RPGM - Completed - GranEnde: Saga [v1.0.3] [Hiwatari Honpo]

Really enjoyed this, the game took about 17-18 hours to fully beat, by this I mean exploring everything on the maps and obtaining the true ending.

The story was great and kept me interested the whole way through, all the characters are likable in their own way and it creates enough diversity in the cast.

The difficulty was sorta there, 60-70% of the fights was no real difficulty in, but at least in some of the special regions and near the end the fights were a bit challenging.

Check the game out if you feel like playing a relaxed adventure game with a good plot and cast.

Vanilla sex, vanilla story, simple and easy combat, dialogues without substance... if that's what you're looking for in a game, this is the one for you; if not, there are many better ones out there.

The sex scenes are 1 or 2 images with text.

After 5 hours of standar combat I reached the elf-village and I just get bored

I think the overall story for this is good yet somewhat cliche and you see it coming a mile away but it has heart and that's what any story really needs. But I think it would have been a whole lot better if they did it like Gran II and it focused on either 1 or 2 heroines instead of 5. I don't know if I've said it before somewhere on the site but I can't stand games that give you a large party but you can only use three at a time. You could get rid of Sten(she is sorta bland so just stuck with her name), elf girl and MC from the first and it would be so much better with less bloat while literally changing nothing in the story or world. I still don't really understand beyond boning the MC why Gran Protag 1 is even here when she had chocolate dynamite as a partner.

And I'm not just saying this because combat wise nun girl and legally distinct not chinese girl mage are the best party members. They are part of the plot and have a reason to go with you beyond jumping the amnesiac self-insert(but not really) character bone.

Gameplay wise its your standard RPG maker fare and while I like it I understand its hated by a great many here. But like the story bloat because of unneeded extras the combat roles also have bloat. There is no reason to ever use Sten when you have MC-kun who can counter beyond her ability to stun which as you know is never really useful in a RPG maker game. Self-Insert is the best physical damage dealer and meat shield so she serves no purpose as a taunt tank. Elf girl is trying to be the debuffer/poisonous character but well that isn't good since most normal enemies get washed by the time anything she does is useful and her debuffs might as well be gnats to bosses compared to the specific debuffs Shampoo does. Granende Protag girl is a magic knight jack of all trades but she takes a bit to ramp-up and MC-Kun along with Shampoo out damage her with less work. Nun girl is the goat throughout the game. Most enemies are weak to her holy spells, she has the best buff and her heals are stronk. Shampoo is the mage of the group and has reliable AOE damage with multiple quick ways to up up her damage and lower enemy resistances to her fire spells.

The maps are not really big but are large enough to serve their purpose and none of the towns have annoying layouts that make no sense. Exits and entrances are clear. Going from region to region is kind of annoying but servicible. The side characters being good or bad is subjective but I think they were ok and did what they needed to do.

Classic J-RPG gameplay in its truest form + sex scenes. From bottom to top, getting ultimate weapons and unique items by the end. I love this type of shit ngl. I give this a 5 stars because I like that kind of stuff. Games like Ambrosia, etc. Where you start from slimes until becoming the strongest.

If you play all 4 games you basically know a bunch of characters, one of the main girls is even the mc of the first game, and as always, one big hard extra boss to get the REAL Gran Ende weaponry.

About scenes, very well drawn, love the art. Pretty straight forward way to get all of them. It isn't my cup of tea. Male MC and a straight forward way to get every scene. But, thinking about it, It's kind of growing on me. You go there, get all the scenes, finish it up, and go out adventuring and doing the quests. New girl? Same thing. You can focus on game vs goon time separately if you will.

Anyway, that's it. This is the end of a 4 game series. I'm curious about this creator's next project. Hopefully everything is cool, and bro is healthy.

