Ghostly Moans is a low-budget RPG title with some nuns running a show. Do you want to join a new religion?
You play as an aspiring student, Mia, who wants to join the local temple in order to earn her own money to help at home. With a pre-screening invitation letter in hand, you hurry up to attend the selection meeting, only to be told you're late. The meeting was in the morning, and now it's the afternoon. However, one of the nuns/clerics offers you placement if you do a task for her. You happily accept the offer and embark on a mission. This is the start of the game's story. Not very original, and unfortunately, the rest is not very innovative either. Moreover, the main storyline is very linear, and there are barely any side quests. While there are two different endings, only the last choice matters, so there is no point in replaying this title at all. Once is enough to see everything.
To make things worse, the English translation is really bad, often making the dialogues incoherent and incomprehensible. Seriously, the number of times when character actions, words, and sprites did not match was frighteningly frequent. Just this alone is enough to make you regret your life choices.
Gameplay-wise, you tackle all challenges on your own. You meet other characters regularly, but none of them ever joins you. Fortunately, your magic skills and proper equipment are enough to overcome random enemies. Well, as long as you don't venture into some high-level area, that is. Still, even with proper preparation, some fights can drag a bit, and more companions would make things better, especially since one of your healing spells acts on the whole team. A whole team skill makes no sense if you don't have a team; it is a pointless design choice.
You can avoid most enemies easily, but some grinding is recommended to speed things up. Money can be an issue initially, but after one or two hours, you should have enough to buy all you need.
As for the difficulty, there is no difficulty setting, but it is relatively casual. I did not struggle, and only the last boss posed a little bit of a threat.
The cities and dungeons created here are very basic and compact. Additionally, a lot of maps have the 'invisible walls' problem. Very often, my character got stuck on what looked like a clear path. Not much effort was put into the environment design. Same for the occasional puzzles, simple and basic.
I sure expected more for the price asked. I hold even budget titles to a higher standard. Occasional game crashes did not help either.
Most of the assets used here are the standard stock assets you can find in numerous other RPG Maker games. As mentioned above, the design of maps lacks creativity. Everything felt very generic and small. Character art looks ok, but the number of poses/emotions is very limited and, at times, felt mismatched, if not outright silly. As for the h-scene CGs, they are probably the most decent feature of this title. While the scenes themselves were often rushed and badly written and/or translated, the CGs accompanying them were at least ok, for the most part. Still, the visuals feel very much budget-level, like the rest of the game.
The music quality is on par with the rest of the game. Generic and lacks variety. I believe all tracks are just stock assets, which I already heard somewhere else before. Nothing caught my attention or sounded memorable. The scarce sound effects felt the same. Low effort, budget quality.
The occasional game freeze that forced me to close and restart the game is probably the biggest issue I encountered. Other than that, a few maps had a strange framerate problem. Such locations, when entered, had a very 'jumpy, slow motion' animation when walking around. Fortunately, the issue was limited to those maps only. Once outside, the framerate returned to normal.
Overall, this budget rpg felt very lacking. Badly translated and uninspired story, generic visuals, and music. Only HCGs stand out a little, but this aspect is not enough to carry the rest. I can't recommend this game to even hentai enthusiasts: 3.4/10
The kingdom is almost fully healed from a deadly war and humans have been experiencing a peaceful era. However, reports of spirits possession have been shocking some villagers and they have decided to ask for help in the Holy Temple.Now, Mia, a young princess who is becoming well-known for her diplomatic way to exorcise these creatures, is the one who will find the ones responsible for the problem.
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