Throbbyさんのレビュー一覧

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.

The first thing to say is that this game relies very, VERY heavily on machine translation. Sometimes to the point of being difficult to understand--especially as the documentation is poor. You're going to have to figure out how to play on your own, more or less; still, it's straightforward enough that it's not an exercise in frustration.

It's kind of a shame about the dialogue, too, 'cause it's pretty good, for the most part; it's funny, and not just because of laughably poor auto-translation. The story is serviceable, but nothing fancy, and the set-up is a little goofy, but it's still good fun.

The sex is machines, traps, and yuri; there's a lot of forced orgasms and bondage, but no brutality.

Gameplay is simple, but can be fiendishly difficult. Basically, you wander around, pick up treasure, and fall prey to various traps. Each trap is some kind of erotic attack, and when your heroine orgasms, she loses a heart. When the hearts are gone, it's game over!

When a trap goes off, you get an equation, or a "Which is the 3 largest number?" (that, by the way, means the "third largest"), and you have eight options to choose from. It's wicked hard, because you might see a group of options like: "10, nine, 14, 13, XV, II, 1, three." Except there are ALSO kanji numbers--if you don't know your Japanese digits, you're going to have a hard time in the later stages of the game. Fortunately, most of the problems aren't TOO hard, although you're going to get whacked with toughies like "9 * X * 14 = 756" and there is nowhere near enough time to figure it out.

And when you get an answer wrong, your sensitivity % goes up. This is actually the coolest mechanic in the game, because as that number gets bigger, you take more damage from traps. Moreover, some of the increase is permanent--which means you carry it through the rest of the game. Mess up too many traps early on, and you'll be struggling hard to make it through the later, longer stages, with harder problems to solve. Fortunately, you can get skills or items that help mitigate the fast timer and lingering effects.

All told, this was a surprisingly fun title, with really good cutscenes and clever traps. As a bonus, you get some nice features when you beat the game, including the ability to choose which traps are in a custom dungeon, some story content, and a gallery. I got it for 70% off, and it was a total steal; it's not a bad deal, even at full price.

There are a lot of things I loved about this title. It's a pretty good D*ablo-style game, and the length is good for a hentai hack-n-slasher. It took me around 20 hours to complete the first run-through, after which you get the option for a "New Game+" with increased difficulty.

There are two classes available: fighter and magic-user. Either one is perfectly capable of finishing the game; the caster will struggle with mana early on, and the fighter will need tons of healing in the early end-game. All of the skills are useful, depending on play style, but you have limited hotkeys, which means it's better to focus on a few abilities rather than going for jack-of-all-trades. Difficulty is well-calibrated, too; each new act is challenging, right up to the end.

The key to victory is your gear. Higher-level items have a wider range of special abilities available, and you can use alchemy to change one of those attributes. It's a total crap-shoot, though, since the re-roll is completely random. Still, it's effective, and I found myself using it often.

The story is very solid, too. The voice-acting is... decent, although it suffers from inconsistent volume. There are four voiced characters, one much louder than the others, and one almost inaudible. Even if you tweak the levels, it can be hard to hear the voices, which is a shame, 'cause the acting is otherwise good. Some scenes are not fully voiced, though, and that's disappointing.

There were a couple of things I did NOT like, though. The H-scenes are repetitive, with four sets of CGs but eight scenes. This is a damn shame, because the ones with Riru are actually really well-written. Some words are clunky, but overall, the scenes are sexy and the dialogue is realistic (and hot). I think some scenes could be ordered differently; for instance, blowjob comes before handjob in the story, which is a bit odd. Also, each class has its own series of H-scenes, which means some incongruous dialogue if you switch back and forth.

And one big thing. The male NPC is the sex focus, rather than the PC. This isn't a huge deal, but there IS some completely unnecessary incest thrown in. If, like me, that's not your thing, do not accept any of Tanya's side-quests. I was really disappointed in that. :/ Also, Tanya's boobs are stupid, un-sexy, ridiculously gigantic.

All in all, though, it's a good one. Nice story, good gameplay, and a decent price.

...but this one was good enough that I went ahead and sprang for the full-on, pay-for-it version. The voice acting really is superb, and the female lead is pretty cute--not just physically, but in attitude and personality, too. She's not TOO much of a stereotype, not a two-dimensional cardboard cutout of a character, and there's enough interesting stuff, in terms of the story and other characters, to keep you engaged.

Fair warning, I didn't play it through especially far, because I quickly decided to get the expanded version. But if you're into these kinds of games, I think you'll like Konko.

And for what it's worth, I don't think you need to get the "adults-only" version, even if you're a grown-up. From what I saw, this could be a perfectly satisfactory PG-13 experience. :)

I... kinda like this game, actually. There's one really good thing, and one kinda off-putting thing, and most of it is just "good 'nuff, but nothin' special."

It's not that it's bad--far from it--but it's just nothing spectacular, for the most part. The sex is perfectly fine, although nothing amazingly well done or new. The gameplay itself is straightforward in terms of mechanics (jump, shoot lovey hearts at bad guys, smack things with your tail) and objectives (Hey, go this way! Now, go that way more! Aaaand fight ze boss!). The music is pretty alright, but not mind-blowingly catchy or anything.

I beat the game in a single sitting, with no game-overs, and it took me maybe 80 or 90 minutes. The replay value is pretty close to zero; it's one of those platformers you'll maybe pick up every few years just 'cause it didn't suck.

So what *did* stand out? Two things. First, the mildly unpleasant one. In at least two of the "defeated boss scenes," said boss has a very, very, VERY angry-looking anus. Like, in one case, it's mostly covered up, so it's no big deal. But in the other one... hoooooo, boy. It's like a giant, bulgey, raging Satan Donut. And the whole thing is exacerbated by the fact that there's this weird fish-eye-lens effect (just for this one scene!) and some crazy f*cked-up perspective, so it's literally the focal point of the screen, glaring at you in insane fury, while all other body parts shrink into tiny insignificance at the sides of the picture. It's really, truly, unpleasant. Which sucks, 'cause the rest of the art, honestly, is pretty good.

But I wanna end on a good note, so let's talk about the other noteworthy thing: the voice acting. It's honestly excellent. Every character has their own voice--and more importantly, they've all got their own accents and mannerisms and everything. It really brings the scenes and dialogue to life.

And for those of you with any Japanese skills, the story's kinda fun, too. I'm not fluent, by any means, but I could suss out enough to enjoy some of the interactions... and the ending's pretty funny.

Anyway, I think it's just about worth the money, if you like sexy platformers. 3/5 -- good, but nothing special.

Not great, but not awful. The music is nice, the art is alright, the voice-acting is not grating. It's a touch game without any detailed animations, which is a bit of a bummer; the girls in this series are fairly nicely drawn, but there's just really not much here to recommend the Magical Jewelry Primula Whatever series. They're short, and not much happens in them, aside from some meters going up and down and the (mostly) still animation changing a couple of times.

I played Citrine first, and was expecting this to be similarly meh. While Spinel is not exactly scintillating awesomeness, it *is* a little more engaging than Primula Citrine was. For one thing, it's nice that you have to work to find the sweet spots in this one; I actually almost lost before I was able to find a reliable series of actions that could keep me ahead of Spinel's meter.

Better than some touch games, but nothing super-special.

Wouldn't have paid full price for it; the thing is like three or four minutes long, tops. It's your standard "select gropey option, move mouse-hand over girl's body" kind of game, but I was a bit disappointed to see that there's not even an animation or indication of what you're doing. You get a tiny icon by the cursor, point it at the girl, and some bars go up. Meh.