Unity - Completed - With a Bewitching Girl... [v1.06] [Maron Maron]

i'm biased because I like these sort of life sims alongside someone else.
The main issues of this game build upon each other in a way that may be a dealbreaker for some people. It relies on the typical stat grind that requires specific interactions with your companion. Not only that, they essentially fake you out and make you wait 20 days until you can get to the true game. The game also suffers from performance issues the longer you play for some reason. I found that restarting the game after a 30 minute or longer session will make the game stutter and freezer far less.

The good stuff: Being able to design the clothes your companion wears is a nice change, the voice actress puts her heart into the role, the story is somewhat more believable than usual (maybe not in some areas), and the sex scenarios are pretty fun. I think that they really try to home in on the emotional bond aspect that some of these games lack.

I will say, if you are coming off from their other game with the ninjas, you'll be very disappointed by the contrast in quality. It lacks the polish and options that that game has, which I'm thinking has to do with their release dates and development cycles. This game feels more like a visual novel on the side with some life simulator elements sprinkled in. Maron still has amazing art, but it's done a disservice here because of how bad and tiring the gameplay can be for this genre.

My one weird, random gripe with the game: why do her classmates just not question her pregnancy as much as they should?

Abysmal grindy gameplay (if you can even call it that) with slideshow artwork and decent voice acting once in a while for H content. Not worth your time because you need a guide just to get anywhere before the run ends randomly.

Very good game, very good art, a boon in the utter lack of shortstack games

Story:
It's nothing to really scoff at, it serves its basic narrative, which is surprisingly enough not purely based in porn logic, as marina is a standard sexually traumatized character type that fights by turning herself into a sex object consentually. You spend some portion of the game avoiding sexualizing her so that you can continue the game and get to the actual goal (which is sexualizing her) and the rest is slice of life romance.)

Gameplay:

Cohabitation, if you know, you know. Though there is a unique gameplay mechanic here, clothes design. Many, and I mean many of these games have a complete lack of clothing options, here? It's entirely up to you, make whatever you want (within the samples the games gives you, but still something). It's something that would have great modding potential should anyone want to expand upon it, as clothes are like 60% of the sex appeal.
I dislike the sex touch/feel mechanic that requires you to scroll for other options, my mousewheel is busted so im kinda fucked in that regard, thankfully arrows work too.
Lastly I can make some complaints on the prgoress rate. While you're never really limited by something like 'action' points or money, the time required for some things is a bit of a chore. You already have to spend 18 in game days blueballing yourself, and then some more until she can finally accept sex, and THEN you can't even have proper sex due to inexperience which you need to grind out, most games of the genre would accelerate at this point, I felt this one didnt.

Art/animation:
While the fact is a bit iffy in my opinion (and so are her head to body proprtions) it's still an insanely hot potrayal of short stacks that any straight man would like (yes, any). Japs have the tendency of only giving their women big boobs, so one with hips and ASS is always a plus.


Decent experience for the genre, im a big fan of cohabitation games and this one could get a seal of approval, a few kinks could be ironed out but you take what you can get

4.5/10

With a Bewitching Girl is a romance management game made by Maron Maron with two very different stages. The first part is about how you will treat this distant relative that is forced to live with you. Failing that you get a bad ending, game over, and all your progress goes down the drain. To avoid that, steel your mind to her advances and treat her kindly. Then the true game begins, an endless light management where you develop your relationship with Marina while evolving your clothier ability to make money. The game offers a surprisingly robust mechanic for cloth making, giving you the option to make four types of clothing, each with many variations and dozens of fabric patterns and accessories. On the romantic side, the game also has its own mechanics for multiple interactions and ten gigabytes of content and clothing combinations to dress Mariana. The gallery option on the title menu is also very useful for replayability. It’s a very well done game despite the translation problems. Unfortunately, due to the very grindy aspect, and the prevalent censorship of japanese games, With a Bewitching Girl is not as incredible as it should have been.

one of the best games with a lot of interactions and freedom to do what you want.

Hopefully it inspires more games with similar gameplay style/variety, because this is by far the best work maron maron have made by far.

A very good game.
Maron Maron's art never disappoints. While the affection and lust grinding part is a bit of a pain,
I'm coming from games that require you to farm for hours to increase 1% damage to your belongings, so I didn't find it that burdensome. My only annoyance was navigating in the dark without a guide, not to mention that the MTL would sometimes crash. I still appreciate the game's upgrade; I really enjoyed it, and from what I saw, Maron Maron is working on a new game. Remember to support the creator.

