A RPG with true stakes.
ChadLad
This is Visual Novel with pretty good RPG mechanics. Instead of just making story choices like in most Visual Novels,(Even though those are here to). You must instead wage a war against a invading alien army. The war is just fought by just one girl the titular Escalayer.Because of this you can't be everywhere at once. You have to manage your time of rest, fighting and fucking. See in this game you don't play as the Escalayer. But some blonde dude named Kyouhei. He is the one who makes all the choices in what to do and commands her around in battle. If your not careful the panic in the city will go out of control, so you need to stay on top of the alien invasion. But if you fight to much your stats will fall behind, so you need to fuck. But if you fuck to much you get tired, then you need to rest. But then if you rest the aliens will take over, so you need to fight. Its kind of like the Doom Eternal system of Armour Ammo and Health. But instead its Libido,D2 Energy, and panic levels. You must make sure that these are always kept in check. You cant just grind levels, and you cant just throw yourself at enemies. To be honest this whole set up could carry a game on its own if it had a bit more depth.But here is the thing, this game is a Hentai game, obviously. But in turn this game is very intense. You never know what the fucks going to happen because they don't give a fuck about anything in japan. If you care about the characters at all your afraid these weird monsters are going to sexually assault someone. So when ever your in a fight in this game the stakes are very high. With good planning your stats should out pace the aliens. And you could save scum. But even still, I have not felt this much threat from a alien invasion since Mass Effect 3. If you die in this game you don't just get a game over. Its much worse, so don't fucking die.Like in mass effect, you can also be a horrible person in this. Or at least I assume you can. The game has "brutal" choices, I can only guess what fucked shit you can do.But if you turn away from these you can build up a love meter. The main character is not very nice starting off. But it seems some of the later love choices are a bit kinder. In turn I am guessing the bigger the brutal meter gets the more horrible he becomes. Again just like the Paragon and Renegade system in mass effect. This games RPG systems are what sells it. The amount of outcomes and things that can happen in this game are pretty impressive. If you boil it down though it seems to be structured like this.There is a love path and a brutal path. And every fight has a win and loss stage. And their seems to be two side characters that have a set of optional scenes with. That might not sound like much but when your in the game it feels very dynamic. If you like RPG games with intense stories then this one is for you. It can just feel like slice of life stuff at times, but the alien threat is always looming and is very horrifying. You can beat them with the power of love, but it won't be easy. Don't fuck it up.But yeah for what it is its a 5/5 could not really think of anything its missing.
