RPGM Star Knightess Aura [v0.50.1] [aura-dev]

[Bromo]

Sooooo you like to play corruption to avoid sex...?

No, I like to play corruption to avoid avoid vaginal penetration and see her become obsessed with sexual acts while still remaining "pure" in a sense

You could also say I don't find vag penetration particularly enticing? English is not my main language so I might be bad at putting it into words
You could also say that some people ask "is NTR avoidable" - I would be the person who would ask "Is vaginal sex avoidable" xD (edit: no, gay content doesn't count )

 

[Lazy bumblebee]

i cant activate quest with campain who can take me to in winterfall and i complite quest Blue Sugar Menace

 

[Blurpee69]

I was pretty happy with the jump in corruption Aura displayed in the real world: calling people meat, the disdain she showed for the basketball player teasing but not fucking her, the disregard she showed towards Eli's dream's and relationship. That all is top tier corruption from where Aura started.

Things I'd like to see expanded on, but I have my doubts will go much further: Rose's continued corruption in an attempt to "save" Aura leading to their renewed friendship, just on a much darker path. Aura ultimately resisting Richard, but still becoming a demon queen of Roya.

 

[Manju]

I was pretty happy with the jump in corruption Aura displayed in the real world: calling people meat, the disdain she showed for the basketball player teasing but not fucking her, the disregard she showed towards Eli's dream's and relationship. That all is top tier corruption from where Aura started.

Things I'd like to see expanded on, but I have my doubts will go much further: Rose's continued corruption in an attempt to "save" Aura leading to their renewed friendship, just on a much darker path. Aura ultimately resisting Richard, but still becoming a demon queen of Roya.

Yeah the game takes its time with the corruption and that makes it more satisfactory, can't wait to see how our heroine will be by the end

Oh and I'm loving the maid content, the writer really awoke something in me with that grape scene all the way back lmao

 

[Limita]

how do I refute the luck professor?

 

[Goriel]

how do I refute the luck professor?

you have to read his book "luck is also a skill" it takes 8 days to read it

 

[Dknightpen]

how do you start the maid academy?

 

[smkey21]

how do you start the maid academy?

At the moment you need to interact with the barrier to Richard's domain to get the quest that leads to the academy. That's pretty much at the very end of all the content.

A recent update on patreon said that the unlock had been moved to completing an earlier quest in the first 0.39 prerelease, but it sounds like the dev isn't certain that's a good place to unlock it. That's just my way of saying it might be easier to unlock the maid academy in the next major release if the developer doesn't change his mind.

 

[Trihan]

I really love this game but it really start to be more annoying than anything.

I've been trying to fight Beelzebub for sometime already and even removing the collar it's f impossible, scripted like hell, completely unbalanced. once he fuse with Leviathan no matter what I do he can heal himself in one turn more damage than I can do in 2 turns. I tried all the buffs and skills but none are of any use here. The dodge barely buy you time, ignoring the zombies to focus on the general ends you forced to eat corrupted meat. Removing buffs makes you just loose more time as he put debuffs back anyway, stealing his magic is useless cause apparently he doesn't need any ...

It's not the first time I stumbled upon unbalanced and stupid things now even more as the game tries to press you to hurry up while you are in a game where you actually should take your time to enjoy all it has to offer. I feel like the dev doesn't now anymore where to go. Is it a dark soul game? Cause if it is the plan I'll stop bothering checking for any update, or is it a lewd game with a nice story? Cause right now I can't follow the story anymore nor access the lewd parts as there are more and more requirement to access them that makes maybe sense for the author but not for anybody else.

It's the same with the trial, maybe some choices makes sense for you but it doesn't for everybody and I just gave up this quest cause you are forced on a path you should follow EXACTLY and to my point of view doesn't make sense at all, you could solve it easily with your proofs but couldn't present them at the right time cause "It's not how you should do it". I understand RPGmaker give limitation to the game, but it's not really an excuse, you have to work with the engine, not against. Now quests feel real forced an unintuitive, progress is blocked by cursed that should lead Aura to bad ends or submission but only locks content and progress, boss you can't fight even with cheats and with absolutely no strategy, nothing it's just again "nope you are locked too bad" and the new updates locking content behind progress you can't reach asking you to start a new game that will solve no problem since it impossible to optimize your game when you play a few days each month.

I also wonder what's the point to improve your skills if each time you do (skipping a day) your enemies also become stronger to the point you can't kill them even with max stats? Really I'm starting to enjoy the updates less and less as I feel I get punished now for wanting more ...

