RPGM - Residents of Evilville [v1.04] [Bondco Inc.]

Great game story wise. It has a lot of nice content and a lot to explore.
That being said it bugs out on a regular basis and needs some serious bug fixing. Its perhaps more of a 4* game so Im going to shift it in that direction by giving it a 5.

Great Art, yes there are bugs, but generally they are not too intrusive. Save often is always the rule of thumb for Ren'Py games... Story is good, especially if you have played the actual Resident Evil games and can get some of the inside jokes. Yes there is quite a bit of reading, but not too much in my opinion.

I have been following the development of this game for a lot of time and I'm happy for how it turned out. The CGs and the scenes are very very good, top notch for a bondage game. Some people dislike the designs of the characters because they look underage... I don't want to be rude but if you think that you have never seen a young adult woman. However the story is mediocre, some parts feel boring while others (like the ending) feel too rushed. There isn't any complexity and deepness to the story and the characters and the love relationship between the two main girls feels too rushed and kinda out of place. I did liked the jokes though.
The gameplay is not-existent, you just need to go from a place to another with some traps here and there. Some scenes are really difficult to get because of the enormous amount of bugs and glitches throughout the entirety of the game. I raccomend to save often.
Overall a mediocre game which is saved but the amazing art style and the veriety of scenes, but for me these are the most important so 3/5 stars.

I give it a 4, just cause of the art and quantity of scenes. There's a lot of porn here, but getting to it is just obscure, I went to the gallery after the game and realized i only got one Ada scene out of 3(4?). Also bondage isn't my fetish, but petite girls are so worked for me.

The 2nd day in the house is by far the most annoying, reading through all the text to find out what you should do is kinda hard cause everyone is an evil asshole for a character. It's really for the people who enjoy that sort of thing, kinda how i played curse of pleasure for the art, even though the NTR stuff creeped me out.

So the gallery is open from the get go, but it's not the CG so you will watch every scene there is. Dunno what else to say. you do get map markers for a lot of stuff so that helps. Also ran into a bug where you save a final fantasy girl, but couldn't exit the building, kept saying "i have to save x!", and the scene just repeated. So save often in different places.

You just need to look in my profile to know I am a huge fan of bondage. To be honest, as long as a game runs, if it's about bondage it is really hard for me to dislike it.

This however might just be the one and only exception, ever.

There are several reasons as to why this is the case, but first of all let me start with the most obvious one.

The story itself makes so little sense it's amazing. Now listen, this at the end is a DiD game so tbh I am never expecting much out of the story, just some nice bondage here and there and that's more than alright with me, but without going into spoilers...

Dumb shit keeps happening, over, and over, and over, and over again. The main character is one of the most annoying girls I have ever seen, plot needs her to be dumb, so she is dumb. Quite simple.

Don't expect much out of the other characters either, most of them act so weird it almost feels like all of them might be amongs the first documented cases of having no brain yet still being alive.

Frustrating things happen over and over again, not just story wise but also game play wise. Like the character being blinfolded, hands untied, but still somehow unable to remove the common blindfold...! Yup.

Humour is... Weird. Half the time it ain't funny, the other half it just straight up doesn't make sense. Like is a character being insanely dumb and ending up tied up again and again supposed to be funny? First time, maybe, when it happens about a billion times, not so much.

Remember when I say characters are dumb? Well, they are also bipolar! Sometimes they act submissive, next second dominant, the other second insecure, the other second like a narccisist, all in the span of a single scene. This is especially true with Paige.

Like I could just go on and on about so many things that frustrated me... Genuinely first and probably only bondage game I will rate with a negative score.

Honestly, I really, really tried to like this game, but for the life of me I just can't. Sigh.

Reviewed Version: 0.86

Summary
Game overs ruin it, messy design.

Presentation
The art is okay and it doesn't use the same RPG Maker tilesets that everyone uses. However, there's way too much text. It feels like a VN in disguise. Personally i expect to play a game, not read a novel so that was a big negative for me. Options menu is only available on the title screen so if you want to change your settings, you need to save and quit. Not sure why the options are hidden while playing but it's annoying.

Combat
There is none. You need to carry "defense items" (whatever that is) in your inventory. When you come close to a zombie, the defense item is spent and the zombie is removed. Don't have a defense item and get too close to a zombie, instant game over. The problem with this is some zombies are disguised as corpses, and you need to search corpses for hidden items. It's like the dev is just trolling you with this.

Bondage Traps
Yep, this game has hidden traps that you're going to walk into unknowningly. Sounds like a great idea except... the first one is a blindfold which completely ruins your gameplay because you can only see a tiny area around your character. Your hands are free but nope, you can't remove the blindfold. You need a "restraint remover" (whatever that is) and take it to the bot to have the blindfold removed, which uses up the restraint remover. Run into another trap while blindfolded, game over. For a dev that makes bondage games, having the bondage be game over is pretty crappy. Oh, and the traps are very numerous so you're probably guaranteed a few game overs. A game design that forces you into save-scumming to avoid that is a just poor design.

Bondage
That's why we're here, right? Well, i quit out of frustration from the zombie insta-game-overs and the bondage trap game overs that i only played for a little bit. From what i've seen though, there's some cutscenes with CG and novel-lengths of text to skip through, the bondage traps to end your game, and the only silver lining: bondage events like when you help the store's customers while tied up. That's not a spoiler because it's linear and you can't avoid it. Hopefully there's more of those bondage events but i don't have the patience to find out.

Design
Aside from the poorly designed zombie encounters and traps, the maps are not very intuitive. Some doors open by touching them while others open only via the action button. Usually in RPG Maker games, touching a map edge moves you to the next location, but not in this one. There's also unnecessary screen transitions like when you move from the back area of the store to the sales area. It's just a waste of time that slows down the gameplay. Also, there's a couple stray corridors that look like they should go somewhere because they're not blocked off, but they don't go anywhere. There's too much use of the flashlight which is really not fun because it only lights up a tiny area. Overall, the design feels a bit messy and annoying.

Rating
1/5 because of how frustrating it is to play. I would give it a 2, but the game overs piss me off.

All Female in this game look like 12. The face, the Body, the Outfits and Lingerie. Everything, even the Mother looks underaged. The gameplay itself is not the burner. there is no questlog so you have to read and remember everything or you will walk a lot because you got lost. The only reason i dont give only 1 star and i really want to give it but it wouldnt be fair is: The quality basic of the pictures is good. i have seen worst.

It's odd and quirky but has a nice art style and a good amount of bondage scenes. It's rough at the moment with bugs and typos but it's still early to say. However from what I've played I would give it a solid 5 stars.