RPGM - Completed - The Great Blade and the Dragon [v1.1.0 Complete Edition] [StudioDobby]

The story of the game is very good, and personally speaking I got hooked into this game for more than 30+ hours just because of its story. Now,

keeping aside this aspect, I want to talk about its battle mechanism, actually with 4 members in your party, you can have a very tricky battles and enjoyable too.

and for h-scenes, you have to grind so much, and because of poor translation you cannot actually like complete the requirements to able to progress in h-scenes at some point in your gameplay.

I installed patch and from there I could access sub quests, but there is also one bug that once you defeated the dragon at the end, the story continues and in mid of that it tells that some files are missing or error, so I couldn't reached the end

overall this game is good but not great because of those two bugs and because of no free npcs interaction like in other jrpgs,
i would give it solid 7 or 8 / 10 , majority of point still goes to story and character desgins

The story was great, ending was bittersweet but made sense. Wished the other girl got with the prince and claire with the swordsman. BRO WHY DO I NEED TO MAKE THIS MORE THAN 200 CHARACTERS, THATS GAY AS HELL.

To be honest, I did not expect anything like this from this game, but it surprised me. In total, I played for more than 30 hours, but if you are not going to collect all the H-scenes, then the whole plot will take you about 15 hours. And that's what surprised me, because usually in H-games, the entire passage takes 3-4 hours at most. The plot, though simple, inspired me personally for the DnD campaign. The scenes themselves are drawn quite well and pleasing to the eye, although in some places the proportions are quite strange.
P.S
The game can be played without affecting because it does not affect the plot and ending. The ending is influenced solely by your choices.

Honestly, not your typical H-game. Has an actual story line, unlike most h-games (but im pretty sure most people don't want to play the game for story line).

In terms of art it's not bad but not everyone cup of tea.

ONE TIP- If you press tab during fights, this will instantly defeat your party, which you need to do, to unlock some h-scenes

Overall- it was not bad, I would say it's really close to a vn, ending definitely made me tear up a little

7.5/10

This was incredible I loved it.

H scenes: This is most definitely a game before an H game and unfortunately I can't talk in detail about the H scenes cause I did a pure virgin run but I will say that the art is gorgeous. NA/10

The Story: I was actually bawling at the end of this I truly loved it. It's captivating and I couldn't stop playing it. The only thing holding it back was the translation and some editing errors but aside from that amazing. My final save is like 52 hours with the True end. AKA don't go into this expecting to just fap and go if your anything like me you'll be crying by the end and not even fully understand why. 12/10

Gameplay: It's relatively fun its a lot better towards the second half after [Minor Spoiler]everyone can use each other's AAA skills without having to be in the front.[/SPOILER] Honestly though I did basically just use the same few spells the entire game fortunately you don't have to grind as long as you are just doing the missions. And it does have some unique gameplay elements so overall while I did have fun with it it's not the main reason I stayed that would be the story for sure. 8/10

Summary: I highly recommend however do not expect to jerk off for quite some time but if you like games with cute warrior and surprisingly Yuri undertones at times and an amazing story then this is for you. 10/10

I've never felt so attached to H-game characters (even NPCs!) before as much as I did with this game. The H-scenes are ok but honestly, I'd play this game even without the H-scenes. Took me around 40 hours to complete. If you can spare that amount of time, I definitely recommend trying this game.

I Was expecting the usual H game, instead i got jrpg with H scene. A pleasant surprise, TL is readable, can be better though, it is get confusing later on due to naming inconsistency from people, to city and skill name that is required in some quest.

Nevertheless, I decide to give it 5 stars because despite its flaws, I do really enjoy the game. Story also pretty enjoyable to read and they write background story to background and key character in the game which is quite surprising.

A sequel on new continent following Celis path or her descendant would be nice.

