RPGM - Completed - Rain's Rave ~The Girl Who Writhes Among Tentacles~ [v1.16] [mikotoshi-dou]

I actually played this quite a while ago but decided it's time to write a proper review. Rain's Rave is a game rather simple RPG focused entirely around tentacles and similar monsters. The game is rather short and quick to get to the point, not offering much in terms of story. It is implied(?) that most men in this world have been killed off creating a surplus of cute breedable girls, and there is some explanation for the tentacle's biology, but nothing is very deep. There's not much in terms of corruption after the opening scene, instead Rain starts out the game having been deflowered and is now permanently lewd. Honestly it's a little baffling the guild doesn't see any issues with sending her out on further quests after that transformation. A lot of the systems aren't exactly immersive, and require you to accept that you're just playing a porn game. Why for instance does a girl who starts out with a basic set of armor craft herself a schoolgirl outfit?

The game has a selection of difficulty options. I found "Hard" to give a decent challenge in the early game encounters, but it gets grindy when you get further into the game. Meanwhile "Very hard" will have the most basic enemy 1-shot you at level 1. And yet there is still an option beyond that. Difficulty can be lowered after starting a run but not raised again. Honestly doesn't seem very planned out. Different available skills and damage types do create some semblance of tactics in the game not making it a pure matter of grinding though. The game does also have it's occasional bugs but nothing that breaks it completely.

The artstyle is quite cute which I like. some side characters are lolis. Where the game really shines is in the sheer number of variations of the character portrait for Rain and its scenes. There are a number of lewd status effects, being drenched in semen, breast expansion, etc. combined with the different outfits for Rain, creating so many combinations you likely won't see most of them in a run. It's actually stunning how much effort must have gone into this area and it almost feels wasted on an otherwise so-so game.

Turnbased combat RPG Game, with town exploring, mid battlefuck.
The game has the H-counter, no virgin status.
Uhh... the H-scene during combat triggers almost everytime. So it felt stale.
The gameplay is... Enemy encounters are like hell, they popped almost everytime you walks, good thing there's an item in the game to fix that. and The final boss is annoyingly challenging.
There's a clothing system in the game and im saying like tons of them, i haven't tried them all yet, but that's a lot of clothes.
The character design is Ok but it lacks of expression.
The story is between not so good and not so bad... just try it yourself i guess.

One of my favorite h games, with this being better than the sequel in a lot of ways, with a lot of added content and story. This has been machine translated, but the translation is actually really good, the game should tell you clearly where to go, the npc citizens update their dialog, no japaense characters left over anywhere.


For lovers of the pregnancy / birth fetish, this is a rare game, i'd give it 100 stars if i could

One of the my favorite game about preg and tentacles. Maybe a little bit small but if you are a fan of such content you will enjoy it for sure. But if you're not into such /d/egeneracy you'd better keep away from it

One huge negative for me on this game is the ridiculous frequency of random encounters. I am serious when I say that less than 3 feet from one encounter you can run into another "invisible" enemy. This gets extremely tiresome. I am a very stubborn person and tend to try to finish games even if aspects of them annoy me, and I did manage to finish the game. However, if you don't like running into enemies every few feet skip this game!

ART:
Beyond what you can see in the screenshots the art does feel a little amateur. Most of it is quality enough to jerk off to, but some of it is almost embarrassingly bad. In particular, the first tentacle scene you can encounter after the prologue shows Rain's one breast swinging past her arm in a very unnatural way with no other indications of movement, and her arm tapers way too much, which happens in more scenes than that.
There's also frequent bugs where Rain will appear pregnant/inflated in the cut-ins when she's not. A similar problem applies to the standing image in combat: She doesn't change her look between swollen/unswollen until the turn is over, when it should change the moment her body gets implanted.

GAMEPLAY:
Solid. The most relevant thing I think you ought to know is that you can willingly surrender to any enemy to view a sex scene instead of fighting it. This works as a way to push through the random encounters, though alternatively you can also escape with 100% chance on anything but bosses and some hornets (which I think is, ironically, a bug). You have to fight the bosses to progress the story though. I think it would have been better with the "give up" option replacing the "run" option instead of having both.
One of the main things that brought me to this game is my insatiable impregnation fetish, and I wasn't disappointed. There's womb parasites for eggs, larvae, tentacles and slime, cum inflation, double swelling, giving birth to an NPC, giving birth to usable items, lactation, and even breast parasites. On top of that, you can wear costumes that prevent pregnancy effects on breasts and belly separately, so if you don't like one broad group of effects, you can basically turn it off. I only wish you could customize it in an even more specific way because, for example, I love seeing a girl lactate but I'm not into nipple penetration or breast parasites, and I'm sure others have similarly specific preferences. Also, preventing these effects doesn't stop the combat event that causes them: "Rain's nipples are being laid full of eggs!" [cut-in of said event] "Ahhh, so good~" [nothing happens to her breasts afterward]

STORY:
Not bad- that is to say, there's not much in the plot that will turn people off after the prologue. Rain, a "Bouncer" or professional adventurer in a seductively generic porno-fantasy setting, gets captured by a tentacle monster who rapes her and turns her into a seedbed to give birth to its monstrous larvae. Eventually she somehow escapes, but not after her mind and body have been permanently made more erotic by all the aphrodisiac slime and countless orgasms she was forced to have. The rest of the story is her going on quests for the Bouncer Guild and there isn't much sense of a main conflict other than "monsters exist." There's one erotic event that seems almost required to progress, although allegedly it's possible to beat that boss without getting fucked, but if you've gotten that strong, nothing else in the game will challenge you after that. As I said briefly under "gameplay" you do give birth to an NPC at one point if you get fucked by that boss, and the character rapidly ages to the human equivalent of about 10, but there are no erotic scenes featuring her.

Overall pretty good. After coming back to edit my reviews to comb through and make sure they comply with a rule I wasn't aware of, I haven't played this game again, but I can definitely see myself coming back to it. I play this game every now and then. When I'm having trouble jerking off this one'll straighten me out real quick, just have Rain-chan throw off her panties and run defenselessly around a field of whatever monsters I find most palatable at the time. Mmm, that's good rape.