Monster Girl Quest! Paradox RPG

Monster Girl Quest Paradox is the sequel to Monster Girl Quest, though it's not a direct sequel, as it uses the RPG Maker VX Ace engine instead of a Visual Novel engine, and is set in an Alternate Universe to the original game.

Basically, thirty years before the main plot would have happened, Ilias vanishes. Needless to say, the entire world (monster and human alike) doesn't know how to take this, but since then, monsters and humans have mostly decided to get along (to some extent) and while people still worship Ilias, it bothers them more than a little she's basically gone.

Luka (hero of the original game) has a dream one night before his baptism (much like the original game) of Illias, who apparently is using all of her power to send him a message that things have gone horribly pear shaped in the world, hints it's why she seems to have totally disappeared, and he wakes up wondering what it means.

Of course, like the original game, he wakes up, nearly misses the baptism again, instead choosing to save a villager being attacked by a slime, finds both Alice and Ilias (in child like forms) fighting each other (and believing each is responsible for their respective Baleful Polymorph into childlike bodies), and receives one last message from Ilias during his baptism (which has no effect, so he's still unbaptized like the last game) that he's the world's only hope.

Unlike the last game, this is an actual roleplaying game instead of visual novel with roleplaying elements, and this game even has elements of Dragon Quest, Pokemon, and Suikoden incorporated into the gameplay mechanics, though it still has several Visual Novel like elements.

An English translation of the demo can be found here.


 * Abandoned Mine: Several examples. Usually, you find mineral sources here, that unlock a line of equipment.
 * Abandoned Laboratory: The Ancient Temple Ruins.
 * Alice Allusion: Even more than the previous game, to the point that there is an actual character called the White Rabbit, who leads Alice around.
 * Alternate Universe: The entire game obviously takes places in an alternate universe to the original game. However, many other alternates come into play over the course of the game.
 * Always Accurate Attack: Some attacks are 'certain-hit', and cannot miss or be reflected.
 * Animated Armor: The Armoured Berserker gives this impression.
 * Armor of Invincibility: Strangely enough, one of the best armors in the first chapter is the Archangel Bra, which is as skimpy as it sounds.
 * Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Seemingly what the Ascension effect inflicts on its target, though apparently they can be brought back.
 * Attack Reflector: The Reflect buff, and party members may also have an innate chance of reflecting magical attacks. However, some attacks can't be reflected at all.
 * Auto Revive: Some abilities, like Holy Martyr, give this effect.
 * Back From the Dead: Black Alice, seemingly.
 * The Bad Guy Wins: In the universe that the young Promestein came from, the angels won the Great Monster Wars.
 * Badass Family: The Fateburn family, direct descendants of the Dark Goddess Alice I. Every Monster Lord has been one.
 * Heinrich, Marcellus and Luka, all legendary heroes.
 * Bigger on the Inside: The "Pocket Castle" is basically a massive castle shrunk down to pocket size you can enter and exit on the world map to switch out companions.
 * In fact, after recruiting certain party members, you can also use it as a portable inn, item shop, and a weapons/armor store.
 * Blow You Away: The wind element, which succubi and harpies specialise in.
 * Sylph is the spirit of wind, and summoning her grants Luka a buff that increases agility, accuracy and evasion, makes his normal attack wind-elemental and boosts wind damage.
 * Body Horror: The Apoptosis monsters, which are either combinations of biological and mechanical parts, or have extreme deformities, or both.
 * Bonus Boss: Several, including Nanabi, Sphinx, Alice XVI and Reaper. The superbosses in the Labyrinth of Chaos also count, and can include bosses that otherwise don't appear in the first chapter.
 * Bonus Dungeon: The Labyrinth of Chaos, released when some players found the game too easy. It has an infinite number of floors, populated by more-powerful versions of regular enemies, and with a boss every ten floors. Every hundred floors, the player has the option of facing a so-called superboss, which is even stronger than the usual boss.