Nothing But The Truth was implemented entirely by me, so if you have issues with that one complain to either myself or the writer. ^_^

We put a bunch of different checks and balances into it in case you simply don't want to do the trial part or figure out the evidence; you can take the corruption path immediately and just not bother trying to refute François's testimony; you can intentionally present the wrong thing 4 times and just end the trial with the "bad" outcome; you could have gotten a lifeline from Marie by blackmailing her with the affair evidence, which gives you an extra chance if you lose your lives.

The intended path for the non-vice route though is:

1. Press François's line "That left everyone but Anthelme and Lorraine accounted for downstairs as they went up."
2. Present either Laval's Affair or Marie's Ledger against the line "Of course, Marie has no reason to lie, so my alibi remains as strong as ever." (if you blackmailed her and present the affair, you'll get a confirmation prompt since it loses you her support for the lifeline)
3. Present the Sleeping Formula against the line "While I was alone with Marie due to his nap, there's no way I could have known he would be asleep."
4. Press Marie's line "He did say as he left that he had 'something he had to do'."
5. Present Letters to Lorraine against Lorraine's line "I was sick of weathering his barbs in silence, so I was going to demand he stop."
6. Present Laval's Diary against François's line "In any case, nothing this 'true heir' can do would actually prove their provenance."
7. Present the Missing Will against the line "You know nothing about this supposed heir. Perhaps you intend to scour all of Verdeaux?"

Note that there's currently a bug where if you have the *full* version of the Missing Will from having both the scrap of paper and having talked to Camille about it, it doesn't work when you present it against the testimony line. This has been fixed for the next release.

The path for the vice route is the same up until the post-recess if you chose not to cross-examine François. It's then:

1. Present Letters to Lorraine against Lorraine's statement "I knew nothing of it being with Laval; nothing has changed between us two."
2. Present the Marked Article against the line "Anthelme told me to go see Laval first after we talked a bit in the study."

From this point, the choices are vice-based and you're told which evidence will be used.

Point 2 is the one I think has the weakest logical connection in the trial overall and I'm going to talk to Absurdity about perhaps revisiting it; there is a hint if you press that statement but I still think it needs something more.

 

[robin312]

I really love this game but it really start to be more annoying than anything.

I've been trying to fight Beelzebub for sometime already and even removing the collar it's f impossible, scripted like hell, completely unbalanced. once he fuse with Leviathan no matter what I do he can heal himself in one turn more damage than I can do in 2 turns. I tried all the buffs and skills but none are of any use here. The dodge barely buy you time, ignoring the zombies to focus on the general ends you forced to eat corrupted meat. Removing buffs makes you just loose more time as he put debuffs back anyway, stealing his magic is useless cause apparently he doesn't need any ...

It's not the first time I stumbled upon unbalanced and stupid things now even more as the game tries to press you to hurry up while you are in a game where you actually should take your time to enjoy all it has to offer. I feel like the dev doesn't now anymore where to go. Is it a dark soul game? Cause if it is the plan I'll stop bothering checking for any update, or is it a lewd game with a nice story? Cause right now I can't follow the story anymore nor access the lewd parts as there are more and more requirement to access them that makes maybe sense for the author but not for anybody else.

It's the same with the trial, maybe some choices makes sense for you but it doesn't for everybody and I just gave up this quest cause you are forced on a path you should follow EXACTLY and to my point of view doesn't make sense at all, you could solve it easily with your proofs but couldn't present them at the right time cause "It's not how you should do it". I understand RPGmaker give limitation to the game, but it's not really an excuse, you have to work with the engine, not against. Now quests feel real forced an unintuitive, progress is blocked by cursed that should lead Aura to bad ends or submission but only locks content and progress, boss you can't fight even with cheats and with absolutely no strategy, nothing it's just again "nope you are locked too bad" and the new updates locking content behind progress you can't reach asking you to start a new game that will solve no problem since it impossible to optimize your game when you play a few days each month.

I also wonder what's the point to improve your skills if each time you do (skipping a day) your enemies also become stronger to the point you can't kill them even with max stats? Really I'm starting to enjoy the updates less and less as I feel I get punished now for wanting more ...

I completely agree. This is the reasom why you need more diffictulty levels than just "exptremely easy" and "extremely hard". Something in the middle for people who has actual life and can't spend 100+ hours for one run, but wanted a bit of challenge when you need to think about a strategy, use enemy weaknesses and your chars strengths

 

[Trihan]

I completely agree. This is the reasom why you need more diffictulty levels than just "exptremely easy" and "extremely hard". Something in the middle for people who has actual life and can't spend 100+ hours for one run, but wanted a bit of challenge when you need to think about a strategy, use enemy weaknesses and your chars strengths

There are five difficulty levels in the game.

