Radiant Princess - Poni Ceres Reviews

*Patch required to get full experience. Please check publisher website for details* Radiant Princess - Poni Ceres is a fun HRPG with a heavy emphasis on exploring. For those familiar with Dragon Quest, this game feels like the mini medal and seed system cranked up a notch. The maps in the game are filled with stat boosting items and special collectibles that grant battle perks. Most of the items are found via secret passages with clear hints. The player can avoid these collectibles and still enjoy the game. The battles feel balanced with the collectible stat boosts in mind though. As for the explicit content, the game is almost entirely based on scenarios that end with game overs. As in, your player character will be reloading a save after experiencing most scenes. Players looking to see how these scenes have long term affect on the character will be disappointed. However, the scenes do cover a good amount of interests and the art is great. Yui, the female main character, is stunning in both her everyday and hero outfits. Secondary character Karen also is a highlight of the game, if deserving of more screen time. The two male leads are flat as can be, though. Unfortunately, the game does not give the males enough development for their character arcs to feel impactful. I know that's par for the course for HRPGs, but one ending in particular fell flat due to this. Still, Radiant Princes - Poni Ceres is a fun time for RPG fans and those who wish to see despair in heroines who lose battles.

This is a true game with a plot, and plenty of exploring to build your character up for the boss battles. The adult situations just give it that little extra entertainment.

It's hard to explain why I played this game as much as I did. Hope that it'd get better, I suppose? It's got the makings of something great. The art is quite nice. The characters are mostly there. I love Yui's very anime expressions + how the screen changes color when she's mad. Those are good touches. But the bad touches are... most of the actual lewd content. Like, I know *at some point*, Yui will be able to engage in a lewd scene outside of battles that's her own choosing. I'm 12 hours in though, and the only scenes that weren't cruel defeat scenes were getting groped on a train and getting banged by a homeless dude. 12 hours in. 12 hours. I'm not even avoiding it. It's just not present. All of the scenes in this game are over-the-top cruel. We're talking ultraviolence. Blood, electrocution, pulverizing her to smithereens. Oh, the NTR route was ok. That was one instance where you could fathomably find the content hot. There are just... much much better games out there in this general genre. The combat is *difficult* too, and you'd think that'd be a good thing, but it's not because it's also boring. It's all just a giant WTF did I just do with my time. And yet, and yet I still feel *compelled* to beat it for some reason. I'm so dumb. This is doing nothing for me. Update: played another 6 hours, and my frustrations haven't ceased. After an hour, I unlocked a single bunny girl job, then the cops busted the place up. Fine, I thought. It'll reopen in another chapter. Nope. It apparently doesn't ever reopen. All that's in store is more rape scenes. There's so much polish to this game, but it's in service of the worst ideas. Biggest waste of talent I've seen in a Kagura-translated title.