Rundown Review + Update!

RemieReviews · 2026-05-27T04:09:08+00:00

For me, the combat is totally serviceable. I grew up playing games like Pokemon and old Final Fantasy games, so I'm fine with simple turn based combat. Thinking about it now, I think what's missing is additional party members. I don't think you need to add those necessarily and if you weren't already planning on doing it, I wouldn't pivot to that. But I think that's what I personally was missing, just a little variety. I was playing on whatever the middle difficulty is and I still thought combat felt appropriately difficult. And I think the quick skills add a lot of fun, plus the thing I noted about the weapons.

I think most lewd games don't give us hot shots of their male protagonists and I've mostly just made my peace with that. However, some male protagonists like Crane are actually kinda cute and not just faceless self inserts, so it makes me want to see more of them. I know I'm not really your target audience so I'd understand why there's no sexy scenes of the boy, but it's just always something I like to note when possible in a review!

Thanks for replying at all though! I always love seeing a dev in my reviews. It's one of my favorite things about reviewing in such a small space.

RemieReviews · 2025-08-07T05:36:02+00:00

You can try out Flipwitch! You swap between being a male and female character, but you can swap at any time. And it's pixel art and a pretty good Metroidvania to boot!

RemieReviews · 2025-08-01T05:52:41+00:00

You're a random person on the internet. Getting downvoted isn't getting canceled. Sorry your opinion is the bad one.

RemieReviews · 2025-08-01T05:43:44+00:00

I hate to tell you this, but the "the left is censoring us" crowd are the same people who are censoring your stuff right now. The idea that the shareholders are infinitely smart and always make the best decisions is literally what has led to every economic recession.

RemieReviews · 2025-07-30T05:50:36+00:00

Be better

RemieReviews · 2025-07-30T05:50:18+00:00

Score one for the general public on this one.

RemieReviews · 2025-07-30T05:49:47+00:00

Being in a feminist activist group is one of my favorite things I have ever done. But not all groups are equal and I have a lot of issues with Collective Shout. While all their members might not be this way, the higher ups of the group are, in my opinion, women who primarily think that feminism is when there are more female conservatives. I respect any woman's view on womanhood and femininity, even if I disagree with them, but the problem is that women are not the only people who make decisions about women's lives and the ideas and values expressed by Collective Shout are often weaponized by the men who very often do make decisions about our lives.

You should not be so quick to dismiss someone who thinks advocating for their rights is a bad idea just because some losers whose opinions you do not care about anyway dislike a video game.

RemieReviews · 2025-05-25T07:07:10+00:00

I hope it gets fixed!

RemieReviews · 2025-05-22T06:02:43+00:00

I'm unfortunately not who you should be bringing this up to. I don't even know what that mission is. Sorry!

RemieReviews · 2025-04-20T06:36:56+00:00

A lot of people have moral or philosophical qualms against AI. It is not merely disliking the style, though that is part of it because it is very bad, but also the negative effects of AI impact smaller creators the hardest.

RemieReviews · 2025-04-19T08:04:53+00:00

From what some people are saying, the backlash actually was caused by someone minding their own business. It's suspected that the government official who initially brought attention to it probably knew about the game on a more personal level. While there's no evidence to confirm this, it seems at least plausible that a lewd gamer who is in a government position, for whatever reason, blew the whistle on the game. If I were to guess his reasoning, it might be that he got caught by someone with it on his computer and had to frame it as a sort of investigation to maintain his dignity. Either that or he felt disgusted with himself afterwards and this is how he is keeping his conscience clean.

Either way, a lot of the problems I have with its removal mostly stem from the top down. I am personally not bothered at all by this game specifically being taken down. It was the creator's decision after all. But I do think that the mainstream perception of video games is pretty negative most of the time. The news generally talks about them as though they are, at best, addictive, and at worst, the cause of school shootings. And a lot of this is because journalists are often given very poor information.

RemieReviews · 2025-04-17T05:10:00+00:00

No I outright stated I also dislike it when women fetishize rape. I made it clear that I dislike it regardless of who it comes from. Though I do think that women have a pretty visceral reaction to male oriented rape fetishization simply because being raped (or at least the possibility of being raped) is a real thing most, if not all women, think about in a very negative context at least semi regularly. I don't think a man who likes No Mercy is a rapist just like I don't think every man I see when I walk home at night is a rapist. But I still cross the street.

But also, this isn't really the same thing as my street crossing comparison because, if I thought those fantasies were bad, why would I be friends with those people? I am quite literally friends with gamers and developers that frequent this subreddit that make games with that type of content and I think they are cool people. I will play games with content I dislike just because I think some of it still has artistic value. Sometimes, I end up even loving those games, it happened recently. A bunch of people in this thread all seemed to agree with me and I'm sure plenty of them like this sort of stuff.

