RPGM - Completed - Magical Girl Celesphonia [v1.07] [Shimobashira Workshop/Kagura Games]

An all round great game for its type, definitely a must try if you're into the corruption subgenre and are fine with RPGM.

On the hentai side of things it's a bit slow to get started but before too long you have easy access to a good number of progressable events with some variable dialogues based on how corrupt you've become. The scenes are well written and the art is very good. My only personal criticism is that some scenes are locked behind defeats but they don't game over you or cause any real hassle so it's not a huge deal.

There's quite a few spots I wish they had done something or gone further but that's essentially just me wishing there was more game so it's not exactly a con or a criticsm. One example of what I'm talking about is that some events get recorded and posted to a porn site which you can view and react to - would've been really cool if the reaction changed based on your corruption and level and at max she was getting off to it. Like I said though it's not really a criticism. There's also a good few costumes in the game and it feels like it's just a few short of where it should be - particularly for the magical girl persona because she only really has the one, was disappointed to find that out for sure but there's enough costumes that it's not boring and you can spice things up a bit.

On the combat end of things there's not much to say, it's pretty much exactly what you'd expect from - functional and entertaining enough. If you like turn based games you won't have any complaints here and enemies are all physical sprites on the dungeon maps so it's quite easy to avoid fighting more than you want to.

I Love these kind of games, great corruption system, grindy but not too much gameplay, even some plot behind, and the art is great. Some locations are hard to navigate but it doesn't ruin the process. In magical books we trust

A good turn based combat rpg, but a mediocre hentai game.

The hentai is locked behind the "corruption" mechanics, by that I mean losing battles on purpose and throwing the protagonist into situations where she acts all gullible and innocent and lets sex offenders have their way with her.
If that's not your thing, then you'll only unlock a handful of gallery scenes within the first 4 hours - most of them urban sexual harrassment, exhibitionism and bad men raping girls. There is tentacle hentai and a few other fetishes in the later part of the game and multiple ending scenes, but it takes a lot of time and effort to get there.
Overall, the hentai wasn't what I was hoping to get. That said, the art is good at least.

The story and characters aren't amazing, but servicable. The overview summary tells you everything you need to know, except perhaps that evil humans play a much bigger role than it suggests. You don't actually fight tentacle monsters that often.

The gameplay is good. You have a bunch of different difficulty modes, fast travel and checkpoints, exploration rewards, some build variety between magic and physical, multiple outfits to unlock, combat skip via backstab to farm enemies quickly, some crafting stuff, various powerful consumables, buffs, etc.
There are just two things I don't like about the gameplay.
Firstly, the H-content gets in the way. If you don't want to deal with the hypnotism fetish stuff, you have to move through some areas extra carefully.
Secondly, farming crafting materials is a pain because some of them are very rare, but required to complete certain side-quests.

It is overall still an above average H-game, but if you don't enjoy rpgm gameplay or the typical Kagura Games style of hentai, then this game is not for you.

Voiced, interesting scenes, and most scenes include your chosen clothing. The scenes include variations and the choices are good. Everything you could want from a magical girl themed game. 10/10
Dots cause the limit is 200 characters : ..........................................................

One of the better RPGM games. Not very grindy and the corruption aspect is good. You can also play the game as a virigin too. Has the common problem of requiring you to lose in order to see some CG. Overall still one of the better games from this dev.

Unfortunately devs like these choose quantity of games over quality, but this game happens to be slightly more on quality side than others, but its still bad.

Annoying game mechanics and overall difficulty, the grind and stuff, its just too painful to play.

Overall setting and story for what slightly i seen seems interesting, but when it comes to gameplay its just annoying.

Keep fighting enemies so you dont reach game over, cant even progress a quest cuz the mission is too hard, i just gave up and uninstall.

Too many spells to choose from to learn and you dont even know what they all mean or what are the requirments how to get it.

Its annoying, i just wanna relax

One of my favorite games of all time. Not only does it take the classic magical girl trope and execute some of its best scenarios with ease, it really leans into the possibilities of a valiant defender of justice being put into lewd roles and going along with them.
Replaying it made me realize the start is a bit slow, but this game is certainly worth it if you stick with it.

Based on v1.07

Gameplay: 3/5
Story and Atmosphere: 4/5
H-Content: 4/5


The gameplay is fairly generic for a rpgm.

I love RPGMs, so this isn't a problem for me.

