Identify Sidescroller made by 曼珠沙華/Manjushaka? ("Ninja Sekiren")

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Gently Weeps

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Third time in a row that the boss has clipped out of bounds, forcing me to restart the level.
Can literally one-shot you because his attacks can hit twice at certain angles.
Some attacks inexplicably ignore the i-frames on your dodge.
And the cherry on top: no sex scene, but the last thing I'm thinking after spending 30 minutes replaying the level and replaying the boss is jerking it. Congratulations, this might be the only porn game I've played that made me LESS horny.
I'm tired of devs randomly putting difficulty spikes in their gooner games. The game is too janky for something this hard to work. If he did half the damage maybe I could more easily excuse all the issues, but the difficulty spike highlights the worst parts of this game. In its current state, this is undefendable.
Also, I was forced to restart Stage 1 once because I got stuck out of bounds. I had to restart the game because the doorways in the hub would frequently stop working. The developer should have just made a gallery, but maybe that would have revealed the complete and utter lack of content this game actually has after a year and a half of development. (4 sex animations xd)
Wish I could say I was looking forward to seeing more from this game, but I'm not. I'll just watch the animations somewhere else when they're done in three years.
"gooner games"
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RLJFZ

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>"This game is buggy and softlocked 5 times"
>"Skill issue"
I assume you're referring to the developer's skill in this case? :ROFLMAO:
You sure talk big for someone who only create games with still images and no real gameplay system. I still love your works but the way you go about your critics, while true at some part, is not it.
 

TwistedScarlett60

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You sure talk big for someone who only create games with still images and no real gameplay system. I still love your works but the way you go about your critics, while true at some part, is not it.
A boss battle soft locking three times, forcing me to restart the entire level three times, isn't really me 'talking big', or 'not it' with my critiques. That's about as fair and objective as I can be.
And I appreciate that you may like this game and want to defend it, and I can appreciate that others may not have run into as many issues as I have with the game, but these are still important issues to raise awareness about, and it'd be inappropriate to act like I should just remain quiet about the fact my experience was so buggy and that I got soft locked five times throughout my playthrough.
 

Gently Weeps

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A boss battle soft locking three times, forcing me to restart the entire level three times, isn't really me 'talking big', or 'not it' with my critiques. That's about as fair and objective as I can be.
And I appreciate that you may like this game and want to defend it, and I can appreciate that others may not have run into as many issues as I have with the game, but these are still important issues to raise awareness about, and it'd be inappropriate to act like I should just remain quiet about the fact my experience was so buggy and that I got soft locked five times throughout my playthrough.
give the game another chance because all you wanted was the sex scene, give it a try next patch then ditch it if it fails your standard
 

droveman

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Apr 5, 2021
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I can tolerate jank (when cheatengine is too much hassle); I'm aware that the indie h dev types probably aren't approaching these games with the mind that it gets food on the table. If there's any defense to it, it's that designing for the voyeur is for later—the subscriber's there for updates and they get them—with no promises for how fap—or gamer—friendly the update gets. Even then, there wasn't any promise of victory H with the sumo boss. I gather it's a bragging rights thing.

I didn't encounter any soft-locking. I exited the game after saving just before the boss, and it takes me to the same save point just before the boss—no restarts

-rambling from here-

As the dev, they can just enjoy their aseprite/photoshop/whatever-builder-software loops at their leisure so looking at H isn't even a concern—I infer for them it's making something work in the first place at all (and just being happy that they've even managed to make something for a hot second looking at Kyrieru, Kosmic91, umai-neko, musfan/aoinanaya and other..."暇-hobbyists", as opposed to, say eencya or Hinayua or who seem to have their circles professional and figured out likely from past work experience—and any extra hands they can find), which is a fair distance away from being able to sell something, let alone be worth subscribing for (...let alone sailing for). It's probably in there somewhere, but buried in other priorities. Dick-brain isn't the same as Inspired-from-game brain, which is also different from artist and programmer brain.
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This isn't the most annoying game to me to be frank. I had no patience to sit through hitting all the adds (probably the intended way to play) and died a bunch ignoring them into to purples leading to hitstun loops, but the boss isn't really someone I concerned myself with beating since the only H scene I saw available from that was their block grab...

but even with that, and granting that I decided to try to beat them just now I can see that the health does seem needlessly padded. (it took five distracted tries, but just like regular mobs, just don't overcommit attacks and stay near the middle, you could probably get away with half-second slow reaction time assuming you're staying the first two barrels' gap away. When in doubt quick jab).

More annoying are the ridiculous crawler enemies in Fighting Girl Yuri (0.44 last played), but even that doesn't have H locked behind a saveless thread (and the game is easy to manipulate to DIY). At least Sekiren makes me feel like I'm making the mistake for a risky play than janked out because the hitboxes are ridiculous.

In any case, if Sekiren is unrecommendable/too egregious to support there's always Princess Reconquista to fill the gameplay niche
 
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