Really good RPGM game, easily one of the top among this kinda type of games.
The gameplay is nothing out of the world, is the classic kind of battle that you are going to find in almost every other game made with rpgm, the good thing is that with strategy you can beat the game without much of problem or by grinding the hell out for levels.
I also think that one of the great points on this game it's the OST
About the story, its okay, the cast and all the characters are enjoyable but there are some points on the plot that the game fells a little.
Outside that, it's a good and pretty funny game.
The gameplay is nothing out of the world, is the classic kind of battle that you are going to find in almost every other game made with rpgm, the good thing is that with strategy you can beat the game without much of problem or by grinding the hell out for levels.
I also think that one of the great points on this game it's the OST
About the story, its okay, the cast and all the characters are enjoyable but there are some points on the plot that the game fells a little.
Outside that, it's a good and pretty funny game.
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TLDR; Amazing JRPG story if you can stomach mid RPGM gameplay and H-scenes (Steam has a censored version that works).
Unexpectedly amazing RPGM game that has lots of care put into the writing, especially with character interactions and worldbuilding. FANTASTIC music from SHADE too, but a decent amount of the music is stock RPGM stuff (some of it is actually pretty good though).
Gameplay is standard RPGM fare unfortunately, but the exploration to find broken gear is done pretty well actually. Combat follows typical magic weaknesses, elemental type, etc., although it does have something similar to the Trails series craft point system to spice things up. It is very easy to break the game's balance in two with certain party members.
The themes of the story are very simple, yet executed extremely well. Loved the exploration on the relationship between two groups, the defeated and the victors, and more abstractly, the "us" vs. "them" mentality towards an unknown group, and how those viewpoints slowly evolve via prejudice, a want for a stable life, and more.
The story and characters start off pretty simplistic, but layers of depth slowly get added onto them as the story gets more and more complex and morally grey. The overall party honestly became one of my favorites in any JRPG, and Deathpolca in particular became one of my all-time favorite JRPG protagonists.
Story pacing is noticeably faster than 90% of JRPGs available now, with interesting developments, plot twists, and wide-sweeping events happening constantly. Not many segments just completely halt all story progression happening (ala Trails into Azure). Even with this fast pacing, the characters still get ample time to develop, alongside the world. One notable weakness in the writing are the villains, they're kind of like Kiseki antagonists (lame).
Elephant in the room in this game is that it is an eroge, meaning lots of H-scenes. The story related ones were pretty bad and felt like they were there to satisfy the eroge quota. R-18 skip exists, which may alleviate this for people who don't like these.
Unexpectedly amazing RPGM game that has lots of care put into the writing, especially with character interactions and worldbuilding. FANTASTIC music from SHADE too, but a decent amount of the music is stock RPGM stuff (some of it is actually pretty good though).
Gameplay is standard RPGM fare unfortunately, but the exploration to find broken gear is done pretty well actually. Combat follows typical magic weaknesses, elemental type, etc., although it does have something similar to the Trails series craft point system to spice things up. It is very easy to break the game's balance in two with certain party members.
The themes of the story are very simple, yet executed extremely well. Loved the exploration on the relationship between two groups, the defeated and the victors, and more abstractly, the "us" vs. "them" mentality towards an unknown group, and how those viewpoints slowly evolve via prejudice, a want for a stable life, and more.
The story and characters start off pretty simplistic, but layers of depth slowly get added onto them as the story gets more and more complex and morally grey. The overall party honestly became one of my favorites in any JRPG, and Deathpolca in particular became one of my all-time favorite JRPG protagonists.
Story pacing is noticeably faster than 90% of JRPGs available now, with interesting developments, plot twists, and wide-sweeping events happening constantly. Not many segments just completely halt all story progression happening (ala Trails into Azure). Even with this fast pacing, the characters still get ample time to develop, alongside the world. One notable weakness in the writing are the villains, they're kind of like Kiseki antagonists (lame).
Elephant in the room in this game is that it is an eroge, meaning lots of H-scenes. The story related ones were pretty bad and felt like they were there to satisfy the eroge quota. R-18 skip exists, which may alleviate this for people who don't like these.
There's options to remove the porn scenes, they really aren't the selling point of the game.
