This review contains spoilers
An ero-RPG with a fully voiced protagonist? Cool! Unfortanutely that's about it.
The gist of Slave's Sword plot is rather simple: Girl Knight named Luna Ashley with rare magical powers gets captured after failing a mission and is branded a slave, she then finds herself fighting with a group of revolutionaries against the empire she was a part of.
RPG Systems and gameplay in general: It's as straightforward of a RPG Maker game as it can get, but the grind is real in this one game. Can't say I have found plenty of interesting battles since there aren't many zones in the game where enemies cannot get killed by spamming the attack button. Skills in this game are rare commodities, Luna herself comes with Fire based skills that I shit you not, are not very effective for the majority of the game.
Besides that, magic comes in the format of finding rare tomes scattered on the story missions that give you 1 magic attack of other elements (and those are usually better than the fire attacks luna gets plenty of). Weapons and armor parts in this game can be upgraded. Since equipment is level locked, you will find yourself wanting for iron ores and money so you can upgrade your current weapon to be better but that eventually makes them better than the weapons you can buy for the later levels, so what's the point? Wouldn't it be better to not be able to buy/upgrade since each system makes the other one irrelevant? I honestly really dislike this.
You have a slot for accessories and some of them can even add element properties for your attacks but it's honestly a underused mechanic (plenty of the resist rings are also useless since most enemies don't do status attacks). There's also a gacha system inside the game, you can spend in game money to buy random cards with some cute artwork, and equipping a card can give you buffs. Honestly, I think I found the one that carried my whole playthrough by giving a chance for a second action every turn. This really did give me a fighting chance for the last part of the game where I don't think I would get by without healing and attacking at the same time.
The Grind (TM): The game gives you the option to bounty hunt, which gives you access to some areas that will have a boss at the end. It's so dull and repetitive, but also pretty much the only way to get the game's singular upgrade material, so you're doing that a lot. I honestly think this game would get a lot better if it just cut down on the artificial ways to extend it's duration than making the player do boring quests for quite some time. Of course, there's also prostitution services one can perform, but they give less and less money over time, something that I can't really think is good game design. I know the character is supposed to get naughtier over time for doing these services (just so the corruption tag of the game is justified) but why not start with her doing "lower level jobs" instead of starting her at the top and dropping her for no bigger reward? It may seem like a nitpick, but it's very unlikely you're doing this grind watching the same scenes every day just to get less than 1300G per night (which becomes less and less over time) it honestly feels like the game is at odd with the player.
NSFW Stuff: The content that is there ain't half bad. Honestly it may be the only good thing about this game, since the protagonist is FULLY voiced. It may not be the most daring when it comes to the kinds of acts performed on Luna but that can also be good, not everyone wants every act to be completely deranged.
Even though I think the CGs are good, besides the ones you get for exploring the dungeon and losing to the monsters, the ones you get on the city progress at such a slow place, it really feels like the devs didn't want you to watch everything until you finished the game (and unlocked all the scenes anyway).
Conclusion: Download this game and get you a save file where the CGs are unlocked. This game is honestly better viewed as a CG Folder than anything else.
The gist of Slave's Sword plot is rather simple: Girl Knight named Luna Ashley with rare magical powers gets captured after failing a mission and is branded a slave, she then finds herself fighting with a group of revolutionaries against the empire she was a part of.
RPG Systems and gameplay in general: It's as straightforward of a RPG Maker game as it can get, but the grind is real in this one game. Can't say I have found plenty of interesting battles since there aren't many zones in the game where enemies cannot get killed by spamming the attack button. Skills in this game are rare commodities, Luna herself comes with Fire based skills that I shit you not, are not very effective for the majority of the game.
Besides that, magic comes in the format of finding rare tomes scattered on the story missions that give you 1 magic attack of other elements (and those are usually better than the fire attacks luna gets plenty of). Weapons and armor parts in this game can be upgraded. Since equipment is level locked, you will find yourself wanting for iron ores and money so you can upgrade your current weapon to be better but that eventually makes them better than the weapons you can buy for the later levels, so what's the point? Wouldn't it be better to not be able to buy/upgrade since each system makes the other one irrelevant? I honestly really dislike this.
You have a slot for accessories and some of them can even add element properties for your attacks but it's honestly a underused mechanic (plenty of the resist rings are also useless since most enemies don't do status attacks). There's also a gacha system inside the game, you can spend in game money to buy random cards with some cute artwork, and equipping a card can give you buffs. Honestly, I think I found the one that carried my whole playthrough by giving a chance for a second action every turn. This really did give me a fighting chance for the last part of the game where I don't think I would get by without healing and attacking at the same time.
The Grind (TM): The game gives you the option to bounty hunt, which gives you access to some areas that will have a boss at the end. It's so dull and repetitive, but also pretty much the only way to get the game's singular upgrade material, so you're doing that a lot. I honestly think this game would get a lot better if it just cut down on the artificial ways to extend it's duration than making the player do boring quests for quite some time. Of course, there's also prostitution services one can perform, but they give less and less money over time, something that I can't really think is good game design. I know the character is supposed to get naughtier over time for doing these services (just so the corruption tag of the game is justified) but why not start with her doing "lower level jobs" instead of starting her at the top and dropping her for no bigger reward? It may seem like a nitpick, but it's very unlikely you're doing this grind watching the same scenes every day just to get less than 1300G per night (which becomes less and less over time) it honestly feels like the game is at odd with the player.
NSFW Stuff: The content that is there ain't half bad. Honestly it may be the only good thing about this game, since the protagonist is FULLY voiced. It may not be the most daring when it comes to the kinds of acts performed on Luna but that can also be good, not everyone wants every act to be completely deranged.
Even though I think the CGs are good, besides the ones you get for exploring the dungeon and losing to the monsters, the ones you get on the city progress at such a slow place, it really feels like the devs didn't want you to watch everything until you finished the game (and unlocked all the scenes anyway).
Conclusion: Download this game and get you a save file where the CGs are unlocked. This game is honestly better viewed as a CG Folder than anything else.