RPGM - Completed - Sextastic Tales of the Sacred Sword Hero [v1.10] [kagurado]

It's hardly an RPG game, barebones battle system which can even be more nonexistent if you choose easy mode that gives you 99Lvl. at the beginning of the game.
Story is... just hilarious. It's like a parody of a classic hero plot.
And the reason why I still gave this poor excuse of a game four stars... are sex scenes. They are static 2DCGs, but damn, they're hot, sexy and erotic.
Overall this game is like some sort of porn novel adaptation. But still liked it very much.

1. CG's great. There's a lot, so that's good. Ahegao face rules.
2. Story is average. Summary: you are a hero, so go bang a lot of girls. Nothing special, but it works.
3. Combat is average. I liked the combat was short and simple. Having a complex combat system can make yo dick sad.
4. I liked the art. It's simple and polished. and Ahegao face rules.

Can't say the game's one of a kind.
Nonetheless, it's one of those games that I don't feel regret after playing.
Good for passing idle times.

7/10

(Review after completing the game)

It has good turn-based gameplay, better than most rpgm games I have played, the porn aspects were decent quality although the writing did feel samey after a while.
4 out of 5 for the gameplay
3 out of 5 for the porn
I would say this game is better than most RPGM games out there though.

Its pretty difficult to rate this one because as a hentai game itself like the CG and getting to them are actually pretty good and its pretty easy. So if you want a hentai game well this will work.

Now as for the game itself being an RPG game with combat I have to ask what was the point of adding it? I mean the story supports that there should be combat so its okay to have combat in this RPGM but why did they add it if they were gonna do it so terribly... The combat is pointless its almost impossible to lose and the map is ultra filled with chest and enemies.

I feel like the enemies were put there just so the game is longer and thats not cool. They just waste your time.

Luckily its pretty quick to get through regardless. But, the story isn't really super good just okay. So its hard to say weather its worth actually playing or not. If your bored give it a go I guess

This game is pretty bad. The combat is stupidly pointless, with the hero healing after every fight. Not like that matters, though, because even on normal mode most enemies won't be able to damage past your auto-healing. No idea why there's even an "easy" mode considering even on normal I'm not sure if I could make my character lose a battle even if I wanted to. Utterly pointless, and the sex scenes don't make up for the waste of time the combat is.

The sex scenes are your typical 1 CG per scene that you see from Japan, with particularly bad sound effects. They sound nothing even remotely close to what real sex sounds like, clueing you in on the obvious that this game was developed by a virgin like most Japanese games are.

There's plenty more that is bad about this game, such as the MC's character, the lack of items aside from a couple of basics, and the gaping hole that is this game's plot.

Quite frankly, Takamura has spoiled CG art porn for me, considering he has shown what you can do with simple drawings to make scenes a hell of a lot better than the typical pretty CG garbage you see in Japanese games. Well, that and his dialogue is a hell of a lot less cringy, as well.

I had a pretty hard time deciding on the actual rating for this little game. The good things are very good, and the bad things are very bad, but as with all things related to enjoyment, it's pretty subjective. So let's break things down into parts.

The good:
- If you like this particular artist/art-style, then the CG sets are definitely amazing. There's a pretty big number of girls, and while most of them have only a single scene each, the variety of the context for those scenes and the girls themselves more than makes up for it.
- The scenes themselves aren't that bad either, in a Hentai-Rape sort of sense. If you enjoy games where rape is never as serious as it could be, then this game has plenty of variety. There's plenty of proper consensual smut too. The protagonist is a fairly classic douche, but he's no worse than Rance, if you get the reference (better than Rance actually, since he actually sticks with a good number of girls instead of running off at the end for even MOAR pussy).
- It's easy to get all the scenes, and even if you miss some on the way somehow, you can still unlock everything at the end. The ones you can miss don't have much in the way of context, so it's not like you lose out on much by not unlocking them in the game itself.

The bad:
-The gameplay is pretty much just tacked on for the sake of having gameplay. You can go through any fight, except the final boss-fight, maybe, by just holding down the Z key. A bit of minimal grinding that you mostly get by collecting every chest in every room, and you're strong enough to face everything.
- The story is the usual overused cliche of the 'Hero' who's chosen by a macguffin to save the world, and he does so mainly because he wants more pussy. I'll give it some points for all the demon pussy, but even that isn't particularly new. All in all, you can ignore the 'story' and just enjoy the smut and you won't lose out on much.
- The RPG system isn't really used at all, aside from leveling and some choices on which character to apply some stat boosts that you can find in chests, which in the end doesn't really matter simply because the game is just too easy. Oh, and there's some items too, I guess, not that there's anything particularly amazing...

