H Scene Count- 98, though a lot of them are variations. I’ll explain in the h scene section.
Created by Jukkaku Games, translated by Otaku Plan
Length- 10-15 hours to see the whole thing
RPGMaker VXAce turn based dungeon crawler. Has a slave theme. Girls are entirely voiced, which is nice.
Story
So the start of the story is the usual boat gets attacked while nameless main character was just hitching a ride. This time, another girl was also a stowaway and the two of you notice some ghosts attacking the ship. After fighting for their lives, the two are over numbered and the girl teleports away, leaving the man to die. Except there happens to be a magical legendary sword with a talking spirit in that room that the guy just happens to be a good match for, and so he survives. The boss of the ghosts mentions the Evil god that the sword was made to kill, and then the captain of the drops you off at some beach since he would get in trouble letting a stowaway get off at the port, but does give the guy some money and a few healing items as thanks. Oh, and there was a kidnapped princess on the ship to, but that’s next.
After finally making it to town with another girl, the core game begins and the plot leaves, kinda. The game guide tells you to go recruit a few people, the first of which will be sold on the slave auction. It turns out to be that princess(Torte) who was framed for killing her mother and was to be executed. After buying her, you finally descend into Labyrinthos, the dungeon you came here to get rich out of. Labyrinthos and the surrounding area has an effect where killing monsters drops loot that never runs out, so adventurers like the place and merchants get goods to sell.
After the first floor, you interact with a teleport sigil and end up somewhere. Here you find heroine two, Fano, trapped in ice and after saving her you leave and get her turned into a slave so that she has some rights in the country. Apparently becoming a commoner takes months. Armed with a magic sword and two beauties, you then go through the rest of the labyrinth, meeting a few other girls and butting heads with an evil god and it’s cult. The usual.
I will say, the game does a decent job with its sidequests giving it some form of story. The dungeon itself doesn’t really have one for its first 7 floors, so the sidequests which take you to other dungeons and the girls subplots/affection have to hold over the plot until the story train gets rolling again. I’d say its good overall, though the non speaking main character feels a bit odd. You can customize him for some reason, but he’s not really a character…
Gameplay
The main combat is pretty standard RPG Maker fair. Decent amount of ideas around the combat though, like a class system and the entire loot system that is the source of all my issues with this as a game.
So after you beat an enemy, a chest will drop. The chest contains items based on the floor/area you are on. A lot of the game’s economy is run by what you get in these chests, and a decent amount of the side content is locked behind money. Thing is, either I have horrible luck or the drop formula for what’s in these chests is garbage. I had 90 potions by the end of the game. All from enemy drops. Why can I still get basic healing items on the final floor of the game? Why is that what I get all the time?!
Anyway, the start of the game is by far the worst. The drops you do get are worth basically nothing, and the story requires you to spend 5000 gold right away to get past the first floor. You can take out a loan, but that gives you a 10-15 day time limit or gameover, which wouldn’t be an issue if the girls didn’t die in like two hits. I need all the money I can get to pay off the loan, but without buying gear the girls die immediately. Fixing their gear isn’t just a money issue, but part of the over the top stat system the lewd stuff has for the 2 main heroines.
So Torte and Fano each have 3 sex related stats. Horny, which is really just for do they orgasm or not. Fondness, which switches which h scenes you see and at 30 and 100 open up more game content(with 100 getting you an item that unlocks all the low tier scenes and virginity loss variations so you don’t have to beat the game four times. 100 also lets the girls wear whatever, but that takes a while…). Finally shamlessness which decides what the girls can actually equip. Lowering shame is an immediate goal so that you can have the girls wear decent gear, which of course is mostly the erotic stuff. There are two ways to do this. Two book items lower shame and are drops you will likely get more then armor and weapons from fighting. There are also books that raise shame, but there is nothing I found that requires or wants a high shame so sell those. You also lower shame from sex, but that’s its own can of worms of weird decisions.
So to have sex with your property, you require two items. A book for that sex act for that girl, and a sexual energy enhancer. SEE are one of the few actual enemy drops which cost way to much money to buy, so your h scene count is limited base done enemy drops. Note that the monster girls, story scenes, and subheroines do not require a drug or a book to be slept with. There are also sex levels, but all they do is block the final version of a few scenes until you repeat it enough. The worst of those is Fano’s anal scene, which needs to be level 4(aka 10 times seeing the scene) to finally get the final version of it. None of the other scenes are nearly that bad and usually have more then one scene type that raises the level so a lot less wasted resources.
