Euclyca

[b]Playing status:[/b] 100% achievement, finished the game [b]Grindy Achievement(s):[/b] No. [b]Optional Achievement(s):[/b] No. [b]Difficult Achievement(s):[/b] No. [h1]Intro[/h1] [b]Euclyca[/b] is an RPG Maker game that features optional NSFW scenes. However, although it's a hentai game, I won't review the game for that particular content. [b]Pros:[/b] - Optional NSFW scenes - Side quests to know more about your party members - A lot of customizable battle options - Autosaves are helpful [b]Cons:[/b] - Class upgrades are not explained thoroughly in the game - Bugs on some extra contents - Some fights rely on RNG to beat - The game will automatically reset your party build at some point [b]Specs[/b] Intel Core i5-9300H 2.40GHz, 8GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 [h1]Should you buy this game?[/h1] [b]Yes.[/b] [i]If you have the itch to play RPG Maker games or simply want to play for the NSFW content, go for it when it's heavily discounted. You might want to play the dev's previous games first to know more about the story though.[/i] [hr][/hr] [h1]In-Depth Review[/h1] [h3]Visuals[/h3] Designing towns seem to be what the game does best, presenting you with three great-looking towns with a distinct look. The background for visual novel-style screens also looks beautiful and varied. However, dungeons are just plain lazy - they are either a big square with borders or a vast area with almost nothing but decorations in it. Some portraits are also drawn in a different style from others and some looks stretched out. [h3]Story[/h3] You will be given too much information at the same time, especially regarding characters that are introduced in other games. Yes, [b]Euclyca[/b] introduces characters from the dev's other games and refers to events that were happening with a quick recap. Since I haven't played this particular game, it was hard to keep up with the characters, especially with how short the recap was. Imagine seeing someone that suddenly shows up out of nowhere and everyone seems to proceed with it as normal. The thing is, they are also vital to the story in this game, and their sudden appearance just makes their character feel weak. A lot of information is buried beneath side quests. Although most of them are related to the NSFW scenes, they also include some bonding between characters, letting you know about their background and concerns. You'll miss a lot if you don't do this since the game will proceed as if you already know about them afterward. Some quests will also pretend as if you are accessing it at the moment when you can access it for the first time, making it feel weird when you do all side quests right before you beat the final boss. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2555675051 Negative things aside, the writing is decent. The characters might talk a lot, but they get their point across smoothly. Some characters also give off a different vibe from the way they talk, whether it's because of their serious or cheerful nature. I also noticed a lot of typos in the dialogues, although I usually can figure out what it means before realizing it. The ending feels insignificant for whatever the character is going through. There are 2 endings, but they only differ in one or two dialogues and you are forced to defeat the final boss again to experience both. Moreover, you need to beat it a few more times to experience other minor variations to it. I gave up doing it after the second try since the time it took to beat the final boss doesn't worth the few dialogues that I got afterward. [h3]The Game[/h3] [b]Gameplay[/b] The game is highly customizable. You can change the battle system to be the traditional turn-based, active ATB, or wait ATB. You also can change the encounter rate in areas with random encounters, battle speed, and many more. Most of it seems to be the basic feature of [b]RPG Maker MZ[/b], but combat becomes easier with these options, especially for those who are not good at it. Class promotions help to give a customizable feeling to your party members. However, there is no explanation about them nor any "trial" period to give a feel of the two different classes that are available to each character. Moreover, this doesn't matter in the end. You are forced to change to a certain class after a certain point of the game, giving you an illusion of choice. