a great game. Great art. Story with substance. Mechanics with depth. Female voice acting. Unfortunately, it has a few glaring issues:

-As mentioned, the mechanics are quite robust and deep-- unfortunately, they can get too deep as they are also designed in such a way that you have to pay more attention to them than the actual action. Secretly fucking the dude's wife three feet away from him is hot, but it's less fun when you have to pay more attention to his suspicion gauge than the actual fucking.

It's even worse because the game locks your control at the end of certain scenes, but the suspicion gauge keeps rising. So you get the dialogue for a "successful" event, followed by a game-over because Shota heard his wife complimenting your dick.

There's also the "sidequest" with Alice the hooker, where the gameplay representation for fucking her is a Space Invaders-style minigame that requires WASD -- even though the onscreen instructions show arrow keys -- and the spacebar. Bad enough that you can't focus on the action, it's even worse if you're not left-handed.

Another mini-game requires you input a specific pattern of arrow keys within a limited time. You only get three chances. Fortunately, the allotted time is very generous and you're free to stare before finishing the scene-- so this is the least aggravating.

It's quite difficult, but also extremely enjoyable, for a porn game to strike that perfect balance of lewds with engaging gameplay -- unfortunately, this didn't.

-All the above alone doesn't really warrant such a low rating though. With those alone, it's a rough presentation but overall a pretty good experience. No, the biggest problem is the forced sharing.

Nothing feels quite as bad as getting into some good netori, then a couple hours in you're suddenly forced into becoming a cuckfag and sharing your prey. No getting around it at all; you HAVE to let other dudes jizz in what's yours in order to progress.

Started a new game and think Ryunosuke's a chad alpha male whatever?

Nope. He's just another little beta bitch. At least the husband required some effort and breaking before accepting he's a cuck; Ryunosuke forced his woman to get spit-roasted and happily watched. No ninja magic cloning bullshit this time.



If you don't mind the preceding paragraphs, this game is top-notch. Needs far more polish before any sort of final release, but it would be a great overall experience. If you don't want to play a cuck though, then stay the fuck away.

That pissed me off so much, I thought of giving this negative stars if I could. However, I have to admit that the game still has a lot of other things going for it. The rating represents my personal experience, and not the quality.

I rate this game 4 stars because...
1) English developer doing NTR game that is better than the average RENPY / RPGMaker effort
2) Very beautiful art and spiritual successor to NTRLegend (which I don't think was that amazing either)
3) Voice acting, creative mini games

However, there are a lot of problems with this game.
1) Seemingly little changes from Alpha to Release (I played up to when you can summon her with the bell) I stopped because...
2) It's boring and repetitiveness of the Night event where you're trying to level up the husband's NTR bar.
3) The texting with husband is just plain retarded. Your wife just left the house, and your neighbor starts texting you still images of a woman with the exact breasts, exact hair and face of your wife. The only thing censored are her eyes. AND, the bad guy says that she's a married woman who's never sucked cock. The complete lack of nuance and logic in these texting scenes do more harm than good. It breaks the immersion. It's cheap. It's standard Japanese NTR writing.

Overall the game feels unfinished and unrealized. Yes there's a TON of custom art assets and yes those are amazing. But a game must have a strong narrative. The way the wife "falls" is just so weak. She's a cum bucket from day one with no resistance, no struggle. I expected better from a Western developer, but this kind of poor portrayal of women and their thoughts / feelings / resistance is disappointing and only expected by Japanese developers and their backwater treatment of women.

Strong woman = more fun when you conquer them. Weak woman = what's the point? She spreads her legs for anyone.

Sadly I don't think this game was worth the price. I'm willingly to buy these games only because there's simply not enough English NTR games.

