RPGM - Completed - H? Wisdom? The Abnormal Investigative Nature of the Busty Researcher! [v1.07] [Ota Guchi Field]

Overall 2/5
I can't recommend this game and having played all the previous titles of this developer I felt disappointed by this one.

Story:
One of the few redeeming aspects of the game and even that isn't done well.
The main character is interesting to read, has fun reactions and scenes outside of the R18 stuff, her corruption is very enjoyable, while the story is original and I haven't seen the main mechanic used anywhere else.
On the bad parts there are almost no side characters, and the few that are present, might not even be accessible for half of the game.
the mom and the uncle get introduced late and haven't a real purpose in the story. in contrast to the older games where family members where referenced constantly and even had short times where you played as them.

Art:
While I really liked the style and the drawings are high quality, there are only a handful, without intercourse and even less showing actual sex (some don't show genitalia at all even if it is a sex scene)

Progression:
The worst part about this game, there is not a linear path to the "tiers" of scenes, the main reason for this is because the tiers are not tied only to a corruption level but also needs to find a skill related to a main game mechanic, which I like, if it was only related to progressing in areas instead of H-scenes.
It worked at the start, making you talk with your colleagues to advance but soon fell apart when advancing to the next areas where you only progress by exploration and "memories".

In the end there is very little content, you can't change clothes on your own (only some scenes are defaulted with other clothes if you have enough corruption)
Npc hardly react to you being naked and even undressing is locked in areas and not everywhere.
Most of the characters you can have a scene with have only one or two while most of them will have a single line that doesn't change for the whole game.
Not recommended

The plot was surprisingly good, it seems simple at first but it have some depth to it, overall it felt enjoyable, not the greatest, but still pretty neat. The art is nice, and the scenes are quite neat too, and the MC's behaviour felt somewhat refreshing.

As for the buttstuff, i haven't seem much, only one/two scenes.

This has some of the worst game mechanics ever. You just go to map to map, hoping to find inspiration to make new inventions. I accidently finished the game, just by making an invention and selling it. Then the game doesn't even go to the main menu just stays on a black screen. The plot is so f'ing stupid. I need to learn to think outside the box. Solution use a completely brand new untested brain device on myself. You don't get a choice in anything in this game.

it has some pretty basic art, it has some pretty basic gameplay, but man i really really enjoyed the protagonist more than i thought i would. her kuudere attitude combined with her scientific curiosity felt really unique to me. its pretty rare to get an event collector game with a femdom-ish vibe without being some horny person to start with. by the end of it though there still is that progression from curiosity to sexual pursuit, which felt really well executed imo.

anyways besides that, ive never played the other games but the idea collection/crafting thingy was pretty interesting, unlocking things just feels really nice. the story was kinda weird/semi-engaging, but i think the translation might've been part of the issue.

if theres one problem i had to pick out, by the end i noticed the gallery had (2) scenes i dont remember unlocking (one of them being a virgin lost candidate), and after viewing them im guessing that they were missable depending on other scene progress, im not too sure. there are also 2 bad ends that people might miss out on that dont appear in the gallery.

overall though i thought this was a pretty fun experience, shino herself definitely being my favorite part about it.

I haven't played the previous games, but this is an above average RPGM.

The mini games can be a tad tedious, but the story is good enough. The FMC is hot as hell and if she had better voiceovers, the game would be a lot better.

I think the game will be hit and miss for people, so try it out for 30 minutes and if you don't like the gameplay or the story then just stop. Not that much time wasted to get a feel for the game + story.

If I had dispensable income, I'd support the creator.

I cannot put into words how absolutely annoying and frustrating this piece of crap is. You just need to 'know' where stuff is in order to activate it. i have walked entire damn map 4 times by now, talked with everything, and even rushed at random walls spamming enter hoping to get something. nope. nothing. After spoending about 2 hours on this game, i jsut want to bang my head on the wall.

Save yourself from this piece of poorly translated crap.