Conclusions:
As a hentai delivery device, this game does a very good job of it. Nice scenes, nice CG variety, good art style. While it's all pretty much vanilla, the number of girls and contexts still make it enjoyable.

However, as a game, it fails pretty badly. The story is bad. The gameplay is bad and boring. The progression is pointless.... etc.

All in all, this would have been way better as a CG set, rather than a game.

Which is how we get to a final 3 star rating.
CG is 5/5, for its target audience.
Scenes are 4/5 for their context.
Story is 2/5.
Gameplay is 1/5.

nice game with nice side story implemented inside,
really like the idea the one who defeated the devil become devil,
you get all scenes anyway in the end, it would be better if the characters can be interacted again with a new CG

The best part of the game was the CG's and the ending(it isn't over with banging the princess there's a little more who help to give a fair ending), and the worst part was IT ISN'T CHALLENGING AT ALL because the whole party got full HP bar after every fight so you can "clean" every forest, mountain or castle filled with monsters without problem, i'm not fan of grinding like a madman but is good having some worries from time to time!!!!!

ps: i don't know who's the artist from the CG's but i love him already!!!!

the game starts well, I like the premise quite a bit, how bad? It is too easy, the passive of the prota is completely broken and when I get to the first boss, she did 2 damage to me and healed me 12, at least the first girl does ahegao and gives you heartfelt eyes, it is a good point, I will give a four why I liked the start nothing more

I give this a five star because I liked the sex scenes and the combat isn't even that bad. The only reason why I got mad at the combat because my dumb self decided to kill all the monsters in the room to "grind for levels" (which made the game easy, but that's besides the point).

The story was trash. I know the story isn't really the focus in this kind of games, but there should be a minimum of effort put into it. If the story was the only problem then I would probably give it at least 3 stars, but this game also fails as an rpg.

The gameplay was trash, there is the option of starting from level 1 or from lvl 99 but there is no difference at all, that's how easy it is. I felt like the person working on this game realized that which is why they decided to cram it with fucking enemies everywhere, it was so annoying because even if you could escape instantly, there are so many enemies you will have to escape like 10 or more times per screen, and it was even more annoying if you are as through as me, picking up all of the chests around. I just didn't had fun with this game. Even if you had trouble with a boss, all you needed is to go back and kill a couple of mobs which would take less than a minute and then beat the boss. It felt like playing a really annoying clicker game.

If you are here for the H-Scenes, well, then I guess it is good enough.

As an RPG.... it felt too bland, too easy. Why play an rpg if there is no challenge at all? I mean yeah I did liked some of the H-Scenes but if that was the only reason I was playing this game, might as well just watch some hentai.

The only redeemable thing about this game were the CGs, which are quite good.

CGs are high quality, a gallery exists, the English translation is well done, and objectives are fairly easy to figure out (meaning you don't need a walkthrough to get through the game), but it's yet another example of how RPGM can fall short and create an annoying experience instead of an engaging session.

True to its name, the easy mode option makes every combat situation completely meaningless and trivial, to the point where it is quicker to just hold down Z or Enter and let the game skip through itself instead of actually picking skills or strategizing, because you will literally never die or even take serious damage. Most of the time you'll be running from one boss to the next with these trivial enemy encounters occurring every 10 seconds or less (which is not an exaggeration - there are way too many combat encounters in this game). Luckily there are no limitations to the "escape" (end combat) option, so you can effectively skip every encounter except boss fights, but it makes you wonder why the combat even exists except to lengthen the game.

It's a situation where nothing is fun except the sex scenes and the character interactions, but the "not fun" part (read: turnbased combat/walking simulator slog) is 80% of the game. Maybe the higher difficulty option is more balanced but I think this game would've been better served as a visual novel rather than being developed in RPGM.

Exactly what you would expect off the description of the game. Overall was fun and the cg's were great with the text provided. Wish there were more games like this. Would have loved a post game but even without it. The game was great.