RPGM - Sword Art Online: The Trap of Breath Concealed Magic [Part 2 v0.75] [Fujino]

I am a big fan of their previous games, so it's unfortunate that I feel I have to rate it this low, but I have not been looking forward to updates for a while now and thinking about it, there's a number of things that bother me.

- The story - the pacing feels... off. There's very little tension. It can't all be H scenes obviously, but the build up needs to be meaningful. I just drudged through the "Date Section" of the latest update and it felt phoned in and entirely predictable. And every event feels like this. I just can't get invested. There's endless padding/walking around that's just uninteresting.

- Playing the game - it's cumbersome. You rarely know exactly where to go. "Date in the Commercial District"... ok. You walk around aimlessly until the game decides you have ticked off all (unmarked) events. Fun. Then every conversation.is.broken.up.by.the.stupid.emoji.RPGM.things.breaking.up.every.stream.of.thought.or.cohesion. You can't skip (largely shallow) conversations well and even if you don't, you have to wait every few seconds for the same stupid emojis to play out. It adds nothing and makes it a pain to watch.

-Kirito - he is such an idiot that the love story makes less and less sense as the story progresses.

- Bugs, bugs, bugs - crashes, stuck screens, perk list that won't update. On that note the whole status UI seems pointless since it doesn't affect anything.

I could write more... but suffice to say that playing feels like a chore right now.

first part was a masterpiece, but the later updates were dogshit. i hate how it's going towards the corruption/pregnancy route. fuck this shit, this is gonna end like those mediocre ntr games where mc deliberately ends into cuckolding lmao. but it was good in the first part, 2 stars for that yo

Review updated (Dez/2024): Based on Part 1 (Complete) and Part 2 (v0.65)

*Story, Characters and Dialogues: 4/5
*Art, Renders and Animations: 5/5
*Sex scenes quality and quantity: 5/5
*Gameplay: 3.5/5
*Bugs and technical state of the game: 3/5

-A very good and kinky story for NTR/Corruption fans. With really great art and sex scenes!

-Gameplay wise, there's some unnecessary walking and searching for events in the map, but nothing too absurd... It's also, sometimes, a bit confusing to make some choices or search for some of the side characters scenes. (For example: A few scenes were available for me in the gallery, but I have no clue how did I miss them while playing). But this does not happen for the main heroine part of the game, because everything is quite straightforward with Asuna's story.

-Technical issues: A lot of crashes on Part 1. At least there's an Auto Save function to make it less annoying, but be ready to F5 a lot. I had considerably fewer crashes playing Part 2, but had some frame drop problems in some scenes involving the "side dialogue" feature. (Having a good/modern CPU and installing the game in a SSD may help.)

Final Score: 4/5

Honestly, I've only played the part 1 but I love this game. So fleshed out and a good pace, playing on her nice nature. I would like it if he affected her psyche more, breaking her mentally before going all the way. But amazing job!

I give it 2 stars all because Artysle is nice and some scenes are really good but the overall writing/characters are just so poor to me.

I know it's just an NTR game so some plot point is needed in the corruption process but many reviews talk about good writing/plot/character made me feel pretty disappointed.

(*below are more personal opinions*)
It made me tired and bored instead of aroused because of some flaws I already said above.

I really don't want to be rude to people but I feel disappointed. Not just from the game itself but from people who praised it too highly with the word "good writing/plot"

I like the plot line. But the OMC not so much. The problem is all OMC design remain generic for start to end. OMC can improve himself to attract FMC to give realism feel. You don't expecting FMC only attract to OMC magnum. Example: OMC begun to buff up off screen or hinting in dialogue, go to gym etc. This also give MC (FMC boyfriend) jealous & a red flag as FMC spending more time with OMC. This leading to FMC infidelity infidelity exposed unless MC's a retard.

Writing: 7/10
Imagery: 8/10
Gameplay: 6/10
Kinks: 7/10
Overall: 8/10

Had me in the first half, but then Part 2 just drops the ball.

Going to break this into 2 parts because of just how different the part 1 and part 2 directions go, so let's start with the good.

