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One of games published by SakuraGame/Paradise Project, this boring beat em up is made for people who are into horny content...Expect with at how easy and short the entire game is, it is an experience that leaves nothing that lasts long into your head aside from being horny. That's not to mention that "traditional Chinese" is actually simplified Chinese, one of store page lies made by shady publishers. And other crap that I wont mention unless required.

As for the game itself...It's a beat em up where you fight against enemies, and assuming you dodge often, it is very easy, with no penalty for losing, it gets beaten around 1-2 hour for a bland experience, that doesn't leave anything good to think about.

The plot? Well, it is obviously Mandarin Chinese, with comic style prologue and certain story elements, considering on how basic it is, a generic "you and your ally to fight enemies" story, which by the end, you fight the boss...and you are back to starting area with your stuff, which means more bland gameplay loop. With some horny added in. Alongside broken English and "wine used can give positive/negative effect" things, where they don't actually work as intended because broken translation be damned, which makes things confusing, I doubt it was created with quality control or insurance.

Even worse, there's a cringeworthy writing of "this thing is OP" literally being a thing in the plot! And pro gamer tips like "evade like a pro if you are not a dumb".

Sound design? Mostly stock sounds, with slash one notably reminding of Warcraft 3 era, which shows at how boring and unoriginal it is, especially with low quality of them.

Voice acting, which is also part of sounds, is quite average, nothing special aside from fact males are unvoiced. Which makes it quite a bit of weird, unless said male is the protagonist.

Art? Again, okay for games like this, but doesn't feel good or anything special, but considering the monster and character difference, its clear what the priorities are. But the most notable outliers for not good art is the unanimated fire in literally the first village you visit!

Don't buy it. Nor their other games.

The example of how a developer can not only screw the game balance, where the paid factions matter more than free ones you start with, but also have a campaign that people would describe as "just a game", expect it really dehumanizes the Soviets, let alone those who know exactly how WW2 was actually presented, and believing that a lie repeated over 9000 times would become the truth later. Well, I don't think so, and neither should you - expect its also unoptimized, asks you for money for multiplayer content as if it was a F2P game, has things that would never be true in real life like collab skins for multiplayer and such - like Valkyria Chronicles - which would be fine in a fantasy WW2 where there's no real life implications, but certainly not when you pose it as a historical game, which is reason why people were so outraged.

I'm also baffled at your depiction of Soviets and WW2 on Eastern Front in general. Commissars wasted over 9000 rounds on their own men? Nonsense, they only executed defectors, not retreating soldiers! Soviets burned their own houses for "scorched earth" tactic? Nonsense, they burned factories and such that would otherwise be captured by an enemy, NOT their people! Millions died for a photograph? Now that's as if comparing US on the moon as a for a photograph! All of that feels as if it was done in a parallel universe, where instead of people, you had robots! Even Germans in here were depicted better because the concentration camps in Germany during that time were for some dumb reason, outsmarted by Soviets - which is a myth, since they executed Jews, political enemies, Slavs and Soviets as well, yet there's no depictions nor implications of such.

As far the game goes outside of lying, propagandizing campaign - the actual devs have abandoned it, its now developed by its community which also shares anti-Soviet sentiment in many aspects - from balance, where they are the weakest, to content, where they get the least stick out of all others -its the Germans that get the most content and also the strongest overall, even compared to other paid allied factions - so if you don't own any DLC, playing the only German faction you have is only option if you don't want to lose 99% of the time to over 9000 hour streamers and players. Which I doubt it would be big in competitive scene with such issues - but some folk just cannot let it die despite that.

And playing just several hours was already enough to get the points - I experienced enough crap from it, and I hope you wont buy it either - don't want people to spend money only to get crushed by those who spent more, but also non-stop discussions on who has more hours to wins - while also not letting you to actual E-sports you would rather join than this parody.

What happens when a company announces the game as F2P at start AND after release only to turn it into a paid game later? This is called false advertising, because you say at first that it will be free both in EA and on release supported by DLC and microtransactions, THEN you suddenly say that this game will be paid on release...This is quite scummy, because AAA publishers and some shady indie developers already pulled it off, and you decided to try it as well...

If you want money from people, either return to DLC + microtransactions model featured in free version, OR give the paid game enough content compared to "free" version earlier. And say no to character DLC, since why should players have characters that are CLEARLY better; be it easier to use for same power, or having very useful gimmicks that would win games on their own for example.

