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This is a perfectly adequate little RPG-Maker game. There's nothing terribly *wrong* with it, and there are even a few things which are nicely implemented. But there's nothing about this game that especially stands out; in terms of difficulty, art, and game mechanics, this is pretty much equivalent to a million other similar titles. Which isn't to say there isn't anything to love about it--just that if this isn't one of the first hentai RPGs you've played, it probably won't be all that memorable for you.

So, to the details. You play, alternatingly, two main characters, a pair of romantically involved adventurers. The first is the creatively named "Boyfriend," who is one of the best fighters in their guild; the second is Ryumi, a competent magician. The two decide to quit their adventuring life and move to Ryumi's hometown, a quiet village in the mountains, and eventually get married. Of course, nothing goes as planned, and Boyfriend soon finds himself imprisoned deep in a cave. While he fights his way upward, Ryumi tries to delve down to where he's being held. You switch characters every time you sleep, and they need to eat and drink to stay in fighting form. It's a nice touch that the two actually play very differently, both in terms of their abilities and how the game is structured.

Unfortunately, the two quickly get hugely overpowered, mainly because one enemy drops a healing potion 100% of the time. Halfway through the game, I was literally drinking a potion every time I got hit, just because I had so many of 'em. It's really not a difficult game to beat.

Which is too bad, because the story isn't all that compelling, and the art--while competent--isn't amazing. It's short, easy, and doesn't have much to offer in terms of replayability. But like I said, it's not awful, and you could well like it, especially if you haven't already played through a dozen similar titles. Ultimately, there are a lot of good ideas here, but none of them are fully realized.

It's not... entirely terrible, but there *are* quite a few game-breaking problems. In the first half-hour or so of play, I was trapped off-screen by a cut-scene camera pan, grappled by enemies I couldn't avoid and then stuck behind a rape animation that wouldn't go away (in the same place, actually), and had to copy text and take it to Google to figure out what the actual keys that did anything were. Software is occasionally glitchy, and I'm no stranger to the vagaries of translated games. But when the tutorial doesn't actually teach you what all the commands are, and then the game *begins* with an unwinnable battle against an invincible boss who has a powerful, almost-unavoidable attack that reaches across the screen, it's a bad sign. "Let's run away!" says your AI companion. "I would fucking love to, but there's nowhere to escape to!" I replied.

And then the invincible baddie killed me. At which point I dropped out of the sky onto the ground of the REAL level, because apparently, death is the only escape from this turd. Weird transitions like this abound, and there are scads of places where you ask if anyone even playtested it. Level two is AWFUL for game-breaking or incredibly annoying stuff; this is the place where that camera-panning issue arose, and it's just before ANOTHER match-up with Mr. Invincible. I think I'm supposed to try and run past him, but I don't know if I want to try a third time.

I'm giving it two stars, because there's some potential for not-suckery here, but it's utterly murdered by poor implementation. While inexpensive, the cost of admission to this game is still too high. I really should have read ALL the reviews before I bought it. :/

This little game was a lot of fun to play. You take on the role of Krone, an assassin-for-hire who decides, on a whim, to help a little girl get her revenge on the bandits who killed her family. It's pretty standard RPG Maker material--top-down map, run around, fight stuff, open chests, save the day--except for one key difference: run-'n'-stab assassinations. You play a silent killer, after all, so there's a cool mechanic where you can come up and backstab guards. You get half the experience you would in a fight, and don't have a chance to pick up recovery items, but it's a guaranteed victory, with no chance of losing health. Sneaking around, then dashing in to kill the bandits when there was an opening... that was good fun!

Other good things: Translation is good, combat feels pretty balanced (it's just hard enough that you'll need to watch your MP, but you shouldn't ever run out of potions), and the art is very nice. The story is short, but serves well enough, and it has a pretty decent ending. You get good rewards for exploring, but the chests appear to have a random element to most of them, so you might wind up getting a bunch of basic knives and never getting a really good weapon. Not to worry, though; the game is very beatable no matter how you play it through.

The not-so-great things: It's a bit laughable how in-combat lewd attacks work, honestly. There you are, knife in hand, slashing away at a bandit... and then suddenly you're tied up and naked while he prepares to plunder you. You struggle free while he's still playing with his zipper, and you're just-as-suddenly all geared-up again, ready to rumble. It's a bit goofy. Other than that, though, I've got only one other complaint: It's just too damn short! I played through the whole game in about 35 minutes, and while I enjoyed myself immensely, I was actually really disappointed at the end 'cause there wasn't more game to play. It's probably slightly overpriced for what you get, but it *does* have excellent production values and solid gameplay.

All in all, I'd say it's worth buying, especially if you've got enough points to pick it up for free, or it's on discount. For me, a four-star rating is a pretty dang good game; this one really deserves that score, but I have to drop it to three, because of how dang short it is.

A very short game, Jessica tells the story of a one-night stand between a pervy office worker and his co-worker, the eponymous Jessica--who also happens to be the boss' wife. Our not-quite-invisible-enough protagonist (more on this later) foolishly leaves a picture of a tied-up woman on his screen at work, and when Jessica sees it, she decides she's just gotta try and get in dude's pants.

