RPGM - Completed - Star Knightess Aura [v1.2.1] [aura-dev]

I rarely review games here and THERE IS ALOT OF GOOD IN THIS AS OF 1/5/23! Let me make that clear. First of all, the character writing makes me not want to corrupt Aura. Why would I want to hurt someone like her thats genuinely a good person trying to do her best with villians with motivations that are extremely petty to put it lightly. The motivation to play a corruption game is the protag is either too stupid to get she is being corrupted or flawed in a way where you want to see her fall OR in a deadend marriage and its just funny to ruin the protags life because she needs a change and you are her catalyst. Aura is NONE of the three. She's the "protag that could" in a world thats wild as hell, her isekai world and her school life that tries to mess with her. Her boyfriend is a kind, but plain dude. She goes out of her way to prove she is kind and decent, her flaw being? What exactly? Am I supposed to hate her and want her fall to two creeps because she is "too perfect"? I dont think this works. The art is great, music fits like a glove, the effort is clear but between the antagonists and the cliche RPGM battles, I dont think I would say this is a top tier game. Maybe some dont feel as strong as me about Aura, maybe she isnt a non-clumsy Maple from Bofuri that doesnt stumble into her power though I think she is. But for me, I see a lovable isekai protag that makes the world better with a fitting title. I cant break that. I dont feel it SHOULD be broken. She is a kind soul and she only deserves an ending with George and to send those needlessly bitter antagonists to humility where they belong over lost lunch money or an awkwardly timed fart or whatever the petty nonsense reason was and last but not least
Have a good night and good luck to Aura-dev. This may SEEM negative, but you are early in this I think and there is ALOT of good in this. You can still turn this around. Fixing the battle system and allowing more actions per day would help alot. Making the antagonists less vapid would help too.

Straight up baffled by the raving praise this game get ngl, like holy hell are we playing the same thing my guys?

I get it, slow corruption is nice, there's no fun in some prim and proper schoolgirl riding hobo dick within the week but there's slow and there's whatever the fuck this game is. In any other corruption game you probably have something along the lines of going from flashing, groping, handie, blowie, puss puss, anal over the course of an in game month. Here however it takes a real life month to convince this bitch to unbraid her fucking hair.

For context this game has an arbitrary "one action" per day in her "mind realm" where any corruption of her irl body (we'll get to this later) takes place. Not too bad in theory but then you realize how interconnected everything is and it quickly becomes a nightmare of a grind. Brace yourself for a read, or don't.

My rant about braids for example goes something like this, you have to unlock the room for interests first (1 point of corruption/ day's over), you have to remove a book she's currently interested in (1 point of corruption/ day's over), you have to replace a that book with one about fashion (1 point of corruption/ day's over), wait fashion book? oh yeah in order to do that you have to be her tutor buddy so let's go back a bit for some steps I missed you have to unlock her social interaction room(1 point of corruption/ day's over), you have to get your relation to her to a certain threshold by pulling a lever(1 point of corruption/ day's over X4), now you can insert yourself in her social circle for her to tutor you(1 point of corruption/ day's over), you then unlock the room about personal appearance (1 point of corruption/ day's over), owo what's this? the hair option requires "socialization 1" so now you have to unlock her happiness room (1 point of corruption/ day's over) you now have to turn on a lever for her to gain happiness from socializing (1 point of corruption/ day's over), now you can go back to the personal apperance room to...unlock the option to unbraid her hair (1 point of corruption/ day's over), and now finally you can actually unbraid her hair (1 point of corruption/ day's over). Believe it or not I actually streamlined this process a bit because there's also waiting for the required day time events to happen and I lied about the corruption costs because it frequently costs more than 1. Did you actually read all of that or did you look at the massive fucking wall of text about the walkthrough to UNBRAID HER FUCKING HAIR and say "tl'dr"?

You know what's going on during this irl counterpart corruption? Your fantasy body counterpart is doing things like letting dudes grope her, flashing them her pussy and tits, and giving them handies. I swear I started off avoiding corruption actions at first for that "slow burn" experience this game promises before giving up because holy fuck the IRL part is just a fucking dead end of content. They throw some haphazard explanation of "but's it not ur real body so it's okay dokie" as if doing all these sexual acts would still have no impact on her psyche whatsoever. Now I hope I didn't make the fantasy part sound like smooth sailing because it also has a ONE ACTION PER DAY rule tacked on it simply to stretch out this game more, not to mention every single bit of information Aura comes along sends her on a fucking essay rant. Oh but that's the point of her character, making fun of overly complex story telling/plans but you can only parody something so many times before you're just as guilty of it.

