Version played: v1.01 (with PassingDrifters translation)
While I consider this to have enough features and quality of a good game, I'm also slightly conflicted because all of the porn here (besides 3 animations with your soldiers/spirits) is "Game Over Rape" and defeat animations. This is a nice hidden gem either way, but definitely be aware of this fact. Make sure to get the manual translation posted in the forum thread before playing though, as the normal download is just auto translated.
You play as Princess Knight Eltrise, and the tl;dr is you lead your elven kingdom and Orcs attack, so you go beat them up and it continues with stuff about her Advisor and her sister. It's a shorter game on the 2-3 hour side and since the game is divided into 7 major areas with 3 levels each, there isn't a whole lot of time to tell a compelling story. Still, I think it does a good job and I appreciated how they did the normal ending.
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Gameplay wise I found it a lot more fun than I initially expected. You move around a 2D plane with a crystal on the left to protect, and enemies from the right spawning from their own crystals. Instead of just stationary tower defence, you are a central force in the combat using your own basic attack and dash ability, with the option to add soldiers or spirits into your loadout who will either spawn when you choose or automatically.
Beating (or losing) a level will give currency to upgrade Eltrise or your minions, and beating certain levels will unlock more skills or soldiers/spirits to add to the loadout. Since your skills are also tied to the loadout, you have to balance how many skills you can use as Eltrise versus what soldiers and spirits are summoned into combat. You can also get titles which provide stat bonuses when you equip them, but there aren't that many and a bunch are just "increases corruption gain". Still, you can use these to ever so slightly fine tune your build focus.
While the combat itself is simple and Eltrise will not shut the fuck up (SAH SIH SOKO), I enjoyed figuring out what skills worked best and how many soldiers I needed to keep the enemies at bay. My favorite is definitely the Shield Boys, especially upgraded where they gain up to 50% damage reduction and just tank the entire front line while you wait for your skills to recover. Even with good summons though a lot of enemies have attacks that "cleave" through and thus you'll still take damage hiding behind them which can get slightly annoying.
Attacking can also be a bit reptitive since you need to use your basic attack a lot, and most of the powerful skills have long cooldowns (up to 60 seconds). The core attack animation is the same 3 hits over and over which is unfortunate since there was definitely room to add different weapon types for Eltrise.
I played the majority of the game on Normal Difficulty, and only had trouble a couple times with two level fails unintentionally. Beating the game unlocks four "EX" levels which are actually pretty brutal even on normal and I needed the save with everything maxed to get through all of them
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The hentai this game provides is split into two categories: The animated CGs you get for game over in each level, and the mid-game animations when you are knocked down at 0 health and the enemies rape/abuse you from which you can recover up to 2 times before game over occurs.
For the CGs, they are definitely pretty great since they are animated which is not common compared to the many RPG Maker games that use static images. However, there are only 7 major cgs here with 3 variations each depending on if you've seen the previous and your corruption level (total of 21, plus some "omakes")
Each CG is voiced and well animated, and they try to cover different ground despite all being game over rape. For example, one series focuses on Mind Control while another has Tentacles. There is a single cg with pregnancy which is not really enough for me but hey it's there I guess. My favorite is probably the 3rd variation of Scene 7, but no spoilers. The progression from variation 1 to 3 is nice too, since as you would expect from any "corruption" system by the third scene she is getting into it and such.
For the animations, each one is tied to a specific enemy and if they are next to you when you are knocked down or afflicted with lust. There are quite a lot of enemy types so theres quite a lot to find if you want to go hunting for them during gameplay. Eltrise's corruption (gained from losing and being knocked down) does slightly change her expression during the animations but didn't notice any unique animations because of this.
Also your soldiers can get raped too, specifically the Succubus enemies will steal one of your male soldiers and fuck them while one variant of the Hornet enemies can attack your spirits. The female Elf Saber unit can also get raped by humans or orcs when they are defeated, so there's at least some animations not specifically tied to you losing.
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While the quality is there, I'm not a fan of exclusively Game Over/Loss rape. You can get some of the animations during combat and still win the level, but unless you intentionally play on Very Hard just to lose constantly then it can be very easy to see barely any porn if you decide to just play the game normally
I guess just be fully aware that you will have to lose a bunch to fully enjoy everything this game has to offer, and maybe play on Hard or Very Hard if you don't want to just throw yourself into the enemies for fun.
The other negative for me was that for some reason midway through the game, there is a giant metal spider robot that appears with absolutely no explaination or story tied to it. Not sure if it was added just for fun or if I missed something, but it was definitely a bit of a disconnect from the fantasy world.
Overall though this is a nice change of pace from the usual RPGMaker games and it does try to be an engaging tower defence/side scroller hybrid, plus the use of Live2D to create animated cgs works well in its favor. For a 2-3 hour game it definitely does more than it needs to and while some might not enjoy the janky attack animations, I think this game is definitely at least a good time waster.
