RPGM - Completed - Nightmare Knight ~Sacred Maiden & Fallen Magic~ [v2.01] [orzPINEz]

I don't love it, and I don't hate it.

The biggest problem I have with the game is it's formulaic nature. In a genre this small, there should be more room for innovation and new ideas, but this game trots out the same plot and structure as at least 20 other Heroine-games I could name with a bit of googling. The game presents some very good art, and a high-effort execution on the corruption-system, quests and polish as compared to other tiny Heroine-games, but that's not enough to make this feel that different from the games I've seen and played before. One of the most different aspects of the setup is that the MC isn't a literal virgin at the start of the game but that's... nothing in the grand scheme of things.

So, the game's combat is standard RPGM-stuff with a single character, which is cringe. Combat features restraint-poses, destructible armor and lewd-on-loss scenes which is kinda cringe. What is not cringe is the game's choice-based system for depicting the MC's temptation to engage in sex-scenes, which combined with the system that represents different desires as "locks" that you build your character towards opening. This would be even more interesting if there was more to pursue with these builds than just distinct scripted scenes, but I take what i can get.

As for the story, there is a lot of it, and they don't quite do enough with it. The game has one interesting antagonist that they try to do stuff with, but otherwise the writing is just there to facilitate the scenes and the setup for the gameplay. No real attempts at delivering on anything besides the central NTR-premise, and the general pacing of the story.

There are games that have more interesting combat, sexual themes and scene-structure. There are games that iterate on the Heroine-game formula. This is just another high-effort game within the confines of the genre.

I feel this game is in the upper echelon of 4/5 star games. It is 100% worth playing, just not perfect.

The reason I say it is "upper echelon" is because this game has every single thing you would want/expect in a modern RPGM game (at least at a base level): animated scenes, still-frame scenes, minimal "sex-text," armor breaking in combat, combat scenes without requiring loss, combat scenes upon a loss, street prostitution, corruption meters, sex/purity (desire/reason) mechanic that is executed well enough, large variety of in-town h-locations (~21, some are used once while other are used multiple times), 15 different outfits (2 are event exclusives, 2 are ending exclusives) - some of which have damage variants, large variety of fetishes and sexual positions, night/day cycle, free-roam with purpose, Phils the Nun (a side character) has 3 h-scenes, there are four unique and fairly fun minigames (for the casino, brothel, maid service, and high-class bar), there are 66 unlockable scenes in the gallery (the vast majority of which are unique) and a handful of overworld events, four different endings, the art is amazing, the characters have realistic proportions, the hentai is incredibly hot, the MTL is done so well you will not even notice that it is MTL, slow corruption and reasonable escalation of sexual activity, a fantastic recollection room, the story isn't complete dogshit, the scenes are easy to find (you should not need a guide for this game), and more.

Yes, a lot of the things are not unique (such as the story being incredibly basic); but it has so much variety shoved into it that you have to give respect where respect is due. Even the less appealing content is still enjoyable and, to highlight something, the mini-games are genuinely great as they mix porn in with the game and/or are outright fun. However, the game is "wide," not "tall." There is variety, but said variety tends to be "one and done..."

The game is not without faults:

• All of the outfit-specific scenes leave a lot to be desired. Some are just reused overworld-prostitution animations with unique text. The lewd armor is just a fairly non-sexual pose. The maid outfit scene is quite nice, but the storyline itself feels like it would have more progression (it only has one scene).
• As with almost every RPGM h-game, the combat is unbalanced. If you improve the two base stats (ATK/DEF) then you will coast through the entire game. If you do not, you will struggle. Honestly, the combat and "outside exploration" should've been removed entirely and replaced with the mini-games found at the brothel, casino, high-class club, and mansion.
• There are quite a few unused locations or extremely underused locations that are prime h-scene areas. You see them and would fully expect a h-scene later on, but the area ultimately goes unused. Chekhov's gun needs to be considered... but with respect to hentai.
• Meryl the Witch does not have any h-scenes. The game leads you into thinking she'll have a scene, yet none occurs despite her being, by-far, the most reasonable character in the game, Rain included, to have one. You can't put in a fully designed hot chick into an h-game and not give her a scene. You'll understand when you play it. To me, this omission is genuinely the only terrible part of this game. It is a main factor behind me not even considering this to be a 5/5.
• No h-scene with the NTR'd guy. I'll repeat this until the end of time: if a NTR game features a "pure," non-NTR ending, then it should have at least one h-scene with the NTR'd guy. This game comes close, but doesn't actually show her getting railed.
• This will be controversial as this is a NTR game and the NTR community is usually incredibly bitchy about criticism, but hear me out: the NTR main-story aspect of this game and the free-roam corruption aspect do not go together. You can have Rain fuck every guy in town, yet still be hesitant to fuck Buster (main-story NTR guy). Then, once she fucks him, she will be remorseful and regret her actions, even though she is the town bike. This line of thinking stands outside of reason. In order to fix this, the game either needs free-roam to be more gated then it already is (in which case, why bother having free-roam) or remove the NTR main-story aspect and make the game purely a corruption game. You can CoNtRoL tHe BuTtOnS yOu PrEsS and have Rain not fuck other men until the appropriate actions with Buster have been taken (that's what I did), but that doesn't fix the game fundamentally. Hell, you can go full slut mode and still get the true/pure ending. That tells you all you really need to know about the conflicting aspects in this game.
• Some of the stories and events feel like they begin to build into something, but then suddenly stop or don't reach an appropriate peak. The maid side-story and everything with Meryl are the greatest offenders with regard to this issue.

