RPGM - Completed - Trick or Treat - If you don't XXX_me I'll perform mischief on you [v1.0] [Moonglow]

  1. 3.00 star(s)

    Beggarman

    In short: The game is pretty barebones and what little gameplay is here isn't particularly engaging, but it does help characterize the MC without overstaying its welcome too long. It's competent enough and has enough nice time-saving features to not be considered a cash grab. The art is pretty damn good and the obvious selling point of the game, and the writing/translation is pretty good too. For a short, smutty game, it's pretty solid - just don't go in expecting an epic RPG or anything.

    In long:
    You play as Mary, a fairly young girl who gets accidentally posessed by a demon. To free the demon, you have to either collect enough candy or semen to free it. Did I mention that the girl is painfully naive about sex? Well, now I have.

    The gameplay is pretty simple. You basically run around doing fetch quests (with one "remember these characters names" exception), until you've got enough candy to open up the in-house events. The in-house events are basically a choice between more candy or the H-Scenes. You'll need to get the sweets from a few houses instead of H-Scenes to unlock the latter houses and/or finish the game via sweets, but thankfully the game instantly unlocks scenes in the main menu gallery once they've been seen, so you can just reload a save once unlocking.

    The art is easily the best bit about the game. Mary's pretty cute, and I like her overall design. The scenes aren't particularly dynamic or inventive but they are decently made.

    Not really much to say about the sound - there's the basic sound effects and stock music. I guess it's inoffensive enough that I barely registered any of it while playing.

    Story-wise... Well, again, there's not much to it. The girl reads a book she shouldn't have on Halloween night, and gets "possessed" by a demon (read: Only she can see/hear it but she's basically still in control). It tells her she needs to collect candy or semen to get rid of her. She doesn't quite get what the latter is, but goes along with things. She then goes around town completing tiny quests for candy. They're almost all just basic fetch quests, but the characterization that happens in them is nice. No sex happens here though. That's saved for when she visits houses, where... The demon tricks her into asking people inside to ravish her (It's based off of a similar-sounding word in Japanese, apparently, and doesn't quite work here, but eh). Get over 1000 candy or 100 lewdness (basically semen) and the game is over. The ending is the same for either, except Lewdness opens up a gangbang scene at the end.

    The girl basically goes along with whatever sex is offered or happens (I'm not actually sure why the Rape tag is here) and doesn't seem too put off by it despite her naivete. It also doesn't get too kinky; A couple of people mention liking seeing her cry or in pain but that doesn't happen all that much or even with the right characters, from what I remember. The game does seem to focus on the fact that she's portrayed as young and naive but at the same time, she's not exactly flat-chested, apparently* isn't a virgin, performs a different sex-scene without prompting if she decides to pull a trick instead, and wears a pretty provocative outfit, so... I dunno. The characterization is a little weird and doesn't quite set up the scenes well all the time. It's cute in the times when I don't think too hard about it, I guess.

    I managed to complete the game in about an hour. It has a gallery on the main menu which jumps straight to the start of each scene. Didn't notice any bugs or problems while playing. Solid translation.

    Overall, I quite like it, but this does feel... cheap, but not cash-grab cheap. The lack of bugs, solid art (including level art) and inclusion of features like the gallery shows this wasn't made by a bunch of lazy idiots. But I can't help but feel like the lack of "real" gameplay beyond fetch quests and one memory mini-game, lack of virgin variations, and so many other potential scenes that aren't capitalized on, may just be because the budget wasn't there. If so, I really hope this group carry on making games and are able to put out one with a bit more substance. I'd love to see a similar character doing something a bit more involved.

    *Before anyone says it, I know that IRL "virginity testing" or anything like that is essentially nonsense. Hymens can be broken for tons of non-sex reasons or just not be there. But it's a porn game and they're going for a pretty specific characterisation here, so it feels like a weird omission.
  2. 2.00 star(s)

    Radience

    The art is good and i REALLY like how the mc looks but for a short game everything you do in this game is TONs of fetch quests that has zero significance for the H-scenes they are just means of unlocking houses where all the H-scenes are but thoses scenes are something else unrelated to thoses quests you do around town...

    and the H-scenes this game had were all really uninteresting because the Mc doesn't know what the HECK she's doing so basiclly there's no interesting dialogue in any of the scenes wich is really bad because the normal dialogue in this game is pretty decent/cute...

    Overall i think that for a short hentai game having this many meaningless quests and uninteresting scenes is REALLY bad it is almost as if the mc is muted during every scene in the game.