RPGM - Abandoned - Tales of the Exiled [v0.27] [ColdCat]

I am a big fan of a good RPGM game. I always try early in the game to increase the level and money, which I do when i have idle boring hours and no motivation to do other things (like reading a good book, or watching a decent movie, or garbing a drink with a friend) . So I go on exploring and finding enemies to kill, raising my MC's level, and gaining skills and items. This makes the game much easier when enemies become harder to kill. This game has that, but the appeal stops here, and here is why

It takes to many damn battles to increase the level, and even when the level increases, you don't gain much in HP, MP, or in other parameters like Attack, defense, or agility. A stubborn person as I am, I played for hours to reach level 11, and yet attack and defense are almost the same as when the MC was level 1. Even worse, the gain in MP and HP is in very small increments, forcing you to waste so many "Ether" and Potion. The gameplay needs much more balance. Not many players will bust their asses and waste time playing hundreds of repetitive battles only to gain 2 MP (not in multiples of 5) and a few measly HPs..The EXP requirement between levels is too ridiculous for the rewards. At level 11, MC should have gained at least one more skill than the "stab in the back" skill.

I haven't evet started to talk about the content, mainly because I believe this developer has fabulous models, and a few great ideas to continue developing awesome contents. I wish the developer the best.

So in summary
The pros: mainly the great models, well done renders, and decent battle animation.
The cons: Mainly gameplay balance, even after attempt to do fix it in V0.210.. I looked at the json file and it looks like this will be the case for all levels.

So you spawn in city. Grab 5 things. Walk to town. Meet chick. Kill way too many wolves who take 4 turns each and take 10% + of your hp per turn. Pay chick 500. Get 1 (1) single, very short, sex scene.
And then she just asks you for another 500 gold.
what the fuck? What is this padding bullshit? The combat is boring as fuck; its just turn based combat with no real animations, sense of impact, fighting on your own, with next to no abilities, leveling that's absurdly slow (killed like 20 wolves; still level 2), etc.
Okay you do this. And get another incredibly short sex scene consisting of 1-2 static images with some text of the characters talking.

Right, so what was your reward for all this utter tedium? You can rest. And get told to go do more tedious bullshit. In this case its talking to a guy, who tells you to talk to a girl, so you can talk to another girl.
Where the fuck is this first girl? In the 'govermental district'. And where is that? Well you can ask a guy for directions. He won't tell you, but you can ask him. So you randomly walk into walls to try and find which one is a magic screen exit that leads anywhere, because half of them don't lead anywhere (just entering the town involves walking into what appears to be a fucking log while the actual east wall for that area isn't actually an exit).
And you end up walking through buildings. Constantly. But not finding any viable exit.
Ah! Bottom left corner of the first town. An exit. Oh wait this NPC won't let me past. Okay. So I gotta do the exact same 'grab all the shit off the floor' bullcrap I did at the start... again... except more this time. Exciting.
So you do this. And you get past him. Just for one girl to tell you to fuck yourself and another to be fucked by someone who isn't you in a scene that had far more effort than any of your own sex scenes. Second girl proceeds to turn invisible, but still be able to be talked by clicking on her.

And you try all the exits here.
And none of them lead where you need to go. Because they aren't exits. They are walls you can walk through.

Combat is overly slow, unrewarding, unsatisfying, yet overly needed to make any progress because of the ricidulous 1 fucking k cost on getting info to be told to get info to be able to get info in the first time. 1k for the first step. Alone. Doesn't help selling wolf gangs seems to be something you can do only 1 at a time or that to sell the fangs you have to click 2 tiles below the guy you sell them too.

The writing is bad. And weird. Why did it show the goblin v human war was chicks v goblins and the goblins, who are apparently superhuman to the point of not needing armor, only managed to fight back well via being sexual? Then every guard and bouncer is a guy and it seems to have very standard gender roles. I was expecting there to just not be men with the intro not showing any.
Why does it say goblins are as smart as humans, but the starting goblin town is literally just a pile of mud with like 2 wooden huts, while the human one is a sprawling city?

I'm not seeing the appeal here. Its slow. Its boring. Everything takes too long. The map is literally unfinished and I keep walking through walls and buildings. The sex is bad. The writing is bad. The world is bad. Everything is bad. Not one single aspect is actually likeable on any level at all.

Review on 0.2

This game features some nice kinks, the sex scenes are very appealing so far. I hope dev doesn't go soft as game progresses like so many other devs did. Also I don't bother the lack of animations as these are usually very time consuming and 2-3 sec loops usually don't add very much to the game. So far dev did a good job.

The fighting system is relatively unripe, but at least it doesn't seem like the dev tortures his patreons with tedious grinding as in *cough, cough* ... PeasuntsQuest... for example. I hope it stays this way.

