Others - Completed - SusRitual [Final] [NoraHeart]

  1. 1.00 star(s)

    Innocent Chloe

    Female protagonist side-scrollers are one of my favourite h-game genres and this game has everything that I normally would love from a game in the genre but yet sadly fails in all aspects

    The h-scenes have potential but they lack polish and the h-content is only triggered basically by losing all your HP. So your goal is to either just clear the game fully and rewatch through the gallery or intentionally lose to see the h-scene

    The best games in the genre implement the h-content as the core combat and gameplay mechanic and everything else revolves around it. Whereas here we get a pretty bad side-scroller with h-content added in for losing

    The h-scenes are decent but again they feel quite rushed and unpolished and somehow they just look clunky with the way the animations and such work

    Clunky is a common trend for the entire game. The movement is clunky, the combat is clunky, the UI is clunky and nothing seems to work quite right. Despite being a finished game I did encounter a few bugs. One time my character got knocked back and she fell through the floor. Had to restart the level as a result which was quite frustrating

    I just can't help but shake the feeling that games like this are just money grab efforts to lure people in with the porn and sell them a shoddy side-scroller action game in the process that had bare minimum effort put into it

    Now I just noticed and part of why I went back to replay SusRitual is because the same devs have now put out a new game Witch of the Space Station hopefully it shows some improvement but if it doesn't and just has all the same issues and more that SusRitual does then that pretty much confirms it without a shadow of a doubt that this dev is simply trying to do a quick money grab with low effort games disguised by porn. But I shall reserve final judgement until I've had a chance to play the new game. Look out for my review on the new title should you be curious

    But yeah in terms of SusRitual I honestly wouldn't even bother getting it for the gallery. There is better h-content out there across many other female protagonist games with better quality art and animations
  2. 1.00 star(s)

    souldead341

    Well, this is a demo and it really shows that whoever made this didn't bother to actually PLAY their demo without some kind of hack / dev mode. This might be fixed in later releases, but I'd avoid the demo as it is for now.

    Now, the graphics are decent to good and such, but that's way to little for the issues with the gameplay. It's a standard 2d beat um up type game, with a single lane (so no being slightly off and attacks missing by being to far "forward" of "back". There's likely to be at least some platforming based on the instructions.

    HP is tied to clothing damage. Using a potion to heal wounds fixes clothing too! That can be ok, if you can't heal in the game but you can here...

    You get a pistol as your first weapon, but it's a flintlock. It takes 3 shots (thankfully infinite ammo) to kill a standard enemy. It also takes like 30 seconds standing still to reload and you basically can't dodge their attacks other than just running back from them.

    Once you get a sword I accidentally activated the teleport, which locks you into fighting a boss. That boss is (near as I can tell) quite literally impossible to beat without god tier reflexes, pixel perfect jumps, or cheating. His attacks each do about 25% HP. He has a long pillars of light attack, which keeps spawning new pillars the entire time so you can't attack during it. A jumping sword attack which you can dodge, but gives basically no time to hit him back without being hit yourself. Lastly he has a sword beam which has unlimited range (near as I can tell), and can be jumped if you manage to time your jump exactly perfectly, since it just BARELY is shorter than your max jump height.

    Your attacks (pistol and sword) do very little damage, I'd guess it'd take 20-30 attacks to kill the boss. I personally didn't manage 10 hits in a single attempt. Your dodge also lacks I frames, so you actually have to be completely out of the way of any attack you try to dodge.

    Overall, it needs work and I honestly don't think it's worth it for either the gameplay or the porn at the moment.