Oedo Trigger Is a pretty decent game, it can be abit short, however it is fun. So with that out of the way my experience and review will begin.
First off it does have a 18+ patch to replace the smoke/clouds with mosaic pixels, some may find what is the point of the patch, why not have it fully nude. Well the developer lives in Japan, they are open to freedom of expression but full nudity is deemed illegal, so they are meeting their customers halfway. There are a few translation errors but if your fluent or a native english speaker it won't put you off because your brain will automatically add/correct the sentences. One such error could and could also not be an error, and that is when you meet the female samurai the narration calls her a "he" constantly. This could be an error in translation but it could be see as correct in english because during the Edo period (i think that's when it says this game takes place.) Female samurai were called he/him as a sign of respect as a honorable warrior, it afforded them titles/respect normal women couldn't obtain.
Many of the stages are go from point A to point B, which isn't a bad thing there's plenty to explore but i wish there was more in the maps because going off the beaten path there's usually nothing involved. Now if your a headshot master in FPS games this game will screw your muscle reflexes hard, crit damage isn't by hitting the head but by hitting their crotches instead. Some mechanics you only see once, on a single level, in one of the castle levels you get ambushed from above door ways by ninjas and i thought it would become a staple the rest of the game but it sadly wasn't. Other stages you hold out with a timer in an arena, you can sometimes find ways to get out of the arena barely out of reach of the girls, i won't disclose levels or spots incase the developer tries to change it. I will say i doubt said developer would think of changing things like that mostly because if you got creative and found a way to avoid them being able to reach you they'd say kudos to being creative.
Next are the weapons you slowly buy/unlock new ones, i immediately went for the P90 but found that the pump action shotgun was the main weapon bread and butter, a single head... crotch shot can 1 shot every mob on normal Minus the Samurai girls they take 2-3 shots. Ninja girls can be annoying with their 3-way shot shurikens, and slightly faster movement speed. If you want a breeze through every mission go pump action shotgun -> EX vers, and for side arm the double barrel pistol is great, but i eventually ended up switching to the revolver that generally one shots the girls as well when... crotch shotted. The only weapon i sweated on using was the Magnum, because it only has like 6 shots and a reload time of like what feels like 15 seconds. There's many other weapons these were the two i blasted through the game with, (also if your a shadow warrior fan pump shotgun has a Lo Wang reload style.)
Bosses can be relatively easy as long as you've been upgrading movement speed with your money and souls. Only one boss i found i couldn't pump full of... bullets of concentrated love...? whatever it's made of anyway. The bosses much like normal girls do have special grapples if they catch you, with unique positions. The only boss i actually died on was the Giant girl, that was mostly because when you get grappled you take "struggle" damage every second, but with them no damage was done. This led to me letting them grab me and see when chip damage would take effect, turns out their a one shot since my character was jammed entirely up the giant womans crotch.
Sex/Sex positions there is alot of different struggle positions this developer went all out, if your into it it's probably here. Most have variations for 1-3 girls that grapple you at once, others only 1 or 2 can. There are some levels where you can get a drip show (is that a term? now i have to google it... it's not a term well it is now!) you crawl through the bathhouse floor grates to get past locked doors and have some women showering and pleasing themselves and their enjoyment drips on you as you crawl through the grates. There's medium sized women that also have their own struggle positions, i didn't know this because i found safety spots so they couldn't touch my No No Pixels.
Skills/Charms aside from buying guns/grenades you can buy skill/stat upgrades and charm buffs like increased money pick up range, more ammo, bigger tits, smaller tits, all girls wear specific outfits (wouldn't choose this since their outfit tells you what type your dealing with.) among other things, they all have higher upgrade levels that do much more with greater effect, want the hostile women/girls to have tits that engulf their entire body mass? go for it, want them to be non-existent? got that too. You can only have so many equipped at once unless you upgrade with money/souls the capacity.
There is a top down shooter section, play that section with a mouse and keyboard if you value your sanity, it feels weird/awkward with a controller. Thankfully those levels don't come often (apologies developer) to that regard the helicopter section is very bullet hellish and the mini-gun seems to over-heat way too fast while trying to protect yourself when trying to deal with the enemy.
I will say this was unexpected but this game did give me a few jump scares at times, mostly the tried and true strat of aiming down the sights while walking backwards, didn't realize sometimes they spawn behind you and got grappled from behind several times, only other time was with the ninja ambushes mentioned earlier, until i became paranoid of every door way.
Achievements there are 32? in game achievements that unlock certain rewards or upgrades for completing them, the hardest one is a combo of 60 incapacitations (kills) only available on 1 or 2 stages. The developer is very helpful in tells you which stage you can complete it on, if you need the help. Most can be gotten just by casually playing the game/exploring the maps/home base.
Item pickups there are red boxes littered around the map, they contain yen, ammo, health, or temporal shift energy, the one downside i wish the developer did was make them different from one another. They all look alike so if you need ammo you might break all 9 of them and only get yen, i even looked at them from every angle never seen a indication of difference personally.
In closing the game is fun and has harder/easier difficulties i stuck with normal, pick it up if you want a few hours of fun, or you just want to step outside your comfort zone. Also before anyone asks, no this game is not one handed approved... go to the model gallery section for that stuff. Had i thought about it before hand i would have written down story corrections when it comes to the translations to help the developer out, but again not needed all that much honestly.
If you made it to the end of this review, go grab yourself a cookie, you earned it, and have a great day.
Quick edit - It took me a few hours after playing this game to quit shooting people in FPS in the ♥♥♥♥, thanks developer... back to correctly aiming at their heads.