Even with the issues, they're not detrimental (except the Meryl ones, those are genuinely disappointing, and the fact that you can get the true/pure ending even though you whored yourself around town). They have the right idea, they just need to take it one step further. It would be unreasonable for me to give this game less than a 4/5, but impossible to give this a genuine 5/5 as it builds the rocket, trains the crew, launches successfully, but misses the moon.

this game is very well done
visuals are very good, not only hentai events and nude art but overall game visuals and music
story is solid and make sense unlike in some rpg games
the gameplay is well done, game shows events available, i dont have to look for them like in so much other games, fight is balanced and fun, u can quickly get thru it too if you want
MC is able to level up and learn skills
the only thing i dont like is not full translation of the game but the parts that were translated are clear 99% of the time so i cant complain much
the only problem give me leveling equipment and looking for stuff because of that translation i named before and my pick ups items stop showing on upper screen for some reason
like i said overall game is fun and deserve to be in hall of fame
ntr elements arent that prominent as MCs boyfriend is not much around

Nightmare Knight has a decent RPG base. You beat bunch of mobs and some bosses, collect crap on the way and slowly upgrade your sword and armor. By beating enemies you collect both experience to level up and some extra points to upgrade your skills, magic, and base stats. You can easily get overleveled if you want to.
The story is super boring. Demon causes mischief, you try to stop demon. The ending dictates if you succeed or fail.
The general art is good. There is a tiny bit of 'animation' (more like sliding pictures). The porn is...fine I guess. While there are some hot scenes the fetishes are quite common for RPG porn games: brothel, dildo, rape, that kind of thing. After beating the game once I felt no need to play any more of it for the porn. Which is a shame since the general gameplay isn't bad. I guess it would be better if they incorporated the porn more into the gameplay that you spend most of your time on, and if the sex scenes were more interesting and less generic.

The benchmark for H-Games being considered "excellent" is a fairly low one. Most games out there are complete trash which not only fail to put out decent content, but are travesties of games rather than games themselves. In this sea of shit, Nightmare Knight comfortably stands out as one of the highlights in the corruption genre. If you've played Shimobashira games like Celesphonia and Ambrosia before, this will feel fairly similar. However, there are some additions that make this better, and some that make it worse. Overall though, for a fan of the corruption genre, this is well worth a play. What the game has - battle-fuck, night and day system, fair few scenes in the town itself, some minor NTR, clothing damage, cosplay i.e. the usual trappings.

The story in H-Games, as I keep on repeating, is usually bullshit. All you just want is that it frames the content reasonably, as in gives a reason for it. This is especially important in corruption games as you want a reason to go out and slut out the heroine. Nightmare Knight does this fairly well. Lust curse, losing reason, blah blah blah. It's understandable why she gives in.

The gameplay aspect is where there are serious missteps. One - combat is ridiculously easy for all battles. You probably don't even need to level up so the battle-fuck is severely underutilized. You can annihilate most bosses in 4-5 turns as well, often without even giving them a chance to attack. The battle system isn't interesting or new. Whereas better games add variety by at least including enemy resistances and strengths and a wide variety of spells to satisfy your fancy, there's none of that here. But it's passable. The other misstep is that corruption requires some sort of coercion. Some need to earn money, garner resources. There's none of that here. You will have so much money you'd practically be drowning in it. It's also unfortunate that you get free housing so can't even think "Oh, need money for the inn and I don't have money so need to sleep in the seedy inn the slums". So yeah, could be better there. The third misstep is that desire is way too easy to keep in check. You will almost never have an occasion where your meter is filled if you haven't gone out and deliberately lost every battle and picked all the wrong choices. (which is dumb, in my opinion, you should never reward playing poorly. I came here for the game, not just the content). This is a problem because in the final battle, you have to choose Desire to get a certain end and I had none. HA. Which ironically meant I got a bad end. And the last misstep, which is also a bit criminal, is that a lot of content is stuck behind story progression. You can't access the casino until you unlock the last dungeon. This means for a lot of the time, you have nothing to do apart from progressing the story. Which means fewer chances for corruption. Which means less fun for me. There also isn't a lot of content in the city (the beach also is horribly underutilized). Lastly, going full Lust Mode or Climax Mode has little to no benefits or detriments. I can still steamroll most enemies, reactions of people don't differ. You can play the game as is. Which is again, a horrible underutilization of such an interesting concept.

