This one is a real rare gem in the H-RPGM department, despite some serious issues, which lower the overall score.
If only one tag could be used to describe what this game is about, a #technical_virgin it would be. I don't know if there are more than 3 other porn games out there which allow your female protag to mantain her hymen intact, while engaging in all sorts of other sexual activities, some of them quite depraved. Yes, there is a number of TG/sissification games featuring penile chastity play, as there are female protag games which allow a 'pure' virgin playthrough, but games focused on pussy denial with all other orifices open for business at the same time are almost non-existent, especially when that denial is the heroine's concious, or semi-concious decision, not something forced upon. So far (and I hope it will stay this way), it seems that "Rodinka's Lewd Adventures" are mainly about how to fool around with dicks and their owners while the kitty is still unopened in its original packaging. Such a natural contraception theme is so refreshing to see in the female MC's genre, which way too often includes (unplanned) impregnation, something that I find imposible to fetishize.
Apart from that, there are other interesting and welcome departures from well-used hentai tropes:
1. Consensual overtone of sexual encounters - while the trope of naive young lady naively walking into the hands of lecherous old men and schemy horny boys is still there, I haven't found a typical game-over rape scene. Or a truly unwelcome molestation. Instead, there are plenty of moments of tenderness and genuine gratitude shown by men to Rodinka for allowing them to have sex with her. The one who introduces her to joys of anal kisses her afterwards and has a bunch of nice words to say. Which should be taken as a real-life piece of advise to players - be a nice, open and considerate perv to women and you'll be surpirised how dirty they can get.
2. Realism of scenes and kinks - one of the very first scenes involving encounter with a bear in the forest makes it clear that those looking for cartoonish acts of zoophilia or sex with fantastic creatures should look elsewhere. There is so much more to fap to and consider fulfilling in real life compared to fantasizing about goblin orgies or the shape of an ursine dong.
This realism also affects dirty talking and verbal humiliation. While perceived as naive, young and inapropriate in some situations by those around her, the MC is not considered a village POS whore, whom anyone can insult. Those who do seem to have a problem themselves, one fella is just a bittered young man who should perhaps consider quitting drinking, while another woman seems to have a condition of sorts (coprolalia?), where she's just talking trash without really meaning to insult. Or is she?
3. Non-exotic surroundings - at least to myself, a Slavic person. The names, landscapes and situations seem familiar, so it was easy to me to travel back in memories and remember situations which could have been just like those involving Rodinka. Happening upon a naked girl swimming in a river or lake is much more common than studying with a girl in a pleated miniskirt who goes spelunking the city sewers after school to battle slimes and tentacles. Although her name has a different meaning in my language, which is a bit weird. False friends, what can you do?
So, why only 3 stars out of 5? Well, the game suffers from the typical ills of patron subscription development - lack of discipline and focus which result in half-baked, meandering products, never-ending stories full of red-herrings and shaggy dogs. It's in its fourth year of development and there are numerous planned plots not introduced yet as well as areas and items which serve no apparent purpose. So far, there is one big marketplace in the village of Zalesie and apart from alcohol no other buyable wares there do anything. Why all this filler fluff? Will it find its purpose in future updates? We may never know.
Another problem is verbosity of the story. I know it's so much easier to write a scene than draw it, but why do we have to suffer through a stage performance of some bonkers play about a moustachioed tyrant and even actively participate in it by making irrelevant choices of lines (or moustaches)? Is there an Easter Egg extra scene hidden somewhere? And I'm not talking about a short breather of a non-lewd scene here, thrown there just to add another dimension to the MCs personality and background - it's a good few dozen paragraphs of utter nonsense. Remember those 3hr-long porn films from the VHS era, where the first 45 minutes had to be fast-forwarded because it was just an introductory scene with two guys in beige suits discussing business? And then finally, a waitress in a bikini shows up and 'accidentally' spills wine on one of them? You get the gist.
The CGs are so so, not bad but not particularly outstanding. And the lack of your typical RPGM signage above house entrances, most of which are your typical unassuming izbas make you wander erratically about.
If the above problems are addressed properly and in a timely manner, this could be a great, if somewhat niche, porn game for buttslut enthusiasts. Somehow, I'm not getting my hopes too high.
