Others - Completed - Xenotake [v1.2c] [Vosmug]

  1. 4.00 star(s)

    Bruel

    Well put together basic game. Didn't encounter any bugs.


    Pros:

    Has story.
    Good background music.
    Great background art.
    Decent scenes.
    Creative art in a japanese game. not that boring repetitive generic anime art they seem to put out every time.

    Cons:

    Terrible wallking animation.
    H scenes are enemy attacks, meaning you lose health during the scene. Plus, if you don't interact with the game during it, most enemies kill you instantly at the end (usually some 2 seconds).
    No scene variation, every enemy has only one. And there are maybe 6 different enemies in the game.
    Scenes are just animation, no dialog, and some have low quality sfx.
    Story is underdeveloped due to game length.

    Overall a short working experience with some decent albeit short story and a decent, though unvaried amount of hentai.
  2. 4.00 star(s)

    HGamingKen

    Xenotake, Vosmug's other game, the one before Ghost Hunter Vena. Seeing the two game side by side can show you how much Vosmug has learned from this game to improve on Vena. Xenotake is certainly a fine and serviceable game, but it is far from amazing.

    += Pros:
    -Art: Vosmug has a very unique and interesting artstyle, most of the game's assets is 3D modelled, the characters like your main girl and the NPCs seems to be animated by a 3D model before they draw individual animation frames on top of it. This art direction is quite uncommon among H-games, and although you can criticize how the 3D environment looks like it's a bad 90s CGI film, I think it makes the aesthetic looks a lot more interesting. The enemy designs are also quite creative, most of them are pretty unique from each other, and it makes each area a lot less boring.

    -Music: this is not the biggest pros, to be honest. The music isn't that good. It is sufficient and helps with the alien spaceship atmosphere, but it's very repetitive and not that interesting to listen to outside of the game.

    -Story: this is one of the few H-game where the story has some actual meat. It is quite fun to observe how everything develops and the ideas presented are pretty nice. Although, it isn't very well executed at times. As a sci-fi plot, the game really doesn't know how to explain some of the fictional scientific stuff, heck, even Vosmug probably doesn't know why spores allow humans to breathe in the spaceship. The story also lacks some explanations about certain missing part of the story. But, those don't drag the story down a lot, but it still makes this game's story a lot less appealing.

    -H-scenes: the scenes are fine. For some alien sex fans out there, this isn't a bad choice. They are well animated and isn't a turn-off for me. You can also enjoy them during gameplay, as there will be plenty on the way to the end of the game.

    -=Cons:
    -Gameplay: overall is not bad, but it's definitely very boring and can be tedious and confusing at times.

    +Movement and map: is just walking with your occasional dash that's tied to a bar... that's it. Moving around in this game feels very lame, without the enemy, I feel like I could sleep 5 minutes into the game. With this, traversing around the area is also pretty boring, and without a map, you may get lost sometimes. Luckily, the map is quite linear and straightforward, so it's not very likely to get lost once you get the hang of it.

    +Combat: it could be intense at first when you are ambushed by enemies for the first few times, but once you get away from them, combat only really involves spamming your Shoot button until everyone in front of your face is reduced to puddle of blood. You also have a close range kick that pushes the enemy away, but to do it, you have to be close to the enemy. It's really boring to fight the enemy, as I feel like my brain turns on auto-pilot when there's an enemy in front of me. There's also a second bullet type which deals more damage, but I couldn't care less to use it due to the next problem-

    +Mechanics and transparency: the game really doesn't tell you about... anything regarding some of the more hidden mechanics. The aforementioned problem, for example, is that your Pulse ammo never runs out, whenever it reaches 0, you automatically gets 12 back. This not only tricks you into thinking there's resource management in this game, but also reduces the threat of running out of bullets as well as almost reducing the use of random Pulse ammo pack lying around the map to none. There's also an armor mechanic, where you can take two hits before you lose your armor and becomes naked, vulnerable to attacks and H-scenes. Figuring out that refill your armor needs a resource is fine, but the game doesn't let you know that you are fully invincible while refilling your armor from your naked state (aka refill both of your armor hit points). One last example I will mention is crouch invincibility. When you're crouching, you're actually invulnerable to certain attacks. This is quite important when you're fighting the first boss and the bodyguards with guns, but the game mentions none of this to you. It'd be fun if these are advanced mechanics that are unnecessary to know, but most of the mechanics they don't teach you are very vital, and in some situation, turns a supposedly easy encounter to that of nightmare.

    +Boss: I have no comments about enemies, as I find them ok as common foes to fight against, what I have a problem with is definitely the boss. There's two bosses, and the first one is actually kinda fine if you knew about crouch invincibility, but the second (and final) boss, is honestly lame as hell. The game splits into two gamemodes where you control the girl in the first half, and the robot, in most of the second half. The final boss honestly would be better if you were to control the main girl and revolves mechanics around that. But nope, it's the robot and it doesn't feel as climatic as I wanted it to be. The boss overall has a lame design to also rub salt to the wound, being very basic in execution.

