Others - Lordling of Hearts [v0.0.5] [Nranchs]

Another game by Nranchs, creator of the HTML game Rogschard? Well this is a welcomed surprise!


It's normally bad to rate a game on potential. It artificially inflates the ratings of games that often aren't good and/or get abandoned by developers. Though given that this is by the same developer of Rogschard I will make an exception cause I know they can make good games.

The adaption from HTML to Godot is really well done. The UI is very similar in design to Rogschard and only really differs in the artwork and minor functionality changes (different engines with different ways of programming after all, the code can't be ported 1 for 1. Plus being an early release without all the issues ironed out). The map keeps the same grid movement as well, but with actual graphics rather than icons. To add onto this the inclusion of animation just makes this feel like Nranchs has improved their skills a lot since the days of Rogschard. None of this uses BDCC as a base as well, which is nice.

That being said, there's still a long way to go. If planning on playing this game at the time of this being posted don't expect a whole lot. It's still in the early builds after all. On top of that character customization isn't as expressive as Rogschard, with less races to choose of. And in terms of gameplay, it seems that this is gonna be using the map fight design that later Rogschard releases experimented with rather than the older fighting mechanics where you directly entered combat with the enemy.

Great Details. Well animated Art. Fun Mechanics.
And what seems to be, an good Base to build up upon.
During the Demo, i did not experienced any issues.
Artstyle is over the complete release in the same tone
no "Placeholder" or anything
Even Storywise, you get quiet a lot with release 0.0.3

I actually quite like this game, The overworld map is rather charming and I quite like the setting and the story, but I wish that combat and inventory navigation were relegated to buttons instead of menus. As it stands right now combat is a lot of menu navigation, but that, in my opinion, is a minor issue.

I like the overall presentation of this game but it has lots of problems with unnecessary menuing which really muddles up the experience.

Game shouldn't ask you who you want to attack when there's only a single enemy to attack. It should also let you click on the enemy you want to attack instead of opening a menu to ask you.

If a door isn't locked I shouldn't have to inspect it to open it.

There should be a "pick up everything" option when looting. IMO currency should be automatically picked up when checking containers.

There's a bunch of blank space bellow the character portrait that could be used to host buttons for saving / loading, accessing the inventory, etc.

I hope we get some sort of change to these cumbersome mechanics, and of course, more erotic content in a future update.

V0.0.3. The game has potential.

I like that there is an emphasis on impregnation mechanics right from the start.
The gameplay is made more tedious by the menus constantly closing, but I am hopeful this will be improved at some point, this is still an early version.

Concept is great but the execution is god damn insufferable.

Fighting enemies is a pain when you have to navigate menu-hell to use any spells or items and looting items is the same.

The gallery is near useless since it doesn't auto unlock scenes you've already seen if you've rolled back the save, want to see a bosses H-scenes? Make a save> Lose to the boss> Watch the scenes> Revert save to beat the boss> your gallery is now empty.

I had to reload multiple times as to not spend absurd amounts of time fighting all the enemies again as they respawn after you leave a few rooms, bosses also wont respawn so you softlock yourself out of all those H-scenes if you don't lose to them. AKA Win to Lose!

Also your Character in H-Scenes is just an obnoxious purple blobish silhouette, why even let us create a character at that point?

Do not recommend. >:L

Opens with a bunch of pronoun selection, unfinished as hell, and generally not a good start with tons of missing features and no hotkeys, the combat is a mess of opening a menu and selecting which thing you are attacking each time