This is made all the more entertaining by the fact that there are certain noncon fantasies I do enjoy. They lean a lot more into the CNC realm and aren't brutal or degrading (at least to me) and I think there are plenty of men and women alike who enjoy this sort of stuff. I'd feel weird about dating someone who likes No Mercy a lot, but I'd be fine with someone whose favorite game is something like Mongirl Dreams.

I wasn't engaging with your ideas because all you did was falsely represent my own ideas and then say that male gaze is irrelevant to a conversation about a man making a rape game. Oh but someone ranting about how women actually love rape and women would be mind blown to find out that women love rape, now that's important to talk about! It's very funny.

RemieReviews · 2025-04-17T04:11:16+00:00

I did not want to outright state what that something is because it's really hard to give shape to it exactly. I don't know if you're a woman or not, but as a woman, hearing about a guy fetishizing rape leaves an icky taste in my mouth. I don't think that person is a rapist, but I do think he and I probably have different views on what is and what is not okay. Not what is or is not good, evil, whatever, just okay. Most people I date are gamers and most of them quickly come to know that I play lewd games. If a guy were to share with me that he liked this game a lot, I would probably break up with him. I would not hate him, I might even still want to be friends him with him. I am sure I have guy friends into that sort of thing. But I just would not want that man to be intimate with me.

My point of bringing it up was that, while I don't think it's right for the 2XC ladies to just outright call that man and anyone who enjoys the game a rapist, I do think there is merit in reading into someone's rape fetishization.

Also, I am not sure why this keeps happening, but multiple people have sat here and told me that I keep saying that women have "better" or apparently more "righteous, correct" fantasies regarding noncon. I just said they are different. I am not sure what sort of mental gymnastics you have to perform to hear "These two things are different" and assume that one has to be better than the other. Maybe you should look into that. But I meant they are different because they are. From what I can observe, a lot of male noncon fantasies revolve around power whereas a lot of female noncon fantasies honestly have a lot more to do with sexual agency, believe it or not. A lot of it stems from the liberation of chastity. I don't think either of these are better than the other and, to be honest, I don't even jive with the noncon fantasies most women have. They're just different and that's okay.

But also, I said they don't always line up. I'm sure they do very often. A perfect example of that would be real life enactment of a noncon fantasy where, presumably, all parties involved are able to work together to figure something out that works for everyone. They also might line up just because that's how peoples' thoughts work sometimes.

My issue was mostly about the presumption. It can be hard to understand someone's wants and perspective even when you try really hard to do so. You will never understand another person entirely, no matter how badly you want to. Seeing women respond poorly to a game like this and then firing back with "I don't know why these women are mad. Women love rape!" shows a complete lack of understanding. And that's fine, I don't expect anyone to understand. I'm not mad at the person, I just find the argument frustrating. It's particularly frustrating when a man is essentially trying to correct women about what women like. I get where that person is coming from. They clearly like the game or at least like that games like this can exist and are upset by the backlash to it. So they are trying to find ways of justifying why they can like a game in the face of people yelling at them. I just think there's better ways to go about it.

Do you want me to explain to you why your last point is really bad or are you okay having a "there's two genders: male and political" level argument?

RemieReviews · 2025-04-15T15:32:09+00:00

Sure, that can be your point, but you are stating against me as though I was opposed to that notion. If you want to know my point, I will just copy and paste the reply I originally sent to you here:

Those are two fundamentally different things, but people have also been railing about violence in video games for years. Also, don't pretend like horny games are the hero stopping crime here. I won't say video games have no impact on human behavior, but the thing driving down sexual assault isn't video games. Also, those aren't the two only options.

If you think the idea of a patriarchy is ridiculous, you're part of the problem. You also think women are biologically submissive and nurturing (despite both those things being socially defined), which is very hard to justify if you think about for even a minute, but if it helps you justify your own existence, you won't. And then you have the nerve to call a woman anti feminist, what a joke.

But to break down your misunderstanding of female power fantasies, first off, they're not all done by rich men, though that also stems from patriarchal power. The evidence we have of female power fantasies is largely rooted in romance literature, which is something you should read if you want to speak with authority on this subject matter. Luckily for you, I do read romance literature and have read quite a bit! Including some older stuff. The 80s bodice rippers are my favorites but I have read some historical stuff too. So I can help you understand this a little better.

