H Scene Count: 266~

Created by Fred Perry

Length- 10~ hours to beat normally, 100~ to 100%.

FUCK IT, IT’S DONE

It took like two months to finish but I 100% the base version of Tactics Elemental. I won’t say it was worth it but I’m just glad to be done with the mindless combat stuff. Anyway…

Tactics Elemental is a SRPG that I funded on offbeatr like a year or two ago. I think the pitch was Fire Emblem supports but with porn. Which is basically right.

Gameplay

Starting with gameplay as its the meat of what you’ll be grinding through for the porn. Below is the standard look of a fight.

You move, and depending on range either attack or use skills. There’s some decent variety of skills between the characters(there’s like 20+) and a really big emphasis on elements. Your main goal is to match enemy to a one hit element skill. If that doesn’t work use the next best thing or run away to manage something better. Also, enemies drop stat up items on death which are just straight up permanent buffs. Most fights, at least later on, will be one hit kill affairs. Other then that all fights are just win battle and they play out largely the same, especially when you reach the grind portion of the game.

Above is the map you get when you recruit basically everyone. The game suddenly says level 50 is what you should have, but your average is probably 25~. So it’s time to grind! Which is good since this is the first time in the game for you to really work on the bonding system.

Each fight you get affection points if the right people are together. For example, if Karinth and Surge are in the same fight and both live, they get ten points. Every fifty is a sex scene and a free fight worth’s of points. Most characters get four scenes and every girl save for one is paired with 4 guys that each get a different amount of points. The amounts are pretty random but generally its either 10, 5, 3.3, or 2.5. That means the number of fights for the highest is 17 before you get all their sex stuff, while the longest is 77. And if you switch partners for the guy or girl, the points reset to zero. So once you see their 50 scene you are committed to their 200. Oh and you can only do two couples at once since the biggest free battle map only allows 5 people. These bonds get you stat bonuses but those will quickly become just a small plus. But you can build the bonuses beyond when you would get new scenes so eventually they could become useful.  But since the focus is on switching your party up to get new scenes its unlikely you will ever get bonds to really matter combatwise.

This is the main status menu. On the right is the scene replay list. At 100% its 33 pages long. Its a lot to grind through and that’s probably the game’s biggest issue. These are the payoff for the game/ The main reason you’ll likely play it. And they take forever.

One main issue with the game I had was accuracy and evasion system. In the status screen these are uncapped, but in combat they both cap at 500. The hit formula for attacks is accuracy minus evasion. So since they cap at the same amount, and you have to grind a lot in this game, you will hit the cap. Enemies scale so they will also hit the cap. For a good majority of the party this is fine since you will almost exclusively be using skills to attack with, but a couple people don’t have attack skills or you only use their attack skills every three turns. Note: this was finally fixed around dlc 2’s release. Now they are uncapped so you will never miss unless you are horribly leveled.

For example, Wulfe. For me he is a 100% useless unit. His skills are a movement buff which is decent, teleport and shield skills which essentially add a weakness and resistance to whoever stands in that square. He can’t fight. He can’t heal. But he’s paired with 5 different girls. I didn’t realize this problem until it was far to late so now I have to grind affection with his dead weight in my party. It doesn’t help that I haven’t liked any of his scenes to date and he has the slowest or second slowest gain rate with all his options. I’m looking at about 300 some fights with a completely useless unit. Thankfully he is the only useless male and he’s only paired with one useless female. She can mind control a unit for a turn. Then she can’t do anything for 8 turns. Which is still better then Wulfe since she can do something once a fight.

The wort part is Tampini. The only girl who goes to 400 and has 8 scenes between two guys(who have the slowest growths), one of which is Wufle. She can’t fight either. Her special skill is to not exist for a turn. Luckily I did her early on.

If not for this issue I wouldn’t mind the game that much. It still wouldn’t be good mind you, but I could treat it like a single player browser game. Something to grind in and kill time for small rewards while watching a streamer. It’s just the time investment here is such that if I want to finish this year I need to do about 20 fights a day which of course lowers my time of other things. But I did it.

I guess I should mention NG+. For the most part NG+ is just replaying the story with levels and bonds intact, but you’ll want to do this when DLC starts coming out. Near the middle of the game is two level 150+ fights. Beating these tells you that something was unlocked but the thing that was isn’t in the game yet. So for full access to the game you need to go back and do these high level fights.

Story

The Xubus is a race/collection of world eating things. They are coming to Nowhere, which is the setting of the game. They arrive and basically reap worlds, killing or enslaving everything. Sage Threedle, a high ranking member of Nowhere, has an idea to summon an Avatar, a normal person who gets the power of the Divine to battle the Xubus to save their world.

