RPGM - Abandoned - The Curse of Pleasure [v0.9] [RanneRo]

Note: My “review” is general overview of a game and with heavy weight on how much I enjoy it rather than “critical” rating. A.k.A more of a PERSONAL ENJOYMENT + a bit of “critical” rating/comments gamelist entry

Review Game Ver 0.7

PROs:
+Pleasing art & some animations
+Hot nee-chan (older sister) as female lead
+Great start with some unintentional teases and intentional (a.k.a tease, low corruption and exhibitionism kinks done well)
+Not too difficult combat which makes H focus much more enjoyable
+Pretty nice NPC’s and intentional fun

CONs:
-I were a bit sad how her first time ended up
-her looseness felt too fast (even though it was chemical effect)


Comments:
Not much else to add. Very pleasing art-style and animations. Very hot and kinky kinks done well. Main female character is hot, fun, innocent, strong onee-chan. (older sister). Lot of npc’s had fun interactions and fairy enjoyable conversations. Plus some seem to have fun backstory. Some minor details and their dialogues/monologues were also quite fun. I do hope future versions will keep at tease fun.

Edit 06.10.20
Re-played it on 0.7
Still low the slow/low corruption although it took few sudden jumps with scenes I weren't. But other than that I hope this game will be eventually finished with lot of scenes being added.

Biggest complaint I have is when you done something first time. (a.k.a bat cave) I would expect a shortcut or entrance script changing to directly bathhouse. Because it's rather obnoxious to run through multiple cave levels to reach bathhouse every time. Basically I hope travel-time will be fixed along the way.

Next time I plan to play is when game gets finished and if and when it does. I hope it comes to steam so I can buy it.
8/10

I liked everything like it was done, except death in the fights ... since it is to lose virginity to the kingpin, she could be abused ... fingers, tongues, tits, mouths and throat. I suppose you can do a lot with it, without having to kill it. Only reason for not having 5 stars.

So promising at the start of development, but giving up to a willing slavery, voluntary drinking with slave masters, and mandatory loosing virginity to the Bandit Boss--is just so trite, corny and boring. The future of the story in this visual-novel-style game becomes sooooo blatant--tons of such pseudo-games exist!
1 star for the death of all hopes.

P. S. Apparently, the demon did not put a Curse of Pleasure, but a Curse of Tedious Pleasure & Marked Stupidity.

So I played the new content. There's some good, some bad, and some ugly. I've ripped this game apart in the last weeks in the comments, so now it's time to get into it. I'll keep this short.

The good:

The art. Rannero is top notch in his artwork. The drawings, the animations, the cum...All beautifully done. Seriously top tier art in the world of adult games. Yuuki is smoking hot.

The bad:

The grinding. Nearly all of the game is a grind. Which I get to a certain extent...But there's only so much tit grabbing one can endure before wanting something else. There is 1 hardcore scene in the .5 release. I won't give spoilers here, but don't expect much in terms of actual sex. By the time you FINALLY get where you want to be, the content ends.

You also need the btc.sizer to make the game bigger and in windowed mode, a decently sized annoyance for a game being made in 2018.

The ugly:

The kids. Granted, this is tagged shota (which I had to google to figure out the description of...don't do that, btw) but there are way too many scenes involving kids. No, they are not sex scenes, but they still are not needed, add nothing to the story, feel gross, and honestly make me want to never visit this title again. Ew. Rannero needs to sway focus away from that and have Yuuki get into more issues with people of her age or older.

All in all, as it stands, this is a 3/5, simply because of the artwork and animations. It's a clone of another game I saw on here called "Sangeki of Gear" in a ton of ways, just updated.

The absolute best thing Rannero and his crew could do now is to release more content within the next month, and continue it. If he waits another 9 months (previous update was in January 2018 before 0.5 dropped) this game is dead in the water. He also needs to decide how far he's going to take the storyline with the children of the game. Little bits of comedic relief involving naughty neighborhood kids is one thing, but taking this much further and you're getting into some weird territory I don't even want on my computer. Even as it stands, 0.5 has already been deleted.

When it comes to potential, progression and art i would give 5 stars, all these aspects are great.

What sucks in this game is RUNNING THROUGH "EMPTY" MAPS FOR 60-80% OF THE GAME TIME.

This review is for v0.4b, even with wasting so much time it would be quite good experience, but the content ends right before fun begins.

Overall great potential and im looking forward to the next version, current one is just a demo.

So far so good. You play as a big sister that's a respected warrior within the village. During the story, you become corrupted with that more and more lewd, if just only by a little. The straight shotacon aspect is also well executed so far with her slowly giving in to the little perverts' thoughts.

Also, even though I was initially put off by the big boobs as I prefer small/medium-small, I think this game is good enough to overlook that. v.0.5 should come out soon as well, which is probably a good content drop.

The game has a simple gamplay and gives a well-written story. The corruptions in the game is believable, and never feels forced, in the context of a porn game obviously.

The thing that I like the most is that the pace of the game is really good, it doesn't make the protagonist be a crazy slut form the get-go, but gives you little "understandable" scenes.

With an original art style this game really offers a enjoyable experience and should end up being a great game in both sex and plot.

It's okay up until the bandit camp. The whole point of Rannero's Yuki was to cuck the brother or give the viewer a sense of erotic loss during the dirty exploitation of Yuki's mysterious naiveness/passiveness and even distance. This shit never gets old, so why does Rannero change her into a generic female everyone immediately gets their hands on? It's just like: You build this certain sense and feeling towards this character, and then he just sends her into sex-land. Uninspired and reverts his work.

Apart from that, the drawings are good, some animations as well but the gameplay is not fun and the dialogs are as standard as they can possibly get. The expressed sexual conquest through thoughts and responses is uncreatively generic.
I have the feeling that Yuki (beyond the game) started all well, free, as a form of this artist's expression. Now, however, it's just simple sex of empty characters because you know what? Curse.
R.I.P. Yuki?

it gives the classic rode fortress and sangeki gear vibe. if you know what i mean it was good rpgm and all of its glory, sure its inconvenient to walk around town/map/dungeon trying to figure things and stuff.. but this could potentially sparks hidden perv in the devs and hopefully will create his/her own shape of story building and game making stuff. looking forward to see more from this one.