Phantasm Memoria v0.3.2.1

I keep thinking about the Linker System. Not the game inside it, the actual hardware. Who the hell designed a full-dive rig that just... drops you into an MMO with zero tutorial? My character materialized in New Heaven and immediately got bodied by a slime because I was staring at some elf's ridiculous chest. Not complaining about the view, but the death penalty stings. The game calls it "meaningful choices" but half my decisions so far have been "do I leer at the catgirl barmaid or the knight captain with thighs that could crush a watermelon." Both. The answer is both, and the affection system tracks that separately for each one, which is either impressive coding or a cry for help. The personality system is where things get weird. Twenty-two types, and I somehow landed on "Hedonistic Dreamer" after picking mostly horny dialogue options and one sincere conversation about loneliness. Makes sense. The sex scenes are custom animated, not that slideshow crap you see in half the eroge on itch.io, and there's this one with a demoness that unlocks if you've been enough of a bastard in dialogue. She calls you out on it mid-scene. "You've been such a selfish little thing." I had to alt-tab and check if my webcam was on. It wasn't. The game just knows. There's a minigame too. Fishing. I'm not joking, there's a fishing minigame in my porn RPG and I've spent forty minutes on it because the mermaid NPC gives you a look if you catch something rare. Haven't unlocked her route yet. The codex fills up with entries about places and people you've... interacted with, and some of those entries get updated with, uh, anatomical notes after certain scenes. Detailed ones. The writing's actually decent when it's not being aggressively thirsty, which is maybe thirty percent of the time. The other seventy percent I'm picking dialogue options that make me sound like I've never spoken to a woman. The difficulty settings add some actual RPG mechanics, leveling and stats and such, but I turned that off because I'm here for the elf tits, not to optimize my build. Though now I'm wondering if certain scenes are gated behind stats and I've locked myself out of content by being lazy. That would be very on-brand for this game, honestly. The whole thing feels like it's judging me, and I respect that.

• meaningful choices
• adult
• eroge
• erotic
• fantasy