RPGM - Completed - Scars of Summer [v1.03] [Shinachiku-Castella/Kagura Games]

This is a good qualify game. Good production value. Decent writing. Really good use of RPG engine. Some of the best actually. Interesting gameplay ideas.

It has a couple big issues that bring it down 1 it’s that it’s kinda trying to be 3 different games. Issue 2 poorly thought out gameplay. Issue 3. Lack of imagination



I’ll go through issues 2 and 3 before 1

issue 2.
Gameplay is tedious asf and really frustrating to try and get scenes to trigger.its a real pain in the ass sometimes and there’s a lot of wasted downtime, and not enough effort spent on the other stuff you can do. The actual stories are usually pretty short so you’re wasting like an hour on a story that lasts about 10 minutes real time.

Issue 3

scenes can end up kinda boring sometimes. Few positionsOverall.
There are SOME really good exciting scenes but a lot of the time it’s kinda boring and vanilla scenes with meh dialogue. It’s pretty much just missionary, doggystyle, blowjob. Titjob. That’s it. But again. There’s SOME really great stuff here. Ryoka herself I feel, could been more toned and look slightly more boyish. Shes supposed to have a big fat ass but it’s still pretty flat.







Issue 1 my main criticism of the game.

it’s trying to be a summer childhood friend simulator, an Ntr corruption game and a sluttiification game and I feel those 3 things kinda get in the way.

as an Ntr game, it can be frustrating but it overall good . Most of the time the mc doesn’t even notice what’s happening and with how much set up you have to do, it feels more like netori than Ntr. But, the excellent voyeur scenes. Stuff like being locked out of places. Her being out of reach. Calling to figure out where she is. Seeing messages and stuff pop up. All build up tension and it’s the best part of the game. The route that leans the most into Ntr, is also one of the most obnoxious and boring. It’s good Ntr content but not good.

This aspect works well enough, and the tomboy childhood friend aspects work decently to twist the knife…when they knife is being twisted.

as a corruption game….meh? There’s like maybe 1 or two routes. With good corruption. She either becomes a slut way too easily or just starts enjoying sex? Like I said half the time the Ntr isn’t being focused on. So you just see a tomboy be dumb and get corrupted into a slut or sleeping with an ugly dude. And it’s…okay?

Also, do ALL of the male characters have to be so repulsive to look at? It gets kinda hilarious when EVERYONE is a horrible cave troll. Ryoka and Saki also look way too similar, especially since one is supposed to be a toned tomboy.




As a summer tomboy friend simulator it’s pretty good. Ryoka herself is…decent. Has cute aspects. Some fun scenes. Summer events are cool enough. I like how she’s basically an angelic naive tsundere.
It’s just…

There needed to be a vanilla route. I know it’s an Ntr game. I know that being teased with what could have been is part of the game. But there’s a vanilla route anyway. It’s just unfinished.
We have the set up. We have events. You can can spend the entire summer with Ryoka and they make you work for it. It really is not that much of a stretch to just let us do it. I just wonder why they put so much effort into this. There are a lot of events you can do with her, but they’d stopped halfway

it seems like an intentional choice, since there offscreen sex in the sequel. I just think it’s a mistake. The current vanilla route is spent doing repetitive events. The potential is there

thing is, it kinda impacts her character. She doesn’t resist enough a lot of times and just comes off liking lame. She’s supposed to be pure until she’s corrupted, but sometimes she seems way more willing than she should be. Makes the corruption boring and her personality more boring overall.

I feel like the 3 aspects are all kinda unfinished and I feel like they should’ve focused on maybe 2 of these more and shaved down one. Specifically I don’t feel like the tomboy childhood friend corruption works THAT well for me personally. Especially when you factor in how tedious is it to get the content and how meh ang vanilla a lot of the content is.



Still. This is a legitimately well made high quality game. It’s enjoyable overall, just I feel it’s lost potential everywhere

I think it's a great game, as always and for all NTR games, the male MC is an idiot and of course the female MC is hot!

I'm glad there are multiple CGs and so many endings, but I'd rather not to play all over again just to unlock one of those.

