RPGM - Completed - Shining Princess Lapisphilia [v1.4] [koriamezaiku/Ice Candy]

Very much worth playing if you like corruption mechanics and the corrupting a magic girl bit. If you want anything in the way of combat maybe steer clear but the h is pretty mint. Some of the scenes are pretty fun to find nothing challenging just little puzzles.

I usually dislike H-games that are just walking scene collectors but this one felt like it had better execution.

Story is literally just Evil Organization™ can't beat Magical Girl™ so they make an ero-dungeon to lewd her. It doesn't try anything excessive, theres no serious story and no game overs or side quests, just small puzzles and waking through floors until you get out.

If you like magical girl games and don't mind a less serious game then its pretty worthwhile 2-3 hour playtime.

This is my first review so I'm going to get some Criteria out of the way, the way I review games is based on how well I believe the game accomplishes its goal. As such I will not deduct or add points for things which fall outside of these boundaries. This now out of the way I will explain my rating.

Shining Princess Lapisphilia is a corruption game, and that's the intent of it. Playing and watching a girl who is extremely strong instead be forced into a situation where strength isn't the answer to her problem and as per your choice as the player if she can overcome that problem. In that regard with how the gameplay is, I believe it to be more than serviceable, while little more than a CG collecting game is perfect for the goals of the game. The situation would be very silly if it was your standard BF RPGM game, instead the CG collection approach I believe works heavily in the game's favor.

As for the goal of the game, I find the corruption part of it to be great. Artwork and scenes have around 3 variations of each depending on your level of corruption, and the way your Lapisphilia gets corrupted is through repeated sexual abuse as a result of falling for traps and/or failing to resist. I also like the art a lot, which plays heavily into this rating, it is very expressive which works extremely well for a corruption game where portraying a character's decline into sexual depravity is key.

There is very little I can really fault the game for given the intent of it being a Magical Girl Corruption game wherein the character is already expressly stronger than any threat and as such non-combat means are needed to take her down. To be blunt, you either like this premise or you don't. If you like this premise then you can't really complain about gameplay unless you wanted more variety with how CGs are collected but I don't really mind that so I don't detract for it.

good, funny little game for 2-3 hours.
We walk, collect scenes and that's it.
Stuck on the 1B floor. What drugstore, where is the drugstore?
If rate it only among games where you need to "save" the heroine
from the dungeon, then 4 out of 5

It's okay. Decently hot, but not anything amazing.

I'm not the biggest fan of ero trap dungeons, so I'm slightly biased against this, but I still enjoyed it well enough. The corruption is fine; a bit basic but still enjoyable. There are stats, but they seem to be ridiculously grindy; I wasn't holding back on lewding her but her development was only about 50% according to the in-game achievements. There's a "profile" but it's not dynamic. You pick up additional torn fragments, but it's entirely backstory and doesn't reflect you lewding her. Kind of a weird mechanic, in my mind.

There are some really annoying QoL issues, however. Sex raises development stats; this is accompanied by "Vagina sensitivity up!" in the text, and then also a floating bit of text in the profile picture. The latter is done for every individual stat increase and adds a delay. So when you get gangbanged and raise 10 stats at once, it delays for each one. It's extremely annoying.

There's no warp between floors. I apparently missed the glory hole segment and didn't notice until I went to the recollection room at the very end. There's no way I'm going back down 12 floors to find it. On a related note, there's too many floors and they're too big; the game would be improved by reducing the size of everything.

I feel weird about this one.

Pros:
Good MC and funny dialogue, decent scenes with plenty of variety, high content-to-playtime ratio

Cons: Severe lag if's you do literally anything else in the background (seems to be not even about performance but some botched optimization)
Annoying invisible traps with 3-4 seconds of animations (these add up pretty fast).

And my main dealbreaker: I really just hate the enemies. They piss me off. I want to kill them, not have them fuck me. By the time I got to the school layer I was just skipping half the scenes because I wanted to bludgeon them with a chair.
Something about the overall comedic tone of the game, combined with those guys being terrible clicked really badly with me, to the point I dropped the game (and I can't comment on the ending because of this).


