Wednesday, February 26, 2014

New Monster Girl for Monster Girl Quest Follow-up

Looks like the follow-up to Monster Girl Quest is going to continue the same levels of WTFery when it comes to the Bad End scenes.

(from torotoro resistance's blog)




WTF indeed.

(Although not completely unprecedented as one of the zombie bosses in The Paradise Fortress of RePure Aria unbirthed your head as her sex attack)

Looks like I need to push my imagination further if I want to keep up with Japan in creating weird and unusual sex scenes.

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Fan-made Monster Girls for Violated Hero 5

Dieselmine don't waste any time.  The fan submissions for Violated Hero 5 are already up for voting here.

So what do we have:

1. Bunny girl
2. Pirate mermaid
3. Frog girl (looked like their submitter also put in some artwork showing some creative tongue work)
4. Dullahan
5. Not sure - some kind of harlequin?
6. Gothic lolita succubus/vampire
7. Lamia
8. Some kind of witch/necromancer (She looks like one of the wandering mooks from VH4)
9. Not sure what 9 is either - girl with fluffy cape?
10. Mirror demon

A surprisingly restrained selection for VH.  Not all of these will make it into the game and I'm sure Dieselmine will come up with some of their own bizarre designs like the sandworm girl and two-headed cyclops.  Last time the winners of the fan vote were Busty of the mammoth mammaries and a sentient vacuum cleaner.

I went for the mirror demon.  She also has the biggest boobies, which will probably make her a shoe-in.


ETA: Hmm, if the mirror demon doesn't get picked, I might write a story about a similar monster girl to make up for it.

Sunday, February 23, 2014

So Whatever Happened to Succubus Summoning?



“When are you getting back to the Succubus Summoning series?”

I get asked this question a lot.  Rather than continue to reply to individual comments and emails I’ll answer it here.

First, some history.  A while back, when I was only writing the short horror-porn one-shots, I wrote a little HarryPotter-esque parody where two students at a college for warlocks summoned succubi for some “adult entertainment” and it went horribly wrong.  In a rare twist for me, that story ended with one of the protagonists still alive and facing an uncertain fate at the pussies of two sexy succubi.  Rather than leave it to the imagination of the reader, I returned to that story and wrote some follow-up chapters, which then became a series, and then a book.

I started a sequel (Succubus Summoning 201) and posted a few chapters online before putting it on hiatus while I untangled some of the plot developments in my head.  Back then I planned to write the whole thing as a novel, which would have the advantage of allowing me to go back and fix any obvious screw-ups if I changed my mind on the story.  Unfortunately this resulted in Succubus Summoning constantly sitting on the backburner because my novel-writing discipline is abject to say the least.

Last year I figured out where I wanted the plot to go and brought it back off hiatus with the addition of some new chapters.  I thought the monthly schedule would give me the push to keep the thing going until completion.

And then A Succubus for Remembrance got in the way.  Or rather that and the stories for the forthcoming collection (which I originally planned to put out first, but couldn’t finish in time for its release date).  Originally I was hoping to work on both simultaneously, but then time pressure started, deadlines loomed, and Succubus Summoning 201 had to go back on the backburner.  That’s the problem with naming collections after certain days of the year – they have to be out by that date.  Unfortunately I still have a full-time job eating up my day and I don’t write quickly enough to be able to work on both.

(really I should favour Succubus Summoning, as it sells more than the collections, but I’m a little stupid at these things)

Anyway, to cut a long story short:

I haven’t lost interest in the series, or enthusiasm.  I’m not going to abandon it.  As soon as I’m done with the next collection I intend going back to Succubus Summoning and working on that until the current arc (201) is finished (there will be future arcs).  After that there are some new Jackson in HRPG-World sections I want to write.

I’ll keep working on short stories (my ideas file grows at the rate of two new ideas for every story completed!), but I’m going to wait until I’ve built up a nice stockpile again before I put out another collection as writing specifically for a collection seems to slow me down more than just writing the short stories/chapters that feel like fun to write at the time.

I’m far more productive when I fully embrace ChaosWriting, but that does occasionally fuck up deadlines and the orderly production of new series chapters.

Apologies for the delays for fans of the series.  With a bit of luck Phil and his succubi’s adventures will restart Mar/Apr.

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Let's Play Violated Hero 4! part 20

Okay, so it turns out I wasn’t quite as done with the Violated Hero 4 walkthrough as I thought.  As a few people let me know in comments and on the MGU boards, all the Violated Hero games have an extra scene that unlocks after you unlock all the other scenes.  I never knew this because despite owning the three previous VH games, I only ever bothered with the scenes that interested me (That’ll teach me for skipping the futa hellhound scene in VH2).

