RPGM - The Last Sovereign [v0.77.2] [Sierra Lee]

My original score for this game was a 3. While my original gripe about this being essentially an extended math equation with sexy bits that you need a spreadsheet to navigate still very much applies, I feel like the story and sexy bits are doing enough work to pull the score up higher. The combat also isn't terrible, which is an accomplishment for a RPGM title.

I genuinely enjoyed pretty much everything to do with the story and the characters themselves. It's just annoying having to metagame constantly to get the result you want. If you haven't played it, it's hard for me to adequately describe how many variables and flags you need to track and how severely missteps or deviations from the optimal path will snowball to screw you later in the game. This is because there is no grinding and resources are entirely finite and quite time sensitive (something I love and hate). There are some opportunities for mitigation of the damage, but definitely no true recovery. You will never quite "right the ship" after forgetting to click on something you may not realize is important at the time, but you can get it vaguely going in the right direction.

If you play this game and cheat with save editing, I personally will not blame you. Will it trivialize some of the systems? Sure. But you'll still enjoy the story and characters.

Do you find the most sensual part of a woman to be her vocabulary?
Are you turned on by line after line of hot, steamy prose?
Would you also like to validate your bachelor of philosophy with a minor in political science?
Then The Last Sovereign the game for you!

The Last Sovereign is a difficult game to review. On one hand it is exceptionally well written, has interesting characters with their own personalities and motivations, and an above average sex-demon conquers the world plot.

On the other hand, for a game all about a sexy quest for power there sure isn't much sex. There's a lot of talk about sex, and people vividly describing their desire for /experience with / consequence of sex, but very little player initiated sexual encounters. In one chapter you are playing a succubus literally named "cumdump", in a massive lust-king conference turned orgy, and you get to initiate 4 scenes. Except you will likely only get to do 3 because you forgot to make the MC compliment her hair three weeks ago. Shit. Should have read the walkthrough I guess...

Which itself is a major letdown. The player should not need to consult four wiki pages to discern the "optimal" route forward in your game, or the only route forward in some cases. There are next to no in-game hints, directions, or indications of what to do. Nor any meaningful foreshadowing of the consequence besides a vague feeling that you just did something the developer considered wrong.

As an RPGM game my bar for gameplay is incredibly low, basically "don't be shit". The Last Sovereign definitely manages to meet the basic requirement. I haven't encountered any game breaking bugs or crashes. The combat is interesting enough and managing the parties gear feels more on the fun side of RPG mechanics than tedious.

*edit* - progressed further and dropping a star. Game is WAY to dependent on the walkthrough, to the point of being unpleasant. The writing and characterization are still great, and the developer has a talent for bumping naughty words together in the English language. There are definitely better porn games out there, but this one has carved out it's own special place.

Not for those that seek the best explicit CG art. It is for those that feel like good writing enhances their experience of an adult game, and those that like long games, impactful choices, interesting stories and characters.

Very well written + solid characters. One of the few games that actually turned me on solely through its writing. In this game the sex scenes don't come first, the story and characters do, and the sex scenes impact benefits as a result. The protagonist, so different from the ones from your usual adult game, is very appreciated.

Sadly there's a couple characters with grotesque huge boobs, but they can be ignored because sex scenes are basically text.

Christ Almighty, this game... Thanks to quarantine, I've been able to binge-play this game for days on end, and as of now I've racked up possibly 140+ hours on it, with those 100 hours in one single playthrough (and this game is still in development by the way).

Summary:
You play as Simon, an old soldier in his midlife who suddenly acquires powers that resemble that of the being he has been fighting most of his life against: an Incubus King. With these burgeoning powers, he begins to assemble a large team (that consequently turn into his harem) and go on a quest to finally rid his continent of the scourge that has killed and enslaved many.

Pros:
- 100+ hrs of UNIQUE content. Not recycled scenes or events.
- Likable and charming characters
- An interesting and lovable protagonist
- Although the world is seemingly regular fantasy cliche, it does have unique elements that make it stand out
- Some actual good humor in the dialogue
- There are no useless sidequests. They all either give you something very useful or give you a hidden stat that will help you down the line
- The sex scenes are very well written and diverse
- A diverse harem without any girls that feel same-y. They all feel unique.
- No weird fetish creep
- Empire-building aspects that can help you in story events
- You can't get a 100% on everything you want in certain story events. You have to ration your resources or points to get the most decent/good outcome.

