Elrit Clover is a 2.5D Puzzle-Platformer that starts us off with our protagonist and her sister in shackles to be taken into slavery. There is much more lore to explain their current situation you can find within the store page, but there is no mention of it in-game. In any case, it doesn’t take long for the poorly maintained roads to violently rock the wagon with every pothole, during which your sister comes up with a plan. Jump out of the wagon during the next pothole and look for help. Luckily for us both, this impromptu idea goes off without a hitch, allowing us to trek through the wilderness in search of any friendly face willing to lend a hand.
Less lucky for us is the fact that most people you encounter couldn’t care less about your predicament. They see a lone, defenseless girl far from civilization and plan to bury their meat pole into your character if they can get their hands on you. There is no attack button or way to defend ourselves aside from running and jumping out of reach, or hiding in the few stealth sections. It, for the most part, focuses on the Puzzle elements over demanding high reflexes from you. Most of your time will be spent trying to figure out how to navigate the wilderness as you swing from vines, push crates, and generally try to adapt to your current situation.
One of the things I really like about this title is the frequency in which it introduces new mechanics, such as needing a torch to fend off monsters in a dark cave. It spices up the otherwise overly simple puzzles and obstacles you’ll, in most likelihood, solve at a glance. You never know what to expect next as this title plays by its own rules with all manners of strange events and creatures existing in this world. I could detail more of the noteworthy events that occur throughout, but with how short this game is, revealing more would basically be like me showing all of this title’s surprises. It lasted me around 30 minutes from start to end. This is not a grand journey by any means.
The story does not fare any better than its overall length, I’m afraid. I wasn’t expecting a tale for the ages, yet I was more than a little disappointed by the sudden ending. It all kind of felt like a prelude demo to an actual game, for as much as I ultimately enjoyed this experience. Where much of the effort seems to have gone are in the sex scenes that happen when you get caught or fall from great heights. Overall, there are ten of them, each involving a few different motions within the event before an ejaculation ends the scenario. You can toggle individual pieces of clothes on and off, make the NPC ramming you invisible for a better view, increase the speed, and more. It also features a camera that you can freely move around if the automatic angles aren’t doing it for you.
All of the sex scenes are vanilla, mainly featuring vaginal penetration. The thing here is that not all of your enemies will be human. I also appreciated that a sex scene only plays out once if you lose in that area. Considering all of the scenes are unique to a specific area, seeing the same one repeatedly would have put a damper on things, thus a wise move there. As previously stated, there are ten of them overall, meaning that not all areas have sex scenes if you lose. Something to note is that beating the game does not unlock them all. They will only be shown in the main menu’s Gallery if they have occurred to you. Thankfully there is a stage select that makes it quite clear where every scene is, allowing us to quickly collect them all if we missed any or just didn’t die throughout.
Also found within the main menu is a tab where you can customize your character. It gives you the ability to change your skin color, breast size, and outfits, among other things. There is a decent amount of options to make the character your own, though don’t expect anything too extensive. Like we can not change hairstyles, for instance, just its color. Another thing worth mentioning is that this title defaults to having all of its audio muted when you first start it up. You’ll need to turn up those audio sliders to hear any music or sound effects. It has no collectibles or any other reason to incentivize the player to replay it, other than missing some sex scenes. This is one of those titles where the selling point is the H content, more so than the gameplay itself.
When all is said and done, Elrit Clover is a short but sweet journey through a magical world that also happens to have a bunch of creatures ready to mate with you should you trip on a pebble. It plays like an anime version of Limbo with little in the way of penalties or challenge. There is a checkpoint seemingly every few feet, and it is all too eager to push you forward in order to experience the next trick up its sleeve. It’s an inoffensive adventure that likely won’t stick in your memory for long, though at the same time is a pleasant way to spend a lunch break and offers quality 3D H content. If that sounds up your alley, Elrit Clover may just be worth adding into your library of games.
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