Art's pretty decent, would love to see something done with it

I've typed too much for this fucking game, the dev might insert it in the game for more reading instead of having H scenes in their H game

Gameplay: 1/5 (either fucking boring or impossible and leveling is a fucking joke never happens)
Sound: 3/5
Art: 4/5
Story: 2/5 (sucks. you know who is responsible in real life you even figure out the girl but too fucking stupid to just beat the shit out of them in the real world)

When I first played the game it was easier I was able to kill about 3 mobs in the forest with normal difficulty and made level 2 also could complete the first mission for Inn the 3 Hydrangea. Now the latest release killed over 6 damn mobs and the damn exp bar has not moved more than 10%. The Hydrangea been increased to requiring 4 which is not possible if your trying to play without removing the damn collar.

Game Balance has been made impossible for those that don't want to get corrupted or you play the very very boring story mode that it is so easy to kill that the game is ruined.

A true masterpiece in the making. I'm in love with both the combat/RGP elements of the game as well as what is possibly the best corruption-type game available.

Personally, I'm not really into the whole corruption genre, but if you're like me then don't worry; this game has lots for people like us as the purity route was very satisfying to play. Fighting and strategizing to keep Aura from falling into degeneracy was a lot of fun and the MC's personality of never giving up and always believing she could win made me also never want to give up keeping her as pure as I could.

Lewd content aside, the semi-linear structure of the game (enemies don't respawn, upgrading your stats progresses to the next day, and prices rise as time goes on) kept the pressure up and stopped me from slacking off. If you don't want to worry about the time deadline, then just play on Story difficulty and have fun with it.

tl;dr

• actual content
• great overall design for an RPGM title
• not forced to go full smut if you don't want to
• (subjectively) funny dialogue tidbits
• an actual role-playing game
• 420/69 stars, so like 6/5

Full review:
So, this is an actual game, as in quests, combat, and all.
I absolutely hate RPGM games, but the artwork is great and so is the UI. The game has tons of character interactions (many of them lewd, of course), so really, when it comes to the story and the content, there is much to see and do.

I also like all the random light novel references in aura's mindspace and the general corny, but relevant humor. It's good that a lewd game isn't taking itself very seriously, yet seriously delivers on content, so it actually puts the RP in the RPGM quite well, because the player ultimately has control over Aura.

I see this game as having essentially two playstyles - star knightess path where you try to save the world true to Aura's original intent, and the corruption you pick up you spend to minimally alter Aura. The alternative is to go full slut, which is arguably the more fun path. But this is where you come in, and decide which mix of fun and indulgence you want to allow for Aura, and whether your control of Aura leads to meaningful interactions for you.

I also want to say that I appreciate not making a shitty sim game where we would have to go put on clothes, go to class, yada yada until night comes. This focus on only meaningful interactions IRL and the actual gameplay in the otherworld is a great way to showcase the mental changes and Aura's preferences without over-encumbering the player to slog through mindless interactions.

Best of luck in the development and thank you for a fun and memorable game!

Really solid slow corruption game, definitly a time sink but only due to it being a good exsperiance that leaves you wanting to play more 5/5 easy, also the brand of corruption is very unique, as its normaly just turning a girl into a slut but with this you have the whole 'popular girl' trope played out and it's very entertaining, (there is still some classic fantasy world slutting to get ahead tho)

A great corruption RPG so far! Surprisingly fresh feeling for such a saturated genre. In the game you play as Aura, an intelligent, headstrong and justice loving girl but who gets corrupted over the course of the game, slowly, like really quite slowly which is the part of the game I enjoy the most. How gradually Aura's changes occur and how the game spends time for all involved characters to react to these changes is really well done. On the art front the game is okay to good, not incredible but definitely not a turn-off. The writing is strong, its anime style dialogue is clear and charming (and in fluent english). Combat is decently challenging and requires forethought. At the time of writing this, the game is about 50% to 1.0 according the the developer and I'm excited to see where the game ends up.

I don't understand how this game is getting 5 star reviews, especially from the people listing all the flaws in the game. Some are even giving it 5 stars because they anticipate it getting better. That's ludicrous.