Cons:

You 100% need to look at the walkthrough section of the wiki along with other pages like investment and such to get at the very least a decent outcome of many events. Going in blind is unadvised, unfortunately.

Some boss battles will make you tear your hair out. Remember to save before them and stock up on mana potions. Not to mention going into the wiki and look up their weaknesses to get a suitable team to take them out.

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Another thing about this game is that there is no mob farming. Any enemy that you encounter HAS to be killed if you want that sweet XP, since you're going to be on a race to level up later on. This takes the shape of level thresholds that can give you advantages (and if you didn't keep up, disadvantages) in story events.

Not just one of the best Ero games I've ever played, but easily one of the best RPGs I've ever played. The characters are rich and extremely well written, the world is incredibly complex and full of life and the over-arching plot progresses believably and realistically. Even the harem elements are done without the usual ham-fisted approaches and the relationships with each girl, and their relationships with each other are brilliantly done. There are hidden mechanics and variables that give almost every decision weight and there's a wonderful sense of accomplishment that comes from seeing the world grown and change as a direct result of them. Can heartily recommend, though if you're an optimizer you'll definitely want to keep the walkthrough handy so that you can weigh the sometimes unforeseen consequences of your actions.

TLS is definitely one of the best RPGs and stories of all time, easily up there with the Witcher 3 and the Legend of Zelda games. Fun gameplay and incredible storytelling make for a very enjoyable playthrough that has plenty of replayability.

It's a major RPG style game, with an epic storyline, and smut - in text form. The text smut is written in the style typically seen in mainstream smut novels written for women. It always portrays our guy as "incredibly powerful, unconcerned, yet he's unselfish and sooo sensitive to the needs of his slave womenfolk" - i.e. it's generic female fantasy fuel.

All the smut (or almost all) is going to railroad you, there are few choices offered about it, and the scenes always unfold how the writer wrote it, there's no "sandboxy" element to it on offer here.

The result is still quite enjoyable if you can get into the role/text smut, or if you cannot, it's a cool RPG game and you can skip past the smut.

So very much a question of your taste, I personally couldn't get very excited for the main character's role. It's like being in a woman's fantasy about what an "amazing man" is, plus fanfic-style smut about all that. Feels weird man. But the actual RPG game element was really quite good, and the game is huge, lots to do and see. Mixed feelings.

I've logged almost 200 hours into this game, and I've only ever gotten to that game time achievement with the Persona series, specifically Golden and 5, but I'm getting off track. I love this game and can't wait to see what comes next.

If you enjoy RPG games, congratulations on finding TLS, you're in for a real treat. Absolutely download this game, use the walkthrough as much or as little as you want, and enjoy the writing of a professional fantasy author. You won't regret it.

A sweeping erotic epic. This game features a high-fantasy political romp that Dragon Age Inqusition and The Witcher 3 could only dream of replicating. The RPGM engine has its limitations of course but Sierra Lee does wonders with it.

Playing this game feels like reading War and Peace except that all the implicit sex is explicit. Absolute must play.

I really like the story and most quests are really nice made.

But:
No visual sex scenes only text.
I do not play such RPGM games, because of the sex scenes. It would be cool if there are nice animated scenes, but I can live without it. So I do not count it in my rating!!!

My worst problem is that this game is not written from the players point of view.

- The player has not enough informations to decide what he should choose to invest in.
- Or during Yarra's path it is not clear if you are succesful or not.
- there are so many different hidden stats the player do not know about and how they change: good or bad.
- when travel back to Stineford for example the MC says: "There is no overriding deadline. " But this is wrong. you have only <16 days. And 15 from these days are automatically gone through travelling. So you can't reach the best result . Next best result is 24 days, which is the absolute minimum. So you need to ignore some stuff. Those are mostly worthless for you, but this information you do not have.
But event worst, you can rest in a bed unlimited days which do not count.
How should the player find out how to get a good or best result.

So you need a Walkthrough! There is a wiki with a walkthrough, but if you want to know what to do, you need to have 5-10 pages open and check even more to find your informations.

Normally I have open:
- Walkthrough,
- Quests,
- Relationships,
- different character pages
- Secret Stats,
- Secrets and collectibles,
- Shopping,
- Investment Walkthrough
- Ch2 travel timer (or others depending on what you are doing)
- maybe a playthrough page, hoping to get the right information on it...

