RPGM - Completed - The Curse of Kubel [v2.02+DLC] [Yasagure Kitsuenjyo/Kagura Games]

Very trashy. The positives are that the art is good, and the heroine is voiced, that's literally it. The writing is good, and there's lots of it, but that's more of a negative, given the theme, and just how long it makes this game, the art is also a downside, because despite being good, there's VERY little of it.

By the time you see the first sex scene, you're already about 20-30% into the game, also that's the first point where you even actually start playing it! Absolutely horrid. To make matters worse, said first event is just plain and unavoidable rape, after you've spent a good hour or two getting familiar with the pretty plain if likable male and female MC's. What kind of introduction is that?

From there its only downhill, not that everything up until then was amazing, no, the game is absolutely trash. The girl gets nerfed and you need to survive going through all the stuff you went though already again, but nerfed, and it may sound like it might be a challenge and adds a bit of strategical depth, but no, its just a horrid grind, which gets harder each time (you need to complete it 6 times), which is literally basically impossible unless you go for more ntr events, and even if you're here exactly for that, i don't see the point of putting you through all that reading and grinding to get there. Plus as i said, all those scenes are basically the same.

A positive about the game is that there's sound effects. I thought that there would be multiple NPCs to interact with and have scenes with, but there's only really one person other than her husband that you have scenes with/can interact with throughout the whole game. A lot of the scenes are reused with just the text changing. When you walk around town, you get to briefly talk to other people around but it's the same conversation every time and you don't go further than that or have any scenes with them. Seems like a wasted opportunity with so many other NPCs in the city and different areas (like the inn, shops). The story is alright but there's like no gameplay and its just one guy you really get to have scenes with. Most games with repetitive scenes/actions have different outfits and stuff, but there's no choice or option for that either.

If you're going to dedicate so much time and so much text to the story, why not dedicate a little time to creating more varied scenes as well?

The story, the idea of the gameplay is good, but brothers, the text everywhere and the repetitive scenes are boring. Look, I'm one of those who ask for context, history, but here you pass three towns and to make matters worse the scenes are extremely repetitive.

I don't know why they created so many H scenes, but with so little variety. The same pose is repeated over and over again, and to make matters worse they have dedicated a lot of time to the happy ending with the bad guy, I mean, we don't care about that hahaha. Letting the bad guy get his way has its touch, but not to give him so much space hahaha.

Oh, and by the way, this is already more personal, but the fact that the girl already takes a liking to him from the second scene simply seems stupid to me, they kill one of NTR's main interests, which is to corrupt the girl or the boy. In this case, the girl is already enjoying it to the fullest almost since the beginning of NTR. Just boring.

Look, I got the happy ending and the story on that side is good, but not because of what I came for hahaha

This game is more like a VN, to be honest. There's barely any gameplay, though I understand why the developers wanted to do the gameplay segments. Technically, you CAN achieve ending A by being really skilled and being able to avoid enemies really well, but most just played NG+ and set ending A for last. It's not exactly a wasted effort since I do see how it plays into various mechanics and endings of the game, but it still is boring despite that.

Let's get the good out of the way first. I'm not one to write off a game for being story-heavy and being too much like a VN. Let me say this: the story is good, and it is engaging. Corruption is slow, gradual, and believable. I cannot emphasize this enough, but it truly is a well-written corruption/NTR story. I won't say the best since I haven't played enough NTR games, but for corruption games, it's among the top.

I really like the main antagonist. He's not the most sinister, and honestly it feels like he generally just wants to have fun by fucking around. You'll probably find someone like him in Shinjuku picking someone up. Despite that, a short introduction to his character has made me feel really irritated with him and I was honestly surprised when I felt that. I like that - I like how he was written.

But this is still a porn game. An RPGM porn game. I spent literally 2 hours on the opening exposition of the game - 2 hours before the main character loses her virginity. Look, for a lot of games, I generally skirt around events that will make the MC lose her virginity since I generally play the virgin runs first anyway (which saved my ass when I played Pray Game, but that's a different story). But seriously? 2 hours before the first H-scene? And visual-wise, it wasn't even that good. What's worse, the game literally recycles CGs throughout the entire fucking game.

