My Childhood Friend the Strongest Swordsman Got Cursed with Insensitivity

A unique premise for an NTR game, one where you only see the real, full story only at the final act, and only on the bad end route. However this means you have to wade through mostly non-sexual content for most of the game with possible implied NTR being on the periphery. The bad ending is a real gut punch, being not only one of physical prowess, but also one of a real, battle-forged bond between lovers, a love arguably superior to yours, since you may have spent your childhood with Erica, but Gin is the one who spent 3 grueling months with her, he's the one who slightly got through to her in the tent through her curse, making her realize that she needed help. Erica even implicitly states that Gin is more her type even in the good ending (where she says she won't let a weak man hold her, deriding you and upscaling Gin). The Good ending was unsatisfying, and I think that's on purpose. This is an NTR game first and foremost, having a good, sappy happy ending is an affront to the hard nature of this game. I wouldn't play this if I wanted a quick and easy NTR experience, it's a slow burn with background elements being the constant implication of things beyond your control, something you might not ever even see if you choose the good ending the first time around. If you can spend an hour or 2 on non-sexual content to get the main stuff, this one might be worth it.

I liked the game overall. Especially the art, Erika's design; clothes, body, face, hair, etc. Acceptable variety. To be honest, I liked the ending, especially Kyle's final interaction with Erika's mother. Weak points for me: -Animations a little boring, very static. -Bugs that break the game. There is an event with bandits that triggered an infinite loop of Kyle with one life (due to training with Erika) being defeated by the bandits. So I recommend saving the game often and in several slots. - No work mini-games. - Character progression is sad and easy (you only need to read Cain's book once and buy items from the only store on the map). As the game progresses, it does something that surprised me: it transforms the map into a gallery of scenes. It uses a power that Kyle gains as an excuse. A power that ends up being the beginning of his curse. Anyway, the main mechanic that the game ends up having as it progresses through the stages is cool but simplistic. It sounds much better than it actually ends up being. En español para mi amiguitos. Me gustó el juego en general. Sobre todo el arte, el diseño de Erika; ropa, cuerpo, cara, pelo, etc. De variedad aceptable. A decir verdad el final me gustó, especialmente la interacción final de kyle con la madre de Erika. Apartados flojos para mi: -Animaciones un poco aburridas, muy estáticas. -Bugs que rompen la partida. Hay un evento con bandidos que desencadenó un loop infinito de Kyle con uno de vida (por el entrenamiento con Erika) siendo derrotado por los bandidos. Así que aconsejo guardar seguido la partida y en varios slots. - No tiene minijuegos de trabajo -El progreso del personaje es triste y fácil (solo necesitas leer una vez el libro de Caín y comprar items de la única tienda del mapa. El juego cuando avanza hace algo que me sorprendió, transforma el mapa en la galería de escenas. Usando como excusa un poder que gana Kyle. Un poder que termina siendo el inicio de su maldición. En fin la mecánica principal que termina teniendo el juego cuando avanza de fase es copada pero simplona. Suena mucho mejor de lo realmente termina siendo.

Really good, I didn't played before a game with this style of ntr and it's pretty good! Gameplay: 4/5 normal rpgm combat but at the end of the game there is a special power that was really interesting. Images: 4/5 not fluid animations but the drawings are pretty hot, and the girl it's very attractive. Length: 5/5 short game that does what it needs, no need to grind or travel long distances. Ending: 5/5 honestly amazing, and I'm happy for the girl. Would recommend this game, and I could even want a tiny sequel to see more of the life of the girl after the ending of the game.

