RPGM - Completed - Phantom Thief Ren [v1.0.3] [Yamanashi Girl]

A really good game, quite well developed, with quite a few scenes to explore. Mechanically the game is really easy, you can even say that you have to make an effort to lose a fight. The time required to complete this title is about 10 hours, so you can't complain.

version completed v1.0.3

i agree with previous reviewers, fights are EXTREMELY easy and it's supposed to be a "sneak" game. even the sneaking part is extremely easy. but very soon even if you get caught, enemies will do 0 dmg even if they rarely hit you, while you 1shot them with autoattack. so very braindead balance.

battlefuck is as bad as others said, 1still picture of groping, nothing happens, no progress.

but if you intentionally lose some fights, the game has some good H-scenes and scenarios. you can get into prison, and if you try to escape from there, you will have no items and 1hp 0mana, so if you get caught you will lose, and there are 3 scenes like that, i liked some of them.

and there is 1 story prisoner scene if you do bad choice then story sex-slave/prisoner gameplay ensues. i liked that a lot. that was the highlight of the game... but that is barebones low effort as well. because you cannot really escape, you will just be get caught (which is hot tbh) over and over and instead of a gameover in the end you get teleported back in time to the initial confrontation with that boss... yet you keep all your "lewdness" stat you gained from the "training" and now you unlock option to 1shot boss... so that's very stupid. breaks immersion a lot. would have been so much better if you could actually escape. w/e.

i planned to give it 4/5 but it has so many bad things... like every CG is nearly only 1 still picture. there are some with 2 frames for example blowjobs, outside of your mouth -> inside of your mouth. this repeats. tbh some of these scenes were hot. but there is a lot of repeat scenes.

the dev spent the absolute minimum amount of time to make this game. it runs decently, it has sex scenes, but everything lacks polish. but tbh it might be worth your time just for that 1 slave/prisoner story scene and some defeat scenes are hot and there are some nice scenes in town if picked "wrong" choice.

gallery immediately unlocked if you want. (and unviewed can be relocked, so that's nicely polished)

if balance would be better this could be a 4/5 or 5/5 game even. cuz boss fights have some tricks/traps to them so it has a chance for defeat (but sadly you are so strong that even if you fall into most of their traps except 1 story scene, you will still win easily) and town grope/molest scenes although a bit boring there are some with creativity and interesting sex scene. (hypnotism, tricking her, etc.)

So after playing Phantom Thief Effy this one was the next on my list.
Unfortunately, it doesn't meet my expectations at all. I especially miss the humor. Yes, there is some humor, but compared to the predecessor, it's just flat. Otherwise, almost everything is the same...the biggest difference...this game is even easier and quicker to finish than the first one (2 hours with a break).

As usual, there is a cone of vision for the enemies in the dungeons...if you get caught in it, the fight is usually over after 2 hits. If you surprise the enemies from behind, 1 hit is enough.

H-content means traps and lecherous townspeople...but you have to talk to them separately for that. While the first part was still a bit of fun, this one is superfluous.

Garbage painted gold.

Lovely art spoiled by an excessive tendency to reuse every single asset at least 3 times, making the 40-ish scenes a realistic 6. Everything is insanely vanilla, and the corruption is downright pitiful. The game's biggest fault is its gameplay. Run through a god awful map that's far too long and engage in combat that's so easy it's utterly pointless to even include. Loot potions and money that you'll never have a real use for.

There's a """""battlefuck"""" mechanic that's an absolute joke and never should have even been included. You can even turn it off, which shows just how genuinely bad it is. It's a single still image that just works as a health and mana drain. It doesn't progress. It doesn't advance. Just one still image and 2 lines of dialogue.

This game would be 2 stars were it not for its single saving grace. A fully unlocked gallery. When I saw the gallery, and of course, unlocked it, I gave it another chance after seeing how many scenes there were. Then I played for an hour, realized my time was going to be wasted, and discovered the awful truth after looking at every single scene in the gallery. 6 primary scenes used again and again and again and again until the gallery looked far larger than it really is.

All in all, this game is just a tease that wastes your time if you decide to play it as intended. The writing is also lame and uninspired. AI could write better dialogue than this. Just a lame time waster with good art that's at least worth tucking away on your harddrive thanks to its gallery.