Shards of Eradine

[h1] Pokemon Clone with Adult Humor - Still Needs Work [/h1] Advice for new players of this game: [spoiler] (1) Wait until free roaming grinding is added to the game before you play it. (2) Wait to recruit new members until your team is level 13 or so. This is will save you LOADS of grinding. [/spoiler] [b] Pros [/b] 5/5 - You NEED to see the turtle girl's battle animation (from the back). Seriously. Catch that critter and put her in your team! Giraffe girl is great, too. 5/5 - Love potions exist so the hero can "love" the nymphs. Check out the censorship forum for important details on that little number. Page 2 is a good page to jump to on the forum, by the way. 5/5 - The dialogue is great. It's uncensored in the Nutaku version, but I got stuck with a game-breaking bug playing the Nutaku version. And that brings me to my next Pro. 5/5 - Game updates! Bugs are being fixed regularly in the Steam version of the game. Buy the game here! 5/5 - The turtle girl, unicorn girl, giraffe...

Will contain spoilers. Finally finished an initial playthough of the game, after there was a crash causing me to lose my save. Went back and started from the beginning. Things happen, I get that. So, I really wanted to love this game. Played Taps of Eradine on Nutaku and found the premise pretty interesting. The initial start seemed pretty good, a few places to get stick, such as in the second city between a treed and the tree outline next to it. (Of which I found several places later that you can stuck with the only way to resolve the issue was to exit back out the main menu and hoping it didn't autosave when I had gotten stuck.) The moment I found myself in Kalamas cave I started to realize a couple things. Some enemies are just going to hit like Mac Trucks for no reason. The squirrel in there would constantly cause an uncalled for amount of pain to my team (More on that later). -I had also realized another interesting piece of information that took me far longer than I wish to...

Well its such a shame, I had high hopes for this game, I even went and bought it when the reviews available were about half and half between recommended or not... and ultimately the game proved to be a let down, I got a number of bugs that basically are causing the game to freeze, first with the diaries in the Water Womb, you need to avoid those mostly or else face a freeze bug, after that I had issues in the Fire Womb after defeating Kalama I got a freeze during the next cutscene, seriously... what the Hell?! Also trying to load an earlier save with the way the save system is made in this game? Yea... forget it. So I ended up losing my time and at this point I'd be force to restart the game... only to be risking all the same bugs again down the road... yea I think I'll have to put this game aside until the devs get around to further debug it, or I guess never play it again.

Pretty good for an Early Access game Overall score 8.5/10 Why it desrves this Pokemon like Entertaining Story Relatively Easy to pick up 9 hours of play time with replay value Why it is not a 10/10 Needs a system to grind up levels for the monster girls Could us a mini map to help navigate (I did get lost several times) When you get to the Volcano part the NPC stop talking to you even if you start a conversation Once you beat the game you cannot go back and train the monster girls you did not use (no competionism) The Save system is a bit weird, needs to be turned into a maual save system and not an auto save one ***Contains nudity, you may place that in either catagory

I remember this game back when it was still in crowdfunding. What a colossal disappointment. Mechanically, the game is a buggy and clunky mess. The UI lacks any sense of direction, and is prone to breaking. Player movement seems to be a very basic controller which feels awkward and unpolished. Gameplay wise, the game seems to have very little understanding of what makes a satisfying gameplay loop. It's a pokemon clone that fails to copy any part of what made the pokemon games enjoyable. The moves make very little impact, the catching mechanic is non existent other than having to find the monster, and the evolutions feel inconsequential. The map design is nauseating and unintuitive. The cities feel lifeless and none of the npc's feel meaningful. There is very little done to the design of the game to really draw any sort of direction or investment for the player to really create any sort of enjoyment. Story wise, the game is barely passable. The thin veneer that is the story seems l...