Very hard fights
For example in Stinford you get problems in some areas. Those are no fun. But you can't do some stuff later or do not get some items or even worst if you do them later.

Flow of time
It is hard to understand why sometimes why are few days are gone.
Especially later on Simon's path, no explanation why it jumps from 6-8 and after it to 26.

Or why after few fights suddenly are 5 days gone.

Qum D'umpe
It is made clear several times that the party succubi want as much sex as possible. Qum want it even more. But most of the time if there could be a scene for her, she do not want it and it is bad for you if she does it.


As I said I really like the story and the characters. But please start to write the story from the players point of view. Let the player see what he is doing and give options to find out how he can proceed. Show if the player is unsuccessful so it is possible to try it again.

after 8 hours of playing:

Well written but very common story, uninteresting characters with a common background, only few choices to make,forcing player to make choices you dont want, not a single animation or atleast a picture, zero chance for escaping a fight, unfortunately pretty stright forward path, very, very slow progress - after 8 hours all I was able to do was gather bunch of (uninteresting) followers, do bunch of random quests in town, make a deal with a merchant and make an attempt to go to a different location when you are ambushed/betrayed by the mercenaries.
simply way too boring for me

Some of the worst case of guide dang it i have ever seen.

The story is fun, the charaters enjoyable and the choices while limeted are impactfull.

So why a two star?
Because the game require's you to spend alot of time on the poorly written walkthrough to find the next trigger.

It started out pretty decent.
The charaters likeable and your enemies are truly worth hating.

But i spend most of my time asking:
Ok where too now.
Quest doesnt descripe anything.
Walkthrought doesnt mention the location you need to find the poorly explained quest.
There is no way to read old dialog so forget about rereading the vague instruction where to go.

A simple example:
You need to go too tree llibrary's
The general one, the specialized one and the holy one.
Holy one was easy there is only one church in the city.
But the general one doesnt exist and referece to the queen library and the specilized one is the library at lady rose house.
How you are to find this out?
By looking everywhere and stumbling upon what you need.
And the entire game is like this.

I spend hours search on how to prevent a poor girl from being enslaved.
The answer?
Talk to the kitchen staff in the palace and then go to the slum to prevert her being raped.
There was no reason for me to ever visit the kitchen.
I just searched every nook and cranny for something that would trigger a new reaction.

I like the game.
I think the story is great.
But they really need to work on there quest system as right now it is just a mess.

The Good:

It's an RPG game with no grind, no fetch quests and a fairly complex protagonist.

It also features a compelling, branching story with grandious scope where decisions actually matter.

The gameplay is very well balanced, and the combat although simple, is fun.

The game features tons of funny dialogue throughout.

Plotwise, the game's first three chapter's are very strong, and showcase the protagonist's rise to power from nothing, facing numerous challenges, from hard politics to high stake battles.

The Bad:

The game's plot takes a big dip in quality from chapter 4 onwards, becoming stagnant with a lack of worthwhile threats.

The game can NOT be enjoyed to it's fullest without the help of numerous complicated wiki guides.

The erotic side of the game although very well imbued into the world takes a second seat to the story, with it being mostly vanilla with very little flavor, presented exclusively through text.

Aside from the lack of CG, the art assets presented in game (standard RPG Maker Assets) are often plagued with bad photoshop and low resolution.

6/10

Review for the latest public as of 9/26 2019

I recall playing this game several years ago and think the current version is incredible.

I'll start with the good, bad, then detail why I feel the way I do:
Good
-Story, dialogue, characters (aka, writing)
-combat seems well polished
-the overall presentation was clearly well thought out
-music selection is good; despite the massive length of the game, I bobbed my head all the way through.
-The way the game handles the "secret variables" and events
Bad
-Story and characters have an occasional inconsistent reaction
-Harem sharing is unavoidable
-Level up system extremely punishing
-No CGs.
-anti-cheating elements



I think it goes without saying this is "Game of Thrones" combined with "Lord of the Rings" with succubi. Despite some of the best writing I've ever seen, I'll admit it has flaws.

As an example, the party is drugged, much to the excitement of the succubi who seem to casually allow themselves to be fucked by the slavers, as well as the human girls nearby. One slaver even comments one of the succubi just can't seem to get enough.

