Mysteries Abound, with secrets hidden within.
Secrets one hides from themselves, and secrets others hide for themselves.
The question... can you uncover them?
Are you willing to take the risk?
Or is the danger, and self doubt too strong?
Welcome to C.B.M.A. a spiritual sequel to "Desire Guardians"
https://tfgames.site/index.php?module=viewgame&id=2494
This game is a RPG with a heavy story focus, mainly delving into the Sci-fi and Mystery generes, as you go into the CBMA to look into the dissapearance of your sister... and potentially discover a lot more about the secrets hiding both in the school... and in oneself.
Similar to Desire Guardians, the game is based around a daily loop system, where the player on a daily delves into dungeons to explore unique, corrupted websites that function as the game's dungeons, while afterwords spending time with your party members.
However, to improve on Desire Guardians, this game now has a a larger, revolving party system, and more of a story focus from the beginning of development, allowing for much earlier story and character progression.
So, are you prepared to face the dangers the internet has to offer? Come on in, and see for yourself!
The year is 3050
Humanity's tech has evolved over the years, allowing for what should've been a prosperous future for all, inan age where public global communications have been a standard for over a millenium, especially as humanity was slowly coming into contact and comradarie with races beyond the stars.
However, all that changed, when the K viruses came.
Dangerous, sentient, BDSM influenced computer viruses that directly infected online websites, hypnotizing those who visited them into mindless thralls without the ability to resist ingrained suggestions.
The viruses origin was unknown, outside of the fact that they came from beyond the stars. Further beyond the planets who have become our allies.
The viruses' sentient nature made it so that firewalls and standard computer security proved infeffective. They had to be fought directly within cyberspace to be dealt with.
As such, 2 schools were created. The Cyberspace Battle Boys Academy... and the Cyberspeace Battle Maidens Academy, or the CBBA/CBMA for short.
These academies trained a new generation of students to enter the internet directly, facing off with the K viruses and keeping our communication channels safe.
This... is the story of one student at the CBMA... who was in for the adventure that would define their life forever.
V1: Initial release, 5 dungeons, 5 party memberss, a fully set up loop system, the first stealth segment, and an established campus hub world to explore.
V2: A new dungeon. (Hydrosian Tourism Burough), A New Party Member (Azure), First After Class events for Mimi, Akari and Azure
V3: A new dungeon sequence (CBBA), A new party member (Heather), New after work events for Heather and Kiri.
V4: A new party member (Kira), The arena has now been set up, along with it's first bracket, the butterfly cup, New after work events for Kira and Akari
V5: A new Party member (Melody), A new dungeon (The Infected Interwebs), The Mirror addressing transformations has been added, New after class events for Melody and Angel
V6: 2 new pieces of progression to the nightime events, Added a way to skip to class from the bedroom after the CBBA event, Added a new area of the campus, the "Recreational area", Added the gym for stat upgrades, Added a "Secret Shop" only open in the mornings, allowing players to not only sell items and gear they no longer want, but also bring back viruses early, New after class events for Rachel and Angel.
V7: A new Dungeon (Toys Ahoy), New After work events for Kira & Melody, A TF has been added to the pimp dungeon, only accessible after beating the hospital dungeon, Plus a... little suprise I don't want to spoil for anyone who has 13 or more TF's.
V8: A new dungeon (Jubilant Jungle), New After class events for Akari and Mimi, major bugfixes
V9: A new dungeon (Bimbotique), New After Class events for Angel and Mimi
V10: (Patreon) A new storyline event. (Unlocked by beating Toys Ahoy, Jubilant Jungle and the Bimbotique), New after work event for Akari, New After work event for Angel. Major reduction in file size.
So far, so good with what you have.
I playesd it all the way to the Mermaid boss where it prompty crashed on me the moment I defeated them.
The Night & VR parts seem the only places fleshed out so far, but the game has good potential.
A one keep an eye on.
Played desire guardians and I saw from creators discord that this will become a spiritual remake or sucessor to that game.
If so I have good hopes for this one and I really hope it will become the good game I think it can be.
I like the style, the slow corruption. If you played magical camp, it is similar to how you absorb powers to get abilities. It´s a decent system and I like if it becomes optional like Magical Camp and if you choose to get more powers you get easier battles, but other areas of gameplay change.
Right now the game is quite short and you will quickly run out of gameplay. But I will be keeping an eye out for future updates.
Good: Setting, transformations.
Neutral: Combat, its rpg maker, and nothing special is done to change up the basics.
Bad: Certain visuals need updates. The backgrounds of the schoolyard is very barebones, not much to interact with yet. Hope the UI gets iterated on and you do something interesting with the RPG maker combats. Hordes of enemies that are best if you sicksack around to get to the boss is not my idea of good gameplay :)
crashing all the time after playing for awhile, something is wrong with the exe
Very similar to "Desire Guardians" by the same author, while there is no connection between the settings I'd play that first if you haven't, because gameplay wise they have a lot in common, and DG is already completed. Like the other review said, right now it feels very bare bones, the boss drops don't TF you (yet). As of now I don't see much sense in the first phase of the day, so maybe add an option to "Go to class instantly" next to your bed, so you don't have to walk the same way each day to class, and deactivate the option only for those days where there will be an actual event taking place before class, because walking the same path again and again without anything happening makes the game feel repetitious.
Only judging by what is on offer right here I'd normally be more cynical, but given the authors track record of having already completed a game of considerable length and quality I have high hopes for this.
As RPGs go, it's pretty solid. If you know how to do the slightest bit more than just mash Attack over and over (heal your party, buff your stats if you have nothing better to do, use stronger special attacks when you have the resources for them), you shouldn't have trouble with the battles. As a TF game, it's currently lackluster, but there's great potential. Currently, the TFs available seem to have no effect on the main character, except in terms of combat stats and skills. A few tweaks to their dialogue and avatar over time would go a long way toward improving the experience.
Losing in combat results in bad end scenes with TFs against bosses, but not against normal enemies; I recommend saving before entering boss rooms and checking out each scene once. A good feature of this game is, if you beat a boss, they'll be back after a few in-game days, so you can still go back and see their scene, recollect their unique drops that are useful for mental TFs and crafting, etc.
Unfortunately, the game crashed and closed right after Kiri's After School Event. "Fortunately", I completely missed that event until after seeing all of the currently available main story content, becuase I assumed she was just another of the generic student sprites you can't yet interact with on campus.
Final verdict: the game is very incomplete, but has great potential; come back in a few updates and try it!
