RPGM - Completed - Ambrosia [v1.07] [Shimobashira Workshop / Kagura Games]

Game was alright, nothing to ride home about, the art was nice, but there was so much more potential, I would've liked the corruption drawn out a bit longer, worth your time if you like corruption games

Honestly ... I expected better.

I wouldn't mind aspects like mediocre CGs that are like still frames with dialogues, or rather generic RPGM battles. But what disappoints me is with the writing and how scenarios came about.

How the corruption was presented in this game makes sense until after the first phase. Then things just kinda fell apart. Character progression jumps a nonsensical notch. It should make no sense for a nun to just kinda volunteer herself to do semi nude belly dance in front of a slum bar, without any prior build up except that she 'kinda' needs money. The money aspect is not that pressing in the plot to justify that kinda jump of character logic. Oh, and the allowing herself to prostitute to devotees only just in the second character corruption level.

And that puts off the wind out of the sail with me. I hoped better because I really like the character. Nuns in general. But a well developed, corrupted one. Not a lazily written character the dev just kinda want to speed things up because it's already some 3 - 4 hours into the game.

However, the other aspects of the game like the costume changes, side portrait are really good.

Corruption story line and not over the top artstyle. gameplay is nice actually something to do rather than slop. Feels like there could be more to be explored w.r.t shrine story line and converting the towns to other faith. Crafting is all over the place, dev tried to help with providing guide but still could use more qol. Overall recommended highly

Man, I liked this game, but 5.5 stars? It feels kind of generic and grindy. There’s a noticeable gap between the beginning and the end, and the extra activities mostly boil down to killing and crafting something with X items.

That said, the art is great, the map is small enough to avoid getting lost, and there’s a decent number of events. However, too many of them feel like copy-paste content. Overall, it’s a good game with its own gimmick, but others do it better and have a lower score.

A excellent game from all perspective.

It's not tedious, the areas are of enough quantities and coming a decent pace.
The combat is basic RPGM and simply works.

From a visual point of view the porn is okayish. It doesn't really shine imo.
What's really good though is the corruption and the variety of scenes.

In overall it's a good porn game. The experience comes from playing it rather that merrily watching the CGs.

Not usually into female MC corruption games, nor the religious elements which the devs seem to love, but this was done well. Very polished, detailed and balanced world, good quests. It's just a bit too linear and obvious. Maybe it's because it's centered around a fetish that I do not have, but I just can't get fully involved because it can be too ridiculous for me.

One of better games of this genre.
Balanced combat system with well weighted difficulty, good corruption system, good H scenes, sexy MC, decent story. What makes this one unique is pretty good audio, usually this RPGM games have way worse OST. Overall a must play rpgm game focused on MC corruption.

Edit: Changed score to 4 stars.
I made last review somewhere in mid-late game, now i beat it. Late part was somewhat rushed and devs didnt keep quality as it was in early-mid game. After MC got corrupted it became pretty boring, combat also was way to easy in lategame and i just rushed to see ending. Still good game, but not as good i thought.

im gonna get crucified for saying this but i prefer ambrosia over celesphonia, PUT DOWN THE PITCHFORK! LET ME COOK DAMN IT!

first of all ambrosia have a simpler plot and a more relaxed world building compared to celesphonia where the town you are living in is going nuclear and its up to you to save them,

WELL ambrosia have none of that!, you can take as long as you want and corrupt the MC in your own pace which is a better aspect if youre new to this genre and ERORPG in general

Comparing both games ambrosia have less dialogues and simpler ways to get the scenes and a linear story and honestly it has its own charm to that

in conclusion: Try this game first to ease you into ERORPG before touching any of the other top tier games because this is some good entry title into the degeneracy youre about to descend into

Shimobashira Workshop did well with Ambrosia but it's not their best work, which goes to Magical Girl Celesphonia, and most of the issues present here (that ding it to a 4/5) were cleaned up for Celesphonia. Still, it's worth a play.

TL;DR
Ambrosia is an RPGM-H title where the main character, a religious girl, is slowly subjected to corruption. The gameplay and dialogue mostly respect your time and the game will keep H-events and H-scenes prevalent enough to keep you entertained.

Player Choice
Shimobara Workshop is great at giving the player freedom of choice in how the main character is corrupted. However, Ambrosia suffers a bit from difficulty being too easy at times; while it's nice to give the player clear paths, you pretty much have to choose to slow down or corrupt the MC because you likely won't be struggling with combat or choices.

Still, I like the option of keeping her pure or mostly pure or going in on corruption. Situations the MC finds herself in have good build-up and there's a lot of variety in H-events and H-scenes.

Content and Gameplay
The story is passable for what it's worth. It's close-to-mimic, or was mimicked, to their most recent game (as of this review) Enishia and the Binding Brand. The devs seem to consistently enjoy the religious-to-corruption stuff.

Combat and other gameplay is straight RPG-M. It resolves relatively fast, and you will get very strong at a quick pace, so slow yourself with activities if you want a more "natural" move to H-scenes.

H-Details
H-content is really good though lacks animation at times. Shimobashira has consistency along their game titles and I think it works fine, though once again, Celesphonia is the true best at it in my opinion.

Conclusion
Overall a definite "recommend", but consider Celesphonia as being the more refined of the two.

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Non-lewd Gameplay is kinda meh, and there's very little incentive narrative or mechanically to corrupt the main character, but since that's why you play these games to begin with, it's not such a big deal. Art is fine for the main character, everything else is just not very good.

