RPG RPG Maker [Cinderalle Castle] DT Magical School (RJ229424)

[Danielwain]

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RPG-Maker game using Wolf RPG Editor.
Warning: Main fetishes seem to be rape, ryona and vore, if that's not your cup of tea, this game isn't for you.
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In terms of story? Guess I'll tag it with spoilers, in case anyone is interested in reading it for themselves. Quite long, basically a complete summary of the game.

Spoiler

The main character (MC) Ryon has been a virgin all his life and lost his job 2 years ago. On his birthday (30) he obtains great magical power from an angel, Chloe (Kuroe). The angel's world got taken over by a demon and she convinces the MC to go to a magic academy to learn summoning magic and become strong enough to defeat the demon.
In the tutorial you take out the MC's former employer for being an evil bastard and low-class magician.
1st chapter you reach the academy and find out there's a ranking system for magicians, D-S with S-rank magicians being on the level of god. There are initialy 3 S-rank magicians, but MC obviously turns out to be S-rank later on. Various NPCs are basically assholes to MC and try to hinder him, so you have to fight against them. The A-rank teacher Max in the first chapter doesn't want you to enter the academy since he's only interested in lolis, so he challenges the MC. MC beats him effortlessly. Max wants to bully him out of the school and sends him to the promotion area to A-rank magician, MC makes it through and gets promoted, Max gets expelled for stalking (Chloe teleported him to the girl's bathroom).
2nd chapter Adam, A-rank student and child prodigy, gets upset at MC for becoming an A-rank right away and daring to aspire to becoming an S-rank, since S-ranks only get chosen by god. MC goes looking for a summoning book in the sewers and Adam conspires with another teacher, Berri, to do something against MC.
3rd chapter MC hunts a perverted magician who stalks around a hospital.
4th chapter Crookes, an immortal and unaging S-rank magician who went missing and was assumed to be dead, attacks some students. She sacrificed herself to defeat another strong demon and tried to defeat him by catching him off-guard, but the demon ended up controlling her. The demon wants MC's body instead. MC fights Crookes and beats her, demon leaves her body and MC and Crookes finish him, then return to the academy.
5th chapter Lilith, the last S-rank magician, brings in another A-rank student, Kas, who challenges MC to defeating a demon in a research facility where experiments on turning humans into demons were made for becoming S-rank instead. Kas uses invisibility magic and chickens out of fighting the demon, MC beats him.
6th chapter, Kas reveals that he was down there to find a medicine for turning into a demon. He and various characters with grudges against the MC drink the medicine and attack the academy, taking out Crookes and Lilith. MC beats them all and saves the academy.
In the last chapter you go to heaven and find out that the demon was defeated by Julio who took away Chloe's power at the beginning of the game for rejecting him. He locked her away for months and wanted her to break, but she managed to teleport to Ryon instead. You have to defeat him since he's a jerk who wants to enslave Chloe and kill MC, in addition to summoning demons to control heaven and running it as a dictator. After all is done Chloe returns to earth with Ryon and they are friends in the epilogue, nothing more.

At the end of each chapter there are also small extra chapters.

Spoiler

1st extra: MC finds a cave of gold and starts digging to get rich. So do some slimes. A slime destroys the statue of a goddess and the goddess isn't pleased, she curses the slimes and turns all the gold rock. MC is pissed, slimes offer him some gold for defeating the statue.
2nd extra: Another student spreads insulting leaflets about the MC. MC chases him and ends up in a dungeon whose boss is obsessed with music. The boss isn't pleased with the other student and throws him down a cliff, MC defeats the demon and saves the student.
3rd extra: A student is forced by his mother to study martial arts, though he wants to be a magician instead, since he always loses against other students. He runs into MC, MC teaches him how to use magic for martial arts. Student defeats some other martial artist, everyone else calls it cheating and leaves the dojo. The other guy runs to a shrine and asks the deity for help, but the deity helps the student instead, wanting to kill the other guy and make a video of it for profit, since the dojo would be ruined. MC defeats the possessed student, the police takes in the student and master of the dojo.
4th extra: There's a legendary pond where a princess sleeps that always remains a virgin, no matter often she is raped. It's supposedly guarded by dragons with human faces. A group of adventurers goes there and jumps in the pond, one after another. The water turns red, they thing it's the virgin blood, but each one gets eaten by the monster in there. The legend was made up to lure in perverts to eat. MC arrives and gets attacked by the dragons, then disturbs the monster and has to fight it, afterwards it goes back to sleep.
5th extra: MC arrives in a village where a lot of people were turned into stone. He meets a boy called Orcus with strange markings on his skin that he got on the forbidden mountain. Some villagers pray to Luna, some local goddess, while being threatened by Orcus that they'll get cursed if they don't pray to her. When the villagers pray, their life force gets drained. MC wants to get to the bottom of this and climbs the forbidden mountain as well. At the top he fights Orcus who got possessed. MC beats Orcus, he turns back to normal. MC beats Luna, apparently she was also possessed by something and frees the villagers from the curse when defeated.
6th extra: MC hears of a legendary slime and goes to fight it.

When the MC loses Chloe will try to rescue him and fail because her powers were taken from her, leading to h-scenes, all of them either rape, ryona or vore, from what I've seen. Those only occur on certain bosses.

In terms of gameplay, you basically go through the game collecting summoning books which you can use to summon various demons that will assist you. You need red gems to unlock them and yellow gems can be used to increase their level or unlock new abilities. Only demons you have on your team gain levels from experience, kinda annoying, but yellow gems can be used to power up low-level monsters. You can grind yellow gems in a specific labyrinth that isn't tied to the main story, you gain more the more monsters and floors you complete in succession with a bonus for bosses, but lose any if you die. There's a checkpoint with special rewards and the option to return to the exit and a blue orb you can use to start from there every 5 levels. You also find equipment and gold, in addition you can buy bombs from a merchant to make holes in the ground or cracks in the wall big enough to pass through. You can only have 3 demons at a time. There's a small building in the MC's room at the academy, in the big circle you decide which demons you take with you. Most other things don't require an explanation, though the extra bosses require tremendous amounts of farming and are still luck-based. The last spot under equipment is for passive skills, you get those from shops that you find during the story, nowhere else. You need silver medals to buy those.

