RPGM - Completed - How to create a Witch [v1.0 Fix] [Kujilab]

Art: 4/5
The art is good, and the customization is a big plus. Half of the h-content is slimes and tentacles, so if you enjoy that, good for you.

Gameplay: 1/5
It's just bad. It's a extremely bare-bones turn-based combat with only 1 character and basically no equipment. There's no secrets to discover, which is something I personally enjoy. In terms of gameplay, it's the worst Kujilab game.

Story: 3/5
I have played all Kujilab games, so I am heavily invested in the story. This one takes place right after Ark of Artemis, where Claudia looks for her long-lost sister, Mist. The biggest problem of this game is that its plot relevance is low, as this game kinda forgets that THE WORLD IS ENDING. The lack of recurring characters, combined with the not so important Black Moon Cult, makes the story kinda lackluster. (At least there's a funny Zerachiel and Purlin cameo haha.)

This manual is all messed up

How to Create a Witch was another game I had high hopes for, and it let me down by and large. The story centers around a magical warrior looking for her sister, who got lost when they were children. It's hard to explain how the plot goes without spoiling it, since this is a short-ish game. It does involve looping mechanics, but I'm going to be honest it shouldn't have needed them.

How to Create a Witch suffers from being in the wrong genre. This would have really shone as a visual novel (and to be honest the looping would have even worked in that), but instead it's an RPGMaker game. The choice of engine isn't doing it any favors, and RPGMaker devs really need to realize that using the engine doesn't mean you need turn-based battles.

The bulk of the game is basically walking from H-Event to H-Event, with the occasional (and very irritating) battles spaced in between. There is...a lot of walking. More than you need. It's a shame the dev decided to put effort into those battles, and making the maps so large, because the artwork and plot actually aren't bad. The artwork looks good and is all custom, and while many of the events are the 'excuse plots' common to the H genre, it's still not the worst, and it's always good to see a girl actually enjoy being fucked.

If this has been in Ren'py instead of RPGMaker, or if the Dev had invested in the battles instead of just leaving them as a secondary concern, this could have been a really enjoyable game. As it is, How to Create a Witch is going to irritate the RPG fans with the lack of meaningful combat, and irritate the art fans who would have been happier with a gallery than this complex mess. There's good to be enjoyed here, but you have to either fight for it or get a complete save.

It was pretty okay, I really liked the art and the cgs were good, but the story was a little hard to follow at points and repetitive with little new content between runs.

Overall it was totally fine and for that reason I'm giving it a 3

yeah ,not good.
It has some pretty good art, but that's it.
The fights are the worst part, and that's the only thing the game has other than the porn. they are very frustrating to win because of the restrain attacks, which not only deals ton of damage to your hp, but also makes you deal like 50% less damage while restrained, which also means that if you want to kill the enemy you'll spend atleast 1 more turn to get out of the restrain just for the next turn be restrained again and repeat the process untill you run out of mana for healing.
The worst part? it's that you don't even need to kill any of the enemies to kill the final boss, like why did i spend 15 minutes lvling up then?

I was pretty excited when i saw the body modification, got really disappointed when i realized there wasn't any gameplay elements tied to it, just changes the art of the scenes, but that's it.
I could rate it 2 stars but, considering the time i spent on the useless fights i'll just leave it at 1.

(3/7) Linear corruption story with almost no agency but some decent art.

The transformations for your character aren't locked behind any stats or choices and have no consequences or new scenes.

The game is very linear and only has a few scenes in it. It also escalates pretty quickly and has no gradual corruption or hypnosis steps.

You can only fight slimes and there are no interesting new enemies or interactions with the slimes.

Overall nothing to write home about. Maybe worth one go if theres absolutely nothing else to play

RPGM walking simulator with turn based combat sprinkled around. Very quick - shouldn't take more than two hours. That is, if it's even really worth that.

If you do decide to play - skip most combat scenarios. There are very minor, mediocre battle fuck mechanics where the heroine can get restrained but it only reduces power and doesn't lock you out of attacks. There is no climax meter and you only just take more damage, and so there's sense of build up aside from dying and getting the game over scene. It's all so tedious, and just halts the flow of combat without any lasting consequences. Battling is barebones and there's not much variety aside from spam spells that aren't on cooldown/heal when you need to/debuff their defense even though it's not really necessary. The final boss was also so easy that I question whether it was worth it to level up at all. Skip the battles if you play the game!

The story isn't to write home about but it has a little more meat on the bones then most adventure stories. There is at minimum, a solid throughline of familial bonds in the two main characters and has some books lying around to worldbuild and create some lore. It's also brisk and to the point with no fluff, while still packing a wide variety and length of h-scenes. Very fast paced, don't expect to play 30 minutes and only get a cut-in of a bastard poking her tits - the action builds up but the density of scenes is there.

Unfortunately this game features none of the QoL you'd expect from an rpgm game in this day and age - no voice overs or real animation of any kind, and as far as my knowledge knows, no multiple endings or virginity mattering at all. But, the art is superb and also has a lot of options to modify the look of the character, which is pretty impressive use of cg layering.

So if the art intrigues you what's awaiting you is a 5/10 story that sandwiches awful and meaningless battling, but will only take an evening if you decide to enjoy it that way.

It has nice art and at least offers a bunch of body customization, but that's it.

