RPGM - Completed - Rich Girl Bondage: Confined and R*ped [v1.2] [yaminabedaiichikantai]

I was waiting for a bit for this one to be translated. Had I known that it would be a super short game, I would have looked to the Magical Girl games this developer has since there's more investment there. This is a quickie.

Pros:

• The fan translation is good (passable and easy to read).
• The few sex scenes are pretty hot
• Good artwork
• When you beat the game, the gallery is unlocked. You’re stuck in limbo though as there’s nothing to do after the game ends.

Cons:

• Game is super short. Can beat in an hour.
• Gameplay is non-existence for the second half of the game. The game has four sections but only the second portion has the “most” gameplay. In the third and fourth section, the enemies are removed and you spend the rest of the time trying (and failing) to complete the objective
• The gameplay is pretty bad. The enemy placement makes it hard to traverse the mansion. You can only really take 3 hits before you are dragged back into the basement. The game then punished you for not knowing the inputs needed to escape and you take more MP damage as a result.
• The fact that you need to go to two different locations to change your clothes and to cut the rope makes it tedious when you’re caught. The place to cut the rope should have been closer instead of two rooms with hard to dodge enemies. It’s bad map design. Your clothes help you take mental damage if your HP falls to 0 while not having your hands tied allows you to fight off the guards.
• The auto escape window is glitched to where the 4 squares are stuck on the screen even when you save and leave the game. Only when you escape manually does it disappear. Bad game design.
• The game only has one ending. It’s a bad ending but it’s also pretty stupid given the context. There is no way the protag was incapable of finding her butler in the final section. He is shown to be on the terrace, but he’s not there when you do run to the area. I think this section should have had enemies and if you’re caught once, you get the hentai ending. If you reunite with your butler, you get one more section to escape.
• The story overall is pretty dumb given how little there is to work with. The man kidnapped the rich girl because she rejected him and she doesn’t even remember him. The game never elaborates on this.
• The protagonist is a walking contradiction. She’s smart enough to have plans trying to escape, but she gives up so easily. She’s supposed to be “strong” so as to not break easily but she gives up after four attempts. The first time was a minor setback. The second time is her own fault for making assumptions. The third and fourth time is simply the game not willing to think of a creative way to break her further. There are so many other things she could do like find the schedule of the other guards and take advantage of that, break the window, find a secret passageway or actually scream for help when the butler was in the mansion. The villain isn’t that smart outside of having the lock be from the outside. But at the same time, that’s a double edge sword as that’s how the butler was able to barge in and demand a search throughout the house. He still missed the basement like an idiot.

I'm always disappointed with short games with good art. I would give this game a 2.5 but I rounded it to 3 since the game functions and it doesn't crash.