Siluman Fantasy - First Half - Review Summary

Excellent monster girl art, rewarding explicit scenes, and solid RPG mechanics are undermined by tedious, unoriginal, punishing difficulty and instant death terrain traps.

Excellent Monster Girl Art: Many reviewers praise the high-quality artwork and character designs, particularly the cute and appealing monster girls. The standing art and CGs are consistently described as excellent and refined.

Rewarding Explicit Scenes: The adult content is well-received, with detailed sex scenes featuring monster girls that are described as rewarding and well-drawn. The scenes often include unique art designs, multiple positions, and varied facial expressions.

Solid RPG Mechanics: Reviewers appreciate the solid RPG mechanics, classic turn-based combat, and interesting combat design. The game offers a good balance of humor, erotic scenes, and RPG combat.

Humorous Parody Tone: The game features a humorous and irreverent tone with meme humor and funny dialogues that keep players entertained. The comedy is well-executed and adds to the overall enjoyment.

Good Story and Exploration: The game offers a rich story with humorous dialogue and high explorability, featuring multiple endings and hidden paths. Players enjoy the narrative and the choices presented.

Tedious and unoriginal gameplay: Some find the gameplay boring, tedious, and unoriginal, with a game system that feels like a mere pretext to show fan service. The story is also criticized as crass, vague, and not engaging.

High difficulty and punishing gameplay: Many players report that the game is very difficult, even regular enemies can be tough, and death penalties are harsh. Strong enemies require save/load and enemy stats scale faster than the player's.

Instant-death traps in terrain: Falling into water, pits, or deep rivers causes instant death, often without visual distinction between safe and deadly areas. These traps are scattered across the map and feel malicious and frustrating.

Bugs and rough presentation: Players report various bugs such as galleries not saving unlocked scenes, debug rooms accessible and breaking the game, game freezing from test functions, and map bugs. The overall presentation feels rough and unpolished.

Save point and death penalty issues: Save points are limited, rare, and easily missed, looking like a pile of pixels. Death causes loss of money and stats, and sends players back to the last save point, which can be frustrating.

Elemental weapon switching: Combat requires switching weapon attributes to exploit enemy elemental weaknesses (thunder, ice, fire) and immunities. Changing equipment consumes a turn, making strategy crucial over level grinding.

In-game gallery for H scenes: The game includes a gallery where players can view unlocked erotic scenes and CG artwork. It can be accessed early and allows rebattling bosses for scenes.

Monster girl H content: The erotic content features monster girls and includes themes like femdom, with scenes triggered whether the player wins or loses. There are about 8 main monster girl bosses with multiple H-scenes each.

RPG Maker and JRPG style: The game is built with RPG Maker and follows a turn-based JRPG combat system with visible enemy encounters. This old-school approach is common in indie RPGs.

Save points with fast travel: Save points called Flames of Desire or bonfires allow teleportation between scenes, restore stamina, and serve as upgrade stations. This is similar to Dark Souls bonfires.

Suited for monster girl fans: The game appeals to players who enjoy monster girl themes, femdom, and lewd isekai experiences. Many recommendations target this specific audience.

Worth trying at low price: Many players consider the game worth trying, especially at its price point, and some say it shouldn't be missed for the cost. The value proposition is a recurring positive theme across reviews.

High difficulty may deter some: The game's punishing difficulty is a common concern, making it unsuitable for hot-headed players or those seeking pure fan service. Some warn that difficulty can overshadow enjoyment.

Recommended only on sale: Several reviewers advise buying only during sales or at a discount, suggesting the game may not be worth full price. This cautious recommendation appears across multiple clusters.

Great for RPG and souls-like fans: Players who enjoy RPG mechanics, souls-like challenges, and RPG Maker games find value here. The game is recommended for those specific genre preferences.

Game completion: 4.5h.

Session length: 1.0h.

Eroge Art and Fetish Connoisseur: Prioritizes viewing erotic scenes and gallery content, treating RPG progression as a delivery system rather than the main appeal. Motivation: Enjoying polished character art, CG scenes, and specific fetish content such as monster girl femdom. Stance: buy.

Old-School RPG Maker Veteran: Methodically explores maze-like maps, levels up, uses turn-based battles, manages elemental counters, and relies on RPG Maker keyboard shortcuts. Motivation: Exploring dungeon maps, solving puzzles, and mastering turn-based combat and elemental equipment systems. Stance: buy.

Difficulty-Averse Eroge Player: Chooses Easy mode, follows the first dialogue option, uses the gallery to bypass hard scenes, and avoids punishing traps and combat. Motivation: Reaching erotic rewards with as little struggle as possible. Stance: sale.

DLC Artbooks and Illustrations: Downloadable content includes artbooks and illustration collections, with some DLCs being game drafts that do not affect gameplay. There are also plans for a novel and more DLC.

Dark Souls Comparison and Homage: The game is frequently compared to Dark Souls, described as a parody or homage, and sometimes called 'Ero Souls'. This influence is a key selling point for fans of the series.

Missing Chinese Language Support: Many reviewers report that the game does not include official Chinese language support. This language barrier is a common complaint, especially for players who prefer Chinese.

Uncensored Adult Content: The game features uncensored 18+ content, including explicit art and scenes, with no mosaic censorship or patches required. This is a major draw for players seeking adult material.

Developer and Publisher Details: The game is developed and published by Siluman Soft, a small two-person team. It is their first release and the first entry in a planned series.