Seikishi Ricca no Monogatari: Hakuyoku to In'yoku no Shimai (The Fairy Tale of Holy Knight Ricca: Two Winged Sisters)
A half competent generic 3D sidescroller
>Plot
Protagonist Ricca's village gets attacked and BTFO by monsters and other generic fantasy creatures, she also gets BTFO and fucking dies but Deus Ex Machina comes to save her and turns her into a holy magical girl who is now tasked to kill the baddest dude evil guy man and restore peace to the land. What follows is a generic journey with themes of coming of age, overcoming hardships, the power of friendship and self sacrifice. And rape.
>Features
- 4 to 5 hours long campaign
- Partially voiced (main characters and only in specific cutscenes+smut scenes), 3D rendered and animated cutscenes
- One type of collectible
- Character customization
- Unlockables of various kinds including a skill tree system
- Achievements
- Replayable smut scenes with multiple options
- Bouncin' Boobs Technology
- Rape, lots of rape.
>Strengths and positives
Do note that generally speaking most of these are to be read with the "*for a porn game" note in mind
>Gameplay
Simple but surprisingly polished and somewhat challenging, at times, on the normal difficulty. Some levels feature unique elements, mechanics and design that make them stand out from one another. If the focus of the game wasn't the porn, they could've probably could've put the extra effort into making it a solid side scroller.
>Content
Quite a decent amount and with decent variety. There are some 20 ish chapters plus a couple extra ones including a boss rush, all featuring various cutscenes, different visuals, different sets of enemies, different level design and a few different clear requirements. The sex scenes feature a variety of fetishes and situations. The skill tree gives you generic buffs as well as new moves, combos and spells with multiple upgrade levels. The customization is sorta limited but it's there. You can buy and swap out pretty much every clothing part, hairstyle, various accessories and colors, there aren't a lot of options and they are dripfed as you progress the story. The character's body can also be customized but again you're even more restricted with what you can do, probably to avoid breaking the animations.
>Animations
The gameplay segment and porn ones are smooth and generally very well done and you can tell they put most of their effort into those. The cutscenes on the other hand, save for a few exceptions, are more stiff and lazy but not the worst. One eye catching detail is the boob physics. Titties are affected by gravity, change shape and react to other objects touching them (even the other boob) as well, if the character is lying down sideways they go sideways, the topmost one will rest on top of the bottom one and both will change shape accordingly, if she's in a doggy position, they will stretch downwards and jiggle as she moves, if an objects is touching them they get squished or move out of the way. This last one in particular is very evident even during normal cutscenes, in particular if edited the standard boob size to be bigger, where the character will move her arms about and they interact with her chesticles in a predictable realistic manner.
>The writing
It's a fairly generic magical girl fantasy slop story with shoehorned sex subplots, but I liked some of the characters and could sorta empathize with them.
<The bad
<The rape (and other fetishes in general).
There are a number of fetishes the game touches but main one is rape, so much rape that the heroine canonically gets raped no less than 5 times during the story and you cannot avoid any of it. On top of the canon rape, a lot of the sex scenes predictably come from defeat and thus they are various degrees of rape, and when she isn't being raped it's because she already got mindbroken from all the rape. There is exactly one instance of consensual sex which ironically also starts as rape. Among the other shit fetishes we find: ryona, bestiality, mindbreak, corruption, pregnancy, parasitism, tentacles. I found it impossible or hard to fap to most of the scenes.
<The inconsistency of visuals
All the bespoke modeling work went into the main heroine and the few other key side characters, everything else is glaringly bought or straight up ripped off some asset store. Because of this there is a fairly clear disconnect and visual discrepancy when it comes pretty much everything. She straight up looks like she's from another game just kinda plopped into a unity premade project, which can be distracting for some.
<The ending
The game ends on a somewhat lame bittersweet note and a general net negative compared to how things start, if you get invested in the story in any way, you'll probably be disappointed by its resolution.
Overall 6/10: Whereas many hentai games are oftentimes way to shallow to even be called games, this one stands out as commendable effort, but ultimately I feel it falls slightly short. The dev was competent enough to make a decent game but ended up gimping it in order to make it a porn one, thus sacrificing aspects of the game bit. Unfortunately, his tastes and mine did not align meaning my penis was left unsatisfied by the porn bit.
Screenshots stolen from vndb and dlsite