RPGM - Completed - Star Knightess Aura [v1.1.1] [aura-dev]

Star Knightess Aura is one of the very best video games on this website and one of the best RPGs of the past few years period. As a porn game though? If you are playing this only to masturbate I'd suggest moving on or playing Dragon Conquista, another RPG with excellent gameplay and story but much more porn focused. The corruption is probably the best in the genre's history but it is SLOW. Like "it will be over 40 minutes before you even see a handjob" slow.

Where the game succeeds is in its tight and intricate gameplay design and in the unbelievably great writing and cast of characters. I haven't played an RPG with gameplay this challenging yet rewarding and balanced in years. You want to do every little thing you can possibly do to get stronger without progressing too much time. The proper way to play is to honestly attempt to delay the corruption of the character as much as possible, accept the H events that power you up when they show up but don't purposefully try to fill out the library in her head. And read EVERYTHING. This is not a game where you want to skip the dialogue, there's great and subtle writing here.

TL:FR: the game is one of the BEST of ALL TIME and you'll love it if you have enough time and patience to discover it. if you short on these 2 dont waste your internet for downloading this and look for something else

well the star knightess aura is quite an double edged game. some aspects of the game is waay better than other games even some AAA games but the game misses its point a bit IMO.

the game has one of the best character development that I've ever seen in ALL games that I've ever played (NSFW or SFW)

gameplay: 5/5
a classic RPG turn base combat with a few new mechanic that makes the fights feels unique. I wont give spoilers but the devs cooked for real on certain bosses.

world building. 4/5
even having a few words on about this subject is a massive feat compare to other games tbh and its great. characters, kingdoms, the powers we can use in the world etc. it all feels right.

characters: 5/5
all of them has their own weight even the most side piece in the story.

dialouges: 5/5
no need to explain *chef kisses*

erotic content: 2/5
well this one needs some explanation...

when it comes to corruption or brain washing, this game is sharing the top with karryn's prison.

with each dialouge you can literally see how things goes bad for aura. her transformation from a top student to a literall plain bitch(depends on your route) is quite a top notch and that adds more value on her erotic contents.

BUT ironicly, this part creates the only weak spot of this game.
Aura is quite a durable character and if you want to work on her corruption, you have to do things RIGHT..that cool

but because of that you have to wait soo long EVEN for the smallest NSFW content of her
most of erotic contents are put in mid-end/end parts of the game and considering how hard to go end game making these contents are unreachable for most of players for very loong time.

personally, I forgot this game has an erotic content until I come to the bridge event and OOOH boy it took quite a while.

A very polished experience, a good amount of content, nice to have a finished game in proper English, the level layouts were good, not overwhelming, it was quite rare that I was confused about what to do even when skipping some less interesting dialogue (unlike the gameplay which was hard as shit). Art was pretty good, but nothing to write home about.

The reason I'm ducking points is the railroading. It's so incredibly aggressive that it makes this game a VN in spite of its masquerading as a sandbox. Enemies don't respawn, so your XP is effectively capped.

Your gold is soft capped in the sense that money making events force you to end the day (AND OF COURSE IT HAS TIME LIMITS IN TERMS OF NUMBER OF DAYS).

But its biggest problem with railroading is the mind-chamber. It was such an interesting concept that made me quite excited to try this game when it was in much earlier development. Selectively corrupting the protag in a tailored way that interests you, or at least so it seemed.

Want to be an in-game-IRL whore with glasses? No can do. Want to be an in-game-IRL slut with good grades? Not happening. You cannot get past the first chamber without doing every single thing in it, all "options" are effectively mandatory if you want to play slutty/corrupted. Played the game for almost 20 hours into act two hoping that something would change, that it would make progression into the second mind chamber possible without having to take options I didn't want, but it never happened.

