RPGM - Completed - Town of Passion [v1.1] [Siren's Domain]

I played this game twice, nice graphics, nice games. I love it that you cannot die, and can just try it again, and again.

Actually I love almost you whole series (except for Zombie's Life). And that they connect a little bit with each other.

Did I enjoy this game YES! Then why im giving it 3 stars? My playtime so far is over 10 hours I unlocked most scenes with most characters, and there is more to be seen. This game has so much going for it; we got a nice story hot characters, and a WAST world, I do like slow burner games and would absolutely love this game but there are barely any sex scenes. You sleep with a character once and that's it, one character one scene that's it. There is Mary and Jane that have more, but even with that - let's have a threesome and you get one boobjob twice (two encounters) even with them only one anal scene in the whole game ONE!!! It's a game if I don't like it I won't select it just put it in as one frame picture. Every character gives you a blowjob or titjob but only one in the whole game anal - what a waste of time.

it lacks of scene varieties with specific characters.. there are some arts which feels inelaborate.. rest of the game is cool.. stories development, characters relations and advance of the protagonist are well balanced, in game economy and char demands are reasonable..worth your time..

Let me start off my saying that overall I enjoyed the game. The 2D art was generally nice, although it was a little jarring that certain scenes or characters were drawn in a style that was inconsistent with others. The CG of Nyx at the very end, for instance, struck me as very out of place among the much more detailed and good-looking CGs in the final part of the game.

And really, Nyx's CG feeling as though less effort was put into it makes sense given that she only shows up at the very end, and somehow it is symptomatic to me of the state of the ending overall. Now, the story and characters of the game were passable by adult game standards most of the way, with some characters and story-lines being better than others, but the ending felt very rushed. It felt like they were trying to do an ending along the same vein as Monster Girl Quest - a VN I actually enjoyed, including the overtly cheesy ending (and which I only just now realized has a sequel that I'll have to take a look at) - but without going all-in on it and just sort of get it done and over with. The ending was very disappointing compared to the rest of the game, but "luckily" the consequence of it being so rushed also means that it's over quickly.

I was surprised that nearly everything in the game was accomplished through different varieties of puzzles rather than battles, as is the general trend with RPGMaker games, but it was a nice surprise. The puzzles were generally easy enough that I didn't get stuck on them for more than a minute or so (aside from a boulder-pushing puzzle near the start of the game, which took me a while to figure out simply because I insisted on starting with the wrong move), yet interesting and challenging enough that it gave that little bit of a "heh, I'm so smart"-feeling to solve. Once again it was only at the end, during the final quest, that I started getting genuinely annoyed with the "enemies chasing you"-puzzles, purely because it started throwing way too many fast-moving enemies into the areas. Combine that with the fact that enemies can spot and start to pursue the PC through obstacles, that one of the final areas involved repeatedly traversing portals and that there is no delay between going through portals and enemies spotting and attacking you, and it can get frustrating very quickly.

The adult scenes were pretty good overall, mostly vanilla which suits me just fine, with at least one scene per NPC involving vaginal penetration. The game featured a variety of angles, positions and character dispositions, the animations and sounds ranged from passable to good... yeah, not much to say regarding that.

That being said, there are a few things that annoyed me about Town of Passion:

Adult content-wise, I find it both strange (and very disappointing due to my own preferences) that despite the game taking place in (an area? A world? In hindsight I'm not entirely sure how widespread it's supposed to be) a place where the PC is literally the only male, not a single female NPC gives any indication of being a virgin aside from appearing inexperienced, neither verbally or visually. In fact, even Haru, the youngest and supposedly most inexperienced and innocent character seems sexually proficient. Similarly, even though almost every character has at least the option of receiving a vaginal creampie, there is not a single mention of the mere possibility of pregnancy by any character throughout the entire game.

