RPGM - Completed - Sol/Rui: Magical Girl of Another World [Final] [Enokippu]

I'd say its 3.5/5 instead of 4, but there's no in-between so I rounded it down,

Somewhat better than average but not really among what I'd say is good.

Pretty short overall.
Plot's decent for a mini-story, although some aspects could have been further refined.
Sprites used are quite meh. Clean blue water for the smelly sewers, just shadows for most mobs, an orc sprite for a Minotaur Boss, mice for spiders... You get the gist.
Art is generally good, same with other Enokippu works I encountered.
There's no built-in skip or fastforward mode for the H-Scenes so it was quite annoying instead of enjoyable to go through them.
The ESCAPE mode was the most annoying of all, Game Overs are fine and all, I'd even relish starting over from the beginning if only the H-Scene could be skipped.
Incorporating a crafting system so that we have to grind through mobs only to give us crafting packages so that we don't have to grind through mobs unless we want to is stupid.
Providing items that lead to death is also stupid, since death is Game Over, and you unlock everything by beating the game, meaning the items to kill one's self or lower stats as useless.

That said, Sol Rui Mini is an excellent upgrade from this. Altho its equally as short.

Pretty average game, only reason you are playing this is if you want context for the "Sol Rui After Mini" or if you want to play all of Enokippu's games. It's not bad, some unique scenes and gameplay as well as a little hunt for true ending. The entire recollection room is fit into a 20x7 tile space so there isn't much to do there.

Would highly highly recommend a speedhack. Took around 3 hrs to beat in game, maybe 2 hrs irl. You probably won't open this again after clearing story.

Sol Rui After Mini on other hand, very high quality game and justifies the existence and even playtime of this one. If you are the type that likes the time spent playing as a character, play this to enhance value of playing the After Mini. Playing this also gives you full context for certain stuff in After Mini, which is not apparent for people just going into that one blind.

The game is really old and it feels old in mechanics and gameplay (some areas are really annoying), but I grew affectionate with the story told and the main character. I'll be honest, I played this game just to enjoy Sol Rui -after mini- better. Some fights require some (not much) thinking and the CGs are good. Don't expect too much, I'm giving 5 star just because I think the score is really low for this game, but in my opinion it deserves 4 stars.

It's a dated game. It has its charms, but it's really just an isekai FeMC story.

From the technical stand point, I can't blame it for being made in RPGM VX (it's not even VX Ace -- if you're confused why you can't run the game, it's because you may have VX Ace RTP but not VX). But man does it severely limit the game vs all the niceties I'm used to from MV/MZ, or even VX Ace really. It does do some interesting gameplay with its limitation, and the combat at least flows well which is more than I can say for most games. A shame they abandoned it for After-Mini.

I want to say the story isn't bad... but it kinda doesn't make much sense. The Sol concept could be interesting, but it's stuck between the magical girl thing it went for at first and the Exaltation thing it shifted towards. Noir make no sense - going to the prev point, he's supposed to be the magical girl's sentient accessory, but there is no explanation as to why he's in that state vs the story you get from the mage's diary where he's NOT in that state. And it's never really explained whose fault the Port actually finally break down.

The H is also is just ehh. All of them result in death, and while some are OK, others went for a surprise mild-guro vibe. Also, yeah, it means that despite losing her virginity in a mandatory scene, any time she has sex it'll end in a game over.

It feels like a first work that started out as an isekai magical girl story and pivoted to try to be something more at the last minute, using the diary as a connective tissue, but it just splits the start and the end instead. FWIW I don't think it's bad, and it's worth playing if you can tolerate the annoyances, but it's just... dated and not very polished.

Early game of the dev and you can see the horrid design of sexual attacks here. The instant you get shame just restart the game since its an auto lose. The mobs will continuously inflict shame on her even if you remove it and then it leads to her climax which changes her pose art but then leads to and instant defeat

The art is super censored, and i didn't get too far with it, cause it's the old RPG engine, can't even speed up dialogue. From looking through the galleries there's some hot scenes, but not being able to use the mouse is annoying in this day and age.