Let's Play Violated Hero 4: Another Story! part 1

Before Violated Hero 4 came out, Dieselmine held a fan competition to decide which two fan entrants should be included in the upcoming game.  Busty, the incredibly endowed cow girl demoness, and Marietta, the robot maid, were the eventual winners.  Dieselmine must have liked some of the other ideas as well, as two of them found their way into this additional chapter set after the end of Violated Hero 4 - Violated 4: Another Story.

I bought this a while back, but didn’t get around to checking it out before Violated Hero 5 came out.  Now I’ve got a bit of spare time I thought I’d give it the Let’s Play! treatment.

We’re back to the world of Violated Hero 4.   Luka-clone ver4.0 is easily the weakest protagonist of the whole Violated Hero series.  His whole function is to walk around, pump some semen into Lilith’s mouth and watch while her magic wrecks everything.

Yep, this is the one where Lilith led an uprising to usurp the current demon lord (Sharia).  The intro gives some other story about a brave man going on a quest to rescue humanity from the sexy oppression of naughty monster girls, but we all know what really happened.

And here’s Lilith.

Turns out we’re on a trip somewhere.  Then Lilith starts talking about tormenting Luka-clone’s penis and pretty back passage.  I think I know where this is going to go.

Oh, the robot maid, Marietta, is also in this one.  Expect uses of a vacuum cleaner beyond the prescribed function.

She tells him he might as well go along with what Lilith says as he doesn’t have a chance of beating her.  I think we already knew that.

Then it’s a flashback back to the demon castle where Luka-clone is buried under mountains of paperwork.  Lilith pops in.  She’s bored.  Her being bored usually ends up with naughty stuff happening to Luka-clone.

By reading some of the documents she learns there are a couple of monster girls in far-flung locations not currently obeying the edits of Sharia, the demon lord.  I suspect this is the plot point that provides the excuse for flinging Luka-clone into the sexy embrace of the new monster girls.

Luka-clone isn’t interested.  Too much paperwork to do.

He finally drags himself away from his desk around midnight.  Little Miss Vacuum Cleaner is still around.  I think she’s pissed off she’s been put to cleaning the castle rather than her home mansion with all her robo-sisters.

A worn out Luka-clone crashes on his bed, but doesn’t manage to get a good night’s sleep as Lilith shows up to give our cock a good suck.  And it’s H-scene no.1.

Lilith thinks that because Luka-clone’s been sleeping in the castle he might have stopped taking monster girls seriously and needs a reminder of what they are.  She does this by gobbling up his penis with her tail.

The scene is a bit of training and a bit of arm-twisting.  Luka-clone is always premature—so she squeezes the root of his cock so nothing can come out.  The arm-twisting, or I suppose cock-squeezing, is about the trip she wants to go on to discipline those naughty rogue monster girls.

It doesn’t take much to get Luka-clone to promise to come along and then Luka-clone comes buckets inside her tail.

So that’s the intro out of the way.  Next time it’s off to the land of far-flungness to talk to a slime-mimic-armour girl thing.

Hentai Game Review: Violated Hero 5

I was supposed to do a review/summary right after I finished my playthrough, but then various things came up.  Here it is as a general resource for people that don’t want to slog through the whole playthrough.

Violated Hero 5 is the fifth instalment in a series of monster girl hentai RPG games.  The first two used Dungeon Master-style (I suppose for the younger audience Etrian Odyssey-style) navigation through a pseudo-3D maze.  From VH3 onwards the exploration element has been reduced to a series of branching paths with events at each node.

Violated Hero is nominally an RPG in that the main character fights random monster encounters to level up stats enough to get past the various boss characters at the end of each location.  The mechanics are very straightforward.  There’s little complexity and the gameplay is mostly filler connecting one Bad End scene to the next.  Like most monster girl hentai games, Violated Hero is a Game-Over-Rape game.  If you lose to one of the boss characters you get to see her do naughty and frequently perverse things to the male protagonist.  As with previous entries, VH5 features ten minor bosses and five major bosses.  Each has two to three H-scenes, with some additional non-Bad-End scenes as well.  The H-scenes have always been one of Violated Hero’s strong points.  The artwork is usually gorgeous and each scene is fully voiced.

Violated Hero 5 came out very quickly after Violated Hero 4 and my concern, along with others, was that they’d rushed this.  Most of the monster girl designs looked a little too cartoony and loli-esque for my liking, especially the final designs of the fan contest winners.  Dieselmine, the makers, have an odd habit of improving some aspects of their series with each new iteration, but also getting something comically wrong elsewhere in the process.  For VH5 I think they managed to undermine one of their key strengths—the character designs.

So what’s different this time around?  Despite sometimes looking like an underage choirboy in some of the scenes, the main protagonist can handle himself in a fight.  This is more like VH3 than VH4.  The mechanic of recruiting a travelling harem and then ignoring them because the first companion’s magic attack is so much stronger than everyone else’s is gone.

Also new this time is additional Bad End scenes for the bonus mini bosses.  In earlier games these used to be conventional monsters that provided stats bonuses when defeated.  In VH4 they became sexy monster girls and in VH5 they now have small Bad End scenes.  These are voice-only scenes and vary in eroticism from not bad to ick!