 

[DarkFire1004]

What is the game about?

 

[Danielwain]

In terms of story? Guess I'll tag it with spoilers, in case anyone is interested in reading it for themselves. Quite long, basically a complete summary of the game.

Spoiler

The main character (MC) Ryon has been a virgin all his life and lost his job 2 years ago. On his birthday (30) he obtains great magical power from an angel, Chloe (Kuroe). The angel's world got taken over by a demon and she convinces the MC to go to a magic academy to learn summoning magic and become strong enough to defeat the demon.
In the tutorial you take out the MC's former employer for being an evil bastard and low-class magician.
1st chapter you reach the academy and find out there's a ranking system for magicians, D-S with S-rank magicians being on the level of god. There are initialy 3 S-rank magicians, but MC obviously turns out to be S-rank later on. Various NPCs are basically assholes to MC and try to hinder him, so you have to fight against them. The A-rank teacher Max in the first chapter doesn't want you to enter the academy since he's only interested in lolis, so he challenges the MC. MC beats him effortlessly. Max wants to bully him out of the school and sends him to the promotion area to A-rank magician, MC makes it through and gets promoted, Max gets expelled for stalking (Chloe teleported him to the girl's bathroom).
2nd chapter Adam, A-rank student and child prodigy, gets upset at MC for becoming an A-rank right away and daring to aspire to becoming an S-rank, since S-ranks only get chosen by god. MC goes looking for a summoning book in the sewers and Adam conspires with another teacher, Berri, to do something against MC.
3rd chapter MC hunts a perverted magician who stalks around a hospital.
4th chapter Crookes, an immortal and unaging S-rank magician who went missing and was assumed to be dead, attacks some students. She sacrificed herself to defeat another strong demon and tried to defeat him by catching him off-guard, but the demon ended up controlling her. The demon wants MC's body instead. MC fights Crookes and beats her, demon leaves her body and MC and Crookes finish him, then return to the academy.
5th chapter Lilith, the last S-rank magician, brings in another A-rank student, Kas, who challenges MC to defeating a demon in a research facility where experiments on turning humans into demons were made for becoming S-rank instead. Kas uses invisibility magic and chickens out of fighting the demon, MC beats him.
6th chapter, Kas reveals that he was down there to find a medicine for turning into a demon. He and various characters with grudges against the MC drink the medicine and attack the academy, taking out Crookes and Lilith. MC beats them all and saves the academy.
In the last chapter you go to heaven and find out that the demon was defeated by Julio who took away Chloe's power at the beginning of the game for rejecting him. He locked her away for months and wanted her to break, but she managed to teleport to Ryon instead. You have to defeat him since he's a jerk who wants to enslave Chloe and kill MC, in addition to summoning demons to control heaven and running it as a dictator. After all is done Chloe returns to earth with Ryon and they are friends in the epilogue, nothing more.

At the end of each chapter there are also small extra chapters.

Spoiler

1st extra: MC finds a cave of gold and starts digging to get rich. So do some slimes. A slime destroys the statue of a goddess and the goddess isn't pleased, she curses the slimes and turns all the gold into rocks. MC is pissed, slimes offer him some gold for defeating the statue.
2nd extra: Another student spreads insulting leaflets about the MC. MC chases him and ends up in a dungeon whose boss is obsessed with music. The boss isn't pleased with the other student and throws him down a cliff, MC defeats the demon and saves the student.
3rd extra: A student is forced by his mother to study martial arts, though he wants to be a magician instead, since he always loses against other students. He runs into MC, MC teaches him how to use magic for martial arts. Student defeats some other martial artist, everyone else calls it cheating and leaves the dojo. The other guy runs to a shrine and asks the deity for help, but the deity helps the student instead, wanting to kill the other guy and make a video of it for profit, since the dojo would be ruined. MC defeats the possessed student, the police takes in the student and master of the dojo.
4th extra: There's a legendary pond where a princess sleeps that always remains a virgin, no matter how often she is raped. It's supposedly guarded by dragons with human faces. A group of adventurers goes there and jumps in the pond, one after another. The water turns red, they thing it's the virgin blood, but each one gets eaten by the monster in there. The legend was made up by the monsters to lure in perverts to eat. MC arrives and gets attacked by the dragons, then disturbs the monster and has to fight it, afterwards it goes back to sleep.
5th extra: MC arrives in a village where a lot of people were turned into stone. He meets a boy called Orcus with strange markings on his skin that he got on the forbidden mountain. Some villagers pray to Luna, some local goddess, while being threatened by Orcus that they'll get cursed if they don't pray to her. When the villagers pray, their life force gets drained. MC wants to get to the bottom of this and climbs the forbidden mountain as well. At the top he fights Orcus who got possessed. MC beats Orcus, he turns back to normal. MC beats Luna, apparently she was also possessed by something and frees the villagers from the curse when defeated.
6th extra: MC hears about a legendary slime and goes to fight it.

When the MC loses Chloe will try to rescue him and fail because her powers were taken from her, leading to h-scenes, all of them either rape, ryona or vore, from what I've seen. Those only occur on certain bosses.

In terms of gameplay, you basically go through the game collecting summoning books which you can use to summon various demons that will assist you. You need red gems to unlock them and yellow gems can be used to increase their level or unlock new abilities. Only demons you have on your team gain levels from experience, kinda annoying, but yellow gems can be used to power up low-level monsters. You can grind yellow gems in a specific labyrinth that isn't tied to the main story, you gain more the more monsters and floors you complete in succession with a bonus for bosses, but lose any if you die. There's a checkpoint with special rewards and the option to return to the exit and a blue orb you can use to start from there every 5 levels. You also find equipment and gold, in addition you can buy bombs from a merchant to make holes in the ground or cracks in the wall big enough to pass through. You can only have 3 demons at a time. There's a small building in the MC's room at the academy, in the big circle you decide which demons you take with you. Most other things don't require an explanation, though the extra bosses require tremendous amounts of farming and are still luck-based. The last spot under equipment is for passive skills, you get those from shops that you find during the story, nowhere else. You need silver medals to buy those.

