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Sunday, March 09, 2014
Hentai Game Review - ROBF
Time to catch up on some reviews of games I played over the holiday period. ROBF has been sitting on my hard drive for a while. The title stands for Ragnarok Online Battle Fuck. Ragnarok Online is a fantasy MMORG and I assume ROBF is a porn parody. I say assume because I know absolutely fuck all about Ragnarok Online.
ROBF is another RPG-maker clone and – as it’s a battlefuck game – sex plays a heavy part in the combat rather than just being something that happens in the Bad End when you lose. The objective is to get the monster girl to come before she does the same to you (as opposed to games like Violated Hero where you’re both fighting normally to knock the other out, or Monster Girl Quest where Luka is mostly trying to beat the horny monster girls off with his ludicrously impractical sword).
The sex battles are done well in ROBF. The artwork is consistent and while it isn’t up to the high standards of games like Violated Hero they’ve added limited animations to represent the different attacks each monster girl uses. It’s not particularly fancy, but it works well. The Bad Ends vary according to which attack the girl defeats you with and are mostly repeats of the same animations from the battle drawn out for added sexiness. It’s impressive how much even a limited bit of animation adds. If you liked Erotical Night, but thought the monster girl designs were too bland, ROBF is a game you’ll want to check out.
I liked the Alraune girl (or Hydra as she’s referred to in the game). Her boobs swell up and down when she’s pumping cum out of you with a tentacle.
ROBF is also one of the most proper-ist RPG’s I’ve played. Levelling up means more than just increases to strength, defence and hit points. There are skill trees, new attacks to be learned, tons of different items, quests, even a collectible card system that provides different stats boosts when equipped. It’s complex.
Unfortunately, when you don’t read Japanese and are relying on iffy machine translation, that complexity can be become a drawback. There were a lot of times when I wanted to move onto the next area but couldn’t because I hadn’t found the right item or spoken to the right townsperson. It feels harsh to criticise the game for my linguistic failings, especially as it was never intended to be played outside Japan, but it is a valid point. If you like sexy monster girls, want more of a game with your smut and can read Japanese, you’re going to think ROBF is amazing. If only the first two apply, then expect a lot of frustration and scanning of forum threads while you try to work out how the hell you’re supposed to enter that pyramid in the desert town (or even unlock the first sewer dungeon).
Making the player jump through a few hoops to unlock new sexiness isn’t that bad of a thing. While I liked the openness of games like Violated Quest and Violated Fantasy, it is easy to blast through all the content a little too quickly. ROBF gives more value by rationing out the hawtness. This can fall down, though, if the player enters a new area and finds none of the new monsters are their particular cup of tea. For me the main evil castle was a little disappointing as the monster girls were mostly bland. I was looking forward to see how the game represented a classic succubus and I didn’t find any.
Overall it has a good variety of different monster girl types. There are also plenty of scenes with various NPC girls for fans of less monstery hentai. There’s plenty of depth including extras such as being able to buy your own house and also catch certain monster girl types to fight for you (and hang out at your house to provide other . . . uh . . . services). Definitely not for the fainthearted though. Trying to battle through this with AGTH + Translation Aggregator was tough.
ROBF is another RPG-maker clone and – as it’s a battlefuck game – sex plays a heavy part in the combat rather than just being something that happens in the Bad End when you lose. The objective is to get the monster girl to come before she does the same to you (as opposed to games like Violated Hero where you’re both fighting normally to knock the other out, or Monster Girl Quest where Luka is mostly trying to beat the horny monster girls off with his ludicrously impractical sword).
The sex battles are done well in ROBF. The artwork is consistent and while it isn’t up to the high standards of games like Violated Hero they’ve added limited animations to represent the different attacks each monster girl uses. It’s not particularly fancy, but it works well. The Bad Ends vary according to which attack the girl defeats you with and are mostly repeats of the same animations from the battle drawn out for added sexiness. It’s impressive how much even a limited bit of animation adds. If you liked Erotical Night, but thought the monster girl designs were too bland, ROBF is a game you’ll want to check out.