There are still things which are done well. For one, I love the idea of the Desire bar and having a QTE at key intervals to choose Desire vs Reason. It could have been used more but as is, it's still pretty good. The art is also stupendous. Censored and all that, but it's what we've come to expect. There's also a fair bit of CGs, even if the scenarios aren't novel. I like cosplay even if it isn't used all that much in the game itself.

I know the review sounds more like negatives and barely any positives. But there isn't exactly groundbreaking work in H-Game genre. This game satisfies the bare minimum (decent combat and great CGs). While it also has some novel ideas like the QTE traps and Desire vs Reason bar. So it does everything you want an H-Game to do well. My complaints revolve around what could have made it even better. Nonetheless, well worth the 4-8 hours you'll spend.

Version: 1.0.8
Time to complete: 6-8 hours for most people, I took like 20 hours.

I rarely leave reviews so this should tell you a lot about the game.

There's a mechanic where you pick "Desire" or "Reason" at select points in the story. "Desire" shows an H-scene, "Reason" gives a logical bypass. The game ignores your choices in the grand scheme of things as the story has a rigidity to it. There's an exception to that and it's the endings. There appears to be 4 endings based on your "Desire"/"Reason" range.

The story itself is great! I enjoyed playing as Rain, the main character, and I'm a sucker for dungeon crawling. Picking up materials. Looting chests. Killing enemies. It's a fun gameplay loop if you're into that stuff. The downfall of the game and why I gave it 4 stars is the constant "wow, what a missed opportunity" rearing its head at every turn.

Enemies: some enemies just want to kill you. For context, the whole area is pitched into a magical lust "cloud", so to speak. You'd think enemies would want to bang Rain yet only some do.

Economy: you get so much gold and items by dungeon crawling that you have little reason to buy anything or work lewd jobs. Imagine my surprise when the final fight is hard as fuck and buying expensive shit is nearly a requirement.

H-scenes: they're fucking hot. A great variety of kinks ensures there's something here for you. The problem is that some "story arcs" of H-scenes don't seem complete. It's a shame since the H-scenes are crazy good as is the art.

I never play machine translated games since dialogue is important for me. It's very passable here so don't let that stop you! The typical Japanese sex writing is still present so cringe-y dialogue cannot be avoided. The NTR is also a non-issue if you dislike NTR. Only one scene is focused on it and it sucks for the guy. Other than that, it's somewhat on the side.

I really hope the devs keep updating the game. There's a few things I mentioned that keep this from being a god-tier RPGM game.

Everything is already said but wanted to leave my 5* review here.

Game is good but not remarkable because of the generic RPGM gameplay. However, slow corruption theme is well done, with great scenes and art, lot of costumes, pacing is quite good and a few quality of life features like telling you where to go/what to do is always helpfull so you don't wander around for hours.

tl;dr: definitely play it.

Its an excelent rpg, it may not be the best at anything, but is solid at everything, good art, good combat, good gameplay, just what you need to enjoy a h rpg.
the scenes arent vanilla or super hardcore,there is some implied ntr but it doesnt have much impact on the game.

A culmination of greatest aspects of Japanese HRPG. Seriously, this is one of the best.

Positives:
Amazing artwork
Great costume selection
Slow burn corruption
Full HD Graphics! Why is not all Japan RPGM atleast 1080p man??
Good H Gameplay

Not too great:
The end game does not fully throw the FMC into debauchery, like gangbang, orgy that kind of stuff. Ruins of Luxoria is the best in this regard.
Some costumes are not wearable like the brothel one, and it is the best one.

Really, amazing stuff, one of the best HRPG, second maybe only to Sol Rui

A great RPGM female protagonist corruption game.

I really like this game because of

- Slow corruption. You can really take any decision at any time without worrying that after some event you are force to go all the way into fully corrupted nympho. You can even clean desire in certain way. And the event is blocked behind certain tagged keywords, meaning you won't be able to unlock all event at once when a higher corruption level is achieved. This is a good mechanism for slow corruption game. If you like slow corruption of FMP, this is for you.

