Unity - ThornSin [v0.7.1] [Scarlet Paper]

ThornSin [v0.7.1]

Wonderful game, magical music and very nice visual style, there is not much content, but for the first playthrough and familiarization with the game is quite enough

+ Roguelike - Replayability and all that, there are actually enough items at the moment, but they're not very varied, so for now the best strategy is to collect damage + HP, at least that's how it worked for me.

+ Music - Like I said, it's just magical, every track is very relaxing and puts you in a little melancholy mood, except for the bosses music, some fast techno starts playing on them, which personally causes a little dissonance for me, but overall I like it

+ Holiness / Corruption - Two scales, increase during the run from item selection and from some lewd events if we are talking about the corruption scale.

I honestly can't be sure I know how they work because there's no manual in the game other than the control buttons, but holding one of the scales higher than the other determines what type of portal can appear after a boss, the chance of a portal appearing I don't know, and whether increasing the scale affects that I don't know either.

So far that's the only thing the scale does, but I suppose the logical thing to do would be to add items that require a certain number of points of one of the scales, or both at all

0.7.1 version

4.5/5 for me, I want to mention a few aspects of the game

H-content - ThornSin is amazing in this regard. If you liked smooth, flowy and jiggly animations like in another highly rated side-scroller (I'm not mentioning it so this review complies with rules) , you'll love the animations in this one. Big variety of fetishes such as flesh "dimension", mind control, pregnancy and birth, enclosed spaces full of tentacles (imagine mimic chests etc.) . A variety of enemies that have their way with you like werewolves, slugs, goblins, insects, leeches etc. While most "interactions" happen when you are downed in combat, there's also cinematics either after game over, or in certain interactions.

Combat - I'm not a big fan of combat in side-scrollers, but I had no issues with this one. Default keybinds might take a minute or two to get used to, but that's probably the hardest part. 2 weapons as of this version, both have normal attack and special attack, one of special attacks is a block and riposte type attack if that's your playstyle, otherwise there is dodge. Every enemy has unique attacks that don't take to long to get used to. You can also find items and effects that buff you (e.g. enemies that stay close to you for long enough get frozen, dodging leaves behind a thunderbolt etc.)

Progression - This is a roguelike game, which means after dying, you start all over, losing all progress you made. Game is made up of zones, which are made up of rooms. You fight room through room until you find the entrance to the next zone. Every couple of zones the theme of the zone changes (2 zones are the forest, next 3 are ... etc.), with which the enemies also change.
It's important to note you can't leave the room before you kill all the enemies in it, which is an even bigger drawback since there is no gallery as of right now. So if you want to see animations from enemies toward the end, you have some work to do.

Conclusion - even as someone who's not a fan of either side-scrollers and roguelikes, I loved this game simply for its fetish variety and beautiful animations. The biggest drawbacks right now are the lack of gallery which, seeing as the game is still in development, I hope will be added in the future, and censorship which personally didn't bother me, but no censorship is better in any case.

Yeah the art and animation are passable, but for me personally the anatomy is too exagerated

Other than that the gameplay side of it is severly undercooked right now. A lot of neat ideas coming from the roguelike setup, but currently you only have 2 weapons and ZERO permanent upgrades between runs.
And because you there is no way to skip early levels means you have to replay the 1st level OVER and OVER and OVER. Most stupidest design decision ever. And how the hell are non-skippable cutscenes still in there? Did seriously no one scream at the dev yet for this insanity???

The fighting system is also very meh, only one combo chain mashing and a little bit of dodge timing. The enemy design is boring as fuck as every one get's stunlocked by your attacks.

The guy below me saying this is better than nights revenge needs to lay of the bleach drinks for sure. How you ever can compare this to the greateness of NR is beyond me.