 * Bottomless Magazines: All ranged weapons. A NPC at the first Tartarus even explicitly states that the machine weapons will never run out of ammunition, nor require maintenance.
 * Breath Weapon: Many monsters have such an attack. They include the standard fire breath, as well as ice, poison and other types.
 * Brick Joke: Remember how it was mentioned in the original game heroes can enter peoples houses and take stuff? You can do that yourself now.
 * Casino Park: Grandoll, complete with gambling minigames.
 * Cast From Hit Points: Some skills, notably the Necromancy skills, consume HP to use.
 * Chest Monster: The Mimic subtype of enemies. The original Mimics copy literal chests, but later on are the Honey Pots, which pretend to be giant pots. They are much more powerful than the other enemies in their locations, and can act twice each turn.
 * Childhood Friend: Sonya, to Luka.
 * Clock Roaches: As it turns out, the Apoptosis monsters are this.
 * Counter Attack
 * Cute Monster Girl: Naturally. They make up most of the enemies and recruitable allies in the game.
 * Cyborg: Many of the Chimera and Apoptosis monsters. Also the San Ilias King and Marcellus.
 * Dark Is Not Evil: All monsters are dark-aligned to some extent, but that doesn't automatically make them evil.
 * Death Is a Slap on The Wrist: Not only can you reload from a previous save, but in-universe, the Anthropomorphic Personification of death itself will allow Luka to come back to life, for reasons that are still unclear.
 * In Iliasburg, you can kill Amira infinitely. The moment you leave, she comes back to life, with no explanation.
 * Detachment Combat: Dullahans can detach their head, granting an extra action at the expense of reduced stats.
 * Difficulty Levels: There are seven: Very Easy, Easy, Normal, Hard, Very Hard, Hell and Paradox. To give some perspective, on Very Easy it's possible to defeat all enemies (even bosses) with normal attacks, while on Paradox even a Level 1 Slime Girl is a difficult enemy.
 * Disc One Final Boss: Adrammalek, a high-level Apoptosis, complete with her unique theme music.
 * Disc One Final Dungeon: The Administrator's Tower.
 * Dishing Out Dirt: The earth element, which kitsunes specialise in.
 * Gnome is the spirit of earth, and summoning her grants Luka a buff that increases defence and critical hit chance, makes his normal attack wind-elemental, and boosts earth damage.
 * Distracted by the Sexy: When enemies fall below half HP, there's a chance that they will attempt to 'tempt' Luka. If the player chooses to give in, they will use powerful pleasure attacks, potentially leading to a Game Over.
 * Door to Before: At the end of the Cave of Treasures, there's a ladder to exit the dungeon.
 * Drama-Preserving Handicap: Both Alice and Ilias are sealed into weaker child forms at the beginning of the game. This is necessary as otherwise they would easily crush any opposition (and, for that matter, would have no reason to join Luka in the first place).
 * Edible Ammunition: The cooking jobs can produce foods with a variety of effects, including dealing damage.
 * Eldritch Abomination: The Apoptosis monsters could be all be considered examples. They comprise a variety of strange lineages, each one grotesque in its own way, and all members of a lineage are identical (down to sharing the same memories).
 * Eldritch Location: Several examples:
 * The Tartarus are seven enormous craters scattered all over the world, following the Great Disaster. Their interiors contain strange combinations of other places like buildings and forests, populated by the powerful and twisted Apoptosis monsters. They also contain advanced machines, far beyond anything else in the setting.
 * Hades is a strange floating landmass, implied to be the afterlife, where Reaper resides. It contains representations of every boss encountered in the game, which can be refought here. Luka can access it when he dies (and it allows him to come back to life) or through a strange door in Ilias Temple. However, his party members cannot enter it, or even perceive him going through said door.
 * Elemental Embodiment: The Four Great Spirits. Modelled after Paracelsus' elementals, they represent the four classical elements of wind, earth, water and fire. Additionally, the Goddess Ilias and the Dark Goddess Alipheese the First are elementals of light and darkness, respectively.
 * The Engineer: the name of a job, specialising in using machines.
