GIRAL Reviews

I expected some H scenes, but there were none.

Really nice artwork! Gameplay is simple yet surprisingly effective if you give it a chance!

Cute, simple and fortunately - other than getting slimed - not perverted. Recommendable if you want to play through an easy short game for ~90-ish minutes.

Cute idea. Giral, the protagonist, is absolutely adorable. Do wish there was a bit more to it than grind, though, and that the landscapes and effects weren't stock RPGMaker assets, but I've seen way worse made with the engine by far; while I can't necessarily recommend it, this at least makes an attempt at a decent enough game.

This is a pretty simple game, and quite short too. You're Giral, the Lord (actually the Lady) of the castle, trying to make ends meet, keeping people safe, repairing broken walls, all the things the one at the top has to take care of, when out of nowhere a magic dungeon full of monsters appears close by and it's up to you to go and close it before monsters start overrunning the lands and then your castle. The game, as said before, is simple: you run around the maps collecting some power-up which will raise your HP, all the while grabbing treasures and killing monsters to get more treasure, so you can raise your HP even more by buying Health power-ups from the Witch of the land. Killing monsters consists in the monsters colliding with you (they'll run for you when you get at a certain range and you can't avoid them once they targeted you) and dying while taking away a set amount of health from you (you have little ones taking away 20/50 HPs, and big ones taking away up to 1000 HPs). The challenge in the game is clearing a path to the Goddess statue present in the map so you can heal yourself up and keep clearing the map to gather as much money as you can to upgrade your HP. Upgrading your HP, though paying money to the Witch, through eating one-time-use items present on some maps and through equipping a head-piece, a necklace and a dress (equipment you can find on the maps and there are 3 per type) is the main goal of the game, because to keep going you'll need your HP pool to keep growing or you can't get past the boss battles. Boss battles consist in just watching you and the Boss exchange hits. The only important thing to win a Boss battle is how much HP you have. If you have enough HP to sustain the damage the Boss will inflict, you'll win. If you don't, you'll lose, be kicked out of the map and lose half of your accrued gold. Giral is a cute game, both visually with the character design for Giral and the pixel art, as well in writing. The game presents a couple truncated phrases during certain exchanges. Nothing major but it was weird, especially for the last battle where the same dialogue is repeated twice. The negative for the game is that it is quite short and it is a bit too simple to keep a player interested. Given the low price to begin with and my experience with it being enjoyable, I'm going to rate it positively but would be purchasers need to be aware that they're looking at 1 hour of playtime or so at most.

Shame on me for checking any trailers before buying the game. When I saw "ramming into enemies" I was reminded of the glorious combat featured in Ys I & II and bought the game right away. In reality, the mobs run at you and you just kinda take damage. It's super simple, which can be enjoyable in its own way, but I wouldn't really recommend it unless you've got absolutely nothing better to do. I beat the game without issues in 1 hour and noticed 2 translation errors. Also, the game is available for sale at 1/3rd of the price at a different retailer, which kind of sucks. I'm not really unhappy with the game. I'm sure you could also enjoy it for an hour. I just can't really recommend it to anyone.