RPGM - Completed - Magical Girl Luna's Misfortunes [v1.09] [namaste koboo]

Interesting plot with fun battle-bondage mechanics. The bondage makes the often bland RPGM combat more interesting. Also you can get most of the H-art without having to lose a battle which is always great. Can’t recommend enough.

I was split between 4 and 5 stars for a while.

My main draw to this game was the atmosphere - Lune is incredibly cute and upbeat, I love the random comments from examining random stuff all over the map, I'm very into the "I cast fist" style of humor.

I am (mostly) satisfied with combat - standard but polished RPGM with battlefuckbondage. Some bosses, especially post game, have some annoying RNG but overall it was more common for me to just beat the shit out of them before their gimmick could get me.
However, the game does commit the sin of "scenes on defeat aren't given on victory". Not even that, in most cases "defeat IS the scene", with battlefuck being the only content for most enemies.

One other thing bugging me is how

I also wish Luna actually got to enjoy some of that bondage. It's like she has some natural revulsion towards sex.

What, four stars? I like Magical Girls, I like battlefucks, and I like binding, so this should be a home room for me, right? Well...hmm.

So. If the fact that the inherent magic that Luna uses is called "Innocence" doesn't tip you off to how this is going to go, Magical Girl Luna's Misfortunes has a bit of a silly vibe to it's writing, and centers around a self-declared "Magical Girl" in a world with witches. I'm familiar with the sorts of media the dev was referencing when writing Luna herself, so I was able to take it as is, and even enjoyed it to a degree.

The story is...actually really good. I'm jealous of how well the dev pulled off some of the ideas from my own writing. It's very much aimed at the sort of person who likes it from the beginning, so it may not be to your taste if you're used to more western H-Games, but otherwise it's pretty good. (This is actually one of the things I enjoy in my H-Games, a feeling like these are more than just empty characters meant to receive bullying, which will lead into part of why this game lost a star for me.)

The game itself, like many female-led binding games, features no male enemies and very little penetration. The fetishes on display here are overwhelmingly bondage and orgasm control, either preventing orgasms or overwhelming you with them, or sometimes both, and it's clear that the dev has a forced masturbation and electrocution fetish. Being honest with you? This game is only 3 or 4 steps removed from a Ryona game, and you will see elements of it in some of the fights, so be aware of that.

The battle system starts out as a pretty bog-standard RPGMaker system, revolving around using opposed checks to escape from or dodge binds, until you get a skill that allows you to entirely no-sell them. After that, it becomes about resource management and avoiding certain defeat through finding things in exploration. Early on the game encourages you to search everywhere, sometimes more at once, and if you keep that up throughout the game, you're rewarded with both amusing scenes and enough powerups and support items that once you know what a boss does, it's simply a matter of defeating them; once again, not getting defeated is more about keeping your health and mana up and maintaining certain protective skills.

This is actually really well executed, too; if you're exploring as much as the game wants you to, then you'll never feel like you're too weak to defeat an enemy, simply that you haven't found the right way to do it.

However, there's a glaring problem with battles; in order to get advice on defeating the enemy, as well as collecting the special art from listening to the advice, you need to be defeated. And the further you get into the game. the longer. even trash defeat scenes. can go on. There's an item that allows you to instantly lose, and the best way to get the advice scene is to use it immediately at the start of battle, since once you're bound you can't use items. Otherwise, you'll be subject to several turns of the enemy slowly teasing you until the game mercifully asks if you're ready to give in. This happens in every battle once you're bound to the point of no return, and it can make recovering from a loss you already know happened take forever.

The other reason why I took off a star is the game just feels meanspirited. I play female-led games almost exclusively not just because I'm a girl, but because I like to see girls and especially my character enjoying themselves. This game, however, doesn't let Luna enjoy the feeling of being pleasured at any point. Even when she's brainwashed. Even when she's masturbating (usually because of being brainwashed). Yeah, she lost, and she shouldn't want to, but for a game that talks a lot about making Luna into a slut made for pleasure, she always is expressing distress or discomfort at what's happening or is crying from being broken. It was kind of weird at first, and got slowly more uncomfortable as time went on. It's simply not fun for me.

It's possible you might like this style or these fetishes, and if so, this is a really good game for you. The defeat scenes do drag on, but especially now that it's in English, it normally just takes one defeat to understand how to win, so you don't wind up walling. The artwork is well done, in a certain style, and there's certainly enough of it. There's plenty to like here, even if it's not for me.

It's a game that I certainly enjoyed enough to finish, but it's probably not one I'll be going back and looking at the gallery.

Absolutely beautiful story with lovable characters. I played through it in 15 hours in one sitting (I'm a bit of completionist and I MUST interact with all rocks multiple times). I'm giving it 5 stars despite the themes not being really to my taste.

Major themes:
Bondage, Lesbian, Battlefuck

There is only minor tentacle content in terms of penetration, and I don't think there was a single penis in the game (including any male characters).

Things I wish it improved on:
All scenes are unlocked only upon defeat, so any defeat you suffer is non-canon as you immediately go back to before you were defeated. Coinciding with this, there is absolutely no corruption of the main character such as by picking up passives and so on. However, it's excused in this case for necessary lore reasons. I would have still preferred a corruption heavy BDSM game. Along the same lines of there not being corruption, there is rarely anything that persists outside of combat. This is in stark contrast to games like Kurenkisho Quolta Emeraude EG and Quarta Amethyst.