I do like some of the game’s systems. Like all the clothes showing up on the girls so it is worth collecting. How elemental resistances don’t just lower damage, but also boost your elemental damage making them far more important then usual. How one of the first sidequests you get is complete the item book and the reward is a lot of money at different percentages. How Torte and Fano change what they say in the story bits based on how much they like you. Honestly I enjoyed the game after I got past the opening bit with the debt and could finally start fighting without the girls dying immediately. I don’t like how I had to grind to get their, but the game smooth sailing after that aside from 1 bullshit boss.
I should mention the dungeon stuff to end this bit. Proper floors of the dungeon have locked chests that open when you defeat everything on that floor. These also have randomized loot, usually some clothes and some better items then usual. Rooms reset is pretty easy to do, and the complete lack of puzzles makes going through the dungeon simple. I think the entire game has a grand total of like 5 or 6 puzzles, none of which are hard. It takes until floor 7 to find the first actual puzzle in the main dungeon. At which point I thought the game wasn’t going to bother.
H and Other stuff
So this is an interesting one. I’m going to start with the two main heroines and then explain the subheroines, though the two follow the same idea.
For Fano and Torte, each scene they have is split into 4 versions. Low fondness, low fondness but orgasm, high fondness, and high fondness with orgasm. A few only get the second two,but a majority of the games scenes are split like that, which is why the count is so high. As they are your slaves, you can make them sleep with the guy when they don’t want to, so that is reflected in the h scenes, making around half the games scenes rapelike. The actual scenes content is pretty standard foreplay and sex stuff with some cosplay thrown in.
The side heroines get 2 cg each, with four scenes. Two happen during their arc, the first usually the main guy is drugged or for some reason forced into raping the girl. The second is usually under duress but the girl is more into it. Once you finish a girls arc you can sleep with them in the mansion and these are 100% lovey dovey scenes. The contrast is weird.
As for the scenes themselves, the girls are fully voiced and I loved Torte’s voice. Length is fine considering the guy doesn’t talk. Odd that the threesome+ scenes are limited to two between Torte and Fano considering you get a harem of 6 and at least 3 of them are required to beat the game. There’s also some monster girl scenes thrown in for variety.
The rest of the weird sex stuff I mentioned in gameplay so that’s it.
Verdict
I kinda hated the start. The random loot tied to the only way to get money until you strong enough to do some sidequests leads to a really slow start. With how weak the girls are at the start, it was just a pain. Once I climbed the way through that, it was fun. I liked the lewd, I enjoyed the story beats, it was mostly fine. The editing/translation could have used a bit more work, but I can say that about almost anything. So bad start, decent middle, good end.
Playing this while reading/watching How not to Summon a Demon Lord was also kinda cathartic. Just read that one’s summary and you should get why. It has to do with how far things go.
Also why is it Fall in Labyrinth? Shouldn’t it be falling into? Fallen? Fell? You know, something that makes sense?
Save for Fall In Labyrinth
Contains- All scenes unlocked and a full item list. Ready for NG+.
Eeeeyyyy Father Jikorde~!
Holy Mother of Lewd Rpg! You played it! Usually I take promises with slap pound of salt, but lewdness gracious, you changed how I see the world now. The world still screwed, but there’s little hope here and there, you get it.
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I’m honestly surprised, I didn’t think it would be this fast with the reviews, And I was expecting much sarcasm in it. But all I can see is a brief yet somewhat nice vibe from it (compared to other reviews you had done). Awww it feels so good when someone enjoyed your recommendation :’)
I couldn’t agree more with Torte’s voice and the main char. The voiced char really what made me keep going actually, not many rpgmaker are voiced, this made me felt at least they really DID put some effort in this game. Main char customization is a nice touch, but overall he’s a lil bit disappointing, tho it made you a You because of the smooth story rather than role playing a 3rd view person.
Oh oh, and the lewd scene? For main heroines, I think it’s an all out rape then love, or just plain make em love you first and enjoy your lewd life. I took the later for the first play, and it’s so satisfying, the second play kinda hurt me :/ tho I just realized that we actually rape the subheroines :v so well, we are told to be rapist in the end :u
I got my regrets here and there, but it was personal experiences rather than the game itself. I find it decent with the story, and elaborate combat gameplay, that’s why I recommended it to you. I don’t have friends who enjoyed rpgmaker games, so I genuinely thankful to you for played and reviewed it to public. Much appreciated. Idk why English only had two words in word “thank you” coz that’s not enough words to convey my appreciation to you. (☆-ｖ-)
Anyway, I’m still wandering here enjoying your old and new reviews, the lack of no visual/image still a bit of concern but not really matter.
So Good luck with your reviews and your irl.