Compared to previous instalments VH5 is a little lighter on the ick factor.  The scenes with the first five bosses have plenty of ick moments, but after that the game becomes more vanilla.  This will be a plus or a minus depending on how much you liked the bonkers craziness present in previous games.  Overall, the monster girl designs are also a little more vanilla this time around.  I would have liked to have seen a couple more imaginative types like the two-headed cyclops girl or sandworm girl from VH4.

For the first part of the game I did think the concerns about it being rushed out and that affecting the quality might be valid.  At that point I would have placed it as much weaker than previous entries.  The game got a lot better once I met the major bosses.  The scenes were much hotter and the story and characters are actually rather good.  Violated Hero is much better when the major characters have competing agendas and plans rather than the One Big Boss With Four Generals model used in VH2 and 4.

One major plus point was the character of Ariel, the crazy manic-pixie-dream-girl angel that accompanies you on your quest.  She’s cowardly, annoying, but also frequently funny.  A surprisingly well-written character in other words.

Overall, once you get the weak start out of the way, it’s another solid addition to the monster girl hentai game library from Dieselmine.

Hentai Game Review: Monsters 'n Girls

I can’t really do a full playthrough of this as it’s an arcade game with minimal plot.  Lewd demons have invaded a peaceful fantasy kingdom and it’s up to a brave knight to save the day.

You know those porn parody films with titles like This Is Not [Insert name of TV Show/Film] XXX.  Well Monsters ‘n Girls is basically this for the old arcade classic Ghouls ‘n Ghosts.  Anyone familiar with the original will spot the similarities in the intro, game play, level design and even in some of the monsters.

Monsters ‘n Girls is an action platformer where you fling lances at various monster girl enemies.  The hentai element is provided by pixel hentai animations.  Whenever you get knocked over, the nearest monster girl will climb on top and start fucking you.  This is similar to games like Eroico, Milia Wars and The Paradise Fortress of RePure Aria.  There are a wide range of monster girls, so you can expect to be glooped by slime girls, wrapped up in lamia coils and ridden by lusty succubi during the course of the game.

Thankfully it’s not as brutally hard as the game it’s parodying/homaging.  The normal mode is effectively infinite lives and the checkpoints are placed close enough that even platformer-incompetents like me can make it to the end.

The pixel scenes and artwork are fine, but—despite a good selection of monster girls—the sex scenes could do with a little more variety.  It’s weaker in that respect than either Eroico or Paradise Fortress, but at its price is a cheap and sexy distraction.  And those nostalgic for the old Ghouls ‘n Ghosts will enjoy it.

(For nostalgia I did try playing Ghouls ‘n Ghosts again on MAME.  That did not go well.  The game is still as brutally difficult as I remember).

New story for Halloween – What Kevin Did Last Summer

It’s that time of the year where I go shamelessly vote-whoring.

Literotica’s 2014 Halloween story competition has started and I have a runner.

Actually, it was supposed to be my entrant for the Summer contest, but the succubus ended up having far too much fun and the story grew too long for me to finish in time for the deadline.  Like pretty much every story I’ve written, it also fits the Halloween theme.  So I entered it into that competition rather than wait until next year.

Hope you enjoy it.  It’s a hot one:
What Kevin Did Last Summer

I talked about how voting works in the Literotica contests back here.  In short, anything other than a 5 is worse than no vote at all.  Literotica is also fairly sharp at spotting shenanigans.  Bashing competitors and multi-voting on a favoured story doesn’t achieve anything as they have a good filtering system for removing dodgy votes.  It’s why I like Lit’s contests.  I play fair (I don’t even vote on my own entrants) and can still place.

I don’t know how this one will do.  “Streetwalking with a Succubus” placed in the money last year.  This features a similar character to Nicole and is nicer than my usual ambush-the-unsuspecting-paranormal-romance-fans-with-horror-and-vore entrants.  The sex is hot, but the story might not have as strong an aww factor as my previous winners.  We’ll see.  A lot will depend on the quality of the other entrants (no full-length novels this time, please!).

Speaking of Nicole.  While I was writing “What Kevin Did Last Summer” I had an idea for a story—possibly even novella or novel length—featuring both Nicole and Madam Voluptula together.  How does that sound?  Would you like to read about Nicole and Madam Voluptula double-teaming some poor (lucky!) unsuspecting dude?

Monster Girl Hentai Game Roundup: Autumn 2014

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Hydra's Inspiration - A Succubus for Christmas (part 3)

And the stories behind the stories for the remaining five tales from A Succubus for Christmas:


Wrapdance

The club and background comes from real life inspiration.  I was in Moscow and - after copious amounts of alcohol - found myself in a strip club where the girls gave out lap dances in a similar fashion to how they’re described here.  I changed the dancers to succubi and made the venue another Strip Club With A Dark Secret.  The real tension is the protagonist’s struggle between his body’s desire for primal pleasure and the mind’s desire to stay alive.  The story picked up an editor’s choice tag when it went up on Literotica.  This gave me a nice little ego boost at the time and made me think I was doing something right with my writing.


