RPGM - Abandoned - Monster Girl Encyclopedia RPG [v0.0.11] [Kenko_Cross]

This is him. This is the MFer, the sole reason I ended up on this God forsaken shithole of a website. I fucking loathe you, Kenko Cross. You absolute piece of shit. You ruined my life. Everything was going well, but all it took was one slight bout of depression, one small timeframe in which the circumstances lined up to lead me to that fucking VN trilogy. Fuck you, I mean it. You turned me into this. You are my creator, my father, Kenko. Take responsability and let me coom to your game already.
I would retract a star from this review as recompense, but I have not the self respect to pull through with it. If you're on the fence whether to like this game and don't have the context of other games and works in the same setting, then just check out the MGE wiki and look through the monsters until you find one you like. Chances are, Kenko's autistic ass is gonna implement it.

I'm genuinely convinced that if this game was made by anyone other than Kenkou Cross, it would have already faded into obscurity, because it feels the only reason this games has got high ratings is his reputation in the MG community and his very determined fans.

For those who don't know, Kenkou Cross is a pillar and one of the pioneers of the monster girl genre. He is the creator of the Monster Girl Encyclopedia, a doujin about humans and monster girls living in the same world and being hostile to each other, with strong themes of femdom and rape. It has quickly become the main source of inspiration for many MG porn games that came after it, and even had a spriritual successor in the form of Monster Girl Quest, one of the most successful MG games of all times and also one of the most influential piece of media within that genre. A game in which Kenkou Cross also had his hands in, with some of the monster designs being in his own artstyle. Which, as you can see in this game, is quite fucking good, and the only reason I gave 1 star to this game.

Because the rest doesn't hold up at all, and I can't understand why KC went at it the way he did. First of all, it's a RPG with quite a few changes added to the gameplay compared to the typical RPG made with RPGMaker. I'm not against shaking up the established formula, quite the contrary, but I think the way he went about it failed in every regard. First of all, it's an action RPG? meaning time passes normally between your attacks, which means the enemy can attack even when you do nothing, and the issue here is that it's rigged against you. You have to defeat your opponent a certain number of times during each combat to win, but your opponent's meter always fills up faster than your own, and if you lose once in the entire battle, your meter might as well not be there because you will lose in chain with your abilities being locked one by one.

There is a tutorial in this game, but it teaches you only the basic stuff, and once you go out in the real world to fight, the mechanics work completely differently than in the tutorial. What is going on with the gameplay inconsistency in this game?

Which leads to another major issue : The battles take forever. You only get one shot at defeating the enemy, but the enemy has like seven or ten lives per battle. There are only 3 fights in the entire demo (and frankly, the lack of content in this demo is quite pathetic considering who makes the artwork), but each fight drags on and on even after you lose. You can't, like, surrender or skip the cutscene, you have to sit thought all of it for like 10 minutes before you're allowed to go. There are battle items, but they are so scarce and they help you so little they might as well not be there. To this day, I still don't understand how to win. I've lost every single fight, and yet I still managed to get the girls to join me afterwards. Like, what?

Speaking of the girls, when I said this demo lacks content, I mean it. 3 girls, 2 sex scenes per girl, and the battle drag them on and on. And they can't actually join you in the fight, they just follow you in the hub world. That's it. No involvement in the gameplay except to serve as enemies to defeat lose to.

The story is bad, even for porn game standards, and knowing the author is one of the guys who hand a hand in Monster Girl Quest, it's quite dissapointing (although how much of a hand he had in it, I'm not quite sure). The deal here is your typical MG game plot, where humans and monster girls live in the same medieval universe, and the MGs are out to rape and eat the male humans to reproduce, while the humans hunt and kill the monsters whenever they can. Then the humans start to realize the monsters are not as terrible as they initially thought, and some of them start living in harmony, etc. There is not much here, but for what is there, the settings is cliche and boring, the character are dense, and the plot itself has no threads hinting at mystery for what comes next. There is little content as far as the demo goes, but nothing in here makes me ask questions about what the world is like or what is going, or what will happen to the hero after leaving the village. There's no sense of mystery, no building up of tension or anything. It's just there.

But actually, that's not the worst part of the game. What little enjoyement I had with the game was snuffed out by the two characters that tag along with you after your fight with them : A loli imp that speaks like a loud, annoying child, and a cat girl that ends every single one of ther sentences with "nya" like every other japanese catgirl stereotype out there, as if onomatopoeias were an excuse for a lack of actual characterization. These characters are flatter than the earth, they interrupt you every two screens to tell you pointless stuff that is neither relevant, funny or arousing, they're useless in the gameplay itself, and while their H scenes look neat, there's only 4 in total, so it's not enough to compensate having to sit through their agonizing dialogues. At one point it got so bad that I tried to get in a combat as fast as I could just to stop having to read their dialogues, and you know how much I hate the combat in this game.

