Ah yes, Dragon Maid. That weird wholesome but not really show. The artist/creator of the series, coolkyousinnjya, is the kind of guy who does what he wants, alternating between extremely lewd stuff with a lot of short oppai girls and clean romance. Dragon Maid is basically halfway between his actually porn stuff and his well meaning romance stuff.

For it’s first game outing it got a schmup with clothes ripping. Of course I was going to play it.

Story-3

It’s basically a 4 koma skit for the manga. Kobayashi, Lucoa, Kanna, Tohru and Elma get stuck in Fafnir’s computer and to get out have to schmup through his game collection to weaken a curse. Iruru does show up. Her guy and Kanna’s human… friend doesn’t.

It’s the kind of event that could totally happen in the original(or it’s 3+ spinoffs) and be forgotten in a chapter. So it works for a game just fine.

Gameplay-6

So it’s a down-up schmup, with that weird tunnel feeling as you really only have like slightly more then 1/3 of the screen to play as the rest is taken up by HUD stuff. So the second most common schmup type, and I have no idea if it has an actual name. Tunnel schmup? That works.

You can actively switch between Tohru, Kanna, and Elma as you play each with their own shot ype. Tohru is a beam with a small amount of homing shots, Kanna is a lot of homing shots plus some feathers that block bullets, and Elma is a scatter shot that also lays damage zones at the top of the screen at random every time you start shooting. You actively swap between the three as you play to both match the enemy, but also to heal as the unused dragons recover HP.

The game has 6 levels and is pretty short, which can be a good thing and a bad thing. The way the game is designed to get your money’s worth isn’t something to praise really. It has a lot of loot. Enemies drop two things in this schmup. Treasure, which is only worth achievements and fills the card in the bottom right. You can get duplicates of these and are at best references. The other thing is memoria pieces, which are pieces of art in one of the two galleries. You can only get 3 per run and you need 50~ from each stage. That’s where the playtime is really from.

Now it’s not that the game doesn’t have ways to get variety. It has 5 difficulty levels which change shot patterns and enemy counts. This being the director’s cut, you can also change that in the settings which also changes some enemy stuff, so technically each stage has 10 versions you can play. There’s also the risk mechanic, which I like as a concept. Basically you can up enemy damage to up treasure drop rate. Thankfully enemy drops are not at all linked to difficulty, you can farm anything on any difficulty, though more enemies is more chances so higher can be better if you can beat the stage.

So it’s a very farmy schmup with some settings to allow for variety. It has 5 endings and after you get those it’s farming individual levels, which thankfully the game tells you which items and pieces come from where so you know where to grind.

Lewdness-4

This game does something that I’ve only seen in the Gal Gun remake, using old promotional images/bonuses as unlocks in a game. I just have to point out how I wish more anime and such series did this when made into games, as a lot of art is basically made and forgotten and could be easily reused for games like this(or gacha games, or art could be salvaged from those for other games).

As for actual art that is lewd, the main two are some of the promotional images and the clothes rip variations of the bosses and Dragons you play as. The clothes rips are the ones you will see the most often and in gameplay they can be a nice touch visually. The expressions and poses are lacking for impact though.

As for the promo art, there’s a total of 33 images, only 3 or 4 are lewd. Most of them are book covers with a small amount of special images from goods or extras. The actual lewd ones are swimwear and a hot springs image. I was hoping for a bit more, but I’m not really surprised here. It got released on Sony consoles, it wasn’t going to go very far.

Final Thoughts

Ignoring farming, as really the images are only worth it for people who want their money’s worth or huge fans of the series, it’s a fine schmup that’s on the pricey side . Caladrius is only 20 dollars with more levels and characters and endings. This is 10 more mostly for the IP. Only really recommend for fans of Maid Dragon.

PC Save for Miss Kobayashi’s Maid Dragon Choro-gon Breath

Full gallery, all treasures and memoria pieces.

Gameplay: 6/10 Eroticness: 4/10 Story: 3/10

Completion:

The treasures are RNG, but it’s the memoria pieces that are the real hell. Only 3 can drop per level visit and there are 288 of them. So a minimum of 96 level plays.Only need 5 full runs of the game for the endings, which are decided by surviving dragons. Except ending S, which also needs you not to have shredded clothes on any dragon when you beat the level. Not that hard on practice mode.