～異世界で自分探しのRPG～ そうですよ? 姉は伝説級の勇者でも、僕は一般人なんですが…なにか?

A RPGMaker game about living as the younger brother of the girl who gained the hero class. The character goes about from the starting town into four locations to kill monsters and pick up items, and a farm to grow crops.

The player can also perform alchemy at their home, and make new items that can quicken quest progress. However, the game is poorly balanced, failing to balance an open rpg with traditional jrpg linear questing. The crafting system is one of the few functional gameplay systems in the game that work well, where you have some ability to make new items that are of various use, though the best items are aphrodisiacs that you can make to cause various H scenes to happen.

The art for the characters is nice, nothing too astounding but attractive, and the H scenes are enjoyable. The aphrodisiacs cause the H scene to trigger immediately after crafting the drug, but the aphrodisiac scenes are some of the better in the game; the women that breathed in the aphrodisiac becoming overcome by lust and taking the protagonist to a back alley before having sex. Most of the other scenes are triggered by returning to the town after leaving, with various scenes with the sister occurring when you return home. However the game itself is half-baked and a pain.

The problem is that the free-roaming system is poorly implemented, where the areas you visit feel barren. The power scaling for monsters is too steep, where after you find yourself in a new area the jump in the power level of enemies is quite high, and it seems this is meant to be balanced by using items dropped off by the system as sort of cheats. That feels like an opaque gambling system, as at least one of the weapons is described as “cursed” and you have one chance to use or forfeit a new weapon. That’s not necessarily a bad system, but a poorly bad thought out one that distracts from the main game itself; however the game has a lot of poorly thought out systems. Farming feels pointless as I haven’t figured out what to do with produce besides selling it for a pittance, never even tried fishing as you need to buy a boat for a large sum that I just don’t care to try to grind for, and trapping animals in just pointless gambling. 

The game is simply poorly designed, which takes away from most of the enjoyability of playing it. A standout is the aforementioned aphrodisiac scenes, as that seems the only part where the gameplay does not interfere with the H scenes by making them too inaccessible by poorly balanced gameplay(though some of the drops for ingredients for the later aphrodisiacs are a bit rare, but that’s a fairly reasonable game design choice for a more powerful item). The game is a decent though frustratingly flawed effort.

Game info

～異世界で自分探しのRPG～ そうですよ?姉は伝説級の勇者でも、僕は一般人なんですが…なにか?

"~Found myself in a RPG world~ That’s so? My big sister has the legendary hero class, but I’m a normal person...what?"

Circle: Are!

Release date: 03/07/2021

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