This also explains why this scene from the promo screenshots hasn’t shown up already.


And on the title page there is indeed an Extra option at the bottom.


Selecting that and we’re back to Luka-clone dawdling around a town free of monsters, presumably basking in the glow of saving the world through his superpower of producing copious amounts of cum.


He pops by the demon castle and my auto-translation starts having difficulty.  Anua chews him out over something, I think.  Selene tries to tempt him into being her erotic slave.  Presumably she still wants that “dirty” fight, the naughty minx.  Angry Makina complains about humans encroaching into her territory and threats to mash them into paste if they continue to do so.

So far it’s the boring peacetime court issues.

Sharia comes back from somewhere.  She’s unhappy someone’s been spreading rumours that a lowly human defeated her.  (My guess is Lilith is to blame)

They continue to moan about bureaucracy.  Selene likes people volunteering to be her slave, but hates all the paperwork involved in proving they are willing to be her sex slave.

Lilith shows up.  She doesn’t like paperwork either, so doesn’t bother doing it.  When Luka-clone mentions she might be shirking responsibilities she points out it would only make her bored, and when she’s bored she starts thinking up naughty mischief.

I think Sharia likes the idea of a spot of naughty mischief.


As do the others.


Luka-clone protests he’s at his limit, but we all know that’s not going to stop anything, and so . . .


Orgy time!

So what’s going on here?  Looks like a finger in Anua’s pussy, a finger in Makina’s pussy, Lilith sitting on his face and Sharia sitting on his cock.  Can’t really complain about that.  What about poor Selene, doesn’t she get any pleasure from the Luka-clone pile on?

Lilith mentions this, but there is a way for Selene to get involved . . .

Uh oh.

Yeah, you guessed it – tentacle in the ass.  Poor Luka-clone’s going to need a colostomy bag before he hits middle age the way this lot are treating him.

They tease him over his premature ejaculation problem.  Lilith has the fix for that.


Bing.  Magic glowing eyes and no coming from Luka-clone until Big Sis Lilith says he can.

Careful.  You might burst the ambulatory bag of concentrated semen.

The girls, being apparently near-immortal demons, are a little concerned about human mortality.  Their boy-toy only has a hundred years in him at most (I think this is a highly optimistic estimate – I doubt he’d reach thirty without a massive supply of zinc tablets).

First off they get him to swear to be their masochist pet, which of course Luka-clone agrees to because then he gets to come.  And he knows it’s the truth anyway, so why deny it.

Cue more splurting into Sharia’s womb.  Even though most of it seems to end up over her and all the other girls.  Never really understood the physics behind that one, but never mind, I guess it’s artistic license.

Ooh, swearing lifetime fealty as a masochist pet comes with a damn good benefits package.  Or rather a damned good benefits package.  He’s contracted to them, which means he doesn’t get to die until they say so.  So that means an eternity of pleasure at the hands of Sharia and friends.

Sure, I can sign up for that (so long as there’s a reduction in the number of rectal intrusions – keep those tentacles to yourself, Selene dear).

And finally, the end of Violated Hero 4.

I’ll finish up with some overall thoughts.

I’ve seen a few opinions that Dieselmine “phoned it in” on this one.  It’s a hard argument to refute.  The artwork and voice acting is – as usual – superior to their competitors, which makes it all the more frustrating when Dieselmine balls up what should be the easy stuff.  The game mechanics seem simpler than VH3 even with the boss recruitment mechanic.  For most of the game the plot seems like a complete copy of VH2 with weaker characters.

On the positive side, the plot developments near the end are actually pretty good.  After setting up Lilith up as a carbon copy of MGQ’s Alice, it was refreshing to see her unmasked as playing a much more self-serving role.  And they finally figured out that the wandering mooks in a monster girl eroge should also be sexy.

On the negative side it’s unfortunate the lesser bosses are relegated to nothing more than attack buttons after recruitment.  They’re not seen again and worse, their attack buttons are strictly worse than Lilith, which means that other than for a few fights when Lilith isn’t in the party, you’re always better off using Lilith.  The game doesn’t really make best use of the recruitment mechanic (different girls being of more or less use depending on the fight would have at least added some rudimentary strategy).

To be honest, I doubt Dieselmine are that fussed.  They have their formula – Come up with 15 interesting monster girls, find some voice actors, draw some pretty Bad End sex scenes, and wrap it all in something that vaguely resembles a game if you squint at it hard enough.  This is true for most pornified things (and why they often have a bad reputation) – if you bring the sex you don’t have to worry too much about everything else.  People will buy it anyway.