While I had my feelings really soured by this, I still believe that 4* is a pretty fair objective rating for the game, I had plenty of fun in the first 2.5 areas.

Gameplay time: 3 hours

This is a passable game:
Pros:
There is a decent selection of H-scenes and the quality of the are is okay.
There are a few different levels with different enemies.
Cons:
The game gets really repetitive after about 30 minutes.
The enemy encounters are really shallow. You just button mash to escape.
The character sprint speed is pretty slow.

I would say that this game is like a salted potato chip. Basic and Bland, but not inedible.

Not gonna go into much detail, its decent but basic, walk around a maze avoid or do not avoid the traps/enemies get to the end. The art is very repetitive but the stages to vary.

The ending is disappointing but again ok.

overall average not good not bad, worth your time? up to you.

The game is basically just going from point A to point B. There is no fighting or any kind of strategy... You just have to walk and escape the traps. There are some traps and situations that you can't avoid, so you will see some H scenes. The protagonist has no kind of personality or development. She just falls into the traps and gets corrupted.

3/5
The game is basically "walk around and collect the H". Some H seems to be unavoidable, like the baseball team and the locker key part. There's no combat, just click a dozen times in a row to avoid H stuff. Character really doesn't have any moral compass and will do anything at any point, the only thing that gets "corrupted" is whether, or not she goes UWU when she gets into shenanigans. Some of the H traps get exhausted wicked fast; if you step on one electric trap, you've stepped on them all, etc.

Gameplay 2/5
Art 3/5
H 3/5

Now here's a short and sweet game!

If you like games where you're powerless and you need to avoid traps that'll increase a variety of stats, then this game's got a healthy amount of that!

For a short game, the corruption is very slow, so if you accidentally run into traps or get caught in a scene, but you don't want the full lewd & horny ending, don't worry.

You also get enough recovery items and money that you'll never have and issue keeping your Lewdness down, especially if you want to look at any of the hornier scenes and then go back down.

The game tells you this much at the very start, and it tells you that before the end you can buy everything to basically customize yourself how you want. So you're allowed to enjoy the game however you like and you really won't miss any content.

Which is good and bad. The starting stage is very slow and easy. It'd be nice if every enemy and trap you encounter forced you to struggle out, getting more challenging depending on your climax-gauge and developed fetishes. Instead it's just a simple mash-button gauge that's the same from start to end. (Also the climax gauge doesn't decrease after you climax!)

There's no story but there is some cute dialogue for examining things, collecting pink & white memos, and talking to a handful of enemies later on. From scene one you can tell the bad guys aren't super serious, and the silliness only increases each stage.

It's cute. It paints a picture that Lapis is clearly interested in sex, without needing to be tortured like many other games treat our heroines.

Each stage has plenty of variety. The first 2 stages might feel a bit linear and stale after however many floors you go through, but every stage after that I feel like does something interesting.

Stage 4 was my favorite, it's kind of maze like, I feel like if every stage were that way I may have enjoyed it more? Maybe not? Maybe too many mazes is bad. Who can say.

Either way. This game's clearly made to be enjoyed at your own pace, punishing scenes that increase tons of stats aren't super punishing overall due to the slow corruption rate, scenes are almost always easy to recognize, and enemies are easy to avoid. So if you want to take it easy and immerse yourself in the role then this game does a good job of giving you that opportunity.

As I said before, there's tons of ways to make it more challenging, more punishing, more interactive. But I feel that, like the story, even gameplay wise it doesn't want you to take it seriously.

I'd say it's an okay ~3.5 star! It's short enough that I'd definitely recommend it.

This game is sadly just a walking simulator, and a annoying one at that, making you walk back to the beggining of areas for a fucking key item bs, there is barelly any dialogue/interactions both in story and in h-scenes, and there is no CG only that portrait changing poses slightly, this game is just lacking a lot of stuff h-games should have wich is usually a focus on gameplay or ''story''/scenario for interesting h-scenes but this one doesn't do either, as a big magical girl h-games fan it's always dissapointing seeing a good looking magical girl game like this end up being giga mid.