RPGM - Completed - Naedoko Dungeon Chronicle [v1.10] [Tsukinomizu Project]

tl;dr: 3.5, an unfortunate mix of decent game with annoying mechanics. Play Demon Grounds instead.

Comparing this game to its predecessor (Lady Knight Saga) and successor (Naedoko Demon Grounds), it's much closer in quality to the NDG.

Unlike LKS, there are more character interactions and they aren't spread across 40 party members. Unlike NDG, these characters don't show up until a solid 3+ hours in.

Unlike LKS, there is actually is a proper fast travel system. Unlike NDG, it's hidden in a random corner of your base that you might miss entirely (I did for 6 hours and even then I only talked to the specific NPC because someone mentioned it in the thread), and there are no convenient indicators of the destination.


Of course the inability to save freely and insane random encounter rate is also still carried over from LKS.
In the end I did enjoy both the narrative and the scenes, but it took effort to get there.

This is both an annoying and interesting game. I would over all just say to play it if your interested in the story of these games, as all of this devs games tie into each other and create a shared universe.

The art is fine, if a bit low res, which you cant really help with things such as VX, note this isn't even Ace.

The lack of a number of features such as holding down space, or fast test don't work, as expected.

Also there are many events with Sex CG's, and ones just game overs, and the game doesn't do a good job of pointing these out, thankfully you unlocked the defeat CG's if you wish to watch them later.

It has some really bad difficulty spikes, and so, so many random encounter,s often cant go 5 steps without triggering them, half way thru I used MTool to turn them off full on. Grinding is questionable, but since you never get enough info on what the traits do, your stuck guessing and main as well just cheat or grind.

The Adventure Game elements are here, some feel rewarding, others are just annoying and tedious. Even more so for the 1 hit traps in many of the dungeons, which thankfully never game over.

Over all for something from 10+ years, in VX, I'd say 7.5 out of 10 at least, so round up that's 4 stars.