Okay, so the game really feels like a true JRPG adventure. The story is engaging, the characters are likable, and both the combat and quest systems are enjoyable. Being able to switch weapons to adapt the gameplay is also really cool.
You can tell there are plenty of ways to customize the overall experience. I haven’t finished it yet, but I already know it’s going to be a good one—which doesn’t surprise me, since the previous games were very well polished too. I didn’t finish the second one, but the first and third were excellent.
Here, everything feels even more refined, and I can’t wait to see what comes next. I definitely recommend it if you’re looking for a gameplay-driven experience rather than just a simple erotic adventure!

We truly need more male protag games these days. This was good enough in a sea of femdon, ntr and females protags.
The girls of the other games are virgin, no ntr. A bit grindy to get all scenes, and some bosses can go full bullshit, but it was fun.

It is a really good game
Art
It is horny enough to keep me in the inn instead doing quest
Story
Interesting enough to make me continue main quest while fapping
Game
Interesting skill stick to equipment, too bad we MC only have 2 option
Love the sex status, wish there was characters comments on it too

This game is peak though cliche, but I've seen worse so it's fine. The relationship with the harem members are wholesome asf, but the world itself is not toned down or tame at all. Decent RPGM experience as well, as the combat is decently done, with plenty of weapons and armor, as well as my favorite in games, passive skill stacking! At the same time, the combat aspect is not anything special, so that's partly why I'm giving 4 stars. There's also plenty of content in the game map, plenty of quests (generic though), cute dialogue interactions with companions, and hidden items/quests. The story is decent, comedic at times, and there's no plot holes really, in my opinion, everything was explained clearly. The main reason I can't give this game five stars though, is the H scenes. Dialogue is ok, the art is good, but there's no animations, and the biggest thing is, you have a harem, but you can't even have threesomes, foursomes, and... You get it. Sure, there is that harem ending CG that's pretty nice, but that's one picture and all dialogue, moreover, it's a short ending scene too. Still, a great game.

I know I critique the lack of harem interaction... But Iria best girl! Wouldn't give a fuck if the other four girls got erased from existence.

I played Gran Ende III to completion years ago and a tiny bit of I. I did not play II.

This is an RPG first and a porn game second or even third. It's a big, clearly ambitious game (let alone series) that a lot of work was put into. It's also not like the other games I played, which were fairly standard corruption games with above-average emphasis on story.

As a game, it's fine, and the main source of the 3 star rating. The story is interesting eventually - the twist was not what I was expecting. I don't think it's perfect but I can at least understand the general motivations of the baddies; I disagree but that's fine, and it's a hell of a lot better than a super generic "evil dark lord is gonna destroy the world because he's evil".

The gameplay is fine. It's an improvement over stock RPG Maker fare. You have multiple party members and thus specialization; instant attacks don't consume a turn and offer more flexibility, and there's a decent number of buffs and status effects available. The big thing is the stun system; bosses will charge up special attacks and you need to accumulate stun damage to block that move. This is something I dislike - not everyone can inflict stun, so it encourages the use of specific party members.

The other issue is the party size limit. You have 6 characters in total. You can use 3 at once. Having all 6 in a battle could make things into a slog, but the alternative is that you're facing some climatic battle to save the world... and then 3 girls are just hanging out in the back, watching. It really messes with the narrative. It also means that you'll probably end up getting used to a specific set of characters and just keep doing that, and let some people become perpetual back benchers, which isn't fair to them. That's certainly what happened for me. Sorry, Yunfa, I love your tits, but if there's a way to use you I can't figure it out.

Then there's the porn and romance. It is extremely tacked on. If all of the porn were cut out, you'd barely notice. I'm not going to give this a 2nd playthrough, but I strongly suspect there's no change in dialog if you're banging all of the girls or none of them. Affection points go up just from beating bosses, so you don't need to do night visits or sharing meals to raise them. All of the girls are fine, attractive, and agreeable, but that's it.