 * Exclusively Evil: Averted HARD regarding the monsters. After Ilias disappeared, a large number of them decided coexistence with humanity was a great idea on their own and since humanity didn't have to worry about the events of the original game, most of them decided to accept the monsters as well. There are still bad apples on both sides, but the whole concept of monsters being always evil as Ilias proclaimed in the original game has been almost entirely discredited.
 * It's even averted for the Apoptosis monsters, to the point that they can also be recruited (though this is more difficult than recruiting normal monsters).
 * Fire, Ice, Lightning: The three magical elements, used in Black Magic.
 * Functional Magic: Usable by monsters, angels and (unlike the original game) all humans.
 * Fragile Speedster: Harpies, Fairies, Elves and Succubi are all this, to some extent. Certain races or jobs can make them more durable.
 * Genius Bonus: In real-life, apoptosis is the self-destruction of cells, and one of its purposes is to fight infection. In the game, Apoptosis is the immune system of space itself, and acts to stop the spread of Chaos by destroying people who trespass between universes.
 * Gotta Catch Em All: You can recruit monsters to join your team, and you can recruit a staggering amount of them.
 * The Grim Reaper: Reaper, apparently. Like all supernatural entities in the setting, she appears as a Cute Monster Girl, one with red hair, purple eyes, black clothing and a Sinister Scythe. She resides in Hades, which similarly is the afterlife of the setting.
 * Harder Than Hard: Paradox difficulty. Suffice to say, there's a reason it's named for the game itself.
 * Healing Checkpoint: Often in dungeons, there's a magic circle, or a barrel full of supplies, that fully restores the party's HP and MP.
 * Healing Potion: Or Herb, rather.
 * Heroes Prefer Swords: The sword is the main weapon of the hero jobs, and Luka starts with it.
 * Hopeless Boss Fight: The fights against Nanabi and the Armoured Berserker. Upon being defeated, someone else will intervene and win the battle for you.
 * Idol Singer: Saki, a succubus idol in the city of Grandoll.
 * Impossible Thief: The game has a variety of stealing skills, which allow you to steal not just the standard RPG fare, but also cooking ingredients, crafting materials, and even breast milk and panties.
 * Impossible Item Drop: All over the place. While all enemies are sentient, unlike many RPGs, many of them don't have pockets, or clothing, or bodies that aren't suited to carrying objects. It doesn't stop them from carrying weapons, armor, items or money.
 * Improbable Weapon: Numerous examples. Merchants use abacuses, doctors use scalpels, maids use plates...
 * Inexplicable Treasure Chest: In every dungeon.
 * Infinity+1 Element: Both holy and dark count. They can't be evaded or reflected, and skills that inflict this damage are harder to obtain than others.
 * Item Crafting: Has a synthesis option to make better equipment.
 * Item Farming: Which requires a lot of this trope.
 * Job System: Set up very similar to the one used by Dragon Quest VI.
 * Kleptomaniac Hero: Unlike the original game, this is outright encouraged.
 * Last Chance Hit Point: The Endure ability will let a character survive a normally lethal blow with 1 HP, once per battle. Formerly, it was bugged and worked an indefinite number of times per battle, which effectively made the party immortal so long as characters were healed.
 * Level-Locked Loot: There are several different ranks of chests. All but the lowest rank require some level of thief skill to open.
 * Level Up At Intimacy 5: Two versions of this: One, you can give party members certain items to increase their "happiness levels", which can reward you with certain items. And the other is called "Battle Fucking", which is basically an endurance contest of sexual prowess that will reward the player should they hold out.
 * Light Is Not Good: All angels are light-aligned, but that doesn't mean that they're necessarily good.
 * Ludd Was Right: The inhabitants of the aptly named Luddite Village believe this. They eschew the advanced technology that the rest of the world uses, believing it to be heretical, even as the majority of the faith accepts it.
 * Magic Knight: The Magiknight job.
 * Mass Super-Empowering Event: One effect of the Great Disaster was to fill the atmosphere with mana, allowing all humans to use magic.
