Wolf RPG - Completed - The Holy Grail Of Alharahn [Waterspoon]

A generic rape-on-defeat RPG with a pretty basic plot and basic combat. Our female protagonist is looking for an artifact that was stolen by a demon, the same demon who has cast a curse on her than increases our hero's libido. Whether she succumbs to her lust or not is up to you etc etc.

Combat's pretty basic. You click the button and attack what's in front of you, depending on the weapon you have equipped (sword, shortsword, spear). Each attack consumes stamina (or PP in the game's terms) depending on the weapon.
Libido increases over time (depending on the level of Lewdness) and actually affects combat (50 or more reduces your damage significantly), while Fatigue increases your damage taken (I think?).
There's a decent amount of content and enemies, although said enemies are often reskinned, stronger versions of enemies you've already encountered. Each enemy has a chance to drop an item unique to its kind, which can be used in the basement of a certain shop to revisit the animated defeat scenes (a creative way for a gallery).

Now for the drawbacks. Firstly, there's no way to run or increase your character's speed in the game, so you have to walk everywhere. Secondly, you cannot save your game or change equipment except from designated save points and... dressing rooms... I could understand the saving part, but having to use a dressing room to change, say, your amulet slot item is ridiculous. Also, the enemies strip you naked after they defeated you, so being unable to re-equip your gear immediately is double annoying. Those 2 reasons are why I couldn't rate the game any higher.
One more drawback is that the defeat scenes cannot be skipped or fast forwarded. Most of the time, when Fatigue goes over 100 during a scene, the character faints and the scene ends there, *except* for certain enemies like the various Worms, where defeat means a set number of scenes. That gets tiresome very quickly.
Lastly, the game often doesn't give you any direction on where to go next, so if the wandering monsters in a new area are taking way too many strikes to kill, you're probably on the wrong place. I recommend using a walkthrough.

Pros:
+ Animated rape-on-defeat scenes
++ Libido actually affects combat
+ Decent variety of enemies (albeit some reskinned ones)
+ Gallery

Cons:
- Basic plot
-- Cannot run or increase speed
-- Cannot save at will, only at designated spots
---- Can only change your gear at designated dressing rooms
-- Defeat scenes are not skippable or fast forward-able
- Lack of path direction

Final verdict: 3/5 - Decent game, but with a few major flaws

The summary on here give more then the game ever does. Movement is fucking slow. Sex bits can't be skipped. Art is poor. There is fuck all for direction on what to do and where to go. Sex and having it or not really does nothing aside from the libido bit. Can't save anywhere.
It is a rather mediocre game

In eroge, you usually need to lose to view the scenes, this game is no exception. That being said, this games does it well.

The mechanics are simple. you attack and consume stamina, if you run out stamina you can no longer run or attack. If you get hit then you lose health, lose all your health and you get raped.

Sounds pretty standard, right? Well, if you "die" in this game (losing all health & getting raped) does NOT give you a game over. That's right, even if you were to lose on purpose, you can still play up until your character gets "fatigued". If fatigue reaches 100, game over.

The animations while not too complex, are wonderful.

This is definitely a great game. Can recommend.

Almost poifect.

ART:
I usually don't go for such extreme proportions, but something about the art style here makes it more pleasing. I think it's because the overall style is so simple and exaggerated whereas most hentai would give too much detail and hit an uncanny valley effect.
There are a lot of costume pieces to get for customizing the girl's appearance, and a decent amount of variety in the monster designs too, even where some of the girl's positions are reused, the different context of who or what is fucking her might make some scenes better than others. It's especially good for straight male players because you never see a close-up of some dirty old man's disgusting face, just a gray transparent dick.
There are two problems I have aesthetically:
One, there's no voice work. I understand that finding talent can be difficult, especially where porn is concerned, so I try not to hold it against the game, but I just can't get over how much better (or worse) some games are based on voice talent, and this game just doesn't have any.
The other problem artistically is that the animations are a little buggy. Like a flash game, the interchangeable parts of the character are overlayed on top of a base, with some transitioning to the sex scenes and others getting stripped. When the portrait changes positions, there's a heavy tendency for some parts to remain where they are or refuse to spawn in. Luckily that usually only happens for a half second at a time, but it can be distracting, especially in the orgy where Lilua changes positions very frequently, and the body parts are more likely to lag behind and remain until the whole scene ends.

GAMEPLAY:
This game forgoes the usual turn-based combat (despite the tag saying "Others", I think this uses Wolf RPG editor) in favor of a simple single-action hit-and-run system, which can make some fights pretty tense if you don't have room to maneuver. I usually take issue with the level-grinding aspect, but I don't think it was bad enough to distract from the game.
The worst part about the gameplay as I recall is that the hitzone on your attacks can be a little clunky, I think that's a relic of the fact this game engine is built for tile-based games.
However, this game does something that I wish was more common in XXX action games, in that the character getting fucked serves as an alternative to a Game Over screen, not just the thing that happens when you get a Game Over. When you reach 0 HP, enemies can knock you down. The first time this happens, you can resist by mashing the attack button. If you fail to resist, you get fucked. When the enemy is done fucking you, it might disappear, giving you the chance to get up and keep fighting or it might fuck you again. When you're surrounded by enemies they tend to just stay around and fuck you until you pass out. You pass out if your "Fatigue" reaches 0 and you'll wake up in a church or guild or something.
This means you can watch our buxom heroine get molested quite a lot without worrying about having to reload an earlier save and pretend it didn't happen. She actually gets up eventually and lives with the aftermath of what happened, most likely making her more lewd.

STORY:
Not distracting. There's really not much to it. You get to start moving around and exploring after not much time at all, and if you keep trying to find places you haven't been to yet, and talk to NPCs to get some pointers, you'll be fine.

I actually haven't played this for at least a couple months before coming back to review it, I just really think it deserves a good review that much.