Unity - Pure Onyx [v0.138.1] [Eromancer]

amazing animations, amazingly styled UI, genuinely feels like it's a triple A game demo, except... in really early stages.

you have a bunch of areas to choose from with no explanation as to what any of them do (not even a little info tab when you select an area, as to what it looks like or what enemies there will be)

there's one enemy that SUCKS ASS to fight. the spiked brute or whatever the fuck, is so annoying. every single one of their attacks will stagger you, and they have an attack that's basically INSTANT, and they have a fuck ton of health and don't get staggered easily at all.

otherwise decently fun but quickly gets repetitive. default controls suck ASS btw.

really annoying to have to pin your health to be able to use it in-game quickly. no automation of that is pretty annoying.

not many different enemies you face in total. gallery is annoying to grind for, but wouldn't be as bad if there were other bosses, more weapons, hairstyles, etc. that you could get.

7/10 overall

great gameplay, fantastic scenes, and crazy art, they just need to make slide kicking the larva easier, reduce the exhaustion rate, add more enemy combinations in scenes, and maybe add an optional feature that when H scenes are triggered all enemies in the wave could take turns on onyx.

for a beat em up, this is exactly the type of game to play. the animations are top notch and for something in alpha, it has so much potential. looking forward to seeing the full game and would honestly pay money for a full rendition provided it matches expectations

This game has amazing animations and thats near all it has for it. The combat is simple and the buttons to attack are close to each other but for the people that would use mines, going to the pause menu ten times is irritating, maybe should've made a button for that too? Anyways, for my other people who are prone to getting grabbed a bunch, I feel like there should be a parry button (maybe grenades?) instead of fucking up my 2 arrow keys by spamming them.

This 4 star rating is for the current state of the game.

Many people are mad because this game has taken so many years of development, has received a ton of funding, yet it still feels like it is not anywhere close to being completed. Which is a fair reason to judge the game harshly.

With that said, I will just focus this review on how the game is in its current form with expectations of any updates.

The combat is boring, repetitive, and lacking any speck of creativity. The overall progression is (almost) literally non-existent. But the h-content is so incredibly good that I still give this game a 4 star rating.

This really does feel like just a glorified video gallery. The gameplay just sucks. It feels like the dev just made all these scenes with a character and then turned it into a video game to say that they are doing a longer term project to then get funding.

I do hope that this can turn into an actual game at some point, but given the fact that this project has been in development for what, 7 (?) years, and the amount of work is barely equal to what you could expect from 6 months of full time work, I seriously doubt this game will ever be finished, much less get any real updates other than just more basic enemies and scenes.

I know the dev has reputation to not finish his games. But all into account he's not that bad. The game, beta as it is, it's got some decent animations that will provide at least a couple of enjoyable sessions. And at the very least, this game isn't copy paste unity trash. Does not have generic scenes, rather it has some really good scenes. Nothing too shabby.


Edit. Turns out that about half of the people that hate him hate him for pol reasons. So won't let that cloud my judgement either. Yes, this dev prolly won't release lots of scenes anymore. But beta as it is, this game is solid.
Besides, I've seen people drool over much much worse developers

Edit of edit. Turns out this game has been 7 years in development. That's twice as much as acceptable.

Edit of edit. Hey, at least it's original, not AI, and not some prolonged CG's. AND at the moment there's a wave, A HORDE of copy paste scam games that are unfairly getting 4 stars. So, I can be a little lenient with this one.

Love the animations and art style of this game. I've been supporting the game on and off for years. I can't wait to see what else the game will have in store for us.

I've got my fingers crossed for when a new protagonist comes out.

Looks good, but is very "wooden" and not interesting in terms of gameplay.
If you want the experience of playing like in "SOR", you will not get it, because here you play as a slow-moving bag of potatoes, which falls easily, combinations and ease of control are at a minimum level, I really hope that the gameplay will be improved in the future, there is a patential here, though only in the visual style

Ooh lord is this one bad.

- 7+ years of development and you still can't map the controls
- You can spawn in fire and die immediately
- Item drops off-map can block enemies from entering the level and soft lock your game
- The grapple from characters, something you might expect players to want to see, makes the screen flash white at maximum brightness on both start and break free. It's bad enough I was anticipating the flash and closing my eyes before hand.
- You lose all exp/progress for wanting to see the sex scenes in a sex game
- etc

I'm actually amazed by this game. Amazed by how terribly designed it is.

The game itself is incredible. Best in its class. The low rating can be explained by the excruciatingly slow rate of progress as the devs take their time. However, that does not in any way change the fact that the game itself is a masterpiece.

It has been 7 years but this game deserves more credit, it is not easy to do this kind of games alone.
The atmosphere is cool, the fight skills could be better .... but to be honest the H-scenes are really good
I hope they could work faster

EN:
Wow! This game is excellent, not just as an adult game but in general. It should be MUCH more well-known.
The level of detail and how well everything works is evident (and I’m not talking about bugs, but how smooth and well the gameplay feels).