★☆
Oh boy I finally completed this game and it took quite some time! (v.1.10)
(THERE MAY BE SPOILERS BECAUSE I COMPLETED EVERYTHING)

Starting off with the plot! A bard tells a story about the main character (you) whose family is killed by the dragons, but nobody believes you as they never saw one before. Throughout your journey, you will find companions that hunts the dragon like you, but for different reasons. I won't spoil more about it, and it is pretty generic I must say, it branches out as how you would expect since it is predictive. ★★★☆☆

Gameplay is pretty okay! Though I must say it is pretty stale. Not that many mechanics into it as you unlock more skills from levelling up/unlocking them with SP, perfect for combat noobs to not fry their brain! There are also minigames which I think are pretty cool!I expected them to be naked as you remove your equipments, same goes for combat effects when removing weapons. But atleast their outfit changes when you obtain a cosplay item! ★★★☆☆

The H-scenes are kinda lame. It's not bad, and it's not good either. Now I've played lots and lots of H-games... In my opinion, the H-scenes in here are below average. The artstyle is nice, but the scene (no animation too) doesn't change much as the narration progress, leaving up to your imagination. The sound effects in there are also the same thing for every single scenes. Doesn't really make you want to nut if you've seen it all. ★★☆☆☆

This game has way too many quests (not complaining), graphics are pretty nice and runs well on my potato laptop, so far there are no bugs I've encountered, barely any interesting animations, the voice acting are really rare in cutscenes, grammar is really confusing at times referring to who's male and female, but the amount of content is plenty enough for you to keep going.

Overall I rate it 3/5.

I got really hooked at the beginning of the game. While it was following typical old-school JRPG tropes, it was refreshing because most games here... don't do that. The worldbuilding was nicely put together, and the art was captivating.

However, the game's pacing fluctuates a lot afterwards. First, you don't really spend that much time exploring each character, so you barely know them for more than half of the game. There are hints that they have a lot to share, but it takes a really long time before you really get to see those mysteries unravel. When we do learn more about the characters, it's really great, but it takes a long time investment to reach that. Second, while I did enjoy the gameplay, quests being locked behind a chain of fetch quests get old really quickly (and there is an abundance of them). It's also frustrating to not figure out what the minimum requirements are to unlock quests, whether they are because of sex traits or because of a quest that isn't available yet. There's quite a lot of mini-games integrated into dungeons or quests in this game, and unfortunately all of them are misses for me. I do not enjoy running around cutting grass/barrels and swapping every 3 seconds just to see if I found a lost item underneath said cut grass/barrels. The pushing boxes puzzles are also.. mediocre, and don't add anything to the game. The worst part of this game is when we have to talk to an NPC to progress the quest, but they don't indicate where that NPC is, so you have to run into each and every single fucking house to try to find them. Again, absolutely tedious. It just feels like there's a lot of inconvenience in this game that drag on too long. And that is a terrible shame, because this game's strong suit is the story and characters, but all of these inconveniences drag the game longer than it should be.

This game is also a "game first, hentai second" game, especially at the beginning when Hscenes were only limited to bad endings. Later on, after obtaining your 3rd or 4th party member, the Hscenes become readily more available. But the Hscenes do feel like an afterthought, even though there were some interesting ideas, the executions fell flat for a decent number of them.

The translation is also not terrible, but it does get confusing because some quests require certain sex traits for each character and the translations for those sex traits vary across different menus.

Overall, I give this a 6.5/10. Story and characters are 9/10, but you have to be particularly in a RPG mood rather than a horny mood to enjoy this game, because this is a long game (45 hours for me to reach true ending). As an H-game, it's about a 4/10. As an RPG game, it's about a 7/10 (I'd played through worse). This game has a lot of potential, but a lot of questionable decisions that make the user experience worse than it should've.

The game is unbelievably long and gets very boring and repetitive almost immediately. The characters at least are fairly interesting, though the story doesn't really let them shine enough. Maybe that will change in another 20 hours of gameplay, but that's too much time investment for me.

The H content is a mixed bag. There is a small number of scenes from battle losses and all of the rest comes from side missions at bulletin boards found in other towns than the adventurer's guild. It's extremely easy to miss most of the scenes or entirely lock yourself out of scenes by leveling up the lewd skills.

The lewdness system is a mess and you'll more than likely end up here on the forums searching how to get past lewdness 1. It has nothing to do with any of the H content and entirely comes from leveling up the lewd skills. But, leveling up lewd skills comes with an in-game warning and can lock you out of some scenes.

Have fun leveling the lewd skills enough to unlock new quests, only to find you leveled them too much, too soon, or the wrong ones and now lost access to some of the other quests. The scenes also tend to be the same couple of poses recycled over and over again with different text on them and they can drag on for a long time.