My suggestion is to jump in, enjoy the first 2 levels and then wait a while longer till this is actually a game.

best H game i have played so far. awesome tentacle scenes. like the dynamic of holy and evil, but wish there was a waypoint so you can experience the ending scenes without having to restart at level 1

Best side-scroller h-game with great art. I have been following the monthly updates for a year now. IMO better than Night of Revenge and Alien Quest Eve. Looking forward to the full release, the only drawback is I wish updates were more frequent!

unskippable cutscenes repeating wastes your time combat is unintuitive and reminds me of ds2 idk if the skip button is even working or not. can probably keep playing but honestly everthing in the game feels super samey

Pros:
- amazing art with beautiful heroine
- variation of scenes
- extremly hot unforgiving dark fantasy world
- interesting rogue like 2d sidescroller gameplay (normally not into roguelikes or sidescrollers, but this kept me hooked. Very hard on normal for a pleb like me though, but thankfully there are lower difficulties)
- the tidbits about the story and the world seem very promising, if sparse

Cons:
- missing tooltips or explanations for many mechanics
- sex scenes mostly on losing and no gallery
- sparse story moments and background narration
- some interesting mechanics like breastfeeding are currently a bit to conditional to access
- sex scenes exclusively brutal rape or coercion (not a negative for me, but tastes vary)

Most negatives are related to the game being unfinished, so i won't hold them currently against it. The game is too beautiful and unique with outstanding gameplay for a porn game to pass up for these minor points.

The game's animations and art is definitely the selling point, and it's absolutely amazing. As of right now, the combat and story is lackluster, but the game's in beta so it's understandable. The difficulty isn't that high, but it's challenging and pretty fun sometimes.

Played version 0.6.5

Good

1. High quality application startup. Shows animated developer splash, splash for autosaving, animated main menu
2. Animated dialogue portraits
3. The clothing system is multi layered and you have multiple pieces per layer unlocked at the beginning for you to customize your look with
4. The “H Status” menu screen has animated close up pictures of pussy, ass, mouth
5. Shopkeeper will give you money if you go through an animated touching minigame

Issues

1. Janky camera. It tries to frame the scene so your facing direction has the most space to view, but when it needs to change the other way it’s too fast. Jumping lifts the camera up too quickly - it would be better just zoomed out.
2. Releasing a horizontal movement button doesn’t stop character movement immediately, there’s lots of skating
3. Controller is supported, but character movement is only on the D pad
4. Characters is metal armor over their boobs have the armor swaying
5. The movement has horizontal acceleration that takes a second to get up to max speed. The max speed is way too fast for how zoomed in the camera is.
6. The first room in the first dungeon has you progressing to the left. It should progress to the right like every other platformer ever
7. Elements appear on the UI with zero explanation of what they are, can’t mouse over them for a tooltip

[v0.68] I am very glad to say that I saw this game from 0.01 to now. It's shaping up to be a great and amazing h-game a la Night of Revenge, and we can't have enough of that stuff.

I'm not a big sidescroller or metroidvania or roguelike guy, but I did enjoy the gameplay. The h-scenes are great, nice battle cuts and kudos for not restricting it to only lose-to-see kind of scenes.

This really looks good so far.

The art style in this game is absolutely stunning. The way the characters and environments are designed really adds to the immersion. The depiction of nudity is nice, and the clothes ripping off as you fight is a unique and cool feature. I also love the pregnancy system;. Overall, this game has some fantastic attention to detail, and I can't get enough of it!

This is a fun game. I don't think there is another rouge-like, side-scroller such as ThornSin out there, where the porn is integrated so well into the gameplay.

You have pregnancy mechanics, lust resets and everything, with some basic hack and slash abilities which work fine. The movements is also fluid it is not clunky. The enemies, however are a bit of a mixed bag. They are either super stupid and easy to defeat or super annoying and hard. There aren't many in between. But that probably is the harshest complaint I could give. Everything else is good or at least ok. The art, the sound, the story, all consistent and feature rich even as of writing this. (v0.6.8)

If the dev continues this trend, and does the proper polish that is due for the 1.0 release, this would become an easy 5/5.

Cool game, would definitely recommend!

Very sexy game but one problem.

I don't like the save system. It autosaves but will not let you save manuallyy and load the save.

you'll have to grind to get the sex scenes.

There isn't a gallery for us to peruse the animations as we see fit as well, which is a cockblock but I guess the maker wants us to enjoy the grind lol

An instant favorite for anyone who comes across it. IF you're looking at reviews trying to decide if its worth a try; stop now and download it. Every aspect has incredible detail from the gameplay to the art. It offers a wide variety of enemies to beat/mate. Although it suffers a bit of repetitiveness as any roguelike will, it manages to keep things moving constantly and change things up continuously so you don't fall victim to boredom until you've beaten the game many times over. Other reviews will show better detail, I just wanted to show support. 5/5 will follow updates to come.