So, what's good about this game? Sadly, not much. The music is alright, but the graphics are a little crude--and I don't mean "charmingly amateurish," I mean, "What the fuck is going on with her face?!" Also, the amazingly nightmarish way the main character is partially drawn is... disturbing. He is (sort of) see-through, and... I don't know. Any scene where he is using his tongue is some sort of dental horrorshow; you can see his jawbone, and his entire upper row of teeth, but it looks like his tongue is some sort of tentacle appendage that grows where his bottom lip should be. I honestly cannot fully describe how unsexy and hideous it is.

You navigate the game by selecting options from a sidebar, but they are poorly defined, and you open up or lose access to various options in a very unintuitive way. Worse, the game itself runs on a sort of timer, where you have a limited time to click on the girl, or your next choice. Sometimes filling up the yellow bar (which appears only when you can interact with the scene) takes you to one of the choices in the sidebar, and other times you blow your load and have to take the lady home. While there are apparently a fair variety of scenes, they're too short, and you have to do a lot of slogging to figure out what all the possibilities are. In the end, I just can't recommend this title at all.

Actually, I wish I could go back in time and punch myself in the junk, disabling Past-Me long enough to knock the keyboard away from him before he bought this train-wreck. I've played some pretty bad games--and to be fair, this isn't the worst--but it is the second time I genuinely wish I could just have my money back... and that's saying something, when this beaut cost me less than $5.

I wish I could recommend this, I really do. I *love* Guilty Hell, but this just really doesn't add much. The costume is nice enough, but there are no new enemies, nothing interesting to explore, and not much more than ten or fifteen minutes of grinding followed by, "Well, now I have a new costume, I guess."

The only worthwhile thing this *does* add is a slightly different special-attack mechanic when you're wearing the costume. Instead of a lightning bolt striking from above, Airi shoots ball lightning out of her gun across the screen. It's kind of cool... but not cool enough to really feel like you got anything significant out of this. Not terrible, but definitely hideously overpriced.

This is a gem of a game. It's production value is way, way higher than you'd expect for the price, and you get a solid three-plus hours out of it.

To begin with, gameplay. It's primarily a ninja-style game, where you sneak around and try to ambush enemies rather than confronting everything head-on, but you can also choose to go the seductress route. Either way provides a good challenge; the game has an excellent mechanic where enemies get more edgy and alert as time goes on. The ramp-up in difficulty is just about right, and there's no point in the game where you're too under- or over-powered. The difficulty levels are really dialled-in, although I found the character customization--which a lot of other reviewers seemed to enjoy--was fairly underwhelming. One nice touch is that it's pretty difficult to actually get to one of the bad ends; if you're defeated, you're raped and thrown in jail, which gives you a chance to escape and seize victory from defeat. Game-overs only come from catastrophic repeated failures--but it *can* happen.

I will say that the game seems to be optimized for a playthrough where you don't necessarily try to exterminate all the enemies. Judicious use of consumables is a big part of the game, but it's easy to overstock in the last couple of levels. And I hate to say it, but the boss battle is really kind of a letdown. Which is a damn shame, because the game-over scene for that last level is stellar.

As for the H-stuff, I was definitely satisfied. There's lots of orgasms in store for our heroine, which isn't too bad. I'm not a huge fan of "Don't! Stop!" turning into "don't stop!" but this game does all right by it. Combat sexy-time is handled fairly well, and you have a couple of chances to trigger cutscenes, depending on how you handle certain areas. The graphics are good, the writing is pretty well-translated, and there's no pooping, which is a godsend. There's a fair bit of exceedingly well-done mind-control content in the last half of the game, and if that even vaguely piques your interest, you should definitely check this out.

All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed it. It played well as a game, it delivered the hentai content, and it was a nice price. If it had a better last level, and a touch more content, this would be a five-star game for sure; as it is, I can give it a solid four--and to me, that's the mark of an excellent game.

I love this game. It's got a great sense of humor, the writing and translation are very good, and it's a nice length--without feeling grindy.

A party of female adventurers, out trying to make a name for themselves, laboring on the cusp of... mediocrity? Yeah, the heroines aren't all that successful, but they're plucky and likeable and are slowly edging their way up out of the "novice adventurer" category. Following a crushing defeat, they decide it's time to up their game, and they head to the Adventurers' Town of "Gemini Fort." There, they figure, they can get some better gear and hopefully jumpstart their meteoric rise to fame.

They get to town, they go shopping, they... black out and wake up with amnesia and a variety of weird, perverted curses. Over the course of a madcap day, they have to solve a number of mysteries--not least, what the heck HAPPENED last night!

The good: Almost everything. Translation is excellent, art is good, sexy-time scenes are varied but don't venture too far into, ah, more-specialized territory. If you're looking for a game set in a world where people shrug off casual minor sexual assault, this is the one for you. The heroines keep getting molested and raped by just about everything, but hey, that's par for the course. As one of their side conversations notes, at least some female adventurers must kinda like tentacle monsters, since they keep taking eradication quests that put them in moral peril!

The bad: Not a whole lot! There are four or five annoying lines that somehow escape the text box, so you can't read the last few words in 'em. The second act gets pretty over-the-top, but if you enjoyed the first half, you'll probably like the last part too. And there are a couple of places where the translation does not *quite* work well; normal stuff, like "pants" instead of "panties" or the disturbingly ubiquitous "meat pole/stick" or "meaty" pussy. Remind me to never get oral sex from a native Japanese speaker... ;P

Anyway, it was well worth the money; I laughed a bunch, got engaged with the story, and did indeed engage in some satisfying fappery. Pick this one up!