VN - Others - Completed - Kami no Rhapsody [v1.1] [Eushully]

Story - 3/5
The story is ok. Acceptable. It left no special feeling to me. If you enjoy the MC helping a lot of other characters on the way and helping them significantly progress on their life, then you may enjoy this one. Apart from that, nothing else special.

All Characters - 3/5

• Including MC, this game is just like you trying to understand all of them and their points of view, mindsets. None of them left any significant impact on the game. The whole time I've been playing this game I felt like it was completely okay if they don't even exist, including my favorite character Koridora .
• If you read One Piece a lot, you can think of the MC the same as Luffy. Not strong, but has the power of uniting people, which is 1+ point.

Voice Acting - 4/5
Koridora's voice is the only reason I rated this part 4/5 personally. The others' voice including all males' one, is good too, but not my favorite.

Gameplay - 3.5/5

• Hell the gameplay is just a more diverse mechanics of Kamidori no Alchemy Meister with 3D maps and altitude. You still need the "Double Action" thing in both games to have an equal or better advantage.
• Too many, TOOOOOO MANY CHARACTERS to play. I did not even use them all. A lot of them I did not even touch because there were no stage which was in large-enough-scale to deploy an entire "army".
• TOO MANY CHARACTERS to add runes. It took me a lot of time every time I get a rune, getting back to the Shrine and insert 1 because of the thought that adding rune may level them up --> use better God Medals. Just Jesus Christ!!
• I wish Runes can be exchanged among characters. Some magic characters like Koridora had too many redundant Red runes while Melee characters like Glarissa had too many redundant Blue runes.
• Too limited Mana pool, which is a drawback when you wanna use each character's ultimate skill which consumed 30 mana. I don't even use them because my characters are already strong enough with basic 0-mana attacks.

What a pity Koridora was not designed to have main route. But at least Lavirie is pretty fine to me.

Disappointing, i played kamidori and expected this one to try to improve but none of that happened, it's a game with very high production value, amazing character design, art, voice acting, alright gameplay but the character and story is so shit it's impossible for me to keep playing, stopped five hours in.

Now i know it's not a problem for most, some are fine with just enjoying the gameplay and getting the occasional porn, but for me it needs to be a combination of the two and here it's really not.

The character are as basic as can be, following the exact guideline of they're archetype, the story is also as basic, cliche and uninteresting as can be.

Just a disappointment for me, i think some of the same things could be said about Kamidori but since it was the first one it's easy to forgive, it also wasn't as bad as this one, it had more likeable character.

I wouldn't recommend this game !

So, I'm going with the porn-game aproach here.

Story: 4/5 for a porn game. Despite not having an amazing story, at least is a consistent story with actually enjoyable dialogues. I liked how the characters interact with each other. Having male characters besides the MC is also nice, you know. The game has 2 routes, and you can choose either of them when the game literally ask you to choose, so don't be afraid of the events.

Gameplay: 5/5, pretty solid tactical game. There plenlty of characters and strategies to try. I also enjoyed the leveling system that makes you think how to improve your characters.

H-scenes: Art 5/5 Voice 5/5 Quantity: 5/5 Scenes: 3/5
Art amazing, I really enjoyed the voice acting, it has a pretty solid amount but the scenes by itself aren't that amazing if you take the voice out of it. Basically, the amazing art and the good voice acting make the scenes enjoyable, not the scenes by itself.

Overrall: This game is pretty hardcore actually, you should like the genre to enjoy this. Even though it has a lot of scenes you need to spend probably around 1/3 of the game before watching the first one. This is first a game to play and then to fap. I had a great time playing this, and the scenes are a nice reward.

I played another game of this people, Alchemist meister, I feel like this one is an improvement in every aspect. Less grindy, more tactical and it doesn't force to to do multiple replays to get most of it content. This is not for a quick meat beat.

Ok i just finished the game and i want to leave a review for those who are in doubt whether or not to play it, this will not be an in depth review but i'll cover some basic points not covered in other short reviews.


Story: 2/5

Story is your cookie cutter fantasy plot about gods and whatnot with several demi human races and etc, i know there are a lot of people that like these kinds of stories, but i don't find it particularly interesting or refreshing. Where the "Story" really shines is with the characters and their interactions, and by characters i obviously mean everyone except for the main character, since he was obviously made as a mary sue to fit into everyone's self insert fantasies. And to be fair, that's ok. I really don't get the individuals spilling hate about this, it's not trying to be anything else and for the purpose it served, it worked.

Cast: 5/5

Now, this is a controversial one, and it will depend on how you're approaching this game in the first place. No character in this game will move you, neither will any of them make you cry or pretty much invoke any intense emotion other than... well you can guess.

This brings me to my previous point which is how you're approaching the game, heads up: This is not a Nukige... But it might as well be to be honest. There are over SEVENTEEN (yes, SEVENTEEN) female characters that get sexually involved with the main character, ranging from normal human girls to a fucking tentacle crab-esque thing (ROFL). Most of their designs are pretty eushully standard to be honest, and that's not a bad thing at all.

Just to wrap this section up, this rating here can range from anywhere from literally 0 to 5 depending on how you're approaching the game, if you're expecting well fleshed exceptionally developed characters, you're in for a disappointment.

