Danh sách đánh giá của Throbby

I'm not going to write a terribly detailed review, 'cause I'm late to this party, and my blurb is gonna be buried behind pages of others, and likely never read.

But in the off-chance that someone DOES find this and read it, I have to sing the praises of this game!

First off, the game is now fully translated--and pretty well. There are a few bobbles with the translation, but nothing that keeps you from completing--or enjoying!--the game. The ONLY thing that I'd caution is that there are a couple of descriptions in peoples' papers that don't match the portrait; in particular, there's a man with green hair who is described as having "blond wavy hair" on his ID. Just a heads-up; until you know all the particulars, there are going to be a few times where you look at the person, look at the ID, and the two just don't match, yet the computer thinks they do.

Story is good, or at least serviceable. Dialogue is nice, art is good, and you can play out your power fantasy to your heart's content. You have a chance to make a few meaningful choices (always a bonus, in linear games like this!), and have essentially unlimited time, so you can perv out as much as you like without worrying about getting fired. :P

It's a good price, well-made, and damn fun to play. I only wish the game were longer!

I enjoyed this game an awful lot. The H-scenes are nicely written and well illustrated, the gameplay doesn't suck, and it's even got replay value.

Right off the bat, I want to assure you that the translation is perfectly serviceable. It's not totally perfect--there are some choice lines like "Zeldia's will was being torn down like a gigantic sledge pulverizing a castle." Or "A choking stench of a man's grundle was perforating into her innocent child-like face." And the all-time winner: "Her disdain for humans was completely rebutted by the fact that her pussy was obviously accepting more of Akito inside her." Still, you never struggle to understand what's going on, and a lot of the dialogue is really quite good.

I think the main thing to focus on here is that, unlike most hentai RPGs, this one actually gives you a lot of real choice in how to approach the game. You can play it through as an utter jackass pervert, sabotaging Sphilia from the get-go; you can play it straight, and try to stop the demon lord; you can mix it up and do a little of both. And it works! You can be whatever kind of hero or anti-hero you want, and the game accommodates you. Each enemy class (e.g., orcs, plants, etc.) has its own defeat scene, and there are a lot of potential scripted events in the towns and dungeons. There are at least three possible paths to take, each of which has a lot to offer. I'm gearing up for a pervy run-through, and can't wait to see what kind of ending I get next!

My biggest complaint is that this game goes for "stinky penis" a little more often than I'd like. There are a couple of scenes that are pretty damn gross, with all the smegma. Easy enough to skim past, fortunately! Also, the rate you can acquire equipment is a little off. You struggle with money for most of the game, and have to choose your equipment carefully (gear is actually important in this one!); then, suddenly, you basically get to a place where you can mint money essentially at will, and it kinda feels unrewarding.

Nevertheless! I liked the characters, enjoyed the fact that I could be a grumbly good guy or sex-starved slacker, and basically felt I got more than my money's worth out of this one. I know it's a weird thing to say about a comedy sex game, but the scenes were good enough that I really wanted to save some of them for run-throughs where I was being a total jerk.

All in all, this is a solid five-star game. Seriously, pick it up!

That pretty well sums it up. The voice-acting is fine, as far as it goes; the girl is animated acceptably well; there are a goodly number of endings you can achieve and actions you can take...

...but I really didn't feel like investing enough time in it to unlock all of 'em. I played it through at least four times, but even though they give you hints as to how to get the other endings, they're kind of vague. And honestly, it's just not fun enough to power through over and over again, picking just one option, to see if you can get a different end.

I'd rate this two stars, except that I recognize that the game is pretty enough that people who really enjoy this genre might have fun with it. For me, though, it's a whole lot of "pick action, speed through animation and dialogue, see if something different happens." Not my cup o' tea.

In a perfect world, these kinds of games would have tons and tons of dialogue options and meaningful choices, that would allow you to really feel like you're interacting with the girls, role-playing your character, and steering the story in a significant way.

This is not a perfect world, unfortunately... So Fantasy Tavern Sextet is close to as good as it gets, for now. There's not enough interaction or story to really effectively flesh out the heroines, but the writers do a pretty good job of making you feel like you know the girls in a short time. They're both attractive, have appealing (if somewhat underdeveloped) personalities, and the scenario works well enough to hold everything together.

Better still, the translation is impeccable, the scenes and dialogue are well-written, and the drawings are pretty. There are a couple of places where it feels like events aren't fully illustrated (an early encounter with a slime is a prime example!), but overall, the game works as a package. The game also does an admirable job of managing the biggest weakness of most VNs: namely, the fact that most of the story is written ambiguously enough that no matter what you've chosen during branch moments, they didn't have to write parallel exposition and dialogue, but could rather use the same stuff regardless of your choices. Throughout almost the entire game, they did an excellent job making it seem like the story was taking my input into account.

I only have two complaints, really. First, Lupine doesn't get as much romantic-development time as Daisy does, which makes her stuff seem a little forced. Second, that whole "ambiguous writing" thing falls apart completely, at the end. The character is like, "I guess I went with the flow and had relations with both girls," and I'm like, "Um, that's totally not how *I* remember it! You got naked with one, and the other just ambushed you with a quick peck. These are not equivalent!"

Alas. I really hoped that I could pick an ending, but in the end, it funneled me into the One True End. That was genuinely a bummer, but I still really enjoyed this one.

I think the best way to sum up this game is, "I wrote a review for it just after I finished playing, but there was a website hiccup and it didn't post. A day later, I'm trying to write a new one, but I'm having a hard time remembering enough details to really flesh things out, and I definitely don't want to play through again to refresh my memory!"

It's not that it was *bad.* The English is actually pretty serviceable, although there are a few moments where the translation is head-scratchingly opaque. The gameplay itself is fine, with level-ups and new equipment available at a good pace; you should have just enough money to buy all the best gear by the end, although you likely won't use most of your special abilities. And the H-scenes are alright, with good dialogue and nice set-ups--although every one after the first comes with a game-over screen that is a little over-the-top. I laughed out loud at a couple of them. :P In the end, although the scenes are well-written and nicely illustrated, there just isn't quite enough opportunity to really enjoy tormenting the heroine with them.

If you really, really like time-stop games, you could do worse than buying this one. But if you want a good RPG with an interesting story and more than 90 to 120 minutes of gameplay, you're better off spending your money elsewhere.

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.