RPGM - Completed - Vicious Circle [Final] [MironY]

Despite the huge game design mistakes (for example, the sex scenes here cause hysterical laughter and non-stop yawning), I was ready to play this game. But at the fifth hour of the game, some trigger did not work and all the content in the game stopped working, except for the lessons and the canteen. There was over an hour of play before the next save, which is too much for this game.

Review of: Final version

• Very poor English
• Game crashed in the first 15 minutes

I couldn't understand half of the dialogue and the porn scene on MC's computer made the game crash.
Did not see any reason to keep playing knowing that I wouldn't understand what was being said.

The game has a few obvious issues that you need to be okay with to enjoy it, one being the poor translation.

Assuming you're okay with that though, the game progresses at a good pace and includes a lot of enjoyable scenes, but at the end of the first week, assuming you are on the submissive route, you are suddenly forced into cuckolding content, with no means of objecting or otherwise cancelling the route. I know some people love that content, but it sadly killed the experience for me.

It's not enough to praise him for being the best.

The story, lines, and directing were all perfect.

I don't know where I can find this big game again.

Thank you for all the efforts of the producer.

I was only interested in the femdom route which means that i haven't invested much time in the other route since they're both very similar in a way. The game can get quite grindy especially if you want to replay the game to discover the other route only to realize that the scenes are kinda similar and are only different from a POV way. The game is quite diverse with the scenes if you don't like vanilla femdom scenes and i was honestly surprised by the scene's level of depravity the further you advance into the game. As i mentioned before, my only problem with the game is the grinding part but all-in-all, i loved the story and how the game provides you the option to explore different endings. P.S. Save a lot since some of the scenes can bug you out.

this games is good once you get past the first week, and if you can get past that the characters are need more polishing , if you love femdom then this one for you, but if you love maledom you will find much better games

I played the final version now and I must say that it is truely a femdom game highlight.
I totally liked the femdom kinks, especially all the toilet stuff and endings. (But I avoided the gay-content and the dom-content completly)
Furthermore, I really appreciate the slow start of the relationships and their slow escalation as well as their extreme endings. That the realtionships start quite normal, is something i sadly rarely see. Somehow similar, I liked the normal world setting. (Sci-Fi and Fantasy would be a turn-off for me.)

If I can complain about something, than there are the unskippable video-sequences. (RPGmaker Games are already a pain in the ass, if you have to redo all the game for the new content.)

Of course, I'm very hyped about the new femdom game announcement.
I hope, there will also be some kind of forced femdom path, where the MC ended up against his will in slavery, tricked and played by some mean bitch.
That way, if the MC is asked again in the end: "How did you end up here?", he doesn't have to answer "I was just a bit stupid to agree to all that".

play the game both path and although i prefer a less extreme femdom (or no maledom at all), enjoy the game as it is, nice characters and all, find some bugs that got in the way but cheat the save so that could be less grinding. Fun game.

One of the best femdom games I have played.. keep up the good work. Will be waiting eagerly for your games with same genre.
All characters are great
My fav being the cuckold route which was quite short but was still good enough.

EDIT FINAL THOUGHTS: The renders are very very nice. It's just getting to the scenes is so frustrating and so difficult, it completely ruins the experience. I'm giving an extra star because renders are good, but the gameplay is catastrophically horrible and ruins the experience. you'll get so frustrated by the time you do actually get to a scene that you won't be in an erotic mood anymore, you'll just be pissed off from the frustrating time of trying to find the objectives.

EDIT: You have to go to the damn classes. MAKE SURE YOU ALWAYS GO TO THE DAMN CLASSES.

EDIT: I tried the game again, but I CANNOT get the first date with Alex to start. I bought the suit for $50.00 .. I have $62.00 left over. It's Tuesday. I went in and out of the restaurant by the nightclub over & over and again between 18:59-19:04 but the first date just won't trigger or show up anywhere. I even tried going to her house and it doesn't show up.

I tried... I REALLY TRIED. I even tried to write a walkthrough: https://f95zone.to/threads/vicious-circle-v0-3-public-mirony.54754/post-5265384 I documented my experience as you can see.

This is an example of an RPGMaker game gone horribly wrong. It represents all the negative aspects of RPGMaker. Have I played a good RPGMaker game? YES, absolutely. There are RPGM games that are designed properly, but this is NOT one of them. The game is EXTREMELY complicated and it's too difficult to know where you're supposed to go or what you're supposed to do next, even with the quest journal in the game.

PROS
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-ALEX. She looks amazing. She is one of my favorite characters from DAZ Studio.
-It has all the fetishes I like, but I wasn't able to SEE ANY OF THEM. Grrrr.. SEE CONS...

CONS
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- After about 2 hours of playing, I was not able to see any actual porn content. This is a huge problem. Mind you, I was documenting my experience with the game, so let's say I played for 1 hour 30 minutes to be fair. Still, the game is way too complicated.
- The English could be better, but it's forgivable. I really tried giving the game a fair shot. *sigh*
- The biggest problem is GETTING TO the actual content, it's damn near impossible.
- You have to eat and drink water in the game, but I can't figure out how to do it. I keep having to wait until my character starves & gets dehydrated. Then it sends me to the hospital, so annoying.

BUGS: The game has a catastrophic bug where if you hold down the movement key down as you leave and enter a new area, it has a chance to break the automated sequences of NPC. For example, when you come out of the sports complex on Monday, if you're holding down the arrow key, it has a chance to cancel the student from telling you to visit the Curator. So your character just stands there frozen.

I wish I could've seen some porn in this porn game, but there was none to be found. Listen, THERE IS porn in it, I looked at the renders in the game folder, but actually finding it in the game takes WAY too long. You have to go through so many negative RPGMaker crap, aimlessly wandering around, not knowing what to do next, constantly having to alt tab to search the game thread on f95, what a nightmare.