The game could also do a better job at communicating useful information to the player. A good example of this is that when I started the game I quickly determined that there were certain characters I was more interested in pursuing than others, either for sexual preference (Haru and Aunt Rose, for instance) or for story purposes (Haru and Akane, for instance). I only checked the "relationships" menu after a few in-game days, only to feel my heart sink at the realization that characters were divided into categories of "Passion" and "Lust", and that completing character arcs increased the related stat in the PC. I immediately assumed that these stats were used to determine the ending of the game, and that one was probably "better" than the other, which led to me pointedly ignoring all the characters in the "Lust"-category. Only much later, after finishing all the "Passion"-characters, did I realize that both categories were beneficial and that the stats and endings were not mutually exclusive. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that was the case, but it could have been communicated better to the player.

Which brings me to my last, and possibly greatest, annoyance: the NPC named by the player, default name: Mary. At first I thought it was an odd, but potentially neat idea to have a girl that you could decide the relation to the PC yourself to suit your tastes. I thought "Maid" and "Client" was an extremely strange default relationship, and - to suit my tastes - set their relationship to "Sister" and "Brother".
Only much later (since this relationship is set at the very start of the game) did I realize why Mary was like that; to get around Patreon's rules, because from everything else in the game (most blatantly by the fact that Aunt Rose repeatedly refers to Mary as "Sis") it is fairly obvious that Mary is supposed to be the PC's mother. I was incredibly frustrated for a while at this, and only somewhat alleviated that frustration when I googled my way to finding the Cheat Stone to allow me to change the relationship with Mary to what it was supposed to be. And lo and behold! The second the relationship was "Mother" and "Son", dialogues actually changed to reflect that in ways beyond just inserting the word, like Mary starting to refer to herself as "Mommy" and such.
I can see why they had to do that to get around Patreon's bullshit policies, but I really wish they had given at least a hint to the player at the time of setting the relationship with Mary that there was a "correct" answer, and what that answer was supposed to be.

STORY
This fantasy story focuses on a guy in an extremely enviable situation. He's the new eligible bachelor in a town full of hot women. To top it off even the goddesses themselves are rooting for him to get with the ladies. While I do like the central location and good samaritanism you get into over the course of play, I never like it when an adult story features gods and demons pushing the horny protagonist along his destined journey.
The stories of the women in the game vary in quality, and some feel more complete than others. Akane's are the most central to the goings on of the plot, while Haru feels a bit tacked onto her plot, and Raylene really doesn't have much going on besides her relationship to the main character.
My biggest gripe is that while there is very much is a climax to the story, it's more of a roman candle than a fireworks show. The game's conclusion is a bit lacking, and only one of the main character's relationships in the game has a truly satisfying conclusion.
Normally I'm not a big fan of fantasy in adult entertainment. I don't think pointy ears are a turn on, the characters and worlds are far removed from our usual experiences, and things like lore dumps or combat tend to get away from the main point of the experience. Town of Passion avoids most of these problems by rooting the world in more familiar domestic experiences rather than those of knights and wizards, and there's not a huge focus on combat or violence.
The story is pretty corny, but it serves its purpose. My biggest disappointment is how shallow most non-story interactions with the characters are. Though we see the characters move around town as the day progresses, their inner lives are a bit more simplistic. Once you've progressed through a characters stories they're pretty much stuck going through the motions with nothing new to do, until you get costumes involved anyhow.