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2555675170 [b]Combat[/b] Enemies can be accessed through touch-based and random encounters. Touch-based enemies won't respawn after you defeat them, and the random encounters help to increase your level. Enemies give out a lot of exp, making it easy to level up after 1-3 battles. Furthermore, you will be fully healed on level up, so you don't have to worry about running out of MP. Combat becomes RNG-based if you are low-leveled. Some enemies can kill one of your party members in 1-2 hits and there are hardly any revive skills early game. Moreover, some status ailments couldn't seem to be treated by a skill that claims to treat them. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2555676763 Bosses can be very repetitive. Buffs and debuffs will be vital for them, and you need to keep them up at all times to prevent getting a lot of damage. However, all bosses feel the same - you just need to cycle through the same skill set to beat. They still provide some sort of accomplishment after you defeat them, but they are mostly due to the RNG that can kill your party members if you are unlucky. [b]Length and Difficulty[/b] I finished the game in 17.3h. Some fights can be difficult - I even got game over several times when I played. Luckily, you can quickly grind levels to make them easier. There is a replayability value if you want to get all NSFW scenes, but you need to replay the game as a different character to unlock them. There is a way to do it while retaining your party members' level and equipment, but the feature is buggy. I got a black screen after playing it for a while since I triggered an event that recruited a certain party member twice before allowing them to leave. Story-wise, there is no replayability value aside from different responses from both characters regarding the same event. [b]Problems[/b] The game always shows an error when you start it. The developer states that they can't fix it because of engine limitation, although it's weird to see that the early build works without the error. Some extra features that are not related to the main game are not being tested properly and were stated in the game. Lastly, you can't skip the event with a timer. You need to wait for ~2 minutes for a song to end or wait for a timed event before the next one starts. [h1]Conclusion[/h1] Well, it's another tough game to rate. NSFW content aside, the game is a solid RPG Maker game if you are itching to play a game in that engine. However, people who can't tolerate any NSFW content won't enjoy the game to its fullest because of the subtle reference outside the NSFW scenes. Moreover, some useful dialogues are buried beneath the NSFW scenes, forcing you to watch them. The game isn't without many issues though. The story can be a lot to take in for people who never played the dev's previous game. It took me a while to organize my mind to understand everything, and even after that, the story was still somewhat vague to me. I couldn't relate to the final boss' reasoning, for example, since I felt as if there is nothing serious that is happening to them. It was kinda hard to recommend the game, but since it's still a mediocre game, I ended up recommending it. Make sure to get it at a sale though, and only if you don't mind with the NSFW scenes and issues that I mentioned. [quote]This game was reviewed with a key provided by the developer for free[/quote]

