Holy Grail City

Editorial Don't bother

Holy Grail City is an RPG-Maker title built around an ambitious, story-heavy presentation — large map, long animated cutscenes, and a notably attractive female lead — but the community is nearly unanimous that the execution falls short on both fronts players care about. The writing is the loudest complaint: reviewers describe a sprawling, incoherent plot buried under an exhausting prologue and relentless text dumps, with a passive male lead who never earns the relationships the story hands him. The NTR content is present but fully optional, and the non-NTR route is widely called the duller of the two. On the erotic side, the game's 5+ GB footprint stands in stark contrast to the thin CG count; most scenes rely heavily on zoom and puppet-warp tricks on a single image, leaving players who came for the adult content feeling shortchanged regardless of which route they take. Technically the game is playable but troubled: multiple reviewers report soft-locks and game-breaking bugs, and navigation on the large map is frequently criticised as disorienting. A few players couldn't locate save files, and one reports a persistent UI glitch. The overall picture is a project where real artistic ambition — the character art draws genuine praise — is let down by weak writing, sparse payoff, and an unwieldy RPG-Maker structure that might have worked better as a visual novel.