I see a lot of people complaining about it being grindy, but I'd argue it's just hard and long for little H payoff (time-wise). It's not like you have to go into dungeons and kill hundreds upon hundreds of enemies to get a decent enough level to compete in fights, no, you don't even have that option. There's a fixed number of enemies and resources (Who the heck puts a stock on shops in these games?). But it most certainly DEVOURS time if you want to do things well. You get plenty of character events for your time, but virtually no H stuff until act 2 or the second mind chamber (just some foreplay, not even oral)

If you're not in it for the sandbox or you like the particular kind of bimbofying corruption the game forces on you to progress sluttiness, you might love this game. If you were in it for vast customization options to tailor the character's journey and appearance to your liking, look elsewhere.

So i kinda stupid but this is the first time i use this web so lots of things i dont know but this game have version 1.1.3 right? So why in this web is tell it "completed" Can someone answer me?
I know this when i go to kemono and i know that this game still have a update

Game is just super boring, you know why we are all here, and its not for the insane amount of grinding i have to do to get to the actual content. 1:30 in and its just not worth continuing, even the full save gallery wasnt worth the time it took.

I like the whole corruption idea, but sadly mostly focused on bimbofication only. It could use more content too.
Gameplay is actually fun even though it's turn based rpg.
But still a great game and can only recommend it.

v1.1.1 horny chess

This game is a real outlier, and you shouldn't hold that against it.
The care put into the gameplay and world is remarkable. You can see the staggering level of polish and technical effort everywhere you look.

You won't beat even the first part on your first try. Start by just learning all the mechanics and developing a solid strategy. This game requires a lot of forward planning and managing multiple aspects at once. After all, your role in the game is to break the main character in the most insidious and gradual way, by worming your way inside their mind.
If the game feels too hard, it means you're missing something... The game can both reward you for saving or investing resources for the future and become more challenging if you miss opportunities.

Cons:
- It's a massive time-sink.

Annoyances:
- It can suddenly dump tons of text on you.
- You can't disable cutscenes you've already seen.

buddy we're here to play porn games, this game is sooo much grind for barely anything like ive played for ages and got nothing out of it. The game seems designed for you to get fucked and its genuinely such a slog that its making me annoyed.

Very mediocore game, not sure why all of the patreon memberships, but this isn't that much better than your typical RPGM game.

Art is meh, gameplay is meh, story is meh, just very average overall.

Also I really hate how all of the characters look the same, it really hurts immersion, its like they ARE the same character.

Play if you're bored.

I would say the dev doesn't understand gamers or just flat-out doesn't care about them. Why? Because it constantly punishes the player for exploring (sometimes permanently debuffing!), hence the gratification that is felt after the player explores tends to be heavily punished, not rewarded (a core aspect of any video game).

Good:
Probably the art style is the only thing that kept me going, which I would say is pretty neat and good.
Later on, the boss music got me slightly hooked.

Bad:
Everything else
But being more clear and concise:

- In terms of scenes, I don't believe it meets the expectations of these type of games with H in them. It feels weirdly paced and lack a lot more of content.

- The story isn't too bad, but eventually, probably has the biggest amount of not too interesting dialogues that you just plainly press ctrl for hours, yes, hours! Due to how difficult it gets to follow the narrative thread when it has a LOT of excessive growl sounds every 2-3 text boxes. You lose interest fast.

- Has a unique corruption mechanic where you also control an important antagonist and the main character. It gets absolutely tedious and more over-complicated than any system I've seen so far in any video game of my life.


Sincerely and respectfully, I would not recommend playing this game
It actually hurts sometimes

Put off by the terrible writing, walls-of-text and pacing.

Was looking forward to this, but the more I played it, the more annoying it got. Especially the pacing and writing - it's yet another story about a "demon king" and yet another H-RPG with god awful walls of text. Sadly, the build up leads to really mediocre gameplay.

Nice art, UI and overall design, but severely hampered by actual story. 6.5/10

One of my favorite games here. I like the idea behind the corruption system. How many ways there are to corrupt Aura in the dream world, as well as the slow burn. Sometimes a bit too slow but still ok.

STORY
Above average. Decent slow corruption. Definitely not the best, but I'd say it''s in the top 10% of the games I've played on this site.

CGs
Pretty good. The preview images are accurate. There is a decent variety of CGs, and the scenes are alright. Unfortunately if you aren't into bimbo-ification, you're out of luck. I really liked the nerdy/reserved Aura and wanted to see more corruption in this form. Still good though, just not 100% to my tastes.