Combat in this game is terrible. It has a good foundation (decent skill/magic abilities) but enemies are either basically either 1-2 shot kills, or they take 10 minutes to kill and/or impossible to kill as they kill you first, with basically nothing in-between. Enemies always seem to deal massive damage to you, whereas you have to chip away at enemy health for ages, Not to mention enemies LOVE applying status effects to you and buffing themselves constantly, and you have no way to remove most status effects, nor dispell enemy buffs. I've only gotten one NSFW scene so far, and it was pretty lackluster; just a single image. As well, all images in the game seem to be 'stretched out' for some reason, including the title screen, as if it's fitted to the wrong resolution, but you can't change the resolution to fix that (every resolution has the same aspect ratio). Music is pretty good. From what I've seen so far, the story seems rather weird. In the intro, the game describes the Invaders as an alien species that literally destroys worlds, and yet when you get into the game, it's completely different, as there's skirmishes, battles, and armies; whereas if they really were world destroyers, there wouldn't be any fighting, it would just be over.

So this is an interesting game. The game play itself reminds me of my younger days, when almost every game that came out pretty much looked like this. A few things to note: [strike]1. be sure to turn on auto saves. I could not find a way to manually save the game anywhere. Not by pressing buttons or opening up the menu, no magic crystals access points, nothing. Thankfully i thought to turn on auto saves when I began the game (I believe auto save is defaulted to OFF so be sure to turn it on!)[/strike] 2. This game likes to introduce new party members, without warning, and making you fight with them solo with ZERO preparations. Honestly if it werent for the afore mentioned auto save feature it would have been game over for me several times just from that mechanic alone. NOT a nice way to get to know someone new. 3. I also could not find any pause option. Which means all battles are "real time" and you dont get a chance to think about what you want the character who is currently up to do. If you dont pick quick, your holding up your whole team, while the monsters continue to beat you to a pulp. Also instead of picking the monster you want to attack from a list, you have to actually click on them, and some of the hit boxes are small / off so that trying to get your character to hit the monster becomes frustrating. Combine that with the no pause active battle system and it leads to alot of needless casualties. Also some of the monsters are excessively hard for where you run into them at. Farm experience, and dont attack strange powerful monsters unless you just want to see how hard they are so you can work up to being able to take them out at some future point (as an example i got one shot killed by a multi armed smoking gorrilla! sht you not lol) Ok you say but what about the AO content. Well i havnt seen much of it yet. You have to put in some serious game time to even get to the point where you can access it. Oh and of course, all the quests related to getting some are tied in to some serious combat. [spoiler]Be sure to go to the shop next door to the barracks, and buy new weapons/armors potions and class skills makes things ALOT easier. In this game you always want to be over prepared[/spoiler] So you have to earn it. As for the one character's quest i saw, Ill say the writting for it was pretty good, but the Art needed some work. Personally i felt that getting it on so easily with them (combat not withstanding, cause that was a couple of rough fights) so quickly was a bit much. Id really hoped for a much longer drawn out romance line(s) that progressed along with the main quest. I havnt completed the game yet, so maybe thats there. But usually when ya get the goods that easy, its because there is nothing else to see there. All in All its not the best game in any of the categories it might be tossed in. It needs some more user friendly options (like real time pause, come on not all of us are 18 any more) and the introduction of all the party characters would be a lot more interesting and enjoyable if we werent having to figure out which of their skills we need to use Right Now not to game over when we dont even know what their skills are or what they do. Also seriously just a bit more party interaction that wasnt completely centered around combat would be nice too. all in all i'd give this a [strike]6.5[/strike] 7/10 (dev's are responsive and have a sense of humor) Edited 02/23/21 after being educated on where to find that save screen (thanks again), and for a few typo's I noticed.

[h1]보1지 보여줌. 꼭1지 보여줌. 캐릭터별 개성에 많은 공을 들인 게임[/h1] [b]이 게임은 제작사로부터 큐레이터 커넥트 받은 게임입니다.[/b] 일단 주인공이 어떤사람들과 파티를 맺는지에 따라 볼 수 있는 H씬이 달라진다. 주인공이 남캐인데 남캐들로만 파티를 구성하면 이벤트때 남캐랑 H씬을 하는것을 볼 수도 있고.... 반대로 여캐들로만 파티를 구성하면 이벤트가 나올때마다 여캐랑 H씬을 하는것을 볼 수 있다. 다만 하렘플레이는 안되며 오직 둘이서만 H씬을 진행할 수 있으니 그렇게 알 것. 도중에 난입하거나 방해받는 일은 없다. 캐릭터는 처음에는 가디언 하나로 시작하지만 레벨업을 하면서 직업을 바꾸는것이 가능하다. 상당히 많은 2차직업이 있고 어떤것을 중점으로 키우느냐에 따라 완전히 다른 방식의 전투를 하는것도 가능하다. 오토전투에 능한 땡공용 캐릭터라던지 아니면 스킬을 써서 한방에 다수를 노릴 수 있는 마법사형 캐릭터, 파티 맨 앞에서서 팀을 체력을 책임지는 인간성기사 라던지 아니면 여러 스킬을 바탕으로 다재다능한 캐릭터(할줄 아는건 많은데 제대로 하는것은 없는...이라고 도 불림)를 쓰는것도 좋다. 끝으로 캐릭터 중에 비인간 캐릭터(네코미미 말고 그냥 고양이같은 완전한 동물)같은것도 있는데 걔들이랑은 H씬이 없으니 그렇게 알 것. [h1]누가 사겠다면 가격 괜찮은 사람들에게 추천하겠음.[/h1]

As the game is now completed I am changing the review to match the finished product. The gameplay reminds me a lot of the old school RPGs I played back in my teenage years, and I really enjoyed it from start to finish. I strongly recommend it especially if you like oldschool RPGs like Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger. All in all my experience of the game was a really good one, even if I found some bugs along the way the game was in Early Access so finding bugs was really normal for me haha. So that's my review of the game hope people try it out and see the game for themselves.