Nice plot covering thoughs from characters, bosses and some important NPCs including the final boss which is kind of strange.
Nice plot covering thoughs from characters, bosses and some important NPCs including the final boss which is kind of strange.
This review contains spoilers
Demon’s Roots is frustrating. It’s a game I love, though.
This is a game I got recommended through a pinned post on social media describing it as "10/10 kinoge'' and "yuripilled." I don't know what kinoge means and I'd say more 9/10 but it's pretty damn yuripilled, even if it takes a while to get there it's really intense and nice when you get to it, was not entirely disappointed by this recommendation. The short description made by this post did not have the space to tell me everything else I had to deal with, so I guess I'll try to expand it.
Demon’s Roots tasks you with freeing people from slavery, denounces it, calls it out as a cause of human suffering and an atrocity and so forth, and a product of evil, but then dedicates half of its art and an entire side mode to erotic depictions of sexual slavery. This undermines both its attempts at being erotic AND its attempts at denouncing it and building a narrative against it, as presenting each scene of sexual abuse as tragic and sad undercuts the ability of the people who would enjoy such scenes erotically to, well, enjoy it. (I assume, at least.)
I have mixed feelings on noncon fantasy as a kink, but I don’t believe that anyone who participates in such a thing is innately morally bad or any more likely to commit immoral acts. I have respect for it at a distance, it’s not for me and it’s not something I can personally dissect all the way, but I have nothing against noncon fantasy in a context-less setting.
The issue I have with it is just the fact that it’s handled so poorly within the context of the rest of the game. To say “I am against these things in reality and am making this erotic piece as a form of fantasy” as a note before an erotic piece is normal. Bringing up the fetish in the context of a discussion on sexual abuse to expand the discussion can be reasonable. Talking about how horrific sexual abuse is while stapling a video of your favorite noncon hentai in the middle, talking about said hentai in excessive detail and half-trying to pass it off as an example, is insanely confusing.
The most annoying part is that when it’s not doing this insanely confusing dance, it’s genuinely captivating as a narrative. The characters and how they interact are memorable and emotional. People react realistically to their situations. It lands in a loveable spot between love-conquers-all and grimdark, a beautiful kind of bittersweet characterized by sacrifice and loss and things not going how they were supposed to but it all having been worth it. While its oppression narrative is handled a bit rough at times (mainly relative to the previous complaints,) most of its themes and messages are handled in compelling ways. Solidarity between the oppressed, community, hope beyond hope, forgiveness, the things loneliness can do to people, I could go on and on. The complex (positive) emotions this game made me experience are exceptional, it ranks highly on that spectrum for me. It practically makes up for all of the flaws in my opinion. I wish it didn't have to make up for it, but I'm still happy this game felt satisfying to finish in spite of its flaws and the times where I felt so frustrated with it that I wanted to quit. It was worth it.
It’s kind of difficult to talk about the good parts, unfortunately, because properly selling the emotional narrative requires so much context and framing that it just can’t really be elevator pitched. It also doesn’t help that when I try to verbalize my feelings on my favorite parts of the story I tend to start sobbing. Sorry I can’t quite get it down here, but it’s really, really good, or else I wouldn’t be talking about all my problems with it in such detail.
The gameplay is pretty average RPGmaker stuff, nothing special but I’m a sucker for that kinda thing. Points added for having fun skills and a good amount of those satisfying "doing everything right and getting a huge damage number" moments. Points off for the fact that most of the game is cheesed through stacking evasion on a character that can take any hits intended for other teammates, giving you endless (slightly RNG-based but pretty consistent) invincibility. Points added again for lots of neat optional content.
It’s also highly worth noting that the version sold on steam is an unfinished version of the game. I’m not talking about the sex stuff being removed I mean like, day 1 modern Bethesda release here. (For reference: this version removes pretty much all of the games’ sexual content in a often strange manner, assumedly to follow Steam’s now-removed rules banning the hosting of sexual content focused games.) This version is missing multiple gameplay features. Notably the difficulty selection is replaced with being given 80 of every healing and stat item upon starting, which feels very alpha-build-y, various character sprites and art pieces are missing, and by chapter 2 I gave up on trying to complete the game patchless after having a temporary, one-area, intense debuff become irremovable due to a missing NPC. It’s downright broken.