I liked the Alraune girl (or Hydra as she’s referred to in the game). Her boobs swell up and down when she’s pumping cum out of you with a tentacle.
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| Pumpity pumpity . . . |
ROBF is also one of the most proper-ist RPG’s I’ve played. Levelling up means more than just increases to strength, defence and hit points. There are skill trees, new attacks to be learned, tons of different items, quests, even a collectible card system that provides different stats boosts when equipped. It’s complex.
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| What shall we get from the random skill generator this level . . . ? |
Unfortunately, when you don’t read Japanese and are relying on iffy machine translation, that complexity can be become a drawback. There were a lot of times when I wanted to move onto the next area but couldn’t because I hadn’t found the right item or spoken to the right townsperson. It feels harsh to criticise the game for my linguistic failings, especially as it was never intended to be played outside Japan, but it is a valid point. If you like sexy monster girls, want more of a game with your smut and can read Japanese, you’re going to think ROBF is amazing. If only the first two apply, then expect a lot of frustration and scanning of forum threads while you try to work out how the hell you’re supposed to enter that pyramid in the desert town (or even unlock the first sewer dungeon).
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| Trying to figure out how to get in some of these locations will drive you crazy. |
Making the player jump through a few hoops to unlock new sexiness isn’t that bad of a thing. While I liked the openness of games like Violated Quest and Violated Fantasy, it is easy to blast through all the content a little too quickly. ROBF gives more value by rationing out the hawtness. This can fall down, though, if the player enters a new area and finds none of the new monsters are their particular cup of tea. For me the main evil castle was a little disappointing as the monster girls were mostly bland. I was looking forward to see how the game represented a classic succubus and I didn’t find any.
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| Not a succubus, but she still wants to suck out your soul |
Overall it has a good variety of different monster girl types. There are also plenty of scenes with various NPC girls for fans of less monstery hentai. There’s plenty of depth including extras such as being able to buy your own house and also catch certain monster girl types to fight for you (and hang out at your house to provide other . . . uh . . . services). Definitely not for the fainthearted though. Trying to battle through this with AGTH + Translation Aggregator was tough.
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Hentai Game Roundup - Summer 2013
After the success of Monster Girl Quest monster girl eroges appear to be a thing now. I haven’t covered any in a while because...well...Monster Girl Quest chapter 3 and its 80-odd separate scenarios. The games are still coming out and here are a few worth checking out:
Violated Hero III
The Violated Hero series is onto the 3rd Installment. This time it looks like you get to battle a nine-tailed fox spirit in a Medieval Japan-themed world. The series has always had gorgeous artwork and fully-voiced H-scenes. As with the last game there are fifteen new monster girls to ‘play’ with. Be warned, they like to play rough. The Violated Hero series doesn’t have the same enthusiasm for vore as MGQ, but they do like the classic S&M scenarios, so expect plenty of sadistic femdom taunting and a few ‘ouch, that looks painful’ (the plant girl has thorns there!?) moments.
Gamplay-wise they appear to have ditched the pseudo-3D dungeon crawling in favour of the branching event-chain maps similar to quest mini-games of Lvl1 Hero Breeding Plan. A lot of the tutorial text is embedded in the artwork. This would make working out which stat is which a problem, but thankfully Dargoth has already produced an English patch. Get that from here before playing the game.
I’ll be playing the game over the weekend and will probably throw up a review next week.
Ever Dance With The Devil In The Pale Moonlight
Spillasoft’s follow-up/prequel to their Nymph Principal visual novel. A succubus comes to a man with a challenge to see if he can resist her temptations over the next seven days. The artwork looks like it’s been done by the same person (Nymph Principal was a little all over the place with the differing art styles). The H-scenes seemed a little lacking in sound effects from what I saw.
House of Monster Girls
Hmm, wonder what body part fetish this is targeting. I’ll freely admit to liking a big pair of boobs, but there are limits...
Okay, maybe there aren’t. I still bought the game.
Another visual novel. You find yourself in a spooky mansion inhabited by lusty monster girls. There are five monster girl characters in total (slime girl, alraune, lamia, doll, succubus) each with two scenes. Seems okay from my quick peek, although possibly a little too much text slowing things down.