- Attractive Art and good animation. the MC looks absolutely gorgeous. Just take a look at the CG of bikini armor, you will understand what I am saying.

- RPG element. It's not a new RPG skill tree for year 2023, but the H scene in the fight is well done. It's not too much to become annoying (you have ways to prevent it) and it's various enough to let you keep trying to get a bit more. However, I hope there are a bit more H fight scene or even be able to defeat enemy after they climax.

The reason I am not giving it 5 stars.

- a slum inn is in the game but there is no event related to it. an absolutely waste. I have tried so many times to trigger some event there, but no, there is none. I check the save file, there is no event for slum inn. I like the slum area in most of the FMP corruption games, but this one it feels lacking some content there.
- a title system seems to be planned in the game, you can check the save file to have reserved slots for title. and on the desire log page, beside the "sexual", "desire", there is space designed for title. Not sure why it's not implemented in the game in the end. Hope we can see some future update related to it.
- (this is not the reason why I am not giving it 5 stars, but I really want to see) please, more event in the shop where MC get the bikini armor, and more event on the beach.

The map designs are interesting. Combat mechanics are decent with only tiny bit of balancing issue and pacing issue (though very simple and by no means challenging) Unfortunately, there is too much of a focus on sex with the streets rather than with monsters. And as I guy, I don't want to play as a woman deeply in love for her man and doing NTR with other men. Seriously, I have no interest in men. I only want to see the main protagonist to feel good from tentacle rape or masturbating in her bedroom. This game is too gay for me.

If you not a fan of RPGM beacause these reason:
- The map design so bad that made u lost all the time
- It force you to read every single words or you may miss the piece to progress the story
- You just wanna walk from A to B, but suddently trigger fight
- You have to play like 30 mins just to see some flip skirt, no H scene
- Wait wtf just happen, where i have to go now, what i have to do?

If u face those problem, my friend, then this game perfect for you because it fix all the anoyyed thing in normal RPGM
(NTR avoidable btw)

Great content (There are animation and internal view)
Great gameplay (There is H restraint)
Great story (Some optional choice)

The character design is also top tier. Rain is very beautiful and f*cking hot

Overall, Great game. Highly recommended. I finished this game in 18 Hrs

In terms of gameplay, a fairly standard RPGM female protagonist corruption game. The main difference from standard fare for me was that the protagonist already has some repressed sexual desires even before the events of the game. Otherwise the combat is fine but overstays its welcome. Enjoyed the art overall. What keeps this from being a 5/5 for me is that I didn't quite get the payoff I was hoping for from the building corruption throughout the plot, but I still found it enjoyable.

I feel the game is trying to emulate Shimobashira Workshop games (Magical Girl Celesphonia, Ambrosia) and doesn't quite make it but still is worth a look. Overall recommend.

A good game that is not quite great.

This game is pretty much good but not great all around.

The setup and progression is fairly normal in terms of structure for this type of game, but has a bit of an odd pacing for the corruption mechanic in my opinion. You get to max desire in the blink of an eye, but then are still locked out of a fair few scenes by other metrics that I needed to semi grind. Its not a big deal but it did feel like the corruption progression didnt allign that well with my game progression.

Combat is pretty fast but there isnt much to it and there can be a bunch.

Scenes and art are good but not spectacular.

I think what I feel is the weakest aspect here is the character cast. To me it ended up a bit bland with the only distinguishing factor being the moments of our protagonist thirsting after her bf.

As for the translation, its gotta be one of the best machine translations weve had so far. I don't know how much manual editing was in the version i played, but the issues were few. Only thing that comes to mind were untranslated graphics, which are obviously a different beast and not that autotranslatable. But I see in the notes that some of those have been added manually since. Very nice.

While I feel it could have been even better with a few tweaks here and there, I had a lot of fun with this game. I did the corruption route all the way so got the "nightmare end" which was kind of what I expected, but I'd have preferred it if Rain could have gotten all the sex she (we) wanted and still saved the world from the bad guy. After I started this game, I saw a comment about one of the characters (Meryl) coming from an earlier game so I went and played that before continuing here. It took me about 30 minutes to finish it and was ok, but this game is much longer, better, and just overall a more developed product.

This is just.. mid. Okay the art is pretty good, but overall? It's pretty mid.

