RPGM - Completed - Enishia and the Binding Brand [v1.06 Steam] [Shimobashira Workshop]

Mechanical improvement over previous games, however it is way too easy even on hardest settings, you have to go out of your way to add more stipulations to your contract since you can beat the game with the first two you can get. Also, the change in personality/disposition of the main character feels way too abrupt when going from base level lewd to the first, but not as much as the previous games.

I played Dazed original translation. Went to the Kagura Games one, realized I didn't like some changes and went back to replay the entire game again. And I still like this game more than Ambrosia. (Game is 4.5/5 but I bumped the rating to 5.)

Pros:

• There is a lot of content. It has as much as Ambrosia and Magical Girl Celesphonia.
• The hentai gallery has two full rooms with multiple variations depending on the corruption level.
• There are multiple ways to achieve the 1 million dollars. You can do the main requests the fortune teller tells you are important to the story, or you can corrupt yourself and try to earn money via dancing and prostitution. You can sell items from the maps you travel on, you can fish, pick herbs, stones, etc.
• The h-scenes are hot and feel like an improvement in art and sound from the last two games.
• I really enjoyed the music.
• The slow burn corruption continues like the previous two games. To get to the true corruption, you have to go out of your way to get it. While it’s hard to keep your lust below 100, it’s easy enough to avoid the corruption ending.
• I love how the sanctity does not contribute to a bad ending in any way. You are allowed to interact with everything that could lose it and while you can’t get points back, it opens up more possibilities like extra contracts.
• I like how fishing is done in this game. The game is fair where you click the button and it stops instantly instead of clicking it and watching it go past the intended area to pull the fish up.
• The main story is good with a lot of plot threads constantly brought up even as you continue further into the game.

Cons:

• The dice is the worst type of system to use in any game that isn’t Mario Party. What could be a simple round of exploration can be suddenly difficult because the RNG is not in your favor. This is what I call fake difficulty because you can take longer to complete a dungeon because you keep rolling bad numbers.
• Once again, there is only one hypnosis scene with multiple variations that does not affect anything else. You can choose to ignore the command and having the symbol doesn’t change at all. You lose it the next day.
• People compare this game to Ambrosia and I agree to an extent. A priestess and a nun are two different archetypes that are usually put into the same category. Flode is a priestess and Erincia is a nun. Both are forced to do something they don’t want to in order to save the people close to them. They have an impossible task given to them and they must do it in a time limit. If the goal is achieved without losing their virginity, you get more lore that leads to the true ending. The main difference is that Flode gets punished gameplay wise for losing her virginity on top of being locked out of the best ending while Erincia losing her virginity does not change her stats and only affects her ending.
• Some h scenes aren’t obvious to get. Rishel’s scene for example requires her to be in your party but not Grant. The game tells you they come in a pair and it would be strange to separate them. It’s also why you can’t advance certain scenes with Grant if Rishel is there.
• Half the items for weapons and armor are locked behind RNG chests. When I beat every optional boss before the final battle, I was only 50% filled. Since there’s no way for some shops to upgrade their inventory, I think this is a really bad way to extend playtime.
• There is no item inventory to check. It’s odd because there is one for enemies, weapons and armor but not for items. When there are spellbooks that can give you spells not found anywhere in the game, I would think that they would show you them. If you’re using a monster unit, you won’t even know what they can learn outside of optional boss skills.
• The character creation, while a nice thing, is very limited. They can’t interact with the main character, Erincia is still treated as if she’s traveling alone and they basically are just there to try different things. Rishel and Grant are there from the beginning and you wouldn’t consider using character creation because they fill the role of warrior and explorer (everything you need to deal in a dungeon. Rishel also has a skill where she can give up 12 MP for an extra dice).
• I was under the impression that failing to pay the debt will result in an auto gameover, but according to the h gallery, you simply get punished with an h-scene that will eventually lock you out of the best ending.