ROBF
I think this one’s been out for a while. I remember playing the demo a while back. It’s another top-down RPG-maker-type clone. The combat encounters are all sex battles—the only sword the hero gets to use is the one between his legs. Sex combat seemed fairly well done from what I saw, with some animation to liven things up. Unfortunately it doesn’t appear to have made it to the English dlsite, but I might track it down and give it a try at some point in the future.
Violated Fantasy
These dudes work fast. It wasn’t so long ago they put out their first game—Violated Quest. They don’t skimp on the monsterpedia either—the blurb promises 46 different monster girls. The first wasn’t really a game so much as wandering around a top-down map while monster girls jumped out and molested you in largely hopeless fights. The follow-up looks like it has more of a plot and possibly a bigger focus on the RPG elements. I’ll give it a look when I get a chance.
Oh, and if anyone has been itching to play Monster Girl Quest, but can’t be assed to mess around with autotranslators and the like, RogueTranslator has completed the first partial patch.
And, as usual, I'll finish things off with the usual plug. If you like the sound of these games I also have some reading material you might be interested in.
Violated Hero III
The Violated Hero series is onto the 3rd Installment. This time it looks like you get to battle a nine-tailed fox spirit in a Medieval Japan-themed world. The series has always had gorgeous artwork and fully-voiced H-scenes. As with the last game there are fifteen new monster girls to ‘play’ with. Be warned, they like to play rough. The Violated Hero series doesn’t have the same enthusiasm for vore as MGQ, but they do like the classic S&M scenarios, so expect plenty of sadistic femdom taunting and a few ‘ouch, that looks painful’ (the plant girl has thorns there!?) moments.
Gamplay-wise they appear to have ditched the pseudo-3D dungeon crawling in favour of the branching event-chain maps similar to quest mini-games of Lvl1 Hero Breeding Plan. A lot of the tutorial text is embedded in the artwork. This would make working out which stat is which a problem, but thankfully Dargoth has already produced an English patch. Get that from here before playing the game.
I’ll be playing the game over the weekend and will probably throw up a review next week.
Ever Dance With The Devil In The Pale Moonlight
Spillasoft’s follow-up/prequel to their Nymph Principal visual novel. A succubus comes to a man with a challenge to see if he can resist her temptations over the next seven days. The artwork looks like it’s been done by the same person (Nymph Principal was a little all over the place with the differing art styles). The H-scenes seemed a little lacking in sound effects from what I saw.
House of Monster Girls
Hmm, wonder what body part fetish this is targeting. I’ll freely admit to liking a big pair of boobs, but there are limits...
Okay, maybe there aren’t. I still bought the game.
Another visual novel. You find yourself in a spooky mansion inhabited by lusty monster girls. There are five monster girl characters in total (slime girl, alraune, lamia, doll, succubus) each with two scenes. Seems okay from my quick peek, although possibly a little too much text slowing things down.
ROBF
I think this one’s been out for a while. I remember playing the demo a while back. It’s another top-down RPG-maker-type clone. The combat encounters are all sex battles—the only sword the hero gets to use is the one between his legs. Sex combat seemed fairly well done from what I saw, with some animation to liven things up. Unfortunately it doesn’t appear to have made it to the English dlsite, but I might track it down and give it a try at some point in the future.
Violated Fantasy
These dudes work fast. It wasn’t so long ago they put out their first game—Violated Quest. They don’t skimp on the monsterpedia either—the blurb promises 46 different monster girls. The first wasn’t really a game so much as wandering around a top-down map while monster girls jumped out and molested you in largely hopeless fights. The follow-up looks like it has more of a plot and possibly a bigger focus on the RPG elements. I’ll give it a look when I get a chance.
Oh, and if anyone has been itching to play Monster Girl Quest, but can’t be assed to mess around with autotranslators and the like, RogueTranslator has completed the first partial patch.
And, as usual, I'll finish things off with the usual plug. If you like the sound of these games I also have some reading material you might be interested in.
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