RPGM - Symphony of the Serpent [v.48112] [NLT Media]

I love NTL games. Hard to find this kind of games. I played all NTL games.
good looking girls. Best Adventure. Best animation. Genesis order was the best one I played.
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I am one of the biggest fan of NTL, yet I could not help but rate this one so poor. I mean, I would give this one staight 0 star if possible but none can deny that NTL create the best looking models out there.
Now about the review,
I have noticed some key patterns in NTL's games. He had his flaws since Lust Epidemic and Treasure of Nadia.
1. He never inproved those flaws but lost the great things he had done with those two games, like INCEST, Good Story, Meaningful Sex etc. Since his 3rd game, The Genesis Order, still the sex scenes were good and at least somewhat connected to the story even if not as well as the others.
2. The worst thing he introduced or more like amplify the reactions of models during the orgasm. These reactions are so pathetic that it completly turns me off, these reactions aren't of extreme joy but more like extreme pain and disgust, that's how people react at those moment and sad thing is, it's extremely consistent, not even a single extreme reaction in my memory showed a happy, satisfied reaction during orgasm.
Now that we are done with the pattern, let;s get to this very game.

Models:
As always, extremely attractive but definetly a downgrade compared to last 2 games.
Animations and Sex :
This is where I am disappointed the most and the only good thing the dev used to deliver with the game, just vanished. I know the game is not complete but First Problem : All the sex scenes are detached from the flow of the story. The sex scenes happens abruptly without proper build up and tensions.
Second Problem : There is no actual romance or passion in the game or at least compared to the sex scenes. To me, Anya is the primary love interest. Her first sex scene is so abrupt that anyone who was interested in her would never be satisfied. I don't know how these devs think but how could he just do a so-so job for his main FMC's first sex scene!!
Third Problem : The NPC type side characters have better sex scenes and sex angle than many main characters.

The Story: It's worse than TGO but never expected it to be any good, same pathetic pushover MC who is pushed around by the pussy of the most ugliest girl of the game, that's how it was in TGO and that's continuing here as well. The pushover MC is not passionate towards anyone. I mean, you would definitely try to defend someone at every time, right? This story has nothing of that sort, only the mc is controlled by some pussy which is attached to some ugly face and personality.

TBH, I am really disappointed. There were so many opportunities to improve game story but he is going downwards since Treasure of Nadia. With SoTS he hit the rock bottom. He had the chance to make a very good tensed love dynamic for the first time with the introduction of Anya, but no, he just threw that opportunity. and kept going the same road, the pushover mc controlled by some ugly pussies and ignoring the things which are actually important to him.

Another banger by NLT.

No surprise here, big storyline, many hours of gameplay, lot of characters, this is what we are looking for.

I am here mainly for the plot, the rest is just a bonus.
A bit of a bummer that they dropped the incest inuandos a notch but they seem to head to another direction and can't blame them since its quite risky.

Summary:

With great animations and a style very loyal to that of NLT, the game retains its idiosyncratic personality - however, you can only enjoy a fine meal or a catchy tune for so long until you grow bored of it.

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Review:

• Art-style: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Good! ...again.

The art, eternalized in 3D as per NTL tradition, is good. The characters are comely, the visuals here steer towards something more cyberpunk-ish when it comes to the environments.
However, it presents absolutely no difference from the previous games. The characters are unremarkably beautiful, and the visuals are stagnantly endearing.

• Gameplay: ☆ ☆
Very little is new, besides an unintuitive and unecessary combat system.

Again, the gameplay environment and mechanics are very much like the previous games. You walk around finding clues, collecting items, clicking on glowing things. This time, there's a combat system, but it'd be better off without it. I'd give it three stars for "unimpressive" if not for this addition - it's not awful, it's just, truthfully, boring. The combat mechanic detracts from "boring" to "unappealing", instead of adding to it.

• Storyline: ☆
I'm not sure I understand the flow of the storyline and character progression?

It's the sex virus again. The characters all have the same concept as those of previous games - the sexually curious virgin, the promiscuous "aunt", the hesitating matronly MILF... it's literally the same game, in it's fourth reincarnation.

The Genesis Order ends in a mess when it comes to the plot, and it gets worse in this game. Additionally, character progression is all over the place - you'll get jumpscared with anal sex without as much as trading a kiss before, which breaks the untold rule of H-games that you must "work your way" into what the other character is willing to do with you. This kills the buildup, and again, detracts from the experience.

All in all, the game is stale, with every addition detracting from it.

• Grammar: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
It's fine.

