How diverse can a game with erotic scenes be? How interesting can it be from a gameplay point of view, if we are talking about a card game? Let’s talk about Last Evil – a game that changes the perception of both genres.
If we take Slay the Spire, add quite a bit of perversion, a drop of Pornhub, decorate it all with a delicious sauce of balance, we… get Last Evil. Perhaps the description is not very clear at first glance, but let’s talk about everything in detail.
By the ways of Slay the Spire
The fact is that card games existed even before the aforementioned product, but after its release, there was a fashion for the release of card games in the same form. I would say that on the same engine, but it is not quite so. Especially since Last Evil has a little more freedom. So we already know and understand the basic mechanics of card battles. However, if I’m not mistaken, in Slay the Spire mana was the only resource for spells and unused mana was carried over to another turn. There is no such grace here, but one more type of “mana” has been added, namely “lust”. If mana is restored every turn, then lust is gained through several methods – a special artifact (for example, “Nipples Rings”, which give 1 point of lust every 2 turns), cards that add several units, or from mini-quests, moving around the game field . There are cards that need mana, there are those that need lust. So, conditionally, we can either go the way where most of the spells when building the deck will use and restore lust, or the way where the main resource will be mana. If desired, you can combine spells and get something average.
The main difference of this game is the ability to go to all four sides. That is, we can either walk around the map and beat opponents, thereby replenishing the deck of cards with new cards after each battle, or try to defeat the hero (a stronger enemy) and get an artifact in addition to the card. There is also an option to immediately head towards the boss, or visit the merchant. Of course, we will need money, and… here comes the first thematic swallow. The fact is that money is the essence here. Well… the essence. It is obtained either after the battle (1-3 units if you just pick it up, 3-10 units if we are ready to give up lust points), or during the battle. Let’s not forget that we are succubus, so we can tempt opponents during the battle, and in front of their companions, with whom the battle is not interrupted, several moves to ride on the poor guy. After this process, we will get somewhere around 4 units of essence. Of course, in addition, it can be obtained by walking around the map and coming across cards with mini-quests – somewhere you can simply exchange lust for essence, somewhere we will have to “work” and sleep with someone to get a reward. Well…what did you want from a game where you run as a succubus? 🙂
A little perversion and Pornhub
As we have already understood, from Slay the Spire there is only the base, the gameplay here is wider, and it is wide in every sense. Sometimes you get the feeling that the developers played something similar, sat down and recorded their feelings. That is, you think “um…what if you could do this…” – voila! It is! Want good mechanics? Here you go! A bit of sexual content? Here you are 87!!! full-on sex scenes, most of which feature different actors, and that’s in addition to the direct animation when using the Temptations card. Can’t win? No problem! You can surrender – you will not lose, but you will be fined!
The penalty here is, of course, sexual paraphernalia – you lose a certain amount of health, and you get either a yoke that adds weakness to your succubus every 4 turns, or a pair of dildos that reduce the attack every 3 turns. The next option is the mouth ring, which adds purification to enemies at the start of each fight. Portupea will add, or rather subtract, 1 point of mana every 5 turns. If you give up a fifth time, clips will be put on your nipples (of course, we are talking about a succubus), which will reduce your lust every 5 turns. And you know what is the most interesting thing about it? It’s all visualized! Visualized both during the game and during the sex scenes! So sometimes it seems to you that you need to give up one more time in order to… see everything “under the right sauce” 🙂
Some scenes require you to win, however, others may want you to surrender and you should…yeah. Everything is true – they will be fucked! Because one and the same enemy succubus (and there are some here) that met me had two separate videos in case of my victory and defeat. This increases the variability of the passage and the desire to play this game again and again. Because, just like in a good visual novel, you are interested to find out what was there, behind a different turn. And you can find out about this only by showing your weakness.
