RPGM - Completed - RaiOhGar: Asuka and the King of Steel [v1.04] [GapTax/Kagura Games]

Double POV, PLUS guided corruption? YES please!

This game have a silent male protagonist, which you could self-insert (if willing to, idk & idc why would you tho). You could see what your partner is up to with the little H status tab and progression in the main menu. It gives a glance on what she's been doing behind your back. Also talking to the many residents reveal their actions with your partner.

Another POV is from the female protagonist, which is the main focus since most scenes are from this POV. H status tab is changed to which primary men have corrupted you. While the another POV shows limited information, this POV gives you firsthand experience.

Scene variation is great, mainly hidden sex. It's also reflected in the battlefield with her guiding you through video.

The game limits what you can see in a day, so going to sleep doesn't feel like you're wasting time/missing out. Sleeping is also the way to replenish the mecha's mana.

Such a gem! Worth trying!

This NTR game is one of the first few I've played and is quite underrated.
The art and storyline is quite good and not much boring moment.
Also quite long and there's many scene.
9/10 highly recomended.

Mediocre at best.

Pros

- Nice art
- Decent amount of scenes for such a short game

Cons

- RPG elements (battles and such) are very poorly designed.
- Next to no interaction between Kouta and Asuka
- Zero meaningful interaction between citizens and Kouta
- Asuka's motivation was poorly executed
- Corruption progression poorly executed
- Level design issues (town feels empty)

How it could have been improved

- Heroine motivation

Threatening Asuka that the photo would be exposed and immediately distributing it across the male population was an idiotic move.
Instead, it would be more reasonable to threaten a legal action that will jeopardize the mission (on the pretense of Makoto being underage) and distribute something innocuous instead of the photo itself (e.g. some business card). So the heroine cannot ask for help out of a sense of duty at first and out of guilt and shame after fulfilling some requests.

- Interaction between Asuka and Kouta and the heroine's corruption

The issue with many games of the NTR genre is that there is no tangible link between the couple that is being torn apart. It could have been a single woman and a random neighbor in all but name. There needs to be some more activities where Asuka shows that she loves Kouta but inside finds him lacking, which draws her more and more to the blackmailers. It would be easy to combine this with the depiction of the heroine's corruption - add more sex scenes between Asuka and Kouta where Asuka tries to introduce some of the things forced on her (anal, cosplay, etc) but is unsatisfied for various reasons.

- Interaction between Kouta and citizens

The main issue is of course Shizue. Seriously, knowing that a mayor is a pornstar and being unable to even talk to her? That's a wasted opportunity. It could have been easily made into another ending where Kouta is eventually invited by Shizue to the orgy to find out that Asuka is already there and actively participating.

- Battle stages

Either implement them properly or get rid of them at all, nothing to say more.

I'm not usually a fan of NTR, but this game does it right. The main character is super hot and there's many genres included in this game for all kinds of people. There's multiple routes so NTR is technically avoidable, but you'd be missing out on most the scenes. Definitely going to replay this at some point!

Amazing art and the battles are super short, barely taking away from the gameplay. Great milfy body type on the women in this one and a decent amount of scenes.

The maps are reasonably sized and with easy quick travel. Even the gallery has clear unlock conditions for scenes, keeping it super simple.

interesting concept. not so good execution of this concept

first of all H-scenes: usually still pictures (1frame). many many scenes are repeated among different characters to the point of it getting a bit frustrating + ofc boring. it is nearly all NTR. you can control the guy. every new day his wife gets abused/molested, you can explore some areas where it is happening, then you can control the wife and see how it's happening (you can switch them freely). this is executed a bit suboptimally but it's fine. but a bit too much running around to find scenes, but not it's not so bad, it's okay.

porn logic: this is where it starts to fall apart. since H-scenes are only 1frames, it has to rely on good text. but the writing and ppl's motivation is really really stupid. when i say 10year old level stupid im probably giving it too much credit. the wife catches a falling shota in the hot spring baths and get in a relatively compromising position (not THAT compromising) and someone takes a picture of it, sends it to every civilian in the city then all of them blackmail her to do increasingly more sex things. and she complies easily because they have this picture... then later in some routes there is more compromising material (like literally sex on camera after 2days...) just so she can avoid that initial shota picture.. it's really really stupid.

especially since she seems to forget every time that the picture exist so before every sexual harassment attempt they have to remind her.

gameplay: is really unsatisfying. very boring and bad. you get reward only from boss, meaning you just have to run past all enemies. boring. with wife it's event hunting. again, boring. running around. the town is not so big and nearly every place there will be some events, even if it's not the main route. (there are 4 main antagonists who has detailed harassments, for others it's just newly repeated scenes)

what i really like in this game is that with the husband you can go around town, talk to everyone, and you can view that guy's sex stats. and see how many times they did what to your wife. and every time they usually have some personalized inner thought about your wife according to the current escalation. honestly this made me give it more than 1-2/5 rating because it gives immersion that you are cucked out of your mind. so it's a unique experience.

but honestly the porn scenes are mediocre, art is mediocre, premise is really good, execution (writing, story, scripts, choreography) is altogether mediocre and sometimes bad, gameplay is bad. it deserves less than 3/5 but uniqueness of it can give some ppl a good experience so that's why 3/5 is justified imo.