I play this game for 40hours and play it till the party kill the dragon then I stop from there because it just too long. This game try to be RPG game story telling but it still lacking certain aspect mainly the story is predictable and the H-side quest is not related to the main story.

I won't say much about the gameplay as other already say in review, more into the H. Here you are playing as MC trying to get revenge with 3 companion, you will recruit companion as you progress.

For people who want to play this for the H-scene I suggest finding other game because at current state its MTL and not enough explanation for how to get the H-scene. H-scene as other review is not fappable, mostly its only One Image with different expression the character describe of what they are doing but the scene doesn't show it at all (ex:they are on missionary and the girl getting kiss but the scene is still the same they don't show the kissing at all), yes they do have voice for H-scene but mostly moaning for too long typical japanese H-game the girl keep saying they almost cum but keep moaning and saying cumming for many time before they cum. The art is not drawn very well as some male body part is not well portion.

For me this is really lazy way to making H-game and I have a feeling this game wanting to be RPG story telling than H-game, they try to hide this by adding few H-scene for audience just for making people curious about it. The corruption isn't even inside the game, there is no random NPC molest you or some H-scene outside H-side quest at all, you will be massively disappointed.

The most confusing part is when you level up your lewd level some H-side quest won't be available anymore meaning if you didn't unlock other city and you level up lewd level you will lost that H side quest in other city. So I suggest for people who want to play this game don't level up your lewd level before you unlock all city in the game so you will be able to play H-side quest then you can level up your lewd level since you can access all the side quest available on other city.

One think that really annoy me in this game is when you received a quest and tell you to find this NPC they don't mark it, meaning you gotta go inside each houses just to find the NPC to progress the quest. They should mark the house for the quest so you don't need to run around just to find the NPC.

This is a very, very long game. My final save was 96 hours. Took me a long ass time so Ill keep the review short.

The game is pretty good. The story is mostly fun, the characters are mostly unique and intersting. The art is great and the rpg parts are fine. Nothing special but it works well enough. Generally i would say that its hard to loose any battles if you try, but you can loose them if you don't.

Biggest flaw from my point of view is how the H scences are integrated into the game and story: They mostly aren't, they excist kinda seperate as sidequests or defeat scenes and lack any real consequence to the story or how to people react to the protagonist.

This is a very long JRPG, if you're here for a quick fap then this game is not for you.
It took me around 50 hours to unlock all scenes and get to the true ending.
This game is long, and maybe too long. Most people won't even finish this game.

Combat is meh. It doesn't really do anything special, but at least you only really need to do the mandatory fights. You don't really need to grind with the combat so this is a plus in this long game.

Story, oh boy I love the story. It's the good old power of friendship trope but I do think there's enough twists and turns to make things interesting. Towards the end it kinda reminds me of Persona 3 and 4.

The story doesn't just focus on the main girls, a lot of side characters also have character development. You can tell the dev put a lot of work in these characters and it's a surprise in this genre. Most of the characters even have background stories.
If you're just skimming through the dialogues then there's a high chance you'll miss something. This is a very big game with lots of details.

H-scenes are good, but not in a fappable way. H-scenes (including game overs) are actually interesting and sometimes you do need context to enjoy them. While it seems like they're just a side thing, I do think they add something to the story and characters.

H-scenes can be horny, funny, miserable, depressing or wholesome, and I enjoy a lot of them from a story standpoint. Some of the lewd quests even requires you to finish some other non-lewd quests, and there's a reason for it.

Oh, and the h-scenes are also fully voiced. There are game over scenes involving the side girls so this is kind of crazy.
Only thing I don't like about it is the side girls' mic quality is all over the place. Some of them are quite bad, which is distracting when comparing to others.

Overall this is a very well made JRPG, and probably one of the best RPGM game if you can stick with it til the end.
I do not regret the hours I've spent in it.

Despite having a huge 4GB sizes file, i can't find any flame to play till the end of this game. TLDR: It's a bad game, not worth playing.

Art: 9/10 It's amazing, love the saber face and old style RPG. That's all... That's the only good point i can find in this game.