 

[smkey21]

I completely agree. This is the reasom why you need more diffictulty levels than just "exptermly easy" and "extremly hard". Something in the middle for people who has actual life and can't spend 100+ hours for one run, but wanted a bit of challege when you need to think about a strategy, use enemy weaknesses and your chars strengths

This game already had 5 difficulties, which is 4 more options than at least 9/10ths of the RPGs I have played. I have mostly played on the normal difficulty and I can't speak for the balance of the slightly easier option, but at least up to midway through the second arc of the game feels to me like it falls into the "bit of a challenge" you mentioned on non new game plus run. There are some exceptions and the game punishes you for taking things slow, but the exceptions can be bypassed to some extent or are entirely optional.
If you explained what the issue was with the difficulties that makes you feel like there's no medium difficulty it would probably do more good than blankly claiming that the only two difficulties are too easy and too hard. Also, if you honestly think you would need to spend over a hundred hours to reach the end of your first run aura-dev would almost certainly want to know about it. There have been quite a few polls about how long it takes to clear all content for the first time, and 100 hours is at least double what ~90% of players reported in the most recent one.

 

[Ifllslonly]

Can someone tell if i got it right, and please correct me if i am wrong: this is really time-consuming game with heavy emphasize on rpg elements like combat, etc; not much hentai for now and you can easily skip it on accident, especially if you don't use guide (i don't like guides); no variations for erotic scenes for now; there are 2 ways to play it - 100% pure and 100% whore (which is fairly straightforward).

I have never played this game and not sure if i should try it now or should i wait for something.
I like an idea of a big text-heavy rpg with challenging combat, but only if amount / variety of H content are on the same level.

 

[smkey21]

Can someone tell if i got it right, and please correct me if i am wrong: this is really time-consuming game with heavy emphasize on rpg elements like combat, etc; not much hentai for now and you can easily skip it on accident, especially if you don't use guide (i don't like guides); no variations for erotic scenes for now; there are 2 ways to play it - 100% pure and 100% whore (which is fairly straightforward).

I have never played this game and not sure if i should try it now or should i wait for something.
I like an idea of a big text-heavy rpg with challenging combat, but only if amount / variety of H content are on the same level.

You can access the replay room right from the start, so it's not that hard to figure out where scenes are. They are also indicated by little heart exclamations over the character. There are also only a few scenes you can miss. All of that applies to the Roya(isekai) scenes. On the Earth side of things you really can't miss any scenes. I've never used a guide, and haven't had any issues finding scenes.

There's no such thing as a 100% pure run(except on the easiest mode) as you will quite quickly find yourself having to start corrupting Aura to not get a game over. At the start of the game the 'whore' choices are shortcuts or extra resources you can gain. As you keep making them they keep ramping up how good they are until you find yourself in too deep. Once you hit that point you get more and more punishment for taking those options. As for scene variations, there's literally a mechanic in the game that differentiates between whether the player makes the choice to perform a lewd act, or is forced into it from various debuffs that makes every scene play out slightly differently. Besides that there are also differences in many scenes based on things Aura has done in Roya and had done to her in a "mind chamber" you corrupt her from.

It is relatively light on actual sex scenes per amount played, so I don't know whether or not there is enough of that for you. I will tell you that both the combat and the scenes that do exist are much more well thought out and unique than 90% of the games you will encounter though. Also, if you do decided to play the game, don't skip the opening. It both has scenes that you need to have seen to follow the story, and it teaches you how combat in this game differs from most other games. You should also talk with about everyone you encounter, they pretty much all have something useful to say.

 

[Trihan]

Can someone tell if i got it right, and please correct me if i am wrong: this is really time-consuming game with heavy emphasize on rpg elements like combat, etc; not much hentai for now and you can easily skip it on accident, especially if you don't use guide (i don't like guides); no variations for erotic scenes for now; there are 2 ways to play it - 100% pure and 100% whore (which is fairly straightforward).

I have never played this game and not sure if i should try it now or should i wait for something.
I like an idea of a big text-heavy rpg with challenging combat, but only if amount / variety of H content are on the same level.

I usually describe SKA to people as an RPG with adult elements rather than a hentai game that's also an RPG. aura-dev definitely cares about having an interesting and well-designed roleplaying game to go with the smut, and it's a slow burn. There's still plenty of lewd content though, and as smkey21 said most lewd scenes have a threshold check on the lewdness stat where if you are significantly higher than the requirement for it (which is affected by willpower), Aura is forced into taking more corrupt choices and some dialogue will be different.

 

[Pretentious Goblin]

there are 2 ways to play it - 100% pure and 100% whore (which is fairly straightforward).