This is their best game yet; the gameplay is a bit subjective (it's an improved version of CG collecting game H scenes) some people might hate it and some like it (I like it personally since it's unique and fun in a way). The protagonist is very NICE (I prefer this protagonist over previous protagonists of this game developer). CG is Great and numerous in amounts (some scenes/CGs may be repeating though but the scenario the game portrays makes it somehow tolerable).
Dazed AI TL is great as always 98% legibility (there may be a few MINOR wrong pronouns [like a girl getting referred to as a boy] but nonetheless is pretty good AI TL.

One thing is that this gameplay might annoy some players (specially in the early game) when you can't find certain keywords to progress and feel like you're getting SOFTLOCKED (you can't get softlocked in the game, there are alternate keywords found in different locations).

Hoping for a sequel/ Same setting to this game (like the previous trilogy or so of games this dev made).

This game seems to not be related to the same world of the dev's previous games.

10/10 Give it a try if you want a stimulating game and a quick wank.

People often rag on Ota Guchi Field games because the protagonists are dumb. That's not it. The fetish is incredibly specific- these are for people with an Neurodivergent Nymphomaniac kink. "Nymphodivergent" if you will. Each game stars a busty bimbo that doesn't understand social norms, and displays all sorts of neurodivergent traits. The first game stars a girl who, with very little prompting, is talked into being a sex toy for the entire town is a way to make friends. The second game stars a tomgirl who has undiagnosed ADHD. This game stars a girl with the stereotypical traits of ASD- initially cold, disinterested in people and topics outside her focus, blunt, mentally inflexible, and totally oblivious to social norms and cues. She begins to slut it up due to a reckless use of a machine that makes her open to trying new things (which happen to be mostly sex based).

If you don't like the idea of a woman who doesn't see why she shouldn't whip those honkers out in public and then suck 20 dicks then these games aren't for you.

Basically, each one of these games center around a tropey, silly plot straight out of a mediocre anime. The first one had to do with finding truant students. The second had supernatural stuff like ghosts, spirits and curses. This one has mad science, secret societies and espionage. The protagonists go through each story beat, which consist of the following gag: normal plot point you'd see in some dumb show that's derailed by the MC girl doing something lewd with absolutely no shame. The NPCs, almost always schlubby men with no rizz, can't believe their sorry asses get a shot at a big boobed bimbo just giving it up at the smallest prompting. Rinse, lather, repeat.

The games are generally light hearted, fun, and repetitive. Art assets, while nice, are reused often, and are simply still images.

Unlike the past couple games, the actual gameplay isn't just perfunctory, it's actually bad. Progress is tied to three stats: Wisdom, H, & Interest. You raise these naturally by watching various scenes and talking to people. Once you hit certain levels, you unlock progression item-words. Things like "maps" which just mean access to new areas, or ways to traverse barriers/overcome obstacles. To "craft" these progression mechanics, you have to explore the world, solving simple puzzles and retreading areas you already visited, acquiring component-words. So to sum up, you need a category word (eg observation is how you unlock maps) and one or two subsequent vocab words to unlock the level-based final word. It's... an idea, that's for sure.

A vocabulary based game without a perfect translation is a bit troublesome, but what's really awful is hands down the interface. It's confusing and you'll actually probably get stuck until you figure out how it works. Overall, the flow of the game sucks.

Unlike the last couple games, the actual porn content feels much more withheld, it takes a lot more to get it, which is unfortunate given that it's static images and repetitive scenarios. I like Ota Guchi Field, but this is an annoying game to play.

Same old Ota Guchi game really. The MC is somehow even dumber then an age progressed kid, there's 5 hours of collecting before you've progressed enough to sex stuff, and then the game just ends after you fuck a few people.

It's kind of begging for an append like you'd expect out of them at this point, so maybe that's why it feels kind of lack luster..

Lots and lots of errors and crashes, so you have to save constantly. Doing stuff like using a plant removing skill, inspecting memory orbs too fast after an action, events that are supposed to trigger once always triggering, not recording seen events as seen, etc., etc.

A side note, the actual sex scenes are so samey if you played the other games you wonder if they where reused from other games because they certainly look like characters from past games with accessories the MC doesn't have..