So this game is still great by the Workshop crew. I'm still Magical Celesphonia > Binding Brand > Ambrosia overall. I'll get to the Ambrosia review someday, but this is still a recommendation from me.

Another banger from Shimobashira Workshop, great protag, lots of content, cute clothing options and a LOT of content accessible whilst remaining a virgin.

Combat is extremely dry but surprisingly avoidable as there are a lot of ways to make money so it evens out.

Interesting game that definitely got me into it for the time being. If you've played previous titles from the publisher, it will come off as a bit familiar and predictable for the most part. Which may be good and bad considering the good history. The 30 day limit seems stressful at first but you realize there's plenty of time to pay off the debt and also experience the rest of the world.

The combat system is DnD inspired. So far it doesn't require too much commitment and feels optional to invest into. There's also some cheese methods and option changes if you don't care for it.

H scenes are a bit lacking. Really just a picture with a lot of dialogue to go with it.

Clothing options are always a +++ in my books.

Storyline is fairly good. There's some side stories occurring that ties into the general world.

Overall a good game in the sea of RPGM games available. Feels like the spiritual successor to Ambrosia.

As someone who enjoyed previous Shimobashira Workshop games, this one was subpar by the standards of the company. The protagonist is thoroughly uninteresting and the corruption felt very fast. The scene activities were generic and predictable. The art is good, however. I'd only recommend this if you haven't played a similar RPGM game yet. Otherwise, you've basically already played this game.

Reviewing info: In a nutshell personal feelings/opinion >> “objective/critical” value. How I rate/review and other info is HERE
Review layout: Lazy/minimal format (others)
Review type: Game
Review format: Lewds
PROs
✅ Great art & hot FMC
✅ Fairly fun corruption course/approach
✅ A lot of scenes & kink variety
✅ H status screen is great and title hunting satisfying
✅ Well made dice board gameplay approach
✅ Multiple approaches to beat the game
✅ Scene unlock tool made great
✅ Busy gameplay, making you technically not have to grind for gear/progression.
✅ Quests & objectives well made with quest book. Making it modern to find and do stuff.
✅ Great personality changes on each corruption level
CONs
❌ Some scenes are rather specific to get, where even scene hint makes it difficult to discover
❌ Some translation issue & oddities
❌ Dice board gameplay can be off putting, especially when you have ♥♥♥♥ luck like me rolling “1” 6 times in a row
❌ Ending scenes somewhat subpar
Comments


Gameplay takes this time dice board approach. Which is unique experience, but wouldn’t like to see making them such games too much. With bad RNG luck it can be quite frustrating at times, rolling those 1’s six times in a row…. Constantly landing on turn loss or debuff platforms thus making the dungeon experience guaranteed early retrieval or failure. But at the same time stats and levels have quite heavy role this time. Each doing their own specific things and making you later on in the game quite strong. Although, with ♥♥♥♥♥♥ dice rolls even easiest fight can take eternity. Although dice board style makes hunting for H content more enjoyable as you know what tiles to hunt for. Oh and “new game plus” is like with previous games. You can choose what carries over. (gear/levels & lewd stats)

Lewd content extra comments I would only add that scene unlock tool is great. You can toggle it on/off. Meaning you can unlock all scenes and turning off the tool returns gallery room to it’s previous form. (scenes that were locked get only locked again) Which is great if at some point you might want to get them legit.

Anyhow… overall I think it was a “good game” a strong 7. Just maybe dice board wasn’t my cup of tea. Lewd content wise it’s on par with Ambrosia, but not as good as Celesphonia (for me), but gameplay wise “-1 point” for sure.

