RPGM - Completed - Laura of Zero Moon [v1.0.4] [piyokogundan]

Easily one of my favorite RPGmaker games. Will buy later! Wish there were more high-effort and high-quality yuri RPGmaker games out there like this.

Pretty nice combat. Its combat is like what you'd expect from any decent RPG game, with some decently unique mechanics from each character that make them fun to battle with. It's definitely a grindable game; you can easily make the harder difficulties pretty easy by just level farming. I would recommend not doing that, bur instead making the combat difficulty higher, as Normal gets too easy if you figure the mechanics out well.

Story was surprisingly captivating much of the way. Wouldn't call it, like, story of the century, but I liked how it did things for the most part. I'm sure it'd be better with a decent translation, to which the MTL is alright most of the time but requires double takes when it isn't. Characters are the biggest draw-in for the story; the dynamics between them are just oh so lovely. Yuri FTW. And the way that the game ties in their character strengths is actually really cool!

Didn't like the art all that much at first, but it grew on me a lot. Definitely a cutesy style, but character designs are quite cool (especially Luna/Vega's). Honestly, the mosaic censorship is pretty bad in the CGs for this one, so that's something to keep in mind.

Dev is pretty funny, I like their comments and openness about bugs.

8.5/10.

I am writing this after playing the whole game. It took me about 26 hours to complete everything. The gameplay wasn't that hard, I just had to grind a little a few times and I would be able to defeat the enemy. The fighting isn't your average rpg where you just attack, defend, and heal. All the characters have abilities that are unique to them and you can create numerous combinations with their abilities to get your desired results. There were moments that felt boring or tedious to do but I absolutely loved the story of the game. It's about two girls who vowed to be together when they were young, but got separated. A few years later and they are back together again with their relationship growing stronger by overcoming numerous challenges. The other main characters also played a huge role. The sex scenes were okay. They weren't that glamorous but they weren't boring either. I liked that they put a feature letting you decide if you want to view the sex scenes or not, and they usually give you hints on what to expect from that sex scene, so you can choose to skip what you don't feel comfortable watching. The English wasn't so bad. I just had to guess on what they were saying based on the sort of broken English they were using. It mostly made sense. After I completed the whole game, I felt sort of sad that the adventure with them is ending. Out of all the hentai games I've played, this one has definably one of the best story I have ever read, and out of all the jrpgs I've played, this one has one of the best battle systems I've ever experienced.

Completed the game on hard difficulty, it was an experience alright (23h playtime). First of all, there're maybe two or three mild yuri scenes with main characters, the rest are futa, be warned. Secondly, side characters engage with men, some in prostitution. Those side characters are very much involved in the story to the point where you might call them a part of the main cast, so yeah, if you are a "yuri enthusiast" it will leave a bad taste.

- The story is straightforward, but well-written. It has a heavy contrast of cute and wholesome moments or lighthearted humour to some brutal or sad events. Characters are very well built and developed. There are choices in the story, but they rarely matter (aside from the "yuri branch" where you can avoid sharing of the main characters i.e. skip some scenes).

- Combat is surprisingly fun and there are a lot of unique bosses to challenge. Random encounters can be tedious, but they are mostly avoidable. And I'd advise to do so because with each new location the exp you get raises considerably. So as long as you're able to kill bosses, don't waste time farming trash.

- H-Scenes are pretty good quality if you don't mind what's mentioned at the top. This is not a game where the protagonist fucks all of the cast. It's more like every character has their own thing going and scenes are evenly spread among them.

- Translation has nothing to do with the game quality, but it's readable mtl. There were no sentences I couldn't understand or had to guess.

- Extra: music, animations, scripts, effects etc. are very well done. I'd say you can't ask for more from rpgm. Attention to details is great.

Overall, while this game certainly doesn't fall into any narrow category and I was put off by some stuff, I can't bring myself to give it less than 5*. This is a very solid work all around.

4 stars but almost entirely for the SFW part of the game, as a porn game it's probably a low 3/high 2 star game just because the scenes are pretty spread out and not really intergrated. The translation is workable, like most MTL it can't keep track of pronouns but it was generally understandable. I'd really like to see a proper translation but given the length of the game I'm not holding my breath.

The main focus was put on the story which is well executed for the most part. It's overall lighthearted but with occasional tragic moments that, while effective, often come out of nowhere and can feel somewhat jarring. It's a fairly long game too, a little over 16 hours for my playthrough.

There was also a fair bit of effort put into the combat which is rare for RPGM games, lots of unique abilities to play around with and some decent boss fights to use them on. It somewhat suffers from a fair amount of grinding through trash mobs but they're also pretty quick fights and mostly avoidable aside from a few locations with random encounters.

TLDR: A wholesome RPG brought down a star by some pretty harsh tonal whiplash and underwhelming sex scenes.