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#182 (Patreon)

Published:

2023-09-24 05:58:36

Imported:

2023-09

Content

AI-deal-Rays by Riez-ON

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[Summary]

Become the owner of the female android "AI-deal", and prepare for high-stakes drama and
high-speed action.

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Review:

Pro tip: No matter how much money you throw at the screen, it won't release a game faster. I can safely say from a scientific experimentation. Multiple times.

I've already heard before that 2023 is the BEST year the gaming scene has experienced, but is it possible that we have also reached the golden year of H gaming?

Excuse me for the language, but what the actual f*** is this unreasonable high level of quality for a game about screwing and battling with cute anime waifus?

Could it be humanity's payoff from COVID? were devs who already crunch coding to sleepless nights, have been hyper-focused at creating masterpieces when forced to stay at home?

I have no reasonable explanation, and you know what? it doesn't really matter.

What does matter is that we got in our hands a fresh release of nothing less than a
AAA H project.
This time from the well established Riez-On, who knew exactly what they were doing, given their past ACT project experience.

So our game today is called AI-deal-Rays, or "Ideal Rays" if you want:
📖 The year is 2200, and you're some salary man obsessed with androids, but too poor to afford one. As luck would have it, your place is under terror attack that knocks you off close to a mysterious pod that happened to store the deadliest and cutest waifu android on the planet.

You become her owner after a short contact, and with your smartphone ("""smart terminal""") you can control her actions to fend off the attacks.

The game soon throws you into a tutorial fight, which takes place in a 3D air space, but the actual fighting occurs on an invisible surface where everyone are flying at the same altitude.

🕹️ Although it may give a deep first impression, the gameplay is rather simple:

- 360 movement.
- Shoot from long range, melee from short range.
- Use same button for an offensive dash from a distance, to either attack or close a gap.
- Dodge with a tap, block while holding, also attack cancel and side-step behind the enemy.
- Ultimate move when the bar is full (Range / Melee / AoE Melee)
- Counter move, used the same way as ultimate when being attacked. (a parry more or less)

You might ask yourself "that's actually a lot more than what a lot of basic action games offer", and while you're not quite wrong, in reality I would summarize combat with:
Dash into enemy -> Melee while spamming counter (definitely needs a cooldown) -> big damage, rinse / repeat.

In a sense that's totally acceptable, given that your other hand is free to write academic reports while you're playing.
It's also acceptable because the combat is flashy as hell, and is absolutely excusable being more about fluff when playing a game full of lewd and anime tropes.

And lets face it - people would rather get hard before the H game they're playing.

But how can the honest gamer get hard without context given to these beautiful models?
The story is immersive enough, that even I who usually skips such things, was drawn into its charm and let it play out. N-not that I could anyway... since dialogue can't be fast forwarded, only completely skipped.

Decent plot aside, I'd like to dedicate a paragraph to the ABSOLUTE BANGER OST!!! 🎵
Like holy shit, there may not be a lot of tracks, but what we do have really sets the mood and hype to the coming events and battles.
I've checked out their Soundcloud, and all I can say is that you won't get disappointed.

AI-deal also lets you customize your android a bit by giving her different color schemes for different parts of her body and armor.
You can also remove pieces completely (can't battle naked though), during events you can strip down entirely, or change to one of the available themed attires.

Further customization exists in the form of equipment. I phrased it that way because all of your new gear is straight upgrades (acquired through story progression), so any manual changes will be straight downgrades, basically making the whole procedure deciding what kind of flashy moves you'd like to see when executing the same actions, but with less or more damage.

💕 After all was said and done, what about that waifu plot?

Well, before every mission (or after the first one) you'll enter an event mode where you can interact with AI-deal intellectually or sexually.
All of the consensual scenes in the game are vanilla, plus Christian style censored genitals dyed in pure white, as if the holy spirit of god is possessing your dick.

In addition, defeat scenes occur when losing a battle, where AI-deal and sometimes the male MC are getting assaulted. Sort of a situation of "what if".
Personally I found those to be more entertaining, as they generally involve a more
fetish oriented content, given their more aggressive nature.

The scenes are nice, plentiful and varied, but don't come expecting anything that will knock your socks off.
I'd even go as far as saying that if you plan to buy this game mainly for lewds, then there are better options out there.

AI-deal is what I'd call a "full package" - all the pieces work in harmony to create a complete
18+ experience. Even the combat has lewd grabs in it, along with all the female characters always being in skimpy outfits, so any sexy parts never come across as detached from the gameplay.

Thankfully all H scenes are unlocked when clearing a stage, so there's no need to sandbag yourself against enemies.
The gallery lets you access scenes relevant to their location, rather than each individual scene by itself. Not the biggest fan of that system because of loading times, but given the game's "asset demanding" nature, it's understandable.

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Overall, AI-deal-Rays is one of the most incredible H games that came out this year.
It's an absolute eye candy with amazing OST and Fully voice acted females.
A game to get invested at, rather than looking for a quick fix, as focusing on the latter will do a total disservice to the entire experience.

Imagine playing the Witcher just to watch Geralt screwing a bunch of hookers and Triss.
Not saying AI-deal comes anywhere close to the Witcher's quality, or the different reasons to buy either of the games to begin with, but you get idea.

It is a real game with plenty of lewd elements, but still an entertaining game with multiple facets before it is porn.

Had a blast playing it, and so should you if quality H gaming is what you're after.