Unholy Maiden(UM) is a good example of not being consumed by the crowd, and making your own research by seeing what the dev says you can do in the game. If you have the chance, play any free demo to really see what the game has to offer.
UM is perfect for casual and somewhat for hardcore RPG(non-hentai) fans of gameplay. But lacks the freedom for players who want to be immersed by choosing what sex actions they want and when(without being limited by the lewd stat)
UM is basically your typical "hentai" RPG Maker with some extra additions to make it "unique". You can spec your Ether to various stats like STR, INT,AG,Speech and Beauty. Your magic powers are either prayer or actual magic which are powered by your Order meter(basically karma) and your lewd level(either chaste or lewd). Prayer is more powerful if you stay pure and be orderly.
In dialogue you either have negotiation(speech stat), sell special flowers limited flowers which can also act like courting(Beauty stat) or force(AG+STR stat). You can achieve results with either of these when you want something done from another character.
The sandbox element lets you take peaceful quests or go to the dungeon and explore.
You can buy the special flowers but there will be times you can only buy 1 per day minimum, thus limiting your ability to use the Beauty stat. Maybe you can go that day to a dungeon but it feels like you can't overspec a stat that early. You're going to need to spec your combat stats first.
Combat is disappointing to say the least, even if you have a companion.
Even if you're a peaceful build character, you will need to spec to your combat builds no matter what and any paid mercs you hire, will leave your party after a set of amount time elapsed. This "promotes" not going too deep into the dungeon and overstaying to "simulate" the immersion of a dungeon raider. The enemy vision is also really specific to the point it isn't clear and it seems they have large vision radius. It is very confusing to say the least, a big turn off.
All in all, the above sound good in theory but this game is an overhyped mess if you're looking for a more deep immersive simulation of a female character in a lewd world. Even more so if you're here, like me, going for anal only, virgin high order priestess.
This game reminds me of a certain legendary good game from 2000 where you start in New York where the pacifist(virginity aspect) playstyle is half baked and only gets mentioned in the early half of the game.
However unlike THAT game, your level of freedom(both in combat and sex) is vastly limited in a 2D (Wolf)RPG where the fundamental design of the game is purely about fighting in a dungeon with multiple floors. Any sex related action is locked behind arbitrary lewd stats with whatever the developer aimed to show. For example, you don't start the game lewd regardless of what profession you have picked, possibly for story reasons later on in which i have no interest in continuing. So you go around grinding small "lewd" events to grind your Lewd meter in hopes of getting access to sex. Only for you to encounter that these events are fixed; meaning if that event is only aimed for vaginal sex at the third stage of that sex event, you will never know it is too late. For casual hentai players, this isn't a problem but for specific players who want freedom or immersion, this breaks everything.
This problem also occurs on battle "sex" where enemies will try to grab you if erected but looks like they will never succeed unless you're not virgin. I tried with imp and goblins and even that Roper tentacle enemies, and no sex happened while i was virgin. It always failed regardless if you were fully horny or close to.
This clearly shows the game is your typical "hentai" RPG Maker game where you go through linear story sections and also sex sections. Some people won't be interested in all sex sections and instead miss a majority of them just because their immersion was broken. Even if it does have multiple endings, i don't believe it warrants any extreme applause.
This type of gameplay would 100% be revolutionary back then, years ago. But now, this is what we get? Yes, it is a valid effort, i see it. But to me, it looks mediocre, like the developer could go above and beyond but hesitated. Maybe it is a prototype, who knows.
All i know is, it is my fault i let myself get overhyped by seeing other's comments, thinking this game might be better than GTA 6 itself.
I should have known, from the demo and the dev blog, that this game won't be extensive or immersive as i thought. it literally shows in the first 5 mins of the game and i didn't listen to my intuition. First 30 mins of the game, it truly shows its playing cards and i kept lying to myself that this game would turn better later on. But it will never be, because it is predictable just like the previous. So many red flags for me but i kept going until a certain point that i knew how it will go.
I am amazed how the lastest 2 games of a certain company of hentai games, actually have full anal control and the battlefuck there actually respects your character choices. So if you're a virgin, but anally experienced, monsters will only go for your anus.
Irony at its finest in these years.
Now, the game is perfectly able to be enjoyed. But for specific audience, this game is mediocre at best and tedious at worst, especially the second floor of the dungeon. Where you have to flip 4 switches in a very confusing map layout before 2 days pass or they reset. You can use Ed to flip the switches for you by paying gold but he can only do 1 per day, so you're left with 2 switches. Good luck trying to flip those switches where most of the enemies have poisonous or bleed effects. Good thing i used mtool for infinite health.
Let this be a lesson to everyone not to get overhyped for anything and instead do their own research, even if it is GTA 6.