RPGM - Completed - Succubus Academia [Final+DLC] [SQDT]

One of those games worth playing more than fapping to. Seriously.

Don't get me wrong; the art is great, and I initially checked it out because I thought this was done by Nyuu, but you're not going to be spanking anything for a number of reasons -- primary of which is it's a battle fuck game, and you'll be too busy focusing on winning during the few times you do penetrative action.

It's honestly pretty stressful, but the gameplay is deep enough to suck you in if you even remotely enjoy RPGs.


Speaking of art, the game makes excellent use of RPGM assets to great aesthetic and thematic effects. The premise is that your school got transported to a dream world/different dimension, and the locations have been twisted and exaggerated; classrooms turned into a forest littered with desks and cabinets, track field turned into a canyon, the pool area turned into an undersea caver kinda thing... They really sell the atmosphere.


The game also never lets up the portrayal of succubi being monstrous creatures with decidedly inhuman morals; you are food who only get to live proportional to their amusement and there is no changing that.

I've seen so many try the surreal sexual horror direction, but the horror is usually cheesy and the sex never blends in. They also usually never have the balls to go all in. Meanwhile, this has blind footrace snakes and ladders -- except with penises for dice. Succubi cover your eyes, jack you off, and you have to move where your jizz lands. Also you're on a thin bridge.


As for the story... well, this shit has deep lore. It's definitely not the typical excuse plot, and I think it requires knowledge of a game the same devs released a decade and a half ago. I say I think, because I definitely didn't understand it. What's in there is still entertaining enough, and you can take it as a typical "students sucked into a desperate survival situation" story. Except with far less surviving.

I don't usually review games, but this game is so well put together not just as porn but also as a game that it deserves some stars.

Writing - 4/5
Applause to the translators and to the story-writers. The story isn't mindblowing but there aren't many flaws. It's engaging enough to drive a playthrough and the side-stories between each character and the major succubi are fun enough.

The notorious succubi are kind of shoehorned in there but they're meant to be bonus content anyway.

Art - 4.5/5
The animations are great. The proportions and angles sometimes feel just a little bit off when looking at stills, but since the characters are in motion so frequently, it ends up reading as a stylistic choice more than anything.

Music 5/5
The music in this game is godly. This is the only game on F95Zone I'd go back and listen to the soundtrack without playing the game. It's a mix of fantasy and electronic, custom commissioned with a dedicated artist and not the typical royalty-free stuff.

Game Design 4.5/5

There are small puzzles throughout the game that are needed to access the notorious succubi. They're not difficult, but they require some thought

Clearing each area is also unique and has their own puzzles. You're able to clear the areas in any order, while the game will gradually increase its difficulty to match the areas cleared, which I find quite cool.

The combat system is unique and strategic, although of course thematically fighting here is the same as fucking. When you fight, you pick a move that has odds of increasing your stance gauge and chaining into other moves. Certain moves "pop" your stance gauge and do exponentially more damage based on how much you've built your stance thus far. However, you can't keep building stance indefinitely because if the enemy raises your MP too high, you lose all your stance + a big chunk of your health.

You can also use incense and other items that boost your stats for a certain amount of turns. There's a decent amount of strategic depth and decision making turn by turn and I haven't seen this kind of system elsewhere.

The true ending has lots of requirements, but unlike in other games these requirements can be inferred. The game provides you with enough hints to push you in the correct direction.

The only reason I knocked it down half a star is because the gameplay isn't compelling enough to make me want to play this again. But I enjoyed my first playthrough and it wasn't just cause of the sexy succubi waifus.


Kinks ???/???
This is a femdom game whose entire premise is that enemy succubi are trying to rape you.
There's snuff, but it's surprisingly wholesome snuff.
There's also someone who tries to eat you. I'm still not really sure if that's supposed to be kinky or supposed to be horror.
There's a surprising amount of drug use as well. It doesn't happen often but it happens enough that it makes me wonder about the kink(s) of the author.

Overall
5/5, I can see that a lot of work was put into this game and it paid off. Have my eye on their work in the future, whether it's porn or something in the mainstream.

This isn't a graphic novel with complex story elements, so let's break it down.

Cons:
- It's an RPGM game, so most of the sprites and assets are the same stuff you've seen a hundred times.
- A few lines are still untranslated, but it's about 2% of lines and they're for unimportant, optional content.
- Progress can get a little grindy if you want to see all optional characters.

