This game consists of about 90% watching cute, amusing cutscenes and 10% running around following on-screen markers to get to the next cutscene. It's mostly moé slice-of-life anime fluff, and I'm fine with that. Slow paced, too, and I'm also fine with that.

If that doesn't sound good to you, don't buy this game! You'll hate it!

Definitely feels like a PS1 or Sega Saturn era Japanese game to me, the kind of stuff Japanese people call an "adventure" game, which would never come out in English because it was mostly non-gameplay storytelling. Low poly chibi models, and a lighthearted feeling.

If you are looking out for fanservice... I would say - don't look for it in this game. There are scenes with girls in hot springs together (they are just shown as heads bobbing in water), and non-consensual boob groping between girls (the protagonist ~ Kaede ~ is obsessed with Sanae's breasts, even while Kaede has this mad crush on someone else), but due to the graphical style and limited animation, it somehow just comes across as slightly comedic, cute and oddly charming rather than the slightest bit fanservicey. That's in my opinion, anyway.

What else do we have? A tale of romance, mythological mischievious beings, mild crossdressing issues, message ferrying between bashful would-be lovers, inconvenient magic, and a cruel farce; it's not nearly Shakespeare, not by a mile, but... I can't help thinking he did love these kind of themes...!

It's pretty unpolished in terms of being a game. If you open the menu, it doesn't pause the game, and the only option you see is to return to the main menu. It doesn't explain how to save the game (I had to ask the developer, who told me that you exit to the main menu then you can save from there). I discovered that minimising the window pauses the game.

When you've finished the "normal" ending and are searching for alternative routes (as I am doing; I still have some endings to discover), you do get a "Skip" button on scenes, but not all of them, which is inconvenient. There's also no exit button; as far as I can tell, the only way to quit is to use Alt+F4.

It has also been using up a ton of memory and I have no idea why it needs that much.

But I forgive it.

I found it disarmingly adorable, and I commend the developer for taking the trouble to bring this game out in English when I am sure most would not take the chance on this type of game.

Miko Gakkou Monogatari: Kaede Episode is what I would describe as a somewhat-interactive anime about a shrine maiden and her first love.

Basically most of the time you will watch the story unfold and walk around and then decide where to go next.

This game isn't for everyone. If you enjoy slice-of-life anime or simple looking Japaneses games (like Chantelise), get this, you won't be disappointed by the story or the characters.

Sweet love story of a game.

Watch my first impressions here!

This game may be described as an RPG, but really it is a cute, chibi visual novel game, which is fine by me.

All the characters are fully voiced in Japanese, with full English subtitles available. It is a relaxing story to sit back and enjoy while you engage with the story occasionally.

The best word to describe this game is "boring". Miko Gakkou Monogatari is nothing but several girls that look cute and talk, that is it. No comedy, no adventure, just...boring dialogue. I could have more fun watching paint dry. Controls are clunky, the camera angles are terrible, poor user interface, and there's no fun or challenge playing it. If you are looking for a cute anime game to engage with, look somewhere else.

An underrated classic that everyone should try! 10/10 <3

I found out recently that there was another game made by xinoro, originally released only in japan in 2012, titled:
Miko School Story ~ Sanae Edition.
Hopefully if enough support goes to the developers, there could be a possibility of seeing this translated and put onto Steam!

I mean it when I say I really enjoyed this game! Hopefully in the future there'll be more games with many adventures and experiences with these characters! :D

i'm surprised at the amount of cut scenes in this game, i thought its gonna be those text scrolling type.

cute anime type game

go away if you're not into cute anime shrine girls

-Story (based from the true end)
you are a dummy shrine maiden,
you found a glasses that have owned by someone
then the "someone" person are looking for the glasses, then the person saw you that you were wearing the glasses, so the person have an idea to acting as a "boy"
then you met the "boy"
the boy tried to take the glasses back, so "he" is trying to get closer to you
you fell in love
your friends are telling you that literally he's not a "boy"
you still don't trust them
now she's broken
somehow you have promised that you will having a date with "him" going to school together
when you sit together with "him"
he sneaky beaky took your glasses off and he transformed into a .............. i dunno i forgot lol
when "he" 's showed up "his" true identity
you ran out
then you are trying to forget "him"
several days after you already forgot about him
the boy give you a present
*credits comes up*

-Gameplay:
>you just walking arround all over the place to starts the dialogue (with the slow running animation), the place is huge so you guys be ready.
pretty boring tbh *lol
>the game always crashes nokidding (after you moving to another place, after cutscenes) be ready for this too.
>have a unique dialogue
>have a cute model character
>some dialogues can't be skipped even if you have already beat the game.

im not giving bad rate for this game since this is an indie game, but overall

this game is *q u i t e g o o d* i guess?

+if you are aiming for that stupid 25 prays in shrine achievement, welcome to the fam boizzzzzzzz

Miko Gakkou Monogatari is a cute interactive anime. It`s not a game at all, the most of the time you just see cutscenes with full japanese voice over (really good ones also) and english subtitle. Its the kind of slice of life anime with some light humor in it. The rest of the time you walk to "I" interaction points to talk with a character to start the next cutscenes, depends on this you also able to get different endings, so depends on with who you interacte it will playout a bit different.

The grafics are like PS1 area not bad just kept simple.

Sound/Music/Voiceacting are really good made

Only problem I have with the "game" is that it somethime rondomly crashes, but no idea why. But no big deal because of the autosave. Also it would be nice if you could probaly pause the cutscenes because even if you go into the "return to menu" screen the cutscene will still countinue.

If you look for a game, then you wrong here. If you look for some anime with some lighthearted fun then this could be good for you. About the price you have to deside by yourself, maybe wait for some offer.