So, in conclusion, there's nothing of value here. The gameplay is frustrating on purpose, the story is bland and doesn't hint at anything good, the character are some of the most annoying pieces of shit I've read in a japanese porn game (which is a feat in itself, when you know how stereotypes japanese character tend to be), and while their H scenes are neat, it's not enough to compensate for the rest of this game.

If you're a MG fan, just read MGE or play MGQ (or any western MG game, they're actually all better than this). If you're not a fan, this game will make you hate monster girls even more. In either cases, skip this one.

I got a bit interested from MGE being in the title, but it's honestly kind of boring and difficult to read at times. Some of the dialogue is heavily accented and it's taken me a second or two to parse what being said.

The sex combat is very slow and really drags on and there's not much to look at, just a still picture with dialogue. I found myself just getting tired of how long the battle was taking and just started spamming the 'Z' key and the spacebar just to get it over with faster.

Overall, it's an interesting idea, but it seems poorly executed. Maybe doubling all the Love generated might help it feel like less of a slog? I don't know.

Yeah I gave it a 2/5. While I like monster girls and MGE, I don't think this is summing up to be a great game.

The gameplay is boring. If this were released by anyone other than Kenkou Cross, this would probably be given mediocre reviews since the large part of the 'sex' is looking at a still image of art and reading dialogue. It's not challenging. It's slow. It's not very enticing.

At most this might serve as somewhat of a window into his imagined world but that's all it's looking to be right now. If the whole game is going to be like this, it's going to become a drag. Additionally, with this update rate, it's hardly going to be worth waiting for.

I may be wrong in the coming future but my man should probably stick to just writing horny shit, not making games.

Even tho it is a short trial version (v0.0.11), I plenty enjoyed it.
I have not that many experience with RPGM games and decided to give this one a try since I have been a fan of monster girls for several years now. I had no expectation and damn that was good.

The game is pretty, refined without a ton of buildings or NPCs saying nothing, the fighting system was not very clear at the beginning to me but you learn it in a natural way which make it even better.
I like that special attention is paid to the dialogues. Every action you do in a fight have different corresponding dialogues. The sound effects, the different sprites and the fighting system itself make it truly enjoyable. Your partner acts without waiting for you, giving dynamism to the fight and establishing a certain tension.
You can also interact with the girls outside of combats, talking to them, touching them or even more, which makes the relationship more authentic.

The art of course is amazing, especially facial expressions. The fact that you can show your love to the girls and they love you back without any jealousy, mischief or whatsoever is also a huge enjoyable thing. Monster girls deserve to be loved.

One of my favorite franchises is Monster Girl Encyclopedia, so it was exciting to see it get a game. The art style is cute and charming, and all the different monster girls have unique designs and unique personalities.

Of course, the game won't have a heavy plot containing heartbreaks, trying to find answers to societal dilemmas and socio-political commentary. Instead, the game will most likely end up with a light-hearted story, so if you are looking for something focused more on a deeper plot, you won't find it here.

The game's main attraction is each monster girl's unique personality and how she interacts with the character. One can find his flavor of monster girl if he searches throughout the encyclopedia.

I can't wait to see what this game becomes and what K Cross plans to implement into the game, and I'm excited to witness the franchise's future after the game is done.

The story for this game is well thought out and has a feeling that you can go about things in your own way. A story that's not narrow and has a freedom feeling is rare for H-games. However that is not why I gave this 5 stars. It's that it has detailed interactive sex scenes. arguably sex battles. I don't know how to express how annoying an h-game is when they don't put any effort on the H part. If you go through 20 mins of hard work just for a simple animation or picture, it turn me off from the game. I'm not playing for something I can get from hentai or porn videos. There's no feeling of accomplishment or interactivity. This game solves it all! I was hugely impressed with the thought given to the actual sex part of the game. So with great art, a great story, and good translation. It just makes this masterpeace shine. Highly recommended.