As far as I can recall, there was no distictive damage done to the English language in this version. It's not a prosaic masterpiece, but it's fine for a porn game.
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Stars: 12
Parameters: 4 (Art | Gameplay | Storyline | Grammar)
Final result: 3☆ (12/4 = 3)

it's just downhill, and downhill and downhill and downhill and downhill

and it's freaking sad

story is the worst part in this, it doesn't make any (and I mean ANY FUCKING) sense

characters are shallow, bland and boring as fuck - a noticeable downgrade from previous titles. some girls aren't even that fucking cute!

the gameplay is ... eh, what you would expect from NTL - tried-and-true from previous titles, still no improvements (apart from obvious), which means it is still tedious and you can resort to pixel hunting

man, what a letdown

Its becoming real pain in the bum. Traveling all over the place just for one little thing from one corner to the other. Not sure why but I feel really stupid playing this shit game. Where are the short cut travels?. Especially travelling around in NLT has fallen.. I withal my support ... better games to play

A big letdown from previous NLT titles. While I wouldn't say it's bad, I've stopped playing because frankly I have no more interest in it. It's way too tedious for little reward. Maybe I'll visit it again in the future and see where it stands.

This game is boring currently.
(I'll adjust my review at full release when I buy it on steam)

• The writing tries to make you think the story is great, but it's the complete opposite. It's just pointless, wordy dialogue that not only wastes your time but also bores the hell out of you because there's so much of it, and none of it is interesting. There's a ton of pointless text in this game that often doesn't even make sense, and on top of that, it's extremely drawn out.
  
  
• For instance, you'll talk about some relic stuff in one scene, then have to walk all the way across the map and back again just to continue the same pointless conversation. The devs stretched everything out so much that you literally have to invest at least an hour to read what should have been one freaking sentence. This is pretty much the entire game.
  
  
• Everything would have been a bit less painful if the story was at least somewhat good, but it isn't. This is the most boring, monotone, lifeless piece of story writing I've ever read. It's like AI generated slop, and a very bad one at that.
  
  
• The animations, character design, and overall quality are mediocre at best. The animations seem like a big downgrade from their previous work they just look weird. It feels like the dev didn't put any effort into them at all and just rendered them to fill space.
  
  
• The gameplay is actually quite fun. I like the fighting mechanic, and I think the dev likes it too. Way too much in fact because they put it pretty much everywhere. You'll spend most of your time in this game on either the boring story or the fighting.
  
  
• Progression in this game is as horrible and tedious as it gets. Remember that boring story I mentioned? That's mostly what you get. Forget about the actual content you want to see, because you have to wade through that boring writing first. I didn't unlock the first real scene until I was over 20% into the game's progression, and that took way too long.

This game is the definition of formulaic and boring. It feels like they just followed the same tired formula from countless other titles without adding anything fresh or exciting. The story is predictable, the characters are shallow, and everything just feels like it’s been done before only worse. There’s no real passion behind it. You can tell the developers were more focused on pumping out something quickly rather than actually putting effort into making something memorable or engaging. and the whole experience just drags. It’s the kind of game that you play for a few minutes, get bored, and then wonder why you wasted your time. If you’re looking for something with heart and creativity, this isn’t it.

A huge step down in quality from NLT's previous games. The animations are lifeless, as the girls flop and writhe like lifeless sex dolls that only exist to pleasure MC. The pacing is practically non-existent, no scenes have any tension because the MC just bangs them upon meeting them. This creates a weird dichotomy when you unlock Kama Sutra pages with pretty tame sex acts like blowjobs, while the mc is already balls deep in each of the various love interests. The update pacing is terrible, and I feel bad for his Patreon supporters, as instead of the previous bimonthly story updates, it becomes a single story update once a month.

The worst part is that NLT created side girls that have 0 story involvement that have more sex scenes than anyone else in the cast. And that's what 1 update every month is dedicated to.

NLT nailed it again, for those who already femiliar with his style it is a great a game. Better then TGO and closer to TON which is my favorite.

The characters are diverce and hot.

The story is fun, could be better, yet its fun and servable.

The new mechanics are mixed, and the fling machenic is half baked in my opinion. He could invest in two-three side flings that have more scenes, character depth and some role in the story.

I hope that NLT will develop his formula more in the future and maybe add some branching storyline similar to Being a DIK

I do not understand how people can enjoy this game. The game play is horrible, nothing makes sense. Map is designed to be a maze that is hard to memorize, yet the entire gameplay is figuring out where on 100 screens you need to click to pick up an item to craft another item.

Nothing logical about it just mindless clicking until you find it.

Or you play stuck to reading the walkthrough step by step, the walkthrough is useless unless you follow each step in it, otherwise there is literally no way to figure out what step you are missing.

All this so that you can see completely sterile, unsexy cg scenes. They are incredibly boring because they are all the same overly polished scene one after another.

I have a wide range of attractions, nothing in this game is sexy. Such a waste of resources.

After five completed big games I thought NLT media improved a bit but nope there are still the same boring scenes. Nothing that makes you think, "wow thats new". Just the same bam bam bam and cum... yawn.

We can definitely expect much more from a dev with 10.000 paid members.

This is not how games are developed. This is how cash cows are farmed.

