RPGM - Completed - The Alcummy of Amelie [Final] [Happypink]

This is not a neutral/unbiais review. This game is exactly the type that I am looking for.

1/ Good turn-based battle. Not hard, not uninteresting. Just enough to get you interested in the decisions you make.
2/ A lot of accessible CG, but it is not really free CG neither. You get your first CG very-very quickly, and you get to work to get the next one.
3/ You could get lost, but if you are careful you really don't.
4/ SEX IF YOU WIN - I cannot believe that other games don't do that. It is very rewarding to win all the time because it gets you to unlock CG, get money to get new dresses and unlock more CG. This is so much better like that. You can unlock all CG without ever (really) losing.
5/ 6/ No "real" rape. Like, people may abuse the MC, but she is actually fully onboard with it. She loves sex and gets to "choose" to do the all quest.
7/ You get free money with simple mindless games, and this allows you to get ingredients to get the story to progress when you don't want to find the ingredients. It just gets a lot of time.
8/ oh... yes when you get to low health you get undressed, it is great, but makes no sense (health potion restaures your dress somehow).

Now the not-so-good part:
- Art quality is limited, but hot (subjective).
- Art quantity is limited. I don't care, because it is hot, but yeah, it is quite repetitive. In each dungeon you have 1,2 or 3 CG, that's it. And one of the is repeted tens of times (but you can get it to just "flash"). The rest of the fun is elsewhere in the world (which is great, but more CG would be better).
- You get "loli", flat chested and petite girls, but it is accepted in the world that these are not kids, just smaller ladies.
- You need to unzip it with a uncompressor on japanese mode, but you should be used to that being on f95. (if not, look at bandizip or winrar options)
- Why have many dresses options, if you can't walk around totally nude ? I mean, I would like that, but there is not such option.

Not good not bad. It's alright but this game is too formulaic and not polished enough to be great.

Story 4/10

It's a pretty thin story. You're falsely accused of a crime and get thrown in jail. Your cellmate is a succubus who changes your appearance to be the lewdest possible. To get your appearance back you need to perform alchemy which the succubus requests. But one of the ingredients is semen so you end up fucking a lot.

The secondary main plot is why you were thrown in jail. The prince and princess are fighting. The princess' faction kills many of the prince's faction and accuse you of the crime. You take the side of the prince because you got the hots for him.

At the end of the game you marry the prince because his desire is an extremely lewd woman.

Gameplay 5/10

The gameplay loop is, you open a new area, go there and grind items to perform alchemy, unlock alchemy formulas, and collect semen. Repeat. It's a little repetitive but not overly so.

Each outfit has multiple levels, which gives higher atk/def/magic stats as you upgrade. Also outfit upgrades are needed to X some males in the town but the X'ing randos is not really necessary.

The combat is pretty easy. Standard rpgm combat system with nothing particularly unique.

Art 4/10

The art... is not really for me. It's not bad, but it's lacking a lot of detail. Many of the scenes are animated, but they're extremely short with the money shot being a jpeg on top of the paused gif. There are more traditional CGI scenes, but there's very little variation CGIs. The art overall is lackluster. The scenes are too short and lack TLC.

There's 4 outfits total. Honestly? That's not a large list. It's weird because there's >4 areas. So you don't end up unlocking a new outfit per area, you end up unlocking outfit2, and outfit3 which you upgrade... but there's no visual upgrade. It's the same outfit. Lost opportunity imo.

Overall 4/10

Strangely enough, the game isn't lacking in anything. The story isn't riveting, but it's there. The gameplay isn't bad but it's not great. The art will get you going but nothing to rave about.

Everything just needs to be... better. It's a pretty short game at around 5-10 hours with pretty thin amount of h-content. The h-content is there, don't get me wrong, but there's a lot of repeats so it's not a lot.

Pretty great game with standout animations being the main draw here. Your goal is to gather materials from the field and monsters of each area to synthesize an item needed to progress. The gameplay loop is pretty repetitive: you kill a certain monster on the field to get materials that you give to a statue to unlock temptation abilities and a status skill. Visit the base to synthesize upgrades and key items, rinse and repeat.

Combat is very classic JRPG style, you may need to take advantage of some status and buffs to beat the harder enemies but otherwise you can blow through combat encounters assuming you're properly geared up. Conveniently enough, the shop in town sells all synth items for each area so you don't need to grind and revisit areas to get everything you need.

The other main feature of this game are the various costumes to collect and upgrade. Each costume confers different perks in battle, and also each NPC in town has different preferences based on the costumes. By matching an NPC's costume preference, you can then prostitute yourself to them for items and discounts. Unfortunately there's only 1 scene for these NPC encounters with variations solely being based on costume.

One easy way to break the game is to get good at the casino slots. Mercifully enough, they're not luck-based so as long as you can figure out the pattern and rhythm to get the best prizes you can rack up your money quick. By completing a certain side quest related to the casino early on, you'll have more than enough money to last you through the rest of the game and buy whatever materials you might have missed to synth all the items. This feature does a lot to alleviate some of the repetitiveness otherwise.

All in all it's a short game that can be beaten in a couple of hours. The scenes are all drawn well and the animations are especially worthy of appreciation. While it can feel a bit monotonous and tedious to play, the scenes are worth the time taken to unlock them. And there's a gallery mode to boot, so you can always revisit your favorite scenes later.