RPGM - Completed - Reborn Island ~Cuckold Play and the Shape of Love~ [v1.01] [Avantgarde]

Avantgarde ntr game in 2025
What else is there to say? It's alright, not good, not that bad. It still has annoying jrpg sections between h-scenes, but at least you can skip battles now.
You know, with time avantgarde fell off, it's like they get worse with each game. Scenes are alright I guess, but ntr progression is too sudden. They don't make it like they used to...

5 / 10
v1.01
Good-ish JRPG. Bad sex game.

The story and character progression [outside of sex scenes] is pretty good - definitely above average. Engaging and makes you want to know 'what's next', how it all would end. What other twists the author has prepared.
Characters are not one note either - they have history and internal contrast.

Also, surprisingly good combat system - mostly because all enemies have different immunities, resistances, and weaknesses. So you need to be flexible. BUT none of your characters have access to all the tools.
So sometimes MC needs to act as DPS, sometimes red-head.
Sometimes MC needs to act as secondary support - and sometimes red-head.
And that is in the context of you having non-infinite skill points - so in your skill tree you need to plan, prioritize, and... well, CHOOSE.
Engaging.

Now the sex stuff...
Art is great.
Sounds during sex is good.

Everything else is bad.

Vanilla sex is bad by default - simply because MC was chosen to be a tiny dick boy, that is passive in the bad. AND it's not like girls will dominate the femboy either - they are no better than him.
No one's good at sex in vanilla.

And NTR is a rushed mess.
One moment, the girls cutely love MC with all their heart, wanting only the best for him - because he helped them to achieve their dreams. And the next, they act like the most disgusting and depraved villains of the whole story. Enjoying hurting him in every way possible.
Their reason?
I shit you not, they literally talk MULTIPLE times that the ONLY reason for it is 'the cock is big'.
I didn't see such bad writing in a while.

In total, there's like 2, maybe 3 OK-ish sex scenes in the entire game.
Disappointing.

I can't help but compare this game to Fox girls never play dirty and see a downgraded version of it...

I want to start at least with the positives, the art. heroines and vanilla part of the game are pretty fine, in fact the vanilla side could be a standalone game had it had more scenes. The plot itself is fine, a simple hero's journey and so are the vanilla endings... but now lets jump into the bad.

You know what makes a NTS/NTR game way better? Having a nice amount of vanilla content at your choice, because then it makes what's coming feel more impactful, and even better? if your choices, pacing and actions affect how things evolve, we had a glimpse of that in previous avantgarde games.
Sadly here that improvement in the vanilla side is wasted in a streamlined late game NTS/NTR sequence of events (this time you wont even see a difference between NTS and NTR) .

In the Fox girls's game you had different cities full of fun and casual sexual events that could start shaping the heroines and the way you wanted everything to go, you could just have casual sex around, evade combats whoring the girls... etc. Here all the NTR/S content kinda is put together in a single NPC in a single small village with almost 0 freedom.

I still enjoyed the game because the quality of the art and the vanilla part of it, but the NTR and NTS, supposed to be the main selling point are a downgrade from previous games, and the improved vanilla side is wasted with this structure of NTR/NTS.

Honestly another great NTR game from Avantgarde, while the overall NTR could of been improved by taking it slower the scenes are really hot.

Here's my overall thoughts:

Story: Pretty generic but doesn't drag on and isn't bloated like some RPGm games I've played.

Art: Art is perfect as expected of Avantgarde, I guess you can give a demerit for censorship but it's unavoidable with Japan.

NTR content: NTR content is added sort of like a side story and is completely optional, I loved the scenes for NTR but would of preferred if the corruption happened a little bit slower.

Length of the game: 4-5 hours, it doesn't drag on too long with the combat and combat can be completely skipped if need be.

gameplay: typical RPGm gameplay, not too much grind and most bosses can be beaten by spamming the same moves over and over again so pretty braindead.

Translation: Decent, while not perfect it's 1000x better than braindead google translate that we all had to suffer through for many years, some grammar mistakes and misgendering but overall 100% readable and you probably won't notice.


Overall: It's exactly what I want from an NTR game, and I got exactly what I was expecting so no major complaints to be honest.

