RPGM - Completed - Space Detective Sara [Final] [nagiyahonpo]

Its an alright-ish game, just really laggy, even on high-end devices that's meant to run the highest-quality of games. Its quite tedious too, getting the materials, equipment, and even the sex scenes (mostly game over ones). Its got a story, i think, didnt seem to be much of one to me anyway...

this review is totally biased towards my view in games/porn in general

gameplay
full of grinding, heavily rng based while there's also useless item that doesn't do anything except wasting your time mixed in, making it unbearably annoying. The fight was alright but after a while it became a chore and feels boring.

story/visual
the only thing that is good is the animated standing picture. No custom npc or any of that. The boss design, well, not a fan but its alright i guess. Unacceptable boring ass ending. 800 mb full of absolutely nothing.

hentai
didn't even pop a boner

that's it. not recommended unless you are a massive masochist that likes to be tormented by endless chores.

I finished the game from start to finish. Game is 4-5 hours assuming you have good RNG.

Pros:

• The art
• There are only three translation errors that make it seem like MTL. I assure you that the translation is great. (Mouse = Mouth; Breat =Breast and talking to the commander again has him say "Good Pluck").
• The voice acting is decent.
• Despite the low amount of H scenes, the scenes itself are good quality.
• The game is not evil when it comes to the important equipment. You are warned in advance that you need it before proceeding and often get the items in that dungeon. There are two items that only have one in the entire game, but it will not stop you from upgrading your stuff.
• Game allows you to be broken once you get the ultimate upgrades
• You get a teleporter item at the very beginning that allows you to warp to the station or any checkpoint. You can farm items this way but can't do it all the time (it needs to refresh). If you're about to die, you can warp out of the dungeon with no penalty.
• Dying doesn't result in a game over. You are brought back to the station and health restored.
• The bosses actually look original (IDK if copied from other RPGM but its very Metroid feely).
• Music atmosphere is great. I can lie to my friends and say I played a discount Metroid game. :"D
• Most items can be crafted without much of an issue. Lower rank items can be used to make higher rank items used for weapons and armor and items needed for progress

Cons:

• Grindy as hell. Requires good RNG to get the items needed late game.
• Game gives you the illusion that you can challenge the planets in any order. With your health and equipment, you have to do it in order.
• The item shop is pretty useful and contradicts the plot. If they're having money problems, why is it hard to get anything or update the store as you get more gems? Why give me the grenade over the bomb? The bomb does more damage, break obstacles and hits a larger area. Grenades are just chuck and do damage.
• The game glitches on the flamethrower animation where if the game drops enough frames, the flame stays out and you can't shoot any other direction but where the glitch is until the next floor. This can cause you to lose because its not a hitbox but it still prevents you from changing directions.
• Enemy projectiles go through the wall. While your laser can shoot through the wall, it doesn't help if you can't see the enemy but the enemy can see you.
• When there are more enemies on the screen, the game all but slows down and comes to a complete halt. This is terrible in the third planet where trying to move around the fast enemies is near impossible and you'll be taking too many hits.
• The water planet gets worse visually as you go further down. My eyes were killing me because the lighting was horrible. The worst part is you can't see anything because the enemies blend in with the water so imagine missing the stairs because you can't see.
• To get the hentai scenes, you have to die by that specific enemy. If you die to something else, you just get sent back to the station. Bosses contain no hentai scenes.
• The enemies of the third planet are annoying and bullshit. They're already faster with higher HP than normal. Without a laser gun, you won't be making that much progress.
• The third planet forces you to grab 5 ropes in order to climb up the next area. If one or two was needed, it wouldn't be a problem, but five ropes that stop you from getting to the checkpoint is nothing short of extending gameplay time. I was so pissed off how after I found the hungry alien and hookshot my way through the stage that I needed another rope. -_-
• Final area has no build up. It repeats the enemies from the third planet, and then you go into a boss rush with no final boss. You just get to the end and...
• SURPRISE ESCAPE SEQUENCE. CAN'T BE A METROID GAME IF YOU CAN'T ESCAPE THE PLANET. While I personally liked it, its baffling how that was thrown in at the very end without any warning.
• Ending was just...an ending.

So I can say I wasted 4-5 hours of my life playing this one. In the folder, the game gives you a guide on what you need to make the items required to advance and the location of all the items. So if I had known that, I wouldn't have wasted time trying to find 5 amethyst gems.

If you want Samus porn, just google it. There is so much of that instead of wasting time playing as Not-Samus without a Not Ridley as a final boss.

Grindy, repetitive, and largely unsatisfying, this game is not worth anyone's time. Unless you really like grinding for materials in randomly generated dungeons and only ever getting a single frame of a sex scene plastered on your screen there's no need to play it.
The "combat" itself is, while unique in an RPGM context, still underwhelming. Either you shoot enemies that have way too much health by constantly backing yourself away into other enemies, or ram into them to get, again, a single JPG of a sex scene and noises from the protagonist.
I liked it at first thinking there'd be more to it but no, that's all there is, and even then the enemy variety is so lacking that I laughed when I looked through the game's files and found out just how little there is to the lewdness of it.
In other words, if you like the art then use a save file and look at the gallery, the "game" isn't worth the time waste.

Unfortunately, I can't recommend this one. The CG is pretty good and I love the main character's artwork but what you see in the preview is pretty much all you get. The scenes are all lose-to-get save for single still images taken from those scenes which display when you run into random 'heart' enemies. Maybe peruse the img folder but that's about the whole of the experience.

The gameplay itself is essentially just navigating a maze. Unfortunately my game kept freezing so I can't speak to the later stages of the game, but what I saw was unfortunately underwhelming.