Unity - Almastriga [v0.1.28] [Taboolicious]

Aside from everything everyone else said, I'm just gonna add something important.

If you want to see the sex scenes you literally have to farm enemies by killing them. The amount varies but for example the "brute" needs to be killed 150 times to unlock the scene. Do yourself a favour and search the gallery online, if you are here for gameplay I also recommend to look for alternatives.

TL;DR
Nobody would play this broken mess if there was no porn in it.

-hitboxes are way to big
-plattforms have hitboxes where there should be none making it harder to traverse them than necessary
-uninteresting combat with clunky controls
-which are unresponsive if to much happens at the same time ( boss fights )
-Bloom effects burn your eyballs
-GPU usage spikes without any obvious reason
-all weapons do the same damage and seem to have the same range, although they are much shorter

My guess would be that the dev(s) do(es) not play their own game. These obvious flaws in an action plattform game seem to indicate a lack of interest and respect for their own work. Which would fit to the obnoxious dialogue with the fairy in the tutorial. Insulting and humiliating your own character that early in game is a first for me.

wow... this game fullscreens where i can't even see their faces and options menu (if there is any, I can't see a thing), I re-installed and asked me to keep the save file and i said yes. Running the game again and found out that the save file was useless and just starts at the very beginning Sometimes the title screen is janky and wont accept input and I got stuck on a platform at one point...

Unresponsive controls.
All the quests are fetch quests.
30 minutes and 13 quests down without lewd content.
Frustrating combat: Enemies pop in spawn, frustrating combat design and movement.
Can't drop items, too many duplicate drops.
Half the content is backtracking.

I feel like I've wasted my time in this as I've gotten a net null in entertainment value when subtracting these things from the content I know is there from the cg rips.

I don't think it's a bad game. The arts are beautiful and the gameplay is hard retro. It's still full of bugs and the framerate is slow but there is another problem with the game: 90% of the enemy are annoyng.

Not hard, just annoying, like the flying skull rotating over you. And here you are faced with a lot of ranged enemy but the only way to defeat them is approching and using the shield.
At last the game force you to grind the sex scene with a farm and a time mechanic but without any way to speed up time.
Overall i think is a average experience i hope it will be fixed

Rev @ Almastriga [v44.0b]

Seems like a ton of effort went in to planning and drawing this. Too bad it's implemented so poorly.

Story is eh. Scenario's been done, voice is weak and immature, characterization isn't compelling.

Porn in the CG rip looks decent, but I couldn't get to any of it because the gameplay got in the way.

This is one of (if not the) most poorly optimized Unity games I've played. Screen tearing is so bad it made me go crosseyed, FPS so all over the place it interferes with jumping, controls are floaty, and random bouts of attempting to melt my GPU.

TLDR: Proof that artists are not engineers.

very unpolished, this game resets your settings every time you reboot it.
decent art cant make up just a mess of a game that just feels bad to play.

it takes souls like mechanics without taking all the polish they require, cause it sure is not fun playing 2d dark souls with a dodge roll that stutters.

Reviewed as of v44.0
PROS:

• The art is extremely well done, along with the sex animations.

CONS:

• Everything else

I can not recommend this 'game' for anybody, except those who like to torture themselves with buggy sidescrollers, that offers little to no reward for actually playing it. The adult part of the game recieved no update for a long time now, and even the stuff that is already in is way harder to access that it needs to be, you are better off looking up the animations on a site like e-hentai.

The only reason i did not give it a 1 star is because the quality of the art.

Don't try to make a complex and challenging game if you don't have the polish to back it up. If I opened up the item menu at all it was permanently stuck over the screen, some items disappears on reload. A very clunky and buggy game, where the actual sexual content is so skim that I didn't find any. I could probably send this to a friend, and they wouldn't even realize it's an explicit game.

The game is voice acted, but I wouldn't recommend anyone actually sit through the poorly written dialogue walls. If you want to shove your ero game with world building, do it off to the side, don't cram it into required NPC talking.

Taboolicious's art is being wasted on this game. I feel sorry for the voice actors too.