GAMEPLAY
Many of the common adult RPG Maker foibles are avoided in Town of Passion. First off the core RPG Maker combat system is nowhere to be seen, thank goodness. The game doesn't feel like a visual novel that was forced into RPG Maker. The maps in the game are some of the better ones I've seen in RPG Maker games. There's a reasonable amount of interaction per tile in the game. Dungeons which you're only expected to traverse once might be a bit more bland and simple, but locations you see regularly aren't overly large, and over the course of the game you'll be doing something worthwhile nearly everywhere.
No game is perfect though, and Town of Passion is no exception. There's a stat system in play here that has more in common with dating sims than it does RPGs. Combined with the day/night cycle in play it's abundantly clear the game was inspired by the genre, directly or not, but the implementation here is half baked to say the least. In a good dating sim you're making decisions about what you want to work on based on the various characters and stories going on, and you have to weigh your options carefully. While there's some optimization to be done in ToP in order to see as much as possible as soon as possible, the stakes at play are incredibly low. For those wanting to just see dirty pictures and read the story that's not a problem, but for those who want an interesting game the stat system just feels like a tedious grind. Thankfully your stats max out far before the end of the game and they stop mattering entirely, but that just goes to highly how pointless and shallow the system is. They serve as more of a key to the game's progress rather than a central component of gameplay, and most of the time any particular step unlocks a single "door" of progress. There's a whole menu to show you your stats, and for most of the game you won't need to check it because you know they're maxed out. If this entire system had been excesized and you had to spend that time finding or earning the money for items instead there would be no difference.
Exploration and puzzle solving fare a bit better. None of it will blow your mind or anything, but ToP does a good job of not harping on any one particular kind of challenge for too long, at least without introducing some new gimmick to keep it fresh. You can really see the limits of RPG Maker in the more action oriented challenges unfortunately, but luckily none of them are frustrating at least.

PRESENTATION
The map tiles and character sprites all do their job. There's not an overaching vision to the style at play, but it doesn't feel like a horrible mishmash of assets at least.
The character designs are nice and cartoony. There's obvious anime influence at work here, but the characters don't look like someone just badly imitating a particular well known art style. If there's any problem with designs it's that some characters look like they were designed by someone else, or after the developer's style had changed during the course of production. The main women all seem to belong to the same world, but some of the lesser NPCs in town don't quite fit with them.
While each character does get a set of portraits that change based on their current costume, most of the drawings are saved for, what else, the sex scenes. These are rendered decently, but the animation is rather remedial. I would have honestly preferred several unique drawings per scene rather than the one pose with basic animation, but oh well.
The style of the characters is fine, as is the way the sex scenes are presented, but I just don't think they're very sexy unfortnately. This is a pretty big flaw for an adult game. None of its horrible or offputting, but most of the time the game doesn't quite reach the finish line visually. I have to give the game its dues, at least it doesn't make use of stock models from Poser of Daz, or worse, art assets ripped from another game.
The music is mostly fine, but the track that plays in most (all?) sex scenes is a bit odd. There's a menacing tone to it that doesn't quite match the events that go along with them.

OVERALL
Town of Passion does a lot of things right, but it also does quite a few core things wrong. There's a decent dirty fantasy story in here with a good setting, well designed maps, and cute art. The pointless and bare bones dating sim inspired mechanics are a waste of time though, and the presentation never quite makes the jump from appealing to sexy. The individual story progressions are fine, but a few characters seem like they were left out cold when it comes to receiving attention from the writer. A stronger conclusion for the main story as well as the main relationships could have helped a lot, as could giving the characters a bit more to do around town to make things feel lively instead of stuck in a rut by the end of the game.

Phenomenal game! Did not disappoint and has earned this team a new fan. I'm recommending this to all of my applicable friends. Will have to add this to my signature.

Story was good, characters were well placed, art was great, animation was smooth, puzzles were fun. Great job devteam!

My only critique is the static faces through the h-scenes. but that's hardly a criticism

Another superb H-game with light puzzles and interactable. Fun and likable characters with colorful design environments and characters. Slightly challenging for anyone new, but does have a good learning curve to help you with the main gameplay, the puzzles. Very much recommend this game

As far as I can say. The art is a bit dated. But its charming and I'm willing to give it a pass as its just nitpicking. Because having played this game for free i would say its worth paying 5 bucks for and am going to pledge to siren for the great expirience heres hoping your other projects do well and heres hoping we get a ToP2. (at the quality of house chores I would gladly pledge a great sum for that lmao.)