Great porn, and possibly good gameplay, but the controls are beyond horrible with no way to resolve this issue, so I genuinely cannot tell you if the game is good.

If there was a way to fix the controls then it'd get a 4 or even a 5, but the game's controls simply make it not enjoyable.

Wow. I want to buy this as a full game now.
It has both a fun gameplay and very good art with porn, i didn't even know this was possible.
The gameplay is very fun, with some cool artifacts, it just need to continue creating more since atleast for now, you have the option to play with only two weapons, a heavy sword and a light sword, but you can see that there are a lot of cool artifacts that mostly only procs with fast attacks, while the heavy weapons you only get artifacts that do more damage.
Now the art, damn it's good. I think the best part is that he really doesn't mind doing more creative stuff, it's not just sex and that's it, you can see some really cool animations, like the goblin mount . It's also really cool how some animations with the shopkeeper change with the state of your body.
Also for example i really like the menu that shows your body, since unlike other games it not only has some very good art, but you can actually see changes on her body outside this menu.
I think one of the problems that it has, it's that you can't really reliably choose the type of artifacts that you want, like you can't choose to only get artifacts, like thunder or poison or estrus. It's fine to be random, but when you get too many artifacts and there is a run where you want to specifically get only one of this types, it's kinda of a shame.
Also for now, to reliably see the porn you need to use the cheats, since you simply get punished too much for taking damage, which also means that for now you can't really make a army of babies to fight for you, since you take to much damage.
Again, this game only needs to continue development, since you can see that the author actually has passion for this project, with how creative he is with the various situations that happens with the main character

I like the attempt at creating a NSFW roguelike, as it's definitely something I've always craved, I like the mechanics like the items/powerups, but I just can't vibe with the combat. It just doesn't feel thought out at all and I don't have fun with it. But the game looks like it otherwise had some pretty decent effort put into it, even if I don't like the artstyle and character designs I can admit they are well illustrated. The porn isn't my favorite though, besides those things I just mentioned I also think the style of animation makes the H stuff look meh to me. I'm giving it three stars for effort but I didn't really like it.

Game looks absolutely top tier. Looked like I was playing some triple A game type sh*t on the aesthetics, especially in the title screen and loading screen.

Gameplay is pretty basic tbh, but I couldn't give a rat's ass about the gameplay as I'm just a for fap guy. The sex scenes look pretty damn great especially the more 2d ones with the witch and shopkeeper. The ingame sex scenes erm... pretty okay? There are some morphing going on but as far as my penis thinks, it's pretty cool.

Art is drop dead gorgeous.

Can't wait for more updates to this if there are indeed any. I like potential so I'll give this 5 stars

Great animations and graphics, but that's about it.

The combat feels super floaty, unresponsive, and lacks weight. You constantly feel like you're skating on ice, but you're also far too heavy to chain into aerial combos.

You get punished for trying to enjoy the H, as receiving H-attacks does significant damage, especially when taking into account how few opportunities to heal there are. Some of the items make it kind of possible to view them safely, but they are rare and impossible to anticipate.

There's no real meta-progression, which kills any and all satisfaction from corrupting the protagonist, as losing will reset ALL of it. This irritation is exacerbated by how clunky and long many of the scenes are.

• Seducing the shopkeeper again? Hold J for 30+seconds, and watch a static pair of hands make her boobs jiggle a little bit.
• Get downed by an enemy? You'll need to watch the often long transition animations before you can skip through some of the sex phases.

This falls into the vein of being a "roguelike" rather than a "roguelite." Unfortunate, because that is not to the game's benefit, as everything feels FAR too slow to make starting over and over from scratch appealing.

The itemization is weak, and requires you to try and make the combat work in ways it isn't built to.

All in all, the graphics are great. The animations are great. The combat is very below average. The mechanics are below average. I want to like the game, but it's just far more irritating and slow than it is arousing.

This game is legitimately one of the best games on this platform and definitely within the top ten best in progress games. I look forward to seeing this game when they complete it. I don't think that there are any cons to the game besides the occasional bug but that hardly counts for a unfinished game.