Can’t wait for their next game “Serenoxia” … saw few development images/posts. It seems might be Celesphonia tier of fun & quality. (Which is my favorite “Shimobashira Workshop” game & 1 of my all time fav degenerate games)
Total Score: 7/10
Game status:
✅ Finished

Enishia and the Binding Brand [v1.04 Steam]
Beat time: 11 hours (True ending - Hard mode, 30 days debt limit)
A good corruption game in a RPGM format, with a refreshing new combat and exploration and decent erotic content and pacing
SORRY FOR MY POOR ENGLISH

GAMEPLAY:
The game function with the tried and tested Day - Afternoon - night system, every main action you take, being working or exploring consumes a time slot, you only get a couple of time slots per day and some elements of the world change depending of the time of the day, the premise of the game being this looming threat of a monumental debt of 1Million gold pieces to be paid in one month (or 2Million gold in 20 days if you try the succubus mode), this being the main premise of the game and of course your main objective you should go into this game with the idea that you MUST make money, the game offers you ways to extend your time limit, but those come mainly in the way of sacrificing the purity of your MC, so you must try to balance the corruption with your grind.
And yet in reality the task is way to easy, i completed the debt on my first playtrough on Day 17, full virgin run and hard combat difficulty, just by following the main quest you can easily get something like 500k gold from rewards, and this isn't even mentioning the fact thatthe first time you finish the main dungeon you can get Between 500k to 1 Million gold depending on your gamemode, so don't stress out, play at your own pace and you will clear that debt without issues.

COMBAT
The combat System in this game is the loved and classical turn based fantasy genre, but it is quite different from the usual, i can compare it much more easily to Dungeons and Dragons instead of Final Fantasy, just from the numbers alone, enemies in the whole game have hp that ranges between 10 to 90 in most cases, and in the same note damage tends to go on the lower side, with your strong attacks dealing 40 damage in the late game, Hp and Mana are resources that are not replenished so easily, making grinding a hard task and the board system of exploration limiting your control on that regard as well, In this game every single point of extra damage matters a lot, so your gear is the most important part, but you will never reach a point where you simply spam Z and collect Exp for 10 minutes to get stronger, enemies have a clear pattern and strategies to abuse, and a simple encounter can cripple you if you are not carefull, but it is worth noting that at the end of the day the game is heavily balanced in favour of the player, so i recommend changing the difficulty in the settings to hard at least.

EXPLORATION
Since most of the exploration system is based on a board like gameplay dictated by a dice you lack complete control on what you get, but this is only for the first 2 or 3 days of gameplay, you get access to many items and resources to gain little control con this board system to get what you desire, sadly this means this game has practically no exploration nor benefit from it, the most you can maybe get out of checking every house and corner of the map is collecting a special currency that is not even limited and doesn't really offers you nothing special.

GRIND
This game has no Grind necessary, in fact in the whole playtrough i didn't have a single moment where i went to a zone especifically to grind EXP.
I followed my questbook (The quests are quite simple to follow and complete) and they are balanced enough that they never feel unfair, i finished the game with the 3 Main adventure Characters at level 7 and even that might be overkill since the final boss died in 2 turns. my only complain has to be the whole gathering part of the game, since it is not only fully optional it is also useless, you gain so much Gold just from fishing that tryng to collect herbs of minerals is just a waste of time, thankfully apart from 2 specific missions you never need to do it, and in those missions its just a 5 minute ''go there pick that and come back'' trip, all in all never tedious and flows nicely

EROTIC CONTENT
This game is a corruption game, so you know the drill, expose your MC to this many lewd situations so she levels up her lust level and with a higher lust level she gets exposed to even more lewd situation, if your lust level rises you lock yourself out of the good ending; most games in this genre make this mechanic more of a tedious grind, easy to avoid and hard to rise, in this game this is not the case, every job and interaction has a chance of increasing your lewd counter by one, considering that once it reaches 100 you rise to lust level 1 locking yourself out of the true ending this may cause you to worry and be carefull, and this is the only game to nail this formula, at the same time it is very easy to lower your lewd counter and reaching 100 lewd simply offers you the choice to gain a lust level instead of forcing it proves once again how generously easy it is to reach the true ending, so be relaxed, i will recommend you to do the virgin true ending route first, since that gives you the option to fully unlock the gallery anyway, but if you wish to rise your lewd counter you will like to know that it only takes about an hour to rise from 0 lewd to max level lust (and this timeframe may even be lower if you skip dialogue), sadly this game lacks a crucial feature, there is no combat sex, a shame really, but the scenes are very hot and the dialogue is quite nice, the corruption is also gradual an feels good.


