Review for v0.6.50
Simple, clunky, and charming. I think those words describe Sex Valley well. As the name might indicate, it's a farming-sim inspired RPG where you take on the classic role of new guy arrives to town and happens to be given a dingy farm. Though truth be told though, farming is really only a small piece of the puzzle.
At first I think it's easy to write this off, especially if you aren't into RPGM games. The farming is pretty mindless, I did mining one time for a quest, I didn't fish at all, the caves system is filled with random encounters I turned off, and the scripted fights I (mostly) steamrolled. To top it off, you're sort of limited by stamina and day/night cycles as well. Thing is, all those elements are really minor inconveniences at worst.
Where the game shines is when it focuses on the village and the colorful cast of characters both in and surrounding it, which thankfully it does often. It's almost deceptive in a way. The dialogue is simple, you have to gift girls to raise affection over and over, blah blah. Whatever. But then you start getting genuinely fun quests for them, and despite the simple dialogue, seeing them show a surprising amount of personality. Suddenly you find yourself hooked by it, and that's when I realized I really like this game.
The dev has done a good job of making this village feel alive. All the girls operate on a schedule that has them out and about doing different things at different times, and it gives this a lot of charm because of it. The art has a cute vibe to it that's surprisingly hot in scenes, the characters are super varied in both personality and design, there's a bunch of fun interactions between them, and overall they're endearing to interact with (more or less). That's not to say this is the most complex or well written RPG out there, as most of the quests play out quick, most conversations are short, and the MC himself feels more of a prop than his own person, but the game still keeps you busy and surprised with all the new stuff you run into. There's a lot of fun little details too when you pick up on them.
Sex is an aspect that has some of that aforementioned chunkiness to it. There's a lot of nice scenes for a more vanilla approach, but man there's a lot of fetish scenes too. My problem is that they come out of nowhere sometimes. As an example, I went up to a side character and suddenly moments later my male MC is blowing them. Personally not my thing. Then all of a sudden like four different love interests want me to do feet stuff with them. I'm just not into feet man. What I do appreciate is having more vanilla scenes alongside dom/sub scenes though. I feel like dom scenes the MC turns into an asshole, and I viewed a sub scene and suddenly am on the dick end of a futa.
There's other minor gripes I have, I ran into numerous bugs, and there's some aspects I feel could be a lot better. Despite all that though, I found this to be a surprisingly fun RPG to sink some time into.
Simple, clunky, and charming. I think those words describe Sex Valley well. As the name might indicate, it's a farming-sim inspired RPG where you take on the classic role of new guy arrives to town and happens to be given a dingy farm. Though truth be told though, farming is really only a small piece of the puzzle.
At first I think it's easy to write this off, especially if you aren't into RPGM games. The farming is pretty mindless, I did mining one time for a quest, I didn't fish at all, the caves system is filled with random encounters I turned off, and the scripted fights I (mostly) steamrolled. To top it off, you're sort of limited by stamina and day/night cycles as well. Thing is, all those elements are really minor inconveniences at worst.
Where the game shines is when it focuses on the village and the colorful cast of characters both in and surrounding it, which thankfully it does often. It's almost deceptive in a way. The dialogue is simple, you have to gift girls to raise affection over and over, blah blah. Whatever. But then you start getting genuinely fun quests for them, and despite the simple dialogue, seeing them show a surprising amount of personality. Suddenly you find yourself hooked by it, and that's when I realized I really like this game.
The dev has done a good job of making this village feel alive. All the girls operate on a schedule that has them out and about doing different things at different times, and it gives this a lot of charm because of it. The art has a cute vibe to it that's surprisingly hot in scenes, the characters are super varied in both personality and design, there's a bunch of fun interactions between them, and overall they're endearing to interact with (more or less). That's not to say this is the most complex or well written RPG out there, as most of the quests play out quick, most conversations are short, and the MC himself feels more of a prop than his own person, but the game still keeps you busy and surprised with all the new stuff you run into. There's a lot of fun little details too when you pick up on them.
Sex is an aspect that has some of that aforementioned chunkiness to it. There's a lot of nice scenes for a more vanilla approach, but man there's a lot of fetish scenes too. My problem is that they come out of nowhere sometimes. As an example, I went up to a side character and suddenly moments later my male MC is blowing them. Personally not my thing. Then all of a sudden like four different love interests want me to do feet stuff with them. I'm just not into feet man. What I do appreciate is having more vanilla scenes alongside dom/sub scenes though. I feel like dom scenes the MC turns into an asshole, and I viewed a sub scene and suddenly am on the dick end of a futa.
There's other minor gripes I have, I ran into numerous bugs, and there's some aspects I feel could be a lot better. Despite all that though, I found this to be a surprisingly fun RPG to sink some time into.