 

[DarkFire1004]

And would you look at that? Now your OP is informative and well-written!

 

[super_slicer]

Shouldn't it really be counted as YOUR OP though Dark? XD

 

[DarkFire1004]

Credit where credit's due: this is a pretty new game with very little downloads. He put up a mega link, with a nearly complete save, and gave full warning of violent content. All those facts combined meant he probably got this himself, genuinely wanted to contribute, but was just missing a write-up. That already puts him leagues above a lot of other threads. Plus, I've always had a soft spot for ryona stuff.

But man, I wish ryona artists were a little better. It always seems like ryona and guro tend to either be low quality, or obscenely high quality. Never an in-between. The art in this game is all over the place too. Character portraits with people with giant foreheads, character models being literal five second sketches by a 10 year old, and very simple animations for some of the losses against bosses. Then the CG quality varies from decent to great.

 

[4lurk3r]

Ah, this game. Binged it for a bit, just managed to complete the extra bosses. By the way, only enemies with red-colored names have scenes on loss, so don't bother losing to anything else.

Some game mechanics that are probably not as obvious at first glance (only really relevant for those who play this game for the gameplay... Which is probably recommended in the first place anyway, as like the dev's previous game AINSEL, the game is quite short on scenes, at least for its size):
>You can stock up to 5 blue "Power Gems" (visible from the menu) that can be used to use Great Magic (大魔法), usually marked by a red tinted skill name. They're very strong, but you can only use up to 5 before you heal at Chloe's or restock at the blue statues you can occasionally find before boss rooms. A 20 medal passive buyable from the 4th skill shop gives the wearer a 100MP skill that produces 1 Power Gem each use (you still can't exceed the 5 gem limit AFAIK).
>Charge (チャージ) is your best friend. It gives a notable buff to power and stacks up to thrice. Later on the best way to deal damage to bosses as far as I can tell is Chargex3 Great Magic attacks. Stronger demons learn the Berserk (バーサーク) skill that immediately gives Chargex3, but costs a hefty 250MP. You can also buy a 1000G Berserk Potion later on that does 300HP damage instead of costing MP later in the story from the demon merchant, and later in the optional dungeon you can buy a book that gives the equipper the Berserk skill.
>Skills with blue-tinted names are combination skills, using them requires everyone with the skill to select the same skill at the same turn. They're usually not as efficient as simply having the participants attack individually, though for some reason it doesn't remove the Charge status. Some combination skills are also Great Magic, and will cost power gems equal to the number of participants.

Some added story tidbits I picked up while playing (spoilers included):

Spoiler

The main reason MC/Ryon wants to study summoning magic is so he can summon his dream girlfriend and start his long-awaited Pure Love Route (tm) and graduate from his virgin life. Except that the things someone can summon are pre-defined for each person, and the only way to obtain more summonables are rare, highly valuable summon books. But then he keeps getting summons who are strong combat-wise, but are either clearly inhuman, butt-ugly or straight in the uncanny valley. But being a (rather desperate) man, he's not going to stop until he's made a girlfriend.

After finishing the 4th chapter he gets ranked up to S-rank after proving himself more powerful than a demon possessing an S-ranker. After finishing the 6th chapter he further gets ranked up to the first "God rank" in history (the banner above the super-deformed party scene roughly reads "congratulations: god rank promotion"),

Spoiler

Unfortunately he still hasn't managed to summon a cute girl to begin a relationship with, but then Chloe suggests him to look for someone closer... Like the girl who's been working with him from the start. After all, she's technically a girl Ryon summoned.

The banner above the 7th stage intro super-deformed party scene roughly reads "congratulations: girlfriend made!".

In the ending scene,

Spoiler

It turns out that the reason Ryon has been only getting strong but ugly summons is that Chloe has been subtly jamming the process. When asked why she roughly goes "because you saved me from a tight spot, I guess? I've kinda liked you since the beginning".

The banner above the ending super-deformed party scene roughly reads "congratulations: virginity graduation!". Personally I took it to mean that they did/will do the deed offscreen sometime somewhere, but either way it's a happy ending I guess.

 

[Danielwain]

@DarkFire1004 I'm not that used to opening up new threads, thanks for the hint. Didn't know if the story was usually seen as something that should be included, considering how many posts without such descriptions I come across. I asked for the game in another thread, but decided to buy it for myself (and the community, can't always just take), since no one had it. Was a bit too cruel for my taste, hope others will find more enjoyment in the game overs. Some of the endings are eternal torture for Chloe, considering she apparently can't die, from what I've read. At least in some of the scenarios.

The game really was all over the place, in terms of graphic quality. The cut-scenes mostly looked like some crappy teen project from 20 years ago and it was rather off-putting at first, but it grew on me and some were surprisingly smooth while others really looked like the work of children. The style of the cg is kind of unique as well, in a good way. It's refreshing, at least not another forgettable h-game without real personality.

@4lurk3r I guess I did miss some things, my translation software was a bit off. Thanks for the additions. I guess I'll add a pretty much complete save, though I edited the MC's health because some of the post-game bosses were really annoying me. Could you add where the 4th skill shop was? Guess I missed that one. Not sure if all scenes in the cg-room are unlocked, looks as if some might be missing, but there really aren't that many.
>The blue gems can also be found in chests, if I'm not mistaken, at least when you're in the bonus dungeon.
Guess I should've used Charge then, maybe I wouldn't have had to rage at the post-game bosses and resort to cheating. Oh well.
As for combination skills, really not worth the time and they require a specific party set-up on top of that. Haven't tried them all, but the ones I did try were definitely not worth the costs.