Stay safe and take care out there.
Have a nice day.
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The no image thing is mostly me playing it safe, since I have no idea what could get me banned. For ecchi I feel safer since it isn’t porn and I stick to the more adult characters, but for a lot of porn games I play I just feel safer not using images. It is 100% just me being paranoid for now.
It’s weird for me to think this was fast, as I played two Vn’s back to back before really touching this. I think I mentioned before, but I don’t have much porn game wise that attracts me these days. Things are either way to long(Eushully games, Venus series) or just aren’t appealing. This game hit what I actually kind of like to see so it jumped up the que to immediate.
Ahh yea, I think I already read your reason in home or somewhere bout pictures. No prob father, it’s not like we don’t have search engine to look, we aren’t spoiled brat anymore lol.
I get what you mean. Finding one that really *clicked our interest not that easy anymore as we are more selective with our taste. Got hard timelooking for one too tbh, now either it’s filled with ntr or u lose u get h. Not like I hate em, but hard to love em sometimes if some things ain’t that favorable.
I’d love to recommend you one or two that.. errr.. at least uniquely worth to play if you need some. Not as satisfying or guaranteed fun, but nice pace of change if you looking for one. Or give me specific features you want, perhaps I know one that might slipped your findings. I see you played blazblue and others that are pretty random, so I know you are open to some things. It’s nice to help other cultured man.
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Thanks, but you don’t need to hunt for my sake. If you see something cool you can bring it up and I’ll see if it’s good, but honestly I barely understand what I want to play most of the time. Rather then finding something that matches my interest, I think I’m just to spoiled for choices. When I started this blog, I honestly could have played every English released 18+ game and could have kept up with releases for at least a year or two. Nowadays there’s something new every week.
Huh, I feel like it’s gotten pretty rare for you to enjoy an H RPGM game so I’m surprised to see you saying you actually enjoyed one. Gotta try this one then – would be a good break from all the VNs I’ve been reading lately.
On another note, I recently played Naive Girl Illvina and that one’s pretty interesting because of how much effort it’s trying to go to set up a world for its sequel(s?). Including a lot of backstory and after story for the side characters. Of note, I’m surprised by how much detail they put into the H-status of almost every female characters in the game. So that might be interesting, if you haven’t played it.
Other than that, if you’re accepting some suggestion for ecchi games, maybe the Exa_Pico series? It was pretty rough in the first games, but the second game was good and Surge Concerto was a pretty unique thing a of its own.
Sorry if you’re not asking for recommendations btw. Just surprised by the noticably-more-positive-than-usual sentiment in this one and that got me thinking of what else might be interesting to you.
I’m fine with recommendations. I make no guarantees that I’ll actually play something but if you see something good go ahead and I’ll at least look into it. As for Illvina, I might look into it as the 3rd or fourth h-game from now. The next two are lined up and I am looking forward to them.
Serious question, is the Exa_Pico series actually ecchi or is it just remembered as that? I looked at the cgs from the 3rd game and it was pretty clean, and from what I remember of the other two it was mostly cosplay here and there and that was it. I wouldn’t mind replaying some if it(2 with the retranslation especially), though it would be a bit.
I’m cool with that.
Well, it depends. It has some ecchi elements but generally is pretty restrained about that in the ‘real world’. It gets more prevalent in the Cosmosphere world, which generally has the final reward be a bath towel costume, and you usually have some BDSM stuff before that final Cosmosphere.
Because the CG count is pretty limited, it doesn’t feel as apparent. But a lot of Reyvateil stuff is pretty clearly metaphor for sex – the Installation port and Cosmosphere are the most apparent.
This get tuned further in AT3 and Ar Nosurge. AT3 outright features undressing mechanics as part of the combat mechanics. Ar nosurge features bathing as an important mechanic, with a good amount of fanservice scenes in both the real world (Nay showering scene for example) and Cosmosphere (like Ion punishing Kanon).
AT2 I remember was really restrained about it up until the final Cosmosphere layers, even if all the sex metaphor was readily apparent with how Luca being a Cosmosphere therapist being clearly treated like she’s a sex worker, IPD practically treated like it’s AIDS, and the whole thing between Infel, Nenesha, and Metafalica was a single step away from literally public rejection of lesbianism.
I’m still in the middle of playing AT1 and I still haven’t seen much for the ecchi other than some Installation stuff. But it’s kinda weird how relatively restrained they are compared to, say, Neptunia, despite what the Reyvateil are clearly meant to represent.
