RPGM - The Legend of the Hero of Edoriam [v0.2.1] [Pyrthenix]

dev comment " The game primarily focuses on netorase and corruption themes ...."
no, I'm tottaly not agree
the game "primarily focuses" on endless and unnecessary fights with mobs
sorry, but after 2+ hours (with money cheat for portions) in game what i got:
- one boss fight
- HUNDREDS repetitive mob fights
- 3 sceens
- 0 NTR on witch"game primarily focuses"

I really tried to play it, but stopped in nothern cave without understanding where to go and what to do (and extinguished torch, again - very immersive)
probaly good, not sure, for RPG, but I think very bad for this site

What a game! The graphics are amazing! The story is engaging. A little grindy from time to time but you get the hang of it. Can't wait for what's to come. The love and NTR routes are amazing and well developed, hopefully we will get some more monster loving soon

I honestly wasn't expecting much but it turned out to be a very good game. The simplicity of the story makes it easy to advance the game and you don't get lost along the way, although the only bad thing is that sometimes it is difficult to discover the conditions to unlock a scene

A buggy craft. Dead lifeless world. Several idols standing still cannot be called life. Yes, the monsters in the locations look more interesting, although they are standard. Why mixed up the need to swing and fight if that's not what the game is about? Impenetrable bugs like black screen. In general: if you want combat and communication between kursnots, then FF8 is better; if it’s hentai, then any hentai.

Well, i would love to say if the ntr content is any good, but i actually never got that far. Too much RPGM, and there is no way to avoid or cheat through it.

So i don't recommend to anyone.

Go play Adventurous Couple. The wife is fucking ugly, but at least have good ntr content.

Pretty hot scenes and fetishes imo, would recommend a save editor to make yourself overpowered so you can skip the combat which is your typical boring turn based stuff, there's a lot of walking as well so cheat engine speedhack is useful if you can put up with the crashing

A very enjoyable RPG with great fetishes
It has everything I was looking for in a game like this
It has harem if you like harems, it has femdom if you like femdom, it has NTR if you like NTR. It has Good combat, good and fun skills to use and level up and a good story so far (still in progress V0.16

Enough to warrant a follow. Will need to see further developments to determine if the game is worth it.
Review will be edited as the game progresses (for better or for worse). Hopefully the developer wont abandon the game and strive to continue it.

The developer seems to forget why people play these games and instead thinks we are here because we care about the backstory and world he has developed. The first hour of the game is boring RPG battles that you have to actually try to beat unless you cheat before they even start to talk about the meat of the story. Even after we got a trickle of corruption, they send us off again to another dungeon with more RPG mechanics. At that point I gave up on it, because I am not here to beat mindless RPG battles.

Developer, less battles, less useless conversation, more sex.

These are the problems I was able to identify while playing through the early part of the game.
1.RPGMaker's vanilla turn-based combat is one of the most boring parts of most adult games, and I always wonder if this element is necessary for some kind of obligation or extended playtime.
2. The heavy slash skill is not 'heavy' at all.
3. There is no delay in the enemy approaching you immediately after escaping from battle.
4. Quest lines that lead to unnecessary movement.

The H-scenes produced by Koikatsu aren't bad, but they're also nothing special. The storyline is common NTR. If enough scenes are added, it can be a good 'viewer', but the half-hearted gameplay is likely to hinder enjoyment.

Couldn't even bring myself to play past the first sex scene. That screenshot of the orc, with the ERP dialogue is 90% of the game. I don't know what gave the dev the idea that that was a good writing style for... anything really,, but it feels like watching to teenagers ERP'ing for the first time, TLDR dialogue and writing is cringe.

Let's keep it short, like is the content as of now.
Pro:
- The dev seems commited given all the writting already done
Con:
- Level design suck BIG TIMES. Like final fantasy ONE bad.
- Story and characters are way too bland. All of this writting to set so common world is infuriating really.
- Quest sucks, standard delivery quest. And with that level design, please...

Overall it even fail as a proof of concept cause i came for a porn game, and i litteraly spend almost two hours playing bland rpg, to finally arrive to the first relevant event and see the demo end just then. There's no mechanics around it, just "hey would u like to see that scene?". Honestly i can forgive a lot, and i try to be kind here, if you want to have soda, u don't get soup. If u wanna do a porn game, u don't do RPGs. If there's no point to smtg just don't do it.

This game is a bit of a mixed bag. It's clearly in its early stages of development, so I'll give it a bit of the benefit of the doubt when it comes to my rating. For those that are wondering whether the game is worth the time at the moment to play, well... I'm not that sure.

From what I've gauged based on my runthrough of the game, netorare seems to be an overarching theme of the story as it is tied in to the critical plot points that the MC and his partner faces. So if netorare is a hard pass for you, then you should probably skip this game. There are non-NTR scenes as of v0.1.1, but for the grind you have to go through those scenes on their own aren't rewarding enough to justify putting in the effort.

To put it simply, I'll quickly divide the pros and cons that I can see in this version thus far -

Pros -

- The worldbuilding is somewhat interesting and has potential. Key word on potential. The story can be somewhat captivating if it is more fleshed out in the future, and while it is still in its early stages the MC and his partner have some decent character development.

- The manner in which the netorare content is structured along with how the MC and his partner navigate around it is nicely done. Many NTR games on this site take that fetish to all manners of different extremes way too quickly, but in this game both of the characters seem relatively grounded and approach it fairly realistically given the circumstances.

Cons -

- The combat mechanics, oh boy. This game is unnecessarily grindy in many ways. The worst part is that the constant combat scenarios you will inevitably face are also ultimately a breeze to go through. At no point in this game (bar to a brief extent one boss fight) is there any real challenge that you go through when it comes to combat. This is pretty unrewarding and somewhat annoying to deal with if you constantly have to face off against dozens of enemies just to get to one or two sex scenes.

- As with many RPGM games, this game at the moment is filled with a whole lot of nothing. There is a relatively decently sized world map in which you can only traverse to three locations, and most of the NPCs are pretty poorly written to the point where several NPCS even share the same one line dialogue with one another. That comes across as pretty lazy and just a buzzkill to the experience because it just makes the game feel more empty.

- Sex scenes are few and far between at the moment. Like I said, it's still early days but if you're looking to download this game to get that sweet reward then prepare for disappointment. The scenes that are there are not the worst and the animations are appreciated, but it's nothing special to look at.

- While the premise of the story sounds decent, there are absolutely no interesting side characters in the entire game right now. The MC and his partner seem to be the only ones with any kind of fleshed out personality, everyone else is a background character that briefly appears and disappears in order to render a few lines of dialogue and move the plot forward, but nothing else.

tldr : It's an NTR focused corruption game that offers a lot of potential but widely falls short of its mark in many areas right now. From the turn based combat to the lack of a comprehensive storyline to back up the large map it comes packaged with, Edoriam at the moment sums up all the typical problems that most RPGM games face when they try to be ambitious. However, with some work, it could still reach its potential.

THE BELOW REVIEW CONCERNS THE FIRST VERSION OF THE GAME:

...Just no. So far it's straight up a cuckold ntr visual novel shoehorned into an rpg attempt. Run around killing monsters, gathering gold, exp., potions etc. But none of it matters, as there is no gear, items etc to buy with said gold, no upgrading your weapons and gear. The story is lacklustre and boring because there is NO choices to be made concerning alternate paths to achieve a goal. The story is STRICTLY linear to push the "wife cuckolding you and falling for another man" narrative. Just another boring cuck story and absolute rubbish as an rpg game.