A review of the current state of Conquest & desire.
Conquest & Desire is a simple game where you play an amnesiac resurrect by a fairy just outside the village of Hemsworth. In the shadows a dark alliance is formed between 7 members as they seek control of the area.
[Story]
The story is mentioned above, and it doesn't really get more complicated than that. The seven above don't even ever react to your main character specifically stopping the different members as you are just 'random' adventurer. I should clarify that while the characters each have their own story, minus the fairy who I think baring the beginning where they said their name never said it again, but I'm going off of the story overall and not just the characters as that's later.
Something that is interesting is that the 6 do seem to react to which order you do them in, so while the main character and the antagonist of the game only met once there is the possibility of different dialogue.
I know some of you are only here for le porn, but some of us want that before we yank it and story here isn't special. Nothing bad that insults your intelligence but outside of lore that you have to fight to get nothing groundbreaking either.
[Gameplay]
You start the game and pick a class and subclass that effects the skills you can learn, and even has a few hidden ones if you pick the right combination. You should be able to figure out general stats from previous experience, but some of the more 'esoteric' parts are told in a pop up in the main town you can hit at anytime.
There's no leveling up, at least in a way I can notice. My stats might have gone up after the various dungeons of the game, but if they did the game made no fanfare of telling me and due to something else I'll discuss I had no way of knowing if other than equipment I wore my stats went up or not.
Skills are acquired from spending gold at the guild and then going off of your classes stat wheel. You can change you class at any moment, so if your not a fan of say Flame Necromancer you can just left or right click respectfully to change your main class or subclass. Skills can also be granted from cretain pieces of equipment so it's not always a stat race, sometimes you just want to use the helmet because if gives you the Roar skill.
The main combat isn't anything you haven'y played before other than the fact that other than mercenaries (which are fucking expensive), familiars, and risen corpses (both of which are expendable you are alone and you can only hold 1 potion at a time. No mass potion chugging for you, unless you get a lot and equip them before every dungeon encounter.
The difficulty also increases with every dungeon you beat, so you can breeze through the game with difficulty 1 dungeons as the next will manually set it up by 1. You can go back and do any previous dungeon and raise or lower the difficulty as you like but first time is gonna be the hardest.
Finally the monster girls themselves have a gameplay benefit. Not all of them like the Lewd Imps enemies, just the boss monsters you get from beating a dungeon. Some of you are going to be annoyed by this, but we can live with it. Getting intimate with one once their affection is high enough grants a different benefit to you, so your sex isn't just for pleasure it's also sometimes critical to success in the dungeon.
The town girls are just for pleasure though, no benefit other than because you like their quest or ya feel like it.
[Characters]
While the man is a blank slate, the town girls and monster girls each have their own stories you unlock from getting their affection up. From the small goblin who wants to be a overlord to the nervous town alchemist each has a story with different spades. Due to the fact that each goes into depth I won't discuss to much of them, but they are interesting enough if a little generic here and there, but as the saying goes 'every idea has already been done before.'
If there's one character, I do want to complain about it's the fairy herself. She exists as the in-game reason that when you die in the dungeon you resurrect, but other than giving out hints and being annoyed when you try to fuck her she doesn't really have one. Which is a slight shame because I reckon she has a reason to stay around the MC other than boredom because she doesn't seem to like resurrecting us and not in the "I'm so sad you died, thank goodness I saved you way." and more of the "Could you just fucking not." So I don't get why she's still here.
I do admit this could change given we're in 0.41 which implies that were a little under halfway done, but it does feel strange that the fairy companion has so little to her.
[18+ Scense]
Every character gets 1 special scene and then they all share the same bj and fuck scene. A little disappointing but this could be changed later or we could just get a more in the future under different circumstances. The games well enough without them, but it's only natural to want more especially since the special scene is at rank 9 after their romance end so until then it's a bit generic.
And again, all the enemies don't have any scene to them, just their to be slain.
There's also the special gallery available to patrons and I'm not sure if that's special scenes or just all of them you've seen in the game. The Patreon is down for some reason so I couldn't tell you. This is a little frustrating because I would like to see some cgs again, but if it was the special scene case then I can live with it.
[Bugs]
After I beat the succubus as my 3rd, or was it 4th(?), boss the cutscene after didn't play and I had to use the escape key.
[General complaints]
There is no menu to this game other than the first time. The beginning plays and then you immediately go into your current save. Well, I should say your ONLY save as there is multiple slots you can go into. This can be a problem if your on hard as money scales higher or if you want to increase or lower the difficulty as you have no screen for that.
Remember the above mentioned different dialogues, I can't confirm that because I can't go to a previous save or start a new game to go and do the necromancer first to see if that's true at all. Now unless my specific download is like this for some utter reason there is no way to go back.
This puts a damper on things if you want to go to the beginning and try a new class selection. Yes you can change class at the guild at anytime, but sometimes I just want to go back and be a Woodland Warrior.
[Final Verdict]
Should you play Conquest and Desire. Yes I think you should at halfway through development the game is decently fun enough and the project far enough that even if you find at the end you don't like it it's free and you can drop it there. Any complaint I do have currently can be remedied in that time as who knows what a year from now will bring. Perhaps there will be more scenes (be they with enemies of combinations of the girls who knows), a fairy line of quests, and after the final 2 of the seven are beaten maybe even a new threat only unlocked after.
Unfortunately, the patron is down for some reason, as stated above, so I can't see any news on the game barring joining the discord and I don't feel like pestering the dev. Still I give it a 3.6/5 brought down by the complaints but if the above complaints aren't something you care for it's a solid 4.2/5 game even if I wish it had a proper gallery, but I'm gradding as a game not just as fap material.
but hey I'm just some dude.