Part 1's focus on many in-game events involving combat, Kirito being distracted in the heat of battle, Inoda's invisibility skill, and the fact Inoda seemed to be a devious mastermind of trickery and subterfuge. He could pull the wool over Kirito's eyes and at the same time worm his way under Asuna's skin (or panties if you will) so slyly, it was great!

The animation was fun and I do enjoy the use of Kokaitsu models in the cutscenes, something about them just lends to the NTR vibe.

The progression was also fantastic, with a bunch of NTR events involving and not involving Kirito, where you could stumble across a random woman being pounded by a street thug who appears to be a reference to another game's characters but also find Asuna or another female acquaintance being railed just out of view as to leave Kirito oblivious.

Shadow play, mind control, trickery, implied sex, stealth sex, sleep sex, this had it all! I was loving it!

And then, Part 2 came along.

Writing: 6/10
Imagery: 8/10
Gameplay: 5/10
Kinks: 6/10
Overall: 6/10

Ditching the more open world vibe and going with a far more linear and heavy story centric path, the NTR becomes, as I like to put it, railroaded. You can't really miss any events unless you are purposely avoiding clicking on the heart symbols or inspecting the weird noises, and the choices become few and far between making Kirito seem less like an oblivious warrior and more of a hapless coward. Which breaks my immersion, since the Kirito I knew was anything but.

On top of that, Inoda, the mastermind, suddenly experiences a Metroiding and loses all his clout with Asuna. He was railing her in bed and had her slobbering his poll, but all the sudden she's back to giving him the shaft and Inoda himself is a blundering idiot who lets his dick do all the talking. Now it's Liz who has become the mastermind, with Inoda seemingly acting like an underling taking scraps from their master. Boo! Boo I say!

And the animations are very slimmed down, with the number of random sexual acts you can find being sprinkled in along the annoyingly long story driven paths, leaving my jerking hand high and dry. I come to fap, not to read a novel about Kirito's theory on how to fully integrate the human mind into the game. Sheesh.

Normally I don't review things unless I finish them, but when I hit the "fetch me a coffee Kirito" mission from the teacher, I was like "Oh gee, bet nothing untoward will happen to Asuna in the time I'm gone." It was so obvious, I could see the writing on the wall from a mile away. So I quit, I can't handle this dragging out anymore.

You fail to make a good NTR, when you have me wanting to root for the cuck.

This is the best game in the NTR genre in my opinion. Even in the pause menu, you can see what happens to the main character if she is not around.. The only thing I regret is that I didn't wait for her to come out completely to play the final version. There would be more such games with good and most importantly not boring gameplay and plot.. The game keeps you in suspense all the time. Just the best, I hope the author will finish it soon, I will even be glad of the third part!!

This is my first review in this site so it might not be relevant.

Part 1 was great NTR CGs, gameplay is just unlocking type scenes. Story it's sad to say very no consistent.

Part 2 was great NTR CGs, gameplay is not likable. I like the Anxiety Meter makes you wander around the map and look for sub events. The problem is what is the point of the Anxiety meter if you are forced to progress linearly. In my opinion it would be great to have some freedom.

My suggestion is make that players can move freely and not forced interaction. Like not make the player tied by the time. Let the players play on there own pace of the events. This will also give you alot of NTR moments as this make Inoda makes move on Asuna while the player are busy exploring the world. Now this will make the status camera relevant, and will make alot of anxiety producing moments in the story. Probably make it so that while Inoda makes move Asuna lust go up. Then when lust is high enough the Asuna fucking happens. right not the Status cam, Lust Counter, Anxiety Meter. Is too useless.

This might change in the future great work. Will the try the next update.

FIRST PART is ★ ★ ★ ★ for me. Acceptable levels of grind and consistent, satisfying progress in the corruption of the main heroine ("Asuna", who you could rename in this Part 1). And a unique twist to the game engine.

SECOND PART is a single ★ for me. It kicks off as an ambitious "reboot" of Part 1 by adding a ton of new mechanics, reworking the assets, and map. Good, right? Wrong . Here more is less, and much more is much more less. After 2 HOURS only seeing a brief boob fondling cutscene between two gals in a tub is Omega-level grinding.