I'll rate this game as it is NOW. Maybe I'll update this later. This game needs a LOT of work. It's mindnumbingly slow. I've play Visual Novels that have gotten to the hentai aspect faster. And when it finally gets there, it doesn't build upon it.

Also for a hentai game, it spends way too much effort in creating frustration in the non-hentai aspects. Some players may be sticking with this game because they feel they've devoted so much time into this aspect, that they need to see the game through. This is sunk cost fallacy. What separates hentai games from other games is the hentai. That's where the focus should be, and it shouldn't require arduous effort to get there. Having mini games and puzzles is fine, but when players have to rely on a guide to make progress (and just look at the number of posts asking for a guide), then something went wrong with the design.

The art is fine, but that's really the only real saving grace for the game. Perhaps if it receives an overhaul in the future to make the gameplay more fluid with better paced plot progression, it will earn a higher rating.

I dont understand how this game only has 3.9 stars at this moment.
Espacially with the new interface, everything feels super polished, the story is great, charakters are intressting and events are cool. It doesnt feel like you are playing a straight storyline even tho it is mostly. The only downside is that sometimes it feels like there are peaces left but thats obv. because its still in develepment. Im hyped for the released version. Gonna keep an eye on this one

REVIEW on 0.25.0
REVIEW WILL BE UPDATED.

Has old school hentai game vibe, meaning - wall of text with story already told about 20 billion times by now. If you are new to this genre, it's gonna be a blast, if you are 20+ yo veteran like me, you probably gonna rolleyes several times per second reading this hot garbage. I digress however, as this hot garbage used to be interesting to me. So take this as difference in experience, not a valid fact.

Game and it's story is very slow, painfully even. However it does compliment the narrative and corruption build up well, still, that will not save this one for going directly to trash bin.

I give you example- In the following intro just 5 seconds in to the game.
A girl in the middle of some vortex, her first words are.
"Eh?"
Then you have to click to continue.
-She turns around in one direction
"Eh"
Then you have to click to continue.
-She turns around in other direction
"EH!?"
Then you have to click to continue.

You get the idea. Now sure, game has skip button, but if you want to actually read the story, to actually follow the story , prepare for some atrocious time wasting and even more clicking to progress that endless walltext.

You think that's all to it? Entire intro battles there, are pointless.
To my understanding intro is there to tell you few gameplay gimmicks such as , enemies can be avoided, where you can heal, and to explain to you story and settings.
You can actually lose in the intro. Even if you are "godlike" strong.
And entire intro is about 20 minutes long if you actually read and play.
20 minutes of "gamplay" that can be summerized with a good design in about 30 seconds. With the gameplay tips.

Yeah atrocious first impression, everybody with photoshop and good drawing skills are making games today, yet they are absolutely clueless about the pacing and design.

As for porn part, there are far few in between, I advice to wait for a year or two(if not abandoned by then) and just watch the gallery to save yourself time and frustration.

Nice gameplay. Reminds me of old gameboy games. Almost stands without the porn. I hope the story gets a satisfying ending at some point. Seems like that is one of the hardest thing to do these days. But for now I'll keep checking for updats now and then. Runs well on my Samsung

Very slow and methodical corruption story, definitely not everyone's cup of tea, but the slow buildup for the brainwashing and subsequent corruption is, in my opinion, worth the time. On top of this, gameplay is top-notch, I have not seen a turn based RPG this challenging and engaging since Shin Megami Tensei, and if you find it too hard or easy you can change the difficulty (though hard is very unbalanced).

Biggest problem I can point out is the severe lack of actual HCG scenes, but since is still in development and story seems to ramping up speed in this regard, this might change in the future.

Excellent game. Good graphics. Fun story. Interesting system to add to corruption. Overall the game is a five out of five stars for sure. One of the best games on this website. I will keep this game on my list of gams to continue to play as more updates are released.

