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

Worthy of the 3 Stars, it's very average, i can't say i had any fun exploring this game nor fighting through it, however there was technical details, and had enough to keep me invested to the end, it's not long anyways, and the game don't have so many obnoxious empty hallways of nothigness forcing you to walk over and over just to keep you playing.

Okay, so lets start with the Hentai first, is it good? The animations are eh... i don't care much for H-Scenes anyways, but art style are good, the animations won't be ultra smoooooothed 60 FPS either, which while it's okay, for a 2017 game, i will assume that's the dev's first animated game, and if it is... it's acceptable, at least it isn't a slideshow, there are movements enough to satisfy someone wanting animated stuff.
and your character customization are meanignless on it though , since the enemies just gonna remove all your armor and clothes anyways. the only thing they won't remove are your maillot. you don't seduce enemies, nor your gain anything from getting raped, or you lose (as far i know it affects the ending dialogue only), you can decrease lewdness anyways with potions and whatever.
I will admire HOWEVER, the fact this game does allow you to make a full virgin gameplay, i know it's ironic to star up this on a H-Game, but trust me, there is a niche community of people that plays virgin for the sake of challenge (To see how far you can go), and actually that game allows you to full virgin gameplay, literally any option that looks like "I need to do sex don't i?" Actually is entirely optional, skippable by doing other 'harder' methods, so in no way this game gonna force you to just take it out of your control because it said so.

World: Ass... i have no idea why the developer made all areas interconnects so hard, knowing well you already have the map for quick travelling between them all, you explore southwest entirely thinking there is a whole new zone, when actually it just throws you at the previous areas you already explored.
There is many loots around the world, but they are easy to find and are nothing but mere gold boost for your item buying.
but i will give a bonus for how the world map are built though, so even if you explore far the game gonna make sure that you won't need to walk ALL over again just to get back town.

Customization: Okay, i would 5 stars the customization system, there IS detail for every single outfit you use, and this i can admire, the dedication of the author to make asset for every single variation of armor you are using... do you want to use pointed armor with blue maillot and a adventurer dress? It gonna come for you.
but as i said, they don't exist on H-Scenes, only your maillot and hair customization, and if i would star it 5 just because i don't care for h-scenes, i would be being VERY unfair on that.

Combat: Obnoxious, i'm sorry.... it's... obnoxious... you have the PP system that sounds amazing on paper, where you would time your attacks. deliver good blows, until you realize the whole game after tutorial, becomes ajabbing a spear to the enemies 5 times, and waiting for 1 million decades so you can repeat it, over... and over... and over.
the reason i said the game is short, despite me taking days to finish, it was lack of motivation, combat are time consuming and you feel like playing a turn-based game, because you gotta wait precious PP, even on last upgrade of PP, you still dn't recover enough to consistently kill many enemies on a row.
there is no thing such "Just Time Correctly, doofus... wait the enemies to come so you position yourself into a multi hit"
because every single time you do that, you gonna take damage, they are calculated before you step at the tile, that's why short sword sometimes have curiously long range and other times they just don't it.
spears are too thin to damage 2 enemies on a row unless they are perfectly positioned, and swords are just too short even for a wide attack, because for some unknown reason, the developer decided the sword spawns on front of you, and swing at a single tile, instead of being in fact a wide slash.
if you could somehow attack despite having low PP, so you don't need to ass-stare the enemy for years before you can attack again, it would be a lot more better.

Story: Almost inexistent, now i want you reader to choose your side, because on technical side, it's a complete 1 star.
The Plot: Your ship is attacked, bad succbus steal your grail like a bitch she is.
then there is ilterlaly nothing of story until you arrived to the tower, the epilogue is "Yeah we retrieved, the grail is real! " and that's it, you finish the game.
HOWEVER... for ME, it's passable, i longed for a h-game trying not to make itself so seriously, and looking extremely goofy while doing so, and the lack of story came on relief, no unecessary drama, lore, romance or whatever, just go into the world, and start beating up monsters, and this was a Up for me, not needing to worry about specific details, i could say the lack of story was that made me stick to the game actually, so i could on my time explore the world and play with it without groaning because some character locked you into a 10 minutes cutscene explaining why their pussy tastes sweet for women of AB- Type of blood at full moon.
(and to be honest, the lack of hard locked story, gives the game a post-ending gameplay, there's few new areas and items to unlock after beating the ending.)
[TL;DR 1 star technically, and there is nothing to raise here, but for my opinion, i like h-games where you just play and goof around without worrying about story anyways.]

Overall Rating: Look... it is a bad game (Gameplay wise) but there is so many technical details that the developer made sure to put on game, that i actually appreciate it, this game isn't BAD because the developer are incompetent, this game is bad because much probably the developer were beginner when they made it, it's clunky, but not a mess, you can see the Dev cared for the game while making it, small details like repenting on church to recover of libido and stay virgin, or watching the thieve's rumors so you can actually raid their base like-a-boss instead of they raiding your body, despite the game economy being limited to treasures like a action-based resident evil, enemies still can drop items that as much they are used to unlock gallery, you can sell them to avoid being hardlocked by equipment.
so again, IT IS a bad game, but i won't be harsh because i know the Developer were probably newbie on gaming industry, and i assure you, the biggest flaw are the combat system, because to be honest, the Map issues aren't THAT bad.
[and for the poster, the tag Prostitution is wrong, at maximum, you can try making a mission where bandits rapes you, but this is not prostitution, rather the character fools you into being ambushed, and it's just one time this happen, completely optional, just don't trust suspicious man trying to give anything too good to be true. but yeah, i searched everywher and as far i know, there is no prostitution.]

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.