Every so often you get exceptions like Monster Girl Quest, which goes way beyond what most people expect from a porn game.  There’s a reason that games has been bubbling away in the internet underground and occasionally popping up to surprise games journalists – the writing in that game is excellent, enough to put most mainstream AAA titles to shame.  They also do a lot to attempt to make the combat interesting strategically despite the limited tools available.

I’d like to see Dieselmine try a bit harder.  Maybe work a bit on coming up with a more interesting story.  Maybe make some of the boss fights actually require some strategy.  I doubt this will happen because they don’t need to.

Overally the series is still one of the prettiest monster girl hentai games out there, but it’s frustrating that the developers give the impression of not caring about other aspects such as plot and game play.

I hope you all enjoyed this little walkthrough.  And if you’re looking for extra material in a similar vein and can excuse the cheeky little plug, I may have some books that might interest you.

To come: reviews of a couple of other monster girl eroges (ROBF and Dramaraquest).

Saturday, February 15, 2014

Let's Play Violated Hero 4! part 19

And welcome to what will likely be the last part of my Violated Hero 4 walkthrough.  Usual disclaimers apply:  Thar’s going to be sex and squick, and if you don’t like such things now is a good time to bail.

So Sharia, what do we need to do to please you then?

A quick internet search around the usual haunts and Dargoth has the answer on the ulmf forums (That’s my usual goto now when I get stuck on a hentai game. Their forums are a useful resource for these games).  I had the right idea – you need to beat Sharia.  But it’s after picking up only three of the devil king generals.  Which is sort of what I did the first time, except not fighting Lilith apparently counts as not fighting her and defeating her at the same time.

Uh huh?

So to unlock Sharia’s Bad/Good End we need to fight and beat Lilith, fight and beat exactly two of the remaining three devil kings, and then fight and beat Sharia?  Uh, thanks for that, Dieselmine.  Still with me?

Right.  Off we go again.  But first . . .

sigh

More potion grinding.

And it is indeed correct.  Sharia falls over and the ending is different.  To be fair, it actually does make sense from a storytelling perspective.  Because we only have three rather than four of the devil kings, the fight is much closer and Lilith is too knackered at the end to steal the mantle of the demon overlord.

Could this be the real Good End?

Luka-clone has the opportunity to finish Sharia off, but passes on it because that’s what the heroes always do in these games (apart from VH2, where you had to kill all the sub bosses to have the power to bring down Xueli. Sorry Milfy).

Instead he orders her to order all the other monster girls to stop harassing humankind.

This is where Sharia points out he only defeated her through the help of his monster girl friends, and they’ve all buggered off to recuperate.  But it’s okay, Lilith is still here.

Lilith – Ah, but I’ve fulfilled my contract.  I helped you defeat Sharia, once.

Then she buggers off too, teleporting away in a flash of light.  Which leaves Luka-clone alone with Sharia, and I think you can take a good guess what happens next . . .


How’s the view Luka-clone?

She plays with his cock for a while and then asks him to beg her to put it her mouth.  Of course he does.

Cue much slurping.

The ambulatory bag of concentrated semen does his bit and Sharia gets a mouthful.  Luka-clone gripes about how he actually won.  Sharia said he did, and this is his reward.

She has a point, Luka-clone.

Then she tells him to squeal in agony.

Okay, I see your problem with this, Luka-clone.

And then scene two.


And a whopper of a twist – Sharia is a virgin!

I suppose this explains the repeated head tramplings, consignments to dozens and dozens of years of hellish torments.  Luka-clone gets to go where no man or god has gone before.  And I guess Sharia gets to receive cock no other pussy has ever received.  Aww, it’s so romantic – a boy and his hawt malevolent deity.

Odds on Luka-clone’s brain blasting out of his ears . . .?

Predictably, it’s the other part of Luka-clone that starts blasting the moment he enters her.  This annoys Sharia, so she brands a cute little magical heart tattoo on his belly.  No more coming until Sharia says he can come.  Eventually Luka-clone begs her enough and she releases him.  This gives the cum-obsessed artist an excuse to paint cum splatters all over the place.

Wow, two scenes in a row and nothing inserted into Luka-clone’s ass.  It must be the Good End.

And it’s not over.  Sharia is one of the big bosses, so she gets a third scene.

First there’s the few months after scene, and – surprise – it actually is a happy ending.  The monster girls are no longer attacking humans.  This doesn’t bother Selene and Anua as they have no shortage of volunteers throwing themselves at them anyway (what, at Little Miss Donkey Ears?).  People are strange.

