RPGM - Completed - TakenoteR [v1.0] [HNStudy]

This game is an example of how writing is a major part to porno games and it drastically sets games like this aside from others in the space.

This review is also a response to a previous review calling anyone highly rating this game "friends or forced". No, the game is simply good.

The premise of the game is simple. You play as the wife in a typical relationship. You are on a vacation and a part of that vacation is to find inspiration. Inspiration for what you may ask? An erotic novel. The wife is a writer and specializes in such novels. Think 50 shades of grey. As the game progresses you get more and more inspiration for the novel as you get more and more corrupted.

The art style is good. As much as people will rag on it, having an actual 2D style that sets you aside from generic styles and AI garbage really sets the game above many. It reminds me of old Newgrounds styles which overall isn't bad. Some people may just be too used to the high quality and 3D styles we have today. But this is nothing to scoff at either. Animations are just 1 - 3 still images looped. Nothing huge in the animation department.

The gameplay is normal RPGM gameplay without any battles. And its very easy to tell what to do next if you.... read the story... It truly makes me ponder how many people skip the story in games and just skip to the sex scenes and then wonder what they have to do next. The game will literally tell you where to go next. Its very simple. You don't need a quest tracker if the game itself will tell you outright where to go next. Read.

Now on to the meat of the review. And the main reason why I gave it a 5 star. The story. You see just being an erotic novel writer isn't everything. The story moves on and the wife during the beginning of the trip becomes disgruntled with her husband. This is because he isn't satisfying her sexually and ignoring her a lot. This grounds the story in something real because funny enough, not sexually satisfying your partner is a huge component to why people cheat. I'm not saying its justified, but it makes more sense than other stories on here where for no reason a character turns cock hungry.

And the story progresses at a pace that makes sense. Slowly the wife gets into situations where she can say no but the sexual urges and the justification she gives in her head for the novel spurs the story on for her to become corrupted by those thoughts. It truly is something when I come across corruption stories that actually make sense and are paced well like this. Some scenes are silly like a guy saying his balls hurt and that leads to a scene. But the wife is the one filling the justification in her head because of her sexual urges and the monologues of the character do alleviate the silly scenes and make them more than just some naive bimbo like other games write.

Yes this means there are no real choices in this game. The entire game is on rails and is a corruption NTR story. There's no way to avoid that. And if thats not for you, then don't play the game. Everything is an illusion of choice, not actual choice.

Overall this game deserves its ratings. It shows how you can have an uncommon artstyle but still put out a banger game because you understand how to write a good story. Yeah sex scenes are nice, but story is truly what makes games like these stand aside. When the content being presented makes sense and is formed well, it becomes a more comprehensive whole. Lots of games can learn from this game on how narrative is key. Otherwise if we wanted to just jack it to sex scenes, many other mediums are better for that.

5/5

I loved the game, it has a great feel, good story and animation.
The NTR was just right and didn't play into the Wife humiliation route.

I I love RPG styles games and while the NTR games are not my favorite I like this game's playability and straight forward approach.
No Grind, No mini-games. I rarely give 5 stars, but this one gets it

Sorry for the one, but.... I really think most of the reviews are forced/friends and so....

The game is okay, and the art "interesting". But that's it.

You start and get a really nice interesting idea, then you get the typically idiot/jerk boyfriend who's gay and stupid. But this is no problem.

As some other mentioned, the lack of a quest tracker makes everything harder. But this isn't a'problem'....

What's my main problem with this "game"?

There's no choice, not for real.... you get forced to accept everything that happens, it's super normal for a girl to almost get anal fingered by some random dude she just met?
Is okay.... But then, you get choices....
Some random dude ask for help, he ask for you to fake being his girlfriend...
You get a choice... Yes or not... well, no, no matter what you pick, you end up doing it... then you go jerk him off because you dropped coffee on him after he kissed you.

Then you get the choice not to jerk him off... but no, you do it anyway....

Then you get the sauna even, another choice, another same result.

