Friday, December 26, 2014

Hentai Game Review - Vampire and Hunter

What do you get for 89 cents?  In Vampire and Hunter’s case a short mini-game and a longish H-scene with a sexy vampire.


The mini-game is a bit scrappy.  You run around a single hall trying to tag the vampire seductress while avoiding the various spells and flames flung in your direction.  The collision detection is a bit wonky and the text windows slow the pace down with frequent interruptions.  It’s an example of using the wrong tool for the job.  RPGMaker clones are designed to create RPGs – generally slower-paced games with turn-based combat and tons of stats – and this feels like it’s trying to be an action game.

Not sure RPGMaker-type tools were designed for this...

The H-scene isn’t bad.  For their previous game I though the text descriptions were imaginative but could have done with some art.  This time we get the art – an animated sequence of the big-titted vampire having sex with the hunter while drinking his blood.  The scales are a bit weird – either the vampire princess is disconcertingly large or the hero very short – but other than that the animation gives it a bit of life.  Unfortunately, it’s the only scene.

Double slurped...

The whole thing feels like a demo or proof of concept.  Then again it is only 89 cents.  If sexy blood- and semen-sucking vampiresses are your thang it might be worth a look.

3 comments:

  1. As a game, it doesn't look too great

    but then again, you get what you pay for

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  2. Thanks for the review, Hydra. I had somewhat similar feelings about it:

    I'm an absolute sucker for vampiress-on-man romance. Ever since I read Gautier's "Morte Amoureuse" (the greatest, and sadly, only decent vampire romance in literary history), I've been hooked. I'm willing to get to it with my eyes closed and my nose held shut.

    That, and more, is what Vampire and Hunter requires of you. The "gameplay" (I somewhat hestitate to call it such) is fairly atrocious. The sound effects throughout the "game" and the scene afterwards exist only to be muted to oblivion. The makers cleverly cajole you into downloading a 200 mb runtime for a 27 mb game with a fraction of that worth seeing.

    The sex sequence is a mixed bag. It's animated, which is good - I concur with the maker of Eroico, who said that non-animated sex scenes in the year 2014 are simply not worth bothering with anymore. I don't mind the different proportions - I'm more concerned about her breasts falling off under their own weight, and the guy's strange anatomy. But, alas, it's still only a single-shot, 30-frame animation with some not very inspiringly written text and extremely off-putting sound effects.

    And so, independently of how much the makers ask for it - when I look at what the game sets out do accomplish, it doesn't seem to do a very good job: As a game, it's painfully far from being entertaining. As porn, it's not titillating.

    Personally, I think one may spend one's time more profitably with games who do better at either.

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  3. MEH,
    Here;s one for consideration: http://www.dlsite.com/ecchi-eng/work/=/product_id/RE146551.html
    It reminds me of the old Dungeon Keeper PC games. No monster girls (regrettably), but the demo actually seems to have some replayability beyond just the H-scenes.
    And the H-scenes are good with some animation.

    Joker

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