FLAWS -
1 - AVERAGE STORY
2- AVERAGE GAMEPLAY
3- LACK OF CHOICES
4-EASY BATTLES

The map has lot of things to do and discover. The story: It's not anything profound or anything but it keeps you engaged.

version 1.07

well it's a classic so it would be a sin to rate it lower. although as a porn game in modern times, without animation it's not that good. but there are some unique and hot scenarios, and there are many scenes, but there could have been many more, some usual tropes are completely left out. i still enjoyed it. it has many fappable scenes, you are just handheld a bit too much with teleports and escapes and etc. well, i guess it's a chill fun game. makes me want to play celesphonia again.

The most complete RPG Maker H-game I've ever played! Gameplay loop feels good, it's easy to switch from dungeon crawling to improving the temple or doing odd jobs. The boss battles are great too, had a bunch of fun prepping for the final boss. I don't recommend grinding, as it would make most battles too easy, even on Very Hard difficulty.

Lewd content is fine, expected more CG's but the art works well in general. Bonus points for adding a simple option to fully unlock the gallery without needing multiple playthroughs.

This game has a lot of freedom it is crazy how many things you can do in this game,want to be a virgin throughout you can but it's hard ,you want to take easy route and become a sex craved whore your welcome,I won't spoil the rest but this and dev other games have content to occupy you and freedom, enjoyed it very much

Completeness: story is finished, fatal bugs are fixed, major update unlikely.

Mechanic: regular rpgm mechanics. Utilize a lot of aspect from the engine's base mechanics(buffs & debuffs, traps, moving in-map projectiles, weakness & resistance, etc.). No party system, so no recruitable NPC.

Story: make sense(?), minimal twist, tame and innocent enough for virgin run. The side things is mainly for the slut run.

Progression: too fast(?), you need to hold back yourself from ending the game early if you want to get some scene. Innocent to slutty in less than 5 business days. The New Game Plus is great since you can choose what to keep and what to reset in some degree. Grinding doesn't progress time forward, so you could have 6 hours into the game and still on day 4. Enemy stats may force you to grind for level or equipments, but ingredients for equipments are often limited each day. Is replayable to scratch that itch of "slutty life sim".

Art: the fully furnished temple is gorgeous. Bust size is a bit inconsistent(?). Towns are nicely designed. Cave dungeon walls could use some work.

Special place in my history / heart this one. Incredible variety, and the first of its kind to get costumes done so well. Very hot themes + Flode is pretty cute
Thank you shimobashira workshop for this introductory game.

I don't review games much, but this is my favorite H game of all time. Story, characters, scenes, even the fights. Love it.

Slow but satisfying corrpution, and very importantly, being completely corrupted does not really cause just a depraved and bad end. She gets a child she takes care of, saves everyone and ends up happy.

This is probably Kagura's best work, no doubt about it (other than Summer/Winter Memories, but this might actually tie with them on my tier list)

This game is by far the best corruption game I've ever played; the scenes are hot, the story is good, and the game actually has RPG-like gameplay. It isn't only solely focused on lewd, it actually has gameplay. Weapon crafting, potion making, etc. And you have to find the materials for these as well, just like a real RPG.
Also, while this may sound daunting, it doesn't require much grinding to get what you want (most of the time), which is good.
11/10 would play again.

strongly recommend，It has a very high degree of plot completion and game freedom. and the clothes system is also a plus for me, with slow corruption can u always explore more and more.The combat system is also very good, with many routes and combinations

Ambrosia is most likely the best corruption game I have ever played.

Now you might be you thinking, what about Magical girl Celesphonia? 3 factors make me prefer Ambrosia.

- I prefer the priestess (nun) over the high school girl archetype; I think the fantasy medieval setting, is much more interesting than the urban contemporary one (too many tentacles nowadays); And "Ambrosia" has an abundance of Free (non-time consuming) events, and doesn't feel as restrictive and mechanical as "Celesphonia". There's also Enishia and the binding brand (coming to steam i think), but they went crazy with the ammount of things you can do in that game. I had an actual list of to-do events in front of me, and soon enough it was too much.

The good:

Lots of adult content and a significant portion is actually good - That's what you want to see in this kind of game. Now, I will say that something like "samurai vandalism" has better tags, but that's completely personal, and "oneone1", can go and "suck on an egg", they won't see another penny.

Competent RPG - Remember that the focus of the game is the adult content. As far as these kinds of games go, the mechanics present here are satisfying. Can't ask for much more than that, and they even deliver a huge amount of content, including some nice crafting.

The story and premise make sense - If I'm not calling it idiotic, then that's high praise. You know how this goes, "the evil god is rising, yada yada yada, multi-phase-final-boss-time". Well things have a cohesive structure here, and the random girl with some magical powers, beating the crap out of dragons makes perfect sense. It's not crappy, what more do you want? (I really hate double standards in videogames, but I can't be distributing scores of 3, 4,and 5 all the time now, can I? FLEXIBILITY is the word of the day)

The heroine, the setting, the balance between types of events, like I mentioned earlier are also positives.

The bad:

Shimobashira workshop doesn't enter "crazy tag" territory - You know what I mean, they are not exactly conservative, but they have a clear vision on adult content, and don't break away from it. Basically they could be a bit more flexible... I see what you did there brain. (I would also add that if they don't mix things up soon, the "egg reference" will apply to them as well).

I'd say this is a 9/10, and some of the most fun I had with a game of this genre. You can find better (scale/quality/complexity) here, no question, but if we are talking about a "very nice time", then this numbers very high on my personal ranking.