Island of Penance

This game gave me Karryn's Prison vibes so I came in expecting a moral corruption/mindbreak focused game and oh boy was a right to expect that. Even coming in fully prepared, this ended up being way too depressing for me. The best way I can describe this game is if you were to take the most cruel/sadistic scenes from Evenicle, remove the light-hearted elements and make an entire rpgmaker game out of that, this is what you would get. The story is linear so there's no altering the course of events which is good in a sense cause I tend to get the good endings in these sorts of games then never revisit them which means I lose out on most of the H content. As far as gameplay goes, it's your standard turn based rpgmaker game. You explore small dungeons, fight monsters using this elemental resistance system, rinse and repeat. It's mediocre and can get quite grindy towards mid-game. The only interesting part of the gameplay is the battle H system which seems to be a staple in OneOne1 games. The H scenes are well drawn and voice acted but there a bit on the extreme side with a focus on humiliation, mindbreak, monster, birth and gang r*pe. The story is relentlessly depressing and cruel. You play Illumnia, the daughter of the scientist that reintroduced magic to the world but mysteriously died on prison island. You decide to become a guard to find out what happened to him. Within minutes of stepping on the island as a guard you're drugged, gang r*ped then have a "crest" put on your genitals which prevents you from wearing clothes for the rest of your life. The rest of the game is more or less just a series of increasingly cruel abuses and torture you're subjected to and your character lamenting how hellish her existence has become and praying for death. This continues to the end of the game and the arc with your father doesn't really go anywhere. If you're a fan of more bleak/extreme depictions of mindbreak this might scratch your itch, but I just found it depressing.

TL,DR: This game is excessivly violent and I would recommend to new players to play any other game from the developer instead. On the other hand if the other games were to tame for your taste this is a more extreme one. Comparing the game to the later releases like Ideology in Fricition or Samurai Vandalism it feels like not even half a game. It is very short and very linear making it easily beatable in three hours. The music is not activly bad but the later games have some serious bangers and this one just has very generic tracks. The animations are surprisingly solid and the combat system and customization is not terrible either. There is quite a variety of monsters and bosses and it is not as repeatetive as some of its successors. Fights are somewhat challanging and the turn-based combat is pretty competent. It could have been a lighthearted comedy but turned into an excessivly sombre and violent drama. What usually is reserved for the worst of endings gets all checked of in the first half of the game with the protagonist begging for death and getting tortured and revived for eternity in the second of four chapters. Character diversity is also non existent with the heroine being literally the only woman in the game and all male characters being reduced to siluettes in all interactions. Character development is non existent as well with most characters being introduced for one dialogue and killed of in the next ten minutes if they are even lucky enough to be one of the ten named characters. Most npcs are nameless, featureless and unimportant. The literal definition of background characters. The H-Stuff was not to my taste and the game being short also resulted in the scene collection only having 20-ish entries. The disclaimer saying all characters are 18 years old also confuses me every time it is used in games with childbirth. Assuming all characters are born age 18 in this fantasy world no fictional children were harmed.

The game gets stuck at the 1st loading screen and just freezes up.

no mouse, bad keys