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

I think both the 1 star reviews and the 5 star reviews are very exaggerated. The renders are great and I always appreciate voice acting. But the story is just not good, nor the interaction between characters, nor any game mechanics. So, to recap, it's a bunch of scenes that are alright, no game to speak of, frustrating search for objects, and hollow story. The story feels even more hollow if you've played the previous games, then it just feels like "in another town, the same thing happened." No meaningful connection with any of the characters.


The fighting system is a con, not a pro to this game. It makes the game worse without adding anything. The game doesn't have any meaningful choices nor a progression with characters that draws on any emotion. The puzzles are not enjoyable, who thought spending time looking for things on the ground would be fun puzzles? If you have to follow a walkthrough just to find objects, you know something went wrong on the dev's part. The game "mechanics" feel like chores.

I've played all previous NLT games. The latest is very similar to the others in that it's a puzzle game and you need to solve the puzzles to advance.

There are some improvements to the previous installments.
1. there is a fight mechanics. I enjoy it, because it's not too hard to learn it, but it might not be for everyone.
2. crafting scrolls are much better, because once you have the items to craft, crafting is instantaneous.
3. the map is different, but somehow, less interactive. gone are the cracks in the walls where you can fit.

The story is somewhat better, because every character fits in its world, unlike the characters in the previous 2 games.

There is also treasure on the ground, like in the previous 2 games, but you only need to walk over it to unlock it.

The models are good, Anya being my favorite.

I like the games from NLT.
They were fun and they are fun. Many downrated because the main concept is not changed over time. I gave 5 stars for the same reason.

NLT is delivering content on a constant rate for many years. Not like many others who are milking their supporters with "rewrites" "tech-upgrades" and other BS without delivering content.

With this particular iteration, a multitude of changes have been implemented. The characters now exhibit far more expression and fluid movement. They are no longer static figures but rather dynamic entities that bring a new level of life to the game. The videos, as has been the norm, remain of excellent quality. The attention to detail in the visuals, the smoothness of the animations, and the overall production value are truly commendable. Moreover, the gameplay has been enhanced significantly. There are new elements, challenges, and mechanics added, which expand the depth and replayability of the game. All in all, there really is nothing worthy of complaint here.

+ amazing animations
+ hot girls
+ mc is ok, he still has a few "idiotic" moments tho
+ funny situations

- boring as hell story, wtf is this?
- conversations between characters, nothing interesting.. *YAWN*
- lewd scenes, for now it's mostly BJ/HJ/TJ etc. ugh.. i'm genuinely tired of them. Give to us some real action!
- everything feel unnatural here - lewd scenarios, weird situations, relationship development/dynamic
- no romance, and lovey-dovey stuff. Looks like it will be another fuckfest..

Interesting start, but after a while I got bored. I expected much more from this project. 2 stars

Every update gets worse. Boring, useless, nothing new; in short, a waste of time.
It's understandable that the game needs to be expanded to make money, but is it really necessary for the only "update" to be monthly and consist of three boring cinematics? At least in the previous games, which weren't as good, there were two updates a month, and at least they offered something "entertaining."
It's clear they've run out of ideas.

This game is getting worse and worse with every update. Now you have to fight tigers? Stop trying to make a game where you have to fight all the time and just keep it simple with more sex scenes. The game has been out 11 months and you finally add nude scenes of Julia but kept it pg 13. At this point, the game will take 3 more years to complete.

A pretty good iteration of NLTs existing formula. I do like the characters better than the last game. Though the inclusion of the bizarre combat system is kind of annoying. I respect the ambition, but the execution leaves a little to be desired. Overall it's been very competently put together with excellent renders and animations. I definitely enjoy my time with it.

This game deserves so much better ratings, the quality, the storytelling and the gameplay can literally keep me entertained forever and I'm anticipating every update. Plus they keep improving the whole experience with every new game, what more could you ask for?

NLT games are always a banger. Lots of new mechanics and variety of girls compared to previous titles. That aside, my only complaint is that the pace feels a tad slow sometimes. Animation and character design has improved quite a bit. Story in general is interesting, but as I said the progress sometimes stops for a while.

Man, what a blast! NLT once more showed that he's the #1 in the adult game industry. Don't listen to the people complaining about the game being "tHE sAMe tHiNg aGAiN" or that nothing would've improved, they have absolutely no clue.

Symphony of the Serpent is so much fun right from the start! There are more full rendered video sequences than ever before, making this a much more immersive, almost watching-a-movie like experience. The town, the places and the people really come alive with these CGI sequences.

Next excellent thing are the maps: They look so nice and cozy. The way the city is laid out, the little district you live in, the places you can explore. It's just fun. The maps are built with love to detail and once again there are tons of super cool characters, even much more interesting than before, if you ask me.

Dialogues have the right amount of information without starting to bore the shit out of you. A few sentences with essential informations, one or two funny lines and off you go to the next scene, which already awaits you around the next corner - perfect pacing.