Good art and an entertaining story that at least tries to explain away the 'magic dick syndrome' that so many h-games rely on. The puzzles were intriguing and the characters were all different in personality. A few downsides though. For starters, I had a few crashes which is annoying in a game that only autosaves once per day. For another, even though the women are all different personalities, most of them look pretty identical. 90% of the town could very well be the same woman wearing different outfits and wigs. Lastly, I am not a fan of twitch-based minigames, especially in an engine as clunky as RPGMaker. But still, I enjoyed it overall. Only stopped playing because the crashes were getting annoying.

Good story and decent Art, had good charachter development and a good fairy tail feel. I prefer the hand drawn style over CG and the drawings were perfect examples, animations left a little to be desired and especially the "black out' during the peak moment.
All in all a very good game.

A light-hearted RPGM set in a small town populated with a bunch of ladies who could use help from you - a small boy just turned man.

Gameplay wise, besides chatting everyone up, you'll be solving puzzles. Puzzles in the form of interacting with boulders and switches to create passages. They're generally easy and breezy (though a specific cave one made me feel like I had -1000 IQ since it took ages).

Grind wise it's okay. There's a few stats to level up but that happens quickly. I suppose thematically it represents you growing from a boy into a man, though it happens too quick for that symbolism to land... anyway it's a cutesy puzzler, not Shakespeare ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.


I'd recommend this if you're into puzzles! (Is it me does puzzles sound disgusting? It's the new moist.)

Story: 6
Gameplay: 8
Graphics: 7
Grind: 4 (10= the most annoying grind)
Scenes: 8
Fetishes: 3 (almost only vanilla scens)
Relationships/Characters development: 3 ( too fast, hard to "fall in love", except for 1 or 2 girls)

with that said for me the game was kinda of a deception, i was expecting something like lust epidemic, but that was not it, the incest seducion or corruption is really bad, the mother(mary) despite beeing the main woman don't have enough scenes, she is conflicted about kissing you and then 5 scenes later she has sex with you

Town of Passion is a 2D adventure game with a heavy focus on relationship building, character leveling, exploration and puzzles.

STORY+++
This game has kind of a weird story. Let's just say you are a man in a world full of women and you alone have the power to defend the town of Valencia from an evil goddess by having sex. Not going into any spoilers, but the game does have some plot twists near the end.

GAMEPLAY++++
The game has some RPG mechanics like character leveling, which is required to progress through the game. There is also a heavy focus on exploration and puzzles. In short, you build relationships with the women, you increase your skills and explore the map. The game doesn't focus on action, so don't expect any combat system. Instead of fighting enemies, you avoid them (maybe stun them with your slingshot).

GRAPHICS+++
For a game made in RPG Maker, the game has average graphics. The environments and character sprites are all kind of generic. I do like the character designs though. They have a cartoony theme, which i like.

SOUNDTRACK+++
The game has a generic soundtrack you can find in most other games made in RPG Maker. Not really bad music, just not good either. Kind of average.

EXTRA
The game does get kind of repetitive with the relationship building, since all the girls have a similar progression with the MC. Character leveling also felt unbalanced, since you could easily max out your skills in the early game. Because of this, most of the skill potions you found while progressing through the game became useless. I also think some of the side characters were rushed, with not much content to unlock.

REVIEW
Town of Passion is a good game with a heavy focus on relationship building, character leveling, exploration and puzzles. If you like games with a'lot of content, then you will enjoy playing this game. It took me 10+ hours to complete the game and unlock most of the events and outfits.

It's been a while since I played this game. But now I have decided to rate the best games I have played.
And this is definitely one of the best RPG Maker games out there.
Unlike Japanese RPGs, the game is based on puzzles. So there is no grind in this game. Only puzzle, a lot of story and great animations.

It's up there with all the other great RPGM games on here, which is few and far between.

It excels in other areas compared to Zombie Retreat, another Siren's Domain game. This has less constant action. You barely are attacking enemies by comparison. It's more puzzles and character focused which is enjoyable. The character art isn't always consistent, especially in animated sex scenes, but there is so much of it and clearly much effort was put into it. If you like the samples in screenshots of the game, you'll enjoy this.