Looking forward to the next few updates!

edit: v0.25 -1 star because dev decided all of a sudden to introduce some forced femdom scene. I just hate it, when the game starts all maledom and then you suddenly get forced into submission. Only ray of hope: you are supposed to get back at her later.

What can I say ... very quality models, the story itself may be banal, but well written. Hopefully in the future, the goblin will come across even more opportunities to blackmail proud and inaccessible chicks)) I wish the author creativity and good luck with this project.

edit: the dev updated and fixed things, i'm bumping my score to 5 stars.

I would give this game five stars, but as soon as you exit the first village, you get attacked by creatures over & over & over again, like every 4-6 seconds, it's way too much. You get attacked so much & so fast, that you can't get your bearings. I was stuck outside the first village for 30 minutes. I didn't know if I was supposed to go north, east, west, south. I couldn't get my bearings. The dev should have the character say, "I need to go north. I can't go back to my village which is south of me." That would HELP avoid a lot of frustration.

Save your 5 health potions for the two white wolves as you travel north. After defeating the two white wolves, the entrance to the human city is like 6 inches to the right of where you fought those white wolves, in-between the wooden pillar thing. It's actually a wooden entrance thingy. Look up the word: entrance in the thread, I added a screenshot.

Give the church girl 1000g total.

REVIEW

You play as a goblin, but it's actually pretty cool and interesting. Your MC is a likeable goblin. This game is a very pleasant surprise.

Renders 6/5 ... Renders are fantastic!

Kinks 5/5 ... The developer has VERY kinky ideas. I don't want to give spoilers, but the kinks including FOOT stuff and PISS.

Women 5/5 ... I hate 98% of how women look in these 3d porn games, but my god, this guy managed to render so many beautiful looking women. It's soo rare for renders to be this good. He really knows what he's doing in DAZ Studio.

Interface 5/5 ... The interface is great! He took the time to make a nice gui instead of leaving you with the default RPGM interface. It looks very nice. The font contrast ratio is so well done. I'm so impressed.

Gameplay 2/5 ... Combat spawn rate is too high. Game should tell you where to go once you exit the first goblin village. I got very frustrated once I got outside of the village. I almost quit the game and deleted it, but I'm glad I calmed down and didn't. If you look at my post in the thread, I was fucking pissed, lol.

Grind: The game is gonna want you to go outside of the village and fight mobs a lot, fortunately it's easy once you get used to it. It's not bad at all to be honest.

THIS GAME IS GOOD GUYS. TRY IT! GREAT MUSIC, GREAT PORN, THE DEVELOPER IS KINKY AS HELL, IT"S AWESOME!!!

EDIT: FINALLY A GAME WITH SOME DEGENERATE WHORES. FINALLY.!!!

Hey there ColdCats! Seems i am the first one rating this after playing the release version.

So i want to give this a push in attention by rating this really good. And even its normally to early - at least for me - to rate a game that early that good, i think it has amazing potential and could get one of the - if not THE best goblin porn game out there. but there are also a few things i would wish they would change - and they are nearly all just visually. Long story short let's get to the Pros and Cons:

Pros:
+ golbin game, where the goblin doesn't look cute and in 3D
+ REALLY great character quality of all ppl you encounter
+ interesting story without making goblins too cunning and sexual driven
+ fightings are animated and don't feel too much time consuming or too hard but also not too easy
+ intro not too long, not too much text but still enough
+ very good english - good to read
+ navigting in the city is good
+ all RPGMAKER stuff looks surpsringly detailed and like flat 3D models which gives it a more fluit feel between concersations, scenes and walking around
+ some really great looking girls (favourites are Helen and Courtesan atm)
+ old man scene (old man would have been a great mc too hehe)

Cons:
- its a tad hard to navigate from forest to town (entrance could be more visible and bigger hitbox)
- no MP generation beside leveling up (yet)
- Elder One looks model wise better
- mc is a bit too small (should be small ik, but tall enough to suck on tits during fucking)
- some scenes goblins have no dicks x)
- priestress (Amie) and assassin (Hera) have lovely faces but i would wish (and kinda beg you) to make them as curvy as the Courtesan - or give Courtesan a bigger role. but Amie should really have much bigger boobs, more hips, and thighs.
- outfit wise i would personally appreciate if the priestress would wear something bit more covering and in white (too make things more interesting and innocent) and give the assassin a hood. And even Helen looks amazing she has such big boobs i wish she would give a bit to the other girls ^^
- didn't find the pirate-queen of the thumbnail (yet) even she was the main reason (beside goblin and great looking graphics) why i tried the game (hope to see here soon <3

All in all much potential and if those "negative" things get improved (especially obviously the girl curves part and goblin size part ) i see already how many will like it! and i will think about supporting it even i don't have that much money atm.

btw: will make a bit commercial about your game on some discord servers if that is okay for you.

hope you will have time for changes and more and to see more from it soon.