Re: Sakura Taiken
I don't know about you guys but the guy's art started to grow on me. I mean I've been playing his games since KN 1 and that had terrible art but it was fun to play. This art looks so much better than his old ones and I personally like it. I also like his games because they contain gameplay not "CLICK TILL YOU SEE PORN" or "MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE TO SEE PORN THEN KEEP CLICKING". I find his games are actually enjoyable...
For no other reason than that your username is a direct reference to Tsukihime's Nanaya Clan, I completely and forcefully endorse this statement.
On a side note I cannot seem to download the trial. Maybe that's a password screen?
@Popsicle: Yea, I've been a fan of Mephisto's games for quite some time. The Kunoichi Ninpocho series really isn't graphically awesome. The very first one had absolutely horrendously shitty graphics. But, it has to be by far one of the hardest games I had played. Ever.
You had hunger, you had HP and Stamina. In 1, there was no clothing destruction. But there wasn't really allies. It was you with some random support here and then versus enemies who could easily rape and kill you. So rather than be about the hentai, the first game felt like it was actually about survival. Which in my opinion was fairly neat.
Kunoichi Ninpocho 2 rolled around and it suddenly had much better graphics. The graphics were still very poor, but if you got used to one then number two was a fucking level up from the gods. But better yet, the hilarious enemies were drawn very much so better too. We had like, the classic old man in a barrel with his cock being disguised as a mushroom, the random petty cock tentacle monster thing that is laughably easy, and a few other things. Kunoichi Ninpocho 1 and 2 were very much considered Loli, especially with the plotline of number two being something along the lines of a girl being kidnapped and used as a sex slave by some gang ruthlessly snaps and develops an alternate personality that wants to murder the whole village. Who does, after she seperates from Lord Anbu. It's kinda funny of a story premise. "Don't rape little girls, they will come back and burn your village down with terrifying fire based attacks." I believe is the message. Anyway, the end of the game was a fight against the alternate Lord Anbu. If you survived, by some magical means, you would see a cutscene of the two merging together to become one. Number two had friends who you could switch to and a cool improved system, but it was still very much insanely hard. The character count was four, non customizable.
Then came Diary of Yoiya. I got really far but I still haven't beaten it. Hard but nowhere near as hard as 1 or 2. Instead of the card based battle system, it played actually a lot like Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. That style was really pretty fun. The first game to involve the concept of 'animated CG.' (Which is pretty much the picture pulsing in a certain direction against the attacking Johnsons. But still a level up from still CG.) I believe three character count.
KN 3 was going to be the first one translated. I'm actually a bit of a fan of the translator, and he's on this site. Though the project got dropped. The game was originally insaaaaanely hard, but got incredibly nerfed because people kept on bitching and bitching. Since Lord Anbu merged with her alternate self, if you entered battle and hit I believe X or W on the keyboard with two of your green gauge full she'd switch to her alternate persona. The character count of this game was insane. Like ten ish. Party of four max.
The screenshots I have seen thus far do not hint to me that Sword, Kamikaze, or Lord Anbu are in the game. Judging from the size of that girl's jugs from number three, she seems legit.
I can't seem to download this one yet so I can't tell, but if someone lends me a hand here I'll give my opinion about this one.
Play Kunoichi Ninpocho's series not intending to wank if you really wanna enjoy it. There's some monsters who will thoroughly discourage any possible boner fury. Such as the guys who special attack you by farting on you and poisoning you with their farts in number two.
All in all, the Ninpocho games rock.
