RPGM - Renryuu: Ascension [v25.11.12] [Naughty Netherpunch]

What caught my attention in this game and made me try it were the many tags and themes in the game description, which I consider interesting and unusual. However, even after hours of gameplay, all I saw was administration, construction, and simulation of a medieval kingdom... with quite a few complicated mechanics, but only a few of them really have an impact on the game itself. I would say it's more of a management game than a romance game or even a game with adult content.


The "coincidence" of events that lead the MC to become king is absurdly unrealistic; he's simply in the right place at the right time, and nobody questions the situation.

For a game where the MC is supposed to be a king... he does all the manual labor for the entire kingdom... and invites other men to join the team even without the player's consent, and about 80% of the missions consist of fetching and delivering items to his servants... yes... the king is the one who obeys the vassals.


There are practically no animations in the scenes; the game is kinetic, and the sex scenes happen out of nowhere, from 0 to 100, without any character development. Even though the characters have distinct personalities, the relationship between them seems quite irrelevant, and the MC is a "kudere," a man of few words who prefers to let others speak for him.

The relationship system is somewhat empty and frustrating... gifts, earning points, and then the event happens out of nowhere without any build-up... a kinetic scene with no choices that lasts only a few seconds, and that's all we have in terms of relationship systems.

Honestly, there are enough red flags in this game to list them all... it could be a better game if it fulfilled its purpose of making the player feel like a dragon king with consistent relationships, but it doesn't, so that's why I don't recommend the game.

I come here to pirate.
I bought this game.

It's insane for how good it is and how many hours of content it has. Albeit, some of them will be spent on search for something, or moving across the map/cities, I say it's fine-e.


Things I want to praise this game for:
- I liked writing. The dialogues. It's not a Shakespear book, dammit, I expected fun, and it is fun. Especially unpredictability was to my taste, but as I read the reviews I found it's not the same for other people. Welp!
- I liked characters. There's a set of diverse main characters with their related quests (damn, even Brad with his random brawlings, a nice touch). There are a lot of side characters to screw around.
- I like story so far.
- I love CGs.
- There are A LOT of things to do.
- A LOT of girls to fuck.
- Skyrim has less quests probably, sometimes you want to finish one, but you get several more.


Certainly, there are some lacking areas:
- Some quests are made so you're either forced to use walkthrough, or must be lucky enough and exploring a lot. Sometimes the same places. Not everything from the dialogue will go to the quest log as well.
- RPG Maker limitations are kinda annoying too.


But if you're willing to look past this... I think it's peak CASUAL rpg. There are great rpgs out there, I could name a few, but this one is for light fun, and it just took a week of my lifespan, and it's going to be more than a week it seems.

I really recommend it. You try it, you lose nothing, and maybe you like it, so why not. Fun as fuck. 5/5


Maybe on my wishlist for this game I'd add:
- An option to move faster in the cities maybe?
- Instead of "Replay 1st scene" I wish there was a second, could be the same sprites. I just want the dialogue for them to be repeatable in a meaningful sense to have "Have sex" option instead of "Replay".
- More layouts for strategy battles for caravans, randomize between them each battle.


I felt like the dev poured out his heart into this. Holy shit this game respects player a lot.

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This game simply gets ruined by to many mechanics and absolutly no help for questing, it will just tell you go talk with X but you have 0 clue on where X is, theres also plenty of quests around to pick up but you wont know that its there since theres no ! on the NPC so you have to click on every NPC in the game if you want to pick up those quests.....its just an insane way of making a game.

The quests them self is the kind you love the most, go fetch.....the most boring kind possible...

Then theres the pointless sex scenes that just happens, you dont have a choice if you want it or not, so you hate a character or find them ugly as fuck then thats just to bad since itsa fuckfest game and even that is a huge boring grind where all you do is give LIs gifts and wait thats it...