Gameplay

• More puzzle-like than usual. You either have the correct spell/tool to beat the enemy or it wipes the floor with you.
• Tactical advantage is very RNG and annoying. Early on the enemies do a crazy amount of damage and your advantage being a 50% chance to dodge means you might just get wrecked anyway which means either taking the deaths or spamming reload until RNG stops fucking you.
• Holy water prices should not go up on their own. They should go up each time you purchase. The rationale of holy water is in high demand so thats why the prices are high falls flat when you see the stock get up to like 30+ and they're selling it for over 1k each. Wtf

H Content

• Way too few and far between for how long the game is
• Not enough light scenes for a corruption kindof game. Needs more groping and pushing Aura's boundaries. This ties in with just a general lack of progressing H scenes. For example, instead of 4 guards that have very quick 1 off scenes and then they just go back to being generic NPC, it would be better to have just 1 guard progressing through 4 scenes as he keeps pushing Aura to do more.
• Just weird missed opportunities. John gets an H scene for his first training session with Aura but then afterwards doesn't pursue it further for his second training session? No tavern scenes until you're super deep into the game and even those take a weird direction. No IRL scenes until again super deep into the story. Hermann actually waits until after marriage to fuck Aura. He also talks about training her and bragging about how he fucked her in the ass but when the relationship finally starts moving it feels like just skips all the grooming.
• The IRL scenes just in general. Alicia corrupts Aura IRL with fashion magazines and shoes? (and there are way too many shoes scenes) Where are the pervy students who want to cop a feel? I would rather see nerdy Aura being corrupted into letting perverts have their way with her but still being a nerd then spend HOURS with no IRL H scenes as Aura goes from a nerd to an insufferable, shallow, idiot. Definitely not the kind of corruption you'd think you were gonna get from an H game.

Generally, I really love corruption games. but this game's pacing needs work Brainwashing really doesn't do it for me and I hate seeing Aura go from a modest nerd to a gaudy, shallow, bitch. (Note that I don't say slut since currently she hardly does anything IRL). Maybe this is all done this way because the dev hasn't finished implementing everything but the game in its current form feels like you're just pushing through it on sunk-cost fallacy. The majority of the H scenes don't feel very rewarding and some of them just get cut off at the knees.

Can only hope the dev fills in the gaps in the future but right now the time investment feels like it isn't worth the reward.

I really liked playing this game. The slow burn corruption really fun and the first time i see a game implement a mechanic like this. The beginning is a bit hard, my initial thought was to go to the forest and kill the goblins but they are stronger than you in the start, you're supposed to go to the mines and finish the first mission.

Actions consume a day which at first may seem like a big thing but but afaik the amount of days in game that have past only impact one boss fight.

The game is a little lacking in nsfw content, you need to complete everything and get to the second city if you want to fully turn her into a slut. And mental corruption wise the changes before you get to the second room matter very little. i would really like to see aura change clothing in game too, maybe see her armor get more sluttier, and her speech more corrupted. I think it is cool however that you see a different H-scene if you have low will power.

I get some complaints that you're able to flash your tits before you get any corruption. I think it would be a nice change if that was soft locked.

The combat is fine, you're supposed to abuse tactical advantage to deal way more damage. The dialogue was okay, although i do admit i held down the ctrl key during a large part of it.

People also say they don't like the ntr part of this game but it's practically non-existent so far.

Standards wise I think this should be it. Every RPGM game should strive to be at least this good as this game or better.

this game is not even sustainable. the MC got so much curse that it is affecting your status which make it hard to fight boss and you can't even purchase hp or mp pot without providing the ingredient to the shop. so basically you need to fight a superhard boss without any hp or mp potion. worst part is the more you lost, the weaker your MC will become due to curse. this game is practically unplayable unless if you don't make a mistake or use cheat.

Hi everyone!

When I first opened this game I didn't have much expectations. Just your typical RPGM game.

The fun started with the tutorial. On this front, this game truly is a RPGM game, which is fun for some, boring for others, I'll come back to this later tho, because the tutorial starts something that I truly cherish in this game. The story. Spoilers ahead (although I will avoid them)!

First of all, there are not so many games that take place in two worlds at once, the execution of this in this game is brilliant imo. You get to control two characters in two distinct phases, none of them in the real world. The game exists in 3 phases. One is the world of Roya, where you live through the fantastical events as the Star Knightess, this looks like a stereotypical game, it is fairly "usual" but feels good. The lewd events in this phase are interesting (also saved in a special room so you don't have to feel pressured to save before a specific scene), and even though they affect a fictional version of aura physically, they leave a mental mark IGRL (In game's real life). Second phase is where you get to play as the other character, you get to change Aura, which essentially lets you see scenes and has some gameplay consequences. The corruption in this game is fantastic, it is slow, so for some people it may be a huge issue. In my opinion it is what adds to the experience, you get to see as the protagonist loses prinicples, hobbies, relationships etc. piece by piece. It is well written and presented and it's something I've never experienced with a game before. The third phase is the IGRL. It is not playable, it's just the scenes that play due to the corruption. It's for the better.