Review of version: 44.0

Lol this game deserves 1 star but the art direction is fantastic, that is literally it's only saving grace that and the animation. The game is so bad that I had to use cheat engine and learn how to use a decompiler in order to fix things in the fucking game, this game FORCED ME to learn how to mod the game in order to even play the game. Let's talk about how bad it is
1. Enemies are almost all the same with a few exceptions
2. The controls are clunky and buggy
3. The game tries to do too many things and fails at almost all of it. For example a crafting system is there but its just so bad.
4. You have little health in comparison to the damage you take.
5. Save points similair to Dark Souls/Metroid rather than just letting autosave run. Why is this a problem? Because once you die you have to start over from jump and the place is so big for no reason.
6. The creator doesn't understand his audience, FOR GODSAKES WHY IS A PORN GAME SO DIFFICULT!
7. I shouldn't have to do a billion and one cheats to make this game even playable.
8. Why is there a time system that ties NPC sex scenes that takes 24 minutes to each time to see it. And you only have 1 minute to look at the sex scene. But whats even worse is that you have no way of controling time. THAT MEANS YOU HAVE TO WAY OUT 24 minutes to see a 1 minute scene.
9. Getting the sex scenes is an actual hassle because you have to actually play through this bloody mess and find certain items then speak to certain NPCs. What's worse is the dialogue doesn't line up with how you obtain it, you get the sense that it was for an old version that hasn't been updated. BTW you can't even beat it without either grinding or the easiest way, using cheat engine to put yourself at infinite health that somehow resets every time you go into a save room.
10. This game is just a mess man, this one should be scraped almost entirely and the creator needs to think smaller. They try to do too much even the updates aren't even porn related they're just bug fixes for the gameplay. Like just scrap this shit man, it's been 3 years. In less than 1 I saw another game made in Renpy with a simple choice based system get so much love. While this just...Author of this game is a brilliant artist just take it down a few notches in terms of gameplay mechanics and you would make a ton of money.

I'm reviewing this game as of version 38.0

Honestly, this game is in a pretty dire situation right now. While the art is amazing, gameplay and updates are severely lacking.

Despite having over 2 years of development the game is riddled with bugs and the controls remain completely broken. The game itself isn't hard, the main difficulty factor being the way your character interacts with platforms, you'll often slide down if you jump on the platform's edges, which is a big problem since the levels are filled with them.

Also, on my most recent playthrough the npc responsible for the farm glitched and never appeared, so no scenes other than the bedroom ones could be watched.

I cannot recommend the game in this state, and there seems to be no prospects of any improvements to the situation getting better any time soon. Despite the file size being only 176MB, i don't think it's worth the download.

The art in this game is amazing, it would actually make a great game even without sex...
That is if someone would fix the parade of bugs it has, it feels like this is a 0.0X version of a game but this has already been 2 years on development.
Is difficult but passable, is easy to upgrade the weapong to 1shot any enemy, the annoying part is the artificial difficulty (only 2 save points in the whole game or dying to spikes constantly because I noclip from platforms.
Even basic stuff like not able to adjust the screen resolution isnt there, I hope the creator invest in hiring someone that knows how to code a good game before paying voice actors, no point on having all the great content without a skeleton to hold it.

This game struggles to become a porn game.

A very dragged on text at the start can only bore me so much of my interest, its like the writer TRIED world building in a porn game, but forgets that too much random blurbs of dialogue can make the reader disinterested on his fantasy porn world.

Don't even get me started on the clunky controls too. its no Dead Cells level of smooth, they literally just started making an action platformer and slapped on some high budget art and voice acting together and call it a day.

Art, you can tell that budget and time went to this part of the development. Enticing animated art of big chested women which is for the most part appealing from the game but it shot me down quickly with a big slap of badly long writing, clunky, and boring gameplay,

Voice had a lot of investment as well, mediocre to eh at best. nothing new in the porn voice acting. Mostly its because of the direction on how the Voice actors were told how to act the lines on. In the end not a Lot of the characters got a voice at all so basically theyre all half cooked. I'd still understand why not Everything is voiced though. its just that some characters never got an introductory voice line and some do.

Worst of all, players do not have anything rewarded at all in this, not even a glimpse of a single scene 30-60 minutes in (depends if you skipped all the boring filler text). NOT EVEN GETTING BUSTED by an enemy will get them to fuck you, just a defeat and a harsh restart. Trying to be dark souls much?