CONCLUSION
Enishia and the Binding Brand is a very good game from a developer who already has experience and is clearly perfecting the formula, it respects the players time in all moments, in a normal pace you will never find yourself having to go grind, you will always have something to do, either missions or the main dungeon, either working or advancing the main quest, the game is heavily balanced in favour of the player in all aspects and proves almost no challenge in any regard, the erotic content is hot and very well done and the lore of the game is an uncut gem, it is not a masterpiece but it is a good game, you will enjoy playing it and fapping to it

RATING 4/5 OR B RANK

[v1.04 Steam]

A sandbox it ain't.

Plenty of things to do, except:

• RNG decides most,
• no 'load' function in a RNG-fest game with underexplained activities,
• there's a time limit for both the debts and times of day,
• mine type events,
• mini-quests lack information (time used),
• whatever the "land mostly blank spaces" adventure area was supposed to be.

Potential thrown out by some sicko with gambling issues and lack of convenience.

Its good game but there is + and a lot of -
starting with +
Its a turn based board game you have dice your attack depends on how much you get from the dice
Skills when you kill enemy you get exp like normal you can level up with them or go to guild and talk with npc and get a passive skill or a skill you can use in battle (most of them are trash tbh) but the idea is good
Hscenes were not bad but not that good too
The story is medicore predictable and long to be honest like hella long
There is some if you lose you see hscene kind of hscenes but not that much
The -
LONG SO LONG if you read evrything like me (most of them from are trying to get the hscene i will explain in down)
So you see the board right now there is the normal ones hscene ones and a random one can be anything the problem is when you are trying to get a single hscene to complete hscene collection its rng so it takes time(most of people just skip you can get full save from someone so it doesnt worth the time when you beat the game and if you want to see the skipped ones you didnt get just use the save)
The skills are not that great we can add 2 more companion to our advanture thats okay the problem is that the skills you use like most of skills you use have 2 dice which makes you only use 2 dice if your atk is 15 lets say and beacuse you can only use 2 dice it limits your atk power
its not an issue tho boss are not that hard the game is pretty easy
if you dont want to suffer please use 999 days to pay off debt there is 20 days and 30 days too but please select 999 days you are NOT going to clear it in 30 days if you dont know shit about the quests and which one gives more
ofc you can extend the day with 500 points or hscene to extend the time which doesnt worth just play on 999 days and be peacful only the days you need to pay off debt becomes easier evrything is same dont worry there is no hscene if you dont pay your debt in time so dont worry about that too
the idea is good but i think they couldnt put them in great use in some areas
(Most people can skip this i skipped before too and now i got interested beacuse of the idea)
just try and if it suits your taste contuine7.3/10

Pretty solid. The use of the dice and the exploration board really give the game a tabletop feel, one that is fully welcome by me. I did find the story is kind of non existent, it gives you enough to start with but there isn't really anything else until you reach an ending.

Compared to previous Shimobashira workshop releases this game was rather dissapointing. Not as many H scenes, the story personally wasn't as engaging as the other games. Hope for a better release next time.