 * Monster Knight: Any party member can be any job, though they aren't necessarily suited for all jobs.
 * Monster Compendium
 * Monster Lord: The eponymous position. It is held by the strongest monster, which (for 16 generations so far) has been a member of the Fateburn family.
 * Monster Progenitor: The Six Ancestors, who each gave rise to a lineage of monsters: succubi (Minagi), slimes (Kanade), plants (Kanon), beasts and kitsune (Tamamo-no-Mae), scyllas (Hiruko) and harpies and lamias (Saja).
 * Mutually Exclusive Party Members: Alice and Ilias, and Lily and Lucia. It's possible to have both of the latter pair on a New Game Plus, due to party members other than Alice/Ilias being carried over. Having both Alice and Ilias is impossible without cheating.
 * Mutually Exclusive Powerups: Both Alice and Ilias, and Lily and Lucia, offer various skills and abilities. Thanks to the above restriction, these are mutually exclusive.
 * Necromancer: An intermediate job, whose skills are Cast From Hit Points. Also the professions of Chrome, La Croix and Kagetsumugi.
 * Nephilim: Luka is this.
 * No Name Given: Averted. Most of the monster girls from the first game now have names, though this only applies to the ones that join your party.
 * Non Lethal KO: Applies not just to your party members, but also to your enemies as well (unless otherwise dictated by the plot). Though unlike your party, enemies can't revive each other.
 * The Angel Halo presumably causes this, as in the previous game.
 * One Hit KO: There are four types of instant death in the game: 'normal' Instant Death, Ascension, Climax, and Predation.
 * One Hit Wonder: Certain abilities (e.g. Suicidal Training) will cause a character to have 1 HP.
 * One Man Army: Neris. In one day, she manages to conquer Plansect Village, defeat Cassandra (considered the equal of Alice XV), defeat the entire Arachne faction, and fought Granberia to a draw.
 * Organ Drops: Somewhat disturbingly, these are also included in the game, even though all enemies are sentient. Apparently, the organs (which include things like tails) are all lost naturally.
 * Our Angels Are Different: The angels of the setting cover a wide range of forms, from the standard woman with wings and halo (Micaela, Lucifina), to forms that would be indistinguishable from the average monster.
 * Our Monsters Are Different: As in the previous game, they're an all-female group of beings which depend on human men to reproduce. They're split into a wide range of different races:
 * Beast Folk: The Beast race. They're strong and fast, though not very durable, and are weak to pleasure.
 * Bee People: The Insect race, though not all of them are social. They also include arachnids and myriapods in addition to literal insects. In general, they are extremely durable, thanks to their exoskeletons, and they have a high reproduction rate.
 * Blob Monster: The Slime race. Their amorphous body gives a few advantages (high physical defence, immunity to water and being bound) but also many disadvantages (reflected in their weaknesses to elements and statuses).
 * Harping on About Harpies
 * Horny Devils: The succubi. Unlike other monsters, they're dependent on human men for food as well. They specialise in pleasure attacks and wind.
 * Our Dragons Are Different: Vary wildly in shape. Pure dragons look like standard Western dragons but with a human body in their mouth. Interbreeding with humans leads to the human-like dragonkin, who are human-like aside from their scales, claws and occasionally wings and tail.
 * Our Elves Are Better: Essentially standard fantasy elves. They're skilled with the natural elements and with bows, but are relatively weak compared to other monsters.
 * Our Fairies Are Different: More or less the standard, being tiny girls with insect wings. They specialise in the natural elements and are very fast and agile, but are the physically weakest race.
 * Our Ghosts Are Different: They're produced from dark magic and souls, and take a variety of forms. Mimics are a subrace of these.
 * Our Mermaids Are Different: Most of them have the standard lower half of a fish, though one (the Anglerfish Girl) is almost entirely fish. They're skilled with water and singing, and their blood has healing properties.
 * Our Vampires Are Different: Essentially the standard modern idea of vampires, though they don't burn in the sun. Their cloaks are part of their bodies and can be controlled.