Also, translation is barebones while I played it before it got changed. Not going to support shady practices, though judging by other games made by this studio, I should had expected that their games would be flawed(not horrible, but bad or disappointing as a result)one way or another. No one should like games with awful deisgns for various reasons.

So apparently, people still protect to what I call sleaze work; it's still poorly translated like pretty much ALL SakuraGame stuff, it's still runs on shady paid "lottery" promotions if we need more of them than raffles on Steamgifts, people still bait into their "refund" policy that is nothing but to look like good guys, and while I played trough this "novel", I was shocked to see so many "blank" expressions and sentences due to again, dangerously high use of Chinglish. I would just say that this novel is mediocore like it's prequel, especially with Valve trying to take them all down.

However, that's not the end of problems; the company, AKA the publisher has shady history behind it's creation and practices; https://redd.it/78fw3s and especially comments pretty much shows that it's rather shadow and scummy, while trying to bribe people to drive attention away. This was pretty much the last straw at forgiving trash, misusing goodwill for more money, ripping off creators of their deserved money from their work, abusing Steam to earn more money and acting as "power to the players" to exploit infinite money of their cheap garbage, post poorly censored porn that is worse than Huniepop and whatever stuff.

On top of that they also use copyrighted content for their games; again, it's not theirs, their work is devired from licensed JP and other stuff, while trying to make it as if that was their own. When they lowered the price of their first game, Super Star, which was a mobile clone of some JP game with stolen content on top of that, and refunded previous people, the popularity blew up, and reviews as well, but it's STILL a Chinese rip off of a JP game called Loveplus(no H content)along with stolen unlicensed content from other sources. How people can lower their standards and still protect this scummery is uncertain, but I know why.

If you try to silence me, I will try another. If I can't, other people will rebel just like me if they know just as much. I will ensure that more people will know the truth behind it. Don't let people to fool themselves and forgive trash games that if Steam needs MORE of them. I can understand mediocore/diversed stuff, but Digital Homicide apparently teached people otherwise...

After playing for some time, I was thinking about quality increase or whatever, but they fail yet again; this novel is from HCG studio, which makes RPG Maker novels, with all of them having adult content, and mostly Otome/Boys love ones; this one is Otome, which has a strange interface that resembles computers, which is not something you see often in sci fi, along with some "gameplay", but it's mostly a novel. It has androids and robots along with technology and female protagonist as a main point, but it's main point is a story. While it is somewhat inspiring, it fails at storytelling and it more about sex desires than anything else. Not only so called male lovers are INSTANTLY in love in heroine after she does them favors, but also it's not heavy story wise either; just world with robots, technology, girl and lovers. It has a quite ordinary drama twist later, however it doesn't feels unique enough to get into viewers feels. But nothing really unique, just out of assembly line love mixed with some drama story. Also, your character in chapter select stage moves so fast, that once the game reaches so called 92% completion/repair rate, you will have chapters that ARE located at end of those platforms, meaning thanks to your fast speed, you at some time end up bumping into them, even though you wanted to go past those chapter platforms, but couldn't due to your character moving too fast. It uses what DDLC style of game, where later, you will see missing parts, pictures, missing text and scare tactics, but unlike DDLC which did it right, this one is just cliched with them. On top with generic but fitting soundtrack. And even the store page itself has typos, which again, represents the typical "quality" of this company.

Again, how you can enjoy it when it's filled with waiting for MINUTES in between cutscenes(not skipping them, but after the events, I spent total of 30+ minutes of them during the story, and those are UNSKIPPABLE), grammatical errors, typos, stuff like sentences without spacing(example,this), unskipped names/sentences like MurasakiGentleman, a somewhat short and mediocre story, ESPECIALLY when the original costs 12$, where short 1-2 hour games with no redeeming qualities usually get priced at this point...While this Chinese company prices most releases at 10 yuan(2 dollars)base, well, I can see why this company has mostly CN customers than else...And I'm glad for them, especially for what they make, but not for what they publish; their JP published games are popular with CN, but not with others. Which is disrespectful to creators and customers.

Promotion wise, you'd better take "safer and more respectful" route, which is just discounts, like you did in the past. This "raffle" or random keys that many people already have thing is anti consumer, really. You'd better think twice, because you started that trend, and people are gonna get nasty for stopping. But, going back to just discounts is much, much better, since people won't start framing you out for not winning and advertising grey key market, where they try to sell their massively given away keys for promo ones.

