Unity - Completed - DECOY The Witch of the Blue [v1.02] [Steneko Laboratory]

Positive:
-Gameplay fun, simple platformer with unique and interesting bosses(sky whale went hard as FUCK)
-Art looks absolutely great especially on the pixel art
-straight forward, not complicated
Negatives:
-MTL

A well crafted game
Lot's of good scenes from classic CG style to animated pixel art.
Whilst the story is MTL, it's relatively simple to understand the story of the game.
You can play the game straightforward or go out getting every chest or secret item to unlock more scenes.
For the studio's introductory work it's a good start and hopefully they continue to work more on this game as it's got a good base which can be developed more.
Starring the same artists who worked on "Summer~Life in the Countryside~" if you liked that style I highly recommend.

Very good balance between sexual content and actual gameplay. The art is clean and enticing with a mix of static CG's and animated scenes and you unlock scenes with story progression which keeps you hooked. The main characters are voiced in japanese and done so professionally. The gameplay is solid for an adult game. The only thing that may be lacking is a proper english translation but I had no problems with understanding whats going on in the conversations.

-good art style
-decent gameplay(could be better if i could remap keys,playing with Z X C isn't the best experience on pc)
-good sex animation,tho i dislike how the semen disappear instantly,if you could stack multiple when you cum on repeat would be hotter
-ok cg i guess,it's mtl so looking at a picture with broken english ain't getting me horny
why is 3 star then? because it doesn't make me horny as a porn game,it just isn't there i don't feel any progression it's lifeless,it has a story and good art but since it's mtl it literally doesn't matter
it could be 4/5 or 5/5 with good english translation but with mtl it can't be more than 3/5 imo when the art by itself doesn't turn me on like some god tier ntr art

I gave it this rating because they are overrating the game and dismissing all its problems. The game is good but its maximum should be 4 stars, if we compare this game with Eve's Quest it has many points in favor but at the same time many against. The art is very good and the erotic scenes too, but I feel that the game is not finished because there are rooms that are empty and characters that exist but do not contribute anything, also there are places that do not make sense like the greenhouse.

The gamplay is very good but it is not enjoyable at all, they add synergies for combat but it still doesn't feel fun to play. Most of the time I spent ignoring enemies when I could. And the map is horrible, it has parts that have no border and it confuses you into thinking that it is an unexplored area (this should never happen in a metroidvania style game) there are games like this that are worse but they do not have this problem or they simply do not put the map. You spend your time going around and trying things and it's very tiring, to be honest if this game didn't have erotic scenes no one would touch it.

The story is strange, I only came to understand that it is post-apocalyptic and that what you explore are laboratories that were left in ruins but I don't understand why there is magic. It also doesn't help that the texts fade 80% after seeing them once and you can only read 2 words.

The scenes are varied and have several in almost all the characters, they come with pixel art, images and animations (it is the only good thing about this game), I did not like the concept of randomly searching the ruins to unlock the scenes,

Finally I think that it is a good game but it was too ambitious and has many problems because of this (since they have a little of everything but the only good thing are the scenes)

This game is perfect: 5/5

The good:
-Fun to play: the dificulty is bearable and no grinding is needed, you can just evade the enemies for the most part. The controls are acceptable and the skills and tools are not bad
-The art: one of the best pixel games out there. You can see scenes with simple sprites and pixel art whole scenes, plus normal art.
-The characters: good variety of roles, personalities and bodies
-The story: not too deep, but interesting

The bad:
Not a game flaw, but the BepInEx is horrible. Not because of the translation but because in my case, the second time i viewed any text, it was cutted.

The ugly:
There were a few side girls that seemed to have a scene but not (farmer, and Osen girls)

Anyways: 5/5

awesome pixelart and animations, the gameplay is great too, there is a lack of enemies varietes, the powerups works pretty good, if i was needed to walk slow the entire gameplay i dont think that i will finish the game, waiting updates and more girls

This game's h-content is amazing but it is hampered by the shitty mtl translation (not to the game maker's fault), and the gameplay is too simple and time consuming for its own good.

The MTL implemented is not elegant - it is simply the basic BepInEx plugin that feeds translated text into the game and replaces the japanese text with english. You have to wait for the english text to fill in the textbox, there will be translation cut off, context is not considered, and the lines themselves are barely legible. Also, for some reason the way this plugin is installed it adds loading time when booting the game which I have not seen in other implementations. This greatly hampers the potential enjoyment of the game and if this was one of your primary concerns before playing then I would wait for something of a higher standard before playing the game.

The gameplay of this game revolves around exploring a town to meet new characters to fuck and advancing the story by delving through a large metroidvania dungeon to find artifacts and scrap parts to make new weapons. Every map in this game is 3-4 times larger then it has to be - probably trying to create the atmosphere of how large the environment is but it really sucks to have to walk around it. When an upgrade exists to make you walk at mach 5 speed and a jump upgrade that lets you scale skyscrapers crackdown-style maybe you should've just made the maps smaller in the first place.

Enemies can be easily ignored. Bosses can also be ignored entirely and you can loot the treasure they're guarding quite easily - beating them isn't hard at all either. The bosses are big and impressive to look at, however. There is a vital upgrade to unlock parts of the map locked behind finding scrap from chests that a character can turn into a weapon that will be the "key" to the "lock", but otherwise loot is mostly pointless. So all in all trying to actually play the game will be a shallow experience compared to what you might get from other games in a similar genre.

With these two factors in mind, I experienced a point in the near-endgame when the mtl was too annoying and skipped past it which had vital details to how to unlock the last dungeon, but because the game was too boring for me I quit then and there - i wasn't worth it to try and brute force my way through the dungeon or find the answer in the town. So now I will talk about the only reason why you'd want to play this game - the h-content.