I love tomboys as much as I love big tiddies, so I entered the game with high expectations, hoping for good o’ corruption shenanigans similar to the likes you would see in doujinshi with the “emotionless girl” tag. Instead I was met with a gameplay loop that’s so numbingly boring, and an unsatisfying conclusion of a story that should’ve never been there in the first place. (To be frank, I wasn’t even gonna make this review seeing how monotone things are, but the many misconceptions from the comments in this thread motivated me to see things for myself and explain in depth why this was an incredibly flawed experience despite the good art and neat premise.) Spoiler: Complaints of the "Gameplay" and its Premise First off, I’m sorry to the translator, whoever they are, but the script is so MTL to the point that a lot of the pronouns are minced as the sentence structure is dumbed down a lot. It just sounds like Hulk talking to his different personality every time someone talks, or simply just looks like a Discord conversation since the translator/program decided to make the “(laughs)” thing that Japanese people put into their written dialogue to indicate that they’re screwing around like writing tonal indicator “/j” and “/srs” after your messages into... “lol”s, without any punctuation either. It could be intentional since the whole game is jokey to begin with, but reading the intent of the translator is beyond my skillset. As someone who picked up translation jobs myself, I get checking each line to correct their grammar is incredibly tiring to do, especially when most of the script looks fairly passable to understand their context already. But god, would the conversations just float a lot better if the “lol”s were removed altogether. Why am I saying the game is a “ joke ”? Because the story is about as cliche as you can get, it’s a barebone premise that establishes you two as childhood friend so there’s an excuse for you to get sad seeing her getting plapped, and a basic setting where you got into your dream job of being a soldier/guard by being incredibly pathetic on your entrance exam that you assigned to guard duty so you have a good reason to separate. A bit too separated perhaps, because you barely see FeMC herself while you navigate around the town. While the MC has a clear goal of ridding Erika, the tit ular swordswoman of her undiagnosed CIP caused by being cursed as a kid, yet he literally has no clue where to look and you spend most of the game without much of an obvious goal. While the 8/10 update provided the players with a quest system that presumably tells you what you should be doing (which isn’t present in the initial release that the thread posted), the main gameplay still feels aimless and awfully stretched out for no reason other than to waste your time. If you thought walking simulators-types where you go around a giant map, looking for every nook and cranny to collect small scenes was bad. For the majority of the game, you don’t even see any porn in this “PORN game”. At most, you get the implication that Erika is getting railed by different men all around the town from time to time, such as when you sleep in the Inn. Otherwise, there’s no point in walking around the town besides making dough, you help people and they provide you with cash rewards. With some even offering you some valuables to sell in the pawn shop as cash ...for a total of one time, because the developer never thought to implement other events or even looping ones for them, so you ended up with only 4 profitable ways: Helping the merchant carry his shit for one grand of Gs Picking up literal garbage that randomly spawns everyday Assisting the local teacher (that also leads to Erika having scenes with the kiddos, but you don’t get to see them until the end of the game) And my personal favorite, the gamblecore guy with a ridiculous amount of cash who asks you to play Reverse RPS with him (i.e. rock wins against paper, etc), which gives you DOUBLE the amount of cash that you gave him. It’s literally a get-rich-quick method mentioned by the developer in their walkthrough, so they essentially included this as more or less a “cheat” than the standard method of grinding through his boring gameplay loop that they can’t be bothered to improve upon. It’s like making a dev exit in games, why bother making the game good if I can just skip everything? Besides, buying everything still makes you lose story fights, it only makes the “mandatory fights” from the second half of the game easier to digest. Spoiler: How to progress through the game and WHY that sucks Speaking of this “second half” and walkthrough, here's what you're supposed to do: Befriend Cain by triggering a cutscene that let you into his room Read the book in his room and train in the yard, learning a skill Go to the yard at early morning/dawn to train with Erika No, the game doesn’t tell you this via dialogues that it’s what you’re supposed to do other than vaguely hinting that “there must be a way” if you train with Erika without learning the skill first. I had to look at the untranslated txt provided in the game’s files, otherwise I’d waste another precious hour on this. For all the game’s flaws, I have to give them credit for showing the power gap between Kyle and the superhumans that he calls his peers. While people like Erika and the captain can slice up some goblin meat fine and dandy, Kyle and Cain are just regular dudes (or what the powerscale community would call fodder ) who would be lucky to not go down in two hits. You’re meant to feel weak in MC’s shoes, while the story doesn’t explore this in depth as I would’ve hoped, it goes to show how unfitting Kyle is to Erika as a partner (albeit likely unintentional). But he does make for a good butt of every joke, since his inner monologue snarkers are very much meant to play the straight man to the tomfoolery around him. Which granted, got a few laughs out of me; but a lot of the jokes play out the same with Kyle being dumb and weak, which gets boring real quick. Another anomaly in this game that I’d have praised as well is the aforementioned captain, Gin, someone who’s strong enough to get his own big ass room by killing 10,000 monsters . In other games, he would be your demanding superior who uses his position to force you away from the beauty that is the big breasted swordswoman that you call your childhood friend, all while putting you in a shittier situation after the next... Gin is none of that. He’s genuinely a veteran captain who’s looking out for his squadmates, and talks to you once in a while on how to deal with Erika due to her emotionless state. Heck, while not outright stated, the decision to let you stay in the “soldiers” under the position of the town guard would be realistically done out of your own safety rather than him undermining you for your failures to kill the gobbles in the entrance exam. As he later lets you into his squad as well once you complete training under Erika, he’s reasonable as well as an authority. Like hell , I’d have married him myself if I could. He’s more than a perfect pairing for our eponymous “strongest swordsman” with more than a dozen legitimate reasons to fall in love with him compared to our Kyle, who doesn’t seem to have even an unconscious crush on Erika (which Adel, the other less morally upright childhood friend, takes advantage of) For being such a refreshing breath of air in the NTR genre, he stands out among the other huge perverts that the game had to offer for being an actual love interest with how monotone the rest of the cast are. They’re all hormone filled monkeys with nothing but sex on their mind and no other endearing character trait yet comes with a slight gimmick with each of them. It just feels rather detrimental at times to include such a caring character in the sea of beta males who are equally pathetic as the MC but somehow got lucky