I wish there was a way to speed through dialogue animations. You can hold CTRL to speed through text, but transitions and animations still take a long time.

Combat gameplay itself is somewhat interesting, albeit a bit boring for a battlefuck game because there is no real arousal system. You just have to avoid / get out of restraints.

This game is a classic in the realm of bondage/bdsm games, and has directly inspired more than a few people into making their own games in the year or so since it released (back then we were using bad MTL and partial translations, and yet the story was still so memorable). I made a review quite a while ago, which I'll repost here.

Note: I have no clue what that 3 star review is on about. Plot holes...? It's called characterization and world-building you absolute dolt. The characters and story is one of the strongest aspects about the game (especially in the later chapters), and syncs extremely well with the gameplay. Anyway, :

My personal favorite H-game (still is a year later btw). The creator knows what's the good part about these battlefuck games, and doesn't waste your time with other crap. You are always being presented with new situations and new h-content. It's always introducing new characters and perils - the quality of the game, in my opinion, actually improves at it goes, rather than dropping off like many others.

H-Content (5/5)
This is a lesbian, bondage-centric game - if you don't like those, you won't like this, but if you do like those , you'll adore this. The thing that shocked me the most is just how MUCH bondage there is, and how freely the game throws its content at you. There are always new enemies inflicting new bondages and punishments, there is always a new environment, and there is always a new boss. The game clearly tells you when defeat will give you a scene, and there is always a save point right outside the area, so you never waste your time and you never have to wonder if you're missing a bunch of content.

Gameplay (4/5)
As usual for rpgmaker ero games, the gameplay is the weakest part. But it's by no means bad, and more importantly, doesn't waste your time with drawn out or overnumerous fights. The bosses can even be pretty interesting to beat, especially later on in the game when you have a lot of moves and options, and need to figure out how to beat to avoid the boss's special restraining moves, for example. Overall, the game is easy but just hard enough to remain engaging.

H-Integration (5/5) (How well H-content and Gameplay mix)
This is the game's super strong point. You don't have to go out of your way to get h-content, you are constantly being immersed in it - every enemy has it's own battle restraint which progresses through multiple stages and is basically a scene unto itself which unfolds during the battle. Since avoiding and escaping restraint is dice-based, you can't just super easily avoid or negate everything - you WILL get restrained as you play, both in combat and from other scenarios. Of all games I've played, this one has the best pacing both in terms of gameplay and in terms of the rate and consistency at which you obtain new H-content.

I think the creator of this game deserves a lot of credit (and also the translator <3).

Hello hello! It's me, Illidan! Today i will review this game... This game certainly have soul... But was pretty rushed at the end. I will review this game by such categories : Translation, story, gameplay, hscenes/battlefuck.

Let's start!
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Translation 4/5 - Eh... I didn't find many mistakes? Maybe because i played it at night, but i think it's fine...

Story 2/5 - Holy fuck... Story might be good thing in this game. But absolutely abhor it, for stupidity of MC, her teacher, companion Rico and teacher of Rico. All bad bosses which we beat, simply left alone and they don't serve any punishment for their deeds. Anyway... I will write in spoiler main issues with story


Gameplay 1-4/5 - Very easy to play and at the same time, very annoying. You can easily beat this game without farming exp or using items during battles. The main issue is RNG break from restraints and some terrible mechanics during some boss fights. But overall, i can say that it's interesting to see, how game obviously "deceive" MC with some items, which can lead to easy defeats, or can give them severe disadvantage. Though, i would still hate this game for RNG restraint break, or non instant guaranteed restraint break, which occurs at the end of the turn(when enemy might block this). I would say that i enjoyed some moments of this hgame

ED1 : God... RNG for restraint check is absolutely horrible. This thing can ruin absolutely normal fight. Because it's impossible to get out from certain enemies, if they restrained you once

Hscenes 5/5 - I guess 5 is rightful mark for this hgame? It takes only 500mb for that many... Uh... Battle fuck? Though, it's not animation, but simply changing pictures and sounds. But at least it looks believable and with soul, compared to previous short hgames, which are posted on f95zone.

Conclusion 3.5 - 4/5 - I placed 3 on reviews, cuz... I am still salty about story of this hgame. It's so plainly stupid during some parts, which makes me mad. This hgame certainly made with love, compared to many other abominations, which try to lure users with hscenes or single 18+ pictures. If someone said, does this game deserve your time? I would say that yes, it deserves your time, but it would be better to ask help if you stuck, cuz you might not understand what to do

P.S I honestly suprised that it's posted by Supreme_Evil. He is evil after all. Though.............. Considering how my right hand still want's to delete this hgame for story, i think he still deserves title of Supreme_Evil uploader

I played an MTL of this at one point in the past, which is why this is being written so quickly.

It's a bondage-focused game with an excellent sense of humor. The story is linear and episodic, but it makes up for it with enough jokes revolving around the main character's tendency to solve problems with physical violence rather than their magical girl abilities.

Enemy who seals your magic? No problem, just bash their head in. Enemy that wants to gamble with you as a gimmick fight? Nah, just hit them with your stick until they're dead.

The bondage elements are good as well - there's a good amount of variety, and watching cute girls get horny over being tied up in a lot of ways is great. That said, the game's erotic elements are honestly weaker than its very strong comedic value.

At this moment, the game has a version 2.0 that isn't translated, but which has more content. Keep an eye on this thread.