Threedle and Chizzle, her aid/manservent go off to to check some reports when they find the Xubus have started to come to their world. Fending off the scouts, we the player learn about bonding. In Nowhere couples gain power as they sexually connect with their partner. The more sexual acts the stronger that actually become. But if either partner allows themselves to orgasm to someone other then their coupling partner, the bond is broken and reset to zero. Threedle attempted to weaponize this special trait of Nowhere but Chizzle orgasmed to blonde ass. After running around and meeting a women who attempted the same summon an avatar thing, you switch to another group who talk about hunting and planar horrors and the two groups soon meet up. They get to a tower, fight through it, summon the player avatar and have to escape and build up the avatar to be able to fight off the Xubus.

The plot starts out decently if not for the amount of sexual stuff littered everywhere. Like the Xubus main bad guy is apparently just a space anus. Half of Chizzle and Threddle’s interactions are talking about sex and how hung Chizzle is. It fits when you realize sex and switching partners in Nowhere is an everyday thing. Sex is everywhere and people just do it without having to worry. One bit later on explains that pregnancy is impossible without a ritual. This ritual requires on of the parents to give up their special element affinity that Nowhere gives them, meaning any single couple can have at most two kids. This is brought up with the plant people and how they cannot as a people grow in this world do to how things work. Its an interesting idea(to me at least) that is never followed upon, at least yet, and their is a few other things that are just kinda left hanging for future DLC(not that I expect child birth or pregnancy in this game since that would render one of your fights useless for the rest of the game).

My biggest issue with the story ends up being how the later half works. After a bit with the avatar you start jumping party’s as you recruit everyone else and then all of a sudden you are at the final fight. The build up to winning feels far to sudden and easy. Like everything just happened to work out. We never even have an interaction with a serious villain, just this guy with a horn for a penis.

H Stuff and other Stuff

The h is generally short scenes between two people, unvoiced. All consensual(female/male only) of a big variety of things. For example, one of your guys is a detective of magical things. So all of his scenes with any women involve magic artifacts of some sort. Every couple, with three exceptions, has about four scenes that follow a theme like that. Unlocking the porn, as noted above, is the main goal of the game and the biggest investment.  I do like how the game uses all different skin colors and body types(save for actual loli) making everyone standout. Skin color especially makes me happy, as I feel not enough games beyond monster girl stuff bothers with anything other then white. It’s just that if you are going to use a fantasy setting, why not make things more exotic by having a race who isn’t white or black? It stands out. The lack of fantasy colors in most games doesn’t bother me, but when a game uses them it stands as something cool to me.

The game itself looks decent. The models are all unique and look good though some move really slow for some reason. I stopped the music about an hour in when I figured this was a game that needed background sounds so I can’t say anything about that.

Verdict and Save

Honestly I enjoyed how difficult the beginning of the game was, though it hit me over the head with elemental tutorials way to much. Like any time you switch characters it would have them explain how to us their elements against their enemies. Anyway, I had some fun until I reached the level 50+ maps and I started checking out the porn. I liked the art and some of the scenes were good. I beat the game soon after that and went to grinding and it was annoying. The best way to describe it is a browser game without the internet. Each fight took 2-3 minutes and I needed anywhere from 4 to 19 fights to get a new scene.

If you like the art just use a save to save yourself the hassle. If you want to play an okay SRPG with porn then this is a good option. Nothing great but maybe some of the DLC will make the game better? At the very least maybe that kinda bland ending will be fixed.

DLC Chapter 1- Ultralust

A couple decent fights for a mid level party. No real new mechanics but meh, it can be fun. Main issue is that at midlevel everything starts to be unhittable with normal attacks and you are forced to use Cass who has no attack skills and whose mind control doesn’t let you control enemies in the dlc for some reason as your only trainable fighter. You also get Nois who is the main reoccuring bad guy, but he’s weak. So for two fights that’s all you get. It almost luck based if you’ll win or not. The new story scenes are nice though, but nothing majorily important for someone who cares about the lore or anything.

Overall okay. Nothing special.

DLC 2-

Again you get a party forced onto you, but now that accuracy is fixed that doesn’t matter. It’s about 6- 7 fights with a sex scene between each that are suppose to fill in why two of the sages are just missing for the entire game. Once you finish the story you can rewatch any bit from the dlc entrance menu if you want to see the scenes again.

Tactics Elemental

Save contains every intermission unlocked, a save right before the avatar skin choice which affects h scenes, and two saves at story moments that basically have h scenes that are not in the gallery. Now with DLC 1 and 2 saves to the new scenes.

Save

DLC saves might be broken. Some later updates might be the cause and I have no vested interest in finding out. Sorry, but I kind of hate this game as far as going back to it is concerned.