RPGM - Completed - Battle Shrine Maiden Honoka (Complete Edition) [v1.07] [Tokyo Monster Laboratory]

decided too complete it fully 100% so here is my review
story 10/10 its one of the few times and rpgm game made me care about the story and characters its really well done with quite a bit of lore behind it if your willing too look the characters are great too i went with the slut route(as always) and i felt bad for the main characters love interest even the bad guys aren't generic cookie cutter bad guys
gameplay 9/10 a solid pokemon style game that is an actually fun combat system(minus the frequency of random encounters seriously stock up on this games equivalent of repel because your going to need it hence the docking of 1 point)

h scenes 8/10 allot of it looks pretty decent especially given this games age
but some look better then others and it does (especially with the dlc included) just differ drastically in terms of quality

other minor problesm
1. the world dont get me wrong i like the style but allot of buildings serve virtually no purpose and most islands have at best 1 or 2 locations of h scenes
2. getting the true ending is a pain

in short a solid rpg maker game that i adore but has some flaws
this is still one of the best stories so far in these type of games and that alone kept me hooked so 4 stars it is

So it took me 36 hours to completethe game with all h scenes unlocked. I avoided the cheat item, and I also went for the true end. The game is a very solid hgame that uses a map similar to johto. This game still differs from pokemon a lot (which is ok). The story and characters were a lot more interesting. I talked to all npcs and I can say it is worth reading which is a major plus.

Positives
Story
Gameplay is solid
Music
Designs

Negatives
-lack of exp share to boxed yokai
-attacks can be hard to craft
-fishing mechanic is too difficult

Overall this was a very nostalgic revisiting of johto in a far more interesting way pokemon ever did. The hscenes had a lot of effort, and this hgame is a must for anyone looking for a longer rpg with solid gameplay.

Wow, that's awesome, the only thing that makes me upset was the grind and puzzles, but that's only if you want to play the game normally, there are cheats itens on the recollection room...
NTR is avoidable if you are strong and skilled enough, but most scenes of this game are your character getting the NTR, rape, bdsm, etc...
It's part of the game and narrative so I can't complain, but I like to play vanilla and heroically as much possible, sad that I only view a few scenes because of that, maybe I try again with a bitch mind set.

Edit: nevermind, I ended up betraying him ;-;

Don't get the other ratings. Yeah, the random battles are annoying if you don't just buy the item that prevents them.

Corruption is nicely paced and even after she becomes a turbo slut there's still some resistance, which is preferred for me.

An absolute fuckton of scenes. Holy shit. Most of the characters she fucks get multiple scenes, which is always a pet peeve of mine in corruption games. Being able to see things escalate with pretty much everyone she has a scene with is 10/10. I'm almost 40 hours in an only like halfway through the scenes.

Gameplay is lewd pokemon. The rando battles are annoying, but just buy the item that prevents them. Game has a built-in cheat in the Recollection Room to give you one-shots if you want battles to be quick. Each battle you need to lose in order to get a scene literally blasts an alarm and warns you at the start of it.

Art is pretty good. Scenes are varied with some seeing full animation, some a bit older, choppier style; and some just static images. There's no weirdly massive boobs or cartoonishly bad body shapes for the main character.

The main character and story are actually interesting Even if it's not as deep as others, it's still lightyears better than most of the low-effort games here.

This game is 11/10 for me. I'm here to fap and maybe enjoy a bit of fun gameplay, but y'all are far too picky, lmao.

Is NTR avoidable? Answer is
For better or worse - This is a game. What do I mean by that? I mean you'll be fighting a lot, going through a bunch of maps, going through a bunch of dialogue and story, and dealing with puzzles. If you're seeking quick h-scenes, you're going to be disappointed.

There is a recollection room and there's a ton of h-scenes, but you can't unlock everything immediately,. You can only access things that you already saw, or pay the ingame currency to unlock scenes you missed out on.

The game is a long journey. While I think the story has some interesting parts to it, it's pretty typical for an NTR plot with a few twists. In terms of gameplay, this is like a watered down Pokemon Gold version experience as if capturing pokemon isn't as necessary.

