RPGM - Completed - Magical Girl Celesphonia [v1.07] [Shimobashira Workshop/Kagura Games]

Time To Beat: 30-33~ hours (did not attempt the post game)

I really wanted to give this a five stars but hampered by some seemingly minor quality of life changes that build up over over time, namely that a bit (but not grossly grindy, the inventory lacks 1 or 2 categories for items (of which there are too many) and combat towards the end becomes a joke if you’ve ever played an jrpg before.

Other than that, it’s fairly balanced overall with a the variety of fetishes and scenarios paired with the solid art that put it over a lot of rpgmaker games. It’s a shame that story is almost nothing and doesn’t really pay off while the music is pretty forgettable.

Perfect art, nice gameplay, a lot of diff fetishes. Just a perfect RPGM for me. I played it long time ago and don't really want to write anything, but I'm doing to to give it 5/5 rating. Just a perfect game and we need more RPGs like that

The game seemed to start off strong with the main character showing skin very early on and having her clothes melted off in the first fight you get to, but 20 hours in, she's still wearing the same combat clothes with the same tear/melt marks and you only see anything new at all once an hour, if that. You'd also better really really like tentacles and multiple penises (generally 3+ for 1 girl, who is shown behind at least 1 of the guys so you're mostly just looking at male asses and male penises) in all of your scenes. If you want to actually see the woman during sex scenes, you should play a different game.

Oh and the grindiness. Dear god, the grind.

Despite the strong start (which made me keep playing hoping it would get better), the terrible art, heavy focus on male nudity, and terrible grind makes this one of the worst games I've played from this site. 1/5 rating.

Great art and nice corruption mechanics, but despite all the praise, the game is quite forgettable. Still, it kept me entertained for a good 20+ hours, so it's definitely recommendable. It’s well-made, just not very memorable.

While scrolling on my game list I stumble this game again, I was surprised that is almost 3 years ago when i first download it. So i decided to replay it, I wipe out my old save files from 3 years ago when i finished it (Not 100% cg).
At first i though I'm going to play it with the Crisis difficulty but decided not. Explain below.

- Gameplay 3/5
it's 50/50 sometimes its good sometimes its bad. However the gameplay compliment that difficulty you set in. Unless it is hardest one (Crisis difficulty) Idk what's the developer did with the difficulty that it is impossible to fight the first mob. Like imagine you fought the first mob only dealing 7 damage. Then the enemy deals you thrice of that. So i decided to do very Hard at least that's manageable.

- CG/Art 5/5
One of the best maybe from now but the art is just fantastic. Only problem there's no animation.

- H-Scene 5/5 related to CG It is fantastic.

- Story 4/5, won't spoil it here but basically your normal magical girl plot line but with porn.

Overall it is 4/5 one of my favorite.

Honestly i liked ambrosia better because of the fantasy element and how the corruption is straightforward and how the protagonist openly accepts the corruption by herself, i know its a matter of taste but celesphonia is too complex for my tiny pee pee brain and the mechanics are like overly ramped up without much thought to them

Good game, def recomended to be played.
It have a nice lot of location, costume and ofc the "goods".
For me the Goods were good :b. The story quite basic yknow evil organization attack but wait theres our heroine. But that doesnt mean its bad. Its serve its purpose to prepare us for the meal.
So yeah, you like many costume? many place? RPG? tentacle perhaps or corruption? This game is worth to try~

Improvement in every aspect over the previous game. The setting is a lot more fun than the generic monster fantasy of Ambrosia. It's a bit too easy, even in the hardest configuration, and I had to manually grind the lewd levels to see more scenes since enemies just couldn't keep up with some of the overpowered equipment you can get.

version completed 1.07

a classic. there is battlegrope then battlefuck elements, scenes are not really animated (just some pseudo-movements like shaking but it's done well) yet it's still erotic enough somehow... there are many routes which i really hot i dont want to spoil it. you have scenes as a schoolgirl and a magical girl... some very good scenes are when you lose to bosses, but a lot of scenes you can just get or storywise experience without having to lose to anyone.

decent music, decent story, erotic sex scenes. there are like 6-7scenes i could easily fap to anytime(by knowing the context) and i dotn really like games without animation...

the rpgm engine and monster grind is old and dated but w/e, it's manageable. this is like a 10+h game. slow/normal corruption pace.

One of the best games ever made in the genre and on this engine.

A ton of content, likekable main character, good scenes/art. This game has some mechanics of karryns prison, + gradual corruption.

Gameplay itself is decent for most part. I have played modded version.

Easily one of my favorite games in the genre, especially for the ones on RPG Maker.

Lots of content, an adorable protag, and interesting *enough* combat. You can get powerful enough to feel really strong while doing a little more than just having to mash A (though thats also available tbh).

HUGE plus for me is being able to access a lot of the H content while remaining a virgin, one of my favorite things to do in these games.

This is by far the best Shimobashira Workshop game. The art is simply great. The scene activities are abundant and diverse. The corruption has the perfect pace, and the protagonist is actually interesting. The vast majority of scenes are not induced by failure. This is one of the best, if not the best, RPGM H-games.

• good art

art is well drawn and composed

• varied content

lots of different situations and fetishes explored, wide net for potential players

• good paced progression

never significantly dragged nor rushed. side content and objectives easy to find to space out main content if desired.

• endgame content worth doing

not often you find challenging content past the credit roll

I actually wasn't expecting this level of immersion. I usually don't like RPGM except Melty but the little life sim touches are really nice! Love it more than melty. For sure one of the more immersive in this genre with persona vibes. 4.789/5 for sure worth!

Currently the best H-game around. The author did a phenomenal job with it and it surpasses all of his other already exceptional titles. It is the perfect marriage between story, gameplay and H-elements. A new one is already on the horizon, set to release in 2025.

Good storytelling, variety of content. Total game time on normal diff is about 15 hours. Simple battle system makes gameplay simple. Art is good, code is optimized, not a single bug for 20 hours. Recommend for 100% completion

Game balance is wonky, too easy on normal difficulty to avoid pretty much most of the monster rape stuff. Just grind a bit to stay high level and invest in upgrading combat engrams, and the reconnaissance ones for traps later on. The game is trying to copy Persona's style of dungeons but there's nothing preventing you from speed running them one after another. At least in the Persona games you're forced to wait the whole month before the next, which is good because there's plenty of extra story content to do. But here you can really only repeat the same sex scenes over and over to level up your lewd level.

Fun rpg, gets a little repetitive but not too bad. You can pick you're own items and skills - skill tree is confusing at first but you get used to it. There is grinding if you want maxed items or skills but they are well worth it

Was an improvement from ambrosia in some mechanics and also loved modern setting and skill tree system,there are many events than ambrosia and also many jobs to do so you will be busy for long ,has also a lot of freedom,thanks shimobira for creating and kagura for translation,now onward to Enishia

Great game all around, loads of content and enjoyable art to unlock. managed to 100% and played around with all the features I could find. I don't have anything really to add then that this is one of those really fantastic RPGM games which just are great and I end up coming back to all the way until the finish. Highly recommend for rpgm fans who are looking for a little bit of an interesting story