I wanted to try beating the default version because the artstyle wasn’t the kind I usually find sexy, but it was just objectively a worse version of the game. I gave up and installed the official restoration patch, and sped through the portion of the game I’d already cleared (since I’d screwed up my original save in hackneyed attempts to fix my issues.)
The “R-18 skip” feature available in the patched version is somewhat effective at dodging its awkward sex scenes, there’s times where you can tell they had a tough time trying to gloss over it but it’s not horrific. This does, frustratingly at times, lock you out of certain areas of the game, though. One is just a sex scene centric area that would be mostly fine to ignore if not for the fact it has some solid exclusive weapons and accessories you might be sad to miss. Another is an optional dungeon-ish area with a unique boss fight and strong rewards from it, and the last major thing is an entire side-mode called “Bad End mode” with a unique gameplay loop that (to my understanding based on guides, I didn’t play it cause the noncon scene orientedness turned me off to it) makes the typical JRPG combat loop a lot more tactical. This mode only gives one okay main game accessory and no other unlocks besides more scenes in the cutscene viewer, so it’s not the most lamented thing, but still a little sad.
So I guess my point is just install the damn patch and turn on R18 skip if you think you won't wanna see that. Ultimately I hope you can find the beauty in it that I did.
I really love this game, genuinely, deeply, which makes me hate all of the confusing decisions in it even more. If it were simply a bad game with a mediocre plot and whatnot I could just stop giving a crap but I love it and that comes with baggage. Grr.
This is a game I got recommended through a pinned post on social media describing it as "10/10 kinoge'' and "yuripilled." I don't know what kinoge means and I'd say more 9/10 but it's pretty damn yuripilled, even if it takes a while to get there it's really intense and nice when you get to it, was not entirely disappointed by this recommendation. The short description made by this post did not have the space to tell me everything else I had to deal with, so I guess I'll try to expand it.
Demon’s Roots tasks you with freeing people from slavery, denounces it, calls it out as a cause of human suffering and an atrocity and so forth, and a product of evil, but then dedicates half of its art and an entire side mode to erotic depictions of sexual slavery. This undermines both its attempts at being erotic AND its attempts at denouncing it and building a narrative against it, as presenting each scene of sexual abuse as tragic and sad undercuts the ability of the people who would enjoy such scenes erotically to, well, enjoy it. (I assume, at least.)
I have mixed feelings on noncon fantasy as a kink, but I don’t believe that anyone who participates in such a thing is innately morally bad or any more likely to commit immoral acts. I have respect for it at a distance, it’s not for me and it’s not something I can personally dissect all the way, but I have nothing against noncon fantasy in a context-less setting.
The issue I have with it is just the fact that it’s handled so poorly within the context of the rest of the game. To say “I am against these things in reality and am making this erotic piece as a form of fantasy” as a note before an erotic piece is normal. Bringing up the fetish in the context of a discussion on sexual abuse to expand the discussion can be reasonable. Talking about how horrific sexual abuse is while stapling a video of your favorite noncon hentai in the middle, talking about said hentai in excessive detail and half-trying to pass it off as an example, is insanely confusing.
The most annoying part is that when it’s not doing this insanely confusing dance, it’s genuinely captivating as a narrative. The characters and how they interact are memorable and emotional. People react realistically to their situations. It lands in a loveable spot between love-conquers-all and grimdark, a beautiful kind of bittersweet characterized by sacrifice and loss and things not going how they were supposed to but it all having been worth it. While its oppression narrative is handled a bit rough at times (mainly relative to the previous complaints,) most of its themes and messages are handled in compelling ways. Solidarity between the oppressed, community, hope beyond hope, forgiveness, the things loneliness can do to people, I could go on and on. The complex (positive) emotions this game made me experience are exceptional, it ranks highly on that spectrum for me. It practically makes up for all of the flaws in my opinion. I wish it didn't have to make up for it, but I'm still happy this game felt satisfying to finish in spite of its flaws and the times where I felt so frustrated with it that I wanted to quit. It was worth it.