This is obviously a con to keep money flowing in while someone who calls himself a Developer completely fails to understand or follow ANY defined developmental processes. What if a bug is introduced and goes unnoticed? Who cares? Certainly not the con artist taking people for an easy ride...

Ignore this utter nonsense, unless you enjoy being played for an idiot.

Hey devs,


Look, the game’s fucking great overall—seriously, you nailed the mechanics, visuals, the flow… but the sex scenes?
They suck. Straight-up.


They're boring, stiff, cold. Nothing dirty, nothing raw. I’m not even getting semi-hard, and that’s a damn shame for a fuckin' porn game. The MC’s dick is laughably huge, covered in these gross-ass veins like someone tried to sculpt it with a meat hose. It ain’t hot—it’s off-putting.


The female characters? All of them look the same. Same face, same body, same fake silicone pornstar template. Bland as shit. Maybe three of them have any real personality or visual difference, and the rest? Just clone-stamped plastic.


And where the fuck is the filth? Where’s the sweat, the gushing, the sloppy holes, the raw goddamn heat that makes you actually wanna beat your meat? All I’m seeing is softcore trash with no soul. Like, who the fuck are you making these scenes for? 12-year-olds who never seen pussy?


You guys need to bring in some actual degenerate minds to write these scenes—people who understand how to make sex nasty, horny, visceral. Right now it feels like y’all are scared of pussy juice or a little anal gape. It's all so sterilized and tame it’s almost sad.

You want your sex scenes to have lasting impact? Ditch the plastic Barbie dolls and the oversized alien dick. Give us:

• Realistic cocks (small, crooked, wet, alive)
• Assholes with depth and stretch, not just a dot
• Vaginas with texture and motion, lips sucking, holes gaping
• Fluids everywhere—slime, sweat, spit, cum that drips, clings, pools
• Girls that look like they’ve been used, not just gently humped

And for the love of god, switch up the art direction. This fake 3D-realism is stiff and uncanny. You’re not making a Pixar short, you’re making smut. Lean into it.

You’ve got a solid game. Don’t let weak-ass sex scenes hold it back.
Get dirty. Get weird. Get fucking real.

It's such a shame that this is such a massive misfire after how good Lust Epidemic and Treasure of Nadia were, but the drop in quality many players noted through The Genesis Order now looks less like a blip and more like a worrying trend.

Yes the visual quality is still there and yes there is a lot of content, but by this time NLT seem to be so committed to the formula that they established in those early games that nothing feels fresh or interesting anymore. The animation is high quality but the story feels contrived, the characters hollow, the sex scenes cheap. Puzzles for puzzles' sakes, mysteries that inspire no intrigue, new game mechanics that feel more like padding than new ideas, and a baffling switch to an isometric display which further slows down a treasure hunting game style which already occasionally tended toward being finicky or laborious.

I don't see myself picking this one up again. I'll have to wait and hope that NLT reconnect with what was actually fun and exciting about those earlier games and course correct with their next project.

NLT continues to impress with the improving quality of each of their games. One of the few RPGM game makers I genuinely enjoy playing. The games are solid, the animations continue to get better. I would say for animations the one thing I've always thought could be better would be the facial expressions. They just always look like they're in pain lol.

Too many questions, too many confusing tasks, no signposts. The models are good, but everything else is just too annoying...
The grind is just too much. Before you get a grasp of the game, you'll lose interest.

5 stars simply becoz its a new creative direction,with funny combat system that I actually enjoyed.have varies kinky that tgo lacks, for anyone who is looking for something different than old NLT games ,this is it,and I need more of this

I can't fucking understand NTL's fixation on girls who disregard, talk over, lie to, condescend, manipulate, steal from, literally attack, and otherwise abuse their protagonist characters. It's not even openly masochistic, it's some weird closeted-masochism where the protagonists are supposed to be suave, tough, or useful somehow but still let women walk all over them.

What finally got me to lower my expectations all the way to the floor, where I could trip over the high bar, was when Ethan gave Lola the emptiest threat in the game after she'd already sold him out to the Snatchers, stolen from him, and set him up to get arrested--something stupid about not being able to fuck her way out of being held accountable.

She didn't bat an eyelash and I had to agree with her: he wasn't going to do shit about it, because that's the dev's fucking fetish. When Cleo slammed her heel into Ethan's gut something like three minutes after he saved her from getting eaten by a pack of hyenas and a lion, I was halfway surprised that he didn't ask her to stomp his balls and spit in his face while he was on the ground. At this point that feels like exactly the kind of thing he'd be into.

Visually the game is beautiful. If you're willing to disregard the failed characterizations, the stupid quests, the moving puzzles poorly disguised as fights, the tepid plot, and the occasional bug or freeze, then sure: you can whack it to this game.

But like so many other games, "fappable" isn't worth much when it's not fun to read or to play. Grab a completed save from somewhere or figure out how to cheat one and save yourself the disappointment.