Pros:
- The author has clever uses for RPGM elements. Those tacky assets and textures that often look out of place are now rightly out of place, the RPGM combat system is nicely used for succubus combat, and there are other similar nuances.
- Real succubi (they drain you until they kill you and you love them for it).
- Top tier smut. This game hits several kinks and gets graphic about it.
- Good pacing. You can avoid almost all repeated scenes and the story is fast paced.

While relatively simplistic, this game was addictive and enjoyable.

28 hours played, finished game once - hard mode with true ending, 90% of trophies.

Gameplay - 5/5

Fun combat sex gameplay. Hard mode is a bit over-tuned even for hard mode, but apparently an untranslated patch fixes that. Also, playing on hard mode is obviously asking for it.

Art - 4/5

Diverse and well drawn cast of characters. Unfortunately, some questionable visual character design choices, and animations look fairly stiff.

Porn - 5/5

Sex is happening pretty much all the time, and is written reasonably well. On hardmode won't necessarily feel like a nukige though, since it may take some time to see a fresh scene.

Music - 5/5

Nice, fresh tunes. You can see the effort.

Story, character, and world design - 5/5

Better than most non-VN porn games I've played. You can, again, see the effort.

i usually don't write reviews but this game really is an exception. although the game can be slightly difficult and unforgiving (you can lose and have to start everything over), overall it is extremely well done. there are certain unique technical elements i have yet to see implemented in any other rpgm games. the story is great, artwork is fantastic, and the gameplay constantly forces you to adapt and change strategies, unlike other h-game where gameplaycan be very repetitve.

what a disappointment...
You play as a student, whatever you can call him or just accept default name, in academia, filled with monsters and succubi. The first thing you see is unavoidable death, that will follow also you and all other students, that you'll take control on. Why do you need to do it ? Good question, but you'll understand eventually, after 10 hours of gameplay.
Your goal is to kill your characters by satisfying succubi in turn-based combat.
Why ? That's the next goal to accomplish !
Well... you can't expect much from RPGM, but at least adult content is astonishing. Every person can find here his own poison, as to say.
1) I got couple of crashes because of text skipping
2) Letting you rename characters killing the plot

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4) Your weapon will be useless in the next cycle (broken?)
5) After some time, game is lagging so freaking much. Possibly my own problem ?
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Such a disappointment...
This game might give you unique experience of killing yourself with succubi for victory, also letting you remember characters from other worlds, such as from Monster Girl Quest and even knowing new, interesting ones.
Gameplay is unique but unusual, hard to tolerate.
Story is questionable.
I give it 3.9/5, because this game skillfully stole my time and attention, for 10 hours, and left me empty and unsatisfied

It's a battle fuck RPG for the ages. For those not in the know, battle fuck RPG refers to a game where battle system involves sex, usually with the player trying to outlast the opponent. Combine this simple yet effective system with gorgeous artwork and smooth Live2D animations and you've got a recipe for success, all that's left is the execution.

What makes this game unique is the stance system. At the start of each fight, you enter one of 3 stances which then determines your move set. Which stance is available to you depends on your dialogue choices as well as equipment that you can unlock through the game's skill tree system. Each stance has its own unique playstyle, from more defensive approaches to all out glass canon for those who like to live on the edge. You can either try and adopt multiple stances or lean into the playstyle that suits you best.

Combat is all about managing a bunch of gauges and counters. Enemy attacks will raise your EP, which when filled will deplete a portion of your LP. Lose all your LP and it's game over. In the meantime you're trying your best to fill the opponent's mood in order to defeat them. By chaining together a bunch of skills, you can set up combos for big damage. Fights can be pretty challenging, especially on hard mode, but the system is well worth learning and creates for a satisfying experience worthy of mainstream RPGs.

Another standout system is how progression is made. Each time you defeat a boss, you must sacrifice the current player character. Afterward, you pick a new character to carry on the legacy and press onward. Like in the SaGa games, your heroes will inherit the cumulative abilities of their previous incarnations. While defeating a boss will force a player death, keep in mind that losing any fights will also require you to choose a new hero to carry on while your progress is effectively stalled. With a limited number of heroes in the game, you can't just throw away your lives willy nilly or else you can force a game over.

Level selection is like Mega Man where you're free to tackle each stage in any order you like. While there are characters associated with each of the bosses, you don't have to match them to each boss if you don't want to. Also the overall difficulty is increased depending on how many bosses you've beaten, as determined by the dream level thermometer at the base.

If you do end up losing all your guys, then you're always free to continue with New Game+ to make the next run easier. You can approach this game as casually or as hardcore as you'd like, but I think the game systems are refined enough to warrant trying your best at a hard mode run. With legitimately engaging gameplay systems and gorgeous artwork, this game pretty much perfection and an amazing way to send off the year.