 

[4lurk3r]

4th skill shop is in the abandoned research facility (chapter 5), the first part IIRC. The skill shops are in chapters 2, 3, 4 and 5, respectively. They're always reached from wells, and generally require bombing a rock or something to proceed.

If I'm not wrong, the CG room unlocked after finishing the game has everything automatically unlocked from the get-go. It was the same deal with AINSEL.

Though I said "Charge is your best friend", this largely only applies for the maingame, particularly when it comes to the Chargex3 into Great Magic combo as Great Magic is too expensive to spam. For postgame bosses spending 3 turns for Charge is a tall order; it'd be great if you can have at least one party member with Berserk and/or a stock of Berserk Potions to quicken the cycle and reduce the chances of the enemy AI deciding to pull a one-turn party wipe.

For later bosses Multi Cure Light, a 40MP skill that's the only AoE heal in the entire game, learned naturally by Ryon or accessible by equipping a certain book, will obviously be your lifeline. By the end of the postgame I basically had 3 characters cycling Berserk -> Great Magic or Berserk -> 300 power skill, with the remaining character spamming Multi Cure Light. Of course it still won't help the cases when the enemy AI decides to double up on a strong AoE skill or something, but that's what stacking stat stick accessories and praying to the RNG is for.

 

[Danielwain]

Thanks, I only missed the last one, I was pretty thorough, for the most part.

Well, all the better. A little bit underwhelming, but it's alright.

Yeah, the postgame bosses usually don't give you the time to use use charge and are generally very annoying, even with a level 100+ team and some of the best equipment in the game. Even worse is that it's basically gambling, as you said, the enemy can easily wipe all of your summons in one turn, some of them even Ryon.

The problem with that is that you get into a healing loop that slows down the time it takes to kill the boss, giving it more chances to one-shot your party. Especially bad with bosses that charge their attacks, which is about half of the post-game bosses or more, I think. Maybe I should have used some other summons, but I just didn't have the patience to grind them up to the required level. The RNG-element is really the only issue I have with the game, I think the post-game bosses are a little bit overpowered. Some of them even managed to kill Ryon in one turn without charge at level 115.

 

[redx]

wheres the CG room at?

 

[DarkFire1004]

Gotta beat the game first. Then a staircase shows up in in the "central" hub area.

 

[redx]

Thanks i was loading the wrong save like an idiot.

 

[YuriTenshi]

Geez, if it weren't for all the gore I might be interested in trying it out... It's nice to see an RPG that isn't RPG maker after all.

 

[Danielwain]

If you're not into gore, this game definitely isn't for you. Also wish there'd be an option to turn it off or something, but that's not the case. Wouldn't make much sense though, considering that pretty much everything is gore. A bit of a shame, I really like the art, but that makes it even better for some other people.

 

[foxthree]

This is one tough motherfucker.

Spoiler: Post postgame bosses boss

I used the cheats you unlock by beating all postgame bosses to level up the 3 strongest summons to level 125 and I still lost. So you can't even beat this thing by cheating. You have to buy all the best items at the maze, equip the item that gives you berserk, and then spam berserk and great magic over and over and pray that it casts only regenerate. It can one shot the entire party in one turn. And it doesn't even have a ryona scene!

Overall this game is just like Ainsel. I wanted to play Ainsel because it looked like a very hardcore ryona game from the images, but when I got to play it it turned out to be an RPG with a lot of effort put into it and just some ryona. I ended up enjoying the RPG more than the ryona. Same happened with this game.

Spoiler: plot

"If you're still a virgin when you turn 30 year old, you become a wizard."

lol. Too fucking funny for a torture game. Too little torture for a torture game.

One thing I found weird is that the torture scenes you get when you're defeated don't match the enemies you lose against at all. There's a laboratory stage with mad scientists so you'd expect the ryona to be some experiment / machine torture, but you get

Spoiler

accidentally eaten alive by nearby monsters instead.

Losing to the slime boss doesn't even give you a classic slime acid corroding clothes, you get

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teleported and turned into eternal plant food.

The last boss made the least sense of all,

Spoiler

he was in love with the angel, so I thought he would brainwash or rape her, but instead she got teleported to a world of giants, turned into a prize for a crane game, and then disposed of in a fake medical experiment because the world laws didn't allow you to just kill sentient beings, so they pretended it was a surgery with a giant mixer robot to legally kill her in a useful way? What?

 

[nnescio]

Leon, a NEET virgin, gets a visit from an angel on his 30th birthday who teaches him magic. NEET wants to learn more magic so he can summon a (decent looking female monster for a) girlfriend, so he goes to a serial-numbers-filed-off version of Hogwarts. He manages to get a scholarship thanks to his immense magical talents, but hijinks ensue as other people grow envious of him (imagine a 30-year grown adult going to Hogwarts and the resulting teacher-student and student-student interactions). NEET learns more and more summoning magic but he always gets ugly monstrous (but immensely strong) creatures, even as he desperately takes on quests and dives into extraplanar worlds to acquire more summoning grimoires. Along the way, he gets ever stronger and faces numerous rivals and fearsome monsters, eventually culminating in him becoming the strongest wizard of all human history... but he still fails to summon a girlfriend.

This is how the plot drives itself forward.

TL; DR: Male Virgin (DT, doutei) Magical School. Exactly as written in the title.

Basic description and guide (spoilered for length):

Spoiler

The game is a turn-based RPG based on the Wolf RPG engine (not RPGMaker). You start at a hub (your room) and enter stages by moving into a doorway at the top of the map. This leads to a nexus of doorways (with each nexus corresponding to a chapter), with doors leading to stages within a chapter. Each stage generally represents a portion of a dungeon or some place you have to explore (for that chapter). The goal of each stage, usually, is to reach the end line (symbolized by checkered goal coloring). This will clear the stage and unlock the next one, as well as rewarding you with a small amount of currency (you can clear a stage repeatedly for the rewards). The last stage of a chapter usually has an unavoidable boss encounter blocking the way to the end goal, so you have to beat him.