Buenas,

La verdad es que este juego me decepciono un poco me parece que por las expectativas, como algunos otrs mencionan me parece que esta sobrevalorado

Ojo no esta mal es solo que no es tan bueno, y como dato al existir una secuela que directamente dice que en este acaba engañandote hace que la ruta romantica no tenga sentido

El juego se basa en un bucle jugable simple inicias el ntr con el que quieres y pasas los dias yendo ha donde estaba ese personaje ves una silueta o algo parecido y para ver la escena entera miras el calendario de la chica y repites con todas las rutas.

Las rutas son los tipicos cliches pero al marjen de ello algunas historia no estan mal y tienen algo de sentido

La historia entre el mc y la chica no tiene nada es simplemente me voy a mudar a la ciudad(que por cierto no esta tan lejos si es a la que vas mientras juegas, tiene pinta de que en 1h mas o menos ya estas alli en plan se va a la ciudad pero tio no hay tanto drama que no vivis tan lejos) tengo que confesarme antes de x dia y ya, no hay grnades escenas entre ellos para darte la sensacion de me gusta mucho o por este motivo me enamore.
a parte de que el concepto de me tengo que declarar antes de x dia pero me voy a ir igualmente es un poco....de que te vale si realmente te vas a ir a la ciudad igualmente

En general es un juego sencillo de jugar y las escenas estan bien pero los personajes no aportan gran cosa al ser los tipicos cliches y el bucle despues de 2 rutas aburre (solo peudes completar 1 ruta a la vez)
Si teneis tiempo y hos apetece jugar a un juego de este tipo esta bien para pasar el rato pero ir a sabiendas de que no es una obra maestra como se pinta

Traduccion hecha con el google translate



Hello,

The truth is, this game disappointed me a bit. I think it's due to expectations. As some others mention, I think it's overrated.

Be careful, it's not bad, it's just not as good. And, as a side note, since there's a sequel that directly claims that she'll cheat on you in this one, the romance route doesn't make sense.

The game is based on a simple gameplay loop: you start the NTR with the person you want and spend days going to where that character was. You see a silhouette or something similar. To see the entire scene, you look at the girl's calendar and repeat all the routes.

The routes are typical clichés, but aside from that, some of the stories aren't bad and make some sense.

The story between the MC and the girl has nothing, it's simply that I'm going to move to the city (which by the way is not that far if it's the one you go to while playing, it seems that in 1 hour or so you'll already be there as if you're going to the city but man there's not that much drama since you don't live that far away) I have to confess before x day and that's it, there are no great scenes between them to give you the feeling that I really like him or that's why I fell in love. Aside from the fact that the concept of I have to declare my love before x day but I'm going to leave anyway is a bit... what's the point if you're really going to go to the city anyway

Overall, it's a simple game to play, and the scenes are good, but the characters don't contribute much because they're typical clichés, and the loop after two routes becomes boring (you can only complete one route at a time).
If you have time and feel like playing a game like this, it's fine to pass the time, but you should know that it's not the masterpiece it's cracked up to be.

Introduction
this was one of my first h-games back when i first got into them. i replayed it now after really getting into them and i am gonna put my heart and soul into this review. ive played and reviewed many corruption and NTR games. ive experienced many ups and downs. many gems and many coals. many trials and tribulations and many rewards and spoils. many wastes of time and many mastapieces. but none.. none really compare at all to this incredible game, and im willing to say its probably, or likely, the best corruption NTR RPG ever

Game Description
you play as a dude named Keita and you got a crush on your childhood friend Ryoka. you both grew up together but at some point you moved out of your village and didnt see her for a while. however for at some point you go back to the village and spend your whole summer with her. you got one objective: for two in game months, secure her love and confess to her, because shes also got bottled up emotions for you (to begin with). however... as you do this, if you're not careful there are multiple antagonists that can or are just gonna steal her from you, and you either choose to let it happen or not