Now for the cons. The only part of this game that feels forced is the ending of the sex scenes. You could say that the lack of a game over actually pulls away from the game. It's supposed to be that if you lose you become a sex slave, it's just not implemented. The game is obviously still a demo, though one with a few hours of game play and a bit of replay value. Also you are a character who's not able to decide who you want to peruse. The sex partners are ordained by the game and that's who you'll be restricted to. I do wish I could put in some effort to woo the other NPCs if I chose, but I do understand the amount of work that would require. (I took some video game creation classes for a few years) Again other then these very light cons that could very well change in the future. I highly recommend this game.

This game is very wholesome and is a perfect addition to the already existing books. The world is really fleshed out and so immersive that it make you feel real. The sex scenes are awesome too and converse perfectly the monstrous charme mamonos have where you want to fap and cum despite not being your kink because the characters are so perfectly written.
Despite it being only a prologue it already feels like a shortgame. I can wholeheartly recommend this game to any male person.
It will kill your depression and instead let you have diabetes.

Monster Girls Encyclopedia is the project because of which I generally learned about Monster Girls as a genre (and he became one of my favorites). Also, the art of this author is one of the best.
So the fact that the game is now being made is just great news for me. This is essentially just a demo, but in my opinion it's done great. I was very pleased with the Monster girls, the combat / sex system, as well as the quests.
This project has already become one of the best for me (in the genre), so I will look forward to future versions.

I love everything about this short game so far... I love the art style even though it is censored, I actually enjoy the sort of game that you have to play to capture the monsters and I like all the personalities that the monsters have. It's hard to find a game as enjoyable as this. By far one of my favorites and will definitely be looking out for future updates and I hope this game will go far as I expect it will!

Our Lord and Savior Kenko_Cross has released the New Bible, the Holy Grail of Monster Girls. We have been enlightened by the Grand and Surprise Release of this game. 2020 was hell but 2021 is the turning point, There is a huge chance that Monster girl quest paradox part 3 will be released seeing as it has been 4 years since part 2. And this master piece has been released, all monster girl fans alike will be crying tears of joy

This looks like one of the most promising monster girl games ever made.

Art is god tier (of course, it's Kenkou), gameplay is so damn fluid and varied, and the monsters are all so endearing.

Will personally be keeping an eye out for this game.

Kenko Cross, the Great Messiah of monster girls, adapting their work into a game themselves?! What's not to love??? This dude's works are the ones that indoctrinated me to the concept of "hentai" and "monster girls", so I'm incredibly excited to see how this all unfolds.

While only an early version 0.11 as of writing this you can easily spend a good amount of time (2-3 hours) just going through the combat. It is similar in a sense to monster girl dreams however the ending is always with the monster girl being the dominant one which is a little disheartening due to how the battle mechanics work.

Battles are the highlight of the gameplay so far. The mix of pictures for the girls in their different positions with varying facial features keeps the game feeling fresh and enjoyable. Battles are not overly long or short and you can easily play it however you want. A major con for me in the battles is that even if you min-max your timing and actions you can only enjoy maybe just one more climax for the girl before you succumb to your love maxing out. The player needs more room to breathe and enjoy the fight at least if they min-max to get the enemy to 100% love. As it stands there's no point in min-maxing to hit 100% love while not maxing out yourself because there are no special scenes for maxing the girl's love out first before your own.

The beg mechanic to lock a girl into a certain scene and progress it further and further with more begging is great. I use it as a way to steer them away from my character's critical spots. Critical spots are a really interesting mechanic and really adds to tailoring your character just a bit more in your favor however they are really punishing if found in a fight.

Overall I say as of this moment the game is looking to be five stars and should hopefully stay on pace with what they have provided with the demo so far. I don't believe in giving a demo 4 stars due to it being a demo alone but it should be judged based on what is there itself and not what might happen in the future.

I highly look forward to more updates as they are released.

First thing first, this evalution date from the v0.0.11, I'll try to edit it at the time pass.

If you want a tldr : It's good but short for now, play it.

Story : Not much for now, being a Demo, but I do think it's promissing, 5 quests to do, 2 girls to recruit, more or less one hour of content if you're like me and tend to take your time.

Sound : Well... It's nothing too exciting, let me tell you that, it's a little poor, but at least it's not bad.

Visual : I - Freaking - Love - Monster Girls, if that's your shit, then you should already know the name Kenko Cross. No animation, only some fix pics, but the quality is really good and that completely does the trick for me.

Gameplay : Surprisingly fun, I have to say, I don't see much variety / evolution being added further down the road, but it works, think battle fuck but with ATB.

Overall, pretty neat thing we have here, the only reason why I'm giving it a 4 and not a 5 it's because it's still way to early and we all know how it cango down the drain, fast. But frankly, give it a go.