RPGM - Completed - REsolution ~In another world the hero is tormented by status effects~ [Final] [RR Research Society]

Just did a review on the all the (current) games from this Circle Group!
Review + Files for all the games in my blog post here:
[Link to the Blog Post]

In the meanwhile, a Quickview for this entry from them:


10th = 7.5
Finally, getting Animated H-Scenes (and from here on out)! Real-time fights, trying to manage enemy attacks with Just Blocks and Dodges, but also able to actually Cure most of the Debuffs this time! Although you are making the enemy charge their Special Attack bar faster with each attack from you, so keep that in mind. Also, equippable Achievements system, making it actually useful to get achievements (basically mandatory to beat the game on anything higher than Normal difficulty, but still easy to accomplish). Sadly, while the gameplay is pretty decent and grind-able, the H-Scenes don't have much of a variety, and each time you Cum in-combat you lose 1/3rd of your levels, which makes it all but impossible to win even with just one drain (you basically have to avoid that Scenario).
Yes, this is the game with that Plastic Wrap girl. Spoilers, she can TimeStop as a Special Action, and insta-put you into Reverse-Rape, unavoidable via Block or Dodge. Best advice? Equip "Delay" skill to reduce the amount of times you have to deal with that Special Attack, get yourself higher damage from equipment (to require less hits to defeat her, to not charge her Special Attack that much), and defeat her before she uses her Special Attack 3-4 times (if she gets that far, good luck struggling away from her again).

Also, for Reference, the Scores I gave for the Circle Group themselves, and each of the games they have:

Series Scores:
================ Plot = 7
================ Gameplay = 9.5
================ Scenes = 8
================ Development = 9
================ Obtaining = 7.5
================ FINAL SCORE = 8.2
Individual Scores:
======== 1 = 4
======== 2 = 5
======== 3 = 5.5
======== 4 = 6.5
======== 5 = 6.5
======== 6 = 7.5
======== 7 = 8.5
======== 8 = 9
======== 9 = 8.5
======== 10 = 7.5
======== 11 = 6
======== 12 = 9.5
======== 13 = 6.5
======== 14 = 3.5
======== 15 = 10

This game doesn't deserve anything above 1 star. I played the first chapter, got a bit into chapter 2 and sad fuck it, I'm done.

-The Porn, it's trash, it's simple animations, and as for the writing, I didn't stick around long enough to see if that was any good.

-The Story, it's reaching into a plotline that could be interesting, but otherwise, everyone is just giddy happy fun where logic and common sense die. In the first chapter, our PC, with 3 other people, save the world and are crowned heros, live in peace for about a month, and then shit hits the fan. Then, after you get split up from the rest of your allies, you come across a young women, who then drugs you with tea, steals all your stuff, then goes to town, says you tried to rape her and she got lucky in paralyzing you with a poison dagger, and when you get back to town, for some reason, everyone believed her, up until you say "Nuh uh", then you go outside of town, beat her up, interrogate her in a fade to black, take her back to town, she says sorry, and then everything is just chill. Wtf? Why would they think the hero of the world would just go and rape some girl? Why did they let an assumed rapist into town? Why did the town forgive the girl after she "tricked" them all into believing the hero is an evil rapist? And then when you ask her, where is my equipment, her only response? "It's enchanted so only Heroes can use it, I met someone who claimed to be your friend and gave it to them."

-The Combat, the whole reason I'm dropping this as soon as I am. Simply put, it's trash, it's a real time, skill based button mashing sim, and when I say skill, I don't mean skill as in the player skill, I mean skill as in what skills you equip. The biggest problem with it, is that it throws status effects at you that have different conditions to remove, and affect you in wildly different ways, but gives you no time to analyze what status effects you have, this status effect reduces your stamina regen and needs a skill to remove, this skill reduces your attack AND disables all defensive options, in order to remove this one, you have to attack the enemy, this status effect increases how much damage you take and only goes away with time. Add onto this, the fact that the enemy has a normal attack come up every 10 seconds and a special attack that comes up every 40 seconds(assuming you don't attack her because that speeds it up). Then you have a 5 second cooldown on your defend, and a 20 second cooldown on your dodge. But some attacks need you to specifically dodge, so how do you dodge the evasion-only special attack and the evasion-only normal attack that came 2 seconds later? You don't! And now, you can't dodge OR defend fuckface, better hope you have enough stamina to remove that status effect you just got, or you're gonna dogpiled with more status effects until you lose, and there is no pause or time out on this rape train. Basically, you are expected to lose every single time the first time you try to fight something, just so you can learn what they do, so you learn how fast you can attack, and what pattern to attack and dodge with. If you CANNOT beat a game on it's first try, I personally think that's bad game design. Is it realistic for most games? No, but I accept that because it's a lack of skill. The game not telling you what to do, and not giving a chance to fix your mistakes it didn't warn you about, is trash IMO.

Trash game, trash porn, and from what I can tell, trash writing. Move on, I enjoyed Avarice dungeon, was hoping this would be as good, sadly not.

The game title certainly doesn't lie. There is some amount of status effects which will hinder you in your play. However, the biggest and uncredited enemies of this game are the duo of Unresponsive controls and RNG.