The unlockables after the base game are way more time consuming to get, so much that I just looked for a save about halfway instead, but the necessary character and story gameplay is enough that you don't need those bonus rewards. Without that content it's a complete game. I don't want to write up an unnecessary long review. Huge props to this team, it is this developer's best game.

Siren's Domain always gets my hopes up and then drops me back down to Earth. Without a parachute.

Story 2/10

The story's drip fed and then given at the very end with a bunch of hoopla. You're the only male in a very small town of all females. You bang everyone around you at the bequest of a goddess who's being chased by another goddess who's actually a goddess that's pretending to be that goddess and is also serving another goddess who's trying to free a goddess. I think I got that about right.

At the very end, you're a prince sort of, then you stop being a prince, but you have an actual reason for being attracted to your mother. You save the town of 9 people. Hooray.

Siren's Domain's story is always all over the place.

Gameplay 5/10

Each map is very short. Every puzzle is contained within a screen or two. Siren's Domain switches it up with boss fights and the traverse-the-map mini game. For the uniqueness and effort put in, I can give that a 5.

You also have stats that you can grind and raise, but I just grinded those stats for to max in 10 minutes and then it was no longer an element of the game.

Art 3/10

Such a pity. Such. A. Pity. Siren's Domain's other game, Zombie's Retreat had stellar art. Town of Passion has... something. To be fair, it's not my style. I don't like it. I don't like that Picasso abstract art style that the females are inspired from.

And it looks like 10 different artists worked on this game. The art style changes drastically from scene to scene and it just doesn't look right.

The scenes are short and sweet but there's low variation CGI, minimal animation, and extremely limited voice acting. I always say that voice acting is a plus, but honestly? I think this game would have benefitted from not having the small little mishmashed winamp files included.

Wincest 3/10

The depraved stuff you're all here for. Yes, you bang your mom. Yes, you bang your aunt. Yes you have a threesome with both of them.

But the step-by-step corruption to banging your mom just kinda isn't there. She's pretty open to it. So is your aunt.

And the threesome is just a double boobjob.

Overall 3/10

I just didn't enjoy the game. The art was inconsistent and not that good, the story was all over the place, and the gameplay mechanics were simple.

Siren's Domain's best trait is that they finish their games. They deliver. But I'm kind of understanding why some games are stuck in dev hell for years on end.

The amount of content in Town of Passion was about 10 hours. And you can tell from my rating how I thought about the content delivery system.

Definitely one of my favorite games its very well rounded. The CGs are really good and there are a lot of girls in this. The puzzles are actually fun to do and I didn't feel like anything was to difficult to get past. There is a lot of content in this game with different areas to explore and gain access too.

My only problem with the game that I did not deduct a star for is that some character CGs are really lacking variety. Some character you get through all there CGs and you feel like there was stuff you didn't see. I don't think this was something that was forgotten but more so just how it was intended. I also don't think it was that big of a deal when you consider how much content there is.

Either way definitely something you should play and will enjoy!

It's a really solid game with all aspects done nicely. Objectively, at the very least, you won't be dissapointed, trying this game. Loved the relationship and stats system (maybe I can compare it with the smt/persona game series in this ascpect), puzzles were not so dumb and tiring. Really liked outfit changes and unique scenes. Overall, it's a good example of what all rpgm games should be

The game is very good.

PROS
+ Animated Scenes
+ The art is fantastic
+ Good story
+ Good puzzles

CONS
- Don't expect a combat game.
- Some quest are 1/2hard to solve, nothing that a walkthrough won't solve.
- There're no guide for special content...you need to solve it by yourself. If there isn't a walkthough, i even wouldn't know that those content exist.

I tried completed all game, but there're too much content. After finishing the game, i tried to unlock all the special scenes, but i found it very difficult to unlock some of them and gave up. The story and art was also good. I didn't lose interest from beginning to end of the game.

Good game with a good story, although its art is not as good as renpy, this game has a lot of content. The porn is a good but do expect some repetitive "scene" but with different character, well i guess the author don't want to really make more of the same sex position but some of them is still pretty good.