instead. So to quote Chris Higgins from Friday the 13th : “ Sex, sex, sex. You guys are getting boring, you know that? ” Speaking of Gin, the final hours of the game involves our heroine picking him or our blue-haired cuck who’s waaaaaay out of her depth. I would say the choice should’ve been obvious no matter what you do, but the game decides to base this branch of endings around two factors, whether you saved enough money to give it to the old man who took you in as an orphan (who then brutally tells you to fuck off and that he isn’t looking for money ). If you don’t, you’re automatically on the bad ending path unless you go back to pay his debt; if you did, the game provides you with a choice anyway . Like other comments mentioned, you get heavily wounded in the middle of a battle, not because of your pathetic-ness for once but because you jumped in to take a hit for your bro Cain from a fairy. You then fell into a coma for a total of 3 months , in which time your adopted granddad and Cain worked their ass off to take care of you in his (still) shabby cabin. Upon coming back to the town, you discover you have somehow unlocked a magical power that you can use without drawback, that is to see the past and all its details, no matter how long it is. If it’s unlocked by Cain feeding you a “Mana Herb” that he can buy off the random corner of the street, why has the MC only unlocked this innate ability by chomping on some special greens NOW? I guess he never tried, but honestly, it’s still BS. This “past vision” that you use by pressing the Shift key (and no other buttons will work, mind you) is essentially the game’s gallery showing you all the juicy bits after fucking blueballing the whole game, and it’s somehow worse than Armored Suit Solgante putting FeMC’s side of the story in the gallery rather than for you to experience it yourself, since EVERYTHING is your “reward” for practically beating the game and it’s now scattered around the map as a collecthon like Banjo-Kazooie , “have fun!” This is, without a doubt, the shittiest story-telling and game mechanic I have the pleasure to ever see in a NTR game in order to keep the protagonist an oblivious, drooling moron who doesn’t have a clue what’s going on. Spoiler: Ending reveal, MC gets cucked And what’s worse is the reveal in the ending, that the person seen in the flashback was in actuality her witch mother who was forced to give birth to her via super gene bullshit under the request of the government or something (which also explains away her superior strength as something she inherently has rather than coming off as a result of her excruciating training she partake with the MC as if she’s Saitama), basically she hates having to actually raise a kid so she gave her away. Kyle is completely unrelated to either of them, so how does he somehow fall under the care of the same old man who very much doesn’t run an orphanage for him to plausibly get adopted by the same person? I dunno, I’ll just assume he’s a saiyan sent to destroy earth but got brain damage or something. Anyhow, she thought abandoning her daughter wasn’t enough, but she hates the idea of emotions and giving birth so much, she literally came back to Erika just so she can curse her from doing these things for... funsies, I guess. The only way to reverse it is with a true love’s kiss- I mean, confession. Erika, knowing that her mother’s about to strip away all her pleasures in life out of sheer spite for her current happiness, tells her mom to do it anyway because she believes that one day her Prince Charming will come and she’ll find the right person in time. Poor child, not knowing that this will very much ruin her love life and sex life in the future, or does she knowingly let these guys in the village screw her like a beanbag? What is positive is that, everything that could’ve happened, DID in fact happen regardless of your actions. Unlike the other NTR games where you’re able to prevent everything or at least lessen the damage, nope, she’s still a slut and everybody had a turn with her. The students, your co-workers, and especially gigachad Gin. But the difference between the good and bad ending is that, in the good one you only use your new found powers to discover the truth behind the curse and continue to live obliviously to the fact that Erika’s still a public toilet regardless of your actions. And for some reasons despite having fuck for the last 3 months with Gin and everyone else, she ultimately doesn’t settle down with anyone of them. With Kyle finally confessing for his love (as dense NTR protags do), Erika finally reciprocates his feelings as the game ends on her saying that they’ll have “re-trainings” to do. Whereas the bad ending turns out EXACTLY like you expected, the two lovers Gin and Erika go to their room to make fuck, and with Gin saying the third golden words more genuinely, they presumably lived happily ever after since no joke, there’s an unique CG showing Erika having a huge smile. Kyle, being a loser, runs off like a bitch seeing this very unsurprising revelation. And into the forest he found... ERIKA’S MOM AFTER ALL THESE YEARS??? She acknowledges how the curse ends up hurting Kyle far more than Erika herself, and in her own twisted way, helps him by also cursing him without any more emotions. While Erika is busy chasing her own happiness with a picture showing her preggers with Gin’s babies, Kyle probably banged hookers, took drugs and died. WHAT A HAPPY ENDING! With how much extra content it got and even giving you an option to return you to Gin’s room to show their scenes, it’s pretty safe to assume that the “bad” ending is very much the canon one. And as a Gin supporter, I’m happy for them despite everyone else already shagging Erika without his knowledge and thus NTR the “bull” with the other “bulls”, but that’s beside the point. While people noted how the story could’ve been resolved if Kyle actually asked Erika about the details of the curse, but seeing how Gin only solved the curse after 3 whole months of them more or less dating, I do think it could be an interesting implication that Erika intentionally did not tell anyone about it. She took on the curse so as to see who would still love her without any emotions, like the age-old question of “would you love me if I was a worm?” but instead “would you love me if I was an emotionless killing machine of a husk for what I used to be?” - Conclusion - Implications aside, I don’t really think the developer thought that far, especially with the game’s overall immature sense of humor and obtuse designs. So the story just comes out really unsatisfying, and the sex rather disappointing to see after holding our expectations high for the entirety of the game. Like don't get me wrong, Erika is well-designed and the artstyle is beautiful (if rather basic since you don’t get to see the peepee and vagina most of the time, and the fact that all the other female characters get equal-sized honkers), but ultimately it’s not worth the trouble putting in 1 to 2 hours of blueballing just to see mostly well-drawn yet cliche sex scenes. I feel like there was a lot of potential if the game went out their way to subvert audience expectations and tropes from your average NTR game, but the final scope of the game is too small for anything grandiose or slightly groundbreaking, and we ends up with an otherwise average game with bad gameplay design that's only remember because of Gin and the tomboy heroine. If you couldn't tell by this long ass review, to say that I’m disappointed by this project and its conclusion would be a severe understatement. While I still recommend you see the game for yourself, it's best that you use a full save to see the end of the game. Remember, the Shift key turns the ability on and off. I hope nothing but good will for the creator's next project, yet as it stands... the execution IS JUST BAD .

