RPGM - Completed - Enishia and the Binding Brand [v1.04 Steam] [Shimobashira Workshop/Kagura Games]

After the release of ambrosia years ago, it made me expect more from the Devs on their future endeavors. However, celesphonia and now this game just look so subpar in comparison. The game is more than playable, but that is all there is to it.

Gameplay: It's definitely more creative than standard RPGM exploration, but having practically everything tied to dice gets annoying really quickly. This makes random events more natural, but also makes going for anything specific a lot more annoying. On top of that, having all combat locations makes them blend together.
Item balance is all kind of wacky though. According to the in-game weapon/armor list, I only found ~35% of all gear despite finishing ~98%of the game.

Story: Not very elaborate, but nice and neat. MC isn't dumbed down for plot, villians have logical goals, and ending is satisfying. Just fine as a backbone for a game of this genre


Scenes: There is a decent variety, although they are kept relatively vanilla. Art is good, costumes are okay. Some scenes support costumes, some default to one or another.


Overall: simply a simple high-quality game. I'd rate it 4.5 because I just didn't feel the dice and wished for more variety. But for an average user, this should be a good experience.

It's soooo boring.

The idea is good and the start is fine but you just gotta grind the same old shit.
Wanna try do modelling, okk did it thrice and it was just a swimsuit with no progression

The translation isn't great either

Pros

-very cute mc
-great art
-interesting story
-and gameplay

Cons

-Very,very slow burn to the point seeing the same scene 20th time because you're trying to get corruption up.
-boring because of slow burn.

conclusion:still recommend it but if you haven't played it dev has better (imo) games.

Ambrosia and
Magical Girl Celesphonia

Interesting story, beautiful character design, immersive world, and of course the ecchi. Like Always A Great Game From Shimobashira. The experitmental dice system, though. Not a fan of that. It's suitable in some places but gradually becomes annoying and thus lower the games replaybility value. However, don't get me wrong the game is still fun and I had a great time playing it.

A great corruption game.

Some of the quests break sometimes, sometimes its not obvious what you need to do, but remains one of the best. Give it a whirl and youll see if you like it within the first 15-20 mins.

Story is okay. nothing to write home about, but the adult situations make up for it in this case.

I recommend reading the walkthrough if you get lost

Yet another banger made by this group.

I like the tabletop-esque approach to dungeon crawling and combat. Despite there being a time limit it's extremely easy to manage. Good bit of content and a focus on corruption. Pretty much in the same vein content wise to their other games. They continue to put out quality games and this one ventures out of the mold a tad just to prevent their formula from getting stale. Here's hoping they put out another game in the near future.

simply put. same dev as celesphonia and ambrosia. but those games were better.

idk how is it possible when this game should have better graphics, but it just is. the art, scenarios, they are just better.

it's like the dev realized the "formula" for porn games so now doesn't put any thought in it just copy-pastes the previous games and misses the little details which made those games great.

i dont mind the time restriction system. you can choose a difficulty in beginning, you can have unlimited time if you want, or hard difficulty with double debt and half days to pay it off.

but normally you have 30 days.

but it has day/night cycle, with morning->afternoon->evening->night->late night.

on latenight you can only sleep. so you have 4instances to skip time per day. those instances are usually lewd events or adventuring. some things don't even skip time and can get you money/scenes. so you have plenty of time to experiment.

the premise is great. nun, have a huge debt, scummy debtor, puts curses on you by your own choice to decrease debt.

but for some reason the scenes are just not erotic enough. exact same scenarios as previous games just worse. huge disappointment.

some grind. hard to rate this. it's between 2-3. i guess the quality and amount of content is there, and i dont remember any gamebreaking bug, english is surprisingly passable, the gibberish english scenes are rare. there are many grope/sex scenes.

i think 3 is fair due to this compared with the boringness and spiritlessness of the game. this game has no passion, it's just a cash grab. although the quality is not as bad as some typical cash grabs but it's demoralizing to play a game where you know the author wanted to put in as little effort as possible to get the most amount of money. which ofc is standard behaviour but not in art/creativity, it just spoils the product. like here.

