The idea is interesting: You play a woman in a quite ordinary relationship who just moved into the big city and is trying to get her dream job while her partner is working much to provide for her. He is honest and loyal but also not very exciting and now here is the big city with so many not so boring and interesting new people who are interested in her ... forbidden fruits and urging desires deep inside the woman ... temptation is everywhere and it is up to your choices how these will influence the life of this woman. The original name of the game was "Corrupting Jennifer" which imo is far more fitting since this is what the game is really about and depending on your choices Jennifer might end up really f*cked up in the end or get the usual happy end (if you could call it so). The nsfw scenes are really well made and varied and some of the scenes are pretty extreme - but you will only see those anyway if you made the choice to see them so you'll only get what you chose and therefore you should not complain about it ;) The game is not that long IF you only play it once, but I really suggest to replay it again and again with different choices otherwise you'll only see the tip of the iceberg the game has to offer and the iceberg is huge. The game has 13(!) possible endings and some of them are extremely different. I have unlocked 12 endings and played over 20 hours. The amount of choices is amazing and it could be a masterpiece in this regard - but it isn't. Unfortunately some of the branching paths (GOG release 1.0) don't fit together the way they should. I.e. you might call people by their first name before knowing their first name or you might talk about events of past scenes that never happened in the branch you chose and similar things. It does not happen often and given how many branching paths this game has it could be that you will never see those moments at all. I reported all the inconcistensies to the devs so they might be fixed in a future release.
This package includes AGONY and AGONY unrated. While AGONY unrated imo will always be the better version some might consider getting the original AGONY along with it as a bonus. Unfortunately this is not the case. The (original) AGONY version the devs provided to GOG is the very first release they ever made of the game. Since than it has received several patches on other platforms ... but not on GOG. So on GOG the game remains almost unplayable starting with the extremely bad and much too dark lightning. You won't see much and you will constantly die just because the lightnng is conpletely broken and you fall down. I contacted Madmind games and I contacted GOG ... no reply and no update. AGONY unrated does not have the problem of being broken and is perfectly playable. I actually liked playing AGONY unrated but I am also anoyed that a part of the package GOG and Madmind is trying to sell here is simply unusuable even after complaining about it. So I decided to give the whole package a rather bad review in the hope the devs will change theitr minds eventually and update GOG as well.
This game is a walking sim but it is also so much more than your usual walking sim in which you simply walk around and get the story told piece by piece in chronological order until the game ends. In this game you will play a supernatural animal in a spiritual and sureal setting and you are basically free to explore. While exploring you will find artifacts that will tell you parts of the story and you will also find collectibles. The story is not told in a chronological order so it is up to you to figure out how everything fits together. After discovering some bits ofthe story you will get additional abilities. Some will make it easier for you to get around others might also be required to unlock future parts of the story. How this all works in detail would be too much of a spoiler and I really recommend to play this game blind and let yourself surprise what the game has in store for you next. The game has 7 chapters each looking a bit different but every chapter is looking beautiful in its own way. The animal you control is really well animated and it makes fun running and jumping around or using some of the other abilities that you will unlock while playing. Everything is animated with love and it is simply fun to look at it and enjoy the atmosphere and the setting while looking for the next colectible or story event which is also fully voiced and I enoyed the voice over as well. The story itself is really emotional and touching. Add to this the amazing score that fits the game like a glove and makes it even better. This is actually one of the few soundtracks I immediately purchased here on GOG after I've finished the game.