This is a harem game, but there's basically no side interactions, except at the very end. I haven't been following the thread closely, but it sounds like there will be some 3some scenes added later, at least. But as it stands now, the girls never sexually interact with one another. You can take a girl to dinner, take another to your room and pound her anus, then a third the next night, and no one ever comments on it. Sexuality never comes up outside of inns/home. It's not a harem so much as "parallel monogamy". In theory you could skip all of the porn and play it as a worksafe RPG, but why is that even an option? The romance and smut suffers as a result of it not being mandatory. Just make it a strict harem.

As you can expect of a Gran Ende game: Good combat system not too easy, but enough to be considered a challenge.
A good harem with a girl that appeared on Gran Ende I (she's still virgin, so it's from the true end with good ending).
Pregnancy mech is not relevant because there are risky and safe days, but nothing happens but a text showing she's pregnant.
There are many interesting scenes that are quite of my taste and the artstyle is good enough and enjoyable.

Hope the next Gran Ende game to be a corruption game again. it's my favorite saga.

I would say its the textbook for indie ero rpg. i can feel the effort of the devs making this game, awesome story and not bad ero scenes (even only vanilla). and the fact that they add the heroines from their older games is really good fanservice. Must play 8/10.

Gameplay - 4.5/5
Story - 4.5/5
Graphics - 5/5
Characters - 5/5
Overall - 5/5
Gran Ende Saga is the culmination of the developers' hardwork and worldbuilding. Meant to be the finale to the entire series (afaik), this one succeeds in being one by answering a lot of questions the previous entries setup whilst also potentially setting up for more.

It's good man, it's really good. And I just wanna say I do think it's super funny how this continues the Gran Ende tradition of having the H-content be an optional thing, so to honor that fact I will not be commenting on the H-content at all after this section lmao. But to summarize my thoughts on them, they were hot, sexy, steamy, and full of cum. Pretty good writing, and quality artworks for days that's for sure.

Story:
I really liked the story even IF the setup is generic as all hell. But you know what they say, tropes exist for a reason and boy golly does Gran Ende Saga pull of those tropes well. Like I mentioned above, it answered a lot of the questions the previous 3 games setup like the what was the Calamity, who caused the Calamity, and why was said Calamity happened, which was really cool and well thought out.

Loved the twists and turns this game introduced and that's pretty much all I have to say about it lol. It's good, it's fun, and honestly I kind of wish there was more . Like for one, I wish we got to see MC2 and Yuno, would've been neat but I understand WHY they weren't here since Yuno would just straight up have a heart attack the moment she entered any of these places.

Characters:
The main protagonist in this one is fine, he's your usual heroic dude and I am glad he's a simple character because it helped make the other characters' stand out more. All of the female leads were charming, fun, and super cute to boot. Loved their designs, and their interactions with one another and with the MC is my favorite part of the game. I am a sucker for harem dynamics!

The character that really stood out for me in this one was Iria, the previous Gran Ende MC, and I think she might be my favorite out of all the female leads. She's just adorable and her still being slightly naive despite the 1 year she already spent as an adventurer adds to some funny haha moments.

Really not much more I can say about them other than the fact that I really loved them, though I do wish there was more to the endings since they kinda left me sitting there thinking "that was it?".

Gameplay:
And then finally the gameplay and all I have to say is that it almost gets close to the level of absurdity the Trails games have.

It's quick and a massive improvement from the previous games and despite the massive increase in party size and playable characters, it still managed to retain the Gran Ende style with the 2 (sometimes 3) enemies setup which I gotta give props to the dev for since wowie I had fun with that.

Though if I were to have one gripe about the game it would be that I wish the game had a swap feature mid-battle to alleviate one slot always being used up by the MC (who I'd argue is just average in this game) since that fucker really limits what compositions you can make.

Anyways, Iria and Ellone were the GOATS when it came to combat and having them just decimate enemies and make the final AND secret bosses cake walks was funny af.

Closing Thoughts:
Overall, this game was a BANGER. I loved my time with it and I hope that the developer makes a spin-off OR just makes a game with the same quality and writing as this series. I'll probably replay this once the dev announces the final update for this game.

