![]() Now, you’re thinking, didn’t you say this was a hentai game? Yes, we’re getting to that. That seems a lot of design work for nothing, but that’s also a common thread through all these party-based games. That’s an intriguing system, but it also means that a lot of the captured monsters will wind up in the dustbin without ever being played. The other three step in if any of the primary three fall in combat. ![]() You’re allowed six party members at a time, though only three are playable. The major twist to the combat is the possibility of capturing any defeated monsters and placing them under the same enchantment as Ceri they can be added to your party and fight on your side. Ceri will be forced to reconsider her opinion of monsters as something to be despised and immediately killed, and under Yomi’s tutelage will become an extremely powerful warrior. It’s an interesting storyline the inhabitants of the village just outside the dungeon are glad to see Yomi return (they’re all monsters, too, though they look human – and more on that in a second). The vastly more powerful Yomi easily brushes aside Ceri’s attacks, and enchants her to become Yomi’s servant, her right hand in a crusade to regain her dungeon. ![]() Yomi has been asleep for several centuries, imprisoned in a crypt by whoever took over her dungeon, and is awakened and freed by Ceri, looking for treasure and glory. There are two main characters in Sakura Dungeon: Yomi, an ancient fox spirit and former dungeon lord, and Ceri, an adventurer and dungeon raider. However, I got more, and in that more is the source of my headscratching and chinwagging this month. That really all I need, and all I wanted. Move in first person through a dungeon labyrinth, encounter monsters, get treasure, get to the Boss at the end, save the world. As it is, it’s a fairly stripped-down affair (pun not intended, though as a hentai game, unavoidable). Most of these fall into the “visual novel” category, with Dungeon being the only RPG in its catalog. “Sakura” is Japanese for “cherry blossom” it is also a continuing franchise of hentai games from the Winged Cloud studio. ![]() At less than ten bucks, I took a gamble on Sakura Dungeon – and that is where things get complicated. And it was at that point that Steam sent me a message that a game I had shown some interest in was on sale. That it’s got a decent crafting system is gravy.Īs is usually the case with such games, I hit a point where the challenge ramped up considerably and it was time to engage in what is known as Grinding: playing the game not to advance the storyline, but to get stronger, to buy better stuff, to beat tougher enemies. Best of all, with a little tweaking, it would run well on my ancient, wheezing computer. For the uninitiated, those would be Warrior With A Cursed Sword, Little Girl With Gauntlets of Ineffable Power, Protective Sentient War Golem, Alcoholic Wizard and Voluptuous Bounty Hunter. I really liked the comic book – even when it could only manage to come out every six months or so – and the game has really good presentation on the rich characters. So imagine my elation when I discovered that there was a Battle Chasers dungeon crawl with turn-based combat, Nightwar. It’s what drew me to the Final Fantasy games, until the combat systems grew too action-oriented (and I could no longer afford new consoles, but that’s a complaint for another time). If you were to extrapolate my college days’ obsession with Dungeons and Dragons (when it was only three booklets bound in card stock covers) you’d find what brings me joy: dungeon crawls with turn-based combat. You tell kids that these days, and they won’t believe you. ![]()
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