The game is a buggy mess... first off, I was able to somehow click between two of the combat menu options, causing the game to completely lock up and forcing me to restart the game via Task Manager. Secondly, after a character was meant to die, they sometimes just wouldn't, and would simply stay alive until the next fight, and would die from any status changes whatsoever, but would always end up coming back to life shortly after. Third, one of these "dolls" that you used ended up bugging out and simply displayed nothing, if that's a faulty part or the entire generator malfunctioning I can't tell. Fourth, and this is a personal nitpick more than anything else, the "edgy twist" thing has been done far too many times for my liking by this point. Beyond that cavalcade of issues, however, the game itself is barebones and simplistic, and if you know what you're doing you can very easily exploit flaws in the game's design to crush everything that gets in your way with minimal issue, and both endings are practically telegraphed in design and accessibility. This honestly feels more like a mid-2000s flash game from Newgrounds than it does a game from 2019, graphical fidelity included, and while I do find that slightly charming, in summary I unfortunately can't recommend this. There are simply too many issues and not enough reasons to stick with it, especially if you're not already into the Magical Girl genre at all.
LD44 — Your life is currency (1)
Mahou Shoujo Monster: Promised Fate by jadedResearcher 2019-05-09T07:31:02Z ♥ 2
The game is a buggy mess... first off, I was able to somehow click between two of the combat menu options, causing the game to completely lock up and forcing me to restart the game via Task Manager. Secondly, after a character was meant to die, they sometimes just wouldn't, and would simply stay alive until the next fight, and would die from any status changes whatsoever, but would always end up coming back to life shortly after. Third, one of these "dolls" that you used ended up bugging out and simply displayed nothing, if that's a faulty part or the entire generator malfunctioning I can't tell. Fourth, and this is a personal nitpick more than anything else, the "edgy twist" thing has been done far too many times for my liking by this point. Beyond that cavalcade of issues, however, the game itself is barebones and simplistic, and if you know what you're doing you can very easily exploit flaws in the game's design to crush everything that gets in your way with minimal issue, and both endings are practically telegraphed in design and accessibility. This honestly feels more like a mid-2000s flash game from Newgrounds than it does a game from 2019, graphical fidelity included, and while I do find that slightly charming, in summary I unfortunately can't recommend this. There are simply too many issues and not enough reasons to stick with it, especially if you're not already into the Magical Girl genre at all.