This is not a bad game. It's just not a masterpiece like Nebel Geisterjäger

Tedious does not do justice to how unbelievably fucking boring most of this game is. Every minigame, every interaction, every text, every day, is rife with unskippable transitions or animations that last easily over 10 seconds.
Once is fine, but this is the core gameplay loop. Every fucking day in the game is like this. RPGM cg collector games add more since the enemy sprites and backgrounds change or even, god forbid it, they let you disable battle animations.
This would be reasonable should this be a novel idea but no, it is directly inspired by another game that presents itself better. Tedious gameplay loop was the complaint regarding this game's spiritual predecessor.
Games such as cookie clicker introduce a method to increase interactivity whilst still being designed to be uninteractive by providing the giant cookie you can mash. Games like VNs outright avoid gameplay by making the characters the focus. This game somehow shits itself upon attempting any form of gameplay, there is no change to the minigames as you progress and worst of all it is consistently to waste your time. No critical thinking or manual dexterity necessary, just an excruciating amount of doing nothing.
Art is great but holy shit this could be a case study on how not to design core gameplay.

Ntrahoic is a worthy spiritual successor to NTR Legend.

Legend was a simple game which made it easy to play and understand even not in English. It laid the foundation for many other games that will borrow its mechanics. Ntrahoic improves on Legend's formula by having a more engaging story complete with CGs, 2d Live scenes, and voice acting! The minigames are more varied and complex than Legend too. My one nitpick would be it takes a lot more grinding than in Legend.

Currently Legend probably won't get anymore updates while Ntraholic will get more. I will only look forward to more updates. Let us enjoy this game for its entire lifecycle.

Played the 2.2.2 Demo.

Well if you enjoyed NTR Legend there's no reason you won't enjoy this either. If that's you, you don't need this review. Just go waste a few hours on it and no one will chastise you for cheating in more money or lust points because the grind truly is atrocious. What follows is an meaningless discharge of personal grievances. Pay it no mind, at least until after you get your faps in.

The game really misses the mark in terms of characterizing the main character. Without any dialogue, NTR Legend is able to present a sort of bum, slob of a man that has no prospects and lives in a garbage-filled room and despite this, manages to have a big monkey smile on his face at all times. This shameless oaf stumbles through life with a penchant for wrapping himself with odd people, odd jobs, but most importantly odd relationships through his obvious charm. Meanwhile, NTRaholic features a boring shell of a man that walks, fucks, and talks like any NTR villian ought to. Even his daily activities are a bore and non-descript - being a delivery man, working out, or reading self-improvement books. He is a character you don't really want to involve or inhabit, and is essentially a means to an end. NTRaholic misses out on the absurdity and humor which is what allowed NTR Legend to get away with basically being dialogue-less.

There's been a great deal to expand the characters and the story through dialogue and plot but it mostly falls short, especially when it relies on tired, tired tropes such as blackmailing the heroine into sex, and convenient failings of reason. The game tries to get you to care about the couple's relationship by having you read stale dialogue expositioning their history but again, the game failed from the start to get me to care about anything any of these characters have to say. Again, there is a failure in understanding the charm of NTR Legend in that the husband in the scenario is essentially a prop used to heighten the sexual tension. I did not have to know what food he likes, or how they met in order to enjoy the dinner scenario where he unknowingly takes sleeping pills and his wife screws the neighbor right in front of him.

The gameplay unfortunately blows. Stamina almost never runs out, so anything related to increasing that value is for the most part, wasted time. The only money venture is playing a flappy bird minigame that starts out frustratingly slow, and takes a minute and a half to reap the full rewards out. It's annoyingly padded out and because money is essential to doing a lot of the content and grinding, you can't avoid it. The minigame fails to test your speed and reaction times the way NTRLegend did, and the flappy bird minigame just does not respect your time. On top of not respecting your time, the game revives the worst part of NTRLegend, the sex grind of acquiring lust experience by slowing building up a pleasure bar and pinpointing the perfect sex speed. Complete waste of time and attention, to have to perform scenes countless times until you are sick of looking at them.

And so why 4 stars? It seems like there's nothing going right with the game. But there is. The raw, sexual content.

The demo alone is 60-70% close to matching version 1.0.2 of NTR Legend in terms of sex animations, and the final game appears to promise a lot more on top of upgrades to animation smoothness and appearance. Live2D CGs have also been added (the one upside to introducing the vn dialogue), and more scenarios have been added, opening the door to more engrossing scenes. I also respect that all of the scenarios and early game feature a lot of groping and fondling, which really builds up the atmosphere and makes them complete.