A very good corruption game with good corruption system and progression. Grinding is in a good sweet spot where it's not too easy but not too difficult. A lot of variety of H-scenes, and a lot of them were very well made and executed. The story was simple, but good. I was a little disappointed that nude exhibitionism doesn't really do much, since the exhibitionist event was really well done. I wish the normal mode had less time pressure and the translation was a little better, but it didn't hinder my enjoyment of the game.

Pros:
- Great and plentiful H-Scenes,
- Great corruption
- Difficulty and grind just about right w/ Decent gameplay
- Good variety of outfits to pick from
- When you are corrupted you can walk around the town and act like a slut/prostitute yourself which is nice unlike some games that never recognize it.
-Quest log is decent enough

Cons:
- Holy shit how does this dev manage to make such boring stories with no interesting characters when everything else is so solid. Just pay off her debt and skip the rest of everything trust me.
-TL is servicable, not poetry, but some confusing points

Giving it a not so good grade because pregnancy is an actual scam.
You have to finish the game before you can birth anything, which might take a bit of time considering how the story drags on (around 10-12h to complete the game)
And even then, it's a matter of impregnation and instant birth. No pregnant H-scene, not even the birthing. Don't see the point of implementing impregnation and an orphanage for such a half-ass pregnancy sytem.

Aside from that, it's a rather good sandboxy corruption game, with the classic trope of debt repayment. I'd say go for it, if you don't care for the pregnancy fetish that is.

I loved this game. The Dice roll was really cool at first, there were sometimes where it was definitely a little annoying, but never enough to ruin the experience for me. Overall, I still liked the existence of the dice rolling format purely for something new that I haven't experienced. Because let's be honest, in porn games we kind of need even a tiny bit of freshness. And since this was my first experience with it, it was nice. Very, very much loved the corruption/humiliation aspects of the game, I mean, it's why I came here in the first place. Seeing the mark grow bigger and Enicia's words grow lewder was very fun. Though much of the content is doing a scene a second, third, fourth, etc...time, I enjoyed every instance where things were changed to become more depraved or sexual the next time around. Growing more debauched, one groper turning to two, than several. Going around town looking for the next perverted interaction. Loved chasing after achievements and titles. One thing that I took forever to realize was that the two adventurers sitting at the table in the guild were actually hireable. Not that the game seems to spend much time in dungeon-crawling anyways, but as someone who didn't want "custom-made NPC's" I struggled with the fighting because I wanted to have pre-made battlers on my team and ended up fighting solo or with just the shopkeeper a majority of the time. Overall I would say it was a really great corruption game that deserves the stars I gave it. I did find it strange that Enicia seemed strangely pure for someone who by the end actively enjoyed being seen naked, yet still behaved as if she had shame and wasn't a whore even as she's in a literal brothel and being gangbanged. Some like that, though, so don't see it as much of a negative.

The game arts are very good and the gameplay systems are pretty deep, although with the dice mechanics like in DnD, so always be on guard for surprises.
Also the Machine Translation is not bad unlike Poetry MTL, so its definitely readable and will not cause headache

Didnt think it was gonna hook me that bad but it did. Really loved the main character, hella cute, and so were the rest of the characters. The main villain is also really intriguing and mysterious. The plot is enjoyable and never boring.

The scenes and their progression I also thought were good. She doesnt turn dumb, she just get naughty and enjoys teasing and pleasing men. The variety is also up there. Each set of scenes feels like a mini adventure to explore.

The world is alive, plenty to do, all npcs have something interesting to say, even unlocking locations. The exploring is fun, bit stressful because of the limited turns and the rng, but fun.

Time really flies with this game

Great RPGM game, with a good amount of content and an interesting gameplay. There are a lot of H situations, a good corruption system, greats CGs scenes, and an interesting dungeon system.
However , the game may lack some interesting secondary characters, some quests aren't very intuitive or too similar.
But in the end, a solide H game.