This game is really good and I like it very much, there are many different cg scenes, many endings and a lot for me to exploreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

game is stuck on endless loading
at 1st you loading to the menu
than you loading to the game

i was interested in trying the game
but i just can't get past the loading screen
also game takes like 10 GB after unzip
i do not recommend it

The game has some great artwork, but it falls short in both gameplay and adult content. You won’t see much in the way of sex scenes until around two hours in, and even then, they’re really short. To get anything longer, you’ll have to grind quite a bit. Overall, it’s hard to recommend — whether you’re in it for the gameplay or just looking for some quick adult content. Just another guy saves and enjoy the porn scene

10/10 oppai seductress.
the voice actress knew the assignment.

objectively more of a 4 star due to the UI being clunky and the game feeling kinda sluggish.

story is serviceable for the troupe of living together.
sex scenes are grindy tbh.

worth downloading the shared save if you're in a hurry.

works for both fast or slow burn playthrough

Excellent, all the game, follow intructions for playing better, and to the pregnancy phase, buy the talisman and pray on sathurday, and all the hole story its grate, and the love scnes, uffffff, clearly hot

Why the games with good story have lolis?

Touching Feeling and this game are both that I want to recommend but cant.

Play the buddist route and cry like the crybaby we all are. I normally skip text on heavy vn game but this one respects your time and is actually interesting.

currently at day 300, done everything, idk how i even played through the whole game without using cheat but let's just say it's not fun at all (i thought there would be a nice reward for all the grind but sadly there wasn't). nice art, poor implementation type of game. 3/5. also idk if it's just me but my game crash after every 2 scenes, totally turning me off.

It was awesome, the slow burn really emphasis on how gradually closed that distance, so why it suddenly jump to porn?!
At least let me spoil her more or tell her she still has a chance to make proper connection, ask her if anyone on her school catch her eye or investigate her parent to know the circumstance, Actually gain her trust by listening her worries and keep watch from would be molester,
WHY JUMP TO LOVER?!

On contrary to my rant, her attitude to latch on to any person for showing sign of compassion is a behavior of that who experience sexual abused.
(I might be wrong, since my source come from hospital drama, Dr House)
But to be honest, I don't really know if she's very young or just short, because as much Anime a game could be, kid and cooking doesn't go together.

Due to untranslated UI It's hard to fully comprehends the gameplay. However, there is only one great mechanic among this glorified scene viewers: The ability to make and gave her clothing player designed, everything else is just fluff, her birthday, interest, or dislike doesn't play anything since once you pass the 3 weeks time stamp, she'll become a talking Sexdoll.

Other mechanic found:

• In sex scene, the player able to rotate their option on certain body part using mouse wheel
• There is option to auto generate clothing in creating cloth option.

Nothing memorable.
Apart from the dialogues that made me roll my eyes, consequently pressing skip soon after, I found the game pretty boring for the most part. You have to grind for the relationship, then the money, then the poses, and so on.
The sex scenes are somewhat hot, but the gameplay is undeniably bad. I hate Unity with every fiber of my being, and luckily someone suggested switching the game to Japanese to avoid lag and other issues. Still, the controls during the scenes are a total turn-off.
I'd give it one more star if it were uncensored, but after playing for over 8 hours, I'd just recommend downloading a full save and enjoying the gallery and the sex scenes without all the grind.

the CG, HCG and clothes all good but the main problem is the optimization, i have no problem with the size inflation but The main problem is the BUG especially in the save section which makes me frustrated,
and then the scene every time I switch scenes feels slow and laggy, and the worst is the black screen. and finally the clothing section, when the heroine wears clothes the game feels heavier and the worst is when changing days sometimes causes force close.

Positive:

+ Variety of poses.
+ Animated interactions.
+ Interesting modular clothing system (give any clothes item you did yourself to the girl and she'll wear it).

Neutral:

* We have here some middle schooler which acts and sounds like she is from kindergarten.
* The very concept of loli with big tits is questionable, it works for comedy with a parody intention for sure but here?
* Making money with clothes creation, on one hand it's easy and fast to do but on another it's just a chore.
* Dramatic premise. Some people don't care but I prefer my hentai being alluring, energetic and fun even. Melancholy is on opposite side from all what I like in hentai.
* From naive and innocent girl straight to cynical and pragmatical one just to change back to 'innocent' after good ending. I personally hate drastic changes in personalities of characters due plot or sexual reasons. I hated it in Custom maid and I don't like it too.
* I don't like the girl's face, it worse than developer did for his first game even.

Negative:

- I don't like lolicon in hentai due how undeveloped all these lolis in terms of personality and body. This one looks like a midget with big tits to me.
- Some basic and static hentai scenes which lead to bad ending which locked you out of better hentai scenes, it's ridicolous for a hentai game honestly. Be a monk to get more hentai much later.
- Too long progress, I got to day 55 and bored to death. First you wait stoically for almost 20 days just to get to good ending through attempts of the loli to seduce you. Then for a week you can't fill her orgasm scale over 60% for no reason. Then you slowly "raise her stats" just to see more action and do something outdoors what is not much different from what you do at home. Also some of actions you can do only on weekends so you need to sleep through the whole week and look how each day passes individually.
- Technical issues, for some reason the longer you play the worse it becomes. At some point interactive scenes become too laggy.
- This one lullaby melody which puts you in a sleep or irritates, it plays all the time after getting a good ending, pretty awful combination with a hentai.

The worst part about this game is that the previous game from the same developer was simply better at everything, it had better performance, it had better MC and girl, it had better hentai scenes, it had many-many endings, it allowed you to get straight to action from day one without waiting.

For context, this is my first impressions written quite soon after reaching the sandbox portion of the game. I might come back to edit this later if my opinions change.

This is your typical headpatter, right down to making you stay celibate at the beginning. The gimmicks are the live2d animations and the ability to make clothes for Marina. I'll get back to the former but the latter is quite nice. The dress up is half the fun in these games and this essentially just gives you more options. However, where I'm at in the game there's no way to make clothes that can be worn in sex scenes. The ui implies this will change but I'm not sure either way.

I also ended up liking Marina more than I expected. The story isn't perfect (why does she happily have sex with the player so soon given her issues?) but it isn't bad... if you're good at retranslating MTL's in your head. Being an MTL isn't really the game's fault, but it's one of the membranes between you and enjoying this game. If you can get past it the game's writing is a solid 4/5. Not the cream of the crop but it's effective.

There's another membrane though, and that is the myriad technical issues with the game. The way you interact with everything is through clicking and... clicking feels jank as hell. From the menus, to the vn portions, to the live2d scenes, everything feels less responsive than a meet n fuck game. I don't know why it's like this. The game is made in unity so it's not like the engine came prebaked with visual novel features the way renpy does, but surely there's premade ui and visual novel code they could've bought?? It feels like they coded all these features from scratch and didn't know how to make them feel responsive. Which is a shame because one of the key draws of this game is the live2d sex scenes. They function, but playing them feels like trying to jerk off with nothing but one of those dino head grabber things.

I think if these issues were fixed (which I don't think they will be, ui problems are hard to fix) I could easily give the game as a whole a 4/5, but as it stands I desperately want to engage with the game but feel like I'm wading through mud to do it. It's a 3/5, there's good stuff to see if you can get past the issues but there really are issues.

Another great daily life simulator. This game absorbs the pros of its predescessors, like a "monk period" for players to learn the background of the heroine, patting heads to build relationships (not as compulsory as the "patting head game", but you may notice patting heads are now a compulsory of this genre), a heroine who seems submissive in the beginning due to her background but become very aggressive after you gain her trust, a wide range of clothes. This game go further to add its own strnegth, such as customization of clothes, a long story plot from meeting, falling for each other, proposing and giving birth to their children, a log for every events, fully voiced, and much more. Definitely one of the best.

HawkLee already wrote a great review on the plot so I write more on the system.

Pros:
Good story line of saving a girl from past trauma.
Extremely well drawn CGs, like they are coming from mangas. The one saving the heroine from the hands of bastards really touch me and make me feel really proud for making the right choices to protect her.
Fully voiced, with a wide range of dialogues/CGs for each event. For example, the swimsuit for seaside dating is randomly chosen each time.
Customization of clothes. Sadly these cannot be wore for H events or extracted from save file.
The game generally release content day after day, leading you to grind stats without feeling it. Also the developers know the game is for player to enjoy it, not to limit player actions via money or other stat. A very good control of pace.
Good use of status and achievement system, which can be completed in one run.
Clean, user-friendly interface.

Cons:
The auto translator miss a lot of important point of the logs, leading to missing of clues.
Even with all clues, the criteria for proposing and having children is not very clear. I have to wait for aobut 1 week after I had all the items for proposal.
This game at its core, is grindy. But you won't feel it before day 100. Making clothes, however interesting, will be grindy in the end.
Getting some CGs requires luck.
Completing this game requires over 8 hours. It can be seen as a strength due to its sheer volume of content, but players who would like to have one H scene after another will find this game too slow for them.
More positions, in more places will improve this game.
Daily activities, such as hugging and kissing, do not have new dialogues at high love/sex levels, which makes them not thst suitable to the spicy mood in late game. Similar problem on dating events.
The daily and H clothes cannot be mixed.

really really really good game, this developer has delved into such vastly different game designs and does not miss, this is like a sub cohabiting living together game, but its the slow affection build up and the anticipation that makes the climax so much sweeter, you can play and try doing ero things early but that's just not how this game was meant to play, I'd just say if you've gotten this far into my message just play the game it'll speak for itself