Oooh… boy. I am a major fan of the Avantgarde’s art style. The slow changes to the woman’s bodies, the huge tits (and small tits) the crotch tattoos, nipple piercing and so forth. I loved most of Loretta’s New Job and the game with the three demon girls in it, even if one was a almost entirely NTR game, and the other a straight love through sex game. I even was alright with the utter grind that was the Furry Girls Never Betray game, even if I wasn’t a fan of how much of the game’s h-scenes were based on prostitution and losing battles to your enemies.

With that being said, this game is by far the worst of the Avantgarde games for me. It honestly feels like two different games badly merged together. The reason for this is simple: The NTR and NTRS are not only joined together, but do not have any impact on the overall plot.

But, you say, there are multiple endings. Yes. There are. But beyond your relationships with the girls, nothing changes. You are still a servant of the demon King Belial let loose to gather magical energy, you still fight him (unless you turn that off) and everything else. I DO NOT LIKE THIS. The most important part of a NTR/avoidable game is that your choices should impact the overall plot. It doesn’t. It doesn’t even really impact the RPG game play all that much. I could be wrong on this point because by the time I went back to play through the NTR/S portion of the game, I had hit the level cap (also a sucky thing) and just turned off the combat because I was bored of it.

Worse, the endings where one girl is stolen and the other is not, when you sacrifice one essentially for the scenes? There’s no difference. The game acts as if you were only with that one girl. The only one that has a difference is the double stolen ending, where Lioness (WHY that name?) comes in and puts down Belial. Now, that one I approve of, sort of. For the NTRS fans, I think it works well.

But again, the inclusion of the NTR/S happens so late in the game, and doesn’t really feel like it impacts the overall gameplay. Worse, the NTR and NTRS are joined together, as mentioned above. Riku needs to not only be in a relationship with the girls, but then consciously send them out to play with Lioness.

Why both girls with one guy? There were at least two other characters they could have gotten with from the hero division. Have Mira get with the second in command or the guy who turns out to be a traitor.

Six choices. You have to choose to allow NTRS six times before it goes too far. Now, you can find other scenes between those scenes around the place. That aspect is fine. But those scenes don’t impact the overall decline of the girl’s affection for you.

Then we go into the NTR scenes, the scenes where your girl has fallen entirely for the man. Oooh… boy X2. These scenes almost all remind me of the worst from Loretta’s New Job. They aren’t about one man proving he’s a better lover, as the best NTR is. Rather its about degradation and corruption. Now, if these scenes were linked to the NTRS I suppose they would make sense. Riku would enjoy seeing Sienna/Mira being abused like that by other men.

BUT. There is no difference between the NTR and NTRS. If Lioness was keeping the girls to himself, training them himself, actively stealing them or if they were actively seeking him out because of hypnosis or Big Dick Energy and you could get in the way of that rather than help it along, that would be NTR. Instead, Lioness just… shares them out. And they go along with things because they have fallen for him. Nope. Makes no sense, doesn’t impact the RPG side of things at all bar the clothing.

So, we have a game here that has interesting gameplay – the battles get repetitive, but the maps are okay for the most part and the overall plot is kind of interesting, with the girls falling in love with Riku being quite… cute, and full of comedy and ups-and-downs. The love type h-scenes are well done, although you can’t get the girls pregnant, which is a bit eh, but considering you were a dog demon before Belial changed you and gave you power might be a good thing.

Then we have the NTR/S stuff. Where you either go into it and then stop before the final hurdle, or don’t and nothing changes either way from then on.

It feels like this was written by four different people, and then everything was mashed together without really considering that separating them and following along different paths would have been better.

Overall grade:

Gameplay: 3/5. RPG elements get repetitive, but the various weapons and effects are nice. You can turn off combat. Decent progression and easy to understand the overall flow. Can’t change between girls you see as you’re walking around. Can’t interact/flirt with the girls except in set scenes.

Story: 4/5 and 1/5. The actual story is interesting, flows well and has some actual comedy. The NTR/S inclusion is so ham-handed it’s horrible.

Graphics: 4/5. As usual for an Avantgarde game. Can’t change their clothing unless they’ve been Lewded up. Big miss there.

