PROLOGUE ONLY
Visually interesting, but ultimately shallow in execution - both in gameplay and thematic depth.
What I expected to be some kind of complex portrayal of a demon protagonist - especially a succubus, turns out to be a mostly gratuitous version of "dress up your naked lady and watch her crawl around". Nothing said this louder than the main hub area where there are various (pointless) interactions the player can do that are just there to sneak in some exploitative shots of the succubus for your pleasure. You even get to take your hands off of the controls while these animations loop! Very handy!
Now before you scream at me - yes, sexuality and nudity are not only expected for a game called "Succubus" but are also welcome! But at some point you gotta ask yourself who the real sex demon is, the player character, or the player who whacks it to the main character sprawling around in blood.
If that wasn't enough, the core gameplay is just poor-mans-DOOM2016, especially noticable with the glory kills, which are just as annoying and repetetive as they were in the supposed inspiration - except they now look cheap and you don't really see what's happening during the animations.
Feedback is also lacking, neither for the player recieving damage, nor the player dealing damage feels like it connects. At first I wasn't sure if I even got hit, but it turns out the game is just bad at communicating you getting hit at all. The only thing that feels sort of entertaining (in a hilarious way) is kicking enemies, since they immediately ragdoll and go flying with very bad physics.
The climbing sections are also an insultingly shallow way to try and change up the gameplay. As if these kind of sections weren't bad enough in any kind of action game, here it's just glorified buttonprompts. There is no actual gameplay here, it's just padding to waste your time. Some kind of free-roaming exploration would have been more welcome, especially since the art in the environment design is top notch.
I've glossed over a few things, like the tasteless and needlessly gratuitous way "healing stations" work (by ripping a fetus out of a pregnant woman or ripping off a man's penis and stomping on it), or the cringey one-liners our main protagonist keeps saying (silent protags are better sometimes) since they're more my personal distaste for these kinds of things, but in the end I don't see a lot in this game that I feel is worth investing time in. The moment I opened the armor and weapon menu I rolled my eyes at how superficial the supposed "adjusting your playstyle" was and how little impact that decision really made, except for playing dress-up and choosing which skimpy outfit to wear.
Play this if you really want to look at tits, ass and blood, maybe, but for me it's a hard pass.
Visually interesting, but ultimately shallow in execution - both in gameplay and thematic depth.
What I expected to be some kind of complex portrayal of a demon protagonist - especially a succubus, turns out to be a mostly gratuitous version of "dress up your naked lady and watch her crawl around". Nothing said this louder than the main hub area where there are various (pointless) interactions the player can do that are just there to sneak in some exploitative shots of the succubus for your pleasure. You even get to take your hands off of the controls while these animations loop! Very handy!
Now before you scream at me - yes, sexuality and nudity are not only expected for a game called "Succubus" but are also welcome! But at some point you gotta ask yourself who the real sex demon is, the player character, or the player who whacks it to the main character sprawling around in blood.
If that wasn't enough, the core gameplay is just poor-mans-DOOM2016, especially noticable with the glory kills, which are just as annoying and repetetive as they were in the supposed inspiration - except they now look cheap and you don't really see what's happening during the animations.
Feedback is also lacking, neither for the player recieving damage, nor the player dealing damage feels like it connects. At first I wasn't sure if I even got hit, but it turns out the game is just bad at communicating you getting hit at all. The only thing that feels sort of entertaining (in a hilarious way) is kicking enemies, since they immediately ragdoll and go flying with very bad physics.
The climbing sections are also an insultingly shallow way to try and change up the gameplay. As if these kind of sections weren't bad enough in any kind of action game, here it's just glorified buttonprompts. There is no actual gameplay here, it's just padding to waste your time. Some kind of free-roaming exploration would have been more welcome, especially since the art in the environment design is top notch.
I've glossed over a few things, like the tasteless and needlessly gratuitous way "healing stations" work (by ripping a fetus out of a pregnant woman or ripping off a man's penis and stomping on it), or the cringey one-liners our main protagonist keeps saying (silent protags are better sometimes) since they're more my personal distaste for these kinds of things, but in the end I don't see a lot in this game that I feel is worth investing time in. The moment I opened the armor and weapon menu I rolled my eyes at how superficial the supposed "adjusting your playstyle" was and how little impact that decision really made, except for playing dress-up and choosing which skimpy outfit to wear.
Play this if you really want to look at tits, ass and blood, maybe, but for me it's a hard pass.