Something I don't like is how spread out h-scenes are. There's so much travel and story between h-scenes that it feels unfulfilling. Art is fine, buncha big boobies never hurt no one. The h-scenes have some variety, a few that are animated, but nothing that amazing.

This is honestly hard to rate. As a porn game, it probably deserves 3 stars, because if your goal is fapping, then good luck, because there's ALOT of gameplay, and it's honestly quite tough at the beginning, before you start getting the broken Yokai.
But as a game in general, it made me really have fun like I did back in the days, when I played Pokemon HeartGold. I'm not even a huge Pokemon fan, but that game was an amazing experience for me. This game has so much going on, so if I write it here, I'm never gonna end.
I'm only halfway through(probably), and after having a hard time at the beginning, now I'm steamrolling through everything, mostly by crippling enemies with stun/poison, and then beating them up with hard hitters, like the green starter( I always choose grass, but this time it feels worth it).
A few things I don't like are, the fact that you lose a fight if only one of your Pokemon gets killed(total BS, especially because certain enemies hit like trucks), and certain puzzles can be a pain in the ass.
The story seems good. It's inspired by Pokemon HG and actual Japanese history(Ryugen and Ryuya should be Oda Nobunaga and Nobukatsu, not sure). I love Honoka, and I wish there was an happy ending for her and Ryuya(yeah, I know what kind of game it is and that it's not gonna happen, but c'mon, if the characters are nice, I can't enjoy NTR. Poor Ryuya might have a small PP, but he's not a dumbass like your average NTR cuck, xD.)
So far the game deserves 4* for me. Hell, I'm actually playing this for the fights, I don't even remember the last time I did it on rpgm.
The extra star is for the translation. I can't imagine how much work was put into this. We should really support these translators, considering the amount of MTL crap we get for rpgm games.
EDIT. Oh yeah, while reading other reviews, I have to agree, random encounters suck. Sometimes, I even get attacked with the repellent on, I mean, wtf? lol

If you don't have patience this game is not for you. I used cheats (MTool) to play this game and even then it took me around 3 hours to get a good sequence of cg scenes. Before that mark I got 1 cg scene at the very start and another around 1 and a half hours later. I got a total of 2 scenes within 3 hours of playing.

The random encounters are the main reason why this game is so padded out. There is a certain point that you reach in this game where you feel like you can actually start playing this game, for example, you unlock actual teleportation and more scenes after a certain point in the game. Before that mark however you might get tired of the game..

Positives:
- The game has a decent combat system (Pokemon style)
- Art work is good
- Nice variety of characters
- There is a variety of scenes after the 3 hour (ish) mark if you look for them

Negatives:
- Way too many frequent encounters
- Map is too big
- Teleportation is unlocked later on in the game
- Very very few cg at the start of the game, you will need to play for a while before you actually start getting anything good

I originally gave this a 3/5 (as of 26-10-24) but as I'm playing it more and more it is becoming a lot more interesting. This game is a very slow burner and can be difficult if played without cheats. I'm currently 9 hours in and now there is a whole new region!

If you are expecting a quick fap I would recommend playing this with cheats. If you want to play without cheats expect a long but fun ride.

I increased my original rating (03-11-2024)

Great game, quite long and fun, really inspired by pokemon. The only bad thing is the translation of the localizations, when using MTL it sometimes translates the same thing in a different way. It's also pretty confusing how to get the good endings, you have to talk to several NPCs to figure it out yourself, but sometimes the location issue makes it really hard to figure out where to go.

Great game with lots of good NTR content. The only issue is that it's literally Pokemon Crystal version with minor differences, and you have to play through Ecruteak city to unlock any meaningful H scenes. Once you do, though, the scenes come pretty regularly.

The tradeoff that makes the early grind worth it is the fact that both the MC's boyfriend and the MC's NTR partners are introduced naturally in the story, and given real motivation for their interactions with her, which makes the content later down the line much more interesting.

Random battles and grinding are annoying if you're not looking to spend dozens of hours on the game, so install the RPG Maker cheat menu plugin to give yourself max exp and infinite repels to blast your way through the less saucy parts of the game.