I think you're supposed to go to various classes. I was able to find one, but that's it.

This has been one of the worst RPGmaker experiences I've ever encountered.

One of my favorite games of all time was made using RPGM, so I'm not biased against RPGM, it just needs to be done properly.

I'm so pissed cuz I really liked the Alex character. I really wanted to see scenes with her. THIS SUCKS.

First of , this game should not use RPGM engine ...
it's not made for that type of gameplay or story , it's made for exploration game with combat , collecting stuff , travel , explore ...
but here you just want to tell a interactive story , so why not use renpy
with renpy you can save when you want , rollback dialogue and choices and customize far more thing than with RPGM

one thing pretty bothering is you use rpgm assets to make character faces for the text box , and those face don't look like their corresponding character at all , why not put picture of the 3d model instead ?
just find the files with all the face , open it in photoshop and add face pics of the real 3D model on top of each corresponding face

the translation is passable at best , and some bits are just not translated at all
I've seen worst that that , far worst , but it's still breaking the immersion for me

and seriously , a game over right at the beginning just because I was late to something because I was exploring all around ??
being sanctioned for exploring all option in a rpgm game , never seen something like that ..

3D model are ... meh , not good not bad , when the entire scene is 3D rendered it's good but when there is only character with the rpgm map behind , it's all blurry , really bad quality

too much stuff killing the mood for me in this game , sorry but not worth the try for now , and it's too bad because the story and fetish looked great ..

I like the pictures and the characters.

I think the fetish stimulation through the lines and circumstances is great.

Especially, I think the quality of the feᅟmdom path is the best game I have ever seen.

And finally, I want to tell you that the random counter, the kidnapping scene, and the situation that followed, was the best.

Ok tbh I really like this game and normally I dont like RPGS. I only played it without gay content and I can say that it is really faszinating and has a lot of content. It does have a story and in my opinion the perfect amount of reading and playing.
What I dont like are bugs. Sometimes the text is still in the enabled gay mode what makes it funny to read and every second time you watch porn the game freezes and you need to restart it. This can also happen when you enter a animated scene. Normally this isnt a big deal to restart it but at the moment you dont have automatic saving. In my case I lost 3 complete days because I didnt save it what was really anoying.
But I think this game has some potential and with some work it can get a really good.

Review: (Version 0.2.1)

PROS:
+ two main routes (femdom and maledom, you gain submissiveness and dominance points based on your decisions)
+ good hint (quest) system
+ unique models
+ good renders, animations are not too special but I won't complain
+ gay content and hard fetishes are avoidable, there are content and locked path warnings
+ much improvement every update (bug fixes etc.)
+ working hunger and time system (already got better over time, can still be improved though)
+ many possibilities in general, some hidden action
+ dynamic character and relationship development (I also really like the psychological aspect in this game)
+ map is not too big, you know where to go

CONS:
- bad grammar and spelling in the English version (I'm not mad though, I know it's not the devs native language)
- sometimes you have to wait for a long time for the events to happen, it can be a bit grindy (in your room you can wait for 30 minutes by watching TV and on the benches up to 15 minutes, so I happened to wait there several times in order to progress)

CONCLUSION:
I only played the sub route and I absolutely loved it. It's one of my favorite femdom games, I love the college setup and the dynamic relationships with the characters.
I can recommend this game to any femdom lovers. It's not a flawless experience and the English might be a bit annoying but aside that it's definitely worth playing. I give 5/5 because every time I play this game it gives me somehow an awesome experience, the only thing I dislike is that every update I have to restart the game cause my old saves are gone. Thank you for this game, I wish you all the best!

This is a pretty good game with potential! I like that it clearly has two very distinct paths, dom and sub. I did try them both and even tried the gay content but the best thing about this all is that you can avoid the gay content, and male dom content, and the male sub content. So you can basically play your desired playstyle and have some fun. I tried everything and had a good time! My only ding is for how the time works, especially the first quest where you "unpack" -- I know the quest log says you shouldn't do that first, but I just think there should have been no penalty that early in the game.

Great game, great premise LOTS of potential

A 3D art, submissive rout all the way! (you can be a dom)
best thing that looks like a femdom focused game, for that is nice
you can skip gay content
this game only needs to work on grammar, I am not a english native speek however even so I could see the really poor grammar

seems like this could be a visual novel or something like that, making it in a RPGMAKER made it longer than necessary

I like it it's not complicated (as of now) very simple and steady storyline with a lot of side story (I hope tol see a lot more of side quests in future versions)
Animations are a bit "cartonbox-ish" but its still an early version, most of the games don't even have any animations to support them.
The only problem lies in the captions during H scenes, they are a little short and not descriptive but the author is currently studying english in order to make the game translation better.
Waiting for more

Game is just very, VERY annoying to play. It has internal clock system and every event you have to do has some timing restrictions, you either have to wait or go across the map to your sofa to wait. For example, on the first day you can't choose to unpack your stuff first, because game progresses two hours and you don't have time for other timed events, resulting in kicking you out of the university and game over. How the hell was I even supposed to know that? You also have to aimlessly explore the map at multiple times of day to find events. I just gave up before any real scenes came in.

I like the concept but not the execution. Poor grammar was probably the biggest turn off for me, but even beyond that the game still needs a lot of work. Also why do these review massages have to be so long.

This game could be way more fun if not the meaningless wandring in the map to get 1 render every now and then and the forced game overs for stupid reasons like showing up late to this or that , if you must do grind so bad make it less boring like a simple minigame or something, i wont talk about bugs or crash cause that could be fixed easy in the future however it is not late to change the game mechanics since it still early in development , the game have nice renders and the general story is okey yet the game play is so bad it almost impossible to enjoy it.