Story: 4/10 Really really bland and unessesary long... I've spent 28 hours, 28 hours going around and doing some RPG jobs just find out that i'm only half of the main story... like wow... why ???? Isn't it suppose to be fun and horny. IF only the main story was good, i could have gone through the game. Unfortunately, it was a nightmare. A young girl want to take revenge for her family, found some friends along the side, doing fantasy adventure guide jobs, found out that everything isn't pink, panik, get back through friendship...(so scanning through the gallery, i guess that there will be a bad guy using drug and mind control things, finding out the betrayal, beating and saving the world ....) EVVERYTHING IS SO MEDIORCE.... but still took more than 20 hours...WHY???

Music: 5/10 At first, everything is good. But after a while, you'll notice that most songs are identical and recycle from other typical RPG...

Gameplay: The only good thing about this game is that every bossses and monsters are set to EASY mode so that we don't have to put more effort into this. Just spam ATK, road mobs can easily got killed by touching... how easy was it. The down side is that everything is too easy that the over complicated skill tree is a joke.... why bother upgrading them when you can easily killed everything by spamming 2 atk skill, 1 bind skill (mage) and 1 buff atk (priest), opponent just died and cant even fight back.

Another bad point is that every missions are the same (go A --> meet B --> go dungeon --> beat boss --> meet C --> done). Some mini games are to buy some times before beating the boss. After a while, you'll feel boring and sick,... after 28 hours, you'll figure out that you're half of the game.... still no sight of completing it.

About map design: EVERYTHING IS BIG FOR NO REASON. At first you thought "oh this city is big and beautiful", but soon you'll realize that EVERY CITIES AN DUNGEONS ARE UNNEASSARY BIG. you go to a house, there will be an NPC without any purpose, a giant map with nothing to loot (like a 10cm square with 1mm dot in the middle, yes the map design is that bad). Now the whole city is like that. Every cities is the same with nothing to stand out, same design, unnessary big, same stores with same items. The only different is city's quest board which is the only reason you go to that city. I want to ask is why ???? why wasting time to design all those unnessary things when you can enhance the gameplay and scenes ???????


H-scenes: 4/10 So a 4gb games must have some ultimate galaxy super hyper powerful ultra infinite pool of scenes right ? right ? The answer is.... NO. There are about 45 scenes total (can be more or less), about 10 scenes for each heroine (4 main heroine), 5-9 outside bad ending and story related
scenes). The corruption mechanic aren't really affecting anything beside allow you to to take more lewd quests (might be affect the ending ??? but i haven't got till there). Other than that, NPC interaction won't change, nothing change beside you can now take new lewd quest at city's quest board. If you ask me ARE THOSE SCENES WORTH IT ??? i would likely say NO, just go to gallery after playing 1-2 hours. You'll understand everything without any contexts. They are that typical.... (some prostitute, some goblin, mind control, drug, dancer, .... everything is 1 scene and after that, there is no penalty or after match, the characters keep move on like nothing happened.

Overall, i guess the DEV completely forgot they were making a H-game and proceed making a 40-50 hours normal RPG... then realized that it sucked as a normal RPG and fixed it by adding some H elements. Because of that, everything is unessary long, time consuming and still suck.... If you like the art style, just go straight to the gallery after first 1 hour. Did i also said that the openning is also 1 hour long ??? Hell????

Sorry for a long long review
HAVE A NICE DAY (DONT SPENT 28 HOURS GAMEPLAY LIKE ME)

Sadly this is neither a good RPG nor a nice h-game.

The visuals are nice and the mapping is well done, but despite attempts to make the combat and map interaction interesting, it is quite mediocre even compared against mostly standard rpgm titles.

The difficulty is not changeable and very low, which makes the whole skill tree superfluous and the porn to game ratio is probably too small to appeal to people, who see the gameplay as just a break between h-scenes.

Switching out your party members to interact with different things on the maps sounds nice, but inevitably leads to either ignoring it or backtracking several times per combat map with the characters, that can detect secrets.

The translation is serviceable, but several stats are not translated and one crucial piece of information is not even left untranslated, but straight up gone.
The lewdness degree needed to accept quests is not there, which does not sound that bad. until you realize, that h-quests also require h-skills, that raise your level and will completely lock quests of lower levels.

So you are by design required to level skills, which correspond to h-skills, more or less according to a plan or miss out on potentially almost all non game over scenes. This would be annoying design, even if I could see the damn requirements.

I did not play to the end, but the story appears pretty mediocre so far.