It’s kind of difficult to talk about the good parts, unfortunately, because properly selling the emotional narrative requires so much context and framing that it just can’t really be elevator pitched. It also doesn’t help that when I try to verbalize my feelings on my favorite parts of the story I tend to start sobbing. Sorry I can’t quite get it down here, but it’s really, really good, or else I wouldn’t be talking about all my problems with it in such detail.
The gameplay is pretty average RPGmaker stuff, nothing special but I’m a sucker for that kinda thing. Points added for having fun skills and a good amount of those satisfying "doing everything right and getting a huge damage number" moments. Points off for the fact that most of the game is cheesed through stacking evasion on a character that can take any hits intended for other teammates, giving you endless (slightly RNG-based but pretty consistent) invincibility. Points added again for lots of neat optional content.
It’s also highly worth noting that the version sold on steam is an unfinished version of the game. I’m not talking about the sex stuff being removed I mean like, day 1 modern Bethesda release here. (For reference: this version removes pretty much all of the games’ sexual content in a often strange manner, assumedly to follow Steam’s now-removed rules banning the hosting of sexual content focused games.) This version is missing multiple gameplay features. Notably the difficulty selection is replaced with being given 80 of every healing and stat item upon starting, which feels very alpha-build-y, various character sprites and art pieces are missing, and by chapter 2 I gave up on trying to complete the game patchless after having a temporary, one-area, intense debuff become irremovable due to a missing NPC. It’s downright broken.
I wanted to try beating the default version because the artstyle wasn’t the kind I usually find sexy, but it was just objectively a worse version of the game. I gave up and installed the official restoration patch, and sped through the portion of the game I’d already cleared (since I’d screwed up my original save in hackneyed attempts to fix my issues.)
The “R-18 skip” feature available in the patched version is somewhat effective at dodging its awkward sex scenes, there’s times where you can tell they had a tough time trying to gloss over it but it’s not horrific. This does, frustratingly at times, lock you out of certain areas of the game, though. One is just a sex scene centric area that would be mostly fine to ignore if not for the fact it has some solid exclusive weapons and accessories you might be sad to miss. Another is an optional dungeon-ish area with a unique boss fight and strong rewards from it, and the last major thing is an entire side-mode called “Bad End mode” with a unique gameplay loop that (to my understanding based on guides, I didn’t play it cause the noncon scene orientedness turned me off to it) makes the typical JRPG combat loop a lot more tactical. This mode only gives one okay main game accessory and no other unlocks besides more scenes in the cutscene viewer, so it’s not the most lamented thing, but still a little sad.
So I guess my point is just install the damn patch and turn on R18 skip if you think you won't wanna see that. Ultimately I hope you can find the beauty in it that I did.
I really love this game, genuinely, deeply, which makes me hate all of the confusing decisions in it even more. If it were simply a bad game with a mediocre plot and whatnot I could just stop giving a crap but I love it and that comes with baggage. Grr.
there's so much to talk about.
the constant clashing of ideals between "them" and "us", the lenghts one must go through to achieve their ideal, fighting fate in ways never seen before, hammering the fact that freedom is the most frightening gift for people who have been enslaved as far as they can remember (for the latter, DR really puts in perspective how immense that change of way of lives is). so much love and care went into treading these subject that i can't bring myself to rate this game any lower despite its flaws
the first half has alot to be desired from its antagonists, up until orphe; but still, it wasn't boring the slightest since there's no padding in the game; the pacing and execution of each arc made up for everything by tenfolds . The music is spectacular, most of it from free to use rpgm music but very neatly chosen ones; the one created by SHADE though, absolute masterclass after masterclass. Soo much soul went into composing them, BLOSSOM being my absolute favorite as i tie it to my favorite duo in the game; this allows me to talk about the cast now. oh my god this cast. NONE OF THEM feel wasted the slightest from each side of the game; never becoming irrelevant later on which is something that plagued most jrpgs i played beforehand, i'm telling you this game was made with unrivaled passion and love for the genre and stories as a whole
It really achieve what every story about opression and equality desperately seek and never achieve (thus leaning to a centrist end most of the cases). not only did DR avoid taking this route, but its execution of it is nothing but magistral. hard to talk about any of it without heavily spoiling the game, but see for yourself. i wanna add though, the way it connect to its sequel (that released before DR) is so unique and is why the game works so well, to a translation of king exit one day!
