I've played
Silent Pill and it is time for a review.
In Silent Pill you play as Sally Mason-Kishimoto, a scientist who came to Japan with her husband. The early details is that both her and her husband is very dedicated at work and they want to start a family soon. The game really emphasize that last part, and most of the game is about pregnancy.
Story: The story is pretty straight forward. There's really nothing new here. Basically, an old fossil was found, turns out to be some creature which now eats men and rapes women to very quickly reproduce itself. The game does offer some bits and pieces of knowledge about the world and there is some character interaction - although with few obvious decisions. Most of the decisions isn't something that you outright pick, but rather decide. Without spoiling; the game may offer you to do something in you'll get something that you need in return - often you'll have to trade your body. Or, you may decide to explore around and find a work around instead of the quick route. I kinda like that, as it emphasizes that you should be crafty and think outside of the deal that is offered to you.
Battles: The game has plenty of battles, which works through a system like this: At 100% health, Sally cannot be H-attacked. At 70% health she is groped by the monsters, which over times makes her horny. At 30% health the monsters can attack and rape her. Now, what I didn't like about that, was that it was very linear. Basically, the monsters would always grope her at 70% and they would always rape her at 30%. Although it wasn't hard to stay above 30% health, I would've liked some sort of stance or other in-battle option to avoid that.
Aside from that, the battles quickly became repetetive. While you can quite easily avoid enemies, you would have to fight them sometimes to gain levels. Over time this became very easy, but not very interesting. At least the grind went down as you become strong enough to basically one or two-hit every regular opponent.
Pregnancy mechanic: The game revolves heavily around pregnancy. If Sally is raped by a monster, then she will become pregnant unless she takes contraceptive immediately after (the game prompts you for the decision). The pregnancy advances every time you move from one area/building/whatever to somewhere else. I don't really think that it was particularly interesting. That may have something to do about what I like about pregnancy mechanics. What I like about pregnancy in games is the
risk if becoming pregnant, not actually being pregnant.
Art: The art is.. well, I would imagine that you'd like it if you are into tentacles. A lot of the art features that, and I'm not overly interested in that. Unfortunately, even if you do love tentacles, the art is rather heavily censored, which really doesn't help the art. I would also have loved if the changing of cloths would change Sally's cloths in the standing image.
In short:
The Good:
- Alright story, although a bit predictable.
- The MC is not retarded and dumb; that alone is enough to make it stand out among most RPGM games.
- I really liked the hints and funny remarks that was placed in the game through a character that you bump into now and then.
- The story evolves through action rather than click-able decisions.
- You don't have to die to get the art.
The In-between
- Unique monsters, but I don't find them too interesting.
- Very tentacle-heavy art. Nice if you love, not so much if you don't.
- There are some rather rare monsters that would've been fun to combat more instead of the standard 'everywhere' monsters
- Battles can rather easily be avoided, but since you need to gain levels you will essentially have to grind some anyway, which can be bit boring.
The Bad
- Plays a bit too much into some of the Japanese tropes about old men, fat men and generally people being unreasonable: "why would we help you save us, and the world? Okay, we will if you suck us off".
- Pregnancy mechanics are a bit shallow, and pregnancy is guaranteed after monster rape.
I actually did enjoy the game quite a bit, and completing it, I decided to rate it 5 stars.