Some final stages' lead directly to a chapter boss encounter, with no stage to explore. For this, simply defeating the boss will clear the stage.

Starting from chapter 1, there is a additional stage door way at the end (to the right) of the nexus which leads to a bonus stage unrelated to the main chapter's dungeon/place. To unlock this stage, you need to clear the corresponding chapter, as well as having a minimum number of keystones (jeweled key-like items), which are generally found in chests on chapter stages. Bonus stages usually have decent treasures, and some of the bosses there may join you after you beat them.

There are three main currencies in this game, G (gold?), Magic Stones and Sparkling Crystals. G is used to buy equipment and consumables. Magic Stones are used to summon monsters (your only other party members), and to pay for certain services WITHIN stages (healing HP/MP, replenishing power gems, clearing obstacles, opening checkpoint portals in the Abyssal dungeons). Sparkling Crystals are used to strengthen (level up) your character and monsters. They can also be used to unlock skills (Grand Magic) for monsters.

The stages are linear (with branching points leading to treasures or secret bosses), but they are very well-designed with a lot of places to explore. There are no random encounters; each enemy encounter is represented by sprites on the map. In addition to your main interaction key (Z), you can also shoot out (relatively harmless) magic by hitting the C key (similar to the Sorcerer's Ring from the Tales series), which sort of acts like a ranged-interaction key. You can use this to destroy destructible objects (they tend to be sparkly or glowing objects), which gives you Magic Stones. You can also use this to activate certain switches or key items (like hitting a sphere to make it bounce above and clear the way for you to walk through), or to pull yourself to certain grappling points (symbolized by a sparkling point), Zelda hookshot style. You can also stun enemies with this, which can allow you to evade most encounters. Note that you can fire the magic diagonally as well, which may be necessary to reach some grappling points or hidden objects.

The C key is also used to interact with certain (giant-sized) mirrors. Firing magic into them will activate the mirror, causing a door to appear nearby a brief period of time. This door leads to a challenge room, where you usually need to figure out some simple puzzle in order to reach item chests contained within.

You will occasionally encounter a demon merchant in the stages who sell you items. You unlock more items for sale as you progress through the chapters. Certain special items lets you interact with the stage in more ways. The first (unlocked in Chapter 1) is a fishing rod, which lets you fish from fishing points on the map (symbolized by glowing magic circles). This will give you random amounts of G and Magic Stones. Sometimes you fish up a monster instead. Rarely (and only on certain stages), you will fish up a boss monster instead. Defeating him will usually give you some equipment and unlock an achievement (see later).

The second item are bombs (unlocked in Chapter 2), which are consumable items. You use them to bomb rocks and weak points in walls and floors to open up hidden paths to treasure or hidden rooms. The third item is a Dimensional Slasher (unlocked in Ch 3 or 4, I forgot), basically a knife that lets you cut portals into other dimensions. Occasionally when you walk around the stage you will encounter a 'screen-cracking/static' special effect, symbolizing a weak point between realities. Using the Dimslasher from your inventory will teleport you to a 'reverse-version' of the current room, where you will find hidden treasures and bosses (these tend to be harder than the main chapter boss).

Combat-wise, this plays like an average turn-based Wolf RPG, but with a lot of custom assets thrown in. Almost everything uses custom animations, and some skills have a short cutscene that play before they deal damage (reminiscent of PS1/2-era Final Fantasy games). On each character's turn, you can either make a basic attack (some monsters have special attacks which replace this function, and they are passive skills you can equip to turn your basic attack into an AoE or a multihit), use a magic or skill, use an item, defend (cuts damage to 1/2), invoke a barrier (spend 2MP to cut damage to 1/4) or charge (spend 10 MP to increase damage and crit rate on next hit, stacks up to three times). There are a lot of skills and magic, but most of them do the same thing -- deal damage. There are two damage types, physical and magical, and five elements (plus one non-element for attacks without elemental properties). The elements rarely matter though. Just some monsters are resistant or immune to some elements (don't think any of them have weaknesses), so it's best just to spam non-elemental attacks if you can help it. Some skills and spells deal multiple hits: this is listed as X x N (where X is the base power of the skill and N the number of hits). Some skills will be listed as X x N, Y, in which case it will deal N hits at base power X, followed by a finishing hit with base power Y.

Some skills and magic are classified as "Grand Magic", This require an expenditure of one power gem per use, in addition to the usual MP requirements. They are stronger versions called "Awakened Grand Magic" and "Awakened Grand Magic II", but they work the same (still costing one power gem) except for a higher base power and MP cost. You can carry up to five gems in your inventory and they get restocked by Chloe (for free) when you speak to her.

You can unlock combination-skills by visiting certain large magic circles found in stages (blocked by giant statues which require you to have the correct characters in your party or to pay a certain amount of Magic Stones). To use it, you need to have all the characters involved use the same skill in the same round (and if you miss one, the skill will eat up turns and MP without doing anything. The game also doesn't keep a record on which characters are required for the combo, so you need to remember this as well). The base power of a combo skill seems to be effectively multiplied by the number of participants, so they deal more damage then what the power rating would indicate. The early combo skills can give you quick access to AoEs without using power gems (assuming you haven't unlocked non Grand Magic AoE skills yet), but after that they're usually not worth it compared to just having individual characters spam regular skills. Later on you can get combo Grand Magic, which eats up a number of gems equal to the number of participants. Again, not so worth it... except for two useful tricks:
1) You can use combo Grand Magic with up to 4 participants even though you only have one power gem left (even though it would normally cost up to 4 gems).
2) Combo skills do not eat up charge status, unlike regular attacks/skills (so you can attack again and again while fully charged with combo skills ).