the constant clashing of ideals between "them" and "us", the lenghts one must go through to achieve their ideal, fighting fate in ways never seen before, hammering the fact that freedom is the most frightening gift for people who have been enslaved as far as they can remember (for the latter, DR really puts in perspective how immense that change of way of lives is). so much love and care went into treading these subject that i can't bring myself to rate this game any lower despite its flaws
the first half has alot to be desired from its antagonists, up until orphe; but still, it wasn't boring the slightest since there's no padding in the game; the pacing and execution of each arc made up for everything by tenfolds . The music is spectacular, most of it from free to use rpgm music but very neatly chosen ones; the one created by SHADE though, absolute masterclass after masterclass. Soo much soul went into composing them, BLOSSOM being my absolute favorite as i tie it to my favorite duo in the game; this allows me to talk about the cast now. oh my god this cast. NONE OF THEM feel wasted the slightest from each side of the game; never becoming irrelevant later on which is something that plagued most jrpgs i played beforehand, i'm telling you this game was made with unrivaled passion and love for the genre and stories as a whole
It really achieve what every story about opression and equality desperately seek and never achieve (thus leaning to a centrist end most of the cases). not only did DR avoid taking this route, but its execution of it is nothing but magistral. hard to talk about any of it without heavily spoiling the game, but see for yourself. i wanna add though, the way it connect to its sequel (that released before DR) is so unique and is why the game works so well, to a translation of king exit one day!
A great exploration of conflict and how prejudice towards a specific group can prevent understanding of one another. It has many glaring issues but the sheer passion and heart seeping out of every pore of it makes up for it tenfold. So many moments are executed with the utmost of sincerity that I can't help but just feel enamored by it.
The cast is also surprisingly well written with Deathpolca and Diana being the most standout. Deathpolca is an excellent protagonist that is perfect for the kind of story this is. Diana is one of my favorite JRPG party members ever with an incredibly strong character arc that had a cathartic conclusion. The rest of the cast are no slouches too with them being very endearing and having great dynamics. The weak link of the casts are sadly the antagonists but the Emperor and another one I shall not name are pretty good.
The way it functions as a prequel to King Exist is also unlike anything I've ever seen. This is a very uniquely executed prequel.
The one true flaw of the game that I can't ignore is definitely the gameplay and overall world design being boring. It is not very fun to play sadly, and when compared to other RPGM games such as Black Souls, it falls flat in this aspect for me.
I love Deathpolca so much.
King Exit translation when.
The cast is also surprisingly well written with Deathpolca and Diana being the most standout. Deathpolca is an excellent protagonist that is perfect for the kind of story this is. Diana is one of my favorite JRPG party members ever with an incredibly strong character arc that had a cathartic conclusion. The rest of the cast are no slouches too with them being very endearing and having great dynamics. The weak link of the casts are sadly the antagonists but the Emperor and another one I shall not name are pretty good.
The way it functions as a prequel to King Exist is also unlike anything I've ever seen. This is a very uniquely executed prequel.
The one true flaw of the game that I can't ignore is definitely the gameplay and overall world design being boring. It is not very fun to play sadly, and when compared to other RPGM games such as Black Souls, it falls flat in this aspect for me.
I love Deathpolca so much.
King Exit translation when.
the actual story of this game is relatively generic, nothing too special. same with the gameplay, as most of it felt like a chore (especially with how easy it was).
but the characters, polca and lily especially, are so amazing i couldn't give this game anything but 5 stars. this is the only game to make me cry for multiple hours at once, and you can tell how much passion was put into it.
also shade's osts are so so good omg
but the characters, polca and lily especially, are so amazing i couldn't give this game anything but 5 stars. this is the only game to make me cry for multiple hours at once, and you can tell how much passion was put into it.
also shade's osts are so so good omg
Considering this is a hentai RPG maker game it has 1000x better than it has any right to be. I could not possibly put into words just how good the story and the characters are. This is probably one of the best jrpgs of all time easily, and its a shame most people will never even play it. Oh well, if you read this, I hope you decide to play it, because its worth it. You might start playing and think the game is full of tropes and horny pandering for perverts but trust me when I say I think you will be pleasantly surprised by just how wrong you are, just like I was. Never has a game had such an emotional impact on me.