Am I stopping you from buying it anyway? Of course I can't, but it'ill warn anyone who wants great storytelling, because it doesn't has one. I hope you make great decisions. The games they develop are much better than what they publish. Please don't let sleazes to get away with it forever. Want to step up and earn reputation? Hire professionals, not hackjobs that call girls as men.

And it has boob's. Yes, uncensored boob's even without original JP files. This "force people to buy JP original and then pirate the said files into published titles" shows that since originals don't sell, those "creators" contact this company/company contacts them to earn more money via slicing out the price to 10 yuan(2$), and without remodifying the game like Nekopara series did; the Nekopara series did a good job for changing the game into non-H game with R rating, without a single hint into sex scenes, while justifying the cheaper than original price for H patches as DLC thanks to proper changes to story, that it doesn't show it's H origin. Yes, my price point at original earlier in this review shows how actually greedy it IS. That's literally reselling a unchanged sex product that not only did nothing what made Nekopara series successful, but also shows that talentless people need to make something really intriguing into the game, not "ordinary stories" that don't even stand out other than having sex and appeal to girls/boys. Especially what I got so called "ending", where now old heroine reunites with sex robot. And it's not over yet, it has other cutscenes, but the game doesn't even hint on how to get them, and thanks to game's mediocrity, I have no desire to even getting them for now as a result.

Stop luring people with promos that result in people NOT playing games as supposed and instead idling it JUST to get a chance to win! This is how you don't sell a game, games are supposed to be played, but thanks to promos, people will instead talk that they are only for the key/items, they don't even want the game, they just idle it, get the needed hours, then take part in lucky roulette and then abandon it. If they win, then they can potentially complain later if they don't get the goods, which means you will get even more bitter people, who are just here for the stuff, not for the game, especially if the game in question is low quality, which this one is.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/ReptilianWorldOrder/recommended/616620/
Now THIS is what gets me. THIS dev is something ELSE. THIS should be not forgiven. THE DEV SHOULD BE PUNISHED. THE DEV IS A LIAR THAT IS WORSE THAN DIGITAL HOMICIDE. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ me if this developer can be more lying than in 2017, where I bought this game and not knew how disgusting the creator is. The game itself is ALSO barebones, not even Phil Fish can compare to this amount of lying, or DigiHom's greed. This novel was boring and only exists on fetish content without any kind of "story", but also has a moronic creator who is a major LIAR, as I said earlier. DO NOT SUPPORT THIS DEVELOPER. Please listen to this guy's truth. Do not succumb to evil developers/companies trying to rip you off.

This game's "dev" is obsessed with making "sample" games that is sold for card value, on top of making a visual novel that is literally DeviantArt the game. This "game" or whatever abomination that is, is just nothing, but "talking" to a program with no AI, just predefined words with predefined answers to literally anything, and recent update on MOBA games answers, is nothing, but attempts at to target mainstream market, while offering nothing meaningful or actually useful to gaming industry. This game is nothing. Just attempt to make a quick buck using amateur skills. Shame on developer and anyone who supports "games" like this.

So...I had played this, and again, no better in company's quality to us; they still deliver mistranslations, even the store page description has several wrong wordings like small text for no reason, the game itself appears translated from Chinese first, not Japanese, which makes errors even more obvious than before. They literally confused goblin and dragon page, which means the first girl you gonna fight is dragons, not goblins, especially when you check the "manual", which shows a human rather than a dragon. And later, it turns out they used this for more bosses, not just this one. They also called a female shopkeeper a man...Again, proof they used Chinese word, which isn't gender dependent and shows how sleazy they are as translators.

Gameplay wise, it's a mix of visual novel and RPG Maker general gameplay style, which again, isn't special, but it has a platformer like lives system used to avoid monster girls; if you lose them all, you lose the game...On top of QTE if you get caught by one, which is pain to properly get off and not lose alot of health in process. Not a great mix. Again, relies on "story" with CGs to boot. Which is barebones, judging by how it's created.

Thankfully, this company doesn't give away bundled keys for now, but they still raffle real life stuff that people may end up paying themselves due to taxes involved...Or because it's only the luckiest few, not people with work/skill.

