this is a heavily edited version of my steam review of the game but so much is different that you might aswell call it a backloggd exclusive

the more i look at the cover art, the more i look back to that time where i have an image saved on my phone of the artist's twitter account and everything was marked as 18+.
seriously, don't look at the artist. They're good, but they make r34. other than that...


Here's an intriguing title: The Legend of Dark Witch: Renovation. I've reviewed this game numerous times before, but I'll attempt to share some thoughts on it here. Since it's essentially a port of the first Dark Witch game, there isn't much new to say. Most of the issues present in the original game persist in this one as well,. which means, "lazy programming!" But, is this really a "port?" There's remasters, remakes, rereleases, and ports. There's probably one more that I'm missing but this is the quadforce of bringing back old games. This one is a PORT, and all the explanations will be said here. Expect some personal rants and bias because this game is the absolute start of the series’ decline.


First of all, the story remains the same as the original: The princess of Rasil, Riva has stolen all of the Syega, the crystals that the humans use to have magic powers, and Zizou, the Goddess of Dark Magic, has to find and stop her. The story is still barebones with how incoherent (and short) the journey is to the point that the text while has it's improvements, is still largely the same, and as for Riva's side, I don't even know cause she still sucks ass in this game. BUT it's not that bad! I'll explain later.
as much as I like the new designs of the characters, they don't seem to appeal to me as the first game had a feel that this game tried to offer, but it couldn't. Not to mention what I literally said at the start of this review; porn artist that worked for this game, and while they cook, they don’t cook on a moral perspective. I wouldn’t want an 18+ artist working on my game especially since EVERY POST WAS MARKED AS INNAPROPIRATE, but here we are. NAN-A does like a little naughtiness in his games. Just look at Brave Dungeon: The Meaning of Justice and the fanart section: Enjoy every little Mari art that Crippe commissioned because NAN-A has a cherry-picking respect for that soulless individual that does nothing but the translation yet he gets to be the “ChippyGaming” of the community of Dark Witch. Chippy is much better than Crippe, btw just saying it right onw.

So, what are the changes that were made within Chronicle 2D Act (the first game) and Renovation? The BOSS and the player art, the mechanics of the game were brought form the 2nd game, the option to choose the first stage music to be the one from Drancia Saga or Dark Witch 3, an “original” mode that just makes the game Chronicle 2D Act.. All of these are little to no changes that are just added in for the fun. Not even Riva's different. Everytime I play as her, I imagine myself playing as a brick: Yeah she has a punishment (forgot what it was in this game) and some dinky ahh sword attack, she has a dash, which makes you send yourself flying to the right or left just for you to make that one mistake and die. This would be great if the level design wasn't so bad, but oh well, what can I say. You also are able to read some of the manga. And if you want to pay 2 dollars for this, you get Day as an extra character to fight where in under 24 hours, the art is reused (except for the boss sprite), the stage having unfair level design, a reused song to play with, and Day is just a programmed mess. I swear, if I were the dev of this entire series, I would’ve done a better job but at the same time, we have to at least respect what has came off…. I don’t know. You tell me. But what about the backgrounds, and the enemies? It suffers the same issue as Mighty Switch Force: Hyper Drive Edition, where most of the other sprites that don’t have much appeal are just a porrly high quality version of the actual pixel art that was featured in the game. However, unlike HDE, that game has more extra stages which means extra replayabillity, while this game has one. There’s also the option to fight the bosses in an alternative pattern, which is eh, but still not enough to make the game much different. Even subtle changes like Papelne's attack with her having an after image shows her original look unchanged without her artwork version, which is a lazy choice.


The Legend of Dark Witch Renovation is a decent upgrade to the first game, but some of the issues with it being considered a Remake doesn't feel like a Remake but more of a port in this case. I’m giving this game a 0.5 rating. I need to clean my eyes in preparation for my next review....

"Dad, can I make a Touhou fangame?"
"What? Are you gay? Hell no."
"Well what if I add elements from your childhood games?"
"You mean Mega Man and Gradius?"
"Yeah."
"... Alright go ahead son."

The Legend of Dark Witch est un action platformer 2D Megaman-like avec une esthétique très moe, où l'on contrôle une déesse nommé Zizou à la recherche de cristaux magique dérobés.

Le jeu se présente d'une façon identique aux Megaman, que ce soit dans ses niveaux ou Boss, avec en plus une barre de puissance similaire aux jeux Gradius. Une formule qui a déjà fait ses preuves, mais avec une difficulté moins pénible que les vieux Megaman qui saura néanmoins proposer un bon challenge en mode normal (bien que certains passage peut se montrer assez frustrant). Le mode facile manque néanmoins beaucoup trop de challenge.

Il est possible de refaire le jeu une nouvelle fois avec un autre personnage mais pour être honnête cette seconde route est un peu superflu hormis les nouvelles interactions, puisque la seconde héroïne propose juste un gameplay moins maniable, avec notamment une portée ridicule.

Pour le reste, on a un DA un peu simpliste mais coloré, un chara design efficace si on aime les styles Moe, un BO sympathique et quelque bonus accessible une fois le jeu finis. Il est néanmoins un peu court, comptez 3 heures pour une seule route, mais d'un côté il