um dos melhores j-RPGs que eu ja joguei
Revolutionary Girl Rance
spoilers: https://doi.org/10.1215/-12-2-1
Historia excelente, personagens muito bem desenvolvidos e combate que funciona. 10/10
IM FUCKING DEADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
this game honestly has many things which could be better to me, but what it does well is fucking amazing and it is really made full of passion from a guy who before doing rpg makers did hentai doujins lmao
kinoge yuripilled..
this game honestly has many things which could be better to me, but what it does well is fucking amazing and it is really made full of passion from a guy who before doing rpg makers did hentai doujins lmao
kinoge yuripilled..
Very enjoyable RPG Maker Game, highly underrated! Just turn off 18+ scenes and enjoy the HEAVY story for demonkind and slave FREEDOM >:D
(and the wholesome romance story between Deathpolca and Lily 💗)
(and the wholesome romance story between Deathpolca and Lily 💗)
I'm going to compare this game to OMORI because I want to.
First, let me just state that those two games have very different atmosphere and genre. Demons Roots makes you play as Deathpolca, a plant demon fighting against the inequity in the world she lives in. OMORI you play as a boy who's living in a world of escapism.
But what makes me prefer Demons Roots over OMORI is that Demons Roots has better pacing (no dream world stuff), more characters (bonus that all of them have personalities and lovely interactions between them all) and just better emotional moments (Hype, sad, angry, happiness, despair) and ending. (I didn't feel any hype in OMORI because the story is meant to be dark. Fair enough.)
For gameplay, it's just nice to have options to more than four characters (even though I always have Ange and Kalinka in my party lol). Grinding isn't the worst in either games (both suffer from RPG Maker though). But in OMORI the gameplay dissonance is really more pronounced. You don't really have a goal to become stronger in OMORI. And I would argue that making the gameplay less tedious in OMORI would be better for the overall pacing of the game. But in Demons Roots, you must get stronger. Because you are fighting against the system. You are trying to establish your worth in the world of despair. You want to achieve the best ending for Demonkind.
Akai Mato really served a delicious meal with this game. In Bahasa Indonesia, I would review this game with the meme "Bilangin sama Akai Mato, makasih udah buat game sebagus kamu"
Rant end. Both are good games though. If you prefer complex psychological exploration of the human mind play OMORI. If you prefer the traditional JRPG of getting stronger and fighting evil play this. I'm not lying when I say this has one of the best world building and story telling in RPG Maker. 9.3/10
First, let me just state that those two games have very different atmosphere and genre. Demons Roots makes you play as Deathpolca, a plant demon fighting against the inequity in the world she lives in. OMORI you play as a boy who's living in a world of escapism.
But what makes me prefer Demons Roots over OMORI is that Demons Roots has better pacing (no dream world stuff), more characters (bonus that all of them have personalities and lovely interactions between them all) and just better emotional moments (Hype, sad, angry, happiness, despair) and ending. (I didn't feel any hype in OMORI because the story is meant to be dark. Fair enough.)
For gameplay, it's just nice to have options to more than four characters (even though I always have Ange and Kalinka in my party lol). Grinding isn't the worst in either games (both suffer from RPG Maker though). But in OMORI the gameplay dissonance is really more pronounced. You don't really have a goal to become stronger in OMORI. And I would argue that making the gameplay less tedious in OMORI would be better for the overall pacing of the game. But in Demons Roots, you must get stronger. Because you are fighting against the system. You are trying to establish your worth in the world of despair. You want to achieve the best ending for Demonkind.
Akai Mato really served a delicious meal with this game. In Bahasa Indonesia, I would review this game with the meme "Bilangin sama Akai Mato, makasih udah buat game sebagus kamu"
Rant end. Both are good games though. If you prefer complex psychological exploration of the human mind play OMORI. If you prefer the traditional JRPG of getting stronger and fighting evil play this. I'm not lying when I say this has one of the best world building and story telling in RPG Maker. 9.3/10