This is a great Metroidvania with intelligent leveldesign, excellent gameplay mechanics (it's rare that you press the wrong button since combat is really intuitive), an amazing and unusual artstyle and non intrusive but atmospheric soundtrack. In addition to the usual loot you will find you'll also have the opportunity to use abilitys of some of the stronger enemys after you have defeated them by gaining hunting points. The game is not easy and I died a lot but the game is also not unfair at all. Whenever you reach a boss you can be sure that shortly before you'll find a shortcut so if you die you won't have to run several screens and fight small enemys just to get to the boss again, to figure him out. That is what infuriated me with Hollow Knight. You also won't need extreme reflexes (which for me was the case in Hollow Knight) to fight the bosses - in most cases you just need to observe them to understand their patterns to figure them out. This is easier said than done and chances are that you will die on each boss at least once, but you will get better with each try, surviving longer and you will learn to understand the boss. Especially later in the game you will also reach some pretty mean platforming sections but again - they ARE doable, this is not the White Palace. During my playthrough of Hollow Knight I often thought "Are they mad? How should this be even possible?" and during my playthrough of Grime I thought "Wow, seems to be difficult. Let's find a way to figure this out.". Also, it might have been different when the game has been released but now you will have lots of checkpoints and lots of fast travel points so no critizism here as well. The lore is extremely mysterious but interesting nonetheless. Last but not least: the devs are working on a free DLC update right now which will add additional areas, boss fights and quality of life features. I highly recommend this game to everybody who like Metroidvanias and a challenge.
In 01/2024 the DRM was removed with a patch so I've now changed my review accordingly (for some reasons I am not allowed to post the link to GOGs own forum here in which this has been confirmed by a user ... great design decisions ... but that's GOG as well).
So far GOG only had released the full versions of the Cryo games - no matter if it was Atlantis I-III or Dracula. Unfortunately this time this is not the case. You get a butchered version (possible mobile port) with hotspots that can't be hidden and therefore destroy immersion. Instead of walking you zoom in and bend over. No optional subtitles in the cutscenes, puzzles from the full version missing. It is just bad and unfortunately I will refund this. Curation clearly was absent when this has been accepted.
First let me tell you that I liked what I was able to play. It is only a tiny part of the complete game which also still has some graphical bugs but it is still atmospheric and enjoyable. So why on earth just 1 star? Because of the devs and how they treat their paying customers. It has been several months now (almost a year) since the game has been updated ... which is pretty bad for a game that is supposed to be "in development". So I decided to contact S.A. Forever Entertainment via Facebook. I received no reply ... I tried again after a few months and still ... silence. The third time was a charm and they actually "replied". Their reply was short: "In the nearest future the game won't receive further updates. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to stay up to date" So finally they told me that the game hasn't been updated for a long time and will not be updated anytime soon. This is what you call "In dev"? If a game is actually still in development I expect the devs to tell their customers actual ETAs for certain milestones. Every kickstarter I participated in does this better. This "no reply" after such an extreme delay shows me how important the customer is to the devs even though said customer was willing to pay for an unfinished game because he trusted them. The thing that really makes me angry is that such behavior will hit other in dev developers as well since future customers might be more hesistant here as well. So if you buy this game be aware that this is only a fraction of intended content which also has bugs. Also, don't expect that this will change any time soon or ever ....
This is a fun arena shooter that runs smoothly and without any bugs. Wolf904 said in his review that it is broken - well, it is not. He does not own it, I do - decide who you want to believe. On the other hand he is wrong when he says that GOG does not do any refunds - obviously he does not even know GOGs refund policy which says: "The updated policy lets you refund a product up to 30 days after purchase, even if it was downloaded, launched, and played. Yes, you read that correctly. :)" The game is no masterpiece by any means but it is totally crazy and gory shooting fun if you don't mind depicted sex. The idea is that in the world of this game you heal when having sex. So you end up having sex while Zombies are approaching you just to heal your teammates. You also have the opportunity to have sex between the waves but since this is also the moment when you could instead pick up new weapons or ammo you'll have to decide, since there's just a limited time between the waves. It is perfectly clear from the dialogues (between the shooting scenes the game is a voiced VN), the shooting scenes, the story itself and everything else that this game is just meant to be fun. It is over the top and the sex scenes are there to spice things up. If you think there's harm in playing a video game that is depicting things you would never do in reality you should think about this the next time you are playing any shooter. I think the game is fun and I'd say the price is okay for this as well. Addition: Unfortunately the game is censored but there's a patch available to change this. If you should not find it, send me a chat :)
