RPGM - Completed - Selobus Arena [v1.04] [lastrologie]

Pros
-The story is pretty fun, and it is filled with a lot of humor.
-H scenes are well made
-Character design is solid
-Solid character writing

So this an arena game with an auto progressing dungeon to help you farm resources and exp. The combat is fun though it can often be an equipment check especially with high damage without proper armor. Another criticism is that at certain times scenes can feel like a click on every place ordeal until it triggers later in the game.

Overall I really liked the game so if the concept interests you go for it. 4/5

Overall (2/5): This game is labeled as RPGM but provides 20% of the normal RPGM experience. Its closer to a VN since there is no map to traverse, the battles are piss easy and the MC does not give a damn if she wins a battle or gets raped by 10 people. It has nice art and the storyline/characters are generally unserious. I'm usually resistant to games that waste your time a bit but even with a short 3 hour playtime, this one continually pissed me off with small and large oversights. Do not download this just because you see cute character designs. Read some reviews and make sure it fits your taste. No recommend from me, grab a gallery copy if you really care.

Gameplay/Story (0.5/5): The worst thing you can do making an a video game is waste someone's time. Removing traditional map exploration and dungeon diving might seem natural to make a better RPGM (and is done well enough in some games like Saki and the Crucible of Debauchery) but the implementation here is completely undone with extremely questionable UI and gameplay decisions.

Starting with the main grind, the dungeon is possible the most boring and least interactive RPGM gameplay I have ever played out of 50+ RPGM's. You mash left click on "explore" to watch an unskippable animation, progress the exploration level and encounter meaningless random events to spam left click through. Random events are mostly nothing, or enemies, 90% of which just get insta-killed and the other 9% die in 1 basic attack. The 1% are one-time boss enemies that either take 1/2 or 1/10th of your health in one attack. If you choose wrong, enemies send you straight back to menu screen and there is no saving mid-dungeon but you can also just fully skip enemies so ??? There are some lewd traps which you need an item to avoid or just instantly lose virginity (to which the protag has no reaction).

The important story related battle section, the arena, is also comically easy. Since you aren't allowed healing items, the dev balanced with making enemy HP low, but you can spam basic attack and win through those anyways just like in the dungeon.

Story is basic debt-repayment but there are mini-storylines after every arena fight which is nice. The mini-stories introduce the next opponent and give some fun dialogue and events. The MC and her partner are like a manzai duo but both are retarded. They have antics but it kinda wears off by the end. My favorite character was the fat innkeeper since he acts like a wrangler for the duo even though he is the creditor. If you lose the arena fight, then you get branching paths but I have not explored those.

There are a bunch of tiny things that lower the score for me, like how clicking on the wrong location is a 10 second detour, no button for skipping text, gallery is only accessible by going into the inn and then your room, keyboard is supported but only in battles, so you use mouse but its slower to use mouse whenever dialogue pops up which is every 5 seconds, MC's reaction to most things is dead fish-esque, and CGs flash to black before changing to the image.

Hentai (2.5/5): The art is fine, the characters are cute, some CGs are repeated but there is decent variety and some concepts I have not seen before. Low rating since the battlefuck is incredibly mediocre and if you avoid the lewd traps (easy) then you are exposed to 1 lewd scene unless you intentionally lose to an arena opponent or something.

The game is built to support corruption with h-stat tracking but it has literally no impact anywhere. There are also clothing options that you are simply granted the right to look at, as there is no map to explore so the MC just wears her default outfit the whole time.

Not much more to say since this score would probably be higher if my gameplay experience wasn't bad.

Here is the main gameplay loop:
Step One: You make sure to have exhausted every dialog
Step Two: You upgrade your gear
Step Three: You go through a couple of levels of the dungeon until the guard stops you
Step Four: Fight in the Arena, which is akin to a boss fight.

The main bulk of the story and most scenes revolved around the tournament and the arena fighters. The dungeon is more a side show. The town itself doesn't offer much either and is just your average fantasy town.

The game wants to do a bit of everything but with the fairly short runtime it has never delves into any particular theme.

version 1.04

the game is funny and interesting. but as a porn game it's extremely low effort. art is not bad, it's just so boring. not much animation, groping attacks are worse than mediocre. i found games with much worse art quality more erotic.

so if you want to play for the plot or characters, go ahead, it's decent. like 4/5 or 5/5 especially compared to porn games.

but as a porn game... well the art is nice but altogether porn part is like 2/5 or 3/5 imo. and since this is a porn game forum i give more emphasis for the H-scenes.

If you're after only the sex scenes, and FAST, you might not enjoy this game. It's quite dialogue-heavy.

But if you can keep your pants on, you might find the story and humor to your liking because I know I did. There are multiple paths to the story, mostly dependent if you save the other girls (or not). There is absolutely no penalty to having sex or not staying a virgin AFAIK, so have fun viewing the NSFW scenes while earning some extra cash in the dungeon/brothel.

As for the NSFW content, they're decent. You can unlock the complete gallery after finishing the game.

i played the full game and i think this one is a 3 star.
the game mechanics isnt particularly innovative and it feels a bit clucky at times. the difficulty scaling feels weird. you can not save in the dungeon etc. it just feel weird to play. any combat losses = game over. the corruption system has no visible impact on game play.

the game could be better, but given how weird it is to play and the lack of smoothness, i have to give it some deductions. so 3 is a fair rating for this game.

An enjoyable game that could still have been much better if not for some puzzling design choices; most notably defeat rape being a game over, which is bizarre for a corruption game.

There is not *a lot* of content, and yet it's shared between multiple girls... which is also a pretty bad idea for a corruption game where you want to focus on the protagonist.

Objectively, the game is probably 3 or 3.5 stars. I'm still giving it 4 because of the likable characters, the actually quite good art, and the decent combat lewds, which all by itself is a rarity.

Excellent game, I would say that nothing is particularly extraordinary about this game but it does great in every category. The story is short, interesting, and easy to follow. The game play is typical JRPG combat mixed with some dungeon crawling, it manages to be entertaining enough. the art is well done and has plenty of variance between characters and scenes. The game itself works great I had no bugs or errors and the game play is easy to follow and super intuitive. Overall this is a great game, one of the few H games I actually played through and had fun with.

Pretty good game, cute art, loveable character, fun story.
- One-hand gameplay, not an exploration RPGM, but very explore-able
- Freedom, you can do whatever you want before advancing story
- H-Scene are part of the game, not just bonus

The bad.
- Game is pretty hard, MTool recommended
- Defeated scene exist, luckily only for bosses
- Saving game is not always available

Try It 100% !!!

Good scenes that come at a solid pace, serviceable writing, and a decent number of alternate paths that make things interesting. The main thing dragging it down is the generic, grindy gameplay but there are a lot of convenience features to not wast too much of your time and the main story does an okay job of making sure you don't do any one thing for too long so it's pretty well mitigated.

All in all a good time, but it won't wow you unless it's your first H game.