HTML - Unholy Arts [v0.4.6] [Deep Interactivity]

  1. 3.00 star(s)

    ara1111

    God bless. What a mess.
    Game is just full of questionable design choices.

    Lets look at progression, fucked on every single level:
    You can pick if you are good or bad at stats 3 times each on chargen. But it doesn't list 90% of what any given stat does. Ie it doesn't tell you damn near every sex act scales with agility. Like nearly all of them. Pure agility or partially, nearly nothing doesn't involve it.

    You can grind agility if you fucked that up (or do what I did and not bother because the sex is also fundamentally flawed anyways), but you gain pathetic stat growth per day and grinding stats means you aren't interacting with the girls; the thing you played this to do. You CAN do both at once. After day like 20. At which point the game is full of other issues anyways. And studying with a girl adds no unique interactions or anything; they just also gain exp, which means you fuck yourself over doing so.

    And you will want these high stats. What for? You don't know yet. You see, the game is very linear. On X day you will get an event with Y girl. You may be able to make this event less shitty if a girl is submissive enough to you, you have a high enough x stat or xyz stats, but you won't know what stats you need for X day until X day comes. So either suck it up or replay half the game to try and reach enough to see that result. How much is enough? Game doesn't say.
    A lot of these events make no real sense even if you have good enough stats. Why is athletic girl 1 (not a bitch) 'settling' on training with me when athetic girl 2 (a bitch) won't do so? Saying they're the only fit girls around? I have higher stats than both of them physically.

    Even if you do reload the game to do a dozen days to get x stat higher, make y girl like you more or just to try out the dozen functionally identical options presented to find the one that actually differs in an encounter, enjoy how fucking slow the game is, for no apparent reason.
    Click thing
    ...
    ...
    ...
    Hey it happened! Like 2-3 seconds per action. Doesn't sound like much, but it adds up.

    And even if you are only wanting to redo a single event to see all the options, unless that's at the start of the day, you will have to redo more. Because you can only save at the start of every day. You can't press back arrow to go to last option either. Why? Far as I can tell, because fuck you, that's why.

    At one point 2 girls have a fight, you can help if one likes you enough. That's the only check. Your other stats? If the OTHER girl likes you? Irrelevant. Fuck you. If girl 1 wins, girl 2 becomes 'more open to talking with others'. But she'll amost always lose. Time to savescum for this bonus you likely won't know exists.

    At another point, you are offered 3 spells; hypnotism, binding, some other one. What do they do? What do they scale with? Do they act differently in convo, in sex, in sex fights? Name aside, you get no fucking info until you pick them. And that's just 'you can use it in battle' or the like, not what it does; need to go find someone to talk to, fight, etc, to see if what they do is worth a damn. Enjoying replaying that day 3+ times over. And hope you made a backup here for when it introduces sex fights, so you can reload, mash through all the days to the sex fight day, THEN see what it does in a sex fight. I don't care enough to do this. Fuck off. Just tell me what the fucking thing does when I'm given the choice, goddamn.

    And speaking of speaking, good luck with that. Girls have a near permanent -20 'mood' debuff. All of them. All the time. You have to click them to check, wait a few seconds, be told 'lol fuck off', wait a few seconds, then you can try on another girl. Fuun. And if you DO talk to them, what you can do per turn is random. Say you are trying a dom-sub relationship with grass girl domming you. You want to ask her for headpats and the like. FUCK YOU. Enjoy nothing but 'call her a whore' and 'rub her ass' options 20 times in a row.
    Now say you are doing this to make fit girl like you for that guaranteed static encounter later on. Enjoy reloading until you can talk to her, then again when it makes you only able to call her fat. Fuuun.

    It gets worse once you unlock the combat. Hoo boy the combat. Its so bad. You just spam freeze or whatever until they get to 0/5 control, mount, zap tits, fuck until you win. Except when they escape instantly for no reason. Which they do. Reload.
    You can team up with people to make it easier, but so can the AI. And the AI does this. A lot. Get ready to be 3 v 1'd when 2 girls who hate fit bitch 2 but explictly love you inexplicably help her rape you into submission every time you try to do literally anything at all. Want to train? RAPE TRAIN. Want to read? 5 v 1 rape train! Its fucking absurd. Any fight where you outnumber the enemy is just absolutely trivial so you end up just hiring and raping everyone yourself just so you can do anything at all ever.

    On top of all this, sex itself is just a series of 'you sucked her dick' messages identical for everyone; one size fits all sex, ala liliths throne and similar games. So its not that tittilating. Its similar to jacking it to a calculator. And when you DO have sex, you go the girls room to do it. So you have to click to exit her room, then go up, then go up, Then you can click to any of the rooms relevant to training stats. 2-3 seconds per input.

    Like holy fuck why does it take so many clicks, so many rng checks, so much bullshit, to do anything?

    Why is so little explained? Why do I need to replay like 5 days just to see what 'shackle bitch' does in an actual fight? Why is the map so bad? Why are 90% of the stats and character relationships useless, despite being 100% of the fucking game, only being checked with any meaningful level of interaction during entirely static, pre-determined scenes, which barely use any of them even when they should?

    As a last note, if you are hear for the futa; you can all be futa or all not be. There's no option for only futa protag unless you pay for a cheat version that apparently has that. If you want to pay for a slightly less bad version of a game stitched together entirely from flaws.
  2. 5.00 star(s)

    qwazpoi

    Good game with a lot of potential. Each update has shown some decent progress. The battle system and character interaction system seems to have enough bones for some interesting possibilities in future updates.
    Likes: gsyem
  3. 5.00 star(s)

    Bored247

    Probably the most interesting web game so far. that can go many ways
    A hidden gem more should play

    The focus on NPC's that have different goals and objectives simulating something akin to an A.I that has goals contrary to planner means a game that can vary quite alot based on your actions

    Battles in my opinion can be a bit long and could benefit from some art and icon navigation but the content and design of this game is second to none and is fresh air in this engine
  4. 3.00 star(s)

    teddidiah

    It's strongly alright. It has good writing for once, but as per usual for games of this genre it gameifies both raunchy sexual scenes and more mundane ones into "thrust into pussy" or "compliment looks," that sort of thing, to have values go up. Start-of-day events actually have proper stuff and are usually engaging enough, while the whole premise itself is sound. With development this could be quite the gem. It's still relatively early on, however, and quite the grind.
  5. 5.00 star(s)

    senketsu4444

    It takes a while to understand what stats really do, what effect the socialization and sex has on the characters, and how the systems work. It's also difficult to get into the stats and how exactly you should build your character. With all that said, I love this game. The systems are clearly thought out and the writing/characters are excellent.

    I'd probably give some examples of simple ways to play at the start, you can spend a lot of time socialising and getting into the game but then when the challenge system is introduced you find out you built your character in a way that you don't like. I'd also unlock saving a bit more, the autosave wasn't enabled for me and it is really frustrating when you forget to save but then see a choice where you want to understand the different outcomes better. There's an argument to be made that it's anti-save scumming but I'm not going to play through this game twice just to see exactly what happens if I reject Nash that one time.

    Overall, really looking forward to seeing more from this game!
  6. 4.00 star(s)

    Feetguy224

    Gameplay at the moment can be a little confusing in terms of what stats do, and what the parameters do during conversations between characters. However the characters all have unique characteristics and engaging dialogue. So far even in the version I'm reviewing (0.2) you are given quite a bit of agency in how your PC is viewed. Either seen as a Dominant and constantly challenging others to make them serve you, or as a Sub and letting others dictate what you do, and how you're treated. Overall I really enjoy it so far and will keep it a 4/5 until more game play is added.