RPGM - The Wish [v0.40] [The Sex Game's Stories]

Awful grind for very little reward. It's ridiculously repetetive and doesn't repsect the players time at all. The worst experience is when you grind for money and buy gifts, then give someone a gift they don't like cause you don't really know anything about the characters and you just lose the money and item. Also the parts where it says you need corruption and you grind it up but it's still not enough and you just end up losing friendship points cause there is no way to know what the limits are.

Avoiding this one from now on. Feel I spent way to much time with it already without fun

The amount of grind is beyond insane.

Insert Vaas Montenegro's quote about insanity.
Grind is what awaits you in this 'game'. Vaas's quote describes exactly what you will be doing here, doing the same things hundreds of times for many hours in the hope of seeing a scene with a character.

Resume:
Too much grind too few contents.

Detail:

I was attracted by the overall idea and the fact that the dev used RPGM that for me (an old pokemon fan) is always funny, also actress used in the preview seemed to be grate, so the potential was big and was there, BUT.
BUT the game as it is now is worthless, the amount of grind is on a ratio of 999999/1 respect on overall content, you need to grind for personal stat, you need to grind for girls stat, you need to grind also just to pass walkthrough steps, also using cheats (beaucose as it is now Patreon it's not an option for me) that are foundamental to skip at least some of the useless grind you could spend hours repeating the same action with a character (thet needs to be done in specific time and day to add useless complexity) and than discover that ther are just 2/3 videos and that's it.
For me to start working this game will need to cut the grind by 90% and have at least twice the content or reorganise the actual content, if for a character you don't have material to put in it just don't put that character and focus on developping the others.

Grind is unbearable, chances are to shill you cheats through the dev's subscribestar. You can expect to see scenes roughly by the heat death of the universe. Realistically I have 5 and a half hours and I'm no where close to seeing a nipple let alone sex. Good news is it's real porn so you can just look the videos up on your favorite site and have a better time. About the characters you're meant to suffer the grind for; nothing. No one has any real dialogue. Occasionally someone will say "Hi" but that's it. Even completing quest steps won't get you anything, you likely won't even be able to tell you did since nothing changes and the quests seem pointless since they are tied to friendship not corruption, corruption being what leads to sex. Honestly just play anything else.

Fortunately I didn't trust the other reviews because I liked what I tested so far in V0.22 but there are some flaws.

=> There is supposedly nothing to see but even before playing, I watched the videos of the videopack and I saw a lot of women pleasuring themselves alone with and without toys. There are also plenty of sex videos but only with 2 women.
=> Skills offer many bonuses. At the beginning of the game when I wanted to go straight into the cave, I got explanations about the tools at the entrance and a message that said to visit the city before going any further, so I visited all the places that looked important. After more than a month in the game (1 or 2 hours in real life), I was still lvl1 but my attack had gone from 35 to +- 100 because I had the strong at the max as well as the intelligence and the mechanics skill. As for the other stats, I don't know but they had also increased and I had bought all the clothes.
=> For the other skills, it's more complicated to level them up because you have to make the potions but since I start on the 11th floor and go to the 17th with the double rewards, I start making more and more potions each time. But there is a problem when I open the chest on the 16th floor and the 17th, the one on the 11th and 12th are already open.
=> To know what to do, just follow the walkthrough and to find out where the women are, you have to look at the agenda. For information, it's a shame to get only 1 for every 50 friendship points. I also have a problem here because I found a soul stone in the cave whose description says that it gives additional information to the walkthrough but I can't see anything.

For the least,
=> Love points cannot go higher than corruption points.
=> Travelling with the car isn't great and if I forget it while moving, I have to look for the place where I left it. And some quests don't work if it's not near me.
=> There are 3 skills to handle spying and lockpicking. 3 for 2 is not right, if at least there was a 3rd action to be done that uses vision and lockpicking at the same time to get 3 for 3.

I hope that all this will be corrected and I want to see the next versions.

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.