RPGM - Completed - Damon [v1.4] [BraverGames]

I played the whole game without knowing that you can use w to skip lol. Now that I know there is a skip feature I can whole heartedly give this game a 5 star.

Really, really good content. A little grindy in some situations, and even with skip for scenes youve already seen, for scenes you actively want to read, the text scrolls horribly slow.

Still really worth the play. The slower burn of the content builds anticipation which makes the ame very hot. It's written very believably in the context of slow corruption mind control powers.

Admitting that I played this for like 10-15 hours without knowing I could skip through scenes I already watched isn't the best endorsement I can give

It's a good game. It has some issues. Mainly the flow of the game is a bit slow. But the art is good and there is a lot here in terms of game.
Now that my review is over I'll just keep writing for a bit.
Honestly, all I can say is this game is worth a try if you enjoy mystery point click adventure games or games like Stanley parable. The more you play the more will gradually be unlocked. The writing kinda sucks specifically the dialogue; it's quite repetitive and fails to really scratch the itch it seeks to. But the game loop has a great feel. And I can see how much time and effort went into every detail of this games porn mechanics. Though there is some laziness around the mid section.
I spent about 6 hours playing before I got bored. But I will proly pick it back up in a month and finish. Easy 4.5 star imo

i enjoyed it so much that it got me typing my very first f95zone review!!:
the writing had me invested with the characters so that made my experience 1000% better
some things i would add for a second game:
autosave.... omg yall dont know how many hours i lost due to the games bugs... but its okay i still enjoyed it
for it to be made in renpy so it can be a faster game..
i loved it even tho it was slow as hell im rating a 5/5 would recommend hehe thanks!!!

Gameplay: A bit grindy. Could be much improved by skip functions for repetitive scenes (e.g. replenishing mana. any scene you've already seen before really. Perhaps just an option to set to ask, always skip, never skip repeat scenes.) But as a whole, decent mechanics. Biggest issue though is the hard pauses, though there are some files in the comments you can grab to eliminate those. Greatly improves game quality.
While I'm not sure how much of the bugs and random freezes have been fixed in1.2, those are also a bit annoying.
A teleport or run speed adjustment feature could also be nice when you're trying to figure out what you need to do next.
Skipping the entire intro (and perhaps option to stick with all default character names outright instead of one-by-one) would also be nice, but not really an issue unless you really need to restart the game because maybe you were using v1.0 and naively inspected the washer before saving and sacrificed your game screen to the void.

Art: Average to Good. I'm not super picky, but others have pointed out ways the art could be improved. Good variety though so I'm good on this point.

Story: Pretty solid. It could be nice to see some more "evidence of corruption" in miscellaneous dialogue as you progress.

Overall: It's a little clunky, but there's a decent bit of content and the art is passable to good, depending on how keen an eye you have for the details there. I feel like the quality of mechanics and art could be improved upon to bring this up to a solid 4 star game, maybe even as far as a 5. But as is (assuming v1.2 has fixed most of the annoying bugs, since I played 1.0) I can only give it 3. Unlikely I'd replay to check quality of life improvements though. I'd say it's worth playing sometime though, even as is. Just has a lot of what I feel are obvious room for improvements.

The game's all right. It's largely a time/resource point and click adventure with a progression system. It has quite good writing, and nice pixel graphics (though I suspect like they might be... "recycled" from another IP) as well as Honey Select 2 character models, but there are few problems.

Primarily the game's pacing feels G L A C I A L. The standard text speed feels too slow, especially your character's guide/assistant, but the skip button is too fast. Refilling your magic points, which allow you to use your skills, consists of replaying an unskippable sex scene. Please, game creators, do not fall into the early 2000s trap of unskippable cinematics. The end result is not tittillation but inconvenience, and if your main gameplay loop is exploration and trial-and-error, this disencentivizes those.

I spent the better part of an hour or so dinking around and making minimal progress since I was averse to using my character abilities because of the rather high cost. Your first ability is unlocking simple locks, and a few I unlocked weren't done at the correct time, yielding no progress, and I had to go recharge my character's magic batteries and fast forward time. So now I was conditioned to reconsider engaging with the game's primary game loop because it was very possible it could be a big waste of time. In fact, it's better to save scum, because saving before every decision and then reloading after is faster than using your powers, finding out it was for nothing, and then going and watching the unskippable cutscene which eats up time even with the Fast Forward Button pressed down.

It's not terrible, but it's clunky as fuck. It makes the game feel much more like a chore than it should. But, if you have a lot of patience and time then there's something to be had here.

Its crazy to see a dev release a full game like this from nothing. Its shockingly good, little to no bugs and a good use and understanding of game. He should have gone the patreon route and I'm sure he would have succeeded well. Still I hope to see more great games like this from him in the future

Let me disagree with two other opinions, but I really liked this game. Yes, here you need to spend a lot of time getting various events, but this is not a problem. This game has many opportunities for the player to interact with different characters and items. Here you need to find some items, use them to open new events, and this is very interesting and understandable.

In this game, the player will always find what to do, and for this, you don't even need to use hints. The player can get a certain amount of balanced superpowers. This makes character corruption much smoother and more consistent.

I am writing this after three hours of playing. Found problems:
- I had one bug after a conversation in the laundry when the whole screen went black. I managed to solve this by activating another event (I blindly led the character and was able to get to my sister's door and peek at her).
- displaying text is somewhat slow when it is displayed after delays.

The 3d models are pretty decent and that it's just it...

The gameplay is like every other RPG Maker game so it's not bad.

The real problem is the progression system, it's SOOO bad, I spent almost three hours in the game and only got to see solo scenes from the characters and the text is just SOOO slow, like, really... slow... Making the game longer than it has to be and extremely boring.

There also some bugs but nothing game breaker, at least for me.

-Decent Hs2 models (unlike some games that don't know how to properly use the lighting in hs2)
-the usual rpgmaker gameplay you'd expect
-little to no bugs (only came accross one, its fixable not game breaking but id still suggest saving often since theres no auto save)
-interesting story
-can choose relation to people in house + their names
Solid complete game.
Note: Lots of content so far im mabye 1/4 of the way in, so far worth a play
Edit: Nobody seems able to progress past the 4th power game is bugged?
Final Edit: It good.