Throbbyさんのレビュー一覧

Unfortunately, I don't have much good to say about this title. The mind-control scenes are not bad, honestly, but they lack variety and flavor. Part of the problem is that the writer didn't give himself enough room to ramp up the corruption; the other killer is that the story almost seems like you can influence events by your actions, but ultimately, you're just stuck on rails, with no way to avoid the H-scenes and brainwashing, or achieve a good end.

The gameplay is essentially nonexistant. There is literally no good reason to have any fights in the game; there's no experience, no equipment, no levelling up, and no defeat scenes. The only function wandering around and fighting has is to pad out the time it takes you to finish the game; if you really feel compelled to try this title, just run from everything. It's less annoying, that way.

The art isn't bad, but it's definitely not good enough to elevate this to worthwhile. The translation is passable--and there's only one use of "meat stick," thank the gods!--but there's just not enough story or development to be interesting. There are glimmers of good writing, and the maker sets up some good scenes, but this feels like a quick hack-job done so he can get paid. I spent 605 yen on it, and I think I slightly overpaid.

Gameplay is pretty simple. There is a room filled with sex machines, and Hitomi is there to test them! You take the role of the Experiment Director, and choose which device Hitomi is going to try out. She climbs aboard, and a yellow bar fills over time. When it's full, you earn a number of coins, which varies by machine. You can increase or decrease the speed, or hit the "finish" button, which plays a little climax animation.
At first, most of the machines are unavailable; you purchase them with the coins, eventually opening up ten devices to play with. It's all pixel art, but the animations are pretty good, and there's some nice variety. It's not a long experience, and there's basically zero game-play, but it does the job.
Also, there is a button which takes you to the "Overgrown Laboratory," which has a signpost stuck in the ground saying "Coming Soon!" I would love to have another lab to play with--and that would likely raise my rating to four stars--but at this point, I doubt the author is gonna release the expansion.

The title says it all. There are some pretty good ideas in this title, but the execution falls a little short.

The story is a pretty standard one--bad guy invades the world, and you gotta stop him--inverted so that you're the prince of a demon kingdom, invaded by humans. The Boss Baddie has 15 lieutenants, who are magical girls brought over to help him conquer Monsterworld, and the game follows our hero, Prince Evil, around as he defeats these witches, rapes them, and then mind-controls them with his semen.

The good stuff: The makers use a lot of different music, so things don't get repetitive. The witches actually have a nice variety of abilities, although there is some duplication, since it's pretty damn hard to give 15 people totally independent CRPG skill-sets. Some of the special talents are pretty cool; one girl actually has a chance to learn skills when enemies use them. It's got good pacing, in terms of making you ramp up in power. And... uhhh... Well, the translation is pretty serviceable, despite some instances where equipment is terribly named (e.g. "Miss Lil Bow" instead of "Mithril Bow") or places where it's just laughable ("You will have to accept my big penis for compensation! With your vagina!").

The bad stuff: One game-breaking problem where a missing picture crashes the game during a boss fight. Not enough chances to use the girls; you'll probably wind up using the same team for most of the game, and there are too few places where specific characters play a special role. Drops the ball partway through, where dialogue no longer updates to reflect world changes. Too much equipment to buy; the equipment system is good, but 16 characters is a lot of gear to manage! And it's not clear whether you're mind-controlling them, or freeing them from MC, or a little of both. The story is thin, and the ending is mediocre.

The H-Stuff: Art is good, scenes are short, and every one is, "Oh noooooo! I'm cummmming!" Nothing special here.

Final word: Everything about this game smacks of it being an overambitious project that was ultimately a little too much for the makers to tackle. While there are some really sound ideas in there, in the end, it was just too big of an undertaking. If they'd had there be six witches, or eight, it might have been do-able, but fifteen boss fights leaves precious little room for developing the story or using each character to her full potential.

No, I'm serious. This game, somehow, is WORSE than a simple machine translation. "Even if the vagina is rubbed with varnish, it is intense enough to remember the eyelids." Or this one: "Woman clings chain lifting herself, try ingintoly trying to escape from penis." Or the time I found an item in a chest called "free form bag." I eventually figured out that it was talking about a weapon called "free broom."

I don't honestly know if I'll even finish this game. I've played games where the Japanese is so far beyond me that I just skip the dialogue... but that doesn't work for RPGs. Machine-translated games are usually at least PASSABLE, but this one is literally so bad that it's almost incomprehensible. Nothing more to say than that.

Art is okay, fights are super-boring (almost an hour into the game, the only monster I've fought are "oaks"), healing magic is utterly useless trash. I paid five bucks for this, and wish I hadn't.

This title is a mixed bag. On the one hand, the animations and art are very nice, and there is a good variety of enemies. Mobs can attack two or three at a time, depending on type, so there's no shortage of scenes to choose from.

Character models are excellent; the animation is fluid and expressive. In particular, I appreciate that the heroine has large-but-not-stupid-huge breasts, and supporting characters have a nice range of physical assets. Voice-acting is solid, the gallery works well, and the game looks like the makers put some real effort into the way it looks and sounds.

Wish that they had done the same with how it plays. :/

You get a whole slew of special moves to equip and choose from. The level design is effectively linear, but serves well enough. The baddies each have unique attack patterns and abilities. So far, so good.

Unfortunately, the backgrounds are uninspired and sometimes confusing (seriously, I occasionally couldn't tell what was floor and what was wall!), and the gameplay itself is uninspiring. You'll find yourself using one particular special throughout most of the game, switching to another toward the end, and both of them kill most enemies in a single hit. Regular attacks let you chain together a string of hits, potentially juggling every enemy in an area at once, and bad guys are stunned--but hittable--after you finish a combo. The end result is that with the exception of the bosses, combat is basically risk-free and uninteresting. And once I figured out the move every boss is susceptible to, those battles became unchallenging exercises in performing the same attack over and over again.

