Moe Chronicles (PSVITA) Review

With the demand for Japanese exclusives increasing, some games are getting translated for a wider English-speaking audience, particularly in Asia. Released early last year in Japan, Genkai Tokki Moero Chronicle or Moe Chronicle gets this treatment receiving English text for an Asian release. Moe Chronicle is created by Compile Heart and follows the company’s signature approach in creating games: tons of fanservice slowly served up via gameplay.

Moe Chronicle revolves around Io who is tasked to save the world. And in Moe Chronicle, that world is inhabited by monster girls who are mysteriously attacking humans. To make things interesting, Io’s friend is a monster girl and Io himself has a ton of quirks which make him hard to like as a character including seeing all women as sexual objects and having no sense of motivation whatsoever. Basically he’s your typical bland, uninterested male protagonist who will eventually save the world. Yes, in this game we will save the world. Like so many times before.

For gameplay, Moe Chronicle is a first-person dungeon crawler. While this concept should be remote to western gamers, some fans of JRPGs will have some idea or at least grasp the concept of what it’s all about. You are taken to a location where you need to reach an objective, navigating through the dungeon FPS style and fighting monsters along the way. Random encounters are quite generic and easy, given your characters have plenty experience you’ll breeze through these dungeons. The more rewarding aspect of the game though comes from monster girl battles.

This is where the fanservice really gets intense as you can wittle down these monster girls to slowly tear off their clothing. Once reduced to a critical health, you enter PSVITA-rub-your-screen-to-death mode.

During this mode you need to find sensitive areas on the monster girl’s body after which you need to rub the screen of your Playstation VITA like a mad man to capture the monster girl.

In terms of presentation, arguably the only good part of Moe Chronicles is the English translation which makes the game accessible for non-Japanese speaker, which otherwise also exposes us to this poor game. Moe Chronicle is an eroge with fanservice as its core offering and nothing more. Its story is bland and cliche’, and aside from the anime artworks  there’s really nothing to see in this game.

As a fan of Japanese culture, I’m very exposed and open to these types of games and I can vouch for their popularity in Japan, Moe Chronicles whoever is curiously a weird choice to receive an International edition given its rather poor offering to players. While some anime fans or eroge to be more specific will find it alright, many players will find the overly sexual content of the game downright hard to get into.

If you’re not really into this kind of thing, there’s no point getting Moe Chronicles. Otherwise, even with all the fanservice in-game, its appeal quickly subsides and doesn’t really present anything worth your time.