RPGM - Completed - Village Of Nightmare [v1.6] [Akuochichance]

Ngl, I'm stuck between giving this game 3 or 4 stars. It kept me entertained even though it's one of the oldest games out there. The story isn't bad for a game that came out that year. In terms of gameplay.. it doesn't offer much until the end of the game. Simple games and puzzles at the end. No grinding, no combat.

This game is not.. "ok" to everyone in terms of content. Transformation, futa/trans, armpit, armpit hair, smell.. etc. While in some parts there are scenes only as text, but we can see the scenes with cgs? arts? in most parts. Some parts of the scenes are not very understandable and look a bit blurry and pixelated. But that seems normal for such an old game.

To summarize, if you are interested in the content I listed above, you should try this game. You can play if you are not interested, but I cannot guarantee that you will have fun.

I can see why this was popular in 2011-12. It covers some niche genres well like body odor fetish and progressive corruption. The 3D girl character models would have been appealing back then as well. It's aged like milk unfortunately. Many scenes are just dialogue with very few CG. This is the worst way to use rpgmaker and it's really a VN crammed with tedious talk to everyone in town and frogger mechanics and worst of all lacks a save anywhere feature. There's this weird trend with japanese devs of this era sticking to decade old versions of rpgmaker even though they were incredibly feature sparse. For its time Flash would still have been a good option. Today something like Twine, Ren'py, or even Unity would make more sense. While the gameplay is even more tedious, the spin-off game Inma Sugoroku has much nicer art and I wish the rest of the series was in the same style.

Overall not worth playing today. Not even worth looking at the cgs. Try corruption of champions or one of the million fallen female knight VNs by kuribayashi chris, Kemuriya, or Lilith instead. I was going to mention oneone1, but he also used rpgmaker terribly.

Okay, the context for this review is: I've been looking for a 'play as female dom' game for about a week now at the time of writing, and happened upon this ancient ass game. It technically fits the bill, so I gave it a shot, but it's also not really written with people like me in mind, which is about what I expected tbh. What it is is a modestly fun point and click puzzle game about forming a cult with little-to-no active opposition, and food for the poor, starving futa-corruption fetishists. Oh, and armpit fetishists.

If that's what you want, it's incredibly serviceable. The scenes are a little short/fast paced for my taste, and focused mostly on physical/psychological transformation, but work well for what the developer was clearly aiming for. The characters are extremely shallow, but that makes the puzzle less byzantine, so I can accept it. There is mucho armpit hair on display, which shows an impressive dedication where most games go for a scattershot approach that I feel fails everyone. My problems aren't really problems, but more that this game wasn't for me.

Like... basically, this is a man's game about playing as a woman. People treat you as a woman, which is fine, but it's very focused on things men like about women, and women becoming 'slutty' in response. And they become slutty fast, like... little time for buildup or sexual tension, at least for me. Oh, and the MC starts out as a man, transforms into a femme futa, and I'm just like... you could've just had them start as a woman. Wouldn't have killed you.

Speaking of things that wouldn't have killed the developer, but apparently makes Japanese men go into paroxysms of terror: sex scenes not involving cocks. I know one scene seemed to hint we were going to get oral sex, and I was stoked because almost everything sexually aggressive had featured a cock thus far, but nope, kissing + futa/woman penetration. Bit of a let down, tbh. It's like people forget they've got fingers and tongues in these games, you know?

The silly thing is, I'm very much bi. Dicks are great too. I just get tired of games whose idea of 'erotic' is huuuge dicks getting rammed into holes and cum everywhere, and combined with just how fast you turn people in this game, it makes the whole 'seduce people into your cult' thing feel waaay less seductive than it could've been.

TL;DR: Fun game that didn't turn me on long enough to do the deed, because it's just a bit too focused on r/menwritingwomen concepts for me to stay horny. Great if you like armpits.

3.5/5

Ahh, the classic. The weird. The bizarre. The armpit Hair!!

This game touches on a lot of kinks. But even the ones that weren't for me, I still found funny.

This is a good example of a RPGM game coming out of Japan that rewards you for succeeding/progressing; instead of requiring you to lose to get your smut.

This is also one of the rare RPGM porn games that does not have combat in it (at all). That's right. No random grinding levels on mobs (or save editing).

It should be noted that using a walkthrough is recommended. It can be tough to figure out how to proceed corrupting certain characters. This is especially true since certain characters cannot be corrupted fully until other characters are corrupted, and this is not always obvious.

All-in-all, it is a fun little game. I consider it better than the sequel, but they are both good in my book (if only the sequel didn't have combat. It just doesn't fit... but at least the TL has been modded).

Final rating: 3.8 rounded up.