Unity - Completed - Spirit Valley [v1.4.1] [Otterside Games]

Dropped around level 12-ish.

Gameplay
It's a pokemon clone. Only difference is the mons are monster girls.
The fighting didn't do it for me. Which is a big pain point because there is not much else.
The girls just feel so similar. Their stats don't differ a lot. Their typing doesn't matter that much. Even evolutions don't change much.
Wild encounters have a rather steep level curve. On the one hand a nice source of xp and it's quick to add a new girl to the team. On the other hand it feels like you don't improve.

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You can fuck your monster girls and they wriggle around when fighting.
I found the girls to be very same-y. Most have a very similar build and no discernable personality.
The scenes with your girls are also just 1 second loops that feel same-y across species. Though to be fair how much variety can you pack in 1 second?

With how much mammary clutter the world, it felt like this isn't a valley but a giant diary farm.
Ver (v.1.4.0)

It's too big that it felt soulless, mainly thanks to the lack of world building.
For a place with so much women, they sure felt like your common whore.

• What is their base beauty standard?
• Who are the strip dancer market their costumer?
• With so little male and sometime none at all, why don't they act like all high-school girl stereotype?
• Why the need to coexist with the spirit?

After all who cares about question like that?
The town primary use is to stockpile item and healing the team, just as the developer intended.

So let's jump to the mechanic, the main selling point the game advertise it for!
Just like there's no explanation to jumping off ledge, the game need player to be familiar with how Pokemon game work.

• Shinny isn't that special they merely color swap.
• No stat bonus even when evolving, no unique characteristic or scene different from normal one, It's just more convenient catching one since it also register as catching normal variant.
• The cutesy Sfx really hide a lot of gory detail the damage has done.

That said, stamina system really work for me.
I find myself training and switching team just to ration it's usage;
With normal monster you catch become canon fodder for exploration while saving your big guns for the forced encounter.
I wouldn't call it intentional, but having strategy does make it fun.
Only that strategy work IF you have 2 or 3 party member at the start, not to mention forcing it by having level cap.
Having just one makes the first exploration a circular back and forth to hospital after just a single scratch, forcing to dump a lot of mechanic at the beginning for player convenient experience which should have been introduced along the story to keep engaging the player.

This is a high quality game. You can tell the dev put a lot of time into this. I didn't think I'd sink so many hours into this but I am.

The story is good. Scenes above average. The dev likes anal so you will see more anal scenes. Not my cup of tea though.

What I like is the humour in the game. The dialogue during the story is very funny.

Pleasantly monstergirly, infuriatingly pokemonlike. There have passed literal decades since first pokemon gameboy games and game design went ways forward, why can't this game? It suffers from most of illnesses of early pokemon games and does not try to mitigate them. The developer should ask themself - what makes my game fun? what does not make it fun? is it necessary for the not fun elements to exist to increase the fun or are they there for no reason but to stay true to an outdated format? This could have been done much better. The art is lovely though.

It's not terrible, but it's not exceptional either. The combat is a bit too grindy and boring, and it quickly overstays its welcome; which is a problem when 95% of the game is combat. The art style is alright, but for me was a case of 'this is too cutesy to be fappable'. Like I'd legit rather hug these critters than fuck them.

Also there's surprise futa/trap content (with male only MC), so be warned.

A fun but grindy and unrewarding porn parody of pokemon. You run around, farm combat xp, collect monster girls. The H-scenes are repeating very often, just with a different skin changed.

Oh and, to actually open the H-scenes you need to click arrow right 5 times, per character.

v1.3.0 EA
Great game the only thing that was not great are the h- animations because they kinda repeat themselves, there is only 1 scene per spirit girl also I didn't like the style of the girls too much especially the eyes sometimes but still good with a huge variety of I think 67 monster girls and some NPCs to have h with.

I saw some people got annoyed about the battles, but they did excellent in my opinion, I mean it is turn based RPG.. also, most battles are over with 1–2 attacks.

Good music. Stunning pixel art. The dialogs are good, funny and rather short which I liked a lot. Nice story. Overall pretty easy with battles and map design

It's pretty awful.
Look, the art is decent if slightly generic but this could've worked better as a gallery than an actual game, there isn't variations between shinies and normal "spirits", what's the point?
Game is boring, animations outside of porn scenes is boring, combat is boring, exploration is boring... it's pretty much a waste of time to play it, just unlock the gallery and call it a day.

Pretty fun!
I did not come into this game for the writing, as this is Capture/Collecting game. So I won't rate that aspect, although it wasn't bad, had some funny parts.

Loved the game. However, after I was done, I was left wishing there was more. Sort of like it didn't quite reach what it set out to do.
For instance other games with a similar vibe to this have several evolution, while monsters in this game have 1 evolution that they can go through. The second was being teased great Futa units to collect, but then only being able to capture two types. It was sort of a let down.