What I dislike is the lack of combat variation, as most fights tend to polarize to one tactic:

• Survive with hp regen/heals and buff yourself
• Kill mobs with aoe attacks
• Fight bosses with percentage based attacks (poison/fire) and debuff

This is probably true for a lot of RPGMs that i've played actually, but it sticks out here due to a lack of difficulty.

The early game is somewhat intense, as you lack skills and stats, but during midgame you turn into an unstoppable force of nature.

There's only one boss that really was dangerous to me, but he had a special instant death ability (which could've been entirely negated through the right trinkets).


Story and Atmosphere

I think the story was fairly generic with the plots, apart from the entire hentai stuff.
What I really liked was the atmosphere.

The world feels genuinely alive (if horny). You can barely interact or influence the npcs, but I still love their quirky comments.
These are small, unimportant moments in the game, but they make it lovely.

Of special note is the music. It slaps hard.
Every map has fitting music, every fight has a good ost.
I even converted most of the music files into mp3, so I can listen to em on my phone.


H-Content

There's no combat integration, aside from getting grabbed by the enemy (though you can escape while grabbed).

The H-Content actually plays a rather minor role during the story too, but the maps tend to have a lot of hentai on the other hand.

The actual scenes are well drawn, but the dialogue can be a little long at times.
If you re-experience the scene, you often get a shorter dialogue, which is nice.

There's a lot of defeat scenes.
Most bosses/maps have 3 defeat scenes each!

TL;DR
So many reviews on F95 go solely off of dick jerking alone which leads to 1/5 or 5/5 reviews. Celesphonia is special, and (to this point) it's my only 5/5 and it really is deserving of it - both for you and your pork sword.

Simply put, Celesphonia is one of the best, if not the best RPGM-H game there is to this point. It respects your time, has plenty of H-content to enjoy, and keeps the player's attention with decent dungeons/combat and lewd events during and out of combat.

Shimbashira Workshop provides open options for player freedom/expression and you're never railroaded like so many other RPGM-H games. The game truly fits what the 5/5 standard should be on F95.

Longer version
While the RPG side doesn't do anything particularly special, difficulty settings and options allow you to cater it however you want. I found myself actively looking for items and build ideas which made it engaging and adjusted the difficulty as I replayed the game to keep it difficult but fun. The extra plus of doing this is you keep H-battle events common when it remains tough throughout.

I think the best part of the RPG elements of Celesphonia is I never felt like I was actively getting my time wasted by the game or dealing with annoying grind. If you've played an RPG before it's easy to pick up the mechanics and how you'll need to beat certain enemy swathes to get what you want out of it -- and even if that doesn't work, you can just lower the difficulty and mash buttons or simply avoid enemies.

H-content is significant in Celesphonia with the only negative being no active animation, but assuming you're not coombrained it's plenty to get the job done and there's a wide net of it. Additionally, you can quickly get to gallery sniping or shoot through the regular game for gallery unlocking. Battlefuck mechanics are also good, but explored much better in CNmod.

The game also has a number of specific mechanical items and lots of thought put in. Plenty of ways to speed up Amane's corruption or lust if that's what you're into, plenty of ways to keep Amane pure, options around all levels to cater what you want, little gameplay elements to affect how you'll battle. It's just great.

Writing this I am on my third playthrough and I consistently approach Shimobashira games knowing I can cater gameplay and story. I'll usually start with a lewd-but-pure playthrough and then a second playthrough to unlock everything, and it's always been enough to keep excitement/titillation.

I genuinely can't see someone not enjoying this game unless they're lost to their own hyper fetishes or extremely impatient, in which case they should just be looking to streaming hentai.

Also tidbit here about CN mod. If you get a stable version it's a great mod to experience Celesphonia with smart changes made and more content to boot. A 5/5 just like base game but with even more included -- though I would not call it a perfect expansion.

Conclusion
Celesphonia is the best RPGM-H game in my experience (but would be open to other suggestions). A great mix of passable story, good gameplay, and plenty of high quality H-content and scenarios, all with respect to the player's time and full player freedom. Absolute recommend.

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While it's not absolutely perfect, this is possibly the best RPGMaker H-Game currently in existence. Or, at the very least, an extremely strong contender.

CN mod is highly recommended, as it makes the combat lewds much more interesting - this was one of the few weaker spots of the base game -, as well as adding a bunch of outfits and mechanically meaningful accesories.