Its been a while so coming back because I forgot to review it, but holy shit was this one of the hottest NTR games I've played. Great corruption of the heroine and tons of hot scenes. Gameplay that doesn't get in the way too much. I redownload this sometimes to replay or just watch the scenes again which I never usually do.

Decent game. Best routes ever with nice endings. This is my fav kind of art and ntr. Wish dev makes more soon. Also this game has good outfits and great corruption. Not like those games where FMC is corrupted in two steps
A must play for anyone who is into ntr and different endings.

In real it's 4.5 but we have only 4 and 5 here. Author do many good stuff in last version and exploring in the game is good, good and interesting endings for this genre, good arts. dialogs good too. Mb need more interaction with male hero.

RaiOhGar: Asuka and the King of Steel [v1.04] [GapTax/Kagura Games]
Once started the game looked promising but ended up being yet another copycat game.

The battle style looks promising at the beginning, but in the end it's 0 strategy and it's a simple avoid all enemies to get to the boss.

Asuka has an aesthetic that I liked, although she has all the elements that have never blown my mind, but on Asuka they work.

Gameplay is just talk to everyone with Asuka, change character to Kouta and go robot mission, end day, repeat ad every day.

Recommended but not to complete, play and see some scenes, the art style is decent.

A really good NTR game with a few different endings. You can both rush through it or take it slow to fully explore everything.
Art is great and isn't a hassle to get to.
Story is cool if you're looking for that.
Oh and the translation is great.

Very good game. Art is very good and the scenes are amazing. Ive never played a mech lewd game and I enjoyed this a lot. Very easy to obtain the scenes (Good) and the scene quality is very good. Im not a huge fan of NTR in general, but this game does a good job. Pretty depraved which is good. 9/10

Personally I think this is the best NTR game on this site. I really enjoyed this. I heard something bad about the gameplay and yes.... it is kinda true. But the gameplay part does not take a lot of time and after the corruption increases the gameplay is really important since Asukas reactions and suggestions change radically.

The most mid games i have ever played , it doesn't excel at anything ye nothing is bad
Gameplay : easy , no grind , and so unimportant that is shocking why they have putted in the first place
Story : No bullshit and it is just a simple blackmail story not very well written either
Art : Decent , CGs are not that good and they are repetitive

Long story short : get a full game save and watch the CGs , there is no gameplay to miss out

The combat is so bad and unimportant it might as well have been left out. With that said, the game is easy to progress. There's quite a few repeat CGs but they're all nicely made, and the protagonist being a swole redhead is a big plus. The story is brain-dead but that's how all NTR stories are so... nothing out of the ordinary there, "lets go around fucking every cock in town so that I don't have to discuss an awkward yet easy to explain situation to my boyfriend and hurt his feelings." 3000 IQ plot, it's up there with the tales of Hemmingway.

I want to give this 4 stars but the game itself isn't as good as it could be despite having the potential.

First and foremost, the art and erotic content is amazing. The art is what attracted me to this game in the first place. It looks like a professional tier eroge and the erotic variety is on par as well.

The gameplay though, it's pretty so-so. There's a good concept here where you can play the female and the male separately, and if you want to be a cheating whore you can do that or if you want to simulate a netorare experience you can play the guy. This system works perfectly.

The bad part of the gameplay is how mundane the entire living situation is. There's not really much to do aside from unlocking scenes in the town. Talking to certain characters does unlock certain endings, but even that is fairly flat. Aside from four characters (including the playable ones) almost every character is flat and generic.

The story is so dumb it's laughable. To summarize, the villains decide to occupy an island and your protagonists are sent in to stop them. The hilarious thing is despite the female character being a hero and trying to save these people they still try to corrupt her. Imagine if you're critically injured and there's only one doctor who can save your life, but you end up stealing money from him which upsets him. The guys on the in game island are so dumb they're willing to corrupt our heroes just because one of them is super hot.

Overall, I did enjoy the game despite it feeling somewhat flat. There's roughly 3-4 hours of content in this game, but you'll probably play much longer to see the different endings. The art is also gorgeous.

Worth a shot.

Alright let's do this review. Ok this is an NTR game 100% and you cant avoid it. So aside from that I give this a 5 out of 5 based on my personal enjoyment of the game. I know I give out 5 out of 5s in just about every game but its because I really enjoyed them. (See my profile for more explanations)


Story - 5 out of 5
The story is pretty straightforward. Corruption routes are great and its not too slow and the development is great all throughout. The overarcing plot is magnificent to say the least.

