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I remember a long time ago this game being extremely hard to play without a walkthrough. Is that still the case or can i just play blindly ?
It's not hard on Normal if you're willing to use common sense and savescum fights for better results after you've seen how they play. But there are 2 difficulties below Normal if you need them. Some of the quest objectives are still obtuse and you may need to use the .
 
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Edit: Are there any scenes I could repeat or is it all railroaded?
Several repeatable sex scenes in the mid/late game.
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I am indifferent to these kinda thoughts to be honest. Eroding her values and getting the protagonist more sluttier is the whole appeal to the game or not. Why working against it especially on your first playthrough?
I thought so too. Never really gave a shit about any of the protagonists changing in nearly every other corruption game I've played. But it's different here.
Partly because Aura feels like a human being with ideals and dreams, instead of a hyper-sexualized dressup doll who clumsily gets entangled in easily avoided sexual scenarios.
Partly because both the main and support antagonists are real pieces of shit, and advancing towards the corruption ending is essentionally letting them win. And you don't want to see them win.
Partly because it's not just sexual. It's not just about breaking down Aura's inhibitions, and wanting her to bone nearly every dude in sight, although that is part of it. You are practically watching the death of a person in slow-mo. Her hobbies, her friends, her dreams, her idealism. It all gets broken down, and changed into something unrecognizeable. It's pretty sad if you go all the way.

But I digress. Play it yourself, and make up your own opinion.
 

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I remember a long time ago this game being extremely hard to play without a walkthrough. Is that still the case or can i just play blindly ?
I agree, the early game is pretty brutal, without a guide. I wrote a list of tips for surviving the early game recently, that don't explain every single quest, but give general pieces of advice that should you help you survive it.
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I have a steam page and I will try. The game is also censored for SFW on steam with an external patch, and I have generally taken every precaution I can think up to reduce the chance of it getting banned, and yet it is still likely to get banned. I won't be going into the issue as this discussion has been had several times and I don't really want to repeat it. Others may feel to do so instead or you can research the topic on steam's banning lottery yourself.
Ummm... I'm not sure if I understood you, do you want to release it as SFW or NSFW? Because there is an NSFW category on Steam, though you have to enable a setting to see it. Steam doesn't require you to go SFW for an NSFW game.

I just went to the store and saw the New & Trending:
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The same game also has an NSFW trailer:
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I do know that Steam is strict on certain themes and I know of some devs who had issues with Steam, but I don't believe your game would get flagged.

Edit: If you wanted to go for a wider audience on Steam by going SFW then use an NSFW patch for those who want it, then I would understand that's what you're worried about regarding Steam review. But if you wanted it to be NSFW only, then it shouldn't be an issue.
 
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Ummm... I'm not sure if I understood you, do you want to release it as SFW or NSFW? Because there is an NSFW category on Steam, though you have to enable a setting to see it. Steam doesn't require you to go SFW for an NSFW game.

I just went to the store and saw the New & Trending:
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I do know that Steam is strict on certain themes and I know of some devs who had issues with Steam, but I don't believe your game would get flagged.

Edit: If you wanted to go for a wider audience on Steam by going SFW then use an NSFW patch for those who want it, then I would understand that's what you're worried about regarding Steam review. But if you wanted it to be NSFW only, then it shouldn't be an issue.
Yes, the Steam version as it is, is currently an SFW version. No it has nothing to do with going for a wider audience.
In fact, since it's a censored game I expect the reception to be horrible with lots of negative reviews even if the game does get allowed on steam.

You are looking at the games that survived the steam lottery, not at all the ones that get banned.
Steam has a 1 strike policy against adult games and it's too risky for this game.

EDIT: As I said, I don't want to fully do the whole discussion. You can read up on steam's bannings yourself.
Games can get banned simply from mentioning that characters have gone to school in the past, implying that at some point in their life characters were underage. It is meaningless to look at the games that have been allowed on the platform, as there is no consistency in the decisions. I also don't have a social media clout to oppose random bannings e.g. what happened with Chaos;Head Noah.