A surprisingly innovative party-based RPG with an open world and interesting new battle mechanics. The real-time combat system is intense and complex; at its best it's quite engaging and makes excellent use of synergies, though at times it can feel frustrating or repetitive. (Buffs are actually worth the action economy! What a concept!) The difficulty balance also needs some work: It's easy to reach a point where your party utterly curb-stomps most enemies and then go into a boss fight and get TPK'd. Saving is easy and usually available, but not automatic, so the adage applies: Save early, save often. The characters are overall pretty good; each one has a unique personality and you find yourself caring about them and picking favorites. The story is also decent, though not always the most original. (Genre-savvy players will see most of the plot twists from a mile away.) Aside from suggestive dialogue and a few suggestively-named items, the sexual content is pretty spaced out and all optional. If you wanted to you could go through the whole game without seeing any of it; conversely if you were hoping for a lot of sex you'd be rather disappointed. This isn't a porn game; it's an RPG where you can have sex with some of your party members and the camera doesn't pan away when you do. I find it rather refreshing that they were able to introduce sex into the game without making the whole game dominated by it.

覺得還可以，但原價買就不推薦(可是因為這遊戲對我來說有特殊意義還是給推薦)，建議大特價再買。 1.當初是因為它有Gay/BL相關內容+NSFW內容+日系畫風+不是視覺小說，我才買這款遊戲的~ 因為要符合這些條件的遊戲真的很少見，所以我對它的容忍度滿高的。 2.玩家可選擇要操控男主角或是女主角。 3.這遊戲的劇情我覺得算是滿中規中矩的(我還沒玩完，但目前玩了約20小時，好像也到後期了，不知道有沒有多周目設定)，雖然有幾幕讓我鼻酸，但只是因為我哭點很低而已。 劇情是有一些轉折點的(例如：突然給某人發便當)，整體給我的感覺還是偏日系王道冒險故事。 4.CG的部分從預覽圖應該就能感受到了，是由不同人畫的，品質不一，整體偏不優，但因為第1點，所以我還能接受。 另外，CG圖出現時似乎和遊戲畫面大小不符，所以圖片會被拉長壓扁，看起來比較不好看。 5.戰鬥的小人圖是整個遊戲來說我覺得畫風和設定最精緻的部分(武器根據職業也會有所變化)，再來才是人物立繪。 6.戰鬥的部份主打"即時回合制"，如果覺得難度比較高可以在一開始找家裡的小狗選擇其他戰鬥模式(我目前選的是最傳統的回合制)。 7.有不少附加的小功能系統(例如：製作物品系統)，但用處不大，有時候感覺有點多餘。 8.遊戲內可以轉職，算是比較有意思的設定~ 9.沒有當前任務顯示(任務日誌)，有時候都會忘記發生什麼事了。 10.收集要素少，比較可惜。 11.BGM普遍都滿好聽的~ -----------------更新 最近開遊戲發現沒辦法打王(或許是所有戰鬥都沒辦法打)...一準備跳到戰鬥畫面就會出現錯誤的提示...。 -----------------更新 以上問題的解決方式： (1)開新檔。(我沒試過) (2)右鍵點擊收藏庫中的該遊戲->內容->測試版->earlyaccess-For early access players 。(我試了，問題解決了，但部份UI會變回較簡陋的樣子...。)

Consider it an 18+ Final Fantasy I don't like to give 0 out of 10 reviews for early access games just a buy/not buy based on the current content And from what i have played of this game (2 hours) i would say definite buy, i gave a review early on in my gameplay because this genre of game needs support. It is (or will be) a fully fleshed out RPG game with NSFW sexual content on the side and i for one can't wait for more games such as this. So if you are looking for a 100% adult oriented game (there's a ton of swearing, lewd jokes etc.) then this ones for you.

Loved the game. Lots of twists and turns in the story and I liked how you also get to play from the perspective of the other characters during some scenes. The game is fairly long, however my playtime isn't accurate as I had left it open while working from home :) I still definitely think that the game length justifies its price. I recommend it for those looking for these type of rpg games but for those who're just in for the adult oriented content you wouldn't be satisfied as it's really just an optional part of the game. This is my first game from Team Syukino and I'm now fired up to try your other games. Thank you again for this amazing game.

overall good. can recommend it. the price is also in offer for -75% very good.