This game features an expansive list of h-content to enjoy - fully voiced cg scenes, pixel animations both in-map and full screen, with the main girl alone having 11 animations and 9 cgs. Not to mention, pretty much every girl you'll meet will be included in at least one animation or cg scene. No stone is unturned.

The last thing I'll mention is that interestingly, this game foregoes having any bgm most of the time, leaving you silently exploring dungeons and the town with just the sound of your character running around. This, coupled with the always-night time and cyberpunk x rural x fantasy environment creates an individual mood that feels carefully crafted and a rare experience to have in an h-game. It also makes the boss bgm and the bgm that plays when resting at a bench particularly impactful.

Because there is so much quality in the h-content of this game and this game really tries hard to build a certain aesthetic and mood, I can overlook how bad everything else is and recommend this game as something worth at least trying out before you inevitably get bored/frustrated and grab a full save.

the animations are great, characters are sexy asf. a little bit tedious to unlock the next animations due to the translation being all over the place so you kind have to scrounge through the entire map just to get them "artifacts" (what you need to unlock the next animations), but it's worth it, nonetheless.

10/10 animations, good scene variety but I can't help but wish some characters got more screentime. Not much else to say about them other than the filler CG that's there should have been replaced with animations too.

9/10 characters, pretty hot npcs and not much else to say there, the enemy designs especially can be really cool when they want to be but that little crab robot thing gets used an awful lot.

7/10 gameplay, very tolerable metroidvania experience but levels often feel pretty flat and samey. Lots of fast travel and faster movement options open up to keep this from becoming too much of an issue.
Some bosses pretty much auto-hit you and you can see the devs have spotted this and nerfed their damage output to only tickle. Doors also hold you up a smidge every time you're moving faster than your standard walk speed which you'll notice a lot later on. There's way worse out there but the experience isn't smooth or satisfying, and simply hitting stuff by holding out a lantern and waiting for it to reload its bullets is pretty shit.

6/10 atmosphere, graphically everything looks impressive and the world is certainly unique but at the same time things feel pretty cobbled together out of random elements.

6/10 sound, the audio tells enemies make are super clear and distinctive but for some reason a lot of character voices are quieter than they should be.

TL;DR absolutely play it because it is worth the time, but it could've been so much more.

Porn: 10/10 animations, very fappable, will return to it
Scene Variety: 7/10 wish some characters got more attention, or were more naked; sometimes the giant tits lie to you and you get your butt licked (it was 1 time and I'm being a baby)
Gameplay: 7/10 sorta metroidvania, well-paced upgrades, just not super amazing or engaging, but it's enough to keep you
UX: 10/10 cool environment, sounds and character designs

MTL isn't great (a bit buggy), but it's understandable enough to play. It sucks because the setting is so cool and solitary, and the MTL takes me out of it.

Everything is easily achievable if you explore. Enemies/bosses are extremely (perhaps disappointingly) trivial. I died once, but only because I didn't know I could buy hp/sp items.

You get 3 types of sex scenes overall: small pixel, big pixel, and CGs. Not all characters have all types, and some require you to find a special item. Reading your sex journal, you can see more or less how many scenes each character has and what they are ahead of time.

Beating the game lets you unlock everything.

Amazing pixel art design , good CG , excellent sound design , the gameplay is subpar , and the translation is horrendous , the artist is really talented that"s for sure a shame the gameplay doesn't match it

If you're here for the porn, this is a 5/5 experience and I highly recommend you try it.
DECOY has some of the highest-quality animations on the website, with spectacular sound design enhancing the scenes.

However, I almost felt like giving this game a lower score, because the actual gameplay is more like a 2/5. You spend the majority of your time slowly dashing through similar-looking mazes, usually ignoring the enemies because there's no point in fighting them. At the end of the mazes, there is always a boss who somehow manages to be simultaneously too easy and too confusing. It'll take you a while to figure out how to even hurt the boss, but at least you'll never be dying and reloading.

I also can't comment on the story. I've never really had the patience to wait for the MTL translation to kick in, and this was an example of a fairly mediocre translation that had issues with text being cut off. So... don't expect a coherent story, but I also won't hold that against the game in my rating. I basically made up my own story in my head and that'a always fun sometimes.

So why 5/5? At the end of the day, the game looks great, it's not too hard, and the platforming stages are never too long. If anything, the meh gameplay only serves to pace the large number of high-quality sex scenes. I could see myself booting up my completed save of this game every so often just to revisit the animations and that's extremely high praise from me.

If I were to criticize something about the sex scenes, it's their "inefficient" delivery method. After every dungeon, you may unlock the next tier of sex scenes with a certain character, so in some instances, you may unlock 3–4 blowjob scenes with a single character, and going through these one-by-one is a little weird. I feel like these scenes could have been delivered in a more seamless way that connects them together to form a long sex scene rather than isolated animation loops that you access from a menu. But again, the quality here is so absurdly high that it's hard for me to complain too much. It's not like I'm not going to fap to these scenes.

Really a great game, with a good mix of vanilla and surprisingly niche fetishes. Beautiful art, especially the high quality pixel scenes, although I personally found the regular drawn CGs a little boring. Translation is pretty bad as expected, but understandable and helpful enough.

Awesome game! There are various boss fights, lots of hidden useful collectibles to find, new hidden waifus, weapon upgrades, connectable dungeons and lots of CGs.

The H-scenes are a mix of tiny pixelated ones, Static CGs and Animated CGs at high quality. I first came for the fap, but the game was actually good. Really recommend.

The only negative thing that I have to say is that the dungeons look very similar to each other, so it can be very disorienting without mini map. I had to take a screenshot of the map and manually X out some areas that I explored since I kept going at the same spots.