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H Scene Count- Too many
Created by oneone1, translated by Kagura Games
Length- 8-10 hours~
Okay, so this is almost the same game Meritocracy of the Oni and Blade. So instead of writing a big piece, I’m going to focus more on the differences, which is really just the plot and a little of the sex.
Story
So compared to Oni, this is more political and dark(like I raped a girl and then fed her, alive, to my evil machine doll dark). Lots of rape and horrible things in a few characters backstories and just in general the world is way worse off. The second route characters are way more likeable then in Oni, and neither set is obviously evil. It’s also not a ripoff of a popular anime, I think. Honestly has way more character moments which helps the cast a lot, and make the end bits with them actually a bit emotional.
So this opens in a church with Annette, a blue elf, and Clacier, a blonde elf, talking about bringing Annette home. The rest of the game is technically the setup to reaching this moment. Technically because there is three ways to do that, and I wouldn’t call Annette a major part of the game for 85% of it. Clacier is the main character, and she’s basically no one. Orphan, she wants to become a knight like her other orphans since apparently that’s the only job option other then prostitute for her. Most of the game is the politics of the land she’s in as she joins the suicide squad of knights, tasked with fighting behemoths and other such dangerous monsters and individuals.
Now because this has a route system, I can’t talk about the entire thing. I only played the Knight route where you stay pure because I prefer that. And honestly Annette and Clacier felt pointless for a majority of the story. The two main leads were accessories to the plot. Muscle, basically. At a point they start dumping backstory to make things make sense and set up the church opening but by than, I didn’t care for the two main leads. They had no point in the main conflicts going on. Bad things were happening, but not really to them. When the story finally decided to make them important, I was already kinda done with them. Based on plot stuff, I figure Clacier is way more important in the other two routes, but I have no idea how they would make Annette make sense in those.
That’s not to say the game’s writing is bad. It just hides to much until the routes are fully split up, which takes to long. It makes the entire first 66% of the game setup without really offering any answers or catharsis for all the horrible things until it just trainwrecks into them. It gets really text heavy at the end to compared to the rest as it suddenly has to explain everything and setup events at the same time.
Gameplay
The game uses standard turns instead of ATB, which really doesn’t change much, and other then that no other changes then the models in combat and the weapons being single blades instead of dual. You change characters once in a while but most of their move list is the exact same. So run through dungeon, avoid enemies because they are not worth fighting, open chests, and fight the boss, repeat 4-6 times per chapter for 5 chapters.
So the game does two other things differently from Oni. First, every quest is kill a boss, at least on the knight route. This makes sense, as every mission is basically just training for the behemoth fights in story. Second,there is a menu option to show who is a walking h-scene and who has missions, even extra missions, for you. So now you don’t need to talk to every NPC to find side quests while getting groped the entire time. Improvements! (Seriously, this is a nice change.)
H and Other stuff
Has more romance scenes and more scenes with the supporting cast(which is larger and more likeable), but overall it’s just like Oni. Huge chests, corruption, animated sex with enemies, and so on. Actually has some NTR with one of the supporting cast and her guy if you like that stuff. Sound quality for sound effects and voices in general are better to.
Verdict
If you like Meritocracy you’ll like this. Otherwise it’s a great fap game and not much else. It’s story is okay, though it takes way to many sloggy dungeons for the cool stuff to happen. Basically play for the fap or use a high level save to make the dungeons a non issue.
Save for Ideology in Friction
Contains- All gallery scenes unlocked, the ingame animation viewer and sex stat controls are unlocked. Save 4 is at the start of the game with max level with most of the best gear so you can go for any ending you want. Save 1 and 2 are for the finale in the Knight route because I enjoyed the plot bits and such.