Things I Liked:
- Ryoka. she's just awesome. personality wise she's airheaded, tomboyish, silly, impulsive, stuff like that. love wise she has that allure of a woman you just want to win over, since she makes it clear she is hard to win over from the start, and its what all of the antagonists try and eventually succeed in doing. she also shows a lot of feminine behaviour, emotions and actions too
- corruption. it's literally one of the best no joke. the pacing is perfect, it has zero weird jumps and the way its presented is pretty genius/phenomenal all things considered. the choice is yours to see her getting corrupted by the antagonists. you actively go out in the game world and hunt her down to see if the antagonists are getting in her pants and corrupting her. she's easy to find because a character icon appears above the location she's currently in, so you know exactly where to find her meaning you're not just aimlessly wandering around to find this particular corruption scene. this happens for a little under ~10 scenes and by that last scene she will be fully corrupted by that particular guy and becomes his. this process is spread out over a particular amount of days until the route for that antagonist guy is done
- routes/antagonists. i love all of them. yes some are a bit harder to watch, like Oyama and the vagrants (i found them harder to experience than the other routes) but you can simply just not engage those routes and stick to the antagonist route you specifically want. its not hard to start a route either, just follow the exclamation mark for them until you get scenes of them interacting with Ryoka. i liked Yasui's route the most since it's probably the most corrupted one and i think playboys work really well in the NTR/corruption genre. the other routes are this goofy muscular dude named Daisuke, one of her other childhood friends named Masaru and this annoying rich brat kid named Nobuo. each route perfectly encapsulates the NTR genre its presented really well
- story. the premise (needing to fan the flames of love and confess to her by the end of the summer) is very good because it sets the tone for whatever happens in your playthrough. if you're doing non-NTR then it feels great getting what you set out to achieve. if you're doing NTR then the burn feels that much greater since you failed at what you set out to achieve. it's not just some one dimensional "lol she was with you -> lol not anymore". the storytelling excellently expresses a unique bond between Keita and Ryoka, showing us how it started, how it will progress and how it ends
- scenes. all scenes in a route are hot and fappable. none of them reuse art from a previous scene. they're all very well illustrated. the dialogue is perfect. the situations/scenarios they're in are fantastical but awesome. and there's a lot of them too to top it off. i briefly touched on this before but you hunt her down in the game world from Keita's POV then the next day you look at her diary and get Ryoka's POV which is where the actual porn is. so you get this great dynamic of an implied scene and then the actual scene afterwards
- other characters/NPCs. there's a lot of goofy dialogue, interesting dialogue and meh dialogue with the characters/NPCs. those two schoolgirl thots for example are always talking about being whores and depending on how corrupted Ryoka is the way they will talk to Ryoka will change. same with those two boys that watch her every basketball game. stuff like that is great. and, how can i forget Saki. for those fellas that really appreciate a side bitch thrown in there cause why not Saki has you covered. she's got a few scenes of her own and she's very very feminine and submissive
- gameplay loop. you control everything about the game loop and its so refreshing. do you want to spend the day with Ryoka well go right ahead. do you want to encourage antagonists to corrupt her or watch it happen well go right ahead. do you want to stat grind for whatever reason go right ahead. do you want to explore go right ahead. do you want to skip a certain amount of hours in the day go right ahead. do you want to view or attend a particular event go right ahead. there's no one set way to play the game and all ways of playing it are equally good in all measure
- world building. it's honestly a great presentation of some random urban but not too urban place in Japan. it really feels like it and not many games are able to do that. not sure what it is or what about it makes me feel that way but i totally dig it
- happy non-NTR ending. one thing thats lowkey important about these games is presenting the NTR genre correctly and expressively, but also doing the exact same for the vanilla love route. and i gotta say it did deliver on that front. it really is pure love between them if you want to go down that route and you can see it so clearly
- silent protag. lack of a talkative/personified protag means a lot of good things. you can either have an easier time relating to him because you can get imaginative with how he feels or what he would say or do or act in these situations. or you can just totally detach yourself from him and insert as a totally different character instead, this might be harder but its totally doable considering he's completely silent the whole game
- no lame RPGM combat. yep no surprise there

Conclusion
nothing bad to say about this game. not one thing otherwise i wouldnt give it 5/5. it really is just peak and its one of the best h-games ive played. if you ever dip your toes into NTR or corruption this is where you start. because it's nothing but kino in this game. the only bad part this game offers you is when you reach the end and realise "its over". then you start questioning life and stuff. but all jokes aside i dont think this game can get anymore praise from me so with that i conclude my review. please play this game and give it the recognition it deserves

It's a very beautiful and well written ntr game it's the best ntr game I've played so far the character design is fabulous her boobs and ass is so sexy the storyline and hidden ntr sex is also very good I hope that they will bring new games with new unique story.