And they still push out unchecked products with no quality control. They really need professional language courses, or just market it for Chinese only if you really insist on spoiled westerners, right? Developing and translating your own games however, is much better than publish embarrassingly mistranslated goodwill of customers you trying to appeal. The developers are going to wonder why oversea players don't like their product because of 1 bad publisher...Even freelancers make way better translations than what we constantly get. Don't let bad practices of abusing goodwill continue.

During my play of this game, I already noticed that this company doesn't care about oversea customers; they keep pushing broken/questionable English in the game, and even the store page has completely broken incomprehensible words, like "prrtector", broken sequences, overly long application text, incomprehensible story as a result. Not several minutes in and I'm already having problems at describing the game!

The gameplay itself is RPG Maker standard; nothing particularly special and primarily relies on story, but how you can rely on story, when the text is broken as a result of Engrish? This is unacceptable! Even "all your base belong to us" is much better translation than this. Eternal Senia was translated by developer himself for free, and this shows how incompetent the publisher is. Even the games they developed(not published)are better in text, so I could actually get what's going on, not when they do it so badly, that you believe that they are just yelling at each other, while Chinese will get the text properly. Freelancers making English patches to JP/other country games are way better than you both at honesty and quality.

Their promotions, despite improving in rules, they don't improve at greed aspect; they still insist on keys, unlike ordinary developers pushing on more customer friendly just discounts, they still insist on "raffling real world stuff", despite the problems that can occur should that happen; from fees on delivery that you have to pay instead, to getting something that a person will not even want, like a console for a person who uses PC, or dress for a person who has no taste of fashion/wrong gender/culture. Also, not everyone can get them.

Other publishers to prevent such accusations only giveaway keys/stuff not every game/celebration, but when actually needed; you instead intend on keep pushing releases of poor products in order to make your money, while also spitting in the face of REAL customers, like ourselves.

You can remain a publisher if you do ACTUAL translation and publishing job, like AGM PLAYISM, Mangagamer, e.t.c. Otherwise stick to your developer priorities, you are MUCH better at that. Please do not let sleazes think that they can get away with it forever. Bad translations will breed outside negativity, especially if developer doesn't know how to react to it, while incompetent publishers will ensure that the dev will get flak for wrong impressions in West, while Chinese are always happy despite that...

Update: Did I mentioned that this one is also unfinished? Yes, you have to wait MONTHS until it ever gets patched, plus the writing is somewhat cringy and meme filled, it references CN games like GunZ Girl, Honkai Impact and others, like memes, such as gachi book gift and "deep dark fantasy", memetic games like Dota 2, even Dota characters, like Invoker, and even has a character with Invoker skills! Yes they also have Arthas sword Frostmourne as well, which again, shows how unoriginal the creator is, combined with publishers sleaze excuses for their market, while ignoring the west, and siphoning their funds for their pro east work. Combine that, and you have a developer who takes nothing new other than being a sleaze "girl dating simulator with RPG elements" along with voice acting in battles that is mediocre.

Great, the publisher is so sleazy nowdays that they give away what many people ALREADY own. The random key system needs to go, it's very anti consumer. If it was an entire bundle with products, like indiegala or Humble, then it could be forgivable...Oh wait, they don't, they just make it random bits of it to make sure grey market "resellers" will stay in power, offering keys for "free" games like COH2 or DIRT 3 in exchange for AAA games...Really? The real life products are questionable too, not EVERY person can get it, only the rarest lucky ones will get something of that, and even if they do win, they may not get it due to real life costs, fees and other problems.

On the bonus content, which is this, it's underwhelming; just some bonus story, CGs, to an already underwhelming game. This one still has broken English, on top of boring soundtrack, which isn't unique or meaningful, it's generic for the genre it is. The story of bonus one was really boring, just as much the original game is.

AGM PLAYISM, Mangagamer, DLsite already do a MUCH better publishing job than you. Remember Taiwanese, like Eternal Senia non commerical game that was made in RPG Maker? It was perfectly translated by developer himself, which already shows how sleazy and hungry for money SakuraGame is. If they gone back to no promotions other than discount, then they would be 200% more honest than EVER. Discount and a free/bundled game are different things, don't assume that a person would attempt to sell a discounted game rather than the keys a person may get. Systems that require account permission, like SEGA MLNW one, are better, since people will not try to sell what they got; they already activate them.

They can be a publisher, but be less greedy and making "promotions" that attract dishonest and greedy moneymakers to make everything even worse. Or if you can't handle that, remain as developer you were in the past.