5/5 - Iria best girl.

I had a good time with this game, the fourth series and surprisingly my favorite among all, at first when i saw the title and male protagonist tag i was kinda disappointed. Tried and enjoyed it a lot.

RPG 5/5
yes this brings back many RPG feels which we rarely found nowadays, battle might be a bit too easy i kinda wish there's a harder difficulities but it still gives proper challenge especially bosses

Character 4.5/5
each heroines are drawn beautifully and not a let down at all, i give 4.5 stars just because of male protagonist, but MC is not an ugly bastard or eyeless bald muscular man, he's pretty handsome actually so it's alright

Scene 4.5/5
now this might be the most arguable thing as many have different kinks. But for me to be honest it's nice just vanilla and a lil bit of interaction of choosing which "scene".

i'll definitely recommend this game for those who enjoy RPG a lot with a little spice in it, think of it as little brother of Brave Soul

It's a boring cliched story with a typical Isekai protagonist. The plot is not intriguing, and the choice does not affect anything except for extra points with one or another heroine. Gameplay, it all comes down to holding down one button. The drawing and the scenes are average and this is probably the only part that I liked. If you're bored, you can watch the scenes, but otherwise it's not worth the time.

This one's real solid all-around. Good story, good(enough) translation that had actual effort put into the editing, good sex scenes with a lot of variations and progression, combat that's simple but just hard enough to make you think, everything is good.

It's not breaking any boundaries but in an age of increasingly extreme and ridiculous fetish content sometimes you just want a vanilla harem RPG(which are sadly very rare, especially translated) and this delivers that in spades.

ADDENDUM, having beaten the game:

The combat actually grows much more difficult as the game goes on, later bosses will shred you if you think you can just hold down the confirm button and win. It never gets TOO munchkiny, it's just enough that you actually have to have a strategy and can't just use your strongest moves and win in 3 hits like most H RPGs. You're also constantly learning new and good skills right up to level 55 or so so your options are always expanding.

Early on it seems like you need to farm affection and scenes at inn visits, but this is not the case. Once every heroine is recruited you can buy a house and live there with your harem, opening up slice-of-life events and allowing very easy scene collection. In addition to story and sidequest choices, affection goes up naturally every few fights with enemies around your level, and that "around" is like 10 levels wide. Story scenes also have built-in affection boosts, just playing the game will get you all the affection you need.

There are a LOT of scene variations and they're all really well done if you're into loving sex and girls growing increasingly lewd for you in scenes as they get used to it.

In the very small "silent protagonist harem RPG" genre this is a strong entry. It doesn't quite match up to FALL IN LABRYINTH but it gets surprisingly close.

My biggest complaint to this game is how its taking so long to get into the main story. Was the elf heroine really needed? don't think so. Was the mage really needed? don't think so. worse off, its so hard to justify investing to the later heroines if you're buying passive skills to the first two.

as for h-scene, AI could probably write better. its soooo generic. art is very basic too so that barely helped.

battles is just hold enter for mobs and just skill-spam for bosses.

generic battle, generic h-scene, generic heroines and the game is taking too long to get to the story. I'm basically DONE after seeing the mage girl joining the party.

somehow this game got me to finish it completely. i think the RPG combat was pretty well done, apart from the fact that stun meter might not matter at all in some cases because the boss pretending to give you a turn by going "im gonna cast a big spell in 1 turn!" thing is a fakeout and the boss will immediately go first on the next turn, which means you can't actually stun them in their big turn....
in terms of story, i thought it was very wholesome for the most part, but then there's some weird backstory that leaves a bad taste. but it ends OK and everyone is happy at the end, so that's cool.
adult content side, its really wack. all the big booba lady i liked turned out to be side characters that you dont get to bang.... really unfortunate.
4/5 because it got me to finish the game and the RPG combat was fun most of the time. and i always like wholesome stories.