I checked out of the experience altogether (rare in my case). I downloaded the "Save" for Part 2 to see the animations. There's some good stuff in there, but the game and character cast now feels bloated and slow (like happens to many promising games here in this platform - cough... Cyberslayers... cough... Twisted Memories... cough cough....) You've been warned

Absolutely a fantastic game, but the developer ruins it trying to make it more than it is. The scenes are above average, the dialog is tolerable (which for a porn game is a win), the plot is cliche but a cliche well done.

Now the game ruins it by the pacing of everything, and how long it takes. I get it, he is trying to build tension and give a background and reason to make it more enticing, but its way way way too long, you can easily spend 7h without getting to the "good" part of the game in the seccond part, and that for me is unnaceptable. He also adds a lot of different mechanics and severely underultilise them, making the game feel bloated.

Not to mention that when things start happening in this game, it breaks everything he was building, because instead of moving too slowly, things move in lightspeed.

A amazing game ruined by pretentiousness.

Genuinely baffled to see all the 5*s. Sure if you based 100% of your rating on the art/animations I can see that being the case, but how do you guys just ignore the boring as hell gameplay, awful character interactions , god awful character development, and the awful writing? I'm being serious when I say you could find someone doing those four things better in a A/B/O fanfic on Wattpad. That shouldn't even be possible but here we are.

The epitome of "Just unlock and watch the gallery instead".

My heart always bump when I know something happen with Asuna, but it felt crazy to me because I really want to know what really happen.
Too bad Kirito is clueless.
This game is top tier to my personal. I play the first part only for the sex scene but in the second one, I really took a time to read the text. The second one absolutely what I really looking into. Hope this game will continue.

10/10 NTR
10/10 Feel bad for Kirito

Art: 10/10 top tier
Story: 10/10 Worth it to play if you like NTR, but I felt bad ko Kirito
Sex scenes: 10/10 damn Inoda bang Asuna like crazy!!!

This game is one the best game you could ever find here, especially you are NTR fan and likes RPGM, I totally recommend this.

I liked the game, but I don't understand why to make the main character of the anime a playable character, it would be better to have an Inode acting right away, in my opinion it was more interesting to perform tasks to debauch Asuna and other presages of girls. So it would be possible to come up with more scenes of Inode and Asuna, a task where we develop a plan for corrupting Asuna for Inode, and Kirito is so purely a background puppet. as an example, it would be great and I hope such a scene will be work-related when Kirito goes to a cafe to get a breakfast for Asuna, returns to work and meets Inode there, he says that Krito has a gift for Assuna, and Krito does not have access to the upper floor and he gives him Inode that betrayed or that offers and Inode with Asuna is a new picaresque scene at work, well, something like that And it would also be good to combine the first and second parts into one game and optimize the plot, but how strange it turns out in the first part, Inode slept with Asuna, but from the second part we learn that all relations between them collapsed, returning to the starting point, so, in the end, in the current update the relationship between them is still not developing any further than in the first part.

The animation quality is top-tier, and the sync stats page is very well-made. It reminds me of the NTR Loop Japanese game. Overall, I’m impressed with the attention to detail and the seamless experience.

Very good game, very well written. I wonder where it will go.
I would say it is the best NTR game I've played, the only game where I didn't skip most of the dialogue.
I am an old fan of this series and I approve of this Asuna. Some people may not understand certain conflicts within the heroine's heart, and others may complain the slow progression. I think I like the pace so far. Kirito has to be nerfed in some aspects and other things about Asuna exaggerated in order for NTR to happen, I understand. I've played the previous games this author made (also old fan of Fate series), and I see him improve his writing. For me, those NTR games where the protagonist is quickly cucked (the typical ones that don't stand a chance) doesn't get to me. I want to see fights and drama, twists and turns, plots and conspiricies, especially those delicate moments are the most interesting to me.
If I were to say a few things to improve upon, 1. offering clearer guidances as to what the protagonist should do 2. improve graphics by using Honey Come to make the CGs 3. add choices that may lead to different routes (NTR vs. NTRS ending, lesbian route?) 4. add in more scenes of Asuna swaying and delicate moments between her and Kirito, not just her doubting infidelity. Could add in minute details here and there about the true state of the relationship. Maybe consider making Inoda more handsome, smarter and even outperforming Kirito at some moment later. If Fujino could read my comment, thank you very much for the game. I may pay you when I have the money.

