Knowing some Chinese myself, I entered the game expecting a good time, since there's not much "Wuxia" porn games out there and I find it quite innovative. But after my first hour of gameplay, I'm just left baffled how did they messed it up so badly.
The story goes, it's the world of ancient China but instead of warlords, it's martial arts monks trying to get ahold of some powerful sword carved out of a stone that fell from the sky so they can rule over the continent,
but that doesn't matter since it doesn't get brought up again.
Instead, you're some pervy apprentice who studies under some martial arts clan alongside a girl on a mountain, and constantly get harassed by some thug who roams around the plains. Basically think of one of those Isekai fantasy light novel, but instead of magic, it's all martial arts and swordplay.
The regular gameplay and fight screen are what you seen on the preview, poorly pixelated characters walking and fighting each other.
At first I don't mind all that much, since I have played a fair share of RPG Maker games like
Princess of Decay and
Black Soul with simplistic overworld sprites makes up with their strength elsewhere, but this game
doesn't because its only strength was its art.
You can just mash through the fight even though they built a system around it with skills, grid, yet no stats or equipments for it. Is it even a RPG that way?
The characters barely emote despite there being bust sprites whenever they talk, they don't bring up much of their character nor is there much funny or interesting banter. It gets boring really quickly even when you get what they're talking about because it's about as interesting as some guy pretending he knows Chinese literature, because that's what this game's dialogue basically is. It's really visually unimpressive despite already building up for it.
There's barely any instructions on what you're supposed to do or supposed to go, the actual story doesn't have any development over the course of the game, and neither does the characters. Do you think it's because of bad translation? No, I played the game
in Chinese, and it's about the same.
The game tells me to find [person A] then [person B], yet it doesn't bother to tell me where they're located, which fucking direction I should take, or even give me a goddamn map. The store page proudly advertise the game's storyline and world exploration as its selling point, despite the game being very linear and there being less exploration, more so "the developer expect you to walk your character into the event area they planned" since there's not even an interaction button, making it somehow
more of a walk sim than fucking RPG Maker games.
Like, how the fuck is that possible?????
The sound design is awful, I can take games with no voice actors or even no sound whatsoever, but I cannot take games that reuse stock sounds over and over.
The in-game music is like a 10 seconds MIDI loop with some unfitting instruments over them, such as steel drum being paired with flute and wooden bell, like
surely that won't get
annoying at all. While the longer background songs sound as if they came out of
WarioWare games with their weird rhythm and goofy sound effects. Like, am I supposed to be horny over what's basically some microgame boss theme?
Only the first sex scene between the protag and main girl is animated, and even then it looks rough; her ass keep shaking for no reason on my end, and the way that they move is a bit... weird in a way I can't describe, it's a bit puppet-like. They either realized that halfway making the first scene that they're not all that good at animating even with Live2D, so they gave up on that and made all the other scenes static.
I mean, there's plenty of games with static sex scenes that look good, it's not much of a problem. But the thing is, they have the balls to put an gif of said animated scene on the Steam page as if the whole game is animated in a bit of false advertisement.
The static scenes aren't even that good, they look pretty good and sexy on surface, but the dialogue just goes on and on as if the developer thought they're gonna be the next Confucius or some shit that makes it lose substance, nor does the motion blur in the image gives you much impression that there's movement. There's total of 12 scenes, all with a great artstyle, yet they're somehow all lackluster like this. It's just, disappointing, man.
At times, there's even unnecessary addition to the scenes. Like how there's suddenly a rimjob at the end of the boobjob prostitution sequence, and
the game specifically tells you and visually shows you how the girl has shitstain on her tongue.
Do I
really need to know that in a scene I didn't even ask for?
I would not recommend this game whether you can read English or Chinese, because it's awful in both ways that should be avoided.