While I consider this to have enough features and quality of a good game, I'm also slightly conflicted because all of the porn here (besides 3 animations with your soldiers/spirits) is "Game Over Rape" and defeat animations. This is a nice hidden gem either way, but definitely be aware of this fact. Make sure to get the manual translation posted in the forum thread before playing though, as the normal download is just auto translated.
You play as Princess Knight Eltrise, and the tl;dr is you lead your elven kingdom and Orcs attack, so you go beat them up and it continues with stuff about her Advisor and her sister. It's a shorter game on the 2-3 hour side and since the game is divided into 7 major areas with 3 levels each, there isn't a whole lot of time to tell a compelling story. Still, I think it does a good job and I appreciated how they did the normal ending.
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Gameplay wise I found it a lot more fun than I initially expected. You move around a 2D plane with a crystal on the left to protect, and enemies from the right spawning from their own crystals. Instead of just stationary tower defence, you are a central force in the combat using your own basic attack and dash ability, with the option to add soldiers or spirits into your loadout who will either spawn when you choose or automatically.
Beating (or losing) a level will give currency to upgrade Eltrise or your minions, and beating certain levels will unlock more skills or soldiers/spirits to add to the loadout. Since your skills are also tied to the loadout, you have to balance how many skills you can use as Eltrise versus what soldiers and spirits are summoned into combat. You can also get titles which provide stat bonuses when you equip them, but there aren't that many and a bunch are just "increases corruption gain". Still, you can use these to ever so slightly fine tune your build focus.
While the combat itself is simple and Eltrise will not shut the fuck up (SAH SIH SOKO), I enjoyed figuring out what skills worked best and how many soldiers I needed to keep the enemies at bay. My favorite is definitely the Shield Boys, especially upgraded where they gain up to 50% damage reduction and just tank the entire front line while you wait for your skills to recover. Even with good summons though a lot of enemies have attacks that "cleave" through and thus you'll still take damage hiding behind them which can get slightly annoying.
Attacking can also be a bit reptitive since you need to use your basic attack a lot, and most of the powerful skills have long cooldowns (up to 60 seconds). The core attack animation is the same 3 hits over and over which is unfortunate since there was definitely room to add different weapon types for Eltrise.
I played the majority of the game on Normal Difficulty, and only had trouble a couple times with two level fails unintentionally. Beating the game unlocks four "EX" levels which are actually pretty brutal even on normal and I needed the save with everything maxed to get through all of them
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The hentai this game provides is split into two categories: The animated CGs you get for game over in each level, and the mid-game animations when you are knocked down at 0 health and the enemies rape/abuse you from which you can recover up to 2 times before game over occurs.
For the CGs, they are definitely pretty great since they are animated which is not common compared to the many RPG Maker games that use static images. However, there are only 7 major cgs here with 3 variations each depending on if you've seen the previous and your corruption level (total of 21, plus some "omakes")
Each CG is voiced and well animated, and they try to cover different ground despite all being game over rape. For example, one series focuses on Mind Control while another has Tentacles. There is a single cg with pregnancy which is not really enough for me but hey it's there I guess. My favorite is probably the 3rd variation of Scene 7, but no spoilers. The progression from variation 1 to 3 is nice too, since as you would expect from any "corruption" system by the third scene she is getting into it and such.
For the animations, each one is tied to a specific enemy and if they are next to you when you are knocked down or afflicted with lust. There are quite a lot of enemy types so theres quite a lot to find if you want to go hunting for them during gameplay. Eltrise's corruption (gained from losing and being knocked down) does slightly change her expression during the animations but didn't notice any unique animations because of this.
Also your soldiers can get raped too, specifically the Succubus enemies will steal one of your male soldiers and fuck them while one variant of the Hornet enemies can attack your spirits. The female Elf Saber unit can also get raped by humans or orcs when they are defeated, so there's at least some animations not specifically tied to you losing.
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While the quality is there, I'm not a fan of exclusively Game Over/Loss rape. You can get some of the animations during combat and still win the level, but unless you intentionally play on Very Hard just to lose constantly then it can be very easy to see barely any porn if you decide to just play the game normally
I guess just be fully aware that you will have to lose a bunch to fully enjoy everything this game has to offer, and maybe play on Hard or Very Hard if you don't want to just throw yourself into the enemies for fun.
The other negative for me was that for some reason midway through the game, there is a giant metal spider robot that appears with absolutely no explaination or story tied to it. Not sure if it was added just for fun or if I missed something, but it was definitely a bit of a disconnect from the fantasy world.
Overall though this is a nice change of pace from the usual RPGMaker games and it does try to be an engaging tower defence/side scroller hybrid, plus the use of Live2D to create animated cgs works well in its favor. For a 2-3 hour game it definitely does more than it needs to and while some might not enjoy the janky attack animations, I think this game is definitely at least a good time waster.