As for the story about becoming a king its done in the worst way possible and you wont feel like a king in any way since your as the player arent in controle of anything, you accept anyone who wants to join your party, where would have loved to tell some people to fuck off instend but you arent allowed to do any such things, you just follow along and watch what MC does, so its not really a game when theres no player interaction with the story or relationships.
It dosent help that the writing is very poor and dialogs are extremly boring.

As for the girls its the typical huge tit fetish in many cases, the kind that looks idiotic and unrealistic., theres also way way to many girls so dev clearly thinks quantity is better then quality which results in only having a single sex scene with each LI, which makes relationships feel even more shitty since it has no real content with anyone.

And good luck if you aim to see all CGs theres so many where you need to do a multiple things/quests before getting to the CG and like i said ealiere you will have 0 clues or info on where to go or how to get there....

While animations is a mixed bag there also isent much that are animated, i would say its a 2D CG game and not an animated game.

Also i cant ignore the 9 years in development, normaly i would think it was a milking issue but it dosent have the supporters to be called that, which also shows just how bad the game is.

IF this game had quest markers telling people where to go it would improve the game ALOT and if there had been choices at the very least for relationships and if it had cut the number of LIs by 75% and made multiple quality animations for each LI then it could have been a top game.
How or why this is so highly rated i have absollutly no clue.

My main reason why I rated this so low is because of how unintuitive it is to play. 5 hours in and I give up and will look at a guide. A map or quest tracker would make this much better instead of having to find an NPC hidden away in a corner

Pros:

1. Game isn't afraid to experiment: The whole kingdom building aspect was fun, I liked that. But I have no clue what it's for because it's not the actual game.
2. Consistent art: Not ai generated but hand drawn art. Static images which I'm not picky.
3. Open world: You could be on a level 1 quest and take a wrong turn and you'll be facing level 20 mobs. Which you will do a lot if you play this without a guide. The entire map is open to explore right at the start. I like that, others don't

Cons:

1. Easy to get lost: With how many mechanics or people you have to talk to or places you have to go and with no map or ( ! ) markers...good luck
2. Annoying RPGM movement in menus. The ones where you move the cursor with the arrow keys to select things.
3. Everyone in the overworld look like they could be the MC. Its the default RPGM sprites, which makes it hard to know who is important especially since they're not marked

I'll update this review when I catch up with the story. If I ever do

I was surprised by the politics/simulation systems. it is really different from your usual adult game and it adds a lot to the project!

The diplomacy and construction mechanics are really funny to play with andthey add depth to the world and gameplay.

The art is good. Not perfect, but consistent and I really enjoyed the character designs, although some of the png arts do not mix with the RPG Maker backgrounds in a nice way.

I think this is a really promising project, the dev should be proud of it!

This is an absolute gem for RPG and AVN enthusiasts. Game brings great TRPG combat wrapped in a descent story that itches the RPG game loop. NSFW Scenes are great too and the amount of chice given to tackle problems is welcome.

With all that, I have to say the addition of the country management mechanic is a game changer. While a bit overwhelimg at first, once you get used to it, you get rewarded with a game that shows you a well developed fantasy world.

This game is a blast, and I highly recommend you get an android phone, or gaming handheld (I'm playing this on the ayn odin portal 2) because you can sink hours into it, and I do attribute lounging on a couch while playing to a good part of my enjoyment.

If you're a JRPG fan who loves anime tiddies, this is for you.

Good game with a story, and I love the artwork, and I need a longer story arc and have to see the other brother's point of view on why he is doing this. Would it be possible to include a hidden quest in the game where players must search for a person or beast-type trap?

Awesome king simulator with a lot of things to do and many characters to meet.I would like to see even more villages and NPC to meet and interact cuz this is the most fun thing for me to do. The main characters are great an funny and all have distinguish personality. 10/10 game for me.