Then you get that pumpkin search event....
You have to search for pumpkins just to show your body to a child....??

FMC way of thinking:
FMC - "I'll never cheat my husband"
Random dude she just met -"Because of me your testicles hurt?
FMD - is that possible? I better do this before I get in trouble."

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If you're not giving anything different, don't offer a fake choice.

Great lite NTR game.

Nice storyline, nice art, great cast, there is not much to hate about this game. Only con is it's very short, less than 2 hours, but apart from that it's really good with nice content and artwork.

8.5/10

Don't get fooled by simple looking art, this game is fucking hoooot and has a lot of potencial to be even better. I really don't appreciate netorare content when you play the cheated MC, but when MC is the cheater, is a lot more interesting.

One thing that I liked: Elika development into a bitchy wife is beautifully done, and her growing frustation from not having sex is a masterpiece in porn games storytelling.

One thing that needs to get better: The second interaction in the beach is pretty much equal the first one, but she already know the staff guy´s intention, should react in a less naive way.

0.7 review
this is like a jab comic in a rpgm format and I like it
so far pretty solid scenes but there is still room left for the further downfall of the protagonist
looking forward to future, hopefully frequent, updates

Reviewed on v0.6

It's a really fun little game that explores a wife slowly beginning to cheat on her husband with various men while the two of them are on vacation. The wife keeps finding herself going along with sexual situations under the pretense that she's just taking notes for the next erotic novel she's going to write. It's fun to see her clearly lying to herself in the heat of the moment, and offers a fun (if not a little silly) justification to her slow moral degeneration. While she does grapple with feelings of guilt at her actions, the game never dwells on them for so long that it brings down the mood; this is a fun romp that doesnt stray from being light hearted.

As many people in the thread have mentioned, the art is great, and stands out particularly against the normal backdrop of anime on this website. It's a very distinct style. And I would know, I first started jerking off to the artist that this games art was traced from like 16 years ago. It's a rip off of JAB from Jab-Comix. I'm not giving any moral repudiations to it, at the end of the day, talking about tracing art while on a website that hosts largely stolen porn games is a bit of the pot calling the kettle black - but it was interesting enough that I felt it needed mentioning.

Also, gonna bandwagon on Every1sGrudge's comment and petition for the title to be changed to NoteTakeR to slip NTR into the title lol.

Looking forward to future updates.

I really like the simplicity of the story and the gameplay. No grinding, no quests, no combat, no points gathering. Keep it that way. The art is unique but it could be a little bit better, but it is still good.

really great for what it is. hope it becomes less linear as it gets further into development. some of the art could use some touching up but overall i really like the art style. The build up and scenes is really good even if the English isn't always perfect but these are very very minor gripes.

The built of the character is slow and nice, in spite of we kwow at certain point she will become en in a sizequeen anal slut, the corruption of a wife it's always exiting to see, the dev should find his own way to tell this common history and I think, he's in the rigth way, anyway, I would aprecitate less clifhangers

Absolutely fantastic job with the game so far. As a player, I must admit that I'm eagerly waiting in anticipation to see what direction you're planning to take this game in the future. Your vision is truly commendable, and it keeps me constantly on the edge of my seat, curious about the upcoming developments.

Furthermore, one of the aspects I thoroughly appreciate in your game is the rich roster of secondary characters that you've thoughtfully created. These characters not only add depth to the overall gameplay experience but also provide a diverse narrative landscape, making the game significantly more engaging. Their presence offers a dynamic, nuanced environment, one which I am sure will unfurl even more complexity as the game evolves.

I am particularly excited about the potential interactions with these secondary characters in future updates. The opportunity for players to delve deeper into the game world through interactions with these characters, I believe, will only enhance the game's appeal. This potential for deeper engagement adds a layer of richness and depth to the gaming experience that many players, including myself, find absolutely thrilling.