 * Our Zombies Are Different: Creations of a necromancer. Like standard video game zombies, they are damaged by healing (reflected by their constant Zombie status). On the other hand, they're immune to instant death and are actually healed by poison.
 * Plant Person: The Plant race. Notably, this covers fungi as well as actual plants.
 * Scylla and Charybdis: Scylla have the lower half of an octopus or other cephalopod. They have a rivalry with Lamias.
 * Snake People: Lamias have the lower body of a snake, though the group also includes Medusas. They have a rivalry with Scyllas. Alice appears as one, though she's technically many races.
 * Youkai: The Kitsune and arguably the Demi-Human races. Kitsune are a subset of Beasts that are better at magic, and skilled with earth. Demi-Humans include monsters like oni.
 * The Paladin: An intermediate job. Arguably the Holy Knight is this as well.
 * Physical God: Ilias, and Alipheese the First.
 * Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Just at the end of the first chapter, the party is likely to consist of: a Nephilim hero, either the Monster Lord or the goddess who created humans and angels, a club-wielding priestess, a boomerang-loving slime, a mysterious tentacled being that looks like a young scylla, an angel Mad Scientist, the leader of the human faith, the spirit of wind, a former princess, an alchemist with worms for arms, the spirit of earth, and a gynoid... and that's just some of the major characters!
 * Random Effect Spell
 * Randomly Drops: A lot of item crafting ingredients can only be obtained this way.
 * Revive Kills Zombie: Anything with the Zombie status, though it also works the other way around: poison heals them.
 * Royals Who Actually Do Something: Several party members are royals of some sort, and it's possible for any character to have the King job.
 * Schizo-Tech: All over the place. It is entirely possible to have a club-user and a gunner in your party at the same time. Also related to the plot: the advanced technology in the setting generally comes from the various Tartarus.
 * Set Right What Once Went Wrong: This seems to be the point of the game, which involves (A) figuring out what happened to Ilias thirty years prior and reversing it and (B) stopping whoever was responsible.
 * Single Use Shield: Skills like Vicarious Clara give the caster shields, which will stop a limited number of attacks, no matter how much damage they do.
 * Sinister Scythe: A weapon type. Ghosts specialise in using this, and both Nero and Reaper carry one.
 * Standard Status Effects: There's the usual status effects like Poison, as well as rarer ones like Burn, and (appropriate for the type of game) sexual status effects like Trance.
 * Summon Magic: The Summoner job and Summoning skill.
 * Luka has access to unique summoning skills, being able to summon the spirits to grant a range of buffs.
 * Super Mode: The Transform skill from the Hero of Justice job triggers this. It boosts stats and allows access to powerful Justice skills.
 * Swallowed Whole: Anything unfortunate enough to fall victim to Predation.
 * Temporal Paradox: One of these seems to be responsible for the plot, given that both Ilias and Alice seem to remember things that only happened in the original game that didn't happen partially or completely in this game world.
 * Time Master: The Time Mage job and Time Magic skill. Also seems to be a power possessed by entities like the White Rabbit.
 * Time Stands Still: The skill Chaos Drive, usable only by Nero, White Rabbit and Reaper. It allows the user to act with impunity for several turns. A localised version of this can be inflicted with the Stop status.
 * Took a Level in Badass: Humans as a race, compared to the original game. Here, thanks to a combination of improved technology, all humans now being able to use magic, and Charles Atlas Superpower, combat-trained humans can now fight on the same level as monsters and angels.
 * Trauma Inn: There's usually an inn in every village for this purpose. The inn in Ilias Village, being owned by Luka, can be used for free.
 * Warp Whistle: Harpy Wings allow the party to travel to any location previously visited.
 * We Cannot Go on Without You: Partly averted. The game won't end if Luka is defeated normally, but if he gives in to temptation or surrenders, his allies become disgusted with him and abandon him to his fate.
 * Yin-Yang Bomb: The Apoptosis monsters can use both light and dark power.