Story = 3/10 Not really good, but hey, I've seen worse. Content = 1/10 Bad. this game fails in both hentai and RPG departments. Graphics = 7/10 Don't quite catch the eye, but nice. Additional stuff = 3/10 Leaves much to be desired Overall = 2/10 Don't waste your money or HDD space.
Detailed review
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Pretty Soldier Wars A.D. 2048 is one of the few English translated games provided to us by G-Collections. At first, when I saw it, I thought "Cool! A h-rpg? Must have it!". I mean, how could you possibly fail with hentai and RPG in one game? Yet, Pretty Soldier Wars surprised me. In a worst way.
Story = 3/10
To put it simply, you are a military officer, given command of a squad of female bio-soldiers. They are the last hope of mankind in the war against demons, Yoju, who seem to have fun raping every girl they get their slimy tentacles on. Well, not every, since they obviously don't think that biosoldier = woman.
Since you're their boss and you're the one who gives them a go to shoot, cut and whack stuff, they appreciate your generosity and eventually you can sleep with them. That is, if you don't get them killed before that. Except the robot. It can't die.
Content = 1/10
Let's see, we have hentai here... where? Honestly, there are only few flashes of nudity, and most of them appear when you meet another boss creature. You get about 3 pictures of tentacle raped girls and then... poof. Nothing. Even when you save them, they obviously don't feel any need to thank you. Also, there's your squad, which (for some unknown reasons) have female reproduction organs as well and is eager to use them. So eager, that "do you want to go on a date" choice pretty much brings you to few more 3 pic scenes. Honestly, I sometimes clicked so fast skipping the boring dates that I missed hentai parts of them as well.
Another thing that greatly annoyed me was that I had to spend hours to get any hentai content. It could be ignored if the RPG part was any good, but in this game, it seems that someone forgot to include "fun". There are 9 missions (3 missions x3 parts to be exact), and each one takes at least an hour. Unless... you don't get to do them at all, since the game is extremely hard and you're likely to lose few girls in the way, possibly losing any chance to beat later missions.
RPG part of this game is very simple. You only have three choices - go, pick target, shoot. There are some statistics for every girl, but both damage and dodge rates are rather random, so your victory or failure depends more on your luck than skills. There are pretty much three types of girls - close range fighters (1), long range fighters (3), medium range fighters (4) (am I the only one who wants some balancing?) Long range fighters can't shoot opponents close to them, so having them is pretty much annoying, especialy when they get surrounded. Also, you can't shoot if there's someone between you and the target, and this makes the game much harder.
Graphics = 7/10
Surprisingly, not bad. Levels are detailed, girls look nice and there's nothing to hurt your eyes. Too bad that we don't play games for pretty pictures only.
Sound = ?
I'm not an expert, but after hours of gameplay I found it to be annoying. Then again, it might've been the game itself that disturbed me, so I can't say.
Additional stuff = 3/10
There is only one ending and, to be honest, not a really good one. There's no branching in this game - you send girls to fight, they eventuall have a date with you, you sleep together and then forget it all.
This game MOSTLY consists of tentacle rapes, so if you're not a fan of that, don't even bother.
You'll pretty much finish the game knowing about the girls as much as in the beginning.
Overall = 2/10
I honestly suggest you not to waste your time on this one. You're better off downloading Final Fantasy Tactics (GBA) and buying an adult magazine. Or you could just play Utawarerumono and find out how a GOOD h-RPG feels like.
Last edited by Macho Moron; 07-26-2008 at 03:32 PM..
The game is HARD... so that can be a challenge to some gamers. The accuracy and dodge is not too random. There is a certain upper and lower value. The key is... not too close or not too far. And certainly try to hit the enemies from the side or back.
I am assuming that this game is still a prototype for another yet to come.
@ Macho:
Do you know how to get that robot? She is the last one I haven't get until now. Yes... almost all of them are practically "robot"... I mean that rightmost chick covered in armor.
The game is HARD... so that can be a challenge to some gamers. The accuracy and dodge is not too random. There is a certain upper and lower value. The key is... not too close or not too far. And certainly try to hit the enemies from the side or back.
About the difficulty of this game... well, I don't know. You just have to keep your troops defending some points, and the rest is just "attack" spamming. If you're lucky, you will see more misses on you and you'll hit often... if you're not - you'll die even with the best strategy. I remember having 12+ misses from ALL sides (I surrounded the last monster), while I got hit 7+ times by it. Obviously, I had to restart, since my whole team was in red and I lost a girl, while the monster still had full HP.
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Do you know how to get that robot? She is the last one I haven't get until now. Yes... almost all of them are practically "robot"... I mean that rightmost chick covered in armor.
AFAIK, you get a girl if her level is high (the robot is for some reason more difficult to get) and the girls with kills get to level up. make sure that the robot makes most of the kills, especially the bosses (the ones that look distinct.) Everybody may attack, but save the finishing touch for her. Eventually, if you're lucky, she'll reveal her true identity.
One thing that lack of this game is a story and CG. A good story and CG is a must for a great H-Game.
This game is so lame that i wonder who the heck that make this game. This game is a disappointing. Agree with you on that.
When a char level up, the stats are the same. The victory depends too much on your luck lol
nonono... the stats are up HOWEVER... the gains are fruitless compared to the increasing difficulty. The increasing stats are in defense, evade, accuracy, and attack... not shown to us players since these are percentage modifier.
Luck is always necessary in all games... even in good old tetris.
I really didn't like this game, mainily due to the impossible to follow dodge/hit rates, the story, and pretty much almost every single thing about the game. Except for the hentai, but there were only a cgs compared to the game length/difficulty.
I was fairly disappointed in this game. The graphics and story do not in any way impress me. It's too bad because a game like this does have a lot of potential, but without a better battle system and story it falls flat on its face.