Sakura Succubus

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  1. Euel
    May 23, 2021
    1
    The game is supposed to be for people over 18 years old, with sexual and explicit content, since everything in the game is censored, cuttingThe game is supposed to be for people over 18 years old, with sexual and explicit content, since everything in the game is censored, cutting important dialogues and destroying the game's plot, it was very expected.
    It does not meet expectations, the game is bad, the plot is cut and pointless I recommend you buy it on PC and if you want you can put a patch    … Full Review »
  2. Femboy
    Aug 29, 2021
    0
    Just a heads up: this review contains some mildly NSFW stuff (which I'm sure comes as no surprise).

    Yeah, this game is just not it. For    Just a heads up: this review contains some mildly NSFW stuff (which I'm sure comes as no surprise).

    Yeah, this game is just not it.

    For the starters, there's the gameplay and lack thereof. I understand that the visual novel genre isn't the most involved category of games, but Sakura Succubus takes so little input from the player that there's barely a game to talk about here. The core of this game is nothing more than a slideshow of art with some dialogue attached to it. Most of your time playing this is going to be spent mashing the A button and reading. If my memory is correct, there's only a single (Just one!) opportunity to make a decision throughout the entire game. And it's not even an important one!

    Putting the near total lack of gameplay aside (which is a pretty BIG thing to put aside), everything else about this game is different shades of lackluster. The story is about as low-effort as it gets. You got your standard no-name protagonist stumbling his way through interactions with three different succubus women. As you'd expect from this kind of game, the plot is little more than a series of excuses to get all the different characters interacting with each other, and to get the romance going between you and them. This absence would be a lot less noticeable if there was something, anything to fill the gap, but there just isn't. To top things off, the game is extremely short (you can beat the entire thing in one sitting), and ends on a cliffhanger that advertises the sequel. So I can't even make a joke that "At least it has a story with a beginning, middle, and end," because it doesn't even have all three of those.

    The actual writing itself (i.e. dialogue and narration) is...not completely awful, but absolutely nothing special. There's occasionally a slightly amusing exchange between characters or a mildly witty wisecrack from the protagonist that'll make you grin and blow some air out of your nose, but this is about as good as it gets. Sensual and romantic moments with the different succubi follow the same pattern, being mediocre in both quality and quantity. So even though it doesn't completely suck, there are plenty of games that completely blow this game out of the water, writing-wise.

    The visuals are just as lacking. The portraits of the three main succubi are competently done (notice I said competent, not great), and the more detailed images are about the same, save for a few moments where the characters' anatomy gets kind of wonky. The main thing keeping the visuals down is the fact that there are so many things that are just plain missing. The protagonist doesn't have a portrait and never shows up on camera. There are a few transition scenes that are set against nothing but a cloudy sky (with text describing the protagonist traveling somewhere or doing something that should probably be illustrated). There's even a moment where the protagonist is talking with his boss, who also lacks a portrait, and you end up with two invisible guys talking with each other, with nothing but the stock office backdrop accompanying it. It's just as dumb as it sounds. Plenty of interactions between the numerous succubi are conveyed entirely through text while their portraits remain static, blankly staring through the screen dividing the two of you and into your soul. At first, I didn't think it was a super big deal, but something about the total lack of movement on screen drives you a little crazy after a while.

    And finally, to address the NSFW elephant in the room: there's the sexual aspect to this game, which is just as lackluster as everything else. The only sex scene in the game happens completely off-screen, and aside from that, there's nothing but the occasional moment of tension that's only shocking in how mild it is. There's a brief scene between the protagonist and Cosmos that gets somewhat...er...interesting, but it's gone so quickly that it leaves basically no impact on the game as a whole.

    There's nothing this game does that another thing doesn't do much better. There are a million better visual novels out there, there are a million better story-based games out there, and there's so much better porn out there. Hell, it's not even bad in a so-bad-its-funny way. It's bad in a boring, "no-one even really gave a **** way, which is the least fun kind of bad. So, in a way, there are games that are better at being bad than this game.

    I wouldn't say that I hate this game or that it's rage-inducing in its badness or anything like that. It's just so apparent how little love and care went into it. All the different aspects of this game hit the bare minimum and happily sit there, completely lacking even the smallest threads of ambition. There's nothing here to recommend. Even if you have a morbid curiosity for the worst the Switch has to offer, there are games that will satisfy it better than this one.

    I'm not even mad, I'm just disappointed.    … Full Review »
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