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A three-game Dragon-Quest-flavored bundle that spans a monster-raising strategy game, a genuinely large dark RPG, and a short minigame-driven conquest title — plus a 56-track soundtrack. It’s aimed at people who want a lot of hours and a lot of CG differentials for one purchase, and who are fine with a catalogue built mostly around coercion. If you already own any of the three included works, stop reading and check your library first.
What works
The centerpiece is clearly Super Doramon Quest ~Towns, Gold, Women, and the Greatest Battle in History~, the second game in the series, and it’s the reason to look at this bundle at all. Where the first entry was a strategy game, this one is a full-fat RPG: a large overworld, a lot of dungeons, human party members with a lot of freedom in how you build them, and recruitable monsters that pull real weight even without gear. The circle explicitly pitches it as the kind of thing you sink into the way you did as a kid with a controller in your hands, and the structure backs that up — there’s a deep pile of optional content for people who want to grind it, but you can also just level up, push the main line, and finish. That’s a harder balance to hit than it sounds, and a lot of doujin RPGs fail it in one direction or the other.
The erotic content scales with that ambition. Forty-four characters get scenes, drawn from across the series including side entries, which means most of the recurring girls show up somewhere. The base CG count is 81, with the circle claiming roughly 10,000 differentials on top — and there’s a genuinely nice quality-of-life touch here that most works don’t bother with: the internal cross-section overlay during H scenes can be toggled off entirely, or its opacity dialed down, from a settings menu inside the scene itself. If X-ray cutaways are a hard no for you (and for a lot of people they are), you’re not locked out of the content. It’s a small thing that says the developer actually listened to buyers.
The other two games earn their place as supporting material rather than filler. Doramon Quest ~The Secret Treasure of Evolution and the Sacrificial Princesses~ is a territory-invasion simulation where you play a commander serving the demon lord, breeding and evolving monsters to push into human land, with the familiar face-to-face battle layout. Captured humans go one of two ways — sacrificed to fuel monster evolution, or interrogated for information, with the rarer characters getting scenes attached. There’s real monster-raising depth in it (rare evolutions, evolution lines by species) and a stated runtime of seven hours plus, which is a respectable standalone game, not a throwaway. Ariahan Falls is the simplest of the three: clear minigames to raise your stats, then beat the heroines in combat to unlock their scenes. Crucially, a minigame walkthrough is bundled in, so if you only care about the scenes you can play it as a straight ADV without fighting the mechanics. There’s also a falling-block minigame tucked into the extras folder. Round it out with a 56-track soundtrack that includes two cut tracks and one song that never made it into the in-game music room, and the package is denser than most compilations bother to be.
What doesn’t
The big one: everything here is in Japanese, with no English option. There’s a lot of text in a 44-character RPG with a “classic but dark” story, and there’s no getting around it — if you can’t read Japanese comfortably, you are buying a bundle whose main attraction is a story-driven RPG you can’t follow. The strategy game survives that better (systems carry it), and Ariahan Falls survives it fine (minigame, fight, scene), but the flagship does not.
The second thing to be clear-eyed about is content. Despite tags like pure love and interspecies romance showing up, the actual weight of this catalogue is coercive: the first game’s scenes are described as primarily assault-oriented, with only the protagonist’s aide getting consensual content, and Ariahan Falls is built entirely around defeating heroines and taking them. That’s the work being honest about itself, and it’s fine if that’s what you came for — but don’t buy this expecting a romance-forward monster-girl RPG, because that’s not the shape of it.
Two more practical warnings, both of which the circle states outright and both of which you should take seriously. First, depending on when the discount campaigns land, this compilation can end up costing more than buying the three games individually — check the math on the day rather than assuming a bundle is a deal. Second, the latest patch for the flagship RPG isn’t distributed with the compilation; you have to go to the circle’s own site or their X account to get it. That’s a genuinely annoying step for something sold as a convenience package. And the differential count deserves a raised eyebrow too: 10,000 differentials from 81 base images means most of that number is expression and state variation, not new art. It’s a lot of content, but it isn’t 10,000 pictures.
Who should buy this
Japanese readers who want a long, mechanically serious doujin RPG with a huge cast and don’t already own any of the three games. If you own even one of them, do the arithmetic before you click — this is explicitly a compilation, and the circle says so. Non-Japanese-readers who mainly want the gallery can still get real mileage out of Ariahan Falls and the strategy game, but you’ll be leaving the best part on the table.
Verdict
7.5 / 10 — a genuinely generous package built around one ambitious RPG and two solid supporting games, dragged down by the language barrier, the patch-hunting, and pricing that isn’t reliably better than buying the pieces separately.
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