Says the man who writes sex demon porn snuff.

Shush.

Makina is upset, but follows Sharia’s orders to crush disobeying monster girls like the good little robot guard dog she is.

Lilith is also upset, because the world is now boring.

If only there was someone we could blame for putting this all in motion, eh Lilith.

Then it cuts away to where Sharia is helping Luka-clone fight monsters that encroach on humanity.  Mostly Sharia’s just blowing them apart with her high level magic, but it’s the thought that counts.


This is an actual . . . proper . . . hero ending.  I’m confused.  Are you feeling okay, Violated Hero?

Ah so Sharia’s still not above a little femdominance.  She gets horny, uses her magic to immobilise Luka-clone, and then carts him off to the nearest inn for a bit of frenzied nookie.  The perils of having a super-powered malevolent deity for a girlfriend I guess.


And Sharia is surprisingly girlfriend-y.  She seems very keen on us.  To tell the truth, I didn’t expect the “true” Good End (which it seems to be) to take this path.  It’s even a nice lovey-dovey scene.  There’s not even a tentacle in the—


Oh.

Never mind Luka-clone.  At least you got to save the humans and gain a super-powered malevolent deity for a girlfriend in the process.  Sure, she treats you as her masochist pleasure slave, but I suspected that’s what you wanted anyway.

So that’s that.  Violated Hero 4, The End.

I suppose I should sum up with my overall thoughts on the game, but I’ll leave that to a follow-up post.

ETA: As a few people have pointed out to me.  I completely missed you get an extra scene for unlocking all the CGs (I did warn you I hadn't actually 100% completed one of these games before).  I will get a part 20 up along with my overall thoughts on the game.

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Let's Play Violated Hero 4! part 18

After a brief hiatus because of unforeseen circumstances it’s time to get back to the walkthrough of Violated Hero 4.  Last time around we got an End, but was it the Good End?  There’s still some material to unlock – we have Lilith’s fight in her area and all of Sharia’s Bad End scenes.

I don’t think VH4 is going to get any less sexy or squicky, so the usual disclaimer applies – adults only from this point on please.

Okay, there’s clearly some significance to the order of the devil king doors.

I go back to my saved game before I’d defeated any of the devil kings.  Before doing the obvious and going straight to Lilith’s area first, I check out one of the other doors.  Ah, there are some changes in the dialogue.  They add a couple of lines where Lilith owns up to being one of devil kings and Luka-clone freaks out.

The big change is going to Lilith’s area first.  This time she unmasks herself and there’s a fight.


She’s half following Sharia’s orders to defend her area and half testing Luka-clone to see if he’s any good.


At 600 HP Lilith is the baby of the devil kings, but this is more than offset by us not having Lilith or any of the other devil kings with us.

Beating Lilith without actually having Lilith turns out to be difficult as she dodges most of the other girls’ normal attacks and only takes about 20 damage from each special attack (Lilith’s special attacks while in the party were doing 150+ damage).  I wasn’t aiming to throw the fight, but it happens anyway.

After defeating us, Lilith is a little disappointed Luka-clone is not up to snuff (partly because it scuppers her own plans to take the throne of the demon god).  Luka-clone insists he won’t give up and will fight on.

Lilith comes up close and offers to give Luka-clone “extra time”.


If Luka-clone can resist her attentions she’ll give him a second chance.  As she’s a succubus, whether or not the ambulatory bag of concentrated semen can keep it all inside is a foregone conclusion.  So . . . Bad End!


And it’s a floaty footjob-type thing.  Lilith hovers above him and rubs her feet up and down his cock.  Predictably it doesn’t take too much of this before extravagant cum splatters are flying across the screen.

It’s okay, Luka-clone insists he can still resist.  Lilith laughs at him and . . .


I’m not sure I want to know where the tip of that tail is.

Lilith uses her magic to stop us from ejaculating until we beg for it, which Luka-clone does.  Then her eyes light up green and cum shoots out of Luka-clone in a big fountain.

I don’t think it’s going to stop.  Yep.


I fear the ambulatory bag of concentrated semen emptied out that time.

It’s okay, through the mysteries of time travel (save scummery) we can go back and avoid that footy fate.  After beating . . .

Hmm.  Fighting Lilith without Lilith is hard.

Correction: Fighting Lilith without Lilith is bloody fucking hard.

I try boosting my number of super potions, but even a max amount isn’t going to do it.  The other monster girl bosses are significant weaker than Lilith, and while she only has 600HP this might as well be 10,000 if my special attacks are only doing 20 damage a hit.