Worse, the game includes a couple of platforming elements, and they suck. You run into invisible barriers mid-air, it's hard to tell where you'll land... Not great. Especially since missing a jump means an annoying fall to an earlier level, and it's time-consuming and annoying to backtrack every time you fail.

All told, it's a decent title for the price. Like I said, it's pretty, but not spectacular enough to earn a permanent installation on the ol' hard drive. At half-price, I feel this is a decent deal.

There's really not much to say about this. It's a short animation of a cosplay girl getting plowed in front of a bunch of adoring fans. You can turn the fans on or off, remove her top or skirt, and toggle bukkake glazing on or off. She has three expressions to choose from, and you watch the animation loop until you're done with it, one way or another. It's not bad, and it has fairly attractive art, but I don't think it's going to stay on the hard drive.

It's not bad at all. It's pretty short, taking maybe an hour or two to complete, and it's very simple. Basically, you walk around a first-person dungeon, bonking things with your staff, and using potions to heal yourself and zappy magic to eliminate particularly pesky baddies. As lewd things happen to you, your character gets weaker and weaker, and the last stage of the game is actually a little touch-and-go.

The English translation is very good, and the voice acting (which is only in Japanese) is decent. There are only five or six kinds of enemies, and defeat just earns you a game-over screen and a jump back to your last auto-save; the only H-scenes are scripted events that happen at specific places.

There are four scenes total, and all of them are pretty goofy; all of 'em fall into the "heroine enjoys some non-consensual sex" category. The graphics are alright, although her boobs are pretty ginormous, with commensurately large nipples, and the scene writing isn't too bad.

All told, if any of that seems even slightly interesting, you could do worse than picking this game up--especially if you find it on sale.

This isn't a timeless classic, with a compelling story and crazy-good gameplay. It's a twenty-minute top-down adventure game, where you control a sheep lady as she goes around stabbing things with a pointy stick in search of a flower, a cluster of crystals, and a fairy.

Jellybeans heal you, blue vines drop your lustometer, and everything that moves wants to bonk you or have sex with you. Pretty straightforward, right?

You beat each of the three stages, and you unlock a little mini gallery. One of the very few complaints I have is that when you watch the game-over scenes, the game treats it like an actual game over, and you have to re-load the gallery from the main menu when you wanna see a different scene. Minor quibble.

Honestly, for the price, there's no reason not to get it, just to try it out.

I'm not somebody who shies away from hard games; usually, when they've got selectable difficulty, I choose to start on the hardest mode I can.

This game is ridiculously difficult. Not because you've gotta be good at it, or because it has fiendish puzzles, though. Simply because it's a run-and-jump/run-and-hide kind of game with absolutely no room for error. The action animations are slow, the protagonist has low stamina, and if you don't do everything just right within a vanishingly small window of time, you lose. It wouldn't be so bad if it was like, "Lose, lose, lose, AHA! That's what I need to do! Win!" Rather, it's "Lose, but I see what to do! Lose, lose, lose, lose, lose, lose again, and then finally get the timing right and win."

And even when you get the timing right, sometimes the game lies. It tells you helpful hints like, "Hey, throw rocks and it will distract enemies!" Nope, not when you really want it to. I tried several times to use the rocks to distract some level-two slugs, and finally just ran through the area, and got killed by the next monster, a mummy with a lightbulb for a head. Fortunately, when I continued, all the mega-slugs chasing me were gone, leaving me with lightbulb man.

I really want to like this game more than I do. The animations are fair-to-good, the enemies are creatively designed, and the ambient sounds are appropriately creepy. Ultimately, though, it's a hollow experience. Too much atmosphere, not enough substance, and the challenge of the game--do the thing just so, in a hurry, with very little room for error--is not my cup o' tea.

I was all set to absolutely love this one. It's a pretty straightforward visual novel, with a couple of branching choices close to the finale that can lead you to three different endings, and it takes its time building up to the action. That's actually nice; the slow start lets you really get a feel for the characters and their personalities, and the stellar voice-acting really sells it. As another reviewer mentioned, the difference between Rinne's internal monologue and her halting stutter when speaking with others is particularly well done. On top of that, the translation is really nice, with no machine-translated slop to wade through.

So far, so good. The first battle between the magical girls is nicely paced, the action is good, and the way it shakes out is plausible. With the good girl defeated, it's time for the humiliation and plundering.

And oh, my, but that first scene is good. Really, really good. The dialogue and interactions are fantastic, the assault is cruel (but not savage; this game rarely enters even ryona territory), and the aftermath is nice.

I'm all set for this to be a winner.

Then, the second battle. Still paced well, written well, the action is good... and the defeat scene is pretty okay. Not as good as the first, but still pretty terrible (for the heroine!) and it's kept my interest.

After that, though... Meh. While the writing and acting are still good, the third battle is where you start getting into the "Oh, this rape feels so GOOD!" thing, which I personally hate. Granted, there are some mind-control elements and tentacle-slime aphrodisiacs that help explain the orgasms, but it's not perfect. Worse, all of the final few scenes have some element of, "Aaaah! I feel like I'm pooping everywhere" which is hugely unappealing to me. While there is no actual scat (thank the gods!), the constant talking about it is a big turn-off. And there's no good end. This is not a huge deal-breaker, but it would have been nice if they'd played around a little more with the glimmers of humanity that Rinne displays early on.

All told, this one isn't bad, but it's not quite my cup of tea. I don't think it's worth full price, but if you enjoy people talking about feeling like they have to shit themselves while they get off on being raped, you'll love this one.