The new isometric view isn't as bad a people make it out to be, and the fightign system isn't either. The fights are actually good to control and enjoyable if you aren't retarded (just use arrow keys). And the isometric view is something you get used to after like 5 minutes.

The women are absolutely hot as always, and the animations and character design has clearly improved. There are also a lot of voiced dialogues and the new system (character stats, battle, etc) feels refreshing, while it still manages to make you feel "like home" if you played any of the the prequels.

The first lewd scenes I encountered in the first two hours of gameplay are really hot. That's one of NLTs strengths: creating sex scenes in hot lewd situations where you wouldn't expect them, that are just better than generic sex scenes.

This game is already fantastic, I'm glad we have something like this top play, amongst all the half-assed low effort games that are being developed and released in the NSFW genre.

I'm nearly 4 hours in and the game is still blue balling me. I hope you enjoy endless mediocre dialogue and fetch quests because that is all this game offers. Even when you do get a scene, it's probably just going to be talking with maybe a bouncing tit if you're lucky. If you play games like this to get horny then stay away because this game will just bore you.

This game is way better than in TGO already. It almost succeeds in trying to be like Treasure of Nadia. The girls are better, the scenes are better. I don't know why TGO was bad, but this makes up for it.

Story - 3/5 as usual for NLT game
Scenes-5/5 is an improvement from the TGO, in my opinion
The gameplay has a bit more clicking, but it is okay.

Update as of [v.21022] Having played and finished all the previous games from NLT, From LE to ToN to TGO and now SoTS, I think my favourite would actually be Treasure of Nadia. It's really unfortunate to say this, but there really hasn't been much improvements to the newer games, infact, some aspects of the game has been going downhill. One of the most important thing about these games is the characters, and the designed of the girls here are pretty ugly. ToN has some of the best girls in Clare, Jessica, Diana & Sofia, while the other girls in the game are all decent as well. Now in SoTS, the design of the girls are straight up ugly.. with the only notable ones being Cleopatra, Anya, Lola and Grace. Heck, even the side characters Lucy and Nora are better than majority of the main girls. There is also no buildup in terms of relationship development between the characters, and many of them just straight up goes to sex. In terms of scenes and animations, ToN was one of the better VNs at the time of release, you'd expect improvements to them with the newer games like TGO and SoTS, but not much improvements has been made since, which is a disappointment. Story is also a little messy, you get no background information into the virusthat is happening, and just jump into it. Can't really recommended playing this game, unfortunately.

Pros:
-One of the more likeable MC between all 4 games
-Story has been a little better than TGO so far
-Pretty good puzzles so far
-VO is alright

Cons:
-Transitions in cutscenes is pretty bad
-No improvements in terms of animations and graphics since ToN, and feels really outdated now
-Poor design of the main cast
-Poor character development
-Lack of background information to the virus
-Combat is interesting, but poorly executed
-Side girls are not really needed, just there to waste money for mindless scenes
-Mindless loop in circling around places for things
-Very linear gameplay

If you've played previous NLT games then there nothing new for you. Matter of fact , this game is a step down in terms of quality of renders/animations. Also the characters are not really that attractive as compare to the previous games. BUT, if you haven't play NTL games then, it'll be a good idea to play this game first then play the other games.

One is for sure, NLT media creates amazing games with amazing graphics and animations. Looks so futuristic in comparison with many other games,but still doesn't needs strong PC requirements to play. And that is great. RPGM is on another level with this developer. It has taste,it has spark that makes every developer game want to try and play. Bad things from my side and only my opinion is the story who is a bit to much fairytale. A lot of not necessary triggering to continue progress in the main story and the game at all. That's the only thing i would change in future games NLT makes. Realistic story, a bit easier trigger assignments.

I have played the earlier games NLT created going all the way back to lust epidemic. I have finished all other games (even though the genesis order was a big chore to finish). So for Symphony of the serpent ( v.19021) I gave a 2/5. A meh could be improved on many fields.
The reason i gave it a 2/5 is because of the following reasons.

The positive part:

• the MC is better than of the genesis order, although that isn't that difficult to achieve
• In all aspect better than the genesis order from so far story till gameplay, etc
• It feels more as a build-up in a sense to that of treasure of Nadia. Which I approve of.
• it looks better than previous games

The Bad :

• the "cutscenes" definitely when fighting , walking to even transition to other poses are very bad.
  • walking: when walking into the temple with Lola and grace is just very mechanically done. you can see even when entering very weird movement of steps etc.
  • fighting: the whole kicking, punching randomly with the overdramatic flip to get up. Are so absurd and is added like how a 7 year thinks is cool. But for the love of god don't do it. Drop these animation or do some proper research of how people fight.
  • transitions from one to the other pose is done so quickly to what i can think of is to hide mistakes. Why even show them ? They all look very weird with bodies move in unnatural ways.
• It currently has "28 scenes" where let's say 13 of them are anything sexual ( lapdance, sex, bj, etc so no kissing or just a person being nude). There are scenes in there that makes me wonder "who would even would want to see this again? ". Like the ad scene to name one.
• The moving of objects is just so awkward in this game. because of the current camera position you are always pushing objects diagonally than what you expect to be linear.
• It still jumps heavily from one to the other with out much leading to it storywise (although in other case this also the case) .
• The let's say cast is pretty bland, there is no character that is in any sense unique or refreshing. It is very shallow and depthless. Take grace for example virgin faithful girl wanting to explore her sexuality. There is room here to make her interesting and fresh and interesting but not taken.

