Elmina Story

2 or 3 stars. I was leaning towards 3, but the final areas were such a slog even with cheating that I'm leaving it at 2. The main appeal is the ero. The art's good, the girls have lewd bodies, and unusually the focus is on consensual yuri tentacles. There are scenes with men, but the majority is with Feris, the demon assistant character. The downside to this focus is that almost every scene is the same: Feris uses tentacles on Elmina. I didn't unlock every scene but I'm pretty sure there are no pure-yuri scenes, nor does Elmina ever play the top. The scenes are pretty good but not amazing, and I do wish there were both more total scenes and more variety. There are 3 other girls that get 1 pure-love scene with Elmina and one defeat rape scene. Feris and Elmina get like 15 scenes together. No yuri threesomes. There's no corruption; there's some numbers but if they really change anything I never noticed, and I maxed them out very quickly anyway. Sex is part of the gameplay and will strengthen Elmina, both through exp and flat bonuses. This would be better if it was just the flat bonuses and the exp system tossed out - especially because the exp bonuses are items that you have to use, one at a time. Incredibly annoying. There isn't much integration of the sex with the actual plot; she forms a contract with a sex demon and gets a lewd crest, but this could be replaced with compulsive poker playing and the plot would be unchanged. The game tries to change combat. It does not do a good job. The problem with bog-standard RPG maker combat is that there are no real tactics or strategy involved, and that's even worse here. For example, "Defense" is usually a worthless command. Here, once you unlock the charge skill, defense is always the best option: same damage done, less damage taken. There's no thinking involved. There's a spammable heal skill with no cooldown or resource usage, so as long as your heal outpaces enemy damage, you cannot lose. There are 3 attack types, but the pure-damage one (water, oddly) is always the best until the final boss. Fire deals damage over time, but it's percent-based and therefore useless against anything with less HP than the final boss. The story is ok. It's nothing special, I wasn't expecting anything.

Art is nice. I enjoyed having sex as a way to power up the mc. Battles can be skipped if you don't want to grind and just want to see the scenes. There are defeat scenes, but they are unlocked in the gallery if you win as well. The story is ok, nothing to write home about. Gameplay is done poorly. There is a skill tree, but it's more for upgrading the skills you unlock at the beginning of the game rather than getting more skills. Not much variety in the skills, so every battle tends to be the same.

Combat for this was rather repetitive, just ensure your defense and healing is high enough that your healing outpaces the enemy's damage output, and your health bar and defense are high enough the enemy can't one-shot you. Your actual damage output makes things go quicker, but is ultimately not a bottleneck. As for the erotic scenes, they were fine, but nothing particularly unique, and I'd like to have seen more of the common enemies and all of the bosses have them.

Very nice game. FC not sexdoll with forcible scenario (aka Meritocracy of the Oni & Blade). All CG opened in ending if you wish. In game you have choice, battle not difficult.

Five star, not because it exception or great, rather it balance and blend well. This game have decent story with clear objective and flashback which make sense, decent CG with interesting taste (mine personally, elf vs monster, or fuck with ally is kinda interesting thrope), battle is simpilfied (suitable lazy person like me who bored with complicated battle items and buf stat) and naughty tentacle in away is cool, they had clothes sure but I think it bit unoptimized to use it still serve purpose for CG, speaking about CG this unique mechanism (you have reward by watching CG, awesome idea). Grindy yes but with simplified battle, I think it reduce the boringness thanks to Training in Inn. Unorthodox serving the POV like make walking top-down mixed with side-scroller, this avoid the game for being generic. What lack in my opnion in this game is job system like part-timing, but it breaked by how fun and simple the battle, no teleport as shortcut (this may made game felt really short). Slums has more potency, but still bearable. Short linear story, unorthodox execution, simple battle.

I really like this game. Where this game shines for me is 7fold. 1. The sense of discovery ( of the scenes ). I will absolutely be coming back somewhere in the future to rewatch some of them. 2. The characters are pleasing to look at and interesting enough. 3. Really interesting and cute Dwarf design made me laugh. 4. This weird sensation of full-ness that comes from this weird quasi 3D feeling and sometimes placing trees out of focus 5. Someone took great care to put some QoL stuff in here that is much appriciated that other RPGM games just do not have. Which makes this game odd and stand out to me. Especially because I sunk 8 hours into it and reading English is still semi-hard to me, at which point I appriciate things like 'running through low level monsters' 'warp spots that were clearly added post production' and 'extra fairies' 6. Flavor Text is FUN! Ever had a lust mark go needy in the middle of combat? 7. Lots of lesbian scenes, in fact when I finally found one with a dick it surprised me for a good second. It might not have a super engaging story but it gets the job done. It might not have a super interesting unlock system but I was very glad once I figured it out. I am actually not really sure if this is a corruption game where corruption is optional. Virgin engin? What is a virgin? General tips : Not feeling strong enough? Enemy encounters either bullying you or feeling like a chore? Talk to Feris in the inn and make sure all the scenes that you unlocked are unlocked. Else just have her play with you and eat the crystals afterwards. Need stronger healing? Go next to the inn and do the item fetch quest for Feris. Big thanks to everyone involved in getting me this translated game. I love it ( Game version played : Idunno, I grabbed it on the 25th of march and patched it once and found zero bugs and maybe 2 oddities like mentions to "[c076]'s tentacle" )

It's been so long that I haven't come across a true H-game, I can't wait to see more of this developer's future works. The game revolves around getting more H-scenes to develop your character, making her stronger. Exactly how an H-game supposed to be like.