A solid H-RPG game.
The game give you the freedom to do whatever you want and still find a way to give a damn to the quests and exploration.
Complete the game as a virgin if you like Hard mode and being a whore is the easy mode, but it will result in different ending (not much different, just the lewd part).
And read the damn conversation, the guide in the Quest option sometimes is hard to understand and a specific end game quest isn't even appear as a quest so no guide.
Conclusion: good gameplay, good H-scenes, good fap. Excellent H-game.
p/s: i hate Finding Charful

An above average H game that doesn't stray too far from the HRPG formula. A naive girl is given a tremendous financial debt, and to earn money she must work for perverts in a corrupt town. The story and characters are very basic, not that I'm complaining too much I'm playing a porn game, not reading the next potential Fate game. H scenes are OK, they cover the usual corruption to degenerate stuff like orgies and public sex. The gameplay itself is above average, I've seen some bad RPGs, and this one makes sure it avoids the RPG bloat you see in a lot of other games.

Overall not too bad or good, but maybe I'm judging this one too hard because of the developer's previous games.

it's an alright game, it's incredibly grindy, the art is good but sometimes kinda looks like ai on some parts, kinda wish there where a lot more scenes with Enishia and snoozie, and them alone just alot more lesbian content with just snoozie and Visee, No dicks just more lesbo shit with Snoozie and Visee. I didn't realize until the end (7 hours) the importance of Contracts/Experiences, Body/Traits, where it actually tells you how to do the lust things. kind of wish it tells you how to do more things because this game doesn't tell you how to do anything, and there's no real guides and googles very limited with this game so your on your own.

What does shark says to nun?
-You are so wet..

It is good.Despite by copycat of one of Magnificent previous game this one has some difference in core - battle looting system.
Which now is DND system with rolling dices.(Dont try to catch certain numbers on them while they are spinning by press in timing,it is not how it work here they are random.)
And my oh my it is super fun to play with that.But stable linear paths on board kinda meeh because later on you could get full control on which tile you will step - With powaah of mooooneyy..Which is sad actually. Collecting loot here is very enjoyable.Many good items which is not often want to drop,but because of many characters in group you may want to try collect them.(Where is my UR bow,wtf man )
Custom party were suprisingly fun part - classes and characters pretty enjoybale toying with.You could add your own ch. Sekai Saionji with knife applying crits or Ankha the beast cat - fits here very well..
Game has lack of challenge only one a little complicated part was..
Story also thrilling - conflict is local which feels like a good detective novel with Colombo clues and other shit in a good way.Was interesting to read it.Sex text tho quite annoying - it all wrote in harsh bully way to pretty soft girl and all over time it became really pissing off.Every time when i read quote "It's Your Fault" in H games im guessin it was added by Nikocado Avocado or similiar degenerate..
Feels like all it made up by malice toxic virgin boYo.
-EAT THIS SLUT!!!!!!!!!

Main girl - all the same as girls in previous Shimobashira's games.Diffrent eyes and hair colours but same core.Mario as is.
Frankly it is excusable.And her backstory kinda sad and was putted effort in,so she is no blank as may seems.STILL she's losses major points of charisma to sub character Glommy Snoozie which i would play to MAIN as she is,damn it was be really interesting.Only one scene with her..Sob sob

Conclusion & Morale.
Cant say nothing very bad at all about it because every aspect of this game was been made tendering with love! This is how it feels to me.
Someone could say that it is no improvements by previous games and that's baaaad.But cmon it is like playing all countles parts of megamans or souls series where base cores unchange and duplicated over and over.Here the same fun attractions - but it didnt do them less bad essentially.Besiiides wihout any hentai lootin here in DND style it's brand new and fun part.

Played Enjoyed Satisfilled.God bless for more.
Despite by happy endings game teach how fatally and stressfull may be signing contracts it may be awaring for you.
Extremely reccomended!
(Completed 3 times.)
[UR]: Gameplay: Addictive x 3 May cure game impotency if you have one.
[SSR]: Music: High-quality x 2 Marvelous.Perfeclty chosen and suited.
[SR]: CG Art: Neat and cute x 2 Girls with puppy eyes.
[R]: Story: Decent x 1 Plain and not bored.
[UC]: Hentai: Overwhelming x 1 Avoidable.
[C]: Sounds: Сutting x 1 Some been turned off.

