Unity - Cyan Brain [Demo 3.0] [NEKOUJI STUDIO]

I see some reviewers below whining about the game containing gore. Well, before getting into the game, it's not that hard to understand that the game is of the guro genre. These reviewers assume that just because they don't like guro, no one does. Well, onto the actual review:
Pros:
-Great artstyle and animation
-Good environment and sound design
-Sexy MC
-Interesting storyline
-Death animations are great and distinct. It's not just decapitation every time you die, there's impalement, disembolweling, dismemberment, and more.
-There are H scenes as well, which are well done with great sound design. I love that the devs tied the H-scenes with deathly motives(injecting toxins that cause a painful, eventual death).
Cons:
-The gameplay loop gets a bit boring and repetitive
-Some enemies are bullet sponges
-Not enough savepoints
It's crucial to remember that its still a demo, and these cons might be dealt with when development is completed.
If you're into ryona, guro and hentai, then this game is for you!
I sincerely hope the devs complete the game

Just like Alien Quest Eve, just Satya's Bad Day, this will be a 5/5 masterpiece, but currently there's a few rough edges.

First, the save system instantly overwrites the save, no multiple saves, so if you accidentally teleport to the home base, well you are replaying half the level, very annoying.

Second, half of the game over scenes are just a brutal gruesome death, Mrotal-Kombat style, so this looks kinda out of place for a porn game for sure.

The actual gameplay is, you roam dark corridors with a gun and shoot the enemies, there's some great horror elements with the flashlight looking into the darkness, very nice.

You have the gallery unlocked when you use the bed in the home base.

Let's see how this will be finished

I'm just putting this out there but it has some very brutal timing for some of the traps, and no room for error. You dash too fast you get crushed, but you delay even for a moment you get crushed. You gotta get up close and personal with the saw traps on the floor to jump over them, and early on there's no way to turn them off.

If you like rage games like I wanna be the guy / I wanna be the boshy, which are just outright difficult and brutal beyond reasonable degree? This is right up your alley.

It's not bad, nor terrible, nor awful... I rate it 2/5 because to me it's slightly below average. 2 stars in my eyes: are not the end of the world...

I just don't think I'll be keeping this on my MB storage taking up space. Ya can only get crushed so many times before ya call it quits.

I've died more times to stationary traps, than I have actual enemies, and that should tell ya all ya need to know 'bout cyan brain.

Enjoyed my 2-3 hour ish playthrough of the 3.0 demo not much story in this yet but can't wait till its more fleshed out, animation reminded me of nights of revenge but with added gore.
Gameplay consist of shooting the enemies and dodging their attack with your dodge roll and avoid getting overwhelmed, typical sidescroller shooter hentai. Most of the time there's a savepoint after every
enemy encounter/floor but if you die you have to run all the way back and this can be a problem because in this game there are traps and certain enemies that can insta kill you. Ammo isnt a problem in this game but woudn't hurt if the guns did more damage. Now for the porn,you get like 10-20 second of H-scene for each enemy and traps,the gore is fun to look at, some convulsions and ryona beating,and my personal favorite spoiler

review for demo 3.0
works on my old device and with unity and does not take up much resources, great job dev on making this game, not many games I can play on this old device, also loved the shadows and light mechanics, gore I'm not much of a fan but gunplay was fine, hope to see more gunplay and hot action

Demo 3.0 Revierw
The game is nice and I can see the potential, but it didn't managed to keep me engaged for more than one chapter.

There is some varieties to enemies, but if all it takes to defeat just one of them is to shoot for a minute straight with rolls in between for later stages, then it's not gonna be fun for longer than 5 minutes.

The first chapter and some of the second one I managed to complete were easy enough for me except for the boss. If you only have some basic understanding of ammo management, then you'll also gonna be fine.
They give you a couple of weapons and a knife, but honestly the melee is so useless I rather to just roll to the other side of the room and reload rather than finish it using knife.

As for the boss, the real difficulty was that it has the same problem as other enemies. It's a freaking sponge for the bullets, but stronger.
The Idea was nice though. It was different enough from basic enemies and the attack patterns can be learned. But it's also quite RNG.
You have stamina and you cannot of course reload while being hit or while rolling. If the boss decides to be aggressive, then you are pretty much fucked (literally). I managed to kill it thanks to OP weapon they give you, but the catch is from what I can tell there is no way to refill ammo. So if the next one also has the same issue (which it probably has) then it's going to be a pain in the ass to find good RNG.

Game teaches you using drawings on the walls. The lore is told by the environment, computer logs, and dialogues (no VA) from time to time. It's nice, but nothing interesting enough to hook you up.

The graphic itself is not too bad, but animations are on the basic level. Basically all characters are very clearly divided into limbs that moves by a certain degree.