But at the same time, it’s there, and it’s more present in AT3 and up. I can clearly remember up to that. For AT2, I can remember that it’s *there* but I remember the whole metaphors for taboo loves more. Sorry I couldn’t remember it more clearly.
It’s fine, honestly I played the first three so long ago that I wasn’t really old enough to analyze the stuff. I remembered the cosplay stuff and how installation is basically treated like sex, but beyond that I don’t remember much else. I mostly played them for the romance since multiple endings was so rare in that age and I loved the concept of games giving me large sections of unique content based on heroine choices. Anyway, I might go play Ar Nosurge then, it being the one that I haven’t touched ever. Not exactly sure when, or what on. My Vita is basically broke, so i guess it might be my first PS3 emulated game. It was apparently released on PC, but only in Japanese but maybe someone translated that/imported the translation? I’ll look into it later.
A few things about the No surge games. First, Ciel should be fully translated by next year sometime, so I might wait to play the two games until that releases.
For Ar Nosurge, the Vita version seems to be the best one. PS3 has less lewd content though a better image size, and the Steam release is censored. The best bet would be someone importing the translation into the Switch version, but I doubt that will happen anytime soon. I hope just popping open my Vita and cleaning it will be enough to fix it…
That’s fair. Guess we’ll just wait.
As far as PS3 goes, it’s a lot simpler than I expected, outside of the usual dumping hassle (if you’re doing everything legally ofc), and the performance was actually fine on my RX570 PC. Vita emulation seems to still be in beta in comparison?
I’m not sure about the Vita translation of Ciel nosurge. It seems to be alive if rarely posting progress update, as far as I can see. Right now it’s mostly just editing left and apparently they’d done a proof-of-concept patching, but I haven’t seen any demo patch so we’ll see how that pans out.
I haven’t heard of any effort to patch the DX re-releases though. I hope they make one – it feels so bad not even being able to buy the Japanese version on Steam because region lock, or that Ar nosurge DX didn’t get an English release.
I won’t buy the steam version even if it gets translated, it’s censored by Steam apparently. So either Switch gets a translation or it will be the Vita version cause more content.
I do wish Vita emulation was actually being worked on and going well instead of basically dead, There’s a couple gems still locked to that thing. The Switch has a better emulator and it’s stronger.
Saw the reviews and comments then played it.
I’m surprised by it’s decent combat gameplay, plot flows, and lovely h parts. Not what I deserve but what I’m looking for. A good gameplay, and just enough h parts for motivation. I know the bg music they used are generic rpgmaker’s or the same music you hear in some other games; but the placement of it, really suit the places and the atmosphere. It made me notice it more and more and honestly, I truly enjoyed it.
My experience for the game got me bit different than the reviewer. The start kinda give a good upbringing, middle game was totally fun, and the end game somewhat decent. My regrets are the last two sub heroines, especially the silver witch. They passionately told how strong, gallant, and how lovable she is at the start. Then after I got her, just a few story and I got the last subheroine, which both got the same job. So we got three mages(included main heroine), idk how you played your formation, but as you can guess she’s not that favorable to me. I won’t say she’s the lamest, because she got her own gimmick. Furthermore, she got no additional quest to dive deep into her character, and her lewd not particularly satisfying.. I mean, she got the best figure in the game, and they wasted her scene just like that.. *wipes drool* what a shame. *disappointed.jpg*
Cool game all in all.
Know any game that looks alike?
Or something similar that you can recommend me?
So I went threw my entire list of game’s for something similar in style to this one, and came up with basically nothing. Any other go into a dungeon game features you playing as a girl getting taken advantage of by every other dude you come across, and any time you play as a dude you either get S&M sex stuff or a revenge story.
For games that graphically look similar, few on my blog do. I was going to go with the SEQUEL series of games before I remembered how extreme the proportions are(either loli or huge, no in between).
If art isn’t an issue, Apostle at least has a romance mechanic and very thick girls. If there’s something more specific you want just ask and I’ll try to see if there is something else that fits.
I’m a simple and innocent man.. who can’t handle ntr stuff. As long as it’s good, enjoyable and there’s wholesome part in it, (and bit of harem perhaps? *cough*) I’m in. Something like Hot Spring Hero iirc with it’s nice ambiance plot lite. Sadly it got boring midway with it’s gameplay, and how to get the h part not motivated enough (I do tho enjoyed the h content, maybe because I expected too much from it). Supposed to be good but the bad part overwhelmed it.
I read the kamichichi reviews, and I’m interested to try it for the classic ff gameplay. All I could hope in game is either it got nice story, or good gameplay to cover the lack of other, so apostle might be what I seek. Thanks for the effort looking for the recommendation. Godspeed bro