To prove my point, kindly get full save file, load up the recollection menu, and check the outdoor masturbation scenes. There should be around 10 H-scenes there, but I kid you not, there's literally less than 10 CGs used for all those scenes. That's an average of 1 CG per H-scene. It would be like if a visual novel only showed a picture of the insertion and literally nothing else. No pistoning movements, no moans, no cum-shots. If you've played a VN like that elsewhere, I'm so sorry, and I hope you find better games to play.

Also, I'm glad this doesn't have the exhibitionism tag because, my god, it barely has exhibitionism content in it, which is fine, I know, but it feels like they barely fucking tried. They just want the spicyness of outdoor sex without the effort of writing it properly. Like BAM! you're fucking outside, ready to go. And again, the fucking CGs! If I remember correctly, scenes 1 to 4 literally have the exact same fucking CGs, and what do you get for the 5th and final one? A fucking recycled scene from the main ones, only this time with leg-locking. That's a huge disappointment. If you write scenes that have some sort of progression within a theme, there should be escalation. If you're writing the final scene in a series of scenes, the final one should be the nastiest and perviest scene you have! Players should be rewarded with something for unlocking that -- something that will make the player glad they held back from doing the deed until this very moment. Unfortunately, the outdoor sex line leads to a big bag of nothing.

I'm really losing motivation while writing this review. I just want to defend this game so much since it really has a good story, but there's just so much wrong with it that I can't. At the end of the day, it's a porn game, and unfortunately, I've played visual novels with more CGs than this.

5/5 if it were an erotic novel or a visual novel. 3/5 for being an RPG game.

Absolutely Great game even with not much CG pictures, but very beautiful with very exciting dialogue in every 60 CG in company with great sex sound effect and moans. Great and easy gameplay where you can choose how to proceed with the game, making your own rules making it realistic for fantasy world or whatever to make it more exciting. NTR corruption build is splendid with tome antagonist uses and made the rules for corruption.
This is one of Legendary eroge ntr games that's worth to return to many times.

There are like 60 scenes in gallery, which reuse 4-5pictures! assets, with minor variations in text and blushing.

The scenes are generic and dull, there is only 1 guy, which does not even feel like fitting the genre. Its not ntr its relationship with another guy, with mc being a filler.

Endless grind/chore, boring skippable dialogues.

Hands down one of the best NTR games out there.
The corruption is slow and plausible, lots of shame, humiliation play.
The writing and plot is insanely commendable, it will make you feel vomitting.
10/10 play only if you're ready to be traumatized

2.02

watching the unlocked gallery literally made me more sleepy than reading something extremely boring and senseless. so as a porn game how can i rate it more than 1.

it has voice acting, long intro. english is decent. but sex scenes are still pictures with lots of boring talking.

i feel like the story was trying to be too serious and tried to be something unique but imo that was boring too. meh it's a big miss for me. why spend that much time on the story for a porn game i have no idea. some games manage to do it where story feels unique yet interesting. this is not it.

What kind of horror is this?
So, the game begins with how the main character and her boyfriend(?) come to the city, go to the tavern and... dialogues, dialogues, dialogues...

After about 10 minutes, they finally give control, but... damn it, what kind of nonsense is this?)) When descending into the dungeon, you just need to ram enemies (not necessary), find crystals and move to the next room. After a few rooms, another ton of dialogue about the heroes’ childhood is poured out on you, after which the process is repeated again and again and again... and so on until the main character’s boyfriend collapses exhausted (apparently he’s tired of reading endless dialogues).

The main character and two bandits (who are supposedly adventurers) take the guy gg to the tavern and what do you think?)) The gameplay has not changed, the main character now walks alone through the caves and everything is repeated again and again, again and again... And then the next tons of dialogues about the childhood of the heroes, which are already annoying.

Then at some stage a blonde boy joins the heroine and... everything repeats itself again and again, again and again... Caves, caves, stupid and worthless stories and the childhood of the heroes. The only difference is the blonde tries to grope the main character.

Then they find the library and again dialogues, dialogues, dialogues...
2 hours passed with a constant skip of nonsense dialogues and not a single X-scene or hint...

I warn everyone who likes to PLAY, and not read tons of nonsense text, to avoid this.
And I wish the developers to burn in hell, if you want a visual novel, then make it! If this were a visual novel, I would never have downloaded it and tried to wade through tons of stupid dialogue...
If I had the opportunity I would give 0 stars out of 5, but alas, I give one.

