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🕑 Added 2023-10-19 03:00:03 +0000 UTCHACHINA by hakkaku
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[Summary]
A traveling medicine woman who works to stem the never-ending flood of lethal insects, unravels the dark secret behind their origin...
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Review:
As of writing these lines, since October 7th this game sold over 33,000 copies, rightfully so.
Among all the sub-genres I review, I always find myself getting the most comfy experience with Action titles.
Clicking feels a bit like browsing an interactive gallery, so I'd much rather have full control of the MC's fate. Their virginity will be decided by the power of my reflexes, and my aptitude to successfully dodge yet another unsuspecting tentacle will decide if they must reach the next point butt naked or keep their dignity.
HACHINA is yet another classic H title that sticks to the core of keeping a simple gameplay with erotic outcomes for screwing up.
Control Hachina - a traveling medicine woman with amnesia about her past, whom dedicated her life curing people wherever she goes after the mysterious insects outbreak.
I'd like to point out that the story is certainly one of the game's strong points - unlike many other ACT games, where the story either doesn't exist or is just there to give some context.
🕹️ Other than double jump, basic and special attacks, you don't really get anything else to work with until you'll unlock new skills as you progress. Given the game's straight forward design, you don't need much else either.
It is a straight forward platformer that plays very similarly to Impure Kagura, requiring the player to advance from left to right end to reach your next goal.
However, compared to the latter's over-expanded stages and world map, here everything is denser and shorter. Enemies are literally on top of each other, but still relatively easy to deal with.
There's a lot less focus on skills, which you do unlock at special shrines and by beating bosses, and more focus about a chill almost arcade-like experience themed around erotic bondage and hypnosis.
The gameplay is homogenized, meaning there's no stats grinding or leveling at any point, so basically any part of the experience is "as intended" by the devs.
You do collect currency from defeated enemies, but for the most part it is quite unnecessary, as the materials you'll gather along the way are more than enough to craft recovery items. (even those you'll barely use)
There is one thing that often puts me off any title no matter the genre, H or not - slow burn.
Yes, I'm also a dopamine enjoyer, and if I don't get a new feature, scenery, big plot dump or basically anything that makes me want to pry deeper, then I'll just do something else.
We live at an age where dozens of new games come out every single day, and if you can't reward the player's attention every 5~10 minutes until they get fully hooked, then you in the wrong industry.
So in that sense, HACHINA is like a chocolate box: small, doesn't take long to finish, but full of small bites of pleasure. It's a game with zero padding, straight to the point, new content theme per chapter, as every game in existence should be.
💕 Fair warning: if you're here only for the juicy parts, then keep in mind that this project is
VERY fetish heavy with plenty of bondage and hypnosis as mentioned earlier, leaned towards the supernatural than human on human action. (there are a few Male / Female scenes, and even Futa!)
Remember those erotic films where you never see genitals and everything is implied?
Well, it may not be quite everything, but most of the H scenes show a penetration or caress is happening, but almost never gets down into the dirty close-up details.
I would like to raise my hand as someone that does find erotic content more arousing than explicit, but I'm probably in a very small minority here.
The artwork is beautiful, and detailed enough to provide quality entertainment, but does lose a bit of its sharpness when scaled up at the gallery.
There are no CGs unfortunately, which is remedied by no less than 37 unique scenes that don't reuse the same animations.
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Overall, HACHINA is another "game with lewds", than a straight up lewd game.
Unless you're deep into bondage and hypnosis, then do not play the game only for its H content, as you will be deeply disappointed.
Everyone else that are looking for an erotic action title with satisfying action gameplay and a decent story to get invested at, then make sure to add another great H game to your collection.
Any H connoisseur worth their salt will easily tell you that a polished porn game is a good porn game. The theme / fetish isn't as relevant as nailing the genre's gameplay while organically integrating the lewds.
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HACHINA is available on DLsite.
❤️ For relevant H content of this title you may contact me in DM for referrals.
