Review of version [v1.07 + DLCs]
The survival zombie genre is my Achilles’ heel: building a base, collecting resources and allies while fighting brain dead monsters is a simple but effective gameplay loop.
So when this popped up, I had to try it; Was it worth it? Kinda.
The gameplay exploration is elementary but effective; You will walk around the map searching for resources or buildings to enter in. There is no need to click on every tile you’ll see, since interactable objects can be perceived as soon as you get close, an exclamation point will appear notifying you of the treasure or door. However even enemies will emerge from nothing while you also advance, therefore pushing the player to incentivizing a tactical rummaging of the zone.
You have a stamina bar used both for sprinting and for combat, fighting is not mandatory since enemies won’t drop nor experience nor items (Except some special types of foes), consequently you should eliminate threats only to clean up a road, if not it’s better to avoid them.
…Except if you are playing the game in normal or easy mode, then it’s a cake walk.
I have survived hoards of undead by just sprinting and killing them in one hit, never touched the crafting system and I was completely fine.
If you truly want a challenge, I would suggest you to set the mode on hard, it only raises the health, the attacks and the defense of the foes, but it‘s better than nothing.
Since sadly, despite the solid mechanics, the game innovates little by keeping areas analogous to each other.
In a dungeon it may include traps, new enemies or even puzzles, yet it lacks of variety….
Which is not that bad of thing since the game it’s quite short.
Overall not groundbreaking but an innocuous and charming gameplay, with even a management aspect of time and items that it’s functionally engaging to say the least.
…
Buuuuuut as a smithing plot twist the game shoots itself in the foot continuously with the upgrades it allows you to receive after completing side quests.
You will be able to survive the final blows of the enemies, obtain unlimited sources of food, turning into the most resistant human being in the entire game.
Upgrades are mandatory if you want to make the player feel like he is advancing in the adventure, and yet these power ups are so overpowered that they ruin the survival gameplay!
No one should have infinite deer sandwiches at home in a fricking zombie survival game!
Gaming aside sex and story are a seesaw of quality: you are a cold nobody who cares only to survive and to have sex. You’ll rape women and recruit them in your base, when necessary, forming bonds which result in a Stockholm syndrome for both the girls and the player (Even the nurse character mentions that). So they will fell in love because of an hostage relationship or because they’ll gaze in the MC a great guardian.
The female characters have some quirks and personalities and they aren’t badly written per se, the real knife in the gut is the MTL translation which turns every dialogue into a puzzle, especially when characters assign you side quests.
The first sex scene are mostly grim if you enjoy forced sex or corruption, even with NPCs they are raped either by him or by others (The Gyaru LI can be found in the school already mind broken after days of gangbangs).
A shameful element is that sex scenes are often recycled especially for NPCs, same sex position but with different haircut or dialogues. Which ruins the enjoyment of the reward or the value of the CGIs when you know that at the end of the tunnel packed with bloodthirsty raiders there is a copy and paste sex scene you have seen half an hour ago.
Another point which I have to mention, the game juggles tones bizarrely; we go from meeting an eldritch god, to enter a cannibal asylum, from having an unexpected wholesome LI moment to have a fucking beach episode as DLC in the endgame.
Last but not least, the atmosphere of the locations is not bad at all. The sound effects are immersive, and the usage of light and dark in abandoned buildings and dungeons is greatly effective. Wandering through corridors immersed in a shadowy dim while lightbulbs flicker showing blood stained walls is a nice touch.
Overall I could rate it higher despite the flaws and the fact that towards the end gameplay turns stale, I still found myself enjoying it.
Alas this version has two great problems that hinder the enjoyment of the game: a bug that doesn’t let you read the documents in the inventory (Which are essential not only for lore and world building but for finding girls and items) and the motherfucking evil *MTL*.
Still if you want an above average RPGM survival about zombies, I recommend it.
The survival zombie genre is my Achilles’ heel: building a base, collecting resources and allies while fighting brain dead monsters is a simple but effective gameplay loop.
So when this popped up, I had to try it; Was it worth it? Kinda.
The gameplay exploration is elementary but effective; You will walk around the map searching for resources or buildings to enter in. There is no need to click on every tile you’ll see, since interactable objects can be perceived as soon as you get close, an exclamation point will appear notifying you of the treasure or door. However even enemies will emerge from nothing while you also advance, therefore pushing the player to incentivizing a tactical rummaging of the zone.
You have a stamina bar used both for sprinting and for combat, fighting is not mandatory since enemies won’t drop nor experience nor items (Except some special types of foes), consequently you should eliminate threats only to clean up a road, if not it’s better to avoid them.
…Except if you are playing the game in normal or easy mode, then it’s a cake walk.
I have survived hoards of undead by just sprinting and killing them in one hit, never touched the crafting system and I was completely fine.
If you truly want a challenge, I would suggest you to set the mode on hard, it only raises the health, the attacks and the defense of the foes, but it‘s better than nothing.
Since sadly, despite the solid mechanics, the game innovates little by keeping areas analogous to each other.
In a dungeon it may include traps, new enemies or even puzzles, yet it lacks of variety….
Which is not that bad of thing since the game it’s quite short.
Overall not groundbreaking but an innocuous and charming gameplay, with even a management aspect of time and items that it’s functionally engaging to say the least.
…
Buuuuuut as a smithing plot twist the game shoots itself in the foot continuously with the upgrades it allows you to receive after completing side quests.
You will be able to survive the final blows of the enemies, obtain unlimited sources of food, turning into the most resistant human being in the entire game.
Upgrades are mandatory if you want to make the player feel like he is advancing in the adventure, and yet these power ups are so overpowered that they ruin the survival gameplay!
No one should have infinite deer sandwiches at home in a fricking zombie survival game!
Gaming aside sex and story are a seesaw of quality: you are a cold nobody who cares only to survive and to have sex. You’ll rape women and recruit them in your base, when necessary, forming bonds which result in a Stockholm syndrome for both the girls and the player (Even the nurse character mentions that). So they will fell in love because of an hostage relationship or because they’ll gaze in the MC a great guardian.
The female characters have some quirks and personalities and they aren’t badly written per se, the real knife in the gut is the MTL translation which turns every dialogue into a puzzle, especially when characters assign you side quests.
The first sex scene are mostly grim if you enjoy forced sex or corruption, even with NPCs they are raped either by him or by others (The Gyaru LI can be found in the school already mind broken after days of gangbangs).
A shameful element is that sex scenes are often recycled especially for NPCs, same sex position but with different haircut or dialogues. Which ruins the enjoyment of the reward or the value of the CGIs when you know that at the end of the tunnel packed with bloodthirsty raiders there is a copy and paste sex scene you have seen half an hour ago.
Another point which I have to mention, the game juggles tones bizarrely; we go from meeting an eldritch god, to enter a cannibal asylum, from having an unexpected wholesome LI moment to have a fucking beach episode as DLC in the endgame.
Last but not least, the atmosphere of the locations is not bad at all. The sound effects are immersive, and the usage of light and dark in abandoned buildings and dungeons is greatly effective. Wandering through corridors immersed in a shadowy dim while lightbulbs flicker showing blood stained walls is a nice touch.
Overall I could rate it higher despite the flaws and the fact that towards the end gameplay turns stale, I still found myself enjoying it.
Alas this version has two great problems that hinder the enjoyment of the game: a bug that doesn’t let you read the documents in the inventory (Which are essential not only for lore and world building but for finding girls and items) and the motherfucking evil *MTL*.
Still if you want an above average RPGM survival about zombies, I recommend it.