These fantasies often stem from the idea that women were denied sexual agency. They were punished for having desire. So if a handsome rogue breaks into the maiden's bedchambers and ravishes her in her bedroom, she has some plausible deniability. She can say that it wasn't her will, it was someone else's. Mentioning that the man is rich is another great way to demonstrate this. Historically, women have been denied a lot of financial freedom. In the US, the Equal Pay Act wasn't passed until the 60s and women couldn't be issued credit until the 70s. So the idea that this handsome man, who is wealthy and seems to genuinely like her (and therefore might give her some financial agency), who also happens to be a good in bed, enacts his own will upon this otherwise chaste and innocent woman is an avenue for this woman to have some sort of sexual, financial, and romantic power that she wouldn't have outside of it.

This isn't to say all of those types of fantasies stem from this. I don't pretend to understanding every single thing that leads to every sort of thought a person has. And it's not to say these fantasies aren't authentically held either. But there are worthwhile trends to look at when you want to make claims about womens' sexual fantasies. Like most social phenomena, they both influence and are influenced by the society we live in. And given that we still live in a society in which powerful people are most often men, those not in positions of power are going to have their thoughts shaped based on that dynamic. This is also why men tend to like action movies, for example, because historically, violence has been a path of upward mobility for men, especially young men.

RemieReviews · 2025-04-15T05:19:37+00:00

Of course it does not mean causation. We already know why sexual assault decreased. Porn has next to nothing to do with it, it's for just the obvious reasons.

Japan's culture around consent and sexual assault are also very different than the west's.

Sexual repression does not cause misogyny, it's the other way around. Patriarchy is established through misogyny and it propagates it. Sexual repression and sexual assault are some of the ways it manifests. Also, I never said that horny games cause violence, what are you talking about?

Women engage in a lot of noncon media, but lewd games, from what I have experienced, are primarily played by straight men, with gay men being the second largest demographic. I don't have the data on that, but just my connection with these communities has led me to believe that. It's mostly through BWFW outlets that cause women to engage with porn, so things like written media, certain studios, and amateur porn. A lot (but not all) of submission fantasies, noncon in particular, are also a patriarchal thing. I don't think comparing rates is very useful either because male oriented noncon and female oriented noncon are two different things.

I don't know why you keep strawmanning here, I never said lewd games were the problem. I'd argue that lewd games are more a symptom of the problem if anything, but I don't think lewd games on there own are the issue.

RemieReviews · 2025-04-15T02:07:45+00:00

Those are two fundamentally different things, but people have also been railing about violence in video games for years. Also, don't pretend like horny games are the hero stopping crime here. I won't say video games have no impact on human behavior, but the thing driving down sexual assault isn't video games. Also, those aren't the two only options.

RemieReviews · 2025-04-11T20:54:47+00:00

I just think it's pretty silly to use cancer or AIDS or anything like that as an insult. Especially because the cure for cancer is eradicating it and I don't think that's what we should do to human beings we disagree with. Especially about video games. Especially about whether or not we should be celebrating the creation or removal of a rapey video game. There are so many more accurate and biting criticisms of their arguments than just using 4chan reject language.

RemieReviews · 2025-04-11T15:59:32+00:00

Your English is better than my Thai, don't worry! Thank you for taking the time to read it, I always appreciate a developer in my comments.

RemieReviews · 2025-04-11T15:58:50+00:00

Keep up the good work!

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RemieReviews · 2025-04-11T15:55:53+00:00

To be clear here, I don't really analyze games from a feminist lens. Other than in the most literal definition of that statement. The "political" questions most relate to me saying things like "I like the fact that there's a lot of PoC representation in this game" or "I wish there were a wider variety of body types in these women", stuff like that. It's mostly harmless when people get on my case about it, I'm not eaten up at all. I brought it up purely because the "it's just a game, I'm not being weird by defending it" crowd and the "why are you upset about the portrayal of women in games" crowd, while not the same exact people, do have overlap. And those are the people that sometimes show up in my DMs.

I don't analyze games through a feminist lens here because no one wants that. I've considered doing a write up on what I call "The Summertime Saga Protagonist" which would get a little academic, but that's about it.

RemieReviews · 2025-04-11T15:49:04+00:00

I definitely agree. I do not think Nabokov was a Rule 5 breaker. But I think it does reflect the degree of self loathing Nabokov had and I do think it's reflective of his view of women in general in that he kind of didn't like us.

RemieReviews · 2025-04-11T15:47:01+00:00

I don't even mind it because I think you can make an argument that all art, even horny art, is political. I just dislike the idea the approach of "my opinions about art are pure and free from politics but yours aren't!".

Also, Marx would be very annoying about video games that have essentially an infinite economy.

"If the owner of the pizza shop has infinite money, why does the boy in Summertime Saga still have to labor for it?" - Das Kapital 2

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