There are bad games this is not one one them. The game is good.
Here's why:
-Don't rush the sex, the game let u play with the erotism and that's a good part
-The FMC is hot, also there's other character that have the sex fast
-U can skip if u want, the history is not the other world is just there and nothing else
-U get the progress by "inventing things" make it dont feel to repetitive, but can be a problem cause you have to check several windows of "invents" until you remember each one xd
the bad is the little things I said before, some scenes could be repetitive and if they put some more effort the FMC could be way more sexiest. If get to steam in less of 8-9 dollars sure is worth it

Definitely one of the greats.

The beginning take some time to build up, but after that this is almost as good as Liz. Better art too when I think about it.

The gameplay can be quite frustrating, but at least it is thematic with the exploration theme and the character of the FMC. It is undoubtedly unique.

Honestly, I am just obsessed with this game to an unhealthy degree. It's not perfect by any means, but I think every complaint I can possibly think of stems from how much I enjoyed it, and how badly I want more of the game now that I've finished it.


Art/Graphics
5/5, no question in my mind. Shino's character design is absolutely top tier, instantly cementing her as one of my all-time favorite hentai heroines. The game centers heavily around her and one other girl in a much smaller supporting role, but Shino is more than enough to carry the entire experience on her back like it weighs nothing at all. There is a healthy variety of CG art, where I think I only ever encountered a single pose that looked a little bit wonky to me (the "crouching in a bikini" pose, where her legs just look off for some reason). If you look at the game's preview art and find Shino attractive or just have a thing for huge breasts, I feel confident that you will really enjoy how much focus her chest gets in this game.

Just about the only complaint I can think of for this section is that the male characters are a little too plain. They're clearly trying to be unattractive... but don't go far enough to really hit that "ugly bastard" appeal, so they wind up just looking a little goofy in a way that doesn't really please anyone. But the CG art usually just depicts them as interchangeable "man with no features", so it doesn't really matter. I would just find it a little more appealing if there was an even more striking gap between Shino and the various men she has sex with.

GAMEPLAY
A little weird to review... but I'll give it a soft 4/5. Without a professional localization, it was frustrating at certain points where I felt stuck because I didn't have a clear grasp of how the "invention" screen actually worked... or how to use one of my inventions to clear obstacles to progress. (Pro Tip: Once you have invented the handheld flamethrower, press Q to destroy piles of wood.) But that's the price you pay for playing something in another language that has been mangled by an automated translation; I can't really blame the game itself for that.

The core premise of solving puzzles around the environment by searching for clues that will trigger some creative inspiration in Shino's brain is a very charming idea, and I think the game gets a lot of mileage from it. And having that tie into her corruption over time, as she goes from normal inventions to coming up with more sexual ideas instead, is a genuinely novel way to convey her character arc through a gameplay mechanic.

STORY
5/5 yet again. Shino's character is so unique right from the very beginning. Instead of starting off as some naïve girl who gets manipulated because she too innocent for her own good... Shino is a total ice queen who won't hesitate to tell someone that she finds them boring and has no interest in anything they have to say. And that makes it ~very~ fun to watch her personality shift as the story unfolds, where she falls victim to her own curiosity and neurotic tendencies. The difference between Shino at the start of the game and her near the end is STARK, and I think that really helps sell the idea of her becoming corrupted.

Only a handful of missed opportunities I would level at the story:

• I think the Doctor, her mentor, is tragically underused when it comes to sex scenes. It felt like he was guaranteed to take advantage of Shino at some point once her inhibitions had loosened, but that never happened. Instead, he's just one of several choices for Shino to lose her virginity (which sounds like an important moment, but the it doesn't really matter who you choose because the scene mostly plays out the same way regardless), and then a handful of mini-scenes of her showing off various inventions to him.
• Everything with the cult is GREAT, and I just wish there was more of it. You get one pretty major sequence where Shino infiltrates their headquarters (and trust me when I say that you *really* shouldn't choose the route to sneak in undetected, because it's literally just skipping that whole section with no special content), but I would have loved to see more of their weird brainwashing scheme.
• The endings are a little bit underwhelming. Not bad, but I just wish some of them had been slightly darker, because so much of the game centers around Shino humiliating herself and being used by men left and right, but most of the endings don't really line up with that. There are two bad endings you can get (and the game does a good job of making that clear so you don't accidentally stumble into them)... but still, given the game's tone, I feel like most of the "real" endings don't have much sense of finality to them.