Developer friend of mine making the game Ero Dungeons recently also had his game 1 strike banned from steam.
Of course, as a player you don't see that. You only see all the games that do get allowed. But not the tons of games that get banned.
 
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Yes, the Steam version as it is, is currently an SFW version. No it has nothing to do with going for a wider audience.
In fact, since it's a censored game I expect the reception to be horrible with lots of negative reviews even if the game does get allowed on steam.

You are looking at the games that survived the steam lottery, not at all the ones that get banned.
Steam has a 1 strike policy against adult games and it's too risky for this game.

EDIT: As I said, I don't want to fully do the whole discussion. You can read up on steam's bannings yourself.
Games can get banned simply from mentioning that characters have gone to school in the past, implying that at some point in their life characters were underage. It is meaningless to look at the games that have been allowed on the platform, as there is no consistency in the decisions. I also don't have a social media clout to oppose random bannings e.g. what happened with Chaos;Head Noah.

Developer friend of mine making the game Ero Dungeons recently also had his game 1 strike banned from steam.
Of course, as a player you don't see that. You only see all the games that do get allowed. But not the tons of games that get banned.
That's understandable. Regarding the age of the cast, how old are they? They're in high school right, so about 17-18? If so then yeah that might be a reason to get flagged.
 

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Well there's one publisher you could consult with, they translate and publish games from this forum. Saikey Studios is a publisher on Steam so you could get some insight from them as well.
 

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I saw a new game plus? does that mean the game has a ending?
The corruption ending, and everything leading up to it is implented, barring the art for a small handful of scenes.
The good ending is still a while off, but the game is set to be done in January.
But you can actually start NG+ whenever you want. Generally the more content you've played, the more "points" you get for distributing between skills and stats, that you carry into your restart.
 

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The max lewdness guide is in the owners trash and will be deleted soon.

I have copied it and shared it here so it won't be lost. Maybe it can be added to the OP.



Hopefully someone will continue with the guide.
 

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I saw a new game plus? does that mean the game has a ending?
The new game plus has been around much longer than there have been (proper) endings.

It's really there just so you can start a run with more starting stats and possibly even skills, leading to an easier time.
 

k2ren

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it's so annoying that you cannot use the previos version of spells/skills, like light1 or piercing1... newer versions are too manaintensive or hp intensive and in a lot of time the lower version is enough. should be addressed by dev...
 

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it's so annoying that you cannot use the previos version of spells/skills, like light1 or piercing1... newer versions are too manaintensive or hp intensive and in a lot of time the lower version is enough. should be addressed by dev...
I don't disagree with you that it can be annoying, but skills upgrading is clearly an intentional choice, so I don't see it changing. There are also advantages to the system. The biggest one off the top of my head is that it makes the skill menus much less cluttered than they would be if each version of each skill existed. It also makes parsing what the various debuffs do much easier.
 
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k2ren

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I don't disagree with you that it can be annoying, but skills upgrading is clearly an intentional choice, so I don't see it changing. There are also advantages to the system. The biggest one off the top of my head is that it makes the skill menus much less cluttered than they would be if each version of each skill existed. It also makes parsing what the various debuffs do much easier.
that can be changed, either be able to choose the level of skill after you select it, or have a toggle on options to show lower level skills, or have a button (like shift) in which if you press it on the spell then it switches to different level or if you press the spell while holding shift then the level selection comes up. etc.


so there are many ways to implement it. UI and quality of life is already very good in this game so dev clearly pays attention to little things so i dont see how this cannot be done.
 

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bug: against item duelist clemence i can just transform and 1shot him with a spell... even though i SHOULD be restricted to only using items.... i mean even if i transform i should be only allowed to use items and not star knightess spells.
 

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i mean even if i transform i should be only allowed to use items and not star knightess spells.
Please no, that guy ranks as one of my least favorite encounters in the entire game. Just headspace it as "I'm using my collar('s abilities) as an item" or something.
 