Among other creatures, such as goblins, orcs, demons, and slugs, there are girl enemies, a wolf, and a couple of other creatures that cannot be tempted in any way. Weakness is applied to them instead. The developers decided not to cross the red lines, so…no, you won’t see what one of the bosses with his wolf will do to your succubus, however…the game has more than enough werewolf scenes, and the Incubus (a male succubus, in which instead of a snake’s tail – and… you better not know what happens to her during the sex scene). If everything is clear and logical with wolves, it is not entirely clear why there are no scenes with girls, except…oh. It turned out that the local merchant has certain weaknesses towards succubi. So, if we share our essence with her, she will be happy to please us not only with better prices, but also to thank us more physically. Not much, but worth it!
Balance
This game is like a pervert’s holiday – New Year’s on Birthday or something like that. And the point is not that in this game instead of every letter “i” a member is drawn (no, there is no such thing here) – it’s just that everything is so perfectly implemented in the gameplay that you don’t feel as if something has been added and it’s already over the edge, or they added it because “the topic is about that”. As some reviews say, this is the case when you forget about the theme of the game, and just enjoy the mechanics themselves. And so it is. You don’t play it because you will be shown the tits of a succubus. You play to get to the final boss and kick his ass. You play in order to see additional, not yet opened scenes. You play just for fun, because it is interesting and this is not the case when there is nothing under a beautiful shell. Here are beautifully drawn backgrounds, character figures, the ability to rotate the camera as you like, including removing the environment in the form of cards and interface elements. You can just enjoy what you see and take screenshots the way you like it.
When you start playing, you are greeted by a video clip about the story. When you finish playing, you are not just shown the end credits. You are shown a video insert with what happens after your victory. That rare case when, holding your breath, you wait for the moment when you will be told that this sexual fairy tale will have a sequel.
There is such a rare case when I do not throw cards for sale, but go to the store and buy missing ones so that I can collect the badge. It’s like a badge of honor because I really liked the game and wanted to get a few items from it. Last Evil became just such a game.
As an interesting bonus, the game even has a character editor. It allows you to choose certain parameters (including the bust) as you wish. A small thing, but as a bonus to everything else that was planned before, it is quite pleasant. And this game is made in such little things – everything where it seems that “there could be more” – is done so that such thoughts do not even arise. And even the mini-quests that appear from time to time are designed in such a way that you wonder how things will develop if you choose a different option.
Cons
Of course, you can’t get anywhere without disadvantages either. Are there many of them here? Well…sometimes I’d get a weird glitch that would make the character texture look pretty weird, and I’d have to go into the editor to fix it. I would also like to see more “fluffs” added to our character in this same editor, however… there is an opinion that the developers abandoned such an idea in order not to oversaturate our character with unnecessary things. So, even when browsing through the gallery, we are only allowed to add items or “toys” that are a penalty for surrendering in battle. The minuses are quite small and conditional, they do not interfere with the passage of the game, but they are there, and it was impossible not to mention them.
Aftertaste
I ran into this game for 48.2 hours. Spent a lot of time on the last achievement (“Kill the Doppelganger”, which is a tier 3 hero that wouldn’t show up when I played through the whole game three times), but it wasn’t in a “oooh…same thing again” kind of way ” – because even after 48 hours, I still have unopened sexual scenes, and a certain number of them are completely opened at the last (third) level, where you still need to be able to reach.
Interestingly, the game has two difficulty levels, I ran on the second one, the description of the first one says that it is easy, but it is impossible to kill the main demon and pass the game on it. This is not quite so. The point is that at the first level of difficulty, the main boss casts a spell on our character that prevents us from extinguishing his attacks with armor. So all the damage is inflicted on us in full. However, there is an interesting Mistress card in the game that allows you to reduce all damage taken to 1. With two Mistress cards, I was able to ignore his damage and while he was casting spells, I was able to take away his health, so I beat the game on a mode where the game said it was impossible to beat. In my opinion, this should have been the last achievement of the game and the thing that is on high difficulty, but as it is.
The main problem of this game is that after its level, it will be difficult to find some thematic project that can be, if not better, then at least the same. By the level of interest in the gameplay, the scenes that the game provides, and in general.
I guess Last Evil deserves a “This is how games with sexual content should be made” rating and a solid 9 out of 10. Minus for the glitch, and the fact that I’ll be comparing games to it for a long time 🙂
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