Lastly, H-scenes are just what we all see in most H-games consisting of any fight system. You lose = character gets fucked and sent back into the last checkpoint afterwards. The scenes itself weren't remarkable as you may deduce from my critique for basic animations, but they have some potential if you are really into futa stuff.

Overall I'd recommend this game only for the people directly into futa and 2D shooters who don't mind enemies being harder to kill than a cockroach (between 10-15 shoots to the head).

Really fun game, would definitely buy it once it's fully complete.

Only negative thing that comes to mind is that you can't sprint when you're at the safehouse, other than that everything is perfect, from the atmosphere to the storyline.

Art seemed good, but gameplay is close to the worst I've seen.
Slow movement with no dash or evade, just jog left or right.
Enemies are fast bullet sponges so every enemy was able to sprint and land multiple hits despite spraying bullets into their skull without missing from the moment they appeared on screen.
when enemy gets up in your face, the gun fires behind them so you're limited to the use of a knife with the sluggish maneuver of a greatsword, but the damage of a dildo.

Style, atmosphere, and voice acting in the game are excellent. I really like the character design; it’s fantastic! The sci-fi world also looks intriguing. Hot animations are enjoyable, I wish there were more variety in defeat animations with bosses and interactions with NPCs.

Gameplay is standard for a side-scroller, need more dynamism. For example, variations in melee combat for a slasher and, for ranged weapons, enemies and situations involving vertical combat.

I hope the developer does well and finishes this interesting game!

So far there are only two chapters released and overall, it's a decent game with simple controls and the two bosses I fought haven't been that troublesome despite them dealing a lot of damage.

I fancy the art style (it looks nice), the body proportions are voluptuous but not over the top and the creature/enemy design has been bizarre but, IMO, not off-putting (unlike other gore games which definitely lean more on the grotesque and disturbing genres).

Besides, I've always got a thing for 2D scrollers plus a bit of platforming like Koonsoft's games or even much harder ones like the Flower series from Misinkojou: last but not least, this game features futa, IK it doesn't pick everyone's fancy, although it's my guilty pleasure, so it appeals to me.

I'm looking forward to the next updates (and to more futa content).

Cyan Brain is a lesson on how not to make a first level. Sparse checkpoints? Check. Annoyingly long series of insta-kill traps that require near pinpoint precision parkour? Check. Enemies that force you into those traps? Check. Oh, some of them also two-hit you, so trying to stand your ground is so risky that you may as well just walk into the trap.

A game can have the greatest art, the greatest story, the greatest music and voice acting. But if the gameplay sucks, few are going to play it.

And it's such a shame, because its guro. A niche that's frowned upon by many but I like. I really wanted to enjoy this game... but who designed that first level? It's travesty for an opening.

I just don't get it.
It is not fun to play and actually quite frustrating. You just shoot enemies until they die, but enemies have a load of health so it is taking a lot of time(and ammo) and any mistake would kill you(making healing useless), sending you back to the checkpoint. I've cheated for the last 2/3 of the game.
Weapons themselves, and I only got to use the pistol and the machinegun, are... well, just shooting and feel bland. And I'm not just being prickly, there are some NSFW games in this genre where shooting IS better.
Well, from what I can guess, the game also wants me to explore, but 1) if you make a mistake, you die and reset at the checkpoint. 2) it takes a long time, specifically on some unnecessary long elevators. 3) I just don't get it, I've tried to explore every place on the map(for the first half of the game) but I couldn't find any keycards or switches that would allow me to get to the remaining weapons.
So... animations? There are only three of the sexual kind and they are not great. They feel like cheapest live-2d. And it's the first time since forever that I'm actually disappointed by the looks of the main character. In one of the crannies on the map there is an actually better model just lying on the bed and... that feels just weird.
So... yeah, it's just a sadistic-type of game, but I really don't understand the point of literally everything else.

REVIEW IS BASED ON TECH DEMO 8.1 RELEASED ON 01.08.2024

Great both gameplay and artwork piece, i honestly liked this side-scroller way much than tons of others i played.

Gameplay - not the revolutionary, but still deserves some praise, basically a side-scroller with mouse-control shooter capabilities and dodge feature, for some the difficulty may be quite annoying, but some time spent on dodging classes will do a trick or two. Also dev decided to implement some traps across the rooms, which, for some people, can ruin the atmospheric feeling of horror side-scroller.

H-Scenes - as a lot of side-scrollers - played at defeat and mostly for Guro fans, there's not that much of a ryona, Main Character is, i believe for atmospheric or difficulty reasons, quite weak in terms of HP, that some enemies can kill-on-hit, so be wary and use your dodge key wisely.

