RPGM - Completed - Succubus Battle Simulator [Final] [Jamming Software]

  1. 3.00 star(s)

    Ophanim

    I played the version downloaded from Hemdom's blog recently, so if there are version differences here, sorry about that! Anyway, onto the review :p

    This feels like an aggressively average monstergirl rape/seduction game. It gives you what amount to cheats pretty much from the start, so you know what kind of game you're in for, which is mostly horribly unbalanced and underdesigned RPGM combat, with occasional grab/seduction moves. At least the cheats mean you don't have to interact with that system too much, but I can't help wishing it was... better, you know?

    I'm hardly an expert in 3D modeling programs, but these renders seem fine, and the animations aren't jarringly bad or anything. They're quite smooth, but nothing special, if that makes sense? It very much reminds me of Succubus Maze, actually, particularly with the 'one succubus per floor is a special event encounter' gimmick.

    Regarding that... every floor has a minigame/puzzle/interaction of some kind where succubi will attempt to trick/trap/seduce you with a more narrative version of the things they try to do to you in combat, which was overall an improvement given the boring and undercooked RPG combat. It's fairly basic, giving you the option to continue the scene or not, but that's pretty much all you need for some with regards to selling the 'temptation' angle. It's nothing mindblowing, but it's kind of okay. The puzzles/etc are as underdone/basic as the combat, so anyone looking for a game to make them lose and milk them dry is likely to be disappointed. As it was, I found them about what I expected going in.

    These scenes largely live or die by their writing, which is... passable at best? I'm a JP-EN fan translator, so the writing kinda jumps out at me, and again, this is a porn game, so my expectations were suuuper low. It's edited MTL, which honestly can mean anything from 'I fiddled with one line of dialogue and mostly just fucked it up even more, but I am calling this edited' to 'I am the Shakespeare of the coming age, and I have rewritten the game's texts largely from scratch in prose to marvel Nabokov'. There's nothing wrong with editing an MTL, and it's an alright way to get into learning the language, but... you can guess which outcome is more common.

    Aaaanyway, this one is very much on the 'edited' MTL end. The porn lines have obviously been touched up sometimes but they've left in a lot of the errors every MTL engine does when doing JP-EN, which is a bit of a bummer. New lines treated as new sentences, literal translations of idioms in places, jank UI ('at the mercy' instead of 'surrender'), talking about legs when a character obviously meant her feet because 足 is ambiguous... that kinda thing. Most of the combat stuff, like damage and attacks was left untranslated, probably because MTLing those would break whatever scripting is happening behind the scenes. Translation is hard, so I don't want to rag on them too much, but this really isn't great, sorry :(

    As others have said, it might make for an okay entry to the genre, and it's not egregiously terrible, but would make for a very humdrum game even if it were translated by an expert in both Japanese and English literature. Can't really recommend it, but it's okay if you're running out of femdom games to play ig?
  2. 3.00 star(s)

    The Fool Reversed

    I feel like this is a good entry level H-Game. I wish that there were loss scenes, but that's just a nitpick. Its a all around good, if a bit short, experience. I'de like to see this game's creator grow and improve as they create more content, I think that with some time they can create something really great.
  3. 5.00 star(s)

    s.kirmish

    Played it, and though there is in my opinion too much of a wait between the variety of succubi to appear, forcing you to fight through lots of monotonous battles if you don't want to use the cheats, once it picks up it is pretty great. Since the animations, models and situations are so good, I still had to give it maximum score.
  4. 3.00 star(s)

    -Nothing-

    Objectively
    Story
    You play as a perverted stupid mage, who played with magical circles to summon succubus, but instead summoned himself into their mansion. You need to escape, or not ?
    Gameplay
    Unbalanced, boring and broken most of the time.
    You can kill some enemies, get their coins to buy the best armor, weapon and buffs for stupidly cheap price right in the beginning. And I didn't mention that you can give yourself any level or money.
    At least puzzles are fine but still very easy.
    All of the time you'll hear something like "Ho, pity and weak human, I'm gonna make you mine!", and then she dies in the first turn without even able to attack you, funny.
    Graphics and sounds
    Pretty much similar to previous game of this developer, but now each monster has its own animations.
    Problems and bugs
    1) weak balance;
    2) spawned portals, appeared after defeating bosses, can be annoying;
    3) don't even try to play with mouse, it will make your life harder and you'll stuck just right in the first (after hub) location with book;
    4) translation is bad. Some text not translated and some badly translated.

    Subjectively
    Story
    IMO you'll be disappointed expecting for something special, just like me. The plot is too simple, there is only a beginning and an end, the plot does not develop in any way
    Gameplay
    I could say the same about gameplay. Don't expect for something special.
    OVERALL
    I consider this game as a mediocre time-killer, that will kill one hour of your precious life.