Unity - Completed - The Knight Girl and Dungeons [v2024-04-18] [KonekoBokushi]

To be fair, as a tech demo, it might be 5 stars, but the developer claims this is a complete game, so have to rate it as that.

Well, the game is completable, so there's that. And the graphics are decent enough, if perhaps not the best optimized ever.

Where the porn starts coming apart is when you realize the "goblins" are just some kind of weird green-skinned slender short take on the fat ugly bastard trope. This could look more fantasy-tastic with a bit of effort (at least at trying harder to find stock assets to flip).

Where the product comes apart and looks like a tech demo is when it introduces ideas that aren't actually used. Gags that prevent spellcasting? Sounds good. Piercings that reduce stamina? Now there's a handicap for losing!

Except there isn't. The way to get handicap items is to get captured, and when you're captured, you have to escape to the trader, who'll remove your arm bindings that prevent combat ... along with everything else that could be a hinderance.

Sure, you can put the items back on in the clothing menu, where the game really turns to shit when you realize the developer couldn't be arsed for three seconds to try and find unlocks that fit the fantasy theme instead of bunny costumes and a schoolgirl outfit.

Now if somebodfy willing to do actual work instead of an asset flip took the ideas, there might be a 5 star game somewhere ... but this ain't it.

Its a bit meh in just about everything, the graphics are good and the gameplay works fine, but there is no story, no real dialogs and you could complete the game without ever seeing a single sex scene since they only happen if you lose a fight.

Its a very short game and you can finish it in proberly 10-15 mins, all its about is running around a dungon kill a few monsters then kill the boss and exit the dungon and game is done.

Fighting is very easy, do a heavy hit once or twice and you have won the fight, use magic to pull a single ennemy instend of a small group not that either is a big issue to win.

Animations are a also just meh, i would barely call them average.

Music/effects are pretty decent.

I would call this more like a demo then a real game, so if you dont expect much then try it out if you want but there really isent all that much to come for.

Mediocre game with decent graphics.

90% of the game is you just chopping your way through the same few generic enemies.

There's a couple animation for each enemy, a couple for the shop, and 2 for getting caught. All of them are a few loops of 1 second worth of animations, which are pretty decent but that's it.

Combat is very unsatisfying, your attacks do nothing but reduce enemy hp: no knockback, no special effects, no nothing. You do however get knocked out of your attacks by any enemy attack, so doubly unsatisfying.

Maybe 30 minutes of playtime to beat if you actually bother to use your shield.

Also if you get caught before opening the second teleport point, you will get softlocked because the teleporter is bugged.

Well, it's better than their last game, "Escape from the Mansion", at least? Honestly, I can't see a whole lot to praise—it's functionally identical to the last game in its premise, just that you're in a "Souls-like" (and I use the term very loosely) hack-'n'-slash instead of a third-person shooter... which, for me, is already putting it slightly ahead. Outfits are the same as the last game, with all their benefits and flaws; the upgrades are functionally identical...

...oh, speaking of, there's a "glitch"(?) where if you have either of the stamina-halving piercings equipped (unlocked when you get caught by one of the masked enemies by letting them beat on your shield and dizzy you after a while) and try to purchase a stamina upgrade while wearing them, some sort of integer underflow occurs—I went from having one (1) point in stamina... to having -13.5. Yeah, figure that one out. I could give you my best guess, but it'd probably be wrong.

It also annoys me that you're able to be tied up—both with your arms behind you and in a steel yoke—yet nothing is done to let the player capitalize on their bound state and attack with kicks or something. The goblin enemies are easy enough to two-shot with your mandatory sword attacks, and parry timings are easy enough to get the hang of, but your sword swings have next to no weight to them; I can't count the number of times I've swung my sword during an orc's wind-up, only to be flung backwards frames later because they don't get staggered. Even the final boss gets staggered when you hit it.

I don't know, maybe I expect too much? But the only parts that really draw me to the game (the bondage elements) are more for show than anything else—now I kinda get how people feel when the only sex scenes in a game are rape on defeat. Without that, it's just a very mid dungeon crawler.

And yes, it deserves the 5 stars enough to be above the multitudes of games that do not have a developed essence in having the pleasure of playing it.
If most of the time the 3D erotic games give you an embarrassing "fail", here things are different: The graphic engine works brilliantly on the Win7 OS with maximum details and this denotes a professional inclination, the game mechanics are similar to those of to From Software with their Dark Souls where RPG elements are included to increase the player's level, and the clothing and inventory part is taken from Escape From The Mansion.

It would be more correct to call this game something like a techno demo. It is completely passable from start to finish, all its mechanics work well and do not contradict each other. But this game is scant on content, like a demo version. It's a good game, there are no flaws in it, but it's small and not complex enough to feel complete. It's more like a draft or a sketch of a great game. The developer should either make the mechanics deeper, or inflate the scale. Although deeper mechanics at the same scale seem like a better idea to me.

Review for v2024-03-29
It's a cool, short Souls like game.
For it's shortness it has enough content.
The game play is not very polished, but it works good enough.
The model is hot and you can even have different clothes.
I would say biggest downsides are monotone animations.
If the sex animations would be a bit more dynamic, with option to change speed, I would give the game 5 stars as "short but gold".

It was good fun but wish it was longer and had a gallery (Or atleast I can't find one). It's great how it has a good variety of clothing options too I just wish I could customize the hair. Otherwise above mentioned addressed would have gotten a five star.

Those complaining about needing cheats to complete this, you know the saying; "Get Good".

Version reviewed: v2024-03-29

Overall
About the same standard as the first game, just with a different theme and a couple extra mechanics.

Visuals
For me it ran at a steady 100 FPS using a wine bottle on Linux. If you played the first game you can expect the same graphic quality as that one. Texture quality is good and basic movement animations look like they come from an animation library. The sex animations look like the dev made them but i think they're better than the first game. My only real complaint with visuals is that there's some noticeable clipping but that's not a game breaker by any means.

Gameplay
Every enemy has a predictable move set so once you've seen it, it's pretty easy to beat everything as long as you keep the fighting to 1v1. You can block attacks by holding up the shield but if you do that with no stamina you'll get knocked down and be vulnerable. You can also do a perfect block to stun the enemy. If you don't get up in time after being knocked down there's a sex scene; but it's also pretty easy to get back up in time. There is a system where you can get captured even if you are blocking attacks. There'll be a scene with her in chains before jumping to another scene where she's on her back. The capture system is pretty basic but that's new for this game. There's a new game+ again but unfortunately the enemies don't get stronger. The only big disappointment i had was the final boss was way too easy. And there was one enemy that took me completely by surprise but i won't spoil what that is.

Rating
Whatever you felt about the first game will likely be the same with this one. For me, this is better than the average adult game so i gave it 4 stars. I'm not a pro-gamer or speed runner and i got about 2.5-3 hours out of it which is about the same as the first game for me. It's a relatively short game but it's complete and there aren't many finished female protagonist 3d games out there.

Quick Review because there's sadly not that much to say.

Just like their last game this one feels very bare bones, there's 5 enemies and 7 scenes (At least that I've seen).

Gameplay is laughably simple, you get one light attack and one heavy, space to backdash and right click to parry.

There's no story, or dialogue really besides one Trader which gives you a cookie cutter line when you talk to him. I finished the game in 30 minutes, upon which I unlocked the gallery mode and that was it.

All I can say is, it's ok. Not really what I'd call a game though, maybe just the idea of one. It needs a lot more.