This game is fantastic in it's pacing and writing. I can compare it with Curse of Pleasure as far as pacing, the gameplay is pretty straightforward and the art is great. And now with hte voice acting it's really a nice add on. supporting this creator as they are also working on another NTR game.

A good NTR game for those who avoid fat, middle-aged or ugly villains in this genre. It's not my case, but it's worth mentioning because a lot of people care about this. The guy still is a piece of shit, though.

The sex scenes are not the greatest, they're not animated and are quite repetitive. Some are even text-based only. But the excellent quality of the art compensates this fact. Being voiced is also a plus for the scenes.

There is no combat, you auto-kill the monsters while walking in the dungeon (this is a plus for me). But there's unnecessarily too many monsters, and they overflow the game with lots of annoying visual effects sometimes.

You may also need to be a fan (or at least be ok with) the Humiliation tag to enjoy this game. Katrina's story (side character) was not necessary. Poor girl...

The technical problem with the story/progression:
The story is not linear, you can decide the routes. This led me to a problem, because I avoided going alone in the dungeon (as a NTR fan, I thought going alone would trigger a boring non-NTR "good" ending or something).
So I went several times in the dungeon together with the villain. After I realized that I actually needed to go alone to progress the story, I began to unlock and see some scenes with the characters acting like it was their first time doing that sex position, but it was really not.
I strongly recommend you go to the recollection room ASAP, to check the requirements for each event and make your dungeon runs and story progression based on that.

If you've found this game mainly because you're a "Corruption" fan, like me, you should probably read this minor spoiler:

Trying to give less weight to my personal preferences, the final rating would be: 7/10

Finally got around to playing this game after putting on the back burner for a while and man...... I really wish I liked this more than I did.

Let's get some positives out of the way.
Magetano is really the main star of the show, and she's mostly alright. I really like her design, her personality is that right amount of Noble Lady and hot head that I like in these types of characters. Her VA definitely put in a lot of effort, and for that, huge props.
The CG's and character sprites are really nice to look at, Definitely the most appealing part of the game.

Now let's talk about this game's many, many issues:

This game is easy. The game tries to hype up how difficult it is to get the A Ending. However, if you manage your resources carefully and realize that hitting that 30 point threshold is actually kinda difficult, you can reach that A Ending with little to no issues. Cero's limited use items in particular pretty much break the game's difficulty to the point that you can essentially ignore Bazria completely.
The problem is trying to get the other endings, which takes way more time. It actually takes a lot of time to grind up lust, to the point where it took somewhere around 2 hours of grinding for me to reach Ending D after getting Ending C, which was really not worth it.

As for the H-Scenes, they're kinda lackluster.
Full disclosure, I'm not into NTR, so the main draw isn't for me. I do however enjoy corruption games, and boy does it disappoint on that end. Every scene outside of the masturbation scenes all revolve around the playboy antagonist Bazria. No other variety in outfits, no other sexual partners, it's just the singular playboy. The progressively lewder titles are fun to see, the slow burn corruption is really nice, but man I wish the scenes themselves weren't so lackluster in variety and collecting scenes became tedious real quick after a point.

Now Story wise, this is where my disappointment is placed the most.
What an absolute waste of potential. I loved the slow burn opening setting up Magetano and Cero's character dynamics, their past and relationship with each other, the genuine chemistry they have, and the absolute drama and emotions you feel when things go very south for both of them. It’s just a shame that Bazria is a one dimensional unlikeable scumbag playboy that isn't even entertaining. You're supposed to hate him, the game makes it very blatant. The problem for me is that there's just absolutely nothing interesting in this man, other than he's just a horndog with one functional brain cell. The fact that he's the only man involved in the H-Scenes is just more salt in the wound.


I tried really hard to like this game, I really did. It's really just the story and the lack of variety of scenes that really put a damper on my overall thoughts of this title. You're just better off downloading a Save and browsing the gallery than playing through the whole game.

2.5/5 personally for me, but rounding it up out of consideration that this game isn't fully for me.

