Pretty Fantastic Game

Story 9/10

It establishes its premise quick and easily understandable, kicks off the narrative and its main gimmick competently and through showing rather than telling, since aside from the quick tutorial in the beginning it really does just go "Here's the MC, go make some choices" 4 endings with none being a real "True" ending. But it will be said that one route seems to have had a bit more work put in, doesn't mean I am saying that the other one is bad, Characters have stakes and act accordingly, even if the developer could have done a bit more with the interactions since aside from a few comments there really isn't any meaningful reaction to your choices aside from the end, which I think is intentional to hammer in the thought of "This is the result of your choices over the last 5-ish hours".

Gameplay 8/10

Its a turnbased Jrpg with QTE elements that revolves inputting 3 actions in at a time, upon combat start you and your opponent will take their respective action one after another, from my experience clearing all the endings on normal, all of the advanced classes are plenty capable on clearing any route, even if I think they are slightly imbalanced, despite that all of them reward you for proper setup and timing with big buffs or even bigger damage. The difficulty is honestly just in the right position, its normal difficulty doesn't blow your balls off but requires you to pay attention and plan ahead in important fights unless you want to eat ♥♥♥♥. The hardmode sucks, main denominator of points here, its "higher numbers" difficulty meaning the fights just take longer instead of challenging you more. which is honestly a real shame considering how well the difficulty curve goes along your character growth.

ALSO!

The QTE bar for your defensive action (guard to reduce damage taken) or dodge (negate damage on perfect timing) is a bit inaccurate, its sweet spot (the blue part) is in reality a bit more to the right, statuses are hopelessly broken, with stun and paralysis with good enough rng cheesing any fight in the game, poison melting the ♥♥♥♥ out of any enemy if the stack is kept up properly (not an issue for the two classes that potentially care)

Music 6.5/10

It does its job well but not exceptionally, the tracks convey their respective mood well and the little detail that during the enemy rage phase it intensifies is a neat detail, but it doesn't save it from sounding a bit generic, its not gonna blow your socks off but it does its job well.


Tldr: 9/10, roughly 30-40 hrs of gametime if you clear all the endings, prolly a few more if you wanna go for all the achievements,


Buy it, full price or on sale, if you like storybook jrpgs this game is worth considering. Also give the dev some love, I'd like to genuienly see more from them.