Unfortunately, other than healing (heal, group heal, regen), there are barely any support skills in the game. There is almost no buffing except for the built-in CHARGE and the berserk skill (gives you three stacks of CHARGE), which both can't be used to buff other characters. There are no protection skills (no defense buffs, damage shields, reflects, etc.), no stuns or any way to delay or remove an enemy's actions (unfairly, enemies can sometimes freeze your characters with their skills, taking away your actions), basically no way to mitigate damage other than killing your enemies as fast as possible. No revives either (you have an item to do it, but you can only carry 4 at a time). Not too much of a problem in the main game, but it makes fighting the last few post-game bonuses bosses an entirely RNG-based affair.

Death is a slap on the wrist in this game; you just get booted back to the main hub and need to make your way back to where you were, that's all. Losing to red name enemies (usually bosses) will trigger a ryona scene as Chloe tries to save the MC only to be captured or be teleported into the wrong place (some white name bosses will also trigger a scene, this is likely an oversight), before being revealed as a nightmare by Chloe and you being booted back to the main hub anyway.

You can retreat from each stage at any time by going back to your entry point (and hitting confirm), returning you back to the hub. You retain all current progress in the stage (activated levers and the like). You also get sent back to the hub each time you clear a stage. Here, you can find Chloe (the angel) to the upper left, who can restore your party's HP/MP and power gems for free. You can also buy basic consumables from her (lorewise, she uses the money to find and purchase those items from you; she doesn't actually run a shop) . There is also a save crystal (basically looks like a purple crystal ball) to the lower left, which you use to save your game. There's also an octahedral floating crystal to your upper right which gives you the option to toggle skipping certain combat animations (the skill cutscenes mentioned earlier).

Once you've cleared the prologue, Leon will move to the dorms at the magical school, unlocking further options. A stairway will appear to your upper right, leading to the achievement room. Here contains treasure chests which are unlocked by clearing certain achievements (having a certain amount of money, defeating bosses (chapter, hidden, bonus, etc), getting into a certain number of battles, etc).

To your right is a door leading to a 'stable-like' room where you house your monsters. Each crystal plinth there represents a character, with the bottom-left most one representing Leon. Unsummoned monsters are represented by solid crystals, while summoned ones are faded out. Monsters in your active party have a glowing sparkle under their crystal plinth. You can interact with each crystal to summon a monster by spending Magic Stones, to strengthen an already summoned monster (or Leon) by spending Sparkling Crystals for exp, or to unlock Grand Magic skills (up to two). Most monsters have some sort of passive ability: resistance or immunity to a specific element, lifedrain or AoE on basic attacks, increased crit rate, doubled accuracy (basically they never miss), that sort of thing. Higher tier monsters have better passives, skills and stats, but they cost more to summon (some even require special Giant Magic Stones in addition to normal ones). You can see what tier a monster is by looking at their 'class' when they're in the active party (1-star, 2-star, 3-star, 4-star, Large Star).

You can use the magic circle in the monster stable room to rearrange your party. Up and down to select, Z to add a monster, X to remove the last monster in your party, and C to confirm your party selection. This is a bit clunky though.

Back to the main hub, if you've unlocked access to skill shops (found in stages), crystal plinths will also appear at the lower right (up to four), letting up teleport directly to them. Also, once you've cleared the last chapter, a staircase will appear to the right of the save crystal, granting you access to the scene recollection room.

Going south will lead you to the school. There's a staircase to the left leading to Luke's (a magic teacher) room, where you can pay a fee to use his cauldrons (the liquid is expensive so students have to pay for it) to activate magic rings you find in stages.

Going east and following the path will lead you to the Abyssal Labyrinth, basically a bonus dungeon separate from the main story stages. It's main use is to farm Sparkling Crystals, which you get by going down levels and by defeating enemies there (some chests also give a bonus). Deeper levels and enemies give more. They don't go into your inventory until you actually leave the dungeon though (via checkpoint portal or via a Return Tome), so if you die you get 0 Sparkling Crystals (this is the only place where dying is painful).

Enemies get harder as you go down the levels in the Abyssal Labyrinth. Every five levels, you get an additional checkpoint level with a chest containing a rare item (usually a summoning grimoire), a shop, a return portal (gets you out of the Labyrinth, giving you the Sparkling Crystals you have earned), and a crystal plinth that lets you open a shortcut to the checkpoint level by spending Magic Stones.

Except for the checkpoint stages (and the final level, after the last checkpoint stage), everything in the Abyssal Labyrinth resets when you reenter it. All the chests and all the gold and magic stones on the ground too. This makes it good for farming, well, everything. Especially considering you can in theory avoid every single enemy there, letting you access end-game (and post-game) stuff without fighting a single enemy if you're good at dodging (bear in mind that evading enemies gives you less Sparkling Crystals though).

Going back to the main hub, and heading south again... heading south again will lead you to a courtyard. Heading west will lead you to the treasury and a challenge-room mirror. Heading south will lead you to the library, which provides in-game lore. The courtyard, library, and treasury have a lot of hidden destructible objects and some hidden rooms where you can find G, Magic Stones and treasure. There's even a bombable spot in the wall at the Courtyard, and the path leading to the treasury has a weakened dimensional point.

 

[nnescio]

Double-posting because I ran into the character limit:

Corrections to Danielwain's story spoilers:

Spoiler

...The main character (MC) Ryon has been a virgin all his life and lost his job 2 years ago. ...

It's リオン (Rion), not リョン (Ryon). Likely intended to be "Leon", since most of the characters have (strangely alliterative) Western names.

In the tutorial you take out the MC's former employer for being an evil bastard and low-class magician.

That's the MC's former coworker, not boss. He's a prized employee because he's handsome enough to draw in female customers (it's implied that the MC worked at some sort of host bar or something similar). He has a shitty attitude though, so the MC had to cover for him numerous times when the former skips work. When he actually leaves, the whole business goes bankrupt (bye bye female fans), leaving the MC without a job.