+Plot/lore:


-Side characters: 50/50, there's some who directly impact the general plot, then there's other who speaks a lot but no even scene yet,

-MC: Have you wonder how a sandbox would feel from the playable character view? That's Ryen, sometimes is serius, sometimes a complete mo***, sometimes sweet and in others can ra- without a corruption check, I mean, I know some things as corruption/slutiness are more to female MC in part to enjoy the slow fire progresion, but c'mone, where's the check of "20" to be able to take some actions? Whatever, just hope he gains more plot/mind devolving in these time-skips acts, it feels like the history pass throw him rather than a character that reacts bc what's happening around him, nvm, porn game MC.

+Combat:

-Normal enemies: too easy, technically you can farm exp by killing monster plants near your door and then go slaughter bandits at the north of Dorgarian.

-Elite enemies; feels more like you need certain character to do it unless wanna fight hal hour, HP sponges? Seriusly?

-Bosses/Endgame: Did I mention how much I hate RNG? well then, how about a whole endgame based on RNG? jeez, skipping nature raid BTW, too much RNG even to me.

-Worldmap/Vangard: Did you recall how much I detest RNG? Bc of course the best way to improve your troops ought to be thieves's chests after a whole battle or a camel whith "who knows what it sells" mehcanics, and to make it even better, it is not that RNG affects your troops equipments, but items are required to even unlocks skills (lvl 10 max skill) or to even be able to ride a horse? Gold? Stable? Blacksmiths? Nein! Raw RNG! It's even beyond annoying.

+Scenes: it's no a pool but a sea of kinks, anal? check, orgy? check, ra-bondage? double check since bad routes, it even has necro if you considere vampires, jianhis and ghosts (no joke, a ghost girl), traps etc, sadly VA are expensice as heck but hopefully in the future AI can bypass the uncanny valley.

+Building: It changes more between versions than you or me change underwear, but speaking about the current version. . .

-Turns: Barely noticeables, no events around the map besides fire, no interaction out of war with other countries besides some commerce, in theory you could let slips 999 turns and nothing would happen, no game over, no rush event.

-Buildings: though it makes sense you have to devolve some tech to advance the tech tree (besides some missions as the factory requeriment) I wonder if we could actually build seize weapons or stone turrents before enemies are knocking the door, besides, defensive building only drags enemy army to a longer fights, there's no real damage to enemy army, just a "no moral debuff" to our own army by more tuns.

-"Council": Enough of seeing the same boring faces at your throne room to devolve the country? Good new, now you can see more boring faces at the world map, jokes aside, a few bonus (for example a defensive bonus at Red Keep if a commander is asigned) would be nice, it makes sense a country isn't sustained just by a few characters.

+A few minor points:

-Races: there's no clear point in what are "smart races", only monster(girls sometimes), or a between, I mean, there's orcs, ugly as ****, but then there's goblin girls? A few version ago draconics were included in daemon races, but now are similar to elves? there's capturable monstergirls who are smart enough, but only hellhounds or bee girls have something similar to building/tools???

-Tasks: TBH, you can marry Varea even before Chiyo yet they gonna speak as if chiyo is already married, then you have to see the wallthough to understand how to advance with certain character, and then you have to explote the whole map bc someone teleports out of nowhere to your dungeon! It feels like camp full of shells.

-Marriage: RNG again now with minerals/farming????????.

8'7/10

Renryuu: Ascension [v24.12.20]

TLR: Absoulte garbage, a perfect example of what happens when a dev focus only on more content and doesn't polish a single aspect of the game, not a single redeemable aspect, and that is incredible, since this game has so many mechanics and extra content, but not even 1 is decent, let alone good, all mediocre, all a waste of time, just garbage, get yourself a full save, watch all the CGs and move on.

It took me 36 hours to ''beat'' this incomplete garbage.; all Main cast marriages, almost every side marriage, all the ''end game'' challenges and almost all the extra content, i spend almost 40 hours on this and i didn't enjoy a single minute, the game is just grindy for the sake of being grindy, almost every mechanic has the objetive of wasting your irl time. let me give you an example, in one random segment you have to explore a cave, but every time you touch a boulder blocking your path you have to walk to the entrance to deposit that rubble you just picked up, now: Does this have a purpose?, no, it simply wastes time.