I'd argue the strangest part of the game is when this scene sets the tone for relatively casual rape and indifference to harem whoring by both the main character and the author all the while twisting the game away from that.

As another example: one major part of the story is influenced by how much ProN (investment currency) you have to buy shops/mercenaries or fund monuments/shrines, etc to gain hidden stats. You are given the option to whore out a succubus, the one who "just couldn't get enough" earlier for ProN.

Seems like she legitimately got enough earlier as the scene plays out in an extremely depressing gang rape if you take them up on their offer. Furthermore, it seems very out of character for the main character to even have the option to whore out his hesitant companion, forget the fact that the payout of these bastards is ridiculously high and can lead to massive benefits throughout the game.

Someone explain the logic here: A couple of days ago she was more than ok with being raped by scumbag slavers, but when it is economically efficient, she all of a sudden becomes significantly less willing? There was no epiphany to change her character in such a way. On top of that she seems willing enough to fuck orcs and ogres at an incubus gathering anyway.

The narrative jokes about many players unwillingness to ever use single-use items in combat, however, given the extremely limited supply of Sx (money used to buy potions, equipment, etc), this fear is entirely understandable. In grindy-games, I know I can just grind back money to buy stuff, but this game is different. I can't grind. So I know I'm objectively better off saving before each battle, fighting without using items, focus on defensively guarding low hp characters and healing them. If a character dies to an unlucky crit or something, then I'll reload.

I recall approaching this game in a similar way I approach most rpgs. No grinding at all until I get to a difficult/dangerous area. Then grind with reckless abandon until I get at a level where enemies become easy. As you can imagine this was a terrible way to go about it. You are compelled to not skip any enemies, even the 1xp slimes (their goos heal, and healing items are limited so....) Anyway, if you fall behind, attempting to catch up to the way enemies are balanced accordingly is borderline impossible.

Combat is usually good if you've been grinding, but meaninglessly complex. I find even after being extremely thorough in grinding, I'm still unable to beat enemies by casually attacking. Every battle I need to obsessively spam defensive and offensive spells/abilities, which leads to gradual but sure victories. To prevent overuse of items, I find myself locked in specific party compositions. The main character can restore his own mana given time, so the strategy becomes guard against the weakest enemy we've spared till we get more mana. Other characters have similar abilities, but the strategy seems both silly and petty.

The game is exceptionally well done and probably beats most publisher RPG maker games with story alone (even with odd inconsistencies), but if you're the possessive type or need visual aids to enjoy erotic games, you should still check it out, not for fapping but for fun anyway.

This Game is great with the RPGM however similarly to the game that related Corruption of champion since it was texting sexual for those who have good with the fantasy imaginary brain and as for the dull brain(lack for these) not very suitable for your taste you might no really found any much interesting just a straight forward reading text.

This game might be middle challenge however is an adventure type so no complain there also a walkthrought might guide you that make you no suffer whenever you are lost track.

The Combat part is kinda interest since you might have to figure it out your decision against the enemy and the enchaining SP for your succubus for the next damage unless your using Save Editor to surpass any difficult challenge.

There is no Sex Scene you might be disappointed however it kinda great with the grammar for improving your English or rather say your fantasy imagination if you are no sweat with it.

Hands down the single best adult-oriented RPG I've ever played. Strong story and strong gameplay both. Just wish there was more grinding/training available, and everything wasn't such a balancing act on a razor's edge to get optimal results at every major step of the game.

This is one of my favorite games of all time. The characters, balance, story, and gameplay are all superb. That said, this is not really a porn game. It's definitely an adult game, but the porn is sparse and text-only. If you want to get off, look elsewhere. For anything else, give this game a shot, and don't be put off by the first 30 minutes (the prologue).

This is hands down the best RPGM game I've ever played. Amazing story, amazing characters, amazing setups, amazing gameplay - really, if I have any complaints to share it'd only be that it was made using RPG Maker, which is riddled with engine flaws that you can't really fixed. Besides that, there's nothing to complain about. TLS is a shining example of some of the best games out there, and not even its flawed, old engine can cover up this magnum opus.

Lots of detail, very interesting, good art, good characters, fun ,etc very well thought out, a high amount of depth involved. Lots of content too, and interesting decisions to make. Fun for all, not going to lie