Review of season 1
There's a lot of boring, trope-filled, anime-inspired AVNs. Stray Incubus certainly starts as one. Ninjas in a bog-standard fantasy setting isn't exactly anything new. The plot, characters, sex, and visuals all start off pretty subpar (and there are these frequent intermission cards which feel a bit hacky). But it overcomes these trappings (I think after maybe 30 minutes?) to evolve into something worth playing. The turning point is when you go on your first "mission" with your team of hot girls. These mission are actually really good self-contained stories, in which you get to do some investigating, fighting, fucking, and learn about the characters and lore along the way. They're like good episodes of a TV show. And even in the interludes when you return to your base, the game maintains your interest by shifting gears to focus on character development (and sex).
The visual quality doesn't start amazing but improves significantly, as does the art direction; eventually most scenes take place in well detailed environments. The girls are cute and hot (though one of them does look extremely similar to a certain Dalia), and the mc having a slightly less overtly ripped physique actually works quite well to suit his character. Don't worry though, he isn't a wet blanket, he's still a powerful, confident and smart guy (though he expresses these qualities more as his character develops). He also has a huge cock which is a big plus for me.
The audio design is good, so keep the sound turned on.
It's not all sunshine and roses though. His relationship with his adopted mother figure isn't great: it seems like the dev wants them to have both a parent-child relationship (though he never calls her mom) and an equal friend-friend relationship, but it ends up with them just seeming distant.
There's a sequence where someone has an ability that would make an investigation infinitely easier, but for some reason they never use it.
But the most damning problem with the game surprisingly starts towards the end of season 1. There are renders in action scenes where poor lighting, too much stuff on the screen and way too fast animations make it difficult to see what's happening. And then at the very end of the season things seem to happen in such a disconnected way that it felt like a TV show where half of the shots had been randomly removed. It felt more like a dream sequence than reality (and I thought it might be, seeing as this game has quite a lot of those). This problem is so bad that it singlehandedly brings my rating down from 5 to 4.
Overall, this is a good game. You need to push past the opening till it gets good, and I really hope season 2 starts at a more manageable pace to make up for the lackluster quality at the end of season 1. If it does, I can definitely see this becoming a 5 star.
There's a lot of boring, trope-filled, anime-inspired AVNs. Stray Incubus certainly starts as one. Ninjas in a bog-standard fantasy setting isn't exactly anything new. The plot, characters, sex, and visuals all start off pretty subpar (and there are these frequent intermission cards which feel a bit hacky). But it overcomes these trappings (I think after maybe 30 minutes?) to evolve into something worth playing. The turning point is when you go on your first "mission" with your team of hot girls. These mission are actually really good self-contained stories, in which you get to do some investigating, fighting, fucking, and learn about the characters and lore along the way. They're like good episodes of a TV show. And even in the interludes when you return to your base, the game maintains your interest by shifting gears to focus on character development (and sex).
The visual quality doesn't start amazing but improves significantly, as does the art direction; eventually most scenes take place in well detailed environments. The girls are cute and hot (though one of them does look extremely similar to a certain Dalia), and the mc having a slightly less overtly ripped physique actually works quite well to suit his character. Don't worry though, he isn't a wet blanket, he's still a powerful, confident and smart guy (though he expresses these qualities more as his character develops). He also has a huge cock which is a big plus for me.
The audio design is good, so keep the sound turned on.
It's not all sunshine and roses though. His relationship with his adopted mother figure isn't great: it seems like the dev wants them to have both a parent-child relationship (though he never calls her mom) and an equal friend-friend relationship, but it ends up with them just seeming distant.
There's a sequence where someone has an ability that would make an investigation infinitely easier, but for some reason they never use it.
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But the most damning problem with the game surprisingly starts towards the end of season 1. There are renders in action scenes where poor lighting, too much stuff on the screen and way too fast animations make it difficult to see what's happening. And then at the very end of the season things seem to happen in such a disconnected way that it felt like a TV show where half of the shots had been randomly removed. It felt more like a dream sequence than reality (and I thought it might be, seeing as this game has quite a lot of those). This problem is so bad that it singlehandedly brings my rating down from 5 to 4.
Overall, this is a good game. You need to push past the opening till it gets good, and I really hope season 2 starts at a more manageable pace to make up for the lackluster quality at the end of season 1. If it does, I can definitely see this becoming a 5 star.