Lastly the gameplay. It's basic. The combat is again, basic. It's fairly easy to snowball some stats high, but the game can become difficult at times. It has a Ng+ system, the bonuses are not neccessary, I'd find them useful only on a purity/virgin run. Overall it's just decent

All in all, amazing game, one of my favourites on this site, 5/5 will come back to it

I'm going to try and not be overly negative because it is clear that the dev has put a ton of work into this game. I think the most kind thing I can say about the game at this point is that it is bloated. Way too much of everything making it needlessly slow and complicated. Dialogue especially suffers not only from way too many lines, but also very poor writing. Very generic animu dialogue that is absolutely grating. I found myself regularly skipping through each scene before turning the game off entirely.

I just don't know how someone could add so much to a game and it comes out so bland.

Just the best. Lots of games are balanced pretty easily; if you just play safe and slow you'll never encounter TF or sexual content. Star Knightess Aura is balanced in a way where if you want to succeed you need to put yourself in the hero's shoes. Outsmart enemies, find the best combo, the counters and weaknesses.

Aura is cursed, and the game treats it that way. If you want to brute force through the story, you're penalized by accumulating corruption. This also gives you the option to roleplay as one of the game's antagonists, which gives the story even greater depth; two main characters, and you're playing against yourself.

These things make Star Knightess Aura unique. Corruption / TF is often very binary, win or lose 100%. The scenario this game gives you implies that it's a 1 in a million chance that Aura would make it out of this scenario unchanged. It does this not just through the story, but also thematically through gameplay.

This is my review after playing this game for more than 30 hours.

I will start from positive 1st then negative one

Positive

+It has time system where you can do only 1 or 2 per each skill/upgrading depending on condition of you have

+It has story between herself in Fantasy World and Real World which is good point since you can see her in 2 different perspective

+It has alteration system where certain actions will affect her in certain ways

Negative
-Characters are really bad in term of personality and the way they talk, especially on MC which is very ANNOYING and ARROGANT to see her talk like she KNOW EVERYTHING but in fact she is TOO DUMB to understand how to be objective and be rational. At least make her toned down and be more rational when talking to others, she just hated others when she was being objected and always called other TRASH and LOSER when she being full of herself. I dont understand what author making this or why making her like this. It just make others hate her completely.

-Extremely lack of grinding and everything was being too limited when you finish everything, you cant do anything at all since all resources are 1 TIME ONLY, you screwed up and restart from beginning again. Make them regain resources after several days passed like 2-3 days to make them farmable especially on harder difficulty.

-Time system also become huge burden especially when you are racing against time when you need to progress faster, you need to wait few days to make it avaiable

-Every action in her memory chamber need Corruption points to pay and it was VERY TEDIOUS to repeat again and again just for unlocking one and the easiest way to do it is use your SK and you gain 4 Corruption BUT limited to 1 PER DAY which again is TEDIOUS, just remove this system and we good to go

-Experience for lvling up characters are EXTREMELY LIMITED to Quests only, every single monster encounter DID NOT GIVE EXP at all and it wasting your own time just killing them, make them have EXP and we can progress faster and further. LVL 4 after progressing 20 days is EXTREMELY STUPID since no exp from monsters at all.

-Learning skills are also limited by time since you cant gain them instanly, instead wait for days and you can gain it, this is another tedious and boring implementation where you eventually had enough of this game and quit it since it was not worth waiting it while you meet requirement yet blocked by another unneccesary system.

-Lewd scenes are just lame and boring where your MC are being too full of herself and not even tried to acknowleged herself when she actually have no choice but tried to make that herself are worthy. There is no PRIDE when doing lewd stuff like that and BOYFRIEND things are not applied in FANTASY WORLD, she just being too DELUSIONAL about boyfriend and tried to protect herself while in reality she is massive HYPOCRITE

Negatives are outweighing than positives due points that I said and if devs are not tried to change requirement especially on learning skills and resource avaiability, I am afraid that when it released in mutiple platforms, this will gone badly and nobody tried to buying this game.