Custom Maid 3D

~ Custom Maid 3D ~
~ KISS ~
~ Release Date ~ 2011-01-28 ~
~ Age Rating ~ 18+(M) ~
~ Genre ~ 3D Eroge ~




Warning: The screen shots contained within spoilers contain strong
graphical content and should not be viewed in a not work safe
environment. And well if you are a minor well... go away.

A quite popular game from KISS featuring your own maid in a host club, let's take a look what the game has to offer us.

~ First Glance ~

Graphics: The style is done in a cell shaded anime style, however it seems to be lacking a bit, even with the graphics high up, the game doesn't look very impressive. It's pretty, but it isnt impressive. (Some screenshots may look a little bit choppy, but that's cos i droppedthe game graphics to 800x600 to take screenshots that wont need resizing after.)

Music: The little music there is in this game is good quality, nothing much to note here really.

Sound: Voice acting is really well done, the differences between the available personalities are pretty obvious and reflect both in conversations and in H scenes.

Controls: The control scheme pretty much ends with select different options from a menu. The camera controls could be better, but they work once you get the hang of them.

~ The Game ~

Well lets take a closer look at the game now and what it has to offer us.

~ Character Creation ~

Body: The character creation is all you would expect a game like this to offer, the body adjustments are nice, allowing you to alter not only the height and breast size, but also physical features like shoulders, arms, hip width, waist, butt and ect.

The hair selection is pretty impressive, allowing you to flexibly adjust various parts of the hair, front, end, side bangs, antennae and such. The color is fully flexible and customizable in a standard RGB pallet style.

The face features are a bit of a let down, you can only adjust the eye color and two types of eyebrow shapes. Oh and you also have a bizarrely big selection of moles, dunno why such a wide selection there, moles aren't even common in anime style.

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Clothing: The clothing is lacking, the majority of the clothes are just color swaps, even with all items unlocked the variation isnt impressive. And while this is technically a maid game,the game concentrates on various maid uniforms too much, some flexibility would have been nice.

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There are some preset characters available, including your very own Miku Hatsune maid, which is a nice touch, however the random clothing generator option available is horrendous, i tried about 20 times and it couldnt come up with anything that didn't look like the character just fell into a pile of clothing.

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~ Game Play ~

Story: The game has an attempt at a story, but quite frankly it fails miserably. To sumarise it, you are rich guy X who goes to a host club and gets a maid who is his childhood friend also. They could have seriously come up with something more impressive.

Interactivity: Sadly enough there is almost none, if you are looking for a game with something more to do than just H stuff, this isn't the game for you. The options available for you is to make your maid dance/sing to a song (there is only one available) and while it can be fun to watch once, you'll most likely never do it again.

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You can also converse with your maid, but i'm not sure if that even affects the character in any way (if it does feel free to correct me) and there is a maid test option, but that is simply to see if your maid leveled a rank, and if she did she will have more things available (like clothes unlockables and such.).

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Apart from that the game does not really offer you anything, so without further delay let's venture into the play room.

~ The Juicy Bits ~

The options: You start off with a selection of 5 locations, each one of the locations will have different positions and actions available for you to experiment with. The variations of locations is picked nicely and the lack in number makes up in creativity. The picks available are your standard bedroom, the bath, host club (for public stuff), pool (which is kind of a mix between the bath and the host club) and finally a BDSM room.

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Once that is done you will move to the selection of the positions, the game really shines here as you really have an extensive selection, from all your standard sex poses (Both vaginal and anal), to toys with you pleasuring her or pleasuring her self, BJ's, paizuri, 69, threesomes, and some weird stuff for the bdsm room.

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Once you selected your options, of 4 actions per day, you move to the actual H part of the game.

The graphics: As i mentioned in the beginning, the graphics are pretty average, the screenshots you see are taken with pretty high graphics and eventhe game doesn't look impressive. One of the issues is the shading, with boom and depth of field on, the game looks blurry and foggy, like the camera was slightly drunk, without them on the game looks slightly choppy.

The textures available are up to 4096, but the textures don't really contain much detail on them, so setting it up that high is not going to change much.

Also the physics in the game are lacking, clothes in some cases act like they shouldn't, especially the skirts, making them seem stiff. Hair physics is even worse, the hair jumps way too much and in way too random directions giving the impression that gravity seems to avoid the girls hair, the fact that the hair is done in chunks doesn't benefit this at all either.

Collision detection for the hair seems to be a common issue too, quite often the hair will phase through objects, this is especially noticeable with long hair and the wings accessory.

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And last but not least, the male models, while i understand the game trying to make the male character look like something you could imagine your self in its position, a low resolution transparent thing that kinda looks like a man would not be my choice.

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The sounds: This is one part that is done really well, the voice acting is at a really good quality, with noticeable differences between various states of arousal and the 4 available personalities.

Gameplay: The gameplay consists of a selection of options in a menu, which trigger various options, the scene is controlled by two bars servitude and reason, servitude is basically the amount of actions you still can do in the scene, reason is more important, if that runs out your scenes will stop for the day. So the key to the gameplay is to balance out between the two.

As you do various actions the many stats the maid has will increase or decrease, these are important for various special maid ranks and also certain actions may cause a personality shift in the maid.

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Also as you do the actions the maid will level up in that specific skill, in turn unlocking new options to select from and once the level is high enough unlock extra options for the position on hand.

And a couple more screenshots:

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~ The End Word ~

The game is pretty average when you add everything together, though the positions are really nice, so if you like the graphics style and have some time to waste, its a nice tittle to check out.

Once again no numerical score, you won't find that here.