Re: Violated Hero IV - 犯され勇者Ⅳ
If I may be permitted to be a huge fag and speak about the game after having played it a while back, I would very much like to do so now.
Is it reasonable to dislike a game simply for being too mediocre and disappointing? It feels weird trying to describe my feelings of not liking this game because it wasn't as good as I wanted it to be. Not even bad, but okay. It's like I'm mad at this game for having the nerve to only be a 6/10 instead of a 7 or 8
I've never played the original, but I've been following this series since the second one.
I felt the second one was great, a solid 8/10 at the very least. Besides liking a decent amount of the girls in it, the gameplay was a lot more enjoyable. True the core battles aren't any different than 3 or 4, but the first person dungeons they put you in actually made it felt like they wanted you to explore a bit and there was a bit more actual strategy to how you did things. It felt like an actual game.
For the last two games, the gameplay has felt so shameless in the transitions between boss battles. You aren't even exploring a dungeon with a map now, you're going down a hallway. It's like the game is trying really, really hard to say "YOU'LL GO DOWN THIS LINE. YOU'LL GO DOWN IT AND THAT'S IT. WANNA LEVEL MORE? PICK THE PATH THAT OBVIOUSLY DOESN'T GO TO THE BOSS. WANNA SEE THE CG FASTER? THEN JUST GO STRAIGHT TO THE NEXT BOSS IN THE NEXT AREA." Logically, if they keep going down this path, it feels like it'll just be a VN with choices like Monster Girl quest.
I dunno, even though I didn't like the girls in this game as much as the 2nd one, much like I didn't in 3, and it feels like the actual gameplay is insulting simplified and not even trying at this point, is it really fair for me to dislike it so much? Ultimately, if I'm to judge it from a non biased standpoint, it has plenty of well drawn CG, and it is voiced if I recall correctly. It's everything someone should look for is a passable hentai game.
I guess I'm just jaded over the fact that the quality seems to steadily be going down in this series. If this is the last in the series, then it'll be a limp note to go out on. Maybe 5 will actually step things up from 2, who knows. Sorry for the long winded statement on this game, I just wanted to vent.