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you'll never believe the secrets this school is hiding!!

i put so much of that shit in my head i started opening doors while standing on different y-axes and shit

aside from that and the 3-4 times where i started clipping out of the map (which softlocked me every time) this was pretty functional. i liked the part where i wandered aimlessly until i found a pair of pliers at the bottom of a swimming pool (which were apparently sharp enough to cut - and repair - metal grates with)

love how shamelessly x-treme this tries to be. the sprites are fun too. i'd be stoked if i got this bundled with my wendys as a kid

Turboroko Path to Passion Fever: No review, I refuse.

This game's difficulty is what Game Journalists think Dark Souls is

why tf is this game called "Queer Power" if it doesnt let you have gay sex. genuinely confused here

lots of white people playing this

edit: i feel super bad that this ended up being the top review of this game. i'd rather people's first impressions of any game not be someone complaining about it.

I'm going to try to be nice to this game, especially considering I didn't beat it, but.... man, I don't have a lot of positive things to say.

The reason I ever ended up playing this indie porn platformer (one of the stranger trends I've observed in the past few years) was because one of my friends found it while deep diving on Steam. She described it as "Ikaruga but a metroidvania". I don't particularly like modern metroidvanias. This, however, sounded like an interesting combo. So I checked the Backloggd page and saw the high rating. Another sign that this was probably decent, if nothing else.

I'm gonna get this out of the way now: I really don't dig the NSFW aspect of this game. I love playing as girls and I have nothing against suggestive character designs! I LOVE Felicia from Darkstalkers. She's so cool. Yet not only are the girls in this game utterly swagless and uninspired, they're all the exact same, migraine-inducing "fantasy characters but with big boobs". I excused it for the main character (I could go off about her outfits.... so swagless...) and her sensei (ok she has a little swag), but once I realized that this was going to be the design for every character I, lost all hope. I won't get too hung up over this, though. I didn't come here for the porn (obviously). I came here for the gameplay.

So I'm gonna talk about the two aspects I like first. Although the artstyle itself isn't super unique, I don't think that's necessarily a dealbreaker. The game has lots of diverse areas with distinct themes that are all drawn with very detailed pixel art! There wasn't a single area I saw that looked boring. The UI is also a quite ornately detailed little thing, though i wish it was bigger. As far as music, the OST is decent and has cute midi instruments (PAN FLUTES!!!) that made me smile. That's everything I liked about the game.

I don't see where people are coming from when they call this a great metroidvania. Is it serviceable? Playable? A better vessel for the NSFW content than those shitty flash porn games I used to play when I was younger? Absolutely. There was a level of effort put into the pacing of the areas and gamefeel. However, there is ZERO reason to go out of your way to play this unless the only thing stopping you from playing Hollow Knight was the lack of sex. The questgivers and character interactions are the most boiler-plate post-ALTTP shit imaginable. The quests themselves are often tedious; not challenging, but not fun either. I would likely enjoy the quests more if I was interested in getting the rewards (ie: porn). The actual flipping mechanic that is supposed to be the main draw of the game is the most gimmicky of gimmicks. It adds nothing to gameplay except a few extra inputs during platforming. Yes, I didn't finish the game, but if I get into the bulk of your game and I have not seen a single exciting use of your central mechanic, I think that's an issue to iron out. The combat is completely mindless and very, very rarely involves flipping. This is not an Ikaruga metroidvania. This is disappointing. And I'm now starting to understand why Alicesoft are such a huge deal. I often think of their games as "amazing game hindered by the constant porn". I realize now that they are porn that still manages to have interesting and fun gameplay.

However, this is (far as I'm aware) the developer's first game. I'm not writing them off or telling people not to support them. I'm just saying I personally thought FlipWitch was far from the fantastic game it was hyped up to be.

leaving this review here to say that this has one of the best theme songs in any video game

Awesome grimdark VN with some of the most morally fucked characters you’ll ever see

"are you ready for your lessons in how to be a good rpg game?"

Megami Tensei gulped.

Dragon Quest nodded.

Final Fantasy shuddered.

Xeno blinked nervously.

"yes Volcanic Bird: Bird Quest," they say in unison.

Hell Fucking Yeah Baby lemme get that 0.2% on Green Core Minior for a Rock/Flying type lets fucking go fuck you max im so much better than you at this shit