Excellent game. If you are an ENF and/or Corruption fan, it's definately going to be enjoyable for you. I'm especially fond of the exploration and combat system, and like other games from this developer, it's art is top notch.

Shimobashira Workshop drops into the market once again for a riveting fourth game that matches the extensive quality you can expect out of their RPGs. This time you will play as Enicia, a nun who runs a small chapel and orphanage in a city that is the former capital - losing faith in God and the power it once had. Pay off the debt on the church by any means necessary, but expect a lot more then a dry CG hunt, especially if it's made by Shimo.

Rather then a typical dungeon crawl, the dungeon exploration game is set on a game board where you roll a die to see how far you move. Squares have various effects such as giving you treasure, stuff to sell, extra spaces, or negative or erotic events. There is a turn limit on any map you enter so it's important that you hustle to the objective of the map.

Similarly, battles feature dice rolls at the forefront as the rolls determine the power of your attacks - dungeons & dragons style. This is the first Shimo RPG to feature party-based combat, giving you more variety in actions. However, if you enjoyed the erotic events ala battle-fuck from previous games, they are not present here, to my disappointment.

Game difficulty is variable - you can choose between 3 levels of debt and time limit, from relaxed, normal, or an inferno mode where you must pay off double the amount of debt in normal mode at a fraction of the time. Inferno mode is a fun challenge that will force you to make risky purchases to make more money in future days, completing all the quest lines available for the money, and some grinding. There is also a failsafe to extend the deadline if you manage to fail the initial deadline, so if you want to try the challenge but dont want to lose progress, the game has you covered. If you are adamant on your first playthrough being pure virgin I would not recommend also playing inferno. Battle difficulty ranges from easy to very hard - you can change it at anytime but because I found a very rare item at the start that allowed one of my party memeber to dunk enemies even on very hard, I can't really comment on what you should set yours to. Experiment!

A lot of fetishes are covered here but the focus is mainly on corruption and prostitution content. Unlike most games where the heroine loses all sense of rationality and becomes an animal, Enicia keeps some tact and shame by the end which may be disappointing to some but refreshing for me - as the endgame content for these kinds of corruption games tend to end up being one-note and boring.

The story itself is fairly expansive and in Shimo fashion goes beyond what you may expect out of a simple plotline - they go above and beyond to build lore to flesh out the setting and storyline, where reading the books scattered around the city is actually fruitful to unlocking more places.

Enicia unfortunately is too flat in character and "nice" for her to be the main subject of the game, and there are no outrageous characters for her to be the straight man against. She is the kind of character you expect out of her background and rarely steps out of the mould. And so because of that, and with the end having a weak climax, makes me disappointed overall with the story.

The music is very great this time, and the voice actor for Enicia is a goddess. In the audio department, the game is not lacking.

Overall, despite some areas where the game is lacking in, the game is a great play and worth the time to go through it all.

Very solid game with quite a nice dungeon exploration mechanic. The corruption is really nicely done, especially since you can farm points to extend the deadline which means that it's explained in-game. Pregnancy content is basically nonexistent, it's a trap. Dungeon mechanics is interesting but can be also very, very frustrating with the turn limit and the possibility of hitting lowest scores over and over again. Overall decent, I played for about 6 hours without much problems, but could use some polishing of the mechanics

The game starts pretty alright. Then it felt like a slow burn game which is exactly my type, but unfortunately for this game, not that much. The slow corruption is not well executed. Also the scenes are very grindy. You'll see the same scenes so many times. The gameplay element was interesting but wasn't good enough to make up for the bad sex scene executions.

If you looked over the tags and thought this was perfect for you, do not let the art and seeming quality fool you. This is despite the obvious polish and nice visuals a painfully average game.

Neither the characters or story are any good and the translation makes them even worse. It lacks that special something, that can elevate porn games from just pictures + grind to something really good.