Graphics - quite a pleasure for my eyes to say the least, animations are smooth, overall graphics are good as well, not much can be said more.

Plot - not much to say, there is plot, but since its a tech demo, there's not that much of a info available. But i still interested in which way it will progress.

Overall - 5/5, for a tech demo, all features were executed smoothly, i never encountered a single bug and was left satisfied.

Would love to vote this a 5 but there are some small things holding it back.

Atmosphere, art and sound are very well done, clean and detailed.

Actions, movement, and animations are very responsive and fluid.

some censorship (mostly penile and vaginal) holds back the depth of detail due to pixelation.

re-spawns are quick, and doing over an area is decently fast, I personally would have liked 1 or 2 more save points... but I believe that is my personal bias.

Would love to see more creatures and animations. Love the mechanical drider animation!

A few lines of translation could be made more clearly written.

Englisch translation:
The game had a lot of potential, but in my opinion it had too much of a desire to be gore-like. The sex scenes and animations are more off-putting than captivating

Deutsch:
Das spiel hatte viel potenzial hat meiner meinung nach aber ein zu hohen drang danach gore mäßig zu erscheinen. Die sex szenen bzw animationen sind eher abtournend als bedörend

nice concept, not bad not good either, for a demo the shooting mechanics works flawlessly, but i worry about 1 thing, it's seem the dev intend to put "survival" (food etc) mechanics in it too but...i rather not that gonna ruin the fast pace nature of this game tbh
the "guro" is sooo mild tbh nhentai collections are way way degenerate even if you hate guro it's on safe side
the h scene...please don't make it like "only death scenes" it's boring just like everybody else, come on it's already 2024 not 2004
have we not learned from kooonsoft look at their flash masterpieces
look at parasitic evil too, that one is also good, only the shooting mechanics kinda meh

If you're into guro, this may be a little treat for you, but even for guro fans it leaves much to be desired.

The game commits, what I consider an h-game sin, of forcing you to allow yourself to die to get to any lewd scenes instead of at least giving the enemies some kind of grab in conjunction with their normal attacks—A little ryona goes a long way.

Art and environments are done very well and sell the vibe of ... Well, whatever is going in in this game so far. The mere fact when you Save, the machine brain jacks the protagonist which is a nice touch.

Right now, the lewd is very light and gameplay is limited.

it's well done, but it nevertheless has flaws, the level design to begin with, it's very very VERY confusing , and also it's needlessly annoying to have to backtrack to just get one weapon and it's upgrade, just to kill...like...4-6 enemis with it before the boss.
But otherwise it's playable.

I'm not sure what the full game will entail, but for a Demo it's okay - for a full game I would expect a lot more out of it.

The game itself is relatively buggy and the gameplay is trivialized by how broken the dodge roll is. I struggled quite a bit until I realized that the dodge roll lets you simply dodge right through opponents, taking any urgency to move or otherwise reposition out of the equation.

The game knows what it wants to be, and that's full-blown gore focus - and I can respect that. There are too many devs that think adding zombies and monsters and then doing nothing grotesque with them is a good idea, and it's led to H-games with 1/5 star ratings all across the board, so I'm glad this dev isn't shying away from committing to the bit.

That being said, I'd still have to rate this a 3/5. The art is good, the gameplay is average and the map itself is rather unexciting and dull; sometimes you'll come across rooms that you think have something new for you to discover only to find out there are only 2 sorts of interactables in the game: Buttons and Keycards.

The final boss is downright irrelevant as you can walk past them to be met with a "Thanks for playing ❤". There is no door holding you back from simply walking past the final boss as you have to press a button to activate them, which you can simply choose not to. You could also just press the button, walk to the left of the arena and close the door... it doesn't really do much to help you beat the boss, but it's a tad ridiculous that the final boss area is open for you to simply leave and re-enter as you see fit.

The final boss itself can't attack you quick enough for you to knife it to death, resulting in a Tom & Jerry sequence of you hitting the boss over the head and cancelling every attack it tries to pull off. Your knife is guaranteed to stagger the boss and by the time they recover to start a new attack they're already staggering again from another knife attack.

What would make me rate this a 4/5?
- Greater polishing of the full game, including an actual ramp-up in difficulty by nerfing dodge rolls and most importantly bug fixing. I couldn't finish the Demo legitimately because I restarted the game after beating the last boss, which brought me to a black screen with the HUD on. I was softlocked pretty much.

What would make me rate this even a 5/5?
- More enemies / more scenes with existing enemies in addition with the aforementioned points.

I hope this game gets compeleted even though I spent half a hour trying to beat the spider boss without knowing the machine gun on the above, game is 9/10, -1 because there is isn't much to ammo refiller near the area of the crushing thingy area.