Time To Beat: 30-33~ hours (did not attempt the post game)

I really wanted to give this a five stars but hampered by some seemingly minor quality of life changes that build up over over time, namely that a bit (but not grossly grindy, the inventory lacks 1 or 2 categories for items (of which there are too many) and combat towards the end becomes a joke if you’ve ever played an jrpg before.

Other than that, it’s fairly balanced overall with a the variety of fetishes and scenarios paired with the solid art that put it over a lot of rpgmaker games. It’s a shame that story is almost nothing and doesn’t really pay off while the music is pretty forgettable.

Perfect art, nice gameplay, a lot of diff fetishes. Just a perfect RPGM for me. I played it long time ago and don't really want to write anything, but I'm doing to to give it 5/5 rating. Just a perfect game and we need more RPGs like that

The game seemed to start off strong with the main character showing skin very early on and having her clothes melted off in the first fight you get to, but 20 hours in, she's still wearing the same combat clothes with the same tear/melt marks and you only see anything new at all once an hour, if that. You'd also better really really like tentacles and multiple penises (generally 3+ for 1 girl, who is shown behind at least 1 of the guys so you're mostly just looking at male asses and male penises) in all of your scenes. If you want to actually see the woman during sex scenes, you should play a different game.

Oh and the grindiness. Dear god, the grind.

Despite the strong start (which made me keep playing hoping it would get better), the terrible art, heavy focus on male nudity, and terrible grind makes this one of the worst games I've played from this site. 1/5 rating.

Great art and nice corruption mechanics, but despite all the praise, the game is quite forgettable. Still, it kept me entertained for a good 20+ hours, so it's definitely recommendable. It’s well-made, just not very memorable.

While scrolling on my game list I stumble this game again, I was surprised that is almost 3 years ago when i first download it. So i decided to replay it, I wipe out my old save files from 3 years ago when i finished it (Not 100% cg).
At first i though I'm going to play it with the Crisis difficulty but decided not. Explain below.

- Gameplay 3/5
it's 50/50 sometimes its good sometimes its bad. However the gameplay compliment that difficulty you set in. Unless it is hardest one (Crisis difficulty) Idk what's the developer did with the difficulty that it is impossible to fight the first mob. Like imagine you fought the first mob only dealing 7 damage. Then the enemy deals you thrice of that. So i decided to do very Hard at least that's manageable.

- CG/Art 5/5
One of the best maybe from now but the art is just fantastic. Only problem there's no animation.

- H-Scene 5/5 related to CG It is fantastic.

- Story 4/5, won't spoil it here but basically your normal magical girl plot line but with porn.

Overall it is 4/5 one of my favorite.

Good game, def recomended to be played.
It have a nice lot of location, costume and ofc the "goods".
For me the Goods were good :b. The story quite basic yknow evil organization attack but wait theres our heroine. But that doesnt mean its bad. Its serve its purpose to prepare us for the meal.
So yeah, you like many costume? many place? RPG? tentacle perhaps or corruption? This game is worth to try~

Improvement in every aspect over the previous game. The setting is a lot more fun than the generic monster fantasy of Ambrosia. It's a bit too easy, even in the hardest configuration, and I had to manually grind the lewd levels to see more scenes since enemies just couldn't keep up with some of the overpowered equipment you can get.

version completed 1.07

a classic. there is battlegrope then battlefuck elements, scenes are not really animated (just some pseudo-movements like shaking but it's done well) yet it's still erotic enough somehow... there are many routes which i really hot i dont want to spoil it. you have scenes as a schoolgirl and a magical girl... some very good scenes are when you lose to bosses, but a lot of scenes you can just get or storywise experience without having to lose to anyone.

decent music, decent story, erotic sex scenes. there are like 6-7scenes i could easily fap to anytime(by knowing the context) and i dotn really like games without animation...

the rpgm engine and monster grind is old and dated but w/e, it's manageable. this is like a 10+h game. slow/normal corruption pace.

One of the best games ever made in the genre and on this engine.

A ton of content, likekable main character, good scenes/art. This game has some mechanics of karryns prison, + gradual corruption.

Gameplay itself is decent for most part. I have played modded version.

Easily one of my favorite games in the genre, especially for the ones on RPG Maker.

Lots of content, an adorable protag, and interesting *enough* combat. You can get powerful enough to feel really strong while doing a little more than just having to mash A (though thats also available tbh).

HUGE plus for me is being able to access a lot of the H content while remaining a virgin, one of my favorite things to do in these games.