Very exhausting gameplay loop where you have to waste so much time walking around doing random stuff to kill time.
The H scenes are ok, but nothing special.
The MC is absolutely awful, extremely beta, never engage in anything and often plain rude to FemMC. The premise that femMC was in love with him before the game start doesnt make sense at all. he doesn't deserve her. that happy true ending needs to be scraped

It's a good game, the main focus on this one of course the NTR which is good. The plot is pretty interesting for each othe guys, one is just simpler and shorter than the others. The game mechanic is pretty easy to use, it's not overwhelmingly complicated. You can choose which guy to be engaged with your "crush", it's pretty random, so choose one guy only til the end for each run is better tho.

Lovely little game. I'm not so much into NTR stuff, but it's always a good starting place when it comes to having plot-focused games. Corruption, great art, and an infinitely replayable game. Can't recommend it enough.

This game is awesome, and right now Shinachiku-castella is my top #1 NTR game creator, this game has really hot art, and one of the best writing for H scenes Ive seen. The corruption has a progression that I didnt feel was too quick but it definitely is not slow burn either, Id say that if you like ntr and liked the key art posted in the OP then give this a try, my only con with this game is the classic RPGmaker gameplay, I just feel its clunky, there is not battles but I still dont like how the gameplay feels, but if you dont want to go through that you can get a full save from the comments as well. all in all I love this game and Ill keep an eye out for any future title the author puts out.

One of the better rpgm games I've played, most tend to be extremely cliche or boring, or just completely uninteresting but this actually attempts something. Don't get me wrong I think there needs to be more in the way of systems that the player can interact with to encourage the ntr whether intentionally or otherwise, but the fact that there's a good amount of character development and that the art is nice that's good enough for me. There's plenty that could've been improved but overall its solid even if grindy at times

This game fucking sucks.

If you're into NTR it's frustrating, and if you aren't or neutral then definitely don't play this. The MC is a complete dumbass, he gets ZERO H-scenes and when scenes do happen you don't get to see them until after you've completed the game (5 bad ends with different characters and1 good end with the MC - which you get if you literally avoid all the content)

The scenes play out and MC doesn't get to see them, hears her getting fucked etc - which is, admittedly, intriguing. You then have to search for more scenes throughout the days. Which isn't too difficult as there are hints, again you don't get to view them. You're basically roleplaying paranoid friend-zoned cuck.

Once you do finish the game you get to see the scenes and my god are they awful. Artwork is repetitive and poorly drawn and each scene is BOMBARDED with flashing. I mean constant fucking migraine inducing flashing.

Total waste of time, scenes aren't even worth it. I've played a lot of games on this site and this is one of my least favourites.

I haven't finished yet, but the fact that i've played about 3ish hours and nothing has happened except running into homeless dudes that wanna bang the gf with nothing of actual substance happening no matter what I do is incredibly annoying. I didn't wanna download a walking sim, but apparently that's what i've done.

And yeah, i know there's a notepad that shows what she's done in her room. There's like 4 things and it's been more than 2 and a half weeks in the game. Dunno why this is so highly rated.

Edit: i finished the game and it was a terrible experience.

I should've mentioned this before but this isn't really NTR by my definition of it, but alot of people seem to differ on that. By that I mean the MC likes the FMC, but they aren't together and he just doesn't have the guts to confess to her. They're just childhood friends. So, really everything that happens isn't NTR to me since there's no relationship other than being friends with a crush on each other.

I just skipped the last 3 weeks in the game as I got tired of looking around for where they might be. Along with that, they seem to have a large number of tropes in the game I find incredibly not sexy. Two homeless dudes, two omega virgin dudes, one rich brat with the least likable attitude, and the annoying misunderstanding to blackmail trope. Not one route was even remotely tantalizing to me. The opposite in fact, it upsets me that I downloaded this game thinking it was good based on its rating only to be given.. whatever this is.

Oh boy this game. Yeah let get this out of the way first, this game is overrated, but not for a bad reason, it just an issues with this kind of game. This is a NTR game through and through, going vanilla (the route where u dont get NTR'ed,or choose to)is as basic as it get.
Scenes are one of the main selling points of the game, though the NTR stories can be ass if you gotten used to it.
For people who go into this with NTR as their preference at minimum, it a 4/5.
For the other, well at best u have a 3/5.

Best NTR game I played so far . Game mechanics (Time change, phone usage) are good. I really don't understand those who gave low scores, what kind of storytelling and character development they expect in a game like this. I think the game delivers what it promises well enough.