The weakness:

• Characters so far all of them go straight to sex, there is no build up nothing just bam here is sex. All of them, Nia, the mayor, Lola, etc every single one of them. There is no seduction being done and build up to it. Nia is giving you lapdance ohh well now you are having sex as an example. The girl doens't know me any shape or form, i am just a guy from the street. It would make sense if that is one character such as Lola wouldn't care much since she uses sex to get her way for example. That would make sense but here everyone is straight to sex, like why ? Why not be more like demon deals for example ?
• The booty call thing here again is so weird in place. Grace to take as example has no experciences but as soon you have your own place she is over at yours at getting het pussy licked. Like excuse me this doesn't make sense. Let it wait until you reach a certain part in story where she and MC would have done more stuff to than call her for the booty call. Or let her just mentioned in dialogue she wants to learn more or something, this is just out of place.
• When this takes place like how many days/months/ years after the genesis order or other, i have no idea and never explained. The world has a sex-virus present but never experienced any effects of it or see it happening. They just mentioned "oohh yeah sex-virus" but that is it. why mentioned it if there is no deal I need to remember it ?
• The combat, the combat is interesting choose but not well done. The rules explained in the beginning have no real impact to combat in the slights. Enemies will jump to you for big distances, it will do things for again god knows which reason . And you can end up locked in place and get killed like that because an enemy can keep attacking you without you being able to do anything against it.
• The whole amnesia is a very cliché trop, but if done well this can be very interesting and goods storytelling. Like they do with suddenly "retrieving you memory" leads to you being able to do more in combat, it works and makes you want to do know more. In the story aspect is done pretty badly. The have opportunities here but just don't take them.
• The characters are quiet ugly to be honest. Let me explain what i mean with this. If you look at treasure of Nadia, you had quite some characters that were in S-tier of sexy to name a few: Diana, Clare, Janet, Naomi, Madalyn , Kaley. For the genesis order were there some still sexy present such as Carol, Hannah, Heather, Arianna. But here now with this game? You have Anya , Cleo that are looking good. Amira , Divya and Nora aren't too bad either. But the rest just are ugly. Where are my hot sexy babes and milfs goddammit?

In conclussion the game itself feels it has an identity problem, it doens't know what it wants itself to be. It wants to tell a story but halfass it. It wants to be an easy gets your rock of sex game but makes no scenes for it and ugly characters. It wants to have a wide cast of variety of women to seduce but ends up that all characters that are bland, unintresting and shallow with no substance in.

NLT needs to stop publishing such half ass things with no plan in mind. They need time to think what they want to publish, and take your time to create something that has a value in it and they themself are pleased with. And not do the current strategy they are doing. They have the skill to make a really intresting game but just in my eyes wasted it. A shame.

NLT Media makes the best adult games in my opinion.

Symphony of the Serpent has more beautiful graphics than the older releases. You can see inprovement of quality in their games.

The gameplay hasn't changed. You follow a sexy story and click yourself around in a rpg maker style. The story is typical nlt, they haven't changed anything in their concept. You can really say it's their style and i love it.

This game is full of features and sexy ladies.

I never thought NLT Media could bring in innovation in its formula of creating similar point and click games, but it seems it happened. I have to say, I am rather impressed. The new view is a lot better than the previous one, I am in love with the now more close, detailed environments. Scenes are the usual top-notch quality, that hasn't changed and to my surprise the voice acting improved hugely compared to The Genesis Order. What I really like - which I seem to be alone with - is the combat. It is rather easy, but very entertaining and well executed. The only bit annoying part is, that it doesn't sync well with the new view, since it is based on four directions which are a bit jumbled thanks to the view. Still, I have learned to love it, I find it really great.
Interesting is, that the game has now main characters and side ones, who are mostly hookers/nurses whom which the MC develops his relationship to get lewd scenes, which are entirely independent of the main story progress. However, I have on critique: by being able to give the girls gifts, the game has become even more grindy than before and with one exception the side girls are half-assed stock DAZ models, but it is not such a big issue to give it 4 instead of 5 stars. Well done NLT Media, I hope my review balances a bit out all those baseless rants.

Solid game. As the updates go I think this one is going to get better and better.

It’s suffering a little bit from the previous games being so well done I think. The only real criticism I have is the combat is pretty bad. It’s just not a very fun mini game.