The game consists of a bunch of linear events; talk to person, go to area, talk to new person. Typically they must strictly be done in order, and people will just suddenly appear in previously empty rooms. So you just have to constantly explore every available room (typically only 2-3) to look for the next linear event. It's just pointless, and would work better as a comic or CG set.

There's some RPG combat tossed in. It tries to have slightly-different combat. There isn't enough enemy variety for this to matter, so it's just a waste of the developer's time. There's no room or need for strategy, so it's just busywork on the player's part.

The most interesting bit is probably the body modification. After an early event you can slightly customize the MC and give her giant tits, pubic hair, a lewd crest, and an engorged clit. It will show up in the standing picture, (most) H scenes, and the H scene pixel animations. I guess this is impressive, but it's not enough to carry the game. Additionally, it throws in brainwashing nonsense, so the girl doesn't think anything about suddenly having massive tits. Wasted opportunity.

In theory there's also clothing customization, but I'm pretty sure the only options are "lewd cult clothes" and "nude".

There's a story but I didn't care about it. I didn't finish the game; maybe the ending is more substantial, but I doubt it. I got sick of dragging myself through the linear events, checked a full save, and discovered there weren't even any more H scenes to unlock. Since that was the only thing keeping me going, I quit.

It's alright for what's there. battles are way to hard, too grindy for how short the content actually is, and the fact that you can break the economy in the first shop by buying manuals for 10 gold and selling them for 50 is funny. The hentai scenes are decently good, but there's like 12 of them, tops, and most of that is enemy defeat scenes for the 8 enemy types in the game. Just not a lot.

This looked so promising but in the end it just baited me with possible gameplay mechanics while being actually just CG collector. There is no gameplay here, just the bare minimum to get you interested.

The only good thing here is the artwork, although TBH her hips to chest has an extra weird bump that shouldn't be there lol.

Art 4/5
Gameplayer 1/5
Story 1/5

AVOID

This is a short but sweet story.
Don't expect anything ground breaking, this game focus more on the quality then the quantity. There a lot of little details that change dialogue base on what the character wear.

More or less 2h30 of game but I like it.
Definitively more fun if you played de other game of the studio first but not necessary.

It is a pity that the game is short and linear.

The truth is that it has a lot of potential and I really like the story, but I feel that it lacks consistency at the end, it's worth trying but it's nothing memorable.

Good Art
Good Writing
Interesting Scenes

But Short and linear.

Really boring story and completely linear, this game doesn't deserve more than this. It only got 2 stars because I do like their art and the other games by this studio give them some credit. Honestly skip this and play those if you haven't yet.

What a waste of time. Should've just been a comic because I didn't feel like I was playing a game. I had no options, no choices to refuse being groped or even be a little defiant.

And leveling up is ultimately a waste of time because you don't do anything, it leads to nowhere. There's only brainwashing/mind control as you play, no sense of corruption or freedom of choice.

Yeah, this is one of if not the worst porn game I've ever played in my life

Gameplay Time: 2 hours

Standard fare for the most part. Basically a visual novel with some combat--combat that is unobtrusive for the most part. The story is the hook, as it follows some nice little turns that makes the unfolding of the h-content feel satisfying. (Corruption stats have no effect on anything, by the by.)

My only gripe is that there is no "bad ending."

Hello! It's me, Illidan! Today i will review this hgame. It's quite short one, in terms of story and amount of HCGs. I will rate this game by categories : Translation, story, gameplay, hscenes

Let's start!
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Translation 3/5 - Most of things is understandable, which is surprisingly good for MTL. But it still messes up with he/she during dialogues, making quite a lot of mistakes. Also thoughts at some point, not translated at all. Same for strange japanese symbols during battle. I don't really understand what they mean

Story 3/5 - I will say that story is interesting, but i also have complaints. Like how our supposed archmage which saved demonic continent, easily falls to traps and etc. Not to mention, how single lewd crests erases her 20th lvl. Yeah... 20th lvl, which we can regain quickly by fighting some mobs. Anyway... At some point they show us, how she could have easily silence guard knight, which made me think. Why she won't simply cast silence on everyone, then take down anyone on her way? Because if going down further in the story, protags accomplish her goal, simply because of some plot armor. Still, i think it might be interesting, compared to a lot of trash stories in other hgames


Gameplay 2/5 - Average RPGMaker gameplay. CDs are useless tbh, because you use spell every single turn and then use spell on CD. Also you can level up to 18th lvl and go check events, up to boss, without caring for anything. Because mobs will waste a lot of your time in this hgame. All i can recommend, is to cheat levels by using SaveEditor or MTool. As for mobs... They have 1 HCG and scene, but only after you get defeated by them. Honestly, it's quite frustrating to waste turn to get out of restraints. Restraints greatly decrease your damage and you receive tons of damage, which feels really unfair. At least you feel like that at start

Hscenes 4/5 - I think that HCGs there MUCH better than in previous hgame Ark of Artemis. But there isn't really great amount of Hscenes. Scenes after being defeated by monsters, simply have slight differences, while there is like 6-10 scenes from all events. So yeah, my main complain there, will be lack of scenes. Though, i also wish that there were simply watch CG option in gallery

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Conclusion 3.5/5 - It's not amazing game, but it does deserve attention. I think the biggest improvement in this hgame, better CGs. I don't think CGs in previous game were really catchy. But i will ask you to use cheat engine, in order to breeze through this hgame, without wasting your time on farm

PS. It doesn't matter if your protag is virgin or no. Because it don't influence on scenes on even ending