RPGM - The Wish [V0.22] [The Sex Game's Stories]

The previous reviews were getting old, so I decided to finally check this game: it can't be THAT bad, right? Sadly, although not always accurate in the details, reviews still reflect the state of the game: grindy, messy, and punishing.
The Wish is really deceptive at the start - you are thrown in a functional sandbox with lots of characters, presented with many stats and ways to up them, and you can't wait to level up and have fun with the girls around you. And then hours pass, and you get nothing. Like many before me, I can see that there is a solid game somewhere, but it's buried under ungodly, devious grind - and I've seen a lot of grind before and don't mind it if done well.
So please stay away, it's barely playable at this point.

Not really worth the time. A lot of grinding to get anywhere. A few pictures. Many pages in French even though English was selected in settings. A potentially nice concept, but far too many characters to interact with and not enough time in real life to get anything done. The time spent in the game is then wasted each time a new version is release.

The game plays itself like absolute garbage. Normally I don´t like to just trash about the hard work of someone but if you work hard you should have something to show about it right?
First of all the time management is the absolute worst it´s absolutely unbearable and even trying to make a working plan takes more work than the game is worth.
Next you can´t just save your game you also can´t just open your menu maybe I missed something but once I started playing I was completely unable to open an item or equipment menu which made fighting the way to strong enemies close to impossible.
Next there is a ton of characters but most have close to no content and worse figuring out how and when to find them is just pure cancer and the sheer amount of farming you have to do to somehow get these stupid friendship points up is beyond laughable.
There is literally nothing good to say about this so my suggestion....don´t waste your precious time on this trash.

The most boring game, I've ever played. SO slow, SO grindy... Even when I cheated money and drops I played aboyt 30min and I had no sex scene. If you DARE to flirt with a girl, who is not ready for that you loose 10 (TEN) friendship points, BTW there is 1 point for talking and 5 point for right gift. It should be a porn game after all, but now it is a simulator of looser. I dont recomend it to anyone. A great waste of time.

I tried v0.12 and the game has a lot of punishment compared to the reward it gives:

_Time does not stop while you are on the pc, or the map
_The save points limit you a lot, the one on the bed forces you to sleep until the next day, the other is in a cave, at the farthest end of the map
_Almost all npc carry out their activities only from 9am to 8pm, this is bad considering that the clock is always ticking
_The only fast travel are the feathers, you can only have 2 and they only take you to the cave
_Making a mistake with an npc costs you 10 times what you earn, or more

I would like to offer some ideas:

_Stop the timer in interfaces (map and pc), and put legends on the map by default
_Unlock the save option anywhere and anytime (simple is better)
_Vary between hours, offer npcs that have day or night life. For example, the bar, the police station and the clinic could be open all night
_Offer fast travel to any location, just using the map or a single purchase item
_Balance the penalties with the npcs, if you gain 1 friendship point, you lose 1 friendship point, and so on
_It would also be nice to mix the dungeon theme a little more with the game in general, that the girls' quests not only improve your relationships, but also give you experience and droplets

This review concerns the v0.11 english translation only. I only got to -6 before I gave up.

TL;DR: Poor implementation hampers what might otherwise be a good game.

The Good: a few interesting ideas, decent number of characters, multiple ways to make money, people are on their own schedules, monsters changing every few floors is good., and the time system is okay.

The Bad: Nothing is implemented well. EVERYTHING is grindy. Nothing is to fun to do. Every single action takes to long. All the menus are one or two levels too deep. Combat just becomes hit, hit, hit, hit, hit. The english translation is terrible.

Recommendation:

• focus on quality of life improvements
  • the game is too slow to play, speed all the jobs up, or fade to black, and skip forward in time.
  • All your menus need a re-think. Only the rarest functions should ever take more than two selections to get to.
  • have a fluent speaker check your translations for you.
    • Also change the days of the week indicator to: Mo, Tu, We, Th, Fr, Sa, Su in english.
  • improve your tutorial. I missed half of it. Maybe just bold the important info.
  • put a sparkle on the bag, since people keep missing it.
• Grindyness
  • add a NPC to give out money and magic drops for testing purposes
• Payoff:
  • combat wise... make the enemies more interesting,
    • differentiate the monsters more, give them different behaviours, and abilities, the bat and slime are basically the same.
      • Example: Give the bat some dodge enhancing spell, and the slime thorns (take damage on being hit by physical)

Conclusion: not currently worth playing, not even to help the creator out with testing. Things just take too long. It's got some good design elements, but everything is hampered by poor implementation.

The first version of this game I tested was V0.06 and it was really impossible to play but here in V0.18 there has been a lot of change. The game has been rebalanced and even though at beginning the game is slow, once I have enough lvl I move much faster. I spent all my dropplets in xp up to lvl 30 and then increased the foresight.

In any case, I find it ridiculous to put 1 star for the bug translation when it is indicated that this is in beta or by making false ratings. As the developer says, you only have to read the introduction to know where all the information about the game is. Every woman has a walkthrough and a calendar with where she is at each hour.

So I'm changing my rating to put the maximum because I want to see more and the problems I had pointed out in my previous post have been corrected.

Based on 0.08

So game still has the repitition but after hearing Dev reasoning, I get it. It's for bug testing purposes and since the game is a beta/alpha, it's kinda the point to ensure quality albeit tedious for us, this is soley for the purpose of early access. If that's not for you then find another game. Dev is very upfront with interactions and I am making this review to clarify why things are the way they are though a warning in the OP could serve the same purpose more effectively.

As for the game itself. Story is good, progresssion is muddled but not impossible to understand.

lets be fair: v 0.06
you have to grind far to much. you get 1 to 5 items from monsters, but need like 1000 for potions to progress the game, but those items are also for increasing your chars level because monsters dont give you any exp.

terrible battle-system -> no skills only attack or use heal item

terrible porn -> its just real life porn videos, nothing else (not sure about copyrights) (its better to go to pornvid sites)

terrible details -> for example: you get stuck when hit by a car while being forced to hear a car horn (you have to restart the program), work and homework force you to wait like 35s with space pressed (fast forward), you have to feed 1000 potions 1 by 1 to the woman in the game,

terrible developer -> seems to think that the game is the best, while also saying that he is a beginner, hasnt even played his own game, talks about future features as an answer for critique of lack of fun in the current game, while saying he is beginner as an answer for critique for any gameplay problems, hasnt even played his own game, seems to be more intrested in geting money from his patreon

conclusion: TERRIBLE

so much grinding. It takes more time to move forward in game. I gave 4 hours but all I did was killing monster... If I want to play MMORPG there are better games why spend so much for this game? This doesn't feel like porn game and as long as dev fixes this I don't think I will give another chance.

Just another poorly made cash-grab, with a huge about of grind if you actually survive the first fights, and no indications on where to find or what to do to progress with the girls scattered around the map, found 4 or 5 and not sure I found them all.
No originality, lots of bugs, and a very tiny spine for story. Save your time and just move away from this piece of trash.