GAMEPLAY
I genuinely hate the corruption mechanic - the dream/mental world where you have to solve absolutely terrible "puzzles" and interact with a bunch of stupid inane bullcrap in certain orders to get the corruption rolling.

I've played this game a few times, and literally every time I end up holding CTRL throughout all of the inane daily bullshit, ending the day, going to the mental block zone, interacting with EVERYTHING to see if I can get some event to progress, only to make 1/10th of the progress I need to see something new and worthwhile, This takes HOURS, especially if you aren't following a guide.

This is ridiculously frustrating and repetitive. Feels like awful padding. If not for this, I'd give the game a 4.5-5/5.

It's a good game with reasonably-good writing and gameplay; but some of the art/animations could have used another pass or two. The humor is surprisingly good, too.
It's better than most of the nearly-hentai anime in this genre.

I really want to enjoy this game, but as a lewd game it is a massive waste of time so far. Over 4 hours of play and zero sexual content (no, I didn't disable adult content). The gameplay is all based around corruption mechanics but don't expect to experience them I guess besides flashing a couple guards. There are also massive dumps of dialogue annoyingly punctuated by the same screen shake/sound effect constantly. Like, a LOT. If I wasn't fast reading/clicking it would easily have taken 8 hours to get to where I am (and again, no lewd content). The game feels really solid for a hentai game, just takes waaaay too long to get to any of the H stuff. And I LOVE a good slow build, but not when its just wasting your time. If I wanted to play a janky pixel RPG, there are a lot better out there. Doesn't help that the gameplay mostly revolves around sneaking past enemies with superfast sprites, so you just sit there and memorize their movement patterns every enemy you come across or you get stuck in combat (in your weak hero form) and basically just want to reload to avoid losing most of your health in one battle to goblins. But it doesn't let you load when you get in combat, so you have to repeatedly let yourself die in combat so you can reload and reattempt the stealth section...over and over and over. Keep in mind there is is a negative stat every day that passes in the game and virtually every worthwhile action ends the day (reading skill books, working at blacksmith, MOVING A PLANT)... So you are constantly ending the day and have to watch the non-isekei day of the character go by with nothing interesting happening, accessing a corruption phase in the night and finally starting another day. It destroys any feeling of forward momentum.

The reason I'm playing this is for sex. The game doesn't even have H scenes when you lose battles, you just reappear at a shrine. I don't know why so many people enjoy this, why would anyone put half a day into a game with no payoff. The art style is great but its definitely not fun enough to enjoy as a NON-hentai game, but makes to wade through an excessive duration before getting anything H.

SKA is by far one of the best in it's genre.
Scenario, dialogues, setting is spot on. This is an intelligent game, from it's simple humor to it's excessively intricate game design.
One of the best RPGM with a progression both really free and also rewarding... up to a point.

Why did i withdraw a star if it is so perfect in every aspect ?
Because it's absurdly difficult. I played in Explorer mode to make it easy, and I ended up try hard every dungeon with sweat on my forehead...
Reaching the point to Richard's domain... I don't know if it is humanly possible to go through, but I had to resort to cheating, which I hate.
Even with cheats it was f$cking hard...
It did ruin my fun, a casual player like me but I couldn't let go... couldn't give up after 40hours of efforts, so I went through the end.

Which brings the second issue. It's overstretching. No matter how anything else is good, you don't want a story that never gives up. No mention of the friggin final boss rush... the epilogue... the repeated dialogues...
It seems the dev didn't want to end the game, and I respect that, but it's way too overstretched imo.

Other than that, a rare gem of a game, stupidly difficult, but hey, to each their kinks...

I'm torn with this one. It's not exactly average in terms of quality but the gameplay could be better. If I could give it a 3.5 rating, I'd do it.

So I enjoy the RPG elements in the fantasy world, the dialog with Aura and her inner thoughts are quite fun. The thing with the once per day collar removel is cool too.

There is a destinct lack of ugly characters. No diversity in that regard. (and I liked the old art more... maybe my taste is weird. New art looks too "clean".)
I also think it's a missed oportunity that the game gives you all kinds of interesting things to change in Aura's mind, but you essentially have to follow a liniar corruption path. The progress will always look the exact same every time you play anew, wich is such a shame for what I thought is a very unique feature.

