Can't recommend this game enough

[Darling Baphomet]

Bought it on sale on a whim, played it while struggling with my last breakup and it honestly singlehandedly carried me afloat. This game feels like a love letter to classic JRPGs - it reminds me heavily of some DS RPGs I played like Magical Starsign (a similarly bright game about students of a magic school, with dark themes throughout). The combat is pretty standard QTE and the music is good throughout, but it's the story and setting that really make it shine - the game manages to perfectly capture that cozy JRPG feeling of a band of friends on a journey; every character's pretty well fleshed out and easy to attach to, and the story provides for a lot of character drama, and is honestly very well written throughout, managing to be cheery but occasionally grim. Honestly my game of the year for 2020, even compared to some titans like Doom Eternal.

 

The platinum's pretty straightforward too - a lot of the collectibles are easy enough to get, but cleanup is easy, and once you've finished the main story, all that's left is secret bosses to fight. The game also has a ton of accessibility options, so if you don't want to deal with battling some particularly hard bosses, you don't have to - although mastering the combat system is highly satisfying. It also doesn't require much of a grind - the game's balanced around defeating every encounter once, so it's easy to get overleveled.

[kindajustin]

Just checked it out and it looks pretty interesting. Thanks a bunch for the recommendation!

[winter_bird_22]

I saw someone speedrun this game on Game Dones Quick's female speedrunner marathon, Flame Fatales, and it looks cool. Sadly, the incentive to fight the superboss Allcat was not met so I might have to step up and platinum this game because I was robbed of this fight.

[jkdeadite]

I'm not going to say this is a hidden masterpiece or anything, but this game is really underrated. There's a lot more to the story and world building than I anticipated, and it feels like they used their limited budget well.

 

This is one I really hope they follow up with a sequel. They did a great job creating a world with a school for witches that doesn't feel like Harry Potter either, which is nice. It's got its own vibe and identity, which you might not expect looking at screenshots.

 

Definitely recommended.