At the end of the day this is a porn game and if this kind of thing is your bag the game does it well, enough to stomach everything else. The story and character grievances are my own and you don't have to agree with it. I will look at you side-eyed if you enjoy any of the gameplay though.

Game makes mistake that NTR Legend managed to avoid: open-ish world with grindy linear progression (it's so common across H-games it's offensive). At given point there is only one scene that pushes plot forward and you need to repeat it until you grind some stat to required value. Old scenes are immediately obsolete and serve no purpose - i.e. drinking game ends with girl running away after getting groped despite I progressed to a point where I fuck her ass. With more variety of activities you can do at given time and better flow of scenes it has potential to be good.

Art is good but I find really annoying that insets and main area animations are not in sync.

-1 star for expecting NTR where I steal some loser girlfriend but instead I got game where I let random dudes fuck her, not my fetish.

Excellent scenes. Could use some work on the corruption as scenes are unlocked a bit too suddenly. Also could use some more dialogue to help with that. A free play/easy to view all scenes option would be nice. I cant wait to see this finalized

NTR legend legacy? No.

Okay, gameplay: flappybird-like game to earn money=lame. Seduction of the prey=lame. Sex=simple but okay
Story.... why? why are you telling? It's a VIDEO GAME! show me!(VN are not game okay, don't argue.)

NTR legend=good, why is it? All is show, no dialogue/long explications.

So I do not recommend this "game"(unfinished by the way) and recommend you to play NTR Legend.

And if you cannot bear NTR(if you truly understand what this mean)... why ar' ya her' ma boy?

I'm not NTR fan, however this one is so good i just have an urge inside me to defile this pretty lady. Scenes are nice, story too (pretty standard ntr) fun gameplay (god damn flappy birds). Definitely can recommend it,
Art 3.5/5
Story - 3.5/5
Gameplay 4/5
Fapability 4/5
Originality 4/5

This game has so much potential, and should be a very worth succesor to NTRLegend, yet...in the end it utterly fumbles and makes me feel something I never feel with any H games. Pissed off.

At worst I get bored and move on, but this game has so many great elements that it sucks me in, then it proceeds to fuck up pacing with tedious and unneccesary mini-games, oblique "hints" that tell you nothing, and an incessant pop up any time you deviate from whatever bullshit task it somehow wants you to complete.

I loved NTRLegend. It had its flaws, but it was tight, fun, lighthearted, and it knew when to just let you play. Not this game.

Fixing this is very easy:
1) Remove rock, paper, scissors as a way to determine if you win at seducing the wife. Its stupid and stacked in her favor. Make a sexual mini-game if you must have one.
2) The slider during sex events has a much too narrow threshold. If your gonna rip off/pay homage to Goldenboy, incorperate the things he did right the WAY HE DID THEM RIGHT. Why is my meter stopping 3-4 times a session? Why do I have to hunt for the much too small area to make it go up again? Why was I unable to intentionally get caught on the balcony when I tried to do so for TWO HOURS?
3) You should modify the mini-games for making money, and for the prostitute. Both mini-games make no sense in the context of the game. And once I reach a certain point in the game, earning money should have an automated feature (i.e. NTRLegend again). And I don't want to play asteroids while railing a hooker, are you serious? Get out of here with that shit. Make it a game of "find the G spot" or something if you must subject us to such distractions.
4) Tweek your instructions to actually explain how the game mechanics work. You already have a help feature, I shouldn't have to still puzzle out how to interact or determine what buttons do what.

Overall I really enjoy this game, which is why I am being this harsh. If you were to tweek or remove the problems (and I am hardly the first to let you know what those are) then we can enjoy playing without resulting to cheating.

this sh** is good made me happy. Dont care if its NTR as long it gives me a something to wank i dont have problem with anything. As long it isnt extreme scat or whatever.

Still this game is good besides having a few bugs there and here. Sometimes I'm having a hard time progressing into the story.

I must admit I found this game (2.2.2a version) very confusing. Objectives aren't clear, minigames aren't well explained and repetitive, the story is terribly written and told to the point there is no corruption, you do some minigames and end up fucking the wife.

Art is mediocre in many places, sound is so too. And I have been kicked once to the desktop while playing.

So, as far as I go, I don't think it's worth it.