Re: Lost in the Woods Part 1
...so, I downloaded the demo to see what everyone was talking about, and this game actually does a couple of things right, if you can believe it. Or, at least, not wrong.
First, you can play it one-handed (if you are so inclined). I haven't seen any side-scrollers do this before, and it's rather refreshing.
Second, it largely eliminates the phenomenon of "game-over rape," which has always posed problems for me: to proceed, you must avoid enemies; but to unlock all the scenes (which some might argue is half the point), you must NOT avoid the enemies. This game gets around it by making the gameplay exceedingly simple and imposing no penalties for being attacked by monsters. I haven't played the full version, so I have no idea how many monster or scene varieties there are (in the demo there are two different monsters with two scenes each, and they can double-team you for an additional variation), nor do I know how much trouble you have to go to get to them (there doesn't seem to be a gallery mode, which is problematic), but if the game remains as simplistic as the demo, it shouldn't be too difficult to catch any of the scenes in the game.
On the other hand...
Ignoring the quality of the artwork (which is subjective), this game has a number of drawbacks.
As everyone has mentioned thus far, the price is a little on the high side for what appears to be a very simplistic game. The author does not mention how many monsters or scenes there are in the game, but he implies that there will be additional content (perhaps for free, since he recommends purchasing the game with an account on DLSite). That is a lot of assumptions for a $20 purchase!
Secondly, if you're not careful, it is very easy to get overwhelmed by monsters and caught in an unbreakable loop, made all the worse by the much-touted randomly generated h-scenes (which can last for quite a while).
That said: it is fairly easy to proceed simply by going LEFT. You can hide off-screen and blast initial enemies from there, then proceed slowly through the room. Enemies take two hits to kill.
One thing that I personally like about this product is that the protagonist appears to be FAPPING to power her ring blaster. To me this is a refreshing bit of fluff, since most protagonists in h-games appear to have an antagonistic relationship with sex or pleasure, which I find obnoxious.
