The (remake of the) introduction to the world of Rance is interesting, with a item reserve system that operates on cooldowns you have to usually pick and choose what you're going to use when you can't simply nuke your way out of it. The issue comes with how grindy it can get in the mid-to-late game, even if you chose your perks optimally. Gold is scarce and enemies give you little EXP, and an extra go to hell to the enemy that actively steals your EXP each turn in a fight and you get back less than you lost.

The story features Rance at his most asshole level, being cartoonishly cruel (including beating up a dog) and the majority of the H scenes in this game being rape or heavily imposing sex as a reward that the girls just go with (followed by half of the girls falling in love with him after). If you keep him under control, Rance only has sex 7 times at minimum in this game, with 6 of them being rape, the game celebrating 4 of them. "Okay so he may be a serial rapist but like at least he's not a serial rapist murderer" is some whack ass logic but this is an H game so y'know don't worry about it.

Some navigation is confusing but most of it made sense, and there are plenty of sidequests you can do to extend the game's length, some going really outside the box to trigger. I do wish most of them had more rewards beyond H scenes. They're good for completionism and if you're into those, but not much else.

You can't keep Sill in glasses the entire game. That is a crime.

Reviewed on Dec 17, 2023


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