Also, yes, he''s an evil bastard who kidnaps girls into his penthouse and 'shares' them with his friends.

The A-rank teacher Max in the first chapter doesn't want you to enter the academy since he's only interested in lolis, so he challenges the MC. MC beats him effortlessly.

Not exactly. He does have some sort of unhealthy interest in the younger students, but his main reason for not letting the MC in is well, he's a thirty-year old trying to enter a magic school with mostly younger (children to teenagers) adults, so the MC kinda looked shifty anyway (and even if the MC's motives were true, Max also looks down at him for trying to learn magic at such an old age). Max still begrudgingly allowed the MC inside in the end though... except the MC didn't have the money to pay for the school fees, so the latter had to turn away... until he heard about the scholarship test (which Max intentionally didn't tell the MC because he dislikes him, and, well Max didn't expect the MC to be able to pass it anyway).

Of course the MC finds out about the test later and completely pastes Max in order to pass it. earning his scholarship.

Also Max is B-rank. Well, was.

2nd chapter Adam, A-rank student and child prodigy, gets upset at MC for becoming an A-rank right away and daring to aspire to becoming an S-rank, since S-ranks only get chosen by god.

"S ranks are existences close to gods," that's what he said. They are chosen by their peers (including other S ranks) based on their achievements.　Not "chosen by gods".

On a side note, Adam sort of looks like Harry Potter.

4th chapter Crookes, an immortal and unaging S-rank magician who went missing and was assumed to be dead, attacks some students. She sacrificed herself to defeat another strong demon and tried to defeat him by catching him off-guard, but the demon ended up controlling her. The demon wants MC's body instead. MC fights Crookes and beats her, demon leaves her body and MC and Crookes finish him, then return to the academy.

It's likely his name is Chrix Chris (Kurikkusu Kurisu), or something along that lines. Definitely not Crookes, that sounds way off. (The 'kkusu" usually transcribes an 'x' sound, and Chrix/Clix was probably arrived at via permutation from Chris to keep the alliteration. Or maybe Krix Kris, which looks nicer).

The school is named after him, since he's the founder (and the former headmaster). You even see his portrait, right next to the portrait of the current headmaster (Dilan).

Chrix' specialty is ice magic. He looks young, but he's actually quite old because he has slowed down his aging with ice magic. Not exactly fully immortal and unaging.

Also, he. The game isn't explicit about his sex, but he looks like a young man (of the bishounen kind) and talks and acts like one too.

5th chapter Lilith, the last S-rank magician, brings in another A-rank student, Kas, who challenges MC to defeating a demon in a research facility where experiments on turning humans into demons were made for becoming S-rank instead.

It's an alternate dimension. And no, not becoming S-rank or anything (and it's debatable whether the humans there have magic), just usual Umbrella Evil Corp bioweapons research.

Kas uses invisibility magic and chickens out of fighting the demon, MC beats him.

Interestingly, invisibility magic generally can't be maintained for long in the universe and drops immediately when attacking. Kas gets around it by using tons of ethers (MP regen potions) and having flunkies to carry them for him (and to bodyguard him). He also transforms his body to have sharp appendages so he can hurt another person by walking past (or on) him, allowing him to attack without technically 'attacking'.

In the last chapter you go to heaven and find out that the demon was defeated by Julio who took away Chloe's power at the beginning of the game for rejecting him.

To add to this, Julio conspired with the demon lord in order to launch a coup (by having the demons pretending to invade) in return for (a lot of) soldiers and food. Of course after backstabbing Chloe and stealing her power, Julio decides to backstab and kill the demon lord too, inheriting his army (who followed him because 'might makes right'.)

He locked her away for months and wanted her to break,

Slightly less than a month. Hardly months.

but she managed to teleport to Ryon instead.

She was sort of 'summoned' by Leon (or rather, summoned by inherent ritual of being a 30-year old virgin , which summons extraplanar powerful beings like demon lords and gods [Chloe is effectively a god since she's the Queen of her heaven] briefly for them to bestow their magic.

You have to defeat him since he's a jerk who wants to enslave Chloe and kill MC, in addition to summoning demons to control heaven and running it as a dictator. After all is done Chloe returns to earth with Ryon and they are friends in the epilogue, nothing more.

They become lovers by the end of Chapter 6. Chapter 6 closes with Chloe offering to be Leon's girlfriend, since she's technically 'summoned' by him as well. Chapter 7 starts with Chloe throwing a party to celebrate Leon getting a girlfriend (written explicitly on the banner). The epilogue starts with Chloe throwing another party to celebrate Leon losing his virginity (again, written explicitly on banners), so, presumably, they had sex offscreen.

Also Chloe admits she it was love at first sight for her the moment she saw Leon because he saved her from being confined and bound in chains (even if it's done unintentionally), so she has been sabotaging Leon's attempts to summon a girlfriend monster all the while.

1st extra: MC finds a cave of gold and starts digging to get rich. So do some slimes. A slime destroys the statue of a goddess and the goddess isn't pleased, she curses the slimes and turns all the gold rock. MC is pissed, slimes offer him some gold for defeating the statue.

MC later asks the slimes to use the gold to fund the repairs for the statue (because he got cursed by the goddess and wants to remove it). Slime leader agrees because he thinks they are cursed too. Goddess then appears at the start of the cave to join your party (so, presumably, the curse got removed).

2nd extra: Another student spreads insulting leaflets about the MC. MC chases him and ends up in a dungeon whose boss is obsessed with music. The boss isn't pleased with the other student and throws him down a cliff, MC defeats the demon and saves the student.

The funny thing is that the student was already safe because the demon lord there lost interest in eating him because he was so scared (so, in a way, the student saved himself, by being a total chicken), so he let him go (I don't recall whether he got kicked down the cliff or not, but either way, he survived).