TLDR: Small vanilla adventure with plenty of lovey-dovey lesbianism and tentacles. *Main kinks: Tentacles, lesbian, vanilla. *Decent art. *Decent scenes with decent amount of them. *Assume that there is no animation, what there is is pretty horrible. With one single exception - the lewd traps. Those are pretty good. *Bad sound. *Simple and easy combat, but solidly made one. *Somewhat repetitive dungeons. *Limited gameplay, not a lot to do in there. Afterword: Basically, this is for lesbians or fans of lesbianism and/or tentacles. It's rather lovey-dovey and fuckable ally characters never treat mc badly. I'd say it's just the thing if you're a vanilla-fag looking to expand your horizons a bit, particularly in the tentacled direction. Fans of the hardcore can move right past this. Have fun~

Well, let me put it this way: it’s definitely an enjoyable gaming experience. The game has its own atmosphere; it feels like you’re playing something old-school, where despite technological limitations, the developers tried to give the player the best gaming experience possible. So the gameplay itself isn’t very interesting if you’re not a JRPG fan. But it’s definitely not the default RPG Maker setup. It’s a bit more interesting and streamlined. In the game, you won’t have to keep checking lists of items you need or lists of main and side quests—just keep playing forward. If you go back to level up, the game will actually encourage you to do so. You can always have a good time doing personal training sessions at the tavern. I really liked the art in the game. Of course, I understand that many people might want more cutscenes, more character outfits, and more animations. But there’s already quite a bit of that in the game, so I was personally happy with it. In short, I liked everything. Of course, it’s not the number one game in the world, but it’s definitely the number one game within its own scope.

For once, the bdsm and lesbian tags are more then just a single scene. Translation: Another quality AI TL from Dazedanon. Story: Elmina is an elf that can't use magic, but she's trying her best and being a complete girlfailure at it. She wants to learn magic so she can go get her sister/friend/somethinglikethat back and get revenge. One day monsters attack the village she's at, she almost gets raped by some slime on her way back to help the person who's looking after her. Enter Feris who gives her a lust crest in exchange for magic. Then they go adventuring to collect some elemental stones or something. On paper this setup sounds incredibly generic, and yet despite how common of a trope lust crests are in art, they are very rarely used early on in H-Games. I like it. Gameplay: The combat isn't good, but it's marginally better then pressing basic attack. There's a skill tree and stuff. You essentially go through a dungeon, fight a boss, then go to the next place and repeat. There's some lewd traps as well with some pretty good pixel art. H-Content/Art: Top tier. First off design-wise, I really like the MC. I like big anime tiddies, but there is a line of too big that this doesn't cross. Her design is fantastic. The art style itself is kind of softer and I like it a lot. As for the content, there is a lot of yuri content between her and the succubus girl. A few bondage scenes, a few scenes with toys, more scenes with succubus girl using summoned tentacles and the typical GOR scenes when you die to the bosses. As well as some lewd trap pixel art, as mentioned. Quality all around. The writing for the scenes as well is long enough to be called a scene, without getting into excessive territory. If you're a lesbian or just like Yuri, this is probably a 5/5 game for you. While there are some straight scenes the vast majority of the game focuses on yuri content. It gets a point knocked off because the gameplay isn't very good, and the lewd isn't really integrated into the combat at all. The corruption mechanic of your clothes getting damage so the crest starts corrupting her is good, but because it's not like she really starts that sex-averse it doesn't really feel like corruption. I'd honestly be fine with the "corruption" just being her accepting the fact that she's actually just a slut too, but it's mostly just a screen with numbers go up and doesn't hit that mark either. Still, it's great to see a lot of tags I like and them actually get attention instead of a one-off scene.

Almost good. Decent quality and the amount of scenes. A separate sex mini-game and a bunch of pixel animations, because why not. H-side is integrated into the story. Simplistic, but not shamefully lazy plot. The problem is that it doesn't come together. There's hardly any reason to actually play the game. The combat is boring. The story is linear. The corruption is just "watch numbers go up" kind of deal, it doesn't affect her behavior in any way - scenes with the demon girl are just gated behind arbitrary numbers. Arbitrary because MC has zero story or personal reasons to resist the seal. Meanwhile monster-boss GORs are available once and then ignored, some even imply a bad end, but then MC just gets +10 stat and is back at the campfire. All in all 3.5 stars. Since this is the circle's first game, there is a hope they might come up with something actually good next time.

Sadly, aside from well-used RPGM effects, this game has nothing to it. Like, at all. Boring skilltree, boring fights, boring main character/others. The story tries to be not too predictable, but it is, ultimately, boring af. Pseudo corruption is present here as well: all that really happens with getting our fmc more "proficient" with h-stuff is that she gets more exp items when goes to sleep. There are restrictions like "you need almost maxed out h-stats to go naked", but who cares? Again, all h-related content has nothing to do with main plot or gameplay, fmc loses her virginity by default at the start of the game. Overall, if you want to see how to make a proper product with RPGM engine - yea, this one would work, but as a game, well, try not to fall asleep there. Almost forgot - pictures are in great quality as well, for those who care about "load full save for gallery" this one could have some value.