A Pirate's Pleasure

A Pirate’s Pleasure presents solid writing and well written romance, set during a time where the Golden Age of Piracy is showing signs of coming to an end. You play the game as the female captain of your own pirate crew, boarding ships and seizing the loot while enjoying pirate pleasures in pirate havens with your (hard earned?) money.

Still, much of the game’s main mission takes place on dry land, where you wander an unknown place with a mysterious (in a bad way) item, trying to figure out what to do. That portion of the game gives you plenty of time to figure out your relationships with the various love interests while everyone works out how to get out of the tormented situation they have found themselves in. This item doesn’t feel very well-explained by the game as a whole, and the whole plot resolution where you return the item to where it should be also feels very contrived as you just seem to know where exactly you should go, right down to the very building and inside location. It just left me scratching my head when all was said and done.

Still, the romance elements are well done, even if each RO just seems really drawn to you by default. There are plenty of romantic moments and flirting even if this title doesn’t have anything explicit, and I liked it a a lot. I ended the game romancing the Governor and getting a pardon, moving on from a life of piracy. The game does give you the option to be a ruthless or honorable pirate (in the earlier missions, at least, since you’re not much of a pirate for the main mission), and also dangles the opportunity to officially move on from the life of piracy during the game. There are plenty of options to be good and evil, and decide your relationships with various characters, another part which I liked.

If you’re strictly here for a romance book, with a female lock and male RO lock, this game gets my recommendation. While the writing is generally good, plot and story are the game’s weak spots, and not something I’d recommend in the same way.