Trix and the Horny Tower

An rpg made in the RPG maker where a single protagonist tackles the challenge of a cursed tower. Does it offer anything beyond generic, budget rpg titles? You play as female mercenary Trix, who is married to Effraim, who is in financial troubles. To aid him, you take on a mission to investigate a cursed tower, and so have other four challengers introduced during the mission briefing. You can interact with and develop friendships with your rivals as you progress through the mission. Depending on your choices, you can collect friendship tokens. With enough tokens (4+), you will be able to unlock extra scenes. Also, the final choice will impact which one of the two endings you will obtain. The story is rather uninspired, linear, and predictable. Some small, unimportant revelations are present, but they do not influence the story at all. Also, your decisions have little to no impact on Trix. There is supposed to be some character corruption, but it is very inconsequential and disconnected from the ending of the story. Even worse, the way Trix acts during hscenes is so out of character that it feels unnatural. No matter how slutty or pure you are, it does not change anything. As for the challenge, it is fairly low, except for some puzzles. You will be able to level up reasonably fast without needing to grind. Every level gives you one skill point, which can be used to unlock one of your skills or skill extensions. The levels are capped at 25, a level that is just enough to unlock all skills. The game is not very long, so you should be able to complete everything in less than 20h easily, especially considering that there are barely any side quests. Everything can be unlocked in one playthrough. As mentioned above, there are some puzzles. I would say that this is the best element of this title. Every section of the tower contains a different type of puzzle to solve in order to progress. For the most part, the puzzles are easy enough to solve, but some can be more tedious. Fortunately, for those who are stuck, there is an option to automatically solve each by giving a specified number of items, dropped by fighting enemies, to a succubus in front of the tower. Overall, it was a fairly average experience. Nothing was outstanding or horrible. Still, it can be enjoyable a bit, but the price feels a bit too steep, so it's only worth getting when it's on sale. The character sprites present here are pretty standard among rpg maker titles. If you played other budget rpg maker titles, you should know what to expect. The quality of CGs during hscenes is somewhat below average, and there are only a few present during each scene. There is at least no mosaic censorship, unlike the majority of Japanese products. There is only one simply designed town, a few field maps, and 25 compact tower floors to explore. You will spend the majority of the time inside the tower, where the design style changes every 5 floors. Not very much work went into map creation, but at least puzzles offer some variety. Music is of the generic type. Nothing memorable or grating, just good enough to serve as an audio filler. Same for the sound effects. No voice acting is present. I need to mention that the game crashed several times during my playthrough, so I recommend saving frequently. To conclude, this rpg is fairly generic. Weak, short story, small maps with okay puzzles, and at most average art and music. Nothing really stands out, but if you like puzzles, you are likely to enjoy this budget title a little. Very cautious positive from me: 4.8/10