Gameplay: 2/5

To be honest i wasn't expecting much in the first place, it's a really simple grid based turn based tactical game in which you deploy units into differently crafted maps and follow an objective, most of the time "Kill X unit" , "Reach Y place" , "Kill all Units" etc.

The game provides you with a customization system in the form of equippable runes that grant you different bonuses, such as simple Attack boosts to more complex stuff like AoE magic. Every unit has 3 different types of slots and each slot can equip different types of runes, it is also worth noting that each unit has different slot values for these types of runes, for example one unit may have 4 "Utility" slots, while others only 2, etc.
Personally, it looks like a fun system at first, but it becomes extremely dull later on when you start noticing some stuff are just much much better than others... Different maps sometimes require different sets of runes, (for example, a water map might require you to equip units with the water traversal rune) this can cause the game to get really boring later on, but that's up to you.

Another thing is units don't level up normally, each unit has a "Grimoire" you need to fill up in order to level them up, horizontal and vertical lines will level the character up one level, while diagonal ones will unlock skills. Personally, i absolutely hated this system, you can't really grind this out because the runes required to fill the grimoires are one time rewards from missions and few monster drops, and you need to have the character in your party in order to receive them, so if you are a slow completionist you literally get punished by the game for not rushing the story to get all the characters asap. There's also a weapon upgrade system but it's ridiculously simple it's not even worth explaining.

Eroge: 5/5

Honestly, this might be the only reason to play this game and i really mean it. As i said, there are over 17 female characters spread over ~45 H-Scenes, ranging from monster girls to demon girls, to wolf girls, be it milfs or petite, it has literally everything you'd want and the best part (at least for me obviously) is that it's 100% vanilla, there's no violation or NTR (Unless you consider the mc having sex with his harem behind his lover's back as NTR i guess, and to be fair the MC gets a bit violated by some of the girls sometimes). There's also a decent amount of group scenes which is always a HUGE plus for me. I'll obviously not delve too much into this section because this is 100% personal opinion, the CG's and voice acting were really really good to me, and the h scenes writing was standard eroge stuff.

OVERALL:

I'm actually going to divide this section into two, taking into consideration the two sides of the coin, you're free to decide whether it seems interesting or not based on those two differing opinions.

If you're looking for a fun, borderline nukige eroge, with loads of different girls and some decent "mini games" in between interactions, this game is a solid 4/5.

If you're looking for a great deep tactical game, with an amazing story and character development, this is at most a 2/5, being generous honestly.

DISCLAIMER. 2/5 for a finished game for seasoned commercial dev. Poor in that case = better to avoid and pick other Eushully titles (yes Arterial of Origins with a machine translation for me is a much better).
It's still better then more then a half indie games on F95 - but I wouldn't recommend to buy it and was very disappointed.

My impressions:
- MC is an idiot. He's taking mortal danger just because "well, they'd allowed me to stay!". He have literally NO reasons to fight. Weakest of all Eushully MCs I'd seen.
- Main girls are well-drawn but mostly very "standard" and cliche. Of course there is almost no build-up of relationships too - someday girls just drop themselves on MC.
- Despite we'd a lot of monster girls and demi-human girls - endings are only with two main heroines (both are plain humans). Again, worst of all Eushully games'd seen.
- (my own personal issues) Main characters are musicians while two of them melee fighters and last one archer with a bow. And they're humans too. It's a massive facepalm from me as it's unbelievably stupid (fingers IRL could be used either for precise movements or for a strong strikes, not for both!) and widely-know fact. C'mon - everybody saw boxing or another brawling game!
+ Graphic is good. But it's expected for commercial game, so can't count it's as real strong side.
+ Devs tried to reduce amount of grind by removing experience system + allowing you to finish most maps into one-two runs.
- Despite this combat is boring and annoying. Runes system that used instead of experience is counter-intuitive one. It would be very nice as a bonus mechanic (as it's somewhat similar to Alchemy outfits upgrades), but as main... Meh.
~ Combat controls are somewhat annoying : hard to see LOS for ranged units AND using LMB to move map I'm often moved a unit instead being forced to rollback an order. And very plain overall. Very strange decision that summoning units use same mana that'd used by skills - and because of it for a large part of game you're mostly limited to basic attacks =/
+ Mostly vanila hentai but with a lot of MFF actions. So if it's a kink for you - you're welcome Still main heroines despite being main heroines get only 5-6 scenes. I maybe wrong here but Alchemy main heroines get more & in Arterial of Origins we had much more heroines with endigns.
+++ Translation is really good even lacking in some places and a bit unpolished. Awesome work of translation team. Thanks a lot!

Conclusions: Trash-grade story, Cliche characters, Average gameplay, Nice graphic, and Mostly vanila hentai.
As for me it will be average for indie dev, but only "poor" for top-tier devs like Eushully.

Okay, I feel that I played it enough that I can rate it.

Story: 2/5

The story is honestly just... Meh. Really, there isn't much meat to it and it's more of an excuse to have sex with a lot of girls. The MC is just a traditional goody two shoes MC with no twist what so ever.

Gameplay: 3/5

It's okay, won't blow your mind. There is literally no RNG or Grind, so that is something you should be aware. Downside is the stupid way you stat up by using Runes.

Translation: 5/5

Good translation, didn't really have much of an issue understanding the plot, nor the personality of each individual.

Total Score: 3.3/5