RPGM - Completed - Sakura Gozen [v1.10] [kaniheadcrab]

First off, I 100%'d this game (did the revising/editing and some bug fixes). To avoid bias, I usually refrain from reviewing games I've helped translate, but I think this one was good enough to just go ahead and do it safely.

Story 5/5 - The game has very humorous and tropey dialogue, and a good mixture of serious segments, as well. It never gets boring, even when doing the side quests. It is VERY Japanese, though, so be prepared to see a lot of weeb speak and TL notes (I could not localize a lot of the jokes, and had to settle for explaining them instead).

Artwork 5/5 - This game's art is great in all sections: H-Scenes, roaming, and battles. On top of looking good, a lot of it also has minor animations (e.g. 3 to 5 frames being looped). The pixel art is BEAUTIFUL, and I love that the gallery has preview pixel art for every single h-scene in the game, despite being completely unnecessary. I would honestly love to see a game by this developer that focuses more on their pixel artwork. No hate on the CG, though--both look fantastic.

Combat 4/5 - The combat is great, at its core... You select up to 5 attacks to use per turn, and then you do a mini-game to land "Perfect" hits for each attack. That part is fun. Unfortunately, the combat is WAY too easy. You're given all these healing items and stat-boosting combat items throughout the game, but you never need to use a single one. Even against this game's Superboss, I ended up using only 2 healing items.

Music 5/5 - Not much to say here. The music is just REALLY good. So good, that it makes the overly-easy battles still feel somewhat exciting.

Total: 4.75/5

An Awesome game. It's a "2d" rpg game with qte based combat. There are A LOT of different scenes, with a good variety of kinks. All it's main cast of characters are very well designed, and the story....is Very sad.

One of the honestly too few H-games where "I played it for the plot" works both ways.

It also feels like it respects the player's time, which is also an unfortunately uncommon aspect of these type of games.

Pros:

-It's clear a lot of time and care was put into this game, and it shows by the high quality pixel art (for the characters at least)
-A HUGE variety of kinks, chances are there's something for everyone.

Neutral:
-The characters can be charming or even funny at times, but they can come off as rather one-note
-The game play is laughably easy, you don't even need to actually do the button presses in order to win 99% of combat.

Bad:
-Rather clunky UI, there can be a lot of stuff thrown at once .
-Somewhat poor translation, but for the most part it isn't too hard to figure things out .

Overall this is one of the better games uploaded here and I'd recommend it if you just want some quality H-scenes with a variety of content that features some characters that are at least bearable.

WARNING: THIS REVIEW IS VERY BIASED

-Because I crowdfunded it, I QA'ed it, and I spent too much time on it. I know this game is PEAK AS FUCK. I owe ONM's single-handedly fixing the game so it could be released, letting you guys play it in perfection. Shoutout to Dazed for actually seeing the potential of the game to be translated. I'll just explain my experience with the game, and I want you to watch the trailer on the official site.

Gameplay:

Pros:

An actual fun and new way to battle, rather than the old, same, default RPGM battle system.

NO FUCKING GRIND (as long as you do the side quests).

PEAK AS FUCK BOSS BATTLES.

PEAK AS FUCK MUSIC.

Alt.Shop (2nd-form shops).

Cons:

Because the game has almost no grind, and the game system helps the player too much, you’re already SO GREAD UP AND OVERLEVELED.
That’s it, really lol.

H-Content:
All of the H-Content in this game is amazing. It has all types of genres/tags for everyone to enjoy. Just look at the art, man.


Story:
You start in CH1, chilling with Suzume, doing their best to become the best samurai in the town and to prove that Sakura deserves to be called as one. So the castle prepared a competition to prove who is the worthy one and thats where everything s̷͍̯͊̍̀̀̔̕t̴͖̯̤̱̰̬̑̔̓̓a̷͇̅r̵̝̪̊̔t̵͓̓ŝ̴̨̹͈̲̯̒͆͆

This games plot will just blow your minds ( maybe your dick too? ) away.
Just play Ch1 and you will see how amazing this game goes.

AND I CAN' T STRESS THIS ENOUGH IF YOU ATLEAST FINISHED THE GAME AND ENJOYED IT, GO BUY A COPY AND SUPPORT THE DEV!