This is a pay rent kind of game where Enishia a little nun should collect hips of money in order to save the church and the orphans.

PROS
+ Got lots to do: game provides lots of things to do in order to obtain money, like working at the bar, clinic, church, club, brothel, and going to the ruins where you can earn the loots and exp.

+ Contracts are cool: I think corruption and contracts are concepts that mix well together. the game also does this decently well.

+ Interesting exploring mechanics: game doesn't have a vast map where you roam around encountering random monsters, instead you get a board game where you roll your dice to move around. that's pretty neat and unique.

+multiple endings: yay more grind (it lets you keeps the money and stats, so that's better)
+customizable party: interesting

CONS

- Haven't paid the debt, so what: i mean, it's just basically game over. you don't see what happens to enishia after that, probably something horrible and enough to make my part tingle but despite its importance, the game didn't give me the h scene i deserve and i find this upsetting.

- H scenes lengthy but not sexy enough: the third person high camera angle in certain h scenes were disappointing. it's like i've become God high above watching over ants like human having sex. also, there were too many dialogues which could have been easily substituted by a couple of moans at the right time. h scenes overall were decent at best.

- No full gallery option?: i thought the game would unlock its gallery after first clear, but it wasn't so. the game is lengthy (12~ hours) and i can't fathom why the game doesn't just give us the option.

- Grind: so much repetitive grind, i know, doing jobs is not fun irl or in game.

- Pure route is easy, why become a dumb slut: i think enishia just needs to be dumb in order to become a slut. Enishia can do her routines, ignoring the molesters, and she will be fine. why go through the contract when you can easily earn money by taking decent jobs? i think the game needs to have put more events that tempt enishia to take a darker path, i think the company could have done worse things to hinder her from saving money but they just didn't. i think that's the reason why the gameplay can become a bit too straight forward and pure.

- Getting pregnant was underwhelming: you get a baby, name a baby. the end. no scenes, no belly bulging, nothing. pregnant lovers will be disappointed.

OTHERS
* Lore, worth it?: there's a library and books laying around to look at the lores but i just didn't think it's worth reading all that, but i guess those are things

I think i give this game 4 instead of 3, because it's a well made game, it's just that h elements weren't that strong suit in this one to me

Shimobashira Workshop has always been one of my top go-to devs for RPGM games. Magical Girl Celesphonia & Ambrosia are really great, and for this title they used the same formula but put a slight spin on things.

You're a nun - you go into debt because obligatory story reasons. From there, you have a contract crest that you can continuously add onto as you further progress through the game and make Enishia do dirtier things. The story is really similar to Ambrosia, but now you have a loose time limit in the form of debt.

The gameplay is walking around and doing various jobs. Sometimes you're a waitress, dancer, or prostitute. Other times you do charity work, help as a model, use experimental medicine, etc. Typical H-corruption stuff. The actual battle gameplay side of stuff uses a different approach. Instead of going through dungeons, you go through a board game format, utilizing dice rolls. The same goes for your attacks and skill checks throughout the game in general. Some people are mixed on this, but I personally like the approach for taking less time to get through main quests and such.

There's many H events, but they get hidden through story quests and some of them are time-gated. You can't access everything from the get-go, and it can be a little slow to start, especially if you're aiming to do a corrupt route playthrough. I do appreciate that they implemented a quest log, but I find it really annoying that they don't let you just track one quest and show you where to go. Or they tell you to look for x person, but you have no clue where that person is.

All in all, it's a great addition to their line-up. There's just many thing that could use some quality of life to make the gameplay flows faster and better imo.

Absolutely amazing game with a cute mc and well done scenes and mechanics.

