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Humble Bundle – Hunie Sakura
Nov. 29th, 2017 11:11 amOkay, yes, these games mostly exist for the anime boobies. They’re terribly sexist and would never be worth paying real money for. But anything to help charity, right? (The money I paid for this went to Humble and to charity, not to the developers.)
HuniePop - A combination dating sim and match-3 game, in which a kind fairy comes to help your sexless loser character meet girls and hopefully bed them. The action is a combination of trying to chat up the girls and learn about them (and, in turn, answer their questions in ways that make them like you) and go on abstract “dates” which are a surprisingly fun match-3 variation. Successful dates earn you Munie, which is spent on presents for the girls; successful talk earns you Hunie, which functions as XP and lets you raise your stats in the match-3 games. If you successfully get a girl to 5 hearts at night, she’ll come back to your place and you get some moaning and a boobie picture. (From another review: “That's how sex works, right? The guy plays Bejeweled and the girl moans a lot?”) I do find it interesting (and wonder if it's a genre convention) that the girls never take off their panties—there are basically no butt shots, and a number of “open legs” shots that don't really make sense with underwear on.
HunieCam Studio - A sim game with a dirty theme but nothing particularly naughty on screen. You need to hire girls to staff your webcam studio, choosing which ones to do photo shoots, cam shows and booze runs. You can also train them to be better at their jobs, send them to a spa to relax, or equip them with various sex toys so that they can satisfy additional fetishes. The biggest strategic element seems to be that fetish list: Each of your fans has a preferred one, and if you have multiple girls with that fetish, those fans will pay for all of them. It seems the best approach to just concentrate all your girls into the same fetish list (even though, from an ad-buy perspective, you can purchase more fans if you have access to a greater list of fetishes), and have one girl who overlaps with everyone else who only does photo shoots. In the late game, ad buys are the key to acquiring fans, as you'll be buying thousands or getting around 100 from a photo shoot.
Sakura Dungeon – A blend of visual novel, dungeon crawler, and mon-battle game. You play a demoness trying to regain control of her dungeon, which was taken over by someone else while she was sealed away. You do so by capturing and recruiting monster girls and going first-person dungeon-crawling (which is broken up by standard turn-based battles). The “naughty” part is that when you get a critical hit (and they’re very common) the monstergirls suffer clothing damage, though in a lot of cases that’s only a slight change to their model. As I don't particularly like the visual novel interface, I'm not wild about dungeon crawling, and it's rare that I really get into a “collect-em-all” game, there isn't really much for me here. But I suppose it was worth trying.
This bundle also came with codes for 12 other Sakura visual novels. I thought the one that I played a while back was really, really dumb, so I saw no reason to bother with these.
Overall: The two Hunie games are surprisingly fun as games, if you aren't put off by the cartoon cheesecake. Unless you specifically have an anime monstergirl fetish, the Sakura games are dumb.
HuniePop - A combination dating sim and match-3 game, in which a kind fairy comes to help your sexless loser character meet girls and hopefully bed them. The action is a combination of trying to chat up the girls and learn about them (and, in turn, answer their questions in ways that make them like you) and go on abstract “dates” which are a surprisingly fun match-3 variation. Successful dates earn you Munie, which is spent on presents for the girls; successful talk earns you Hunie, which functions as XP and lets you raise your stats in the match-3 games. If you successfully get a girl to 5 hearts at night, she’ll come back to your place and you get some moaning and a boobie picture. (From another review: “That's how sex works, right? The guy plays Bejeweled and the girl moans a lot?”) I do find it interesting (and wonder if it's a genre convention) that the girls never take off their panties—there are basically no butt shots, and a number of “open legs” shots that don't really make sense with underwear on.
HunieCam Studio - A sim game with a dirty theme but nothing particularly naughty on screen. You need to hire girls to staff your webcam studio, choosing which ones to do photo shoots, cam shows and booze runs. You can also train them to be better at their jobs, send them to a spa to relax, or equip them with various sex toys so that they can satisfy additional fetishes. The biggest strategic element seems to be that fetish list: Each of your fans has a preferred one, and if you have multiple girls with that fetish, those fans will pay for all of them. It seems the best approach to just concentrate all your girls into the same fetish list (even though, from an ad-buy perspective, you can purchase more fans if you have access to a greater list of fetishes), and have one girl who overlaps with everyone else who only does photo shoots. In the late game, ad buys are the key to acquiring fans, as you'll be buying thousands or getting around 100 from a photo shoot.
Sakura Dungeon – A blend of visual novel, dungeon crawler, and mon-battle game. You play a demoness trying to regain control of her dungeon, which was taken over by someone else while she was sealed away. You do so by capturing and recruiting monster girls and going first-person dungeon-crawling (which is broken up by standard turn-based battles). The “naughty” part is that when you get a critical hit (and they’re very common) the monstergirls suffer clothing damage, though in a lot of cases that’s only a slight change to their model. As I don't particularly like the visual novel interface, I'm not wild about dungeon crawling, and it's rare that I really get into a “collect-em-all” game, there isn't really much for me here. But I suppose it was worth trying.
This bundle also came with codes for 12 other Sakura visual novels. I thought the one that I played a while back was really, really dumb, so I saw no reason to bother with these.
Overall: The two Hunie games are surprisingly fun as games, if you aren't put off by the cartoon cheesecake. Unless you specifically have an anime monstergirl fetish, the Sakura games are dumb.