Make sure to check the recollection room often, as there are a decent amount of missable scenes. You can manually unlock them if you missed them, but if you're like me and prefer to unlock them naturally, you'll want to keep several save files you can go back to if you notice you missed a scene, which you probably will.

Played it for several hours and got really tired of the amount of random encounters. Also there's very little H content, at least in the first hours.
I liked the premise but the grind to level up your pokemons is insane.

1. Love the art style of this game.
2. The protagonist of the game is the right kind of cheeky that I love.
3. This game does something that I really look for in a female mc RPGM, and that's set up multiple characters with names and personalities, which makes it better when they come back later for revenge on the mc rather then just random bandits or thugs who get a go at her.
4. The only thing I probably change is the grindy pokemon route the game goes, but getting to the scenes of the game make it worth going through that.

Story - 5/5 - story at the level of anime/VN
porn - 4/5 - just for not having a proper ending scene. No matter what you do whether you have another man's seed in your inventory or not we reach same ending. The seed item is specially mentioned as ending flag.
Gameplay -0/5 - even if game got a proper ending I would never go through this game again. And will most likely avoid any other games from this developer (just personal preference)

End note - i took 2 whole days to complete this game with using cheating toos for teleport to save up time and in the end in abbis I just teleported to 3rd floor to skip 2 whole floor of contents. So if you have patience (I don't) to play this game and your good with fighting 3-4 steps (not random encounter [there is a item for that]) then it's good game . If this game just reduced enemies to just sub boss and bosses and made maps like caves or towers to less of a puzzle then an actual cave the I would have given this game 5/5 rating for story and porn

Pornkemon done right. It's pretty much a 1:1 recreation of Pkmn G/S/C with it's own story told while at it. People expecting a quick fap will not like this game as it takes a few hours to really open up, but after that it's scenes are pretty well-done, albeit somewhat slow-burn in some aspects.

if you REALLY like pokemon silver and have a TON of patience, maybe this game's a 4 for you. For the grand majority of people, including myself, it's barely a 2. This game does not respect your time. Boring random encounters every 15 steps, a ridiculous amount of time to get anywhere with H, and a battle opening animation that takes 2 seconds off your lifespan every random encounter. The little stuff like that adds up, big time.

This game was made well. But it's not fun and it's not consistently sexy.

this game is entirely too tedious for what you get out of it. it MIGHT be a good game if you wernt thrown into random bog standard rpgm combat every 3 steps. put a few hours in and barely had any scenes

-> Art is average compared to current games.

-> Story is a mess, isn't consistent with itself.

-> Character motivations are very confusing if not contradictory at times.

-> Scene writing could use some work

Is it the best game ever? No, but it does do a pretty decent/funny job of cloning Pokemon and checks a lot of my boxes. 7/10

+ Good art
+ Good translation
+ Hot, if a bit stereotypical, scenes

- Very slow start
- Tedious random combat
- Lots of walking

Would 100% recommend if you like the tags, but maybe use a cheat tool to literally speed up the game

I want to preface this review with the possibly false idea of what I expected this game to be compared to what this game really is. Most of that is why I rate this game so poorly. The fact that this game is not very good at what it does do is not a good starter either.

The one word I use for this review is disappointing. I expected more. I expected better. I really got neither, and I gave this game far more of a leash as it were than I think I normally might.

The positives are the graphics for the most part. The ideas and concepts mostly fit within the mold and that is certainly a good thing. At least the game looks decent enough. Unfortunately this is where things generally take a turn for the worse.

The story is pretty much paint by numbers. The system is essentially a reflavored pokemon design that falls flat on its face at every level. This system is the main level of frustration that I had with this game. I was hoping there might be something more to all this, but the game really boiled down to a bad pokemon parody with nothing else behind it to make me want to play more.

Overall two stars. I'll give the game credit for trying, but I also have to fault the game for not trying enough to be as good as I feel it should be. For what it is, I'd say to pass on this trash. For a h-game it is not very good, and as a pokemon game it is not very good either. Disappointment.