You have a fast travel system that is absolute garbage, you have a ''marriage'' system that is simply ''grind stones haha'' and don't get me started on how cryptic every quest is, EVERY SINGLE INTERACTION IN THE GAME IS RANDOM AF.

''well you see, to unlock the next part of the story for this character you have to finish this other character in a random building, oh but i forgot to mention, if you want to make her spawn you have to complete this 2 extra quests, and no, there will be no indicator or hints about this''

This game was so badly designed, so badly planned, so badly made, that you need the wiki to even play it.

The dev just added content for the sake of it, including but not limited to:

An element system in combat that doesn't work properly, your own stats do jack shit sometimes (150% accuracy and my archer misses 1 out of every 3 attacks)
A country management system that relies on your IRL time, but every time you pass a turn it defaults to waste all your turns in one click, and you get no benefit from this, so why is it in the game?, and it was so bad that you simply have a button that says ''cheat and get 100 points'', and i have to ask, if it is so bad that you implement a ''cheat'' WHY IS IT IN THE GAME.
A ''we have fire emblem at home'' with the worst strategy i have ever seen, not even a shadow of a challenge, and that translates to just boring and grinding battles, in this vanguard system 99% of battles are just a clicking simulator until it's over, but, the final battle in the game suddenly is extra hard, because the dev had the brilliant idea to throw hp sponges at you, ver fun, thanks.
The entire marriage system is ''we have evenicle at home'' but holy sh*t is so terribly implemented.
The pregnancy system sounds cool, but it has 0 payoff, no even a line of dialogue in the poorly excuse of an ''ending'' this game has (btw, there is still no ending, it's been >10 years and it's still not finished, but rejoice, we have a fishing mechanic where you catch useless items that you can just buy)

Speaking of buying, gold is irrelevant, the country manager just generates infinite money, and since the dev believes that 70% of quest must have the ''you have to buy this expensive item to progress'' mindset, this makes all of those quest irrelevant, and thats another issue, this game has almost 200 quests, 195 of those are fetch quests, enjoy.

i have an entire notepad full of everything this game does wrong, and now that i'm writing a review, it's simply not worth it, don't waste your time on this garbage, since its just that, a waste of time, and what a shame it is

RATING 2/5 (Would give a 1/5, but by virtue of quantity you get an extra star) honestly, just get a full save and see the CGS, the story is boring, the gameplay is horrendous and the entire game enjoys wasting the player's time. down to the trash it goes)

I can't get past the first five minutes of the game, I really can't, we start with a sex scene which is already quite jarring for an introduction to a game, a main character that is some sort of edgy tryhard design by an 11 year old, and is also probably a self insert by the author given that they have the same name, the fact that it is characterized both as some kind of detached tough guy and a playboy at the same time doesn't do him any favors in the likeability department, the gary stu schtick gets even worse with the cast figuratively and literally fellating him from the very first second, the excuse the plot gives you for him to become the ruler is *incredibly stupid and unbelievable* and makes the main character even less likeable (honestly him saying he wasn't the heir and the guards saying "shut up, we have bigger problems, you have the sigil, and since you're already some kind of god's gift to mankind according to everyone else you'll do", would have helped tremendously).

In short, the main character and the writing are so terrible I can't even make it to the management mechanics that seem to be the game's main focus, I genuienly can't.
And I thought Monster Girl 1,000's main character design and name were outrageously stupid, at least he's likable.

Been a while since I played this but it is easily one of the best games on the site. Good story, interesting mechanics game. Updates are very frequent as well. Overall I really recommend this game. RPGM doesn't really hold the game back imo.

Just starting the game but so far so good, the charachters are likeable, the art is quite good, the only gripe i could think of it's that as an rpg you might hive to grind to actually defeat the bosses and monsters, but if you have no problem with that this game will be quite enjoyable.