MC barges in and was initially worried that they have already eaten the student, but the demons tell him they have already let the student go free and they aren't interested in eating the MC either, so he's free to go too. MC insults the demon lord's music though, so had a fight.

So yeah, the whole thing was basically a pointless exercise. That's the joke.

3rd extra: A student is forced by his mother to study martial arts, though he wants to be a magician instead, since he always loses against other students. He runs into MC, MC teaches him how to use magic for martial arts. Student defeats some other martial artist, everyone else calls it cheating and leaves the dojo. The other guy runs to a shrine and asks the deity for help, but the deity helps the student instead, wanting to kill the other guy and make a video of it for profit, since the dojo would be ruined. MC defeats the possessed student, the police takes in the student and master of the dojo.

The student just defeated another student (granted, he was the top student) at the dojo internal tournament. Dojo sensei wants to promote this new style of combat (since it's flashier and likely to draw in crowds) for money. He decides to kill the other students since they're witnesses who may reveal the 'trick' (using magic).

Students run inside the dojo to hide (because they expected to be intercepted if they run outside). In desperation they ask the dojo' guardian god to help, but the god decides to side with the dojo sensei and the magician student instead, because he's more likely to get more offerings if the dojo were to prosper. He merges with the magician student and grants him 100% of his power, turning the latter into a living god.

Naturally the MC just ROFL facestomps him anyway. Rest of the students then decides to desecrate the god's statue as revenge.

5th extra: MC arrives in a village where a lot of people were turned into stone. He meets a boy called Orcus with strange markings on his skin that he got on the forbidden mountain. Some villagers pray to Luna, some local goddess, while being threatened by Orcus that they'll get cursed if they don't pray to her. When the villagers pray, their life force gets drained. MC wants to get to the bottom of this and climbs the forbidden mountain as well. At the top he fights Orcus who got possessed. MC beats Orcus, he turns back to normal. MC beats Luna, apparently she was also possessed by something and frees the villagers from the curse when defeated.

Luna wasn't possessed; she just changed her skin color after being defeated in order to fake it (to trick the MC into letting her go). Managed to fool the MC as well, until Chloe pointed it out. MC then puts the fear of god into, well, a god, causing Luna to tearfully free the villagers and pledge herself into joining to your party.

When the MC loses Chloe will try to rescue him and fail because her powers were taken from her, leading to h-scenes, all of them either rape, ryona or vore, from what I've seen. Those only occur on certain bosses.

They occur when losing to any enemy with red-colored names. Some chapter bosses also have scenes as well, despite not having red names (likely an oversight).

4th skill shop is in the abandoned research facility (chapter 5), the first part IIRC. The skill shops are in chapters 2, 3, 4 and 5, respectively. They're always reached from wells, and generally require bombing a rock or something to proceed.

If I'm not wrong, the CG room unlocked after finishing the game has everything automatically unlocked from the get-go. It was the same deal with AINSEL.

Though I said "Charge is your best friend", this largely only applies for the maingame, particularly when it comes to the Chargex3 into Great Magic combo as Great Magic is too expensive to spam. For postgame bosses spending 3 turns for Charge is a tall order; it'd be great if you can have at least one party member with Berserk and/or a stock of Berserk Potions to quicken the cycle and reduce the chances of the enemy AI deciding to pull a one-turn party wipe.

For later bosses Multi Cure Light, a 40MP skill that's the only AoE heal in the entire game, learned naturally by Ryon or accessible by equipping a certain book, will obviously be your lifeline. By the end of the postgame I basically had 3 characters cycling Berserk -> Great Magic or Berserk -> 300 power skill, with the remaining character spamming Multi Cure Light. Of course it still won't help the cases when the enemy AI decides to double up on a strong AoE skill or something, but that's what stacking stat stick accessories and praying to the RNG is for.

I admit I never use Charge, because I have enough power gems to kill all the bosses (and if not, using regular skills work too). Then again I also dived deep into the Abyssal Labyrinth early on, so I had some really OP gear for most of the game.

And yeah, the last few post-game bosses (the 9th and 10th, plus the hidden hidden boss in the art gallery) were total bullshit, since they can TPK you from full HP if the AI roulette feels like it (grinding isn't feasible, due to how slow level-ups are after Lvl 100), so the whole thing becomes an RNG affair. Heck, I swear the 9th is harder than the 10th, since the latter has more weak skills in its AI roulette so it doesn't spam double AoE as often as the 9th.

...
>Skills with blue-tinted names are combination skills, using them requires everyone with the skill to select the same skill at the same turn. They're usually not as efficient as simply having the participants attack individually, though for some reason it doesn't remove the Charge status. Some combination skills are also Great Magic, and will cost power gems equal to the number of participants. ...

I had great success running a Diabolus (the helmeted centipede) + Desire (the jester demon with four arms) + Grim Reaper party, since they all come with the Berserk skill and can use a four-member combi-skill (Doomblast) with Leon, that has a base power of 520. Killed eight of the post-game bosses up with this combo as I could reliably hit over 200k damage even under Level 100 with unoptimized gear. Since combi-skills don't remove charge status, any survivors on the third round can attack again with normal berserked skills (or if it's Leon, he can use his base power 620 awakened grand magic with the remaining power gem). If all four are alive I can do another Doomblast (since it can be used even if you only one power gem remaining).

The 9th, 10th post-game bosses and the hidden hidden boss are still total bullshit though. Kills party members too easily to use Doomblast reliably.

Spoiler: plot

"If you're still a virgin when you turn 30 year old, you become a wizard."

That one's actually a Japanese urban legend. It's also used as a premise for some other H-games.

Edit: Typo: 'optimized' should be ;unoptimized'.

 

[Danielwain]

Thanks for the corrections, it was admittedly a kinda butchered description of the story, though I guess it got the gist of it across, Part of it due to translation software spitting out nonsense and me not caring enough to look it up properly. Other part probably that it was way past my bedtime, mistakes were made.

 

[KaitoShimarux]

Someone please attach a save file for AINSEL?