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that can be changed, either be able to choose the level of skill after you select it, or have a toggle on options to show lower level skills, or have a button (like shift) in which if you press it on the spell then it switches to different level or if you press the spell while holding shift then the level selection comes up. etc.


so there are many ways to implement it. UI and quality of life is already very good in this game so dev clearly pays attention to little things so i dont see how this cannot be done.
Most of these work with keyboard but not with only mouse or only touch on mobile, need additional UI hints to be visible to the user or cause other problems.

There are also other factors. Such as that it would entice the player to optimize his play by trying to use the least powerful spell to kill an enemy, but HP is hidden so it would a lot of reloads trying to minimize mana spending.
Players trying to optimize fun out of their game is a major issue.

The other thing is that it's part of the core balancing to scale your HP/MP spending as your HP/MP pool increases.
Otherwise days would be too long. The concept has proven itself in many other dungeon crawling games such as SMT games.
 

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Most of these work with keyboard but not with only mouse or only touch on mobile, need additional UI hints to be visible to the user or cause other problems.

There are also other factors. Such as that it would entice the player to optimize his play by trying to use the least powerful spell to kill an enemy, but HP is hidden so it would a lot of reloads trying to minimize mana spending.
Players trying to optimize fun out of their game is a major issue.

The other thing is that it's part of the core balancing to scale your HP/MP spending as your HP/MP pool increases.
Otherwise days would be too long. The concept has proven itself in many other dungeon crawling games such as SMT games.
well whatever, balance is surprisingly very good in the game due to limited amount of money (no respawning enemies) and no heal spells... but it still feels bad to use higher level spells for example: item interactions (like light2 for destroying red orbs in demonic domains, or fire2 for lighting up torches), it makes little to no sense. i can understand not holding back against enemies, but does the hero really not hold back against item interactions?! imagine you wanting to light a torch but you summon a fire nuclear bomb on it just to light it... (EXPLOOOOSION!) it makes no sense imo.

playing on hard, and getting hit by the full greed curse already puts enough pressure on your gameplay. too much even, that curse is very annoying. (you have to micromanage min/max your spending a LOT) plus if you wanna roleplay then Alicia can really fk your shit up with the tokens at the 2nd mental chamber.

so imo the game offers enough roleplay possibilities (for example not using blessed waters to decrease lust corruption and so on), so having no control over lower skill usage to "optimize" mana spending just feels like a "beta version bug" and not a deliberate roleplaying decision. it would feel better as a quality of life thing, even as a roleplaying element it would make more sense to be able to use them.

plus there are skills you can learn("mana capacity") based on how many spells you know... and in that it counts the lower version spells too (light1+light2 counts as 2) yet you cannot use that lower level spell so it makes no sense again.
 
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Zarkhy

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playing on hard, and getting hit by the full greed curse already puts enough pressure on your gameplay. too much even, that curse is very annoying. (you have to micromanage min/max your spending a LOT) plus if you wanna roleplay then Alicia can really fk your shit up with the tokens at the 2nd mental chamber.
Eh, IMO Eyes of Greed is the most manageable curse out of the lot. All you gotta do is spend money at end of the day instead of the beginning. Worst case might be that you have to buy something expensive one day and another expensive thing from another vendor on another day.
 

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Eh, IMO Eyes of Greed is the most manageable curse out of the lot. All you gotta do is spend money at end of the day instead of the beginning. Worst case might be that you have to buy something expensive one day and another expensive thing from another vendor on another day.
not really because if you overspend, then you cannot use a lot of services, like learning skills or enchanting weapons. and you constantly have to buy stuff in different places, new alchemy books, apples, mana stones, emerald tea, coating, etc.

sure if you play on story mode then being cursed3 doesn't matter, but on hard+ you just get obliterated if you have low willpower. and if you collar every day then corruption will accumulate and overflow. it's by far the worse curse no contest. because storywise you will get hit by the full, unlike the other curses where it makes a lot of sense to only get the incomplete version.

so you either play on easier mode or you just got triggered from my comment and said something you yourself dont even think is true, because completed greed curse is very annoying.
 
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