*** Played on Linux, Meta Quest 3 via WiVRn ***
[h1]What's this game[/h1]
A softporn shooter like Gal*Gun where you shoot girls that are trying to grab and... "kiss" you. Different from Gal*Gun this one has smooth motion and light RPG mechanics.
[h2]Setting[/h2]
This game happens in the Japanese Edo Period and is more historically accurate than Assassin's Creed Shadows. It also features an anatomically more accurate female Shinobi which does not have a male name.
[h2]Lore[/h2]
The game is made for the all-powerful Male Gaze™, which makes it 200% better right out of the box. The protagonist is a short child-bodied young man (over 18) with hair over his eyes which is magically transported to the Edo period by a lewd demon girl and is given a few weapons to fight some mind-controlled girls (all the men have been exterminated, it seems). The weapons rip their clothes off then make they climax and disappear.
I might be misrepresenting the story. It is somewhat convoluted. The characters act irrationally and there's some sort of plot twist at the end.
[h2]Game mechanics[/h2]
This game resembles Gal*Gun but it's way better, with weapon upgrades and smooth motion. You don't have a run or jump button.
You can buy upgrades for your weapons and attributes (like running speed and life) in the game's hub after each mission. There are 5 episodes, each with around 10 missions. Before each mission you can choose the difficulty easy, medium or hard. The missions are varied and with different objectives and each episode ends with a boss fight. There are missions to (un)paint the ground with combat, there are missions to go through some areas, there are arena missions, there are missions for collectable, and in the latest chapters there are special missions where you combat giantesses, mini-giantesses and the final boss is a mega-giantess that you fight in a chopper.
You also have a special power ("sage mode") that makes the world go in slow motion for a few seconds and temporarily gives you infinite ammo. Some stages have recharges for its meter, but it also refills with kills.
All weapons come with a given amount of ammo and you might exhaust the faster weapon if you don't hit much. You'd usually have a way to get around by with the secondary weapon. Some levels refill ammo at set stages.
If you are caught by the girls who chase you, they perform some lewd act on you and you have to get free by rapidly clicking the trigger button. This minigame is easy but the animations are quite varied and you can become mesmerized by them and just give up on the level to see how it ends. If you fail you can just try the level again.
When you get to the last chapter, you unblock a "gallery" feature that allows you to customize the main characters that interact with you and experiment with the game's several animations (specially if you used the nude patch). A very welcome addition and after beating the game you unlock all animations and cosmetic features.
The game has a big frame on the hub room with your challenges and achievements, but it does not have achievements on Steam.
It took me 7.5 h to finish the entire game. However it has a lot of replayability, so the short time is not a big downside.
[h2]Aesthetics[/h2]
The game caters to various sexual fetishes which were made popular by sites like deviant art and 4chan. You mind find them funny, pitiful, disturbing or exciting (in which case you are a pervert). Most are related to giant women. The ones I recognized are: (1) giantesses, (2) mini-giantesses, (3) feet fetish, (4) being stomped, (5) voreaphilia, (6) insertion/unbirth, (7) boob crushing. I'm not an expert, if you find more please leave a comment and I'll edit this review.
All the women are anime-styled, with giant flat eyes, oddly shaped heads, minuscule mouths and noses, colored hair and skin, with child voices and incessant giggling. There are different bodies but they vary in very few attributes, like breast size and height. Although it's part of the aesthetics, it's important to note that the style is completely neotenic, intolerant of adult or mature beauty. That might adversely affect the healthy sexual maturing of young men who play the game by making them fixate on this impossible archetype.
The game is classified as adult on Steam but doesn't have any nudity or graphic acts. But you can grab the developer's nude patch to add them to the game.
This is a very indie game and it shows. The animations are nice but they are full of shapes clipping into one another and might show a couple graphic artifacts too.
[h2]Soundtrack[/h2]
The background music is pleasant, soft and sticky. Appropriate to the game but it sticks for you the whole day. Apparently there are 10 different tracks.
[h2]VR Controls and interactions[/h2]
The game has teleport and smooth move, they're not a configuration setting but a switch activated by the left thumbstick click. It's annoying because sometimes in the middle of a battle you might press it by accident and lose control of your motion.
It has no smooth turn, only snap turn in small angles. It works well if you choose to turn physically though.
Objects and characters aren't solid, you don't grab them (your hands clip through) and they don't have physics. You have very little interaction with the environments: you can click-grab your weapons (a big weapon, a small weapon, and a throwable) and sometimes you find some valves that you can turn with one hand in a few levels. You can also find some doorknobs that you just click to open. This is clearly an opportunity for improvement in next titles.
[h2]Conclusion[/h2]
A worthy purchase even at full price if you're a perv and into the fetishes I mentioned. It will certainly work for your intended purpose, but please clean yourself afterwards. If you aren't into that, wait for a discount.
Some sample gameplay here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8RGAemu2Ug -- in retrospect, this wasn't very representative of the game. The painting levels are very few and the variety of character models in the actual game is a lot bigger than this video shows. In this video, the nude mod is not active.