However, let's concentrate on the good parts first, as this will be over much quicker.
The story: The story seemed decent, without much spoilers, there were a few twists there that I have not been expecting, but the biggest twist came at the end, and a little too late to actually matter in the story, but a decent read anyway.

The gameplay: The unresponsive controls are main downfall of this game, as it is based on quick reflexes and Quick time events. You need to input sequence of buttons to get up for example, you can do this by mouse or by pressing corresponding keys. The game is however picky about when it accepts the buttons or not, so if you think you can press one button and then second one in quick succession, and for RNG reasons, the second button is not the same as the first one, there is roughly 50/50 percent chance your first press was not registered, and you get penalized for hitting the wrong button, as the second click actually counts. This problem is however inconsistent, and sometimes both presses count, sometimes it ignores the inputs completely.

The Porn: When I mentioned story being decent, I actually meant it was the only decent thing here: because porn falls flat, you get two animations per enemy, which are ACT and CLIMAX respectively, they vary very little from each other, and as I've noticed, they actually degrade performance of this game further. however I might be biased as I was usually experiencing difficulties, so when porn started appearing, the inputs went from 'it might work ' to 'even god cannot save you now'

Summary:
If you came for the porn, grab the full save, but don't expect much
If you came for the story, grab a chair, enable cheats and attach your own cheat menu to skip battles completely.
If you came for gameplay, May god have mercy on your soul, because the engine won't.

Final score: 3/10

Combat and storyline is interesting, leagues better than your average RPGM stuff.

But the porn, the real juicy stuff, is the downfall of it, unless you're really into femdom. 26 barely animated scenes with generic sound and no voice don't justify the 1.8 GB download, 80% of the female cast is drawn to look like loli, and the supposed "femdom" dialogue isn't written (translated?) well enough to convince me a lvl 99 hero that just took down a demon lord is getting humiliated by a slime that look like an incontinent child.

It is a good simple game, and you will like it if you are into female domination, ero-fight/battlefuck and/or button mashing genres. You fight monster girls and every girl have her unique specialization: footjob, brainwashing, BDSM etc. There are plenty of characters to fight! Defeat scenes are animated pretty well, and design of the characters is nice.

I legit hate this game. Any goodwill the game may have generated through it's art style is completely destroyed by how terrible the combat is. I have never seen combat this bad before. It's not the kind of unplayable where you just put it down because it was unfinished or poorly made, it's the kind where after a bit it seems accessible but in reality is just complete rng bullshit that only allows you to win if you get lucky.

It's hard to type out just why this combat is so terrible without playing it since it's a custom real time combat system so I'll try to get a few examples. Enemies have two bars that fill up in real time, one constant for there basic attacks and one slow for special attacks that fills up slower except when you attack. The first huge issue here is that all of the enemies attacks are tied to these two bars, so that means unless the game gives you hints you'll never really know what's coming next, making weather you get a good defense or a crippling depuff completely random. This creates a system where you never really feel skillful, just lucky or not. Example would be the third fight where the enemy gives you a debuff that completely cripples you so you can only basic attack, but in no way informs you what causes this debuff, so even if you block and evade everything you still get it. Maybe that is the point of this fight but it leads in to the next huge issue.

The knockdown system is awful. In this game you have a balance bar that when it gets empty you have to do this mini game where you have to hit the button in the right order to get out. Not too bad seeming at first, but here is where the real kicker starts. The ability to push buttons is tied to your stamina bar, a bar which fills up much slower compared to any other bars, creating another damn level or resource watching. Also keep in mind you have to win the mini game or the match it over because if it reaches the mounted point of the fight your dead. Someone profoundly stupid decided it would be fun to make it so while your mounted your stamina starts getting drained, so remember how I told you that you needed stamina to hit the buttons? That's right the amount of stamina you get back to play the mini game while being drained, is less then the amount of balance you get back for hitting a button in the mini game. So that means once your mounted the match is over and the mini game still being there is more of a fuck you then an actual mechanic. Hey doesn't the game say that you can cum three times before you lose with just a level drain effect? Surely that must mean that after you cum once you break out and have to fight from a weakened position right? Ha ha wrong dumbass, once your character cums nothing changes, your character stays mounted and the enemy just keeps going. No stamina restore or breakout options at all.

So what's your reward for going through this knuckle biting edge of your seat combat where your expected to watch your health bar, stamina bar, balance bar, move cooldown timers, enemy health bar, and both enemy action bars in real time combat while also timing your heal button to remove staking debuffs with various bull shit effects? You get two aminated images of a monster girl playing with your dick while taking shit if you lose, and to continue on a sub par story about a hero who is as dumb as bricks being abandoned by his party immediately even though it's in all their best interests to work together due to a curse received after defeating a demon lord. The dumb as bricks thing isn't an exaggeration either. The very first thing the main character does after being abandoned in the new world is join up with a complete stranger and share a room with them just because they said, "hey lets go look for that thing you need" to him completely at random. Which causes him to get all his stuff stolen even though he's a max level hero. What a joke of an mc, I don't even want him to succeed after that.

TLR. The sex scenes and story of this game are not worth the headache you'll get from its terrible, terrible combat. Just wait for a full clear from a real masochist if you just want to see the animated scenes.