I have no idea who is behind this game, but it really doesn’t seem like amateur work. It looks like they already have experience in major games, not just in gameplay but also in modeling, general art, animations, etc.

I would play it even if it weren’t a porn game xd, and I don’t usually play platformers.

The only thing that worries me is that, since they’re making everything so perfect, they might not progress as fast in development and end up abandoning it. Hopefully, that won’t happen.

ES:
Wow! Este juego excelente, no solo a nivel de un juego porno, si no en general. Debería ser MUCHO mas conocido.
Se nota el nivel de detalles y lo bien que funciona todo (no me refiero bugs, sino a lo fluido y bien que se siente el gameplay).

No tengo idea quien esta detras de este juego, pero realmente no parece gente "amateur", parece que tengan experiencia en juegos importantes ya, no solo en gameplay, si no tambien en modelados y arte en general, animaciones, etc.
Lo jugaria aunque no fuese un juego porno xd, y eso que no suelo jugar a estos juegos de plataforma.

Lo unico que me preocupa es que al estar haciendo todo tan perfecto, tal vez no avancen tan rapido en el desarrollo y lo terminen abandonando. Esperemos que no pase.

It looks good and it feels good play. This game may not ever get finished, but I don't really care on that, as I was looking for quick gooning-session, and that is what I got, with flying marks. Not that I'm expert on the side-scrolling genre, but this one blew me away how good these can look, hence 5/5

I see a lot of reviews talking about the development, so I'm gonna do something a little different and base mine around what's currently here. And what's here... Isn't looking too hot.

Okay, so yes, the game has great graphics, pretty good scenes (limited, but they're there) and a solid concept, but that's sadly as far as it goes.

It gets repetitive WAY too fast. Also every enemy doesn't even have a scene, it's just a select few. There's also a lot of placeholders and unfinished mechanics. Like charisma for example, it doesn't do shit in this game.

It's fun for maybe one session, but the repetitiveness is overwhelming. Unless you enjoy doing the same things over and over, I don't recommend.

It's been in development since January 2022. 3 years and all we have to show for it is a barebones fighting sim with some half decent animations.

Honestly disappointing. I remember trying this out when they were still making malaise (that got abandoned after 7 years) and thinking 'oh, this might turn into something good'.

Welp, guess that was wrong.

I give the current version of the game ( ver. November 2024) a great rating. There are many great things about it. For a side-scrolling, beat-em-up, lewd game, this is probably one of the best I've played. I guess there's a story somewhere. (No real story, just a map and dungeons) Models look nice in this style and the adult animations are nicely animated. The only issue I have is that there is really nothing left to do after you clear some dungeons and fight a couple bosses. It took me like around 1 hour to finish everything. I guess you could stare at the gallery for hours, but I didn't.

Not even my kind of thing but this is pretty fucking awesome. Regardless to anything of its development what is here shits on most garbage on steam and other such extremely few games. Of such beat em up games this is the best I know of and easily without a doubt the best I have ever seen in my life. Animations, fighting the scenes all of it is fluid and looks good. What is is and could be trumps a whole lot of other slop Ive seen.

PS that there are no voices is a huge plus I say

The game is a very lazy cash grab which only generates money for the lazy creator that are behind It.
The animations and artstyle looks cool, until you find out that the creators didn't make a significant update in years.
They are reusing animations, making some useless bug fixes and that's basically It, nothing new, nothing cool added or anything.
This is a waste of time and money, you can come in the next year and there won't be anything added besides few reused animations.

Not worth It, I don't believe that some suckers are paying money for It (MONTHLY!!!)

Pros:

• Animations look very nice.

Cons:

• Very sparse on content despite being years into development.
• Lags even on low settings, you would figure the game should be better optimized if neither the H nor gameplay was being worked on this whole time.
• Shallow and repetitive gameplay loop, its fine to have a simple system, but essential things in a side scroller beat 'em up like input lag, fuzzy hitbox, perma-juggling should be a priority fix.
• A lot of implemented placeholder for unfinished systems, clothing, environment, skills, physics, lighting, that are still half-baked but are already present in the core gameplay, which I suspect is adding to the lagging issue.

Seems to me this game raises a lot of arguments on authors willingness to complete the game and money milking tendencies and I can admit that the progress made in 8(?) years is far from satisfactory, but only encountering it a month ago closer to its' current state makes me prefer to advocate it. I'm not aficionado of this "genre" and what F95 has to offer, but from what I've experienced there are a few games on par with Pure Onyx (NoR, BITS, AlienQuest, a few more maybe). This game has the best music, graphics, H scenes and overall fluidity. Moreover perhaps it is the only game from my experience that has a genuine sense of style I personally enjoy a lot. Despite being incomplete story and gameplaywise the current state of this game is playable enough to be enjoyed. On issue with MC not getting a voice through all these years, I personally wouldn't call it a flaw and with slightly more ascetic point of view it could seem charming. In the sea of overcomplex(for me) RPGmaker games, tedious 3D soaps and abandoned crap this game is one helluva gem that should be cherished rather than hated.