Can't say I enjoy what is basically the second FMC Alicia much either. She has little interesting thoughts and just does whatever her master wants. (I don't like her design at all. All of her friends look 10x better/hotter)
Kind of sad too that the Male LI's are really really boring, at least to me. They just have no role hin the story, besides being an obstacle or anker for the Heroine. I guess I would have preferred playing as Aura's bf more than as her ? Giving him a bit more characterisation. The idea to play both sides could be intersting, but you never have any kind of moral struggle with corrupting Aura as Alicia.

As the game is right now, I don't think there is going to be an option to play as more assertive character. Aura could try to slowly undermine the Demons power in the fantasie world. I know she is gathering power and information slowly, I just think she could do much more.


I want a bit more game here, with less shattering my suspence of disbelieve.
Why not give the option to basically become the new ruler of the world at the end, outsmarting everyone ?
given that she is getting corrupted she could end up a more morally grey character, should she make certain choices.

Overall it's fine... for now it remains a bit of a too standard variation of a corruption game, for my taste. Everything that you think is here, is here lol.

Honestly one of my favorite games at this point, even including non-NSFW games. The slow burn and MC+NTR elements are exactly my type of thing, and I love how the sex stuff interacts with the actual gameplay. I am doing a Nightmare difficulty run right now, and it is absolutely brutal to try to play the "pure" route.

I will begin this review by stating that I am incredibly biased when it comes to this work, I first played this game almost four years ago when it had first come out and was pretty hooked on it early in the game, I loved the slow burn of the story and originally found the rpg elements quite neat.

My biggest love in this game however was at something that I think is sad we have to give praise for but that nonetheless deserves it, that of the creator being better than Aura herself and actually sticking with this project and consistently updating the project during its entire run until its eventual finish. That in what feels like an ocean of botched projects or works that seem to stall out and continue on with little to no purpose is amazing and should be commended no matter what we think of the finished work.

Game: 7/10

Whilst originally I found the rpg mechanics of Aura fun to play around with and enjoyed the general gameplay loop, this got a massive hit towards the end with the last dungeon crawl of the game.

The core loop of spawning each day with limited mana and hp and trying to use that to beat as many enemies as possible and strengthen yourself as much as possible is interesting and fun, finding what works against what enemies and what spells you wanna grab against what enemies made this even more interesting. Additionally the way it ties to the lewd system of the game is really fun, with how you can get ways to skip fights gain additional rewards by using these systems at the cost of "Corruption". I personally never got tired of this specific loop and enjoyed it heavily but will touch on it later.

However, Without spoilering too much the last part of the game is a party fight scenario, that in a game that you spent around 80% solo in was really annoying since it was a massive difficulty spike that seemed to work around the concept that you had actively worked with your party before. This made me thoroughly disslike the end of the game from a combat perspective as it felt all of a sudden very just grindy and annoying to deal with.

Story: 10/10

I am a sucker for female protagonist corruption games, theres nothing quite as fun to me as playing a character who slowly changes and begins to enjoy and revel in these changes, this is probably why I love this game. Seeing Aura go from righteous defender of all that is good and holy like some proper RPG Paladin (what with a stronger proclivity to violence) to something more of an opportunistic person whilst still witholding some of that important core identity was really fun and there are some smaller details in the story that I also really enjoyed SPOILER:


Lewd Content: 8/10

What can I say that I havent already said? The Corruption loop, great. The slow corruption, great. The one thing I can say is that there is sometimes a bit of lack in sex scenes and art. There is potential for more in so many areas and that kind of sadens me. I know the dev is working on future and new updates (something that is very cool seeing as he is also working on a new title at the same time). But still this was in my book a bit lacking.

Overall 9/10

I am biased, and I am tired. Might edit a finish later.

The slow burn of this game and the beauty and detail of the corruption is unbelievable. It just might be the best one ever written, at least in video game form. The gameplay is kinda rough without a guide, but not enough to bring down the rest of the game.