The game is short, but has rare content. Ever seen a game with a female masseuse that bullies MC? I think i've seen it only one time before, but here it is, the second time. While art is nice - if we're talking scene-wise, pretty much 95% of the game is you looking at light teasing, and clues for the emotionless love interest having sex around, while not seeing almost anything. And then the rest 5% is you, time-skipped 3 months forward, and having ability to see everything she did in previous places you couldn't visit, so it goes like a barrage of scenes, all at once, at your choice what to see. It's not for everyone, that's for sure. Story and characters aren't bad. Many events aren't even connected to anything though, like helping merchant, beating thugs and playing rock-paper-scissors has nothing to do with the main girl, or any other events. It felt more like living as a slightly-above-loser MC, than playing an NTR game with a love interest being focused upon. Good ending is disappointing, bad ending is cruel due to how much more love content it has, and the whole choice between endings is dumb, i don't see how it should affect it at all. If the game was more fleshed out, it could've been a 5/5 unusual experience for someone who appreciates suggestive, non-explicit content, but as it is - it would be a waste of time to play if you're still not fed up with normal H-games, and would feel a bit too flawed for those who search for rarities. Still good though, relatively speaking! As i was saying, give it a try if you like experiencing unusual H-games, ignore it if you want a quick and simple action for your appendage. 4/5 since it didn't make me regret seeing it, only took 2-3 hours, but did make me feel bad looking at how the dev handled this whole idea.