Please, keep up the great work. Your efforts to refine and further develop this game are not going unnoticed. On the contrary, they are amplifying the anticipation and excitement among players. We are all looking forward to the next steps in this gaming journey.

Excellent game and totally unique. A master piece in its gender, very original. Deserves a better place and more donations!!! Can't wait for the continuations and missed options (scenes). Continue with the grat job!

Review is for v0.5
A game with a lot of promise.
It's got a unique art style that's not great, but still pretty dang good. Characters are interesting enough and the story is passable.

Really my only complaint is that there isn't that much content right now, and some of the bigger scenes aren't completed which left me feeling unfulfilled. It's also apparent that the creators first language is not English because there are a plethora of grammatical errors and sentences that only half makes sense.
All in all though, a couple really big updates and this game is going places.

Nice art, nice story.. what else... I will wait this nudist beach now

Hope in the future some ntr scenes... Husband seems encourage his wife in his writting note

Wait and see next episode but sure it will be very good

[Rev @ TakenoteR [v0.5]

...how did that backronym fail? NoteTakeR is so obvious...

Art's fine. It's better than I could do.

Writing is hokey. Scenario's been done, narrative is more than a bit contrived, characterization is one-note.

Porn's boring and vanilla thus far.

I dislike these games that are stuck squirming on their back between VN and RPG; unable to right themselves and move to one side or the other. It's made in RPGMaker for future scenes of Clueless Dork Husband being Near but Not Near Enough to his wife getting railed, but so far the game is presented as so hand-holdy that it not being a VN feels like an obtuse effort to stretch play time.

TLDR: This has potential, but this version is rough.

Quite good game if you like NTR content. I pretty like the art-style and the story is good enough. Absolutelly recomended if you like NTR and 2dcg.

The development is not slow, but still could be faster. I'm not complainning, just a constructive criticism.

I see potential here, but as most games when they start off that's pretty much all it has. You see that one image of some other girl riding a dick? That's where the vaginal sex tag comes from (there's also some scene of another random woman), there isn't a whole lot the PC does as of now

Art is...serviceable, even has it's own charm to it...at least for women can not get behind the way dudes look here. The scenarios in it are pretty hot tho which makes up for the art, although there's some scatterbrained writing behind some of them (as in the corruption of the PC is off in pacing between imo)

As a game it completely falls on it's face. It's a scene hunting game where you have to find specific npcs to talk to but there's nothing indicating which npc is the one you need. And sure you could say "well just use context clues to figure it out instead of needing the game to have flashing lights for you" but not only do some of these npcs make no sense for the current objective but there's no quest log to remind you what you should be looking for. Also there's a part where the game wants you to find a pumpkin that moves around the map 5 times for some reason before you continue...fucking what?

There's a computer that functions as a gallery but it feels awkward the way it's implemented, towards the end of the current version and using the movement keys to move the cursor to select the scene you want to view which you first need to spend notes to unlock for some reason (this isn't a grinding problem as you'll have all the notes you need, just seems like an unnecessary step when you can just simply have the scenes unlocked from the get go after seeing them during the course of the game). Also it only has 2 of the...8(?) scenes currently available for rewatching.

Oh and as a little side note ig the translation isn't 100% there, it's not MTL bread by any means just the occasional slip up.

tl;dr: I see potential for the game, needs more time in the oven and not much reason to get it as is

Great game! One of my favorites currently. The story is good, solid build up and I really like the art.

The game could use some sort of a quest log so you know what to do, but the map is small enough that it's pretty quick and easy to figure out.

Keep up the great work!

The story is interesting, I hope the drawing will be better in the future, but even now it is good despite some details. Sometimes you don't know what to do and there's not enough quest sheet, but still a score of 5!

Very promising project for a first game. Although art looks kinda janky i really enjoy it. It's still in early development so i's a little lacking in amount of scenes but that's obvious. I'm 100% going to comeback to this one when more content comes out.
Art 3/5
Story 4/5
Gameplay 4/5
Fapability 4/5
Originality 4.5/5