Story: Yeah, generic corruption game. I guess it's technically NTR, since you meet the bf at the start and she occasionally talks to him? Also there's an ending where she gets tentacled in front of him. But given it's from her perspective and you can sleep with half the town it's hard to call it an NTR game. So if that's what you're looking for, then try elsewhere. Regardless, the story is pretty basic. Knight girl goes on solo mission. Knight girl gets lewd magic in first dungeon that starts to erode her purity. Knight girl ends up sleeping with anything that has a pulse and a dick.

Gameplay: Hey it has battlefuck, that's neat. It's not a very interesting battlefuck system but it's better then nothing. Still, this is a straight forward RPGM game. Complete with this hilariously overused 'Spend TP to hit two targets at random!' early game abilities.

Art: You have eyes bitch, look at the previews. The quality is pretty good, I like all the character designs. Too bad some of the side characters don't get like any attention. You go and make this cute witch girl and then not have her get fucked? C'mon fam. At least the priestess/nun girl got a couple.

Variety: Fuckin non-existent. It's basically all vanilla, or monster rape. No toys outside of the one obligatory scene where she uses a vibrator to masturbate, no predicaments like the old classic stuck in a wall, no bondage play. I mean all the scenes are fine, and the girl is cute but you can only do vanilla so much before it gets old. That said there are quite a few scenes.

So yeah, the middest of games. But that's still better then like 90% of the RPGM games that come out, so if you're just looking for something new.. well you could certainly do worse.

Story - 7/10
It's a stereotypical female knight being corrupted but they have some moments of brilliance with the character developments (i.e. Buster).

Originality- 5/10
Meh, As stated above its pretty straight forward. Knight chick who has a lover need to go to a different town to solve a problem alone. If you make her fuck, she gets fucked. If not then with the power of friends and a lack of being dicked in every fucking hole she overcomes the big bad.

Renders- 8/10
Arts good nothing to complain about but rather there is some pretty good art being served here. Grade A stuff for sure.

Sound- 6.5/10
It has a very average sound track and design except for the villain theme idk if its a stock sound but when the villains come up I jam.

Playability-?/?
IDK what this means. You use your keys to play or you use your mouse if you are jacking off. Pretty normal stuff.

Performance- 9/10
I have a decent setup and it runs fine.

Bugs- 6/10
One thing I did not enjoy was when I accidently skipped some text because I had to play Wack-oMole with it to time my button presses right.
Except for some clipping into walls that I see in most new RPGmaker game releases there don't seem to be many bugs.

Animations- None

Voice Acting- 6.5/10
Pretty basic.

Grammar- 4/10
I know this is MTL (or maybe AITL?) so while I wasn't expecting awesome poetry like - "His meat went guchu guchu in her fluffy sandwich". It still was annoying to have to infer who was being referred to as the POV was just sporadic, There seem to be a lot of the use of "I" when referring to someone else.

Amount of content- 8/10
There is a lot of content as this is a battlefuck game. Even with that the scenes themselves are abundant.

Nevertheless, this is a good game that I would never recommend to the people around me due to the porn it contains.

Now, why do I have to write all that to give this a good review?

This game is alright.

i'll be straight to the point for the connoisseur :

- Combat is relativeley basic. Classic ressource management with mp and tp to use either magical or physical abilities. Clearly most of the time you'll just spam one attack . Good thing is that there is a costume durability feature and molestation during combat, the bad thing is that the game is so easy that you have to lose on purpose to experience those.

- Story is extremely classic for the genre. Protagonist has a love interest, they go separate ways at the start for their respective missions and you will either choose to "cheat" on him or not each time you reach certain points of the story.

- Graphism are okay. Sex scene are sexy. It doesn't look like AI so that's a good point. The only think is that the heroine doesn't have much charisma since she looks a bit underaged.

- the replayability is pretty bad 'cause there is unfortunately only one good way to play this game : choose every slut options. If you don't the game has literraly 0 interest 'cause there is almost no forced content.

- an other good point is that the game isn't too short.

So i think this game is average given everything i just explained, but in comparaison to most other hrpg i still feel obliged to give it a high note.

That's not Karyn Prison but it's still worth playin'

I get why this game is highly rated, because it's been a while since we have some decent corruption.

If you're here for the art and H scenes, then you won't be disappointed. But that's the thing, other than that this game is very average.

The combat is very standard, in fact it's so standard it actually hurts to play. I just avoided combat in the mid~late game because it got annoying.
Story is also a big meh that's not worth talking about.

H stats are kinda...just there? They are just numbers and I don't feel like they have any impact to the scenes. The scenes are very linear so the H stats grind just feels like it is there to add pointless game time.

I do like how you can go full slut mode and still easily get the true ending. This game is not worth replaying so this is a plus.

Eh, overall very average game.