The story, erotic content, and gameplay is amazing, although the early part of the game before getting the navigation radar that shows hidden paths is quite frustrating as there are a lot of hidden paths and unmarked items, and the combat is quite difficult (regular mobs could be skipped essentially because you can just escape guaranteed) but if you're familiar with how classic RE works you'd be fine, there's a RPG7 item that's VERY hidden because it's inside a wall behind a chest that you could jump over on the very bottom of south poison swamp and is best used for the chimera boss, otherwise the fight is ridiculously long. Also the corruption level is tied to the story so you can safely try the monsters around without affecting it.
RPGM - Completed - Parasite Day - LABORATORY [Final] [Brown tabby]
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TheHighSpire
I only played parts of this game - to the green garden sort of place. Take my review with whatever amount of salt that you find necessary.
Now to the review. Playing the game, you find yourself in the competent boots of Mina Himasawa, a SUA special agent who is tasked with figuring out what has happened at an archaological museum. For some odd reason, the SUA deemed it necessary to only arm Mina with her powerful martial arts skills and a single pistol with little ammo.
The idea of the game is uncover what lead to the catastrofy, which you can find out through papers scattered across the area. The area you traverse is signifcant, and it is not always clear what you can pick up and what you cannot. Some might say, well yeah, but you need to pay attention to notice that you pick up a bit of ammo there, a grenade there and some vital quest item somewhere else.
I personally just find i unnecessarily annoying. If I am to be interested in a RPGM story, then it needs to very clear about where and what I should do and different parts of the game.
My patience for redoing my steps to figure out what I missed is very small. The fact that the game isn't particularly clear about where you need to head, or what you need to do next adds to the frustration.
On to the combat, you primarily combat bugs and zombies. The bugs comes in different varieties such as flies, spiders and slugs. There are probably more, but these I remember. Most enemies will attempt to grapple you. You can break the grapple, which thankfully makes you immune the current and next turn. The only time this doesn't work is if Mina is in heat after being sprayed by aphrodisiacs. If Mina do not break the grapple, the enemy can rape her the next turn. To my knowledge, each enemy only have one sequence that it can showcase. It isn't particularly riveting in my opinion.
You have various skills you can use against the enemies, which boils down to whether you want to use bullets or expend stamina.
Now, what I did like what that Mina actually seemed like pretty decent special agent. I wouldn't exactly envision her as the literal epitome of a monster-eradicating-super-agent... but I guess she gets things done. The dialogue that she says when captured by a monster is also decent enough, and nowhere near the uninspired "oh no.. oh well" of most RPGM games. It is unfortunately just repeated whenever captured. A bit variety wouldn't hurt.
Here's the breakdown:
The Good
- Mina is a well enough written character.
- Uncovering what happened is mildly interesting.
- Certain enemies like the fly is not balanced at all.
- The sex scenes are so-so
- Pretty sure that pregnancy only happens when slugs attack you and crawl up inside you. Then you birth that same slug.. not really sure what it achieved from just getting birthed again in its same form.
The Bad
- The translation is less than stellar, and not even all parts of the menu is fully translated.
- The map is large and labyrinthian.
- The game does absolutely nothing to help you figuring out where you need to go next.
- The game is not particularly clear about items than you must find or where to find them for that matter.
- It is not clear when you have completed an area of a map, and when you must walk back to find something, and that is really annoying.
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Dargondo
This game is bad, like really, REALLY bad.
There are countless hidden passageways and interactable items that are not marked in ANY significant way (excluding the few improvements the translator added and they have been all kinds of helpful, translator score is 5 stars), which forces you to walk into every single wall everywhere and try to interact with absolutely everything in the hope that you will find something that progresses the game just a little bit.
There is an insane amount of backtracking and running around in circles which is compounded as a problem by the fact that moving around consumes stamina, which you need to fight as well, and the only way to recover stamina is to buy (with your limited amount of money) restoration items or use the detrimental healing items instead, which wouldn't be a big deal if it weren't for the fact that this game will force you to spend HOURS running around like a chicken with its head cut off, consuming stamina the entire time.
Add onto that the fact that there are only 5 enemies in the entire game, only 4 of which have H scenes, and there is barely any difference between scenes based on your status, you are much better off loading the gallery save and checking out the very small amount of stuff in the game in a few minutes rather than wasting hours trying to actually play the game.
It tried to be a Resident Evil parody with some H content sprinkled in, but it failed horribly.
The ONLY things that would make this game reasonably playable would be either a very clear mission log with indicators on where you need to go and what you need to do that also makes the items you need to find and mess with much more noticeable, OR a step by step walkthrough that does the same thing.
Even with cheats on this game takes way too long, so save yourself the headache and either watch some porn or play something else instead. -
PistoleroPapaco
Neat little game, but there isn't a whole lot of content and the very common issues are really detracting to the quality overall.
The game stutters for a few frames every few seconds at varying intervals during exploration, on every system I tried it on. This is very irking visually, and causes the game to simply not register your inputs when it happens.
It is also the first time I came across an RPGM game that successfully prevents the GPU software from limiting the framerate, all the while failing to limit the framerate itself, which I found to be quite humorous. This doesn't cause any gameplay issues, even with the countdown timer at the end, but it does make the IGT go crazy.
There's also the issue with hidden passageways and backtracking, but I find it to be minor. Again, the game's poor performance just worsens it.
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Diocletian88
Fantastic RPG game. I really enjoyed the game play and puzzle solving as you explore this facility with Mina. The eroge material is good though I wish it were expanded upon more with greater enemy variety and a much more detailed pregnancy system. Plus the game has a solid story with minor faults like the major exposition dump at one point during the game. Overall, for a first game from a studio that wants to create hentai games, this is a stellar debut that I can only hope to see more of and would urge anyone interested to check it out.
I also want to give a shout out to the translator who worked hard on bringing the game to life in English while also adding in improvements to the game play itself.