XVI~The Tower of Liz~

H Scene Count- 81+ with 3 non H
Created by Clymenia, translated by Yorimashi
Length- 5~ hours

This is XVI~The Tower of Liz~. No I have no idea what the 16 means. Maybe it’s Clymenia’s 16th product? If so that’s kinda amazing.Anyway, corruption focused RPG Maker VxAce game.

Also, screenshots! I finally bothered to look up how to do screenshots of active windows. It’s really easy and I feel like an idiot. Any game I cover from now on should have some screenshots of some sort. No h scene shots but at least combat and some art to show what the game looks like.

Story

Liz is a member of the Magic Association and doesn’t care for the politics of it. She just wants to study and do research. One day one of the leads of one of the political parties offers to let her join them, she basically tells them to screw themselves. To get her out of the picture in case she joins their enemies, the group gives Liz and her Master a job to collect some magic artifacts.

They find the first two with barely any trouble but when going for the final one, a Grimoire, the man who has it escapes into a lawless of sorts city. Liz’s Master gives chase by herself and Liz leaves, writes for help and then returns to the city to find her Master and complete her job. The problem is her Master is in the top parts of this tower town, and to ascend Liz needs to both go up the monster filled tower and make the citizens happy to earn permits from the town militia. So off the strong willed girl goes.

Honestly, this game has a 20 minute prologue before any porn happens that has way more detail and story then it needs just to explain why the teacher(the MC from Clymenia’s first game apparently) is involved. The first two paragraphs up there can be skipped without any real effect. The game even lets you. After the prologue ends you just do your goal, get to the top of the tower. I’m glad that I as the player am given context but I was not expecting the amount of effort that went it to give that context.

Note: Near the end of September, 2017 Luxuria was fan translated which is the story of how the blonde teacher got her Grimoire of Lust and became what she is in this game. That game doesn’t have a scene gallery so I won’t cover it, but if you want to follow the lore it exists and is readable.

Gameplay

The game can be broken up into tower and town portions. The tower is where “combat ” happens and town is where you acually improve Liz’s relations with people to get permits. I’ll go over them in order.

The tower is where you fight monsters for ingredients for the alchemy system, and try to actually ascend the town. The tower is special in that just being in it drains your health. In order to stop or slow this drain you need to equip the Shroud, one of the artifacts you get during the prologue. You also have an earring that regens your MP. You switch between these as needed as you run into monsters headfirst and they die. Yes, there’s no actual combat. It’s collision victory, the tower itself is the main threat to you dying. There is a total of five fight like the below image in the entire game, which is a nice change.

You need to beat up enemies though. You need to level for the HP/MP gains, but you also need the ingredients they drop.

In the town portion you do one of two things. Either trigger porn or give people stuff. Both increase your renown in the town which needs to be a pretty high number for you to finish the game. Porn increases it much slower but requires no dungeon delving or spending money, giving items on the other hand is far more efficient but is grindy. You can buy some of the gift items, but they are very expensive.

So the game flows as such. You get the porn you can find/ want out of the way for some extra money. Then you go into the tower and get some ingredients. Then you make the things the townsfolk ask for. Do this until you get a permit. Repeat two more times then fight the end boss. You do need to actually advance through the tower, but that will happen as you go ingredient hunting. It flows fairly well by skipping things like the inn jingle and not having combat.

 

H Scenes and Other Stuff

H is corruption focused. Liz is a serious person who honestly gets perverted really easily. You have the common fetishes in corruption games such as rape, prostitution and exhibitionism. Near the end of the game you can bring your teacher around town for her to get her own versions of all the h scenes. She though is well past perverted so instead of corruption her scenes are more like a wandering slut. The scenes themselves are fairly short with blowjobs and sex having sound effects.

I love Clymenia when it comes to tiles. Not that they do anything special, but they use sets I don’t see very often making their stuff stand out way more. It’s always nice when a game doesn’t look like a dozen other generic fantasy things.

Verdict and Save

While I did enjoy the game to some extent, it became kind of boring pretty quickly. While it flows nicely, all you do is go into the tower and run into things. Doing the h scenes gives you so much gold I had no issues buying whatever. The lack of challenge combined with a fetish I don’t care much for just left the game as something to do which wasn’t good. It can be enjoyed, but not for the gameplay.

 

 

Save has all h scenes unlocked, all outfits, and the teacher mode available. Should have all the achievement/record things except for the broken one.

XVI~The Tower of Liz~

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