Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs The Thrilling Steamy Maze Kiwami is a roguelike dungeon crawler game developed by FuRyu. It is based on the anime Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs. Unfortunately, this game fails to deliver engaging gameplay, a story, or anything engaging outside of fan service moments.
Another Anime, Another World
Yuuna and the gang find a mysterious box calling out to them. Suddenly, all the characters are warped into the Dreamy Miniature Garden. Yuuna wakes up and has to find her friends. She runs into a talking stone, which she calls Mr. Droppy, who explains about the world and the creatures inside it. Yuuna must go through various dungeons to retrieve her friends and find a way to solve the mysteries of the Dreamy Miniature Garden. Clearing dungeons retrieves more characters and unlocks side stories to flesh out the characters further.
You load into randomly generated dungeons, and as you move through the dungeons, enemies move as well. The characters and enemies take turns hitting each other. You repeat this process until someone is dead. You can pick up armor, weapons, items, and special power-ups as you progress through the dungeon. If you die, you lose your items, but you can find them again by re-entering the dungeon and heading to the same floor to pick them up. As you unlock more characters, they can join you on your adventures. Unfortunately, having a second character with you makes the game almost too easy. There are options to go in alone if you are looking for a challenge.
There is the hub world in between the dungeons. You have access to a shop where you can buy items and unlockables with the currency you collect. The other part of the game is the bathhouse. It is a mini-game where your characters can bathe while spirits attempt to disrupt them. You have a mini spirit that pushes the spirits away so the characters can enjoy their bath peacefully. The longer the bath goes, the more you can level up these characters and unlock new powers to use in the dungeons. While leveling up your characters is a bonus, this mode is a button-mashing fiesta.
Easy Steamy
When I think of dungeon crawlers, I think of how I will navigate the dungeons efficiently. What items do I need to pick up to survive? I stopped asking questions because I did not have to think in this game. If I got low enough on health, I would level up and restore all my health. The only difficult part of this game is entering ghost zones, which are large rooms with many enemies. These rooms felt like an RNG fiesta because of bad spawns. However, most of the time, I took a companion with me, and I was able to clear the room eventually with little strategy to clear these rooms. Its core gameplay is mind-numbingly easy, which makes for a boring experience.
The other thing that this video game offers is that it is very horny. The bathhouse mini-game is the prime example, with just enough censorship mist to keep this game from being rated AO. The characters make suggestive moans when they get hit by enemies. Armor sets you get in this game are old gym clothes, school outfits, and maid costumes. There is also the power-up, where you can level up faster in exchange for the character’s clothes to rip apart over time. The game knows what it is and does not shy away from it.
Trouble in Paradise?
You can look at Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs The Thrilling Steamy Maze Kiwami in two ways. The game is either a bad dungeon crawler or a horny anime game. It’s a game that offers little in story or gameplay, and it just feels like fan service for fans of the show. Unless you are a fan of the show and want more Yuuna content, or you want a video game with a lewder tone, this is not a game worth checking out.
