First off, Evenicle is actually a pretty good JRPG in its own right. I really enjoyed the story about a world following a flawed religion, and seeing the resulting corruption when an entire group starts rejecting its ways. It has really cool characters and cutscenes, and this was actually my favorite aspect of the game, even a hardcore RPG fan will enjoy it. Then...there's the age-restricted side of the game. Let's just say, this isn't a dating sim with soft sex scenes...this is straight up hentai, and pretty hardcore at that. And actually, this makes the sex part a lot less hot, and a lot more extreme WTF. Because if a girl getting ganged up on by a bunch of elephant monsters is your definition of hot, then you're probably beyond help, and everything is like that. It's so over the top that my main reactions were "WTF did I just watch" or laughing my ass of at how far they're willing to go. So if you're looking for an erotic game, let's just say "erotic" isn't the word I'd use for this nonsense xD And lastly, I need to address the snowflakery in some comments about rape. The game doesn't condone rape in any way, rape scenes are only done by the villains, and in fact them being rapists is the reason why you're fighting them in the first place. So about the content warning, you will definitely see every depraved form of sex on the planet in this game, however if you're offended by seeing villains rape a girl before you kick their butt (there's nothing else than that), then you should probably go back to tumblr.
I hate to be that guy, but somebody needs to write a negative review about MOO. Should you buy or play it? Yes. Should you swoon over this game as the best 4X ever even today? Please. Main issues (MOO1 oriented) : - Boring defensive battles where nothing happens. Combat is based off the notoriously broken d100 system : if you have high defense and/or high shields (very easy to do), you take no damage. So you get 5 minute "battles" where both sides deal zero damage. - Random events completely dictate the game. Early game is purely RNG based because of the planets you get. Random events "industrial accident" and "depleted minerals" can turn your best planet worthless forever. You can lose the game on bad RNG at the council every 25 years because a bunch of factions you never met voted for a faction you never met. - Spiteful AI. The AI doesn't try to win, the AI tries to make the player lose, whatever the costs. Seen clearly at the galactic council when a faction you are at war with votes for your rival instead of abstaining just to make you lose, literally making its own faction lose with that choice. - Diplomacy abusing AI. The AI can attack and even conquer entire planets without declaring war. So every single AI faction attacks the player on sight, which is clearly not what they do with other AIs. If the AI behaved the same way towards other AIs which in turn reacted the way they react to human attacks by instantly declaring war, AI factions would be constantly at war with each other, which is clearly not the case. - Hit and run is broken. In MOO, you can flee a battle with your entire army WITHOUT ANY PENALTY WHATSOEVER. Obviously abusable to a stupid level. - Orion is irrelevant. You can only beat the guardian once it's so late in the game that it doesn't matter anymore. Experienced players just ignore it. From someone who didn't grow up with it, if you judge it by today's standards, it just feels in like a really broken precursor to Heroes of Might and Magic, not the ultimate 4X experience.