The Coils of Aenictia

This is another story inspired by artwork I’d seen on the internet.  This time it was of a lamia or slug-type monster girl engaged in unbirth.  I didn’t know that much about the vore fetish at the time.  The picture seemed sexy and it gave me an idea to give the protagonist a kind of twisted rebirth (to make a change from all the Sucked To A Withered Husk stories).  The planar catastrophe was another excuse to throw a clearly non-human monster girl into a contemporary setting.  Trying to think about how that catastrophe happened gave birth to hell-space, my goto setting for monster girls that aren’t an easy fit for a modern-day setting.


Squeezed

This was the second story I submitted to Literotica.  Succubi and similar monster girls are one interpretation of the highly seductive, sexually-dominant femme fatale.  Other classic examples come from super-hero comics (eg. Poison Ivy).  The character that eventually became Sister Squeeze was originally going to be in “The Embrace of Uvulu’ai” until I realised her bright and colourful powers were more suited to a comic book setting.  The story was also a fun opportunity to have a sideswipe at the so-called moral guardians who are less than moral themselves.


Happy Ending

The title is both a troll and an allusion to the euphemism of ‘Happy Ending’ (a sex act that gives a client an ejaculation at the end of a massage) used by massage parlours.  Erotic body-to-body massage given by a girl on top of an airbed is one of my favourite porn scenarios and I’ve used it a number of times in my stories (it’s also a lot of fun irl too ;) ).  It was a perfect opportunity to bring back Annette Brite and also add a sneaky reference back to “Bubble Bath” (yes, the stunning girl Clive walks past as he enters the shop is the succubus from “Bubble Bath”).  The troll part is an acknowledgement that most of my stories, while sexy, often don’t end well for the central characters.  The title reflects that irony.


Incall with a Succubus

And then the real happy ending.  I knew I couldn’t constantly write about ‘dude encounters sexy demon girl, demon girl sucks out his life/soul’ without it starting to get repetitive and/or people starting to wonder if I had some deep-seated psychological problems about sex.  Horror (and horror films specifically) doesn’t have a good track record here when the central message of most slasher flicks can be summed as thus:  Have Sex And You Will Die!!!

I needed a ‘nice’ succubus and along came Nicole.  All the sexy goodness with none of that icky death stuff.  Maybe.  I wanted to leave enough hints of darkness so the readers don’t forget what she is (and a little uncertainty makes the sex more thrilling).  Jack Newman is a politician because it was a realistic way of establishing Nicole’s credentials as an exclusive escort and also because I liked the irony of a politician, normally a despised profession - with good reason - in fiction, being the one to get the ‘happy ending’.

Hydra's Inspiration - A Succubus for Christmas (part 2)

Carrying on with where the inspiration came from for the stories from my first collection, A Succubus for Christmas.


Hookahed

This was the first story I submitted to Literotica.  It’s another old fantasy of mine.  For the early stories the plots were usually excuses to set up a twisted sex scene with hot demonesses.  Koontz’s unconventional appearance was inspired by news stories of a real life mob boss (think it might have been Vincent Gigante) walking around outside in nothing more than a bathrobe to make the authorities think he was crazy.  The idea of a mob boss with a harem of succubi at his command seemed too good not to use again, and so Koontz became another of my regular characters.


Pool of the Undine

Another story inspired by a monster girl picture I’d seen online, this time of a slime girl.  The weird cave out in the moors seemed like a nice location for her to hide.


Slayer vs. Succubus

This was intended as an affectionate subversion of the classic eighties action hero stereotype.  I love those films even though it’s obvious anyone behaving like that in real life would most likely fuck everything up epically.  Super virile action hero versus infernal mistress of temptation was never going to end well in my universe.  This is a story I’m torn on.  It’s fun, but it’s also very goofy.  Quite a few readers let me know they liked this one and I try to remind myself to write similar stories every so often to break up the flow of grimdark ones.


Arachne’s Web

This one is unique to this collection.  I’d wanted to do an Arachne story for a while, but unlike succubi, which are easy to hide in a modern-day setting, a demon with the lower body of a giant spider is a little more noticeable.  I made her a dream demon to get around this.  The non-sex part of the story was inspired by a real life (and tragic) news story of an otherwise successful Brit going on the run in the states after shooting his wife.

The writing of it is another story.  Selena Kitt spotted my work on Literotica and encouraged me to put a collection together for publication through eXcessica.  I knew it would crazy to expect people to pay for work that was already available for free online, so I decided to include at least one original story (ideally a novella) for the folks prepared to part with their cash.  That was this one and it ended up being a complete bitch to write.  I suspect this was because I knew I was writing something for publication rather than fun and some of those old niggling writer doubts about being good enough had resurfaced to fuck around with my productivity.

I hated the story at the time.  It was only when I came back later I saw how nicely the concepts and imagery (the way she ‘eats’ the memories of his past loves and replaces them with her) came together.  It’s my favourite of the collection.  It might make a decent horror film as well (hint hint, for anyone out there with experience of making such things).


I'll finish off with the last five stories on Friday.