Okay.  Plan B.

Time to go into the potion bag and hit the reset stats button.  This time I make Luka-clone all lopsided.  I boost his HP to 300 and then dump everything into the 3rd stat.  I still don’t know what those stats are but as Luka-clone’s sword attack now does 40-50 a hit, the battle seems a little more possible.  Fortunately, that stat also covers the monster girl special attacks as well, and I switch to using them as Lilith keeps dodging Luka-clone’s sword swings.

And it works . . .

Luka-clone is even more scared of Lilith now that he knows she’s one of the devil kings, but she rejoins the party.  This doesn’t give us a shortcut to Sharia.  Her CGs are the only things I have left to unlock now.  Maybe fighting Lilith first unlocks them, maybe it’s a NG+ thing.  I decide to power back through the devil king bosses again to see if fighting Lilith first was correct.

Selene is not impressed by my attempting to power through her and slaps me silly with her tentacles.

Oh well, looks like I have to do this properly.  I go back to the earlier levels to grind and also reveal the wandering mooks missing from some levels.

Interesting.  After defeating Selene and Anua the arrow opens up to the last section.  So it looks like you only have to defeat 3 devil kings to open up the path to Sharia.  I head straight there and after Sharia slaps me down, I get the head stamped on, dozens of years of torment ending again.

I’m guessing I need all of the devil kings defeated to unlock Sharia’s Bad Ends.  This also makes me want to headbutt a wall at the non-intuitiveness of it.  At least in VH2 it was obvious what was going on.  Pick the wrong selections and Amu stayed locked in her room.  This time it doesn’t make much sense as unless you actually enter Lilith’s domain first, it looks like you reach Sharia with four devil kings in tow anyway.

Sure enough, defeating the fourth, Makina, brings up a new cut scene with all of them talking.


They’re a bit ashamed at serving a human after losing to him.  Apart from Selene.  She’s adamant she’s not lost until Luka-clone defeats her one-on-one in a hentai fight.  I like Selene, she seems like she wants to lock us in a room and give us a thorough education in matters of the flesh.

Then it’s off to Sharia’s castle and a different introduction.  All the devil kings make excuses for their treachery.  Makina is forced, Selene is narked because Lilith won’t let her do naughty things with little Luka-clone and I can’t parse the translation for Anua.  Maybe the reason I think she’s a blank as a character is because the auto-translator is struggling with her dialogue (Tamamo caused the same problems with MGQ, and she turned out to be one of the best characters).

Sharia’s not too bothered.  I think she regards them as having brought her a new toy to play with.

Sharia shows off her power and the others are freaked out.  Apart from Makina, who thinks it’s awesome in her toadying manner.

Then it’s the fight.  Which I lose because I have no potions left.  But that’s okay because this time we’re going to get . . .


. . . our head trodden on, consigned to dozens and dozens of years of torments in hell . . .

You’re a very hard woman to please, Sharia.

Hmm.  Maybe there are two “Good Ends” and I’m supposed to beat her.

Some potion grinding later . . .

And Sharia falls.  And then Lilith steals her power and . . .

Hmm, we’ve been here before.

Okay, I’m flummoxed.  It looks like I may have to go away and do some reseach (i.e. check various forums to find out what Sharia does want).  Come back in a couple of days for what I hope will be Sharia’s Bad (Good?) End.

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Print version of A Succubus for Remembrance out! (finally)

In all the recent chaos I completely missed the print version of A Succubus for Remembrance has gone live.  It can be found on Amazon here.  The curse of slightly different titles strikes again.  I'll see if I can get that fixed so that the kindle and print editions are linked in Amazon's system.

http://www.amazon.com/Succubus-Remembrance-other-tales-Fatales/dp/149530681X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1392083876&sr=1-2&keywords=m.e.+hydra

Again sorry for the high price.  That's the downside to Print on Demand.

I'll also repeat the same warning from the ebook version.  The last story will be outside some people's comfort zone.  If you thought "The High-School Sweetheart Removal Agency" was a little too dark, treat "Nazi vs. Succubus" as a bonus story for extreme horror fans and give it a wide berth.  The rest should be the usual sexy succubus stuff.  Apart from the skinless people having sex . . . and the giant octopus queen . . . and the weird slug thing summoned up from the bowels of hell . . . and the . . . Okay, so usual might not have been the right word.

Anyway, apologies for making print fans wait a little longer for this one.  I'll try to make sure both ebook and print version come out simultaneously for the next one (which should be here next month if I pull my finger out).

Now I've got to go and order my own author copies for the Shelf That Must Never Be Seen By Others.