RPGM - Completed - Erina and the City of Machines [v1.10] [coolsister]

9/10 - This game isn't quite a masterpiece, but it's top tier among this type of RPGM games.

The art in these type of games is very important imo, and this one doesn't disappoint. It's got a hot protagonist with a wide array of dress up options to pick from. You can even customize some of the outfits a bit...remove top, put jacket on or off, etc. You can use any of the outfits in battle and there is battle damage. About half of the H scenes actually use your current outfit, the others are locked to a specific costume. H scenes are pretty good, although sadly not voiced. Very fappable overall.

The combat is fun, nothing groundbreaking, but it has a few interesting skills. Not particularly challenging, but I may have over-leveled. The dungeons are short and sweet, thankfully without any maze-like designs to waste your time. Translation is good and the story is serviceable without dragging on and on. Took me about 6-7 hours for main story and another 2 hours for post-game quests and doing the rest of the events.

I have a few similar complaints to previous reviews...pregnancy system could be more fleshed out, corruption could progress a bit more smoothly, and I wish there were more choices of non-rapists to lose your virginity to. You need to save often to avoid unanticipated consequences on some events. I was also disappointed that there were some missable events if you try to save your virginity for a while...I like to savor the slow corruption in this type of game...at least you can unlock everything after you beat it.

Overall the devs remembered that they were making an H-game first and foremost, and I appreciate that...I'm not looking to play Elden Ring while I wank.

Pros:
Actual fun combat with break mechanic
MC has great art and looks attractive
Map level designs are great
Quite engaging story
Outfits/hair/pose customization
Dungeons are not too dragging

Cons:
Corruption scenarios are way too rushed
Sometimes objectives are confusing if you miss it

nice graphics
excelent corruption system
decent story
fast pacing
erotic achivments
outfits styling

developer did a great job, its not just run and kill turn base combat style enemies, nor run from point a to b for nfsw, its a good mix of both, with developing mechanics on top

althought pregnancy system is oblivious, but the game is good as it is

Pretty good game.

Combat system is classic, and most fights are pretty easy. The story is pretty generic, nothing too crazy. The corruption system is not the best, some scenes requires you to be a super slut for small rewards, and other just make you act like a slut with 0 lewd level. Also, I feel like the slut level gain curve is too fucked up. The 15 firsts lust levels feels very unnatural to gain (you need to voluntarly get yourself raped, or just show your tits to everyone with damaged clothes... but why would the character realistically do that with 0 lust ???), and after 25 lust points, you are just skyrocketting because 70% of the events requires 25-50 lust. Art is very good.

If you like Clymenia games, you will like this one. It's not the best game ever, but it's still better than 99% of H-Games, so I give it 4 stars.

The game claims to set itself apart by having a protagonist who isn't impossibly naive... but everything else about it is bog-standard. If you enjoy regular corruption games and think Erina's hot you'll likely enjoy this one too; if you were hoping for a game where an adventurer could actually fight off her molesters, then it's best to keep looking.
Some of the regular stuff this game does include:
- A hot protagonist
- Nice dress-up options
- Unexciting crafting
- No romance (there's only one dude who isn't a misogynist, but his scenes are locked behind max lewdness)
- A theoretically interesting combat system which you can largely ignore by simply blowing through the few fights there are
- The ability to set an assist in battle, which you'll likely largely ignore since fights are faster without them
- Innocuous choices in events lead to Erina getting raped. Whether you were expecting a voyeur/masturbation scene when choosing to masturbate in the shower while no one is around or were confident that Erina could just fight the guy off like last time, many events lead to rape with no indication that they will or should.

Total 6/10

Gameplay 6/10
This is the usual RPGM female protag gameplay. It's about doing tasks around the map, fighting enemies and events that gives you an option to make her corrupt or not.
Fight mechanism isn't different from the typical RPGM, but devs added something like exhaustion rate and etc.
Status screens, being able to change clothes and other things makes this game polished and doesn't feel unfinished or off

Story 6.5/10

I'm not the one to judge this since I always skip text (I even install cheat codes that lets you skip dialogues on games when I can't skip) and I don't like stories in games like these in general
But it looks as if it was done with effort and it has multiple endings (that doesn't branch off right before the end) so I gave it a 6.5

Graphics 7/10
Lots of CGs. I like this illustrations. MC is also hot (I mean look at those boobies)

It's obviously good compared to all the RPGM games that's been uploaded to this site recently.

I had already played it but haven't finished it yet.
It's fine, nice art, but the crafting is very underused with just a handful of recipes.
The areas are tiny with very few enemies. You can skip them since they aren't random encounters so it's fine for those that don't like that.
The story is interesting enough but I doubt things will change much before I finish it so... it's your regular corrupt the girl game with plain rpg inserted.
And the fights feature stronger enemies and bosses with a break bar to stun them so it's a small addition that made it different. Besides that, you got a heat bar that according to the weapon or upgrade you are using will decrease your attack and/or crit when it's maxxed or the other way round. Not much more about it, you normally want to use skills that hit everything. Oh and for some reason you can use your crit up skill at no turn cost, or so it never skipped me when I used it.
So quite average game in general, I expected more but in the end it was the usual walk here and there and whore the mc.