One of the classics of the adult RPG's! This game is old and the dev still active, so only that is enoung to give him the first two stars!
Abou the game, it's very good made, with good art, good mapping, nice puzzles and a new system that I had never seen on a RPGM game, the kingdom management and tatical battle. A very cool system!
The diplomacy is a nice thing too. The story is simple, but sustain the gameplay very well.
There a lot of grind on it, but mostly is not a "must do" to follow the story. The grind, as like in all RPG games, is to unlock more content. So it's ok.
The bad thing about this game, is that for some years it turned like a "testing project", with things not that cool, while the story was stuck. But happily it's moving foward again, and I just await good things from now on.
A sky full of stars!

For a game about becoming a king, this game drastically fails to capture the feeling of becoming a king.

Instead, the game puts the player in a very passive role for all but the most superficial grinding choices. Whereas when it comes to important things like relationships, you are given little control. Often just relegated to buying everyone's love by mass feeding gifts and waiting until they feel his highness is worthy of their linear fetch quest.

With a lack of more proactive/dominant options and an MC that rarely initiates anything, this game really does not do power fantasy well. And combined with the mismatched emasculating fetishes that cannot be properly avoided, the "becoming a king" theme falls entirely flat.

its so boring and nothing makes sense


in first 2 minutes you became a king and literally nobody respects you (not the kinky way) everybody talks to you like you are their friends.

Mc looks ridiculous with wings,management system doesnt make sense, tutorials doesnt make sense.

You are not given any option if you want to have sex with characters it just happens even if they are annoying or just ugly as fk


Companions joins you also without asking, you just accept anybody....

why even bother making this game if you arent gonna let me play it

I enjoy strategy/grand conquest games (Rimworld, Total War, Tropico). I love JRPGs (Persona, SMT, Legend of Heroes, Final Fantasy pre-13). I jack off to porn games (I'm here, aren't I?). I'm very well experienced in all of these genres. So, I'm sad to say that this game tries all of these things and doesn't do anything particularly well. Sure, on paper, it functions, but in practice none of it is very enjoyable.

In terms of being a JRPG, it's bog standard, with character personalities that hit you like wet cardboard. Character arts match with what I can only describe as "default". Add to this repetitive encounters in towns that could easily be way over your level because you dared try to wander around or explore, with quest level suggestions being a straight up lie (A quest will say it's level 1, but you'll get jumped by 2 level 10 dudes along the way), and it's all a subpar experience.

In terms of being a grand strategy game, it feels like someone made it with only a baseline understanding of what one is. Lets dump a bunch of numbers, stats, modifiers, and scenarios on the player while having an extremely cumbersome and unhelpful UI. It doesn't even feel good when you balance the numbers and get it right, it just feels like you ripped off a band-aid and now there's just a sting left over from the leg hair you pulled out.

In terms of being a porn game, well, it does alright. Characters are kind of bland visually, and their quality of H-scenes can vary between mid and decent, but there sure are a lot of girls.

It's pretty hard to recommend this game, but I do deeply respect the effort put in to try. Dual-genre games aren't made too often, and it's on display why that is here.

Creative mix of RPG and management that work flawlessly together, as well as rich content that allows to continuously discover new characters and events throughout the game.

The one downside was missing out on most events by the time I finished the main story. It still took over 30 hours and felt complete, which is the reason I would consider them ‘easter eggs’ for completionists that have the urge to spend another 20+ hours to find all the hidden gems.

What i likes bout this game is the games mechanic like fr i like this
Kind Of game when u rule a kingdom and got some features that u can control ur army or go war with another country it's so enjoyable to play even there's some grinding but that's fine the adults content is just like a bonus u feel me like that's making the story bout the games feels alive, like what kind of king that rule a fckin country that doesn't has a bitch right

The premise is pretty great. You come across the heir to the throne who was raised in secret when assassins take him out.
You kill the assassins and then steal his identity.

The execution is poor. Wide puddle lacking depth.
Dialog and plot is poor.
Art does not impress.
Too many token scenes instead of a focus on a couple of specific fetishes.
Bad combat.
Walking simulator.