Characters: 3/5. Riku is… okay. Sienna is… okay. Mira is kind of the best of the three because she feels as if she’s an actual character, even if she’s got some Dues Ex Machina stuff going on. Lioness (why?) is actually an interesting character with ambitions and plans going forward, plus a moral code that he is willing to bend like a normal person. But this all seems to be unimportant when it comes to the NTR/S stuff.

Sex scenes: 2/5. The vanilla scenes are cute. The NTRS is okay, but harmed by how they are activated. The NTR… is barely existent and piggybacks on the NTRS so much it is very blurry where one begins and the other ends, which is deliberate and harmful to the overall gameplay.

Total: 17/30 = F.

It seems like a generic harem RPG, and in part, it is. The content is clearly more focused on the netorare - Netorase content , but to access it, you have to talk to the innkeeper, and it's treated as an unmarked side quest.

The content itself is strange. It's not bad, but it's clear that midway through development, the developer changed direction, and the formula doesn't quite come together.

Pros:
-Great Art

Cons:
-Tideous Gameplay

-Boring Story

-Monotonously Verbose

Conclusion

A weak game from the fabulous Avantgarde, I expected much more from them after Amelia Blanchette. Unfortunately, the game is tedious, the story boring, and the heroines are never really in danger unless you actively ask them to be. I was hoping for a game closer to Amelia Blanchette, but instead, it was a generic H-JRPG with beautiful Avantgarde art.

very good ntr game, starts out vanilla and youre given the option to go into nts progressing into ntr. i have leveled the three protagonists to lv 50 twice now and done a pure vanilla run and a ntr run, both well with good voice actors and good art. it is a porn game so dont expect insane lore drops or story telling but it is decent enough with what it has. although it has vanilla aspects, vanilla knights might not appreciate that most of the good art scenes imo, is in the ntr/nts category. feeling like the ntr heavily out plays the vanilla aspect which is fine and good since the title of this game literally says cuckold play.

5/5 would recommend for vanilla/ntr/nts people
is this the best ntr game ever? no.
is it better than some other ntr slop? yes.

Personally it's a good game, with many noticable flaws. So i'll break it down into several sections/parts (it contains minor spoilers).

NTR: The NTR aspect of the game feels shoehorned. It's the typical "i added NTR because it sells well". So don't go into expecting some incredible build-up because the NTR route is entirely optional, in fact it's not relevant to the Story.

Story: Regarding the story it's really a matter of taste. Personally, i found it far more interesting compared to other Avantgarde games. One thing i can say about it you can tell they put strenuous amount of effort into it.

Gameplay: The gameplay is your typical Turn-Based Combat system,. There is not really much worthwhile to say about it beside how easy it to grind in the game.

H-scenes: A few of the H-scenes were erotically nice. Especially Mira's scenes were the best (Best girl by the way).

Endings: The endings are pretty much decent-ish.

A good game for fans of netorase, aimed at lovers of both big and small breasts.

Note: A complaint I've seen in other reviews stems from rushing through the campaign, namely getting flooded with sex scenes after hours of playing. In order to enjoy the game more, I'd recommend romancing the FMCs as soon as possible, and going for the optional netorase paths straight away (if you want that), as that then results in smoother pacing across the main campaign. There are several variations for every sex scene depending on the progress in the netorase paths, and branching into the netorare paths can block pure-love scenes, so that's something to keep in mind.

Features:
- Two FMCs: A busty priest who's hornier than she cares to admit, and a sexually more liberated tomboyish-redhead.

- Pure Love: Routes with both girls, with a set of vanilla scenes for the MC and each girl. Scenes have variations in dialogue that depend on the girl's affection, and each scene has at least one variant for seeing it a second time. It is possible to romance both girls in the same playthrough, with unique dialogue and scenes when they find out about it.

- Netorase: Entirely optional. Requires establishing a bf/gf-relationship with the girl(s) for the feature to get unlocked by talking to the innkeeper at night. This allows the MC to lend the girl(s) to a hero-type character, who is sort of the antagonist in the story, albeit not an evil character but a leader of one of the hero squadrons fighting demons/evil influences.