I had a good time with this game.

Japanese RPGM games continue to be the gold standard when it comes to actually delivering complete, playable experiences that cater to a variety of kinks. They rarely ever stand out as something special, but the vast majority of them you can play start to end and daresay even have fun doing so as long as you like RPGs.

You don't have to go in worried about if you're going to be playing a barely functioning alpha build, released solely so the dev can start drip feeding content through Patreon in order to put food on the table. You get a game. That you can play to the end! I'm sure that is what every pirate dreams as they first discover this site.

The girls in this game are all adorable and well-designed, with just enough personality to them that you might be able to pretend you'd know who was talking if there weren't any character sprites or names above the text box. A love drilled into me by Pokemon Gold that felt catered to here was how protagonists from the older games appeared, and even actively contributed to the plot. Despite the fact I haven't played any of the other Gran Endes, these cameos were the highlights.

Despite being a silent protagonist, MC's personality also ended up surprisingly endearing. Maybe it was partly due to my dialogue choices, but he ended up being the type of person to always help someone in need. He doesn't add these girls to his party because he's looking for a new harem member, he genuinely wants to work together with them and help. The inevitable new harem member is just a bonus.

It plays like most RPGM games, with all the RPGM eccentricies. The only things I have to note is that even as your harem grows you can only have three party members in a battle at one time, and you can only move in four directions. Except if you're on the map screen, where the dev inexplicably allows eight directions.

The plot is servicable, and is your standard fantasy isekai story. Amnesiac MC spawns in at an abandoned shrine with clothes from another world, is then discovered by two women, and promptly sets sail for adventure with his newfound harem.

Plot holes aren't noticable if you're not actively looking for them. Even though the true bad guy is actually foreshadowed pretty well, it still feels like it comes out of nowhere with how suddenly it's brought up. The villain being behind that one time a character feels like they're being watched is sudden when it isn't mentioned at all past the point it happens up until the villain gets revealed.

Pregnancy also seems to be ending only sadly. Most likely text only too. I don't think the sprites change in the endings to reflect this, I will have to look at the raw images to see if I missed unlocking anything. I got excited when there was text hinting at a pregnancy risk mechanic on the girls' status screen. Even more so when I maxxed their affection out, and that Risky Day changed to Pregnant. Thankfully, the dissapointment was only mild.

Be like me and trust the post's (as of writing this) lack of pregnancy tag before you get your hopes up too high, the only breeding you do to your harem is essentially in spirit.

A classic RPGM H-game of days past before the world went to shit in 2020.

In the prior titles, you play as female protags going around and getting into trouble with struggle snuggles. Conversely, in this one you're a guy trying his best for the harem route, going on a whimsical heart-warming little journey with your ovulating party members.

Which brings me to the slight pain point of this game, the story. It's just repetitive "demon lord Isekai" themed plot that usually bores the reader. (-1 point)

But to expect a good plot in an already well made porn game would be asking for too much, and will disrupt reality as we know it.

Gameplay wise, it's your typical RPGM game but refined to its near finest, game is balanced decently and player is not overpowered or underleveled, being just right if they progress the game normally, offering the player a decent challenge especially against the secret boss.

Storywise... It actually ties everything up very well, utilizing foreshadowing elements from all 3 previous game in the series and culmulated into this game's story. I'd recommend (re)playing 1-3 before this game, but it is not needed.

Unfortunately, adult-content wise feels lacking in comparison. It stands well on its own, but not as refined as the other aspect of this game - the interactions (whether sexual or normal dialogues) with heroines that changes accordingly to game progression and favorability is quite great, just not the scenes themselves.

There are a lot of unused/abandoned contents seen in development blog such as 69/alternate Paizuri scenes, and some heroines is noted to have slightly more contents than others.
3P/harem scenes update is coming sometime in the future though.

Overall though, being a single dev-made game, it still deserves a 5.