In short, the game lacked planning on what it wanted to be, it entices the adult games player base with basically an artificial attempt in making the game bigger than it should be. The investment was all over the place resulting the neglect on where it should actually matter.

Please rework the game when you have the chance.

There's games that are hard because they're hard, and there's games that are hard because they're bad.

This is unfortunately the latter. The controls are really clunky, none of the items seem to actually do anything, and dying to monsters just resets you back to your last save. By the way, save points are few and extremely far between. So far I have only found two, and the second one was waaaaaaayyy too far away and took about five tries to get there, with the final run being me poking my way forward on the left stick, practically one step at a time to perfectly position where I needed to be for attacks/jumps/landings.

Hit boxes in this game, as of right now, are fucked. Your character's hit box is way too big, and just contacting an enemy gives damage, and considering the only way to attack is with melee, that's bad. That's really bad. You have to be in close proximity to something to hit it, but if you get too close, you get hurt. Now, if this game functioned like any other hentai side scroller, where you at least got fucked every time you lost, that'd be fine, but it just gives you a fade to black and reloads your last save point. Even Night of Revenge lets you share space with your enemies as long as they're not attacking, and that game is way more brutal. Then again, that game actually works and feels fluid enough to play without wondering if your keyboard/controller is messed up.

Slightly smaller, but oh-so crucial complaint, voice acting talent and quality are both really unbalanced, mainly quality and volume-wise. Some lines, the voice actors are peaking a bit, and should probably re-record and re-balance the volume to match some of the other characters, probably even turn their microphone sensitivity down.

Really love Taboolicious's art, but as this game stands right now, it just isn't worth it.

If you came here for the lewd art and animation it's top tier, but the game is still far from complete.
The checkpoint system in some cases is hard if u don't have enough health or no health potion. So the game is punishing a bit, Movements and fightings animation has been refined by lots of updates now and more needs to be refined where the game is somewhat buggy.
people play porn games for lewd sex scenes and other material which we all know *Ahem*, by far there are scenes animated with a nice voice acting for dialogues and moaning and tentacles lewd scenes as well.
U can see NPC having a nice time with each other on a great time with each other on the separate time period with focus nice voice acting.
well Also sex scenes (Porn) with NPC are a lot to be desired while I believe will be put into place once new updates will arrive. But till now the game feels unrewarding in the place of Porn while there are so many beautiful NPC to have fun with.
and the creator is trying to reach is the goal in Patreon so if possible support in Patreon is will help a lot to get things done faster.
SO 3 star till things are completed enough to look better and enjoyable.

Edited - the game isn't going anywhere anything soon. To become a porn game play something else instead not worth ur time

I enjoy the art but gameplay.... NO!, there is no save point, being put back to the start of the game after every death and having to go through the all dialogue every time I die, is silly and irritating, that with the controls of this game it just got to the point where I just CBA to continued

The art in the screens is beautiful, though it honestly doesn't translate as well in game.

And the gameplay... what a mess. It has elements of Castlevania and a 2D Dark Souls, but it simply doesn't work! Weapons and shields after the first ones aren't equipped and basically every movement is buggy.

Combat is annoying as heck, most of it is painfully easy and there are enemies whose only job is making your life even worse with the terrible platforming this game has.

I couldn't even make myself play until there was some sex. All I got was a game that tried to take itself seriously even though every female character has giant tits and you can see their nipples poking through clothing.

If you're reading this, there are other side scrolling adult games out there. And if you insist on fapping to this just download the CG on the main post. Seriously terrible controls, mediocre mechanics, everything good in this is just on the surface literally, the art style.

Literally unplayable for anyone who doesn't have a 16:9 monitor.

It would befine if I could just PICK which monitor it displays on, as I do have a 16:9 display. It wouldn't be optimal, butit would be playable. I'm not even allowed that privilege.

Don't bother wasting your time if you
1) want to play windowed
or
2)have anything but a 16:9 aspect ratio monitor

Wow this game was the least enjoyable one I have come across so far on this site. It's really disappointing because the art style is so great. Controls, gameplay, layout... its all terrible. Hell at least give us an easier way to save progress OR VIEW THE GALLERY. Yeah, I'd steer clear of this one.