But, there's one big downside — Main Quest:
• At many different points and especially by the end of the game quest log completely disappears and you are left with abusing the search feature at f95 to figure out wtf you are supposed to do next. The "translated" walkthrough is abysmal, so you are left with search feature anyways
• At many points it forces you to do some absolutely boring and unnecessary mechanics that have nothing to do with the game and h experience of it, or go do stupid quests to kill some monsters with, again, no h options around it.
- Examples:
1. It forces you to go fishing for specific types of fish. I mean there's a letter "h" in "fishing", but other than that you have to try really hard for a half an hour to wank on it
2. Fight ghosts. Just that. I mean there's "h" in "ghost", but again, quite a hard wanking experience
3. And all other similar fetch, kill, talk, find quests. If I remember correctly, two of them have an option to sell body for information, so good here.

TL;DR: It is by all means a 5 star game, but I got so fcking annoyed by fishing, I had to go for 4. sorry

I have played multiple games created by this dev. As usually it gives what it has given so far:
- an airhead dumb MC,
- a nun/magical girl/something holy,
- getting corrupted,
- having multiple routes.

This is actually something that really ticks all the stuffs I like (except the dumb MC). I mean... just check my name and profile picture lol.

Then you ask... why is it only 4 stars and not 5? Well to answer that all I have to do is just to lay down what I liked and what I didn't like in the game.

Lets start with the positives:
- It has multiple endings.
- Allows you to insert your own characters into the game with their own classes.
- I liked the D&D system of the game.
- The art still looks good.
- The maps for an RPGM game actually looked good.
- Clearly above your average RPGM games.
- Replayable.

Due to these points I am pretty sure it will appeal for most of the people who would play this game. If it were the first game I have encountered form this dev I would had given 5 stars for this game. Sadly since this is my 4th game I just cannot do that and here are the reasons:

The negatives:
- This is not the first game from this dev, so I actually expected some upgrades, but this game feels like the previous ones. I don't see the improvement at all.
- The MC of this game is way too airhead. I actually felt insulted she was so dumb. And no this is not a fantasy for some kinks, it is just really bad writing.
- The game still uses the same basic music and the same really lame sound effects. I didn't mind it when it was the first game really, but hearing the same stock music across multiple game releases is really lame. I don't think the money is the issue here. There are lot of free music available and free to use. The same goes for the sound effects. They are so bad, they hurt my ears. A titjob scene literally sounded like you are fingering a glass of water. Just buy an NSFW sound pack and make it better please.
- The writing is abysmally bad. Like I am reading an Attack on Titan fanfic level of bad. The character personalities are like dry sponges, the story is just the same as the previous games, but with different skin, the scenes are really not enjoyable to read. I swear it was written by some (hopefully) 18~ year old someone who hasn't seen a female in their life. Even tho the game looks good it doesn't have any soul in it.
- With the previous points I actually started to feel like that I was wasting my time with the game. Why should I grind in a mediocre story for a mediocre scene? This is not a good thing to feel during a game.

All in all it is a good game. It is better than what I have vented here, especially if it is your first time playing a game from this dev. I can't give it more than 7/10. It ticks in with my interests, BUT still leaves me uninterested. Imagine finding your favourite fetish content and not being interested in it.

The other worrying factor is that I don't see that the dev is improving. I feel like I am consuming the same content again and again. It does not paint a good picture in regarding the future contents. After Ambrosia I was really hyped for Magical Girl Celesphonia, but it did not live for the hype. Now I have encountered with this game and I don't even feel any hype for the next one.

TL;DR:

The game is really above your average RPGM games and I recommend you to play this game as well, but if you have played the dev's previous games you would feel that their games are not improving. Your first experience will be a 10/10, but the more you play the more it shifts down to 7/10.

Shimobashira Workshop producing good content although a bit disappointing compared to previous releases: Celesphonia & Ambrosia. Definitely a shorter game, feels like there were less scenes as well. I was not a fan of the dice roll combat as hitting double nat 1's three times in a row was a frustrating experience.