Pretty alright game. I would honestly give it about a 3 star gameplay and story wise but the unique art definitely bumps it up a bit and sadly there's no 3.5 star. If you go into this game for a quick fap you're gonna be sad as it does this really annoying thing where you gotta beat the game and only then can you see every scene. This leaves little incentive to actually search and just makes the scenes lack substance as you see them in one big burst. I also like the kuudere vibe, but I really didn't like how easily she gave up her body. Sure she cant really feel anything, but she just straight up hands herself over to anyone who asks because it doesn't affect her. Combat is extremely boring as there's no leveling up and you just gamble until you have enough money for max equipment and then speedrun to the ending. All in all, just an okay game. Nice/unique art with a slightly lacking story. Cant really bring yourself to like the fmc as she has such a "don't care" attitude even with her lifelong friend (mc)

Like everyone said it's not a bad game and not even that long and the art is amazing, but -the fights while not a lot were just spamming enter after buying best gear(you can get a lot of gold by playing rock paper scissors in the down left corner beside the bathhouse, I think it's not even random just 2 this 2 that 2 third option and after 6 rounds I had like 360 000) -the mc was completely irrelevant until the ending, would have been better with the girl as mc -the scenes were kinda bad for me, there was like 6 full on sex scenes 1 or 2 with every character and only one or maybe two had her tits out properly which is a big point for me So yeah I wouldn't riot to get my time back that I wasted since it was just 3 hours or so, but I definietly feel like I wasted those hours

Honestly the only good aspect of this game is the art; which also has a few scenes that have some sizing/perspective issues. The story is lacking, there aren't any noticeable plot holes but there really just wasn't anything on the line. Girl has a curse, MC likes her and wants to prove himself but actively tells other people that he doesn't love her in that way, and then in the very ending scene it's a 180 flip to the MC all of a sudden being like, I was in love with her this whole time and now I lost her. Many other NTR games will either give you the option to prevent NTR from happening or will give you a sense that your actions have some impact on at least the speed in which the girl gets corrupted - in this game, it's very much just a visual novel with running between scenes. There are a few bugs in the game, the most noticeable one of which will get you hardstuck when you speak to some bandits out in the town and aren't strong enough to beat them, you will get stuck in a loop of fighting and losing to them with no escape unless you had a save file to reload on. The sex scenes are fairly few and not animated, again the art is pretty decent but for the amount of time you needed to spend in the game to get to those scenes (and fairly large maps with a lot of dead/pointless space) it's not really worth it. This game could take a tip from a few other games of this nature that just allow you to either fast travel to a different location instead of running through 3-4 map tiles of dialogue-less space just to get to where you need to go each time you want to progress the story. As a few other people have said, this game is one of those: 'Get a completed save and just watch the abridged version of the story with the scenes' type of games. It's not BAD, but it falls short on too many fronts to truly be worth a full playthrough in my opinion. I would hope that this developer will use the skills they learned from this game to make a new one though, because I think they have a lot of potential.

Honestly don't waste your time playing this game, don't get me wrong, the art is amazing , and if you are into emotionless stuff the scenes are top tier, but the gameplay itself revolves around tediously running around aimlessly looking for exclamation signs to advance events, and you don't get to see any of the good scenes, just the POV of the main character, you get to see all the sex and stuff at the end, running around the map is horrible, as the game doesn't really try to guide you at all, the "gameplay" part is horrible because the whole joke is that that MC is really weak, so you can die very easily and have to re-try some fights and it's not engaging at all. Just look for a save and watch the scenes there, maybe play 30m to get a feel for the story and characters before doing that. A shame because it could be a top tier game, but they fumbled on some basic elements for a game that revolves around running around and getting NTR'd.

Average at best, there are not enough full on sex scenes and although it's hot she's a squirter, you can't break her with pleasure until the ending scene. Give it a look if you find it interesting but this one is short and rather dull.

I think it’s pretty good,especially if you like tomboys and emotionless characters. It has great scenes, mainly thanks to the creator’s distinctive art style. The different routes are very varied, and not all antagonists take advantage of the girls—some could even be considered somewhat vanilla to a certain extent. I really enjoyed it overall. My only issue is that you only get to see the full scenes at the end of the game; at the start, you only see them from the protagonist’s perspective. Other than that, I liked it a lot

As everyone has already come to realize, this game has so much wasted potential. There are no "stakes" here to work for or against, so the whole ntr aspect is pointless and feels tacked-on. Sure the art is fine, but it seems hollow because the game doesn't actually DO anything with it. Unfortunately this game falls into the category of "probably grab a save, otherwise skip." Also the endings are bad regardless, so don't bother wasting your time if you would try to get a pure run.