Written by Rastafoo69, edited by Otaku Apologist
Zefira, a netorare hentai game developed by Mousou Endemic. Released July 17, 2018. Download on DLsite for $12.00. For PC Windows. No voice acting. Uncensored genitals. Free demo available. English and Japanese versions available.
You have married the busty adventurer Zefira! She loves you and supports your dream of being a writer. While you sit at home all day, she is outside working to provide for you. Unfortunately for you, there are many men lusting for your devoted big breasted wife!
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STORY
After being wounded in battle, you find and heal Zefira with your special herb! Seeing your kind-hearted nature, she decides to marry you. She will go to work so her husband can pursue his dead-end career. But with so many men lusting after her, will she stay faithful?
There are four basic routes to complete the game. Firstly, Zefira can work as a maid to pay the bills and become impregnated by her boss. Secondly, Zefira can be blackmailed by her fellow adventurer and fall in love with him. Thirdly, Zefira can fall completely under the control of a hypnotist. And fourthly, she can stay loyal to her husband and become a hardcore adventurer!
Dialogue and character moments are exclusive to cheating wife playthroughs. If you choose to make Zefira loyal, most of the game will be spent level grinding and ranking up in the guild.
The NTR endings all lead to Zefira falling pregnant and willingly cheating on her husband. The pure love ending requires you purchase all of the creativity items from the mysterious shop. Maxing out your guild level is not a strict requirement for completion.
GAMEPLAY
This game was created with RPG Maker MV, the most clunky version of the engine. At least you can customize your resolution! Press S to auto-skip an entire conversation. Press CTRL to skip a portion of dialogue. Press A to slowly auto-advance dialogue. Press Shift to hide the text box. Press C to teleport somewhere.
The game cycle is simple. Leave town to complete quests and earn money, then return to town to purchase equipment and items. The standard combat system with MP and TP resources is improved upon with the skill points system. Will you spend your skill points on lots of magic abilities, or lots of sword techniques? The choice is yours!
Zefira has three special stats. Her adventurer rank will decide the payout of her missions and what items are available in the local shop. Her renown indicates progress until the next rank. Her NTR Count increases every time she cheats on her husband, and will influence which ending you receive.
Armor and weapon upgrades are key to completing the game. Defeating enemies will drop special items. These items give you upgrade materials when sold. Every time your adventurer rank increases, the shop will have new items. Rather than constantly upgrade a weak sword, you can instead spend money on a brand new strong sword.
This game is fantastic but not flawless. Great features include random treasure drops, an experience bar in the pause menu, and a fun little questing system with recommended levels. Some bad features include how your quest log is wiped clean when you rank up, which happens automatically. You cannot go back to old missions. Also, in spite of your character worrying about money, there is no pressure to make any. Without living expenses or a time limit, you can goof off without consequences.
The game should take 3-4 hours if you’re a faithful wife. This requires completing all guild missions and buying creativity items like a music box to help your husband write. The NTR routes are shorter, but there are three of them. No matter which route you choose, Zefira will end up pregnant and the full gallery will be unlocked. The game will automatically restart in New Game Plus mode.
GRAPHICS
The anime art style is inconsistent. It seems like each route had a different artist. Zefira in a maid outfit has a different facial structure than she normally does. She looks like a different character, which is horrible for immersion. Most game assets are standard to the RPG Maker engine, but used in such a way that the experience feels unique.
There are 20 base CG images. Some of these images are used multiple times to create multiple scenes. For example, sex with the husband always has the same CG, but dialogue will vary depending on his creativity and whether Zefira has cheated already.
Reusing CGs was necessary, because so much manpower went into scene variations. Whether it’s changes in expression or changes in her glasses, each artwork has multiple variants. I don’t see why three different variations of glasses for Zefira was necessary.
The artworks are low resolution. The game should be played in windowed mode, because full-screen leads to visibly clear pixels. This seems like an amateurish mistake. I suspect the author compressed the images or resized them to fit perfectly with RPG Maker. Whatever his excuse, plenty of games do not have this problem. Low resolution images are always disappointing.
Playing the faithful wife route locks you out of interesting dialogue and character moments available in the NTR routes. This means that the game starts with Zefira as a super expressive and emotional girl, but the rest of the game is nothing like that. Her various character stills went horribly under-used.
VOICE ACTING AND SOUND EFFECTS (SFX)
Zefira has no voice acting.
The sound effects are stock RPG Maker assets used moderately throughout the game. This game does not overdo things with sex sound effects. Similarly, combat effects are all fitting with the slash of a sword and the crackle of a fireball. Some might call it generic, but I think it fits the classic adventurer genre. She is not here to save the world, she’s here to make money killing one monster at a time.
MUSIC
There are 27 musical tracks in total. There are some royalty-free stock tracks, but there are a handful of unique and uncommon songs too. The title theme is the perfect example, with an emphasis on piano and soft guitar in the background. It feels like a happy cute little intro theme that perfectly matches Zefira’s bouncy personality. In contrast, sex scenes have a faster paced piano with a background techno beat establishing the rhythm. It’s super enjoyable and made me look forward to the sex scenes.
HENTAI
There are over 20 scenes in total. The majority of scenes have a unique artwork, but some have recycled imagery with unique dialogue depending on Zefira’s experience.
There are three basic NTR routes, and a faithful wife route without sex scenes. If you’re looking for sex, you’ve gotta cheat! Will it be with a hypnotist? The wealthy merchant? Or the perverted adventurer?
The game ends when the husband discovers the cheating and decides to tolerate it. Zefira is impregnated by another man, but the husband loves her and decides to raise the child. You name the husband at the start of the game, so you can finally live out your cuckold fantasies!
The best route is the perverted adventurer. While the merchant treats you like a prostitute and the hypnotist controls your mind, the adventurer actually talks to Zefira and slowly corrupts her naturally. He also has the best dirty talk, like when he said “I want your newlywed pussy nice and fertilized”.
A big thrill of infidelity is the chance of being caught. Sadly, that’s never really a focus in any of the scenes. A greater emphasis on the taboo of cheating would make this game a true classic.
CONCLUDING WORDS
Zefira is a fantastic netorare game with great RPG mechanics and erotic cheating sex. The guild system is fun, the artworks are pretty, and the music is awesome! If you’re a huge NTR fan, this game will satisfy you.
Download Zefira. If you want another fun NTR game, check out our review for Young Elven Wife.
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