Also, this opinion is a lot more biased, but some of the Evolution's went in the opposite direction of what I would of expected/wanted. For instance Serpentina looks like a dope early snake form of Medusa. But then she evolves into a full blown furry looking snake. That was a big let down to me. It seemed more like it was devolving. xD
Another downside was the "Shiny's" like basically all but one were worse looking color schemes then the originals. Also shiny's popped up very often. In fact half the time is seemed like I would find the Shiny first, and then find the regular's after.
The H-Scenes were limited.
As a final note on bad things, you'd expect in an H-Game pokemon rip off, they would evolve into something more lewd, but that wasn't really the case at all, they just all got bigger like they stopped at mcdonalds every day for a couple of years, or simply turned into furry's.

The rest of the game was great though. A solid 10hrs of fun if you like Capture/Collecting games, and plan to farm a bit. If you just B-Lined it, you could probably finish the game in like 4-5 hr's.

Great art, but the animations are very limited. Gameplay is just another pokemon ripoff with nothing unique or interesting about it. This game is like 99% pokemon style grinding with 1% sex scenes.

The writing is very bland and forgettable as well.

Could be better, like, really better. The thing with this one, is that they didn't make combat very unique, there aren't special moves animations either, or many H-animations for that matter (The spirits have the same animations with a different skin), but since they are taking this from PKM, they are very faithful in doing the same garbage GF get away with it lol.

It's kind of sad, because the art is kind of nice and the characters' curvy bodies are great to see in more games. But, hey! I'm doing this review before the game is finished, so who knows? '' . . . ''

Bro just copied the annoying pokemon combat, missed movements, leave combat by luck (maybe you can't). Very few sex scenes.

It has pontecial but it needs to be polished and add content, right now it's a waste of time, it's just boring. The worst thing about pokemon is its combat and it has copied it as is without improving anything. Just bad game with good art

Boring and tiring gameplay.
Every "spirit" has only one sex scene.
Movement speed to slow, fighting animations to slow.


Like only ok thing is art.

As I need to write at least 200 symbols to post it I will just say, dont bother with this game, if you can just find video of all sex scenes on some site if it exists. This game is rly boring and slow if you want to waste hours for couple sex scenes feel free to play it.

The art is good but some designs could use a bit more uniqueness in their stances and some h-scenes are just reskinned versions of other monster girls'. The combat though is horrible, it takes some of the stuff people hates from pokemon but boosts it up. The pain of not being able to run from a monster you're two levels higher than, accuracy (seriously, why are no 100% accurate dmg moves), how much of a gap a few levels feel and more I can touch on. My suggestion would be to redo some of the girls and some anims (where tf did chubby's chub go?) and give the futa girls a bulge or something to help people know which are futa and which are not. Make all dmging moves without a secondary effect 100% accurate and reduce the ones with a secondary effect a bit lower, expand move pools to allow for some coverage and moves that aren't too similar, shift some npcs levels around, reduce how much hp healing moves heal. Get rid of party debuffs and make it so switching out girls removes stat debuffs, make poison feel a bit more consistant ( I swear it does more to me despite my girl having less max hp than the girl I affected), a cum button on the database, making it so buff moves don't debuff, make it so accuracy reducing moves can't hit as often and also a level suggestion for areas as to allow players the ability to properly prepair.

TLDR: Art is pretty decent but repetitive if you look long enough and the gameplay is frustrating and not fun.

Why are all the tits large or very large. Come on, put some flat chested girls and petite tits in there!

Also... PUT A OPTION TO GET RID OF FUTA!

Unavoidable futa kills the experience for me. Not everyone wants to see that shit! You don't need to appeal to everyone by including that shit!

I knocked off 3 stars for the unavoidable futa content.

Just my personal opinion, the game is extremely fleshed out and well made... but... it is totally unplayable for me.
The run speed is too slow, the combat speed is too slow and there are way too many useless transitions, on top of that there are too many text boxes in battle.
And the animations on top of that are way too vanilla.

Cool Pokemon copy, will add last star when a real gallery is introduced, as of now there's just a 'pokedex' lacking the final animation for each spirit. However you can use a limited consumable item to play the minigame and view the full scene.

I saw this and didn't expect much but it blew my expectations away.
I'm recommending heavily, the combat is fun and requires a bit of strategy, the animations are hot even if they could be more of them (only one per spirit). Hoping the devs will continue to build on this awesome concept. Game time clocks in at around 8 hours for me (to the end of the early access)

Gameplay like classic 2d pokemon games with good art and mechanics.
You even choose a starter spirit from three choices in the starting village.
I look forward to seeing more content for the game in the future.

The gameplay is a bit repetitive, with not much to explore on the map.
The characters are cute, but they all look a bit similar.

a good variety of monster classes, but with attacks quite similar and repetitive between classes, you will see 2 or more monster classes using the same attacks, and it has a small amount of attacks of the monster's element. (example: plant type monster having 4 normal attacks and only 1 plant type attack).

It takes a while to get XP when you get close to Lv 20. It can get tiring, but the game is interesting for those who like the monster capture style of play, but it may not be very interesting for those who just want a +18.

and the initial Neko-Monster could use a bleeding debuff on attacks instead of just a critical increase, I feel like it lacks a few more effects on attacks.