Flash - Abandoned - Powerless [v0.04] [scolexxx]

[Review of v0.04]

The stars have aligned and given me a game that pushes my porn game buttons in nearly every conceivable way. It's got big dick furry dudes plowing women with proportions that make Aphrodite feel inadequate, it's got a special focus on pregnancy content and impregnation, and its art and animation are absolutely gorgeous. Seriously. I don't think I've ever seen a game do the weird tweened Flash animation style as well as Powerless.

Despite my glowing opinion, I do not recommend you play Powerless for a number of reasons. It's buggy and runs poorly on in-browser, downloadable, and third-party Flash players, it has essentially no content at the time of writing, and the very unsexy 4X gameplay is, in my opinion, not a great choice for a porn game, unless you're Machiavelli or something.

Powerless is a game that I hope beyond hope will succeed. It's not my ideal porn game by any stretch, but it knows how to get to my specific dick in a way few other games have. Definitely one to keep an eye on.

This game, from the start, has a number of limitations borne from it being made in Flash, but as that is a dev choice, and not a dev failing, it won't be counted against the game. Of course, there isn't a great deal to this game yet, but I'm basing this review off of what does exist.

Things that I like:

The art style: The art, for what little of it exists currently, is good. There isn't a lot to complain about it, other than the fact that some of the clothing that you have access to isn't completely visible. The characters are very stylized, and the swaying animation gives the characters a small sense of life they may not otherwise have.

The dialogue: There isn't a lot of dialogue, but what little there is currently is well written and portrays the various character's personalities well. The Minotaurs are obviously all very attracted to the Princess, and some are open about it while others try to hide it. The Princess herself is a bit of a budding bimbo. In one scene she jumps into a box knowing full that she's going to get fucked by her soldiers, but, in another, she runs out of a bathing area occupied by two Minotaurs after they start to make blatant sexual advances towards her. (I have a feeling this has more to do with the fact that there's no scene in the game for fucking them, yet, but at the moment, my point stands.)

The Concept: Technically, there isn't really an end goal to the game just yet. While it is said that you can go to war to capture other territories, so far I haven't seen a real onus to do so. There are a couple of things that I'd like to see this game do with the warring states concept, but I'll go over them in the last section.

The one dislike I have with this game, thus far, is its UI. The UI buttons are extremely small, and could do with being enlarged, or, at the very least, labelled. (Some buttons ARE labelled, but I'd like to see some consistency with the UI.)

Things I hope to see with this game: As this game is in it's near infancy, there's a lot that could happen between now and it's 1.0 release. Here are a few things I personally hope Scolexxx does with the game.

Non-Violent Relations with Other Territories: Your character is a slutty elf bimbo. If that fact right there doesn't scream "fuck the kings of every nation until they submit to you", I'm not sure what will. Seriously, though, the fact that every character seems to want to pin you down and breed you should be a fact that you can use to your advantage.

Fleshed out Pregnancy: If you can't tell from my title, I like pregnancy. Like, a lot. In fact, this game getting tagged with pregnancy is why I clicked on it in first place. That being said, currently, pregnancy only makes your stomach swell, and doesn't really have an effect on the game yet. I hope that, first of all, pregnancy doesn't lead to an immediate game over. Second, I hope that we can breed our armies ourselves, rather than just waiting for the 30 day period between getting new soldiers.

For now, that's my opinion on the game. I'll update it from time to time after the content has been fleshed out a bit.

The review before this one doesn't seem to understand that there are much more than 2 positions. You just need to either upgrade at the crypt via gems or just use the development version which has I believe 10 different positions in total and that's just for the breeding box part. It's also not all that hard to navigate through the map if you have more than 2 brain cells. Considering what was given for a first release, this has game has high hopes. Solid Launch.

v0.02

Interesting concept, but flawed launch.

So I like a lot about this game, but it is just not really in a playable state right now. Even trying to follow the guide posted, too much of the game just doesn't work right now. You can get in the breeding box and do two positions, but that's about it. The resources don't track correctly, nor does trading with neighbors, nor does the recruiting mechanic seem to be working correctly. Leading to just a bunch of dead ends where you're not able to do much.

I'll give it two stars because of potential and the art, but for the most part, this one's an easy skip for now. Lets see if the dev keeps working on it and makes it more playable and adds more content, shall we?