The scenes are well-written, most of them have a decent length and include "reports", with the girls giving the MC a handjob while reporting what they did with the hero. Comparisons between the MC and the hero are a focus of several scenes. The netorase paths escalate over time, leading to a crucial point of no return. The player can then stop the cuckolding play or opt to continue, in which case it turns into netorare.

Each netorase path has its own set of "main scenes" that progress the girl(s) affection towards the hero, and a set of shorter sub-events that unlock at various points in town.

- Netorare: Entirely optional. Requires actively picking the option to continue the cuckolding when prompted with the option to stop. Continuing results in complete corruption and losing the girl(s) as girlfriend. The netorare paths have additional scenes in town, and also special scenes after clearing the story chapters (including threesomes of both FMCs with the hero, if you let them both get stolen away).

- Pregnancy: The hero can impregnate the girl(s). This can be avoided by buying "female condoms", or by not escalating the netorase play too much. It's possible to keep playing in a pregnant state, and to initiate a sort of magic childbirth ritual (no birthing CGs).

- Sex Stats: The player is provided a good assortment of sex stats, including numerical counts of each sex act, amount of cum that the girl(s) received, a list of their various first times (first kiss, first blowjob, first sex partner, first pregnancy), name of the best and worst sex partner, a panel with the FMCs thoughts on the player and the bull, several visuals depicting the development of breasts, pussy and womb, and a set of special titles that can be unlocked, ranging from "MC's Girlfriend" to lewd titles like orgasm addict.

- Clothing System: The equipment screen features additional slots for the FMCs clothes, and these can be freely removed or changed (changes the standing picture and the ingame sprite, and causes reactions from other NPCs). Progressing the netorase paths unlocks lewd lingerie and a lewd outfit variant for each girl.

- Customizable Visual Corruption: Visiting the clinic in town allows the player to modify the visual cuckolding-degree of the girl(s), like removing hickeys, lewd body writing or piercings.

- Pixel Sex: There are a couple of sprite-based pixel sex animations, like the girl(s) masturbating at night while thinking about the MC (or the bull), or having sex with the bull in town.

- Turn-based Combat: No combat sex or harassment. Classic RPGM-combat, with added skill acquisition and free respec options for every character. There are also optional areas and bosses of higher difficulty to discover. Equipment and items are for the most part serviceable, coming in various tiers (different item colors / rarity). There's also a monster log listing stats and weaknesses of each enemy. All combat can be skipped, if so desired.

- Reminiscence Room: Includes all non-pixel-sex scenes and ending scenes, with an option to pick the scene variant if a variant exists. Scenes have preview thumbnails making it easier to rewatch desired content.

- Branching Paths: Seven different endings, covering all NTS/NTR/Pure Love variants.

Personal Notes:
All in all, the game surprised me in a positive way. Other reviews would make it out as a bad experience, but for fans of the kinks it offers a worthwhile time. The fact that NTS and NTR, and even romancing the girls at all, is optional is nice, same as the freedom of choice in regards to the girls' visual corruption. I personally really enjoyed the many dialogue variations in scenes, depending on the cuckolding progress.

Furthermore, while pregnancy isn't a focus of the game, it's also greatly enjoyable to have the feature exist, and even more so to be allowed to walk around in a pregnant state.

The game definitely had potential to be even better, though since NTS isn't nearly as common as plain NTR (and since I enjoy the optional branching of one into the other), I'm happy with what I got.

Lastly, a short rant: For almost every NTR game, people ask "is NTR avoidable?" - Now, in this game NTR is entirely avoidable as it's optional content and yet people in the reviews complain about it being optional. And to the people saying it's bad that NTS/NTR isn't part of the main story: It is part of the main story, as the NTS/NTR progress alters dialogue and story-related sex scenes (like the MC getting denied by the FMCs on a challenge in the Castle of Trials). Games with forced NTR content -> People complain. Games with optional NTR content -> People complain. Really impossible to satisfy folks.

Not a masterpiece, but good.

Terrible game
Extremely repetitive and boring grind like most rpgm, pizza’s cg is the only saving grace for this game but even then the cg scenes are bland at best along with the characters. If you like Ntr this game will disappoint you,it tries to give three kinds of demographic NTR2NTS/vanilla and it fails all of them NTS turns into Basic NTR so it has no point in being there and vanilla is just soo damn boring with the most basic story line. Probably one of avant’s worst games. 2/10 just load up a full save for the cg it’s not worth playing or paying.