I'd give two ratings if I could depending on what you're into:
You like NTR - 4/5
You hate NTR, think its mid, or don't particularly find any excitement around it - 3/5

Think of this as a game that manages to bundle together six different tropes of NTR as "routes" in the game and creates an extended plot line around these tropes. I only rate this game for how it *depicts* NTR because the plot follows the same kind of design logic that a doujin would use and its done pretty well.

If you are a hater of NTR and get pissed off at the glorification of cheating, dumbass/one-dimensional characters, and situationships, don't play this. Look, I get it. It can hit too close to home sometimes. Also, its an overused engine and story genre. I want to make this review detailed and fair, so I want to at least explain that this game goes all in on the story at the sacrifice of gameplay. Don't get fooled by the aggregate, four star F95 score. The game's not as good for people who don't give two shits about the genre in the first place.

The main gameplay loop involves initiating each route and over the course of two months, you can unlock scenes. There isn't much "active" gameplay besides moving around the map/peeping in on the action occasionally and the only puzzle you really need to work out is if you want to unlock the happy ending with the four memories. There's also some light grinding involved as you get your points up for the happy ending, which could have been more. I honestly think this was designed by intention to make you really feel what its like getting cucked.

One negative I found is that in order to complete the majority of the content, you need to activate the triggers for every route individually and the two months in game are only enough to complete *one* of them. Considering the gameplay loop, unless it does something for you for immersion's sake, this is really fkin boring. Would def consider getting a full save or, at the very least, play your preferred routes like usual before then.

Art is subjective (main heroine is pretty cute, but damn those eyes are close to one another huh?). Individual stories in the routes are subjective. If you're a fan and can deal with the NTR, patience rewards. If not, easy skip.

What an overrated piece of garbage, my fucking god. Ryoka is a terrible character, every male is terrible and has 0 fucking chemistry, and the mc is blander than boiled potatoes with no salt, like really fucking bland, its so bad to the point where it feels like Keito just straight up doesn't exist, the game could have been a visual novel about corruption without Keito and nothing would change. The main point of a NTR story MUST be the writing, if the writing is bad then no amount of of godly animated sex scenes will save it( that this game also doesn't have lmao).

And now the sex scenes... They are mid at best, the sound effects are goofy and just ruin the mood, the art style is meh, and some of them just drag for way too long.

I'm only giving this shit 2 stars because it has a shota route and I'm a sucker for shota x tomboys.

Ik the game was uploaded 4 years ago, but it was such a waste of time that I decided to leave a review just of how mad I got.

Edit: Oh and i also forgot to mention that the way you start the NTR routes are all so garbage lmao

Excellent NTR game. I love how there are many different NTR tropes which many NTR fans will enjoy and love. The autonomy of the girl being cucked when you're not with her brings an element of surprise and suspense to the NTR content. The girl is sweet and kind with a banging body. Good slow burn NTR content that makes the NTR feel more impactful. Recommended for all NTR fans especially to those who love RPGM games.

Honestly, one of my favorite NTR games of all time - if you're a cuck, this is a game for you.

It has multiple different NTR routes, each playing into its own unique NTR route - ugly bastard, manlier man, BBC, village traditions, etc. Each one is super hot and has slow burn to the story, really giving you that emotional torture cucks which many NTR writers seem to overlook.

I LOVE that FMC has her own route for each day, instead of waiting on you to do something, really adds onto the sense that she's a real person with a life, not this lifeless 2D waifu who is waiting for you to fuck up a prompt somewhere. No, she cucks you because you're not man enough to spend time with her and show her the love she deserves, adding onto the cuckold torture.

This game also utilizes its RPG elements very well - example is when you're walking by a place she's getting fucked at, you can walk by and hear her moaning, but you can't see anything or stop it, making you feel so powerless, knowing your woman is being treated like a whore.

Additionally, FMC is SUPER hot, fat tits, fat ass, cute face.

10/10

100% honest, i think its overrated. Its quite confusing when you start playing, you dont know if just wait for things to happen, look for fmc to find hscenes or farm butterflies all day to raise stats. Tried a little bit of everything four a couple hours til got bored. and just downloaded a 100% save, watch some scenes and bye bye.

FMC is hot tho, thats a pro (and if you're into ugly bastard shit i guess this is your game, i pass)

Not a big fan of progression, you have to play the game multiple times to see every scene. It seems like a good replayability, but after the first playthrough, it starts to feel like a chore.

Apart from this, the game is great. Good scenes and fine dialogue.