No, and in fact both of these make the game harder. It's probably optimal to do most of the H, but not all. Something like 60% - 70% of it. Doing too much actually complicates the gameplay a lot. Some of the H comes with serious permanent conditions, and the incoming Corruption may be too much. Especially if you also do drugs and Vice actions, and remove the collar.

not much hentai for now and you can easily skip it on accident, especially if you don't use guide

There are dozens of H-scenes and dozens of CGs (not including small variations), but spread over dozens of hours of gameplay, with a slow start especially in terms of sex and especially in the Earth storyline. Some of the early scenes are just dirty-talk. Finding the H is not hard (NPCs with available scenes will have a heart bubble over them even if you don't currently meet the requirements) but a few are missable as you progress the Roya storyline.

 

[Ifllslonly]

There are also only a few scenes you can miss. I've never used a guide, and haven't had any issues finding scenes.

As for scene variations, there's literally a mechanic in the game that differentiates between whether the player makes the choice to perform a lewd act, or is forced into it from various debuffs that makes every scene play out slightly differently.

I just hope there are some sort of clues for missable scenes in the game naturally.
I don't like cheerful, smiley and exited girls in general, so forcing main girl into submission by debuffs sounds good to me.

I usually describe SKA to people as an RPG with adult elements rather than a hentai game that's also an RPG. aura-dev definitely cares about having an interesting and well-designed roleplaying game to go with the smut, and it's a slow burn.
Aura is forced into taking more corrupt choices and some dialogue will be different.

I am honestly can't even call 70% of hentai games i have seen so far a game, it's strait up porn.
Is this a whole new branch with forced corruption or it's just a slight variation of the main one?

No, and in fact both of these make the game harder. It's probably optimal to do most of the H, but not all. Something like 60% - 70% of it. Doing too much actually complicates the gameplay a lot. Some of the H comes with serious permanent conditions, and the incoming Corruption may be too much.

That's looks like a good game design to me. But is there a theoretical possibility for 100% pure / corrupt run?

Thank you all for your answers - I will probably try this game right after the next update.

 

[smkey21]

I just hope there are some sort of clues for missable scenes in the game naturally.
I don't like cheerful, smiley and exited girls in general, so forcing main girl into submission by debuffs sounds good to me.


I am honestly can't even call 70% of hentai games i have seen so far a game, it's strait up porn.
Is this a whole new branch with forced corruption or it's just a slight variation of the main one?


That's looks like a good game design to me. But is there a theoretical possibility for 100% pure / corrupt run?

Thank you all for your answers - I will probably try this game right after the next update.

Most of the scenes you can miss are due to major storylines coming to a close. Specifically the festival of greed cuts of the most content. Besides that the earliest scene you can miss is just the main character letting a guard grope her butt to get somebody out of prison. Most of the scenes you can miss are alternate ways of paying for things, so they are usually pretty easy to find. There's also a recall room you can visit as you please that has hints to what you need to do to see scenes, and even tags them so you can know what to expect in the scene.

The forced versions of scenes are usually just minor differences where the main character gets into things more or lets things go a bit further than the normal versions of the scenes. They also corrupt her more than the regular version.

100% purity is something you can aim for, but makes the game significantly harder than taking a few of the corruption options. You also passively gain corruption over time that will require you to use limited resources to remove if you don't want to start corrupting the main character. 100% corruption is sort of one of the two main endings the game is going to have. It's specifically only the mental world side of the corruption that will lead to that ending, and getting the main character fully corrupted in Roya might lead to a situation where you actually couldn't burn off the corruption gains fast enough to get the corruption ending before you game over. If you do want to see what a fully corrupted main character is like there's a difficulty setting that disables the corruption game over though, so it's entirely possible to do so.

 

[Michael Westen]

OMG ITS WORKS!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!

Hey! Are you willing to share that save/ global file? I lost my whole lap top with my progress :/ no archive to pull from

 

[Trihan]

I just hope there are some sort of clues for missable scenes in the game naturally.
I don't like cheerful, smiley and exited girls in general, so forcing main girl into submission by debuffs sounds good to me.


I am honestly can't even call 70% of hentai games i have seen so far a game, it's strait up porn.
Is this a whole new branch with forced corruption or it's just a slight variation of the main one?


That's looks like a good game design to me. But is there a theoretical possibility for 100% pure / corrupt run?

Thank you all for your answers - I will probably try this game right after the next update.

It's not a whole new branch; the "pink" version of a scene will just force you to take some lewd options if one is presented rather than you being able to choose not to do it, and there are minor dialogue variations.

Just to give an example: in Bonding with Slime 2, the leader says "Oh right, yeah, there's the mouth but it's most effective through the ass!"

If you're in the pink scene rather than the regular one, instead of saying "Wait a second, m-maybe we should rethink this---" she says "(Ah, what she just said should make me jump up in shock, but somehow---that sounds hot.)"