CONCLUSION
If you've played any of Ota Guchi's previous games, this one is definitely worth checking out. I can only hope that it does well enough to encourage more content, because I will be so disappointed if he moves onto making the next game without giving a little more attention to Shino with additional content... because it is genuinely difficult for me to imagine a new protagonist competing with her.

The highest praise I can possibly give to this game is that I pirated it because DLsite's payment restrictions are a nightmare, but whenever it gets picked up for an official localization by Kagura Games or Saikey or whoever, I am going to buy it on Day 1.

TL;DR Good game but a waste of time, extremely poorly implemented mechanics.

Uncensored this could easily be 7/10 or 8/10 - main protag is interesting in that she handles everything with a scientific approach while slowly becoming a lewd slut.

NPCs are badly written, they all have the same personality, stares at her tits and makes comments then whines and complains when she flashes them.

Unfortunately the dev is a dumbass and created one of the most irritating gameplay mechanics I've seen in any H-game where you can literally lock yourself out of content.

H-gameplay is finding sets of 2 works and combining them to create inventions and progress lewdness. Instead of unique words this dev repeated them - eg, if you use a word at the wrong time you won't be able to get it again and will have to reload.

The game is also buggy and some quests won't progress.

Edit: Changed my score to average after the update fixed the quest bugs. The word mechanics are still poorly done and WILL lock you out of content unless you use a guide. Words should've been unique.

Good concept, amazing art, poor execution. As hot as the art and FMC is...the sluggishness and irritation of the game negate it. The CG room doesnt show previews, you need to run around the entire map and talk to every NPC to get words, the word navigation menu is slow, numerous bugs, etc. It's a shame, bc the game has all the pieces to be great but ends up falling flat. I would genuinely rate this 1.5, but ill round it up to 2, since the art and FMC is genuinely adorable.

Very good game overall, u can see that the dev invested quite alot of time into making something nice, the story is quite unique for an H-game and if you know the devs past games you will notice that the girl has no shame whatsoever (pops her tits out regularly, doesn't care if people stare at her etc.) so if you're a fan of exhibitionism and the like you'll probably like the game.

+ very nice art (especially large improvement compared to his former games)
+ female MC looks hot af
+ story is kinda dumb but funny at the same time
+ unique progression system in a way that you look for words on the map that give her ideas that she uses to progress mini-games etc.

~sex sounds aren't exactly the best but they are okay at what they're trying to achieve
~naive woman doing it all in the name of research might not hit everyones spot but it hit mine (she'll be a complete slut by the end)

-no animation whatsoever, but therefore a considerable amount of scenes
-progression on the map is sometimes halted and you need to look what to do but dev is fixing this atm
-game is quite buggy since it's recently released but it's getting fixed over time

I definitely enjoyed my time with this game, seems like the dev invested quite alot of time to make this and overall I'm pretty happy with the end result.

I honestly don't know why this game weights 1.5GB considering the lack of... everything here.

Let's start with pluses:
-Nice art
- Quite lengthy, with decent gameplay (as for rpgm of course. It's still a trash in comparison with regular games). All gameplay rounds about puzzles
- Sometimes it shows quite funny dialogues
- In general, if we drop the H-part, the main story is not that bad after all.

Unfortunately that's it. Now about cons:
- Total failure as a H-Game. The girl is absolutely without any personality and becomes a dumb slut right from the start.
- Lazy H-Scenes with 1-2 images in each. And if that's was not enough, those images are also ofen reused in other scenes.
- Absolute disrespect for player's time. This game was constantly annoying me with unskippable pop-up emotions. By playing the game for 3 hours I feel like a spent more than half an hour by just skipping it.
- Quite dumb H-dialogues in general like *I want to fuck you" - "No" - "But that's for research purposes!* - "Oh, ok then"

Again, this is not a total mess and if you simply want to kill your time and read something funny, it will do just fine. Though if you are in search for a decent hentai game - you entered the wrong place