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

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.

Going to replay this game now that the bias from playing ambrosia washed off, will update as i play through to thoroughly document my enjoyment of this game since this is a direct upgrade from ambrosia

Log 1: the modern city setting isnt really my thing since im more of a fantasy loving type
log 2: Too much exposition and info dump in the first hour of the game
Log 3:

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.

This is by far the best Shimobashira Workshop game. The art is simply great. The scene activities are abundant and diverse. The corruption has the perfect pace, and the protagonist is actually interesting. The vast majority of scenes are not induced by failure. This is one of the best, if not the best, RPGM H-games.

• good art

art is well drawn and composed

• varied content

lots of different situations and fetishes explored, wide net for potential players

• good paced progression

never significantly dragged nor rushed. side content and objectives easy to find to space out main content if desired.

• endgame content worth doing

not often you find challenging content past the credit roll

I actually wasn't expecting this level of immersion. I usually don't like RPGM except Melty but the little life sim touches are really nice! Love it more than melty. For sure one of the more immersive in this genre with persona vibes. 4.789/5 for sure worth!

Currently the best H-game around. The author did a phenomenal job with it and it surpasses all of his other already exceptional titles. It is the perfect marriage between story, gameplay and H-elements. A new one is already on the horizon, set to release in 2025.

Good storytelling, variety of content. Total game time on normal diff is about 15 hours. Simple battle system makes gameplay simple. Art is good, code is optimized, not a single bug for 20 hours. Recommend for 100% completion

Game balance is wonky, too easy on normal difficulty to avoid pretty much most of the monster rape stuff. Just grind a bit to stay high level and invest in upgrading combat engrams, and the reconnaissance ones for traps later on. The game is trying to copy Persona's style of dungeons but there's nothing preventing you from speed running them one after another. At least in the Persona games you're forced to wait the whole month before the next, which is good because there's plenty of extra story content to do. But here you can really only repeat the same sex scenes over and over to level up your lewd level.

Fun rpg, gets a little repetitive but not too bad. You can pick you're own items and skills - skill tree is confusing at first but you get used to it. There is grinding if you want maxed items or skills but they are well worth it

Was an improvement from ambrosia in some mechanics and also loved modern setting and skill tree system,there are many events than ambrosia and also many jobs to do so you will be busy for long ,has also a lot of freedom,thanks shimobira for creating and kagura for translation,now onward to Enishia

Great game all around, loads of content and enjoyable art to unlock. managed to 100% and played around with all the features I could find. I don't have anything really to add then that this is one of those really fantastic RPGM games which just are great and I end up coming back to all the way until the finish. Highly recommend for rpgm fans who are looking for a little bit of an interesting story

Absolute legend of a game. Replayable to infinity, everything is great. I wish they made a dlc or a sequel. Also wished they stopped with the tiny window for cg but other than that 5/5.
One of the best games ever made.

hands down the best hrpg ive played to date, so much replayability due to the sheer amount of content with an actual corruption system and great art. the developer keeps getting better with each game.

Shimobashira has done it again

10/10
Ambrosia fans, please rejoice, this has all the same and MORE

Costume designs ahve gotten even more interesting, and the plot is a lot smoother for this one.

Slight grind is an issue with these games, but the abundance of scenes, themes and fun is definitely gonna keep you going .

Too bad I feel a little bad about corrupting cute ol celosphonoia, probably means its done pretty well

Reviewing 1.04

Most others have already fairly extensively covered this games good points so I'll mainly focus on things I felt could have been improved.

1. It can be fairly difficult figuring out what you have to do to unlock a new scene or area. For instance, to get the webcam to stream you need to let an enemy grope you until until they release you but that's not explained at all, so a lot of people probably missed out entirely on streaming.
2. Some scenarios feel under-developed. In this I'm mainly referring to Amane's friend, Hazuki. Hazuki has several scenes in the game but has very little dialogue and shares no scenes with Amane, despite being best friends and the whole reason Amane becomes Celesphonia in the first place. What's more baffling is that she has scenes for a lot of the same things Amane has; prostitution? Amane and Hazuki have scenes but none together, even though Amane can catch Hazuki downtown and suspects that she's doing it. Hazuki can catch Amane having an orgy with the swim team and then also has a scene with the swim team but again none together. Two playboys can approach them at the beach for some fun and while Amane may have gone with them before and both her and Hazuki know what they're after, they don't go. It just feels like a missed opportunity.
3. The grind for certain things can be a bit rough, there are tons of materials in the game and a lot of things to unlock, with no real guide on where to get what (One late game item I wanted needed Resistones which only appeared in the first dungeon) enemies are also quite tough if you're unprepared and miamsa cores in the dungeons make them tougher still. Fighting can be quite a slog at times.

Despite this, I still found the game a lot of fun. I think it sets a high bar in terms of quality for H games, it reminds me in a way of Kozue's Strange Journey (A game that was posted here but has since been removed) but with a more realized vision. It's definitely a game I would recommend.