Lewd game "review" - Enishia and the Binding Brand by "Shimobashira Workshop"

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Review layout: Lazy/minimal format (STEAM)
Review type: Game
Review format: 🔞Lewds

PROs:

✅ Great art & hot FMC
✅ Fairly fun corruption course/approach
✅ A lot of scenes & kink variety
✅ H status screen is great and title hunting satisfying
✅ Well made dice board gameplay approach
✅ Multiple approaches to beat the game
✅ Scene unlock tool made great
✅ Busy gameplay, making you technically not have to grind for gear/progression.
✅ Quests & objectives well made with quest book. Making it modern to find and do stuff.
✅ Great personality changes on each corruption level

CONs:

❌ Some scenes are rather specific to get, where even scene hint makes it difficult to discover
❌ Some translation issue & oddities
❌ Dice board gameplay can be off putting, especially when you have ♥♥♥♥ luck like me rolling “1” 6 times in a row
❌ Ending scenes somewhat subpar

Comments

So this is technically 2nd time me playing this game. Did fan translation once a while ago. Did steam release now. As always “Shimobashira Workshop” has great juicy artstyle and gameplay rich content. FMC is cute & hot with fun corruption course with plenty of scenes. Side-kicks get some love as well again, then having at least 1 scene.

Story for most part is also fairly charming with interesting concept. And for the most part easy to understand, around end it get’s a little bit confusing but nothing too bad. Multiple endings, though ending scenes are somewhat subpar.

Gameplay takes this time dice board approach. Which is unique experience, but wouldn’t like to see making them such games too much. With bad RNG luck it can be quite frustrating at times, rolling those 1’s six times in a row…. Constantly landing on turn loss or debuff platforms thus making the dungeon experience guaranteed early retrieval or failure. But at the same time stats and levels have quite heavy role this time. Each doing their own specific things and making you later on in the game quite strong. Although, with shitty dice rolls even easiest fight can take eternity. Although dice board style makes hunting for H content more enjoyable as you know what tiles to hunt for. Oh and “new game plus” is like with previous games. You can choose what carries over. (gear/levels & lewd stats)

Lewd content extra comments I would only add that scene unlock tool is great. You can toggle it on/off. Meaning you can unlock all scenes and turning off the tool returns gallery room to it’s previous form. (scenes that were locked get only locked again) Which is great if at some point you might want to get them legit.

Anyhow… overall I think it was a “good game” a strong 7. Just maybe dice board wasn’t my cup of tea. Lewd content wise it’s on par with Ambrosia, but not as good as Celesphonia (for me), but gameplay wise “-1 point” for sure.

Can’t wait for their next game “Serenoxia” … saw few development images/posts. It seems might be Celesphonia tier of fun & quality. (Which is my favorite “Shimobashira Workshop” game & 1 of my all time fav degenerate games)