Characters - 5 out of 5

The NTR characters are also great. Love each individual has a diff way of corrupting the MC. Also there are side characters too which is a major surprise for me and they also have their own unique dialoge.

H Scenes - 4 out of 5

H scenes are great, wish there were more variety in each scenes though but overall its fantastic. Wish there were more lesbian scenes or 2 girls GB by guys but I didnt deduct the point for that.

Gameplay - 5 out of 5

Easy game also 0 grind. You can cheese the enemies if you want. Point and click no puzzles and getting the scenes are pretty straightforward.

Improvements:
Here are just a list of QOL improvements and suggestions I would like to see in their future games though I doubt they'll read this haha.

1) Again the skip scenes or a scene selector mode similar to Treasure of Nadia but appears at the start. Maybe the options goes like, play as normal ; scene 1; scene 2 etc ; END

2) More threesome or Harem stuff - now this is more fetish based but I like threesome incest etc

3) More fetishes - like am a foot lover so IDK personal preference, add more fetishes, BDSM etc.

4) Last and this might be hard, increase the H scenes or scenario without decreasing the quality or shortening the time.

I've played many RPGM games, including a lot of Kagura ones, and sadly this is among the worst despite a good setting.

Combat and how scenes are obtained are the bulk of the game, and those are both really disappointing.

Starting with scenes; You just kinda walk around talking to random people because one guy took a completely explainable accidental picture of a person you just met with an erection in a bath and then told you to suck n' fuck dick, so you now just go out of your way to suck every dick in town, usually with the same boring scene as the last ones. With 7-8 mostly passable progressive and changing scenes from specific people. - Speak, sleep, speak, sleep, etc.

Combat is bare bones and generic RPGM with zero innovations and not even a reward for killing enemies other than the boss' scrap to get mech upgrades. Also, you get a total of 5 moves at max level. Literally pointless, I just ran past all enemies to the bosses, spammed Z and won, then all but the last one just teleport you back to your house and skip a day and tick a box. No cutscenes or anything of note.

It just feels old and dated, like they just made a town and put down some people-shaped markers to flag a scene, rather than actually think about the fact that people downloaded a game, not a boring picture book.

A great game with a solid amount of content. Watching the heroine's slow-ish-paced corruption from the DVDs is great and there is a decent amount of content for it. My only gripe is that in most of the paths the player doesn't confront the Asuka.

So, I've finally played RaiOhGar, a very famed NTR game and I've to say I'm kinda disappointed. I've played the other GapTax game called Agent Leona which is pretty much a prototype for this game, even the town layout and some scenario ideas are the exact same. And to my disappointment the devs didn't do as much they could've done with the idea and the premise imo.

The gameplay is standard RPGM fair, nothing unique or amazing about and it's kept simple which I can't really complain about. The story is also very stereotypical japanese NTR writing, you can even predict who's the bad guy and how the story will end (corruption ending) if you'r even slightly familiar with this specific style of cuckoldry writing.
Where the game fails is the scenario design/writing and the structure. First of half the the pre-ending scenarios in this game are mostly copy pasted with no major variation whatsoever. What you've seen in the first half of the game is what you will be seeing for the rest of the game for the most part with very slight variations. What changes is the dialogue as the heroine's corruption progresses. And this leads to to reusing of most of the CGs the game has to offer over and over again with very minor changes, which massively contributes to the repetitiveness of the game. As for structure the game doesn't have one and it makes the whole experience very disjointed. You just do random battles or the mech upgrade to pass the day and then go around house to house to interact and wade through boring NPC dialogue to see a CG that you've already seen 20 times before. And I'd rather not talk about the other female character and how much of a wasted opportunity she was with her lack of involvement in the story and mostly repurposed CGs for the few scenes she get. I should also mention that the main tool of her corruption which is a sensitive photo of her has no gameplay purpose. The NPCs use it as a leverage to blackmail the heroine and threatens with it which leads to her slow corruption but there's no consequence for not obeying them as the game just adds random numbers to her sexual interaction count as days progress, a very wasted opportunity for having branching paths or other endings, scenarios etc imo. Surprisingly the post game (corruption ending) content is pretty diverse if low. You get a few scenes but for the most part they aren't as repetitive as the rest of the content albeit with the aforementioned "going house to house and clicking on NPCs to see scene structure".

Playing two of their games it seems to me this is the structure and tier of writing one should expect from GapTax in the future since all of their games seems to follow it too. I honestly love the art and character design they do but the repetitiveness of their games keeps me from enjoying em. Wish I could write this review on DLsite instead or somewhere the devs could see. Even if the see and ignore the issues this may change their approach to design later on (hopefully).

As for recommendation, I'd say yes give it a try assuming you're aware of the NTR content but don't expect much from it.