Winged Sakura: Demon Civil War

As a player of Winged Sakura Games' previous release, Mindy's Ark, I've been hyped up for their next release for quite a while now, and I definitely wasn't disappointed with this game.
Art / Graphics: Everything is pretty good here, you can definitely see the improvements to the character designs the most and that's the best part. The area's and enemies designs are just as good, but there isn't enough of it. Like you go into the dungeon, and you see similar looking walls throughout the game so it always feels like you're in the same area rather than other dungeon crawlers' "You're in the same dungeon, but this area is Watery / Fiery / Earthy / ect." This isn't a huge disappointment, but what's there still looks nice.
Sounds / music: The sounds are good, but the previous issue still stands, there isn't enough variance here. As for the music, it's amazing. It fits the given situations perfectly and it's all really nice.
Gameplay: The gameplay is what really stands out to me here. You have your average characters, but they're extremely customizable with their stats and spells / skills. At any point in the game if you're having trouble with enemies / bosses, you can just fiddle with your party's stats and see how it goes. While this can get somewhat tedious, it also makes for many interesting combinations like "How much strength can I dump on this character before I get 1 hit by enemies".
Randomly generated dungeons are nice as always. You move on a grid-like area and enter rooms, what you find inside is random. Enemies, Chests, Healing Fountains, or the door to the next area. There isn't much to say here, it's pretty good.
Another thing to note is that the game has difficulty levels, which can be changed at any time in the game.
Story: There's not much I can say here without spoilers and I also haven't quite finished the game yet, the game is heavily story driven. It's a decent story and ties in well with the previous game. If you've played it, knowledge from that game will help you here, but it's still beginner friendly :)
Overall: 7/10
What's holding it back from higher ratings is that there's not too many varied things, and it get's somewhat tedious after a while.
TL;DR - It's good, especially if you've played the previous Winged Sakura game. Worth the money you pay for sure.

Pros:
Excellent artwork and decent sound track. Decent dungeon crawl, simple story not anything overly heavy or complex so it allows you to put it down and come back without needing cliff notes to remember what is going on.
Stats and what they affect on your character sheet are clearly displayed and can be adjusted at anytime without cost so you can really min/max or try things without punishment. (though a negative is you can level the buffs outside combat, buff, re-put the skill points into attacks for combat. Lots of extra menuing/work but system can be abused)
Cons:
I list the blandish character development here because there isn't enough interaction and story to be waifu status like say Nep. Same goes for the story. Fun comes more in the form of game mechanics rather than story. Though for the price i'm not unhappy at all with having paid full price for the game and still recommend it.
Mob diversity. While the re-skins as you progress through the game are not straight pallet swaps, the same base model is used with extra stuff is added. The artwork is beautiful and since it's a short simple 10$ game I don't take any points off like with the story and character development.
Difficulty curve. Ramps up too much between floors as you progress 11+ and devolves into grind or min/max. Game switches from casual to oldschool rpg. There is a chivo to get to lv99, i'd argue it's pretty much needed to finish the game.
TL:DR
Short (for RPG) and simple game with beautiful artwork worth the full price for the amount of fun and time you will spend on it.
Edited out that I thought OST came with game, it did not.

A classic 2D turn based JRPG with minor story elements. The game is based on knocking down doors and killing kawaii monsters. The story didn't really impress me much, but the short length of the game managed to end it before it became boring. Besides, I just dig these cute old school animimation style like Eternal Destiny, Tokyo Babel... etc etc.
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The Good
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- Its cute in its own way
- Simple mechanics
- Its short (8 hours on normal)
- Easy 100% achievements
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The Bad
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- The story is lacking (but at least its short)
- Lack in variation (monsters, skills, map design)
- The monotone grind (if you choose harder difficulties like I did first)
You want this game if you are an 100% achievement hoarder or has a thing for the Winged Sakura series. If you are looking for a solid good RPG, then this wont be anything for you.

Winged Sakura: Demon Civil War is a definitely good dungeon crawler in terms of graphic and story but the overall gameplay is just... Boring as hell. Repeating the same thing over and over again eventually made me just spam arrow keys and space, to select another levels/abilities. I love to complete games at 100%, so it was a pure pain to grind. I'd recommend this game overall, but only on a sale. It's full price is really not worth it. If you're looking for a simple, linear game, that's something for you.

The game isn't terribly complex, both the story and the gameplay. However it isn't bad by any means, and it is quite 'clean', as in there's no real glitch. If you like simple and straightforward Turn-Based RPG, and doesn't tend to criticize 70% of most little things, then this is not a bad choice.

I normally only get H-games on steam, but this popped up while I was searching with some of the associated tags for some reason. I knew when I got it that it wasn't H, but I'm fond of RPGs as well, so I gave it a shot. I'm glad I did. The artwork is beautiful (matter of fact, it's kind of a shame that it /isn't/ H, the characters in particular look great and most of the enemies are sexy women...). The UI is (mostly) pretty clean - the inventory could use consolidation (nothing stacks - if you've got 100 potions, they occupy 100 slots), but you have multiple options to filter between various types of items in your inventory and there doesn't appear to be any hard cap, so it isn't too bad. The story is decent - it was enough to keep me invested, but having finished the game only a few hours ago, I couldn't tell you any of the finer points on it - so it isn't particularly memorable. At least the characters are memorable, and for the most part, likable. Exploration is clunky, each floor is divided up into a 4x4 grid, which is fine, but going through the hallways is... weird. going to the room to the right? Hold right until you reach the next door, cool. Room on the left? Hold right... wait, what? North? Hold right... uhh, okay...? South? Hold... you get the idea.
Honestly, I'm just nitpicking at this point. The point is that despite a few small faults, the game is fun; and for the price of admission, well worth it.
9/10

This is a very gindy game. You will need to level to max to stand even the smallest chance of beating this on the harder difficulties. A nice hint for the game is to make your characters speed higher than the enemies at first so you can get the first set of attacks in and save on buying any potions. This allows you to save up the potions in the dungeons. Always be at full health and MP before starting a triggered fight <it will ask if you want to go into the fight first>. Also know that you can apply the party AOE buffs outside of the party before fights. Speed, att, def, magic, and crit up will be your best friends before every fight in the close to the end of the game. Make sure to keep them in your rotation and keep the def and crit rate up on constantly during battles. Bring your crit rate up to 70% before endgame on all characters so you can put crit rate up on so you can maintain 100% critical rate. This allows for crit healing and MASSIVE critical physical damage. Hope you enjoy the game as much as I did.