its alright, few issues being items on the map like a tree and a shrub deciding to randomly change from background and forground with eachother basicly looking super off or your character walking "under" trees and shrubs breaks imersion kinda tho not exactly a main selling point i hope that gets polished in the future, art is alright but sprites and their art are all over the place just looks wierd its like making a deck out of magic the gathering and pokemon its glaringly obvious lol again nothing major but looks funny when most are different looking, the story is ok sofar havent gotten far at all only gotten to the 3rd town if you count the starting area,commentairy is hit and miss leaving me usally wanting more explination as to why it stinks or why bother mentioning it if the item is "normal" when looking at it instead of stinky "item" idk little details like that,another issue would be smoother menu's being a need a lot of them are a bit clunky or awkward to use even with a contro...

I was totally ready to play, as other reviews say, "A pokemon clone with adult humour and a good story". I can't say the game doesn't have adult humour but it sure as hell doesn't have a good story. My bigger issue is much more mundane and boring. The game is severely buggy to the point of breaking the game. I had a save point stop working meaning I couldn't save my game / rest my monsters, and I had monsters disappear(specifically two of the unique ones that, as far as I can say, you cannot recapture). You are able to release monsters and are not able to backtrack to recapture them because... reasons? Why have the release option when you can't even re-capture monsters when you're out of the beginning area anyways? The adult stuff is negligible. Generally speaking, I wouldn't review a game like this if it wasn't a complete meme or if the aforementioned slap-and-tickle is completely optional or, in this game's case, is negligible. Two hours in, I really didn't see a whole lot aside fr...

Damn, I know it's a small team and I don't want to say anything bad about them because I want to encourage creative small team indie development, but come on man, it's been like 4 years and it still feels like an early access game. The glitches, the cumbersome UI, the equipment bug that eats items, the lack of direction in the art styles, the one direction bullshit which prevents you from even going back inside a store once you leave it. I applaud their desire to want to build things from scratch, but the sad thing is a lot of the game's problems would have been fixed automatically if they had just built the game in RPG Maker. Sadly the team has moved onto Taps of Eradine and this game will never be properly fixed. Ironic because i bought this game because I wanted to play the original game that TAPs was based on. Though now that I've tried it I can honestly see what they were aiming for when they made TAPs. The whole, "Please forget we ever made this game and continue to press rand...

Edit: This is a neutral recommend. This are some big problems but good parts too. Pokemon with tits and ass. Solid writing, self aware and funny with lots of meta jokes, and adult humor. The gameplay is a solid pokemon type rpg. Gallery system for viewing the monstergirls. It has lots of promise. I wish steam had a neutral recommendation. In its current state I cant recommend it without caveats. Its riddled with bugs, and could use a huge polish pass. As far as I can tell none of the equipment works, thankfully the healing consumables work or it would be a whole lot harder. The Nympapedia (pokedex) doesn't show info about any of the girls or their moves. Sometimes when you load your game, your items or girls wont load. restarting usually fixes things. Changing the keybindings doesn't seem to work. Gamepads sometimes stop working. No manual saving, and sometimes that leads to having to redo areas. and the most egregious problem is the uncesor method seems not to work. That being said,...

So... This is something like early stage of pokemon. This includes spoilers.. So.. at start it seemed nice . and fun ish. just killing everyone with fray. easy. well. till the end I only used fray. thou ya. there is times when you can't . also. level 30 fray is not enough to kill that goddes :D . where I am stuck now. I can't leave room and I can't level up / switch my team. because the shard thingy is bit too far. so ya. I am stuck now. Can't end the game. But ya. This game is nice. Good details and such . Just some improvements needed. Like out of map going, stuck in rooms, stuck with enemies 0 hp , stuck with no team left, stuck in talk, minimap could be nice. and way to switch follower. hmm. otherwise good game for start :) I just hope those amrita scenes would be more. some are not even nsfw. also. I like how dragonfly dances :D its just beautiful and hypnotic so.. Gameplay 3/5 ish Story 4/5 ish Pictures 3/5 I look forward this to progress :) it has great potential. also....