My little opinion on the game:

Overall I found the game good. The graphic style of the game is really worked (especially the second part) and the gameplay remains pleasant to play.

However, I found that the game was seriously lacking in control. The game would have been more enjoyable with the choice of Asuna's partner or several routes and the possibility of cockblocking certain characters. Sometimes we feel like our character is quite stupid. In fact, the game only follows a forced story and the only possibility of control is on the level of "consciousness" of Kirito in relation to the surrounding events.

The fact that these are Koikatsu scenes is not disturbing and even more enjoyable than a game with PNGs and no animation. Although some scenes are purchasable scenes (Hongcha for example) the author masters the Chara Studio and managed not to make the scenes he made look "cheap".

The affection system is also a bit useless or at least useless as it stands. Make sure it has an impact on Asuna's behavior towards Kirito. The possibility of doing actions that lower Asuna's love for Kirito (like catching him observing an erotic scene for example) which unlocks certain events or ntr scenes.
Because I remind you that Asuna gives in too easily to Inoda which is justified too easily by the plot. (Even if you feel indebted to a person, pretending to be a girlfriend and performing sexual services like that is not justified)

Inoda is also a bit poorly written. Initially in the first part I thought he was a great manipulator who had planned his entire relationship with Asuna. But the second part just showed me that he was just really lucky.
What is also annoying is the gap between the first and second parts. The second part is really better worked. But especially with regard to relationships, it's different.

After several hours of the first part Inoda had finally managed to sleep with Asuna (irl) but we learn from the second part that the whole relationship between the two collapsed, returning to the starting point so that in the end on the update Currently, the relationship between the two has still not evolved any more than in the first part.
The second part would have been better if it had been a remake of the first part with the sequel offered by the game currently.

Special mention to Alice's route which I really like. But overall the game is really good for its genre. I hope future updates will surprise me
Try other games based on Koikatsu, it's amazing how low the level is.

CG: Fap-tastic. Model are good, Animated and not awkward.

Game: VN Style. [Part 1] is shorter but more 'action/battle' phase which is also quite linear, but the build-up to "unseen" ntr action is superb. [Part 2] however STARTED very slow, as of v0.40, you have choice to unlock gallery to check your taste, then jump back to 'Play' it for once.

It’s slow corruption. A shame in this case, since many unnecessary scenes could be established by just a few sentences instead (considering MC’s naiveness and the cliché elements giving the permission to do whatever). I guess the author treats corruption as a puzzle justifying the power dynamics with plenty of back and forth; you may notice it in the details. Yet it still makes the scenes more complicated than they actually are. As a consequence, characters appear as outdoing one another and themselves through “logic” way too much, so, while the author at least follows his concept of corruption, he misses out on a more overall harmonic approach.

Nevertheless, you wait longer, highlighting the sex scenes. It even reminds me of the grind you gotta do in Asian MMOs.
Speaking of which, before this game, I believed RPGMaker games to be a really bad choice for erotism. Yet here, sexual actions are sometimes flashing in while MC is being distracted by something else (even during combat) and half of the setting as an online video game is an exciting idea in itself, so much so it tricks you a bit into believing you’re in an actual one by RPGMaker. Lol.

I think the sex descriptions are sparse and pretty good. In addition, the few climactic scenes are presented in an almost poetic way.
MC is also getting two admirers, which uplifts the situation and perhaps makes your psyche open up more.

Unfortunately, interesting ideas aren’t brought up again so far (example: mysterious footages received; the according S.O.), and I think even a side character needs some form of emotional entanglement with the player before corruption or scene reviews, otherwise, it's rather irrelevant.
A few events get stuck, most often because of your activating position. On top of that, Part 2 crashes frequently. Slot 5 is a good autosave.