Honestly a wasted potential. Game satisfies neither vanilla nor NTR players, your 1670th RPGM game turn-based hack and slash with better than average CG. 5/10

- Vanilla route was quite underwhelming, story follows the band of MC beating monsters and rescuing the land for the millionth times, wins a harem of two busty ladies who somehow just lays into his cock.

Similar on the NTR route as well, everything is just put there for uhm "muh NTR sells". The pacing is absolutely horrendous and everything is rushed, leaving no suspense at all for the gradual progression of the cheating part.

Meh.

While I like the design of the girls the most out of all of their games thus far, the actual scenes and corruptions are pretty boring. Like Amelia, there wasn't much foreplay. You'll be starved of scenes for 1 hour, then suddenly, start banging. Then there's like, 13 more unique CG scenes for each girl including the netorase scenes, and they're all very similar.

The rest of the game feels in similar vein, like it's 1 steps forward, 2 step back. The map design is much better. 1 compact city, so all events are easy to find. Dungeons have themes and mechanics to mix up, making each one a tiny bit more interesting. However, the game is mostly barren large maps, so majority of the game is just walking in straight lines. Stories is just similarly as dull. There's a mystery, but it doesn't matter though. There's alot of characters, but they don't matter though. There's a long build up for lord SilverTiger corrupting the girls with his humoungous dongonodongous despite their undying love, but given that the girls basically became subservient by 2nd NTS scene, it didn't really felt like corruption. Infact, the male MC felt like he was the one getting corrupted.

Reborn Island is not as creative as Amelia, nor is it as easy of a fap as demon harem. Corruption is still crowned by Elf wife, and exploring the world of Fox girl had better reward. Heck, even the Princess game had a stronger core game identity, so I found it a more memorable time, despite it being a technically inferior game.

So, I would say, "Meh is the right word for it

After go full blow of this game, i would say this game is pretty mid with nothing special.
Good point: The art is gorgeous !! and there are some fetish i love (sorry kinda bias) such as piercing nip, tattoo...

Bad point: oh boys, there are so many.
1> This game can't even decide where is its main route, either go full Vanilla or straight into the NTR hole. Because of that, both of its routes are half-baked, where most scenes are in NTR routes. However, the only NTR available is by getting your Female Characters go roleplay NTR with 1 single guy in that city through a 5-6 hours of gameplay. why... Just why ? At first, it can be pretty fun, but after some events, it got bored pretty quickly, there are nothing new beside letting the female characters meet him every night.

2> To stronger the previous point about how bad the NTR route in this game, i must spoiler something, there is a cult that have a shady leader with shady looking followers (they wear lewd clothes to be honest), there's an elf with dark magic and even a guy that look exactly like a demon. Those characters are one of your boss and side quests. The dungeon is said to have some lewd traps too. I was so excited to think one of the MC would fall into some lewd trap become one of the boss minions (you know, like got a lust tatttoo, got mind controlled into a cult or even got mind broken by dark magic like 90% OF CORRUPTION H-GAMES)...Heck, even 1 of the quest even tell you to sneak into a shady church at night for information (you know?? 1 female MC can sneak into that church, got caught and got mind controlled ? --> BOOM NTR events).... YET the DEV throw all those ideas out of the windows, just let you go through the dungeon with some hentai trap that DID EXACTLY NOTHING TO THE GAME, defeat those "good set up" bosses and voila, we wont ever see them again... WHAT A WASTE POTENTIAL

3> IF you thought NTR route is bad, then go to the vanilla route, it's worse. The MC is so bland that even his face isn't available, there's no set up, no story or anything, 2 MC just "magically" fall in love with the MC through the "hard" journey. WTF is that set up, even the brain dead romance K-dramas these day can write a story better than that. And spoiler: there's no pregnancy event if you go through Vanilla route, those only for NTR routes which isn't good neither.


TLDR: This game isn't that good despite its goreous cover. The scenes are well drawn but that's it. Nothing special about the story or gameplay, heck even DEV knew about it and let you an option to just skip through all the battle shit.
Also: There's no defeated H-scenes so i suggest just skip through the RPG battles things