Curse of Cubel has an amazing introduction and could have grown into a great porn game, but suffers from confusingly bad gameplay and lame NTR action. Personally, I can't recommend it to people who search for quality porn (despite CoC having quite a lovely artstyle), but I'll recommend it to anybody who search for interesting premise to the story. First 30 minutes of were the best experience I got from this game and I think it was worth it.
Rating - 42/80, or 3/5

Further below is a more thorough review where I check every aspect of the game and rate it. It contains spoilers to the game so make sure to play the game first before reading this.

The art is beautiful, alongside all the scenes and how well it is presented.
Gameplay is engaging and fun, the story and the plot is also well written.
The trouble comes with RE-USE in this game, the player is expect to do same thing and same dungeons over and over again, see the same scenes with a little variation, being locked out on stat checks so you would grind even harder.
If the game had more originality and did not force the player to grind non-stop, it would have been top tier game.

One of the best NTR games I've played (story-wise).

One issue I've had about most NTR games is that the bond between the protagonist and the lover is often overlooked or left to the player's imagination. So when the NTR happens, I don't feel bad about it because I don't know anything about their relationship. If anything, the relationship feels nonexistent. So when I play NTR games with corruption, I end up always going for corrupting the characters because, story-wise and gameplay-wise, it's more interesting. What this game does differently is that it slowly builds up the backstory of why the two characters love each other, making the NTR part of the game much more impactful. This game had a fantastic prologue to really show the stakes of this game. It really made me consider going for the non-NTR ending because the relationship was authentic. Of course, I'm a degenerate, so I will still go for the corruption route regardless, but this game made the "non-NTR" ending very tempting. Hell, I even loaded a finished save to watch the "non-NTR" ending, and I don't ever do that. THAT'S how invested I was.

Now I give this game overall a 8/10. Gameplay was nice and simple, but it can get repetitive. It can also be a bit challenging if you are trying for the non-NTR ending. There were a lot of H-scenes, and had some good quality but I felt there was an over-bloat. You could cut down the number of H-scenes by up to a half and it wouldn't change much. I did appreciate that this was a slow corruption, but the slow corruption had some odd pacing at times, hence the feeling of over-bloat. It's great to have a lot of sex scenes, but if they're repeats of previous scenes, it gets bland. I was disappointed that the H-scenes were mostly exclusive to having sex with one character. The developer did a good job of making the antagonist irredeemably annoying, but again, I wish there was more variety because most of the H-scenes ended up being the same. Some scenes even went on for too long in my opinion.

Magetano was really desperate throughout the game, and I was anticipating that this would led to more corruption scenes where she goes to a weapons store or item stores in exchange for favors, or maybe she parties up with the adventurers in front of the chasm for decreased magic use but increased sexual harassment or more H-scenes. Unfortunately this was not the case. I was really excited about the outdoor masturbation H-scenes, only to be let down when I found out being discovered by the public was mostly flavor text.

I am more thoroughly critical about this game than other games I've reviewed so far because I really enjoyed it, but there was a lot of potential that was missed, and the redundancy/over-bloat of scenes made the experience a little worse for what could have been the best NTR game. I still enjoyed this game and would recommend it for NTR-lovers, but I do caution that this game will take a while to finish because the scenes can get long.

Surprisingly boring! The beginning of the game has a long but solid setup, what ultimately happens with it is that you're stuck with a loser of a NTR man. There is absolutely no logical reasoning behind the smart protag falling for the dumb NTR guy other than BS. The game is also layered with a ton of menial tasks, this game unfortunately does not respect your time or your brain. The artwork is great though.

top tier art, fine story telling, bearable RPGM gameplay loop, facepalm worthy antagonist.
A very typical NTR storyline, but what disappoints me is that you fuck only one guy (who has pretty much no redeeming qualities, a terrible sin for NTR villain).
It's fine if you just want to use it for a few quick ones with full save and you are into NTR i guess

I know prologue is needed as base for the character but 1+ hour (skipping all the dialogue) for prologue and i don't know how many more hour when playing the actual game is just too much text, it kill the mood to play this game....

art style had potential but it is that type of game that when you see 4 different images, you've seen everything the game has to offer. no rpg elements aside from dungeon crawling and merchant(s), partner is just the same person that it might as well be vanilla

artwork is 10/10. MC is voiced.

this being an RPGM game is total bait as there is no real gameplay and it might as well have been a VN.

terrible corruption; unavoidable rape as soon as the main game starts.