    ==Conclusion: the game is actually relatively short, but somehow I am kinda glad that it is. The repetitive gameplay and uninteresting walk simulator at times would definitely makes me dislike this game at the 3hr mark. The story and art definitely carries this game, and as much as I dislike the gameplay and mechanics, once you understand it, the cons definitely subsides. It's not a bad game to play, I'd still recommend it, but it's not the best H-game you can pick up right now. 7.75/10.
  3. 4.00 star(s)

    Fidzius

    Is good, but not incredible

    Controlling the bot is fairly boring and having game-over enemy animations is annoying, fairly short game.

    Other than that it's good- there's actual story, enemy variety, map is okay, art is okay, combat is a mess, but it's more of an exploring and just getting not captured type of game.
  4. 2.00 star(s)

    AnubiSs2167

    Pro
    -smooth animations

    Cons
    -terrible repetetive gameplay
    -all females have exactly same face and body, just color swaps
    -alot of pointless running thru labirinth like maps
    -unapealing enemy design
    -boring h scenes
    -vore
  5. 5.00 star(s)

    KofiCatto

    This is a game I played a lot back then, and it is still among the great ones out there

    +
    Fun gameplay
    Solid animations
    Decent combat
    Movement is very good
    Fun to play
    Great graphics and optimization

    -
    Short
    A lot of walking
    Doesn't really have many mechanics

    (y)(y)(y)(y)(y)
    Still one of my favorite H games after a long time
  6. 3.00 star(s)

    TorielBasher

    Gameplay is extremely slow and extremely monotonous. There isn't a map but quite frankly you don't need one considering how linear it actually is. The art, for me, is kind of goofy but I can see why some would like it. Some of the animations are pretty good though. All-in-all, I would skip it.
  7. 3.00 star(s)

    Cofman

    Quite similar to Ghost Hunter Vena, but more boring and frustrating.
    Graphics, sounds and animations are good, controls is a bit bulky, and feeling myself unsatisfied with everything a bit. Just go from point A to point B trying to kill monsters, that can kill you or rape. At least this game has a little bit plot in it, so it's is not super bad.
    Anyway, can't recommend it, there is not much porn and boring gameplay
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    5.00 star(s)

    LewdRelease9

    Pros:
    - High quality animations
    - Sex integrated into combat
    - Moderate game length, but a decent number of animations considering
    - Engaging gameplay (at least for a hentai game anyway)
    - The story is decent enough, although thats not really why we play anyway

    Cons:
    - Finding your way around (there's no map)
    - Some people may find the combat repetative
    - I am a fan of the themes involved, but look at the tags to see if its your thing

    In general, its well polished for a porn game, so actually worth supporting the creator. One of my all time favourites.
  9. 5.00 star(s)

    Icarus Media

    Brilliant 2d Scroller, played a while ago and the story, the range of enemies and the animations are on point!

    Only downside I would say is the slow nature of the walking.

    Basically you are on a ship full of pervy aliens. That's basically the premise. You can be banged by said aliens. You have a rival...you can see her banged by said aliens...you find other girls....that you can see banged by aliens....I trust you are getting the basic gist of the game here?

    So what are you waiting for, download it and have a play! (not like that you dirty little...!)
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    3.00 star(s)

    IAMADegenarateAMA

    If you like side scrolling porn games you'll like this one, if you don't this one most likely won't make you change your mind and you can safely skip this one.
    the character art and animations are nice and there is a story although i didn't pay much attention to it.
  11. 5.00 star(s)

    Sonicfanx1

    Play Time: 2-3 Hours on Normal

    Good game, though the frame drop was immense, it was playable. I don't have any right to complain though because, well, we are pirating the game. Good looking sprites and an interesting enough story. The game wasn't too difficult and in the end, I had an enjoyable time. Though I was slightly disappointed at the lack of a straight "vanilla" sex scene, it was fine the way it ended. Though the lack of variety and how often the game reused its enemies are points against it.

    Pros:

    Nice looking sprites
    No bugs (That I'm aware of)
    Nice scenes
    Everyone gets it
    Fair checkpoints

    Cons:
    Small cast of enemies (6-7), often reused.
    Stale level backdrops
    Nearly no replay value

    Cons (Personal Taste):

    No straight "vanilla" sex
    Experienced frame lag (an OS problem - Win10)
    Mind numbingly easy once you understand the game (10 minutes tops)
    No secrets

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    I will say however, if there is a sequel, I'll be eager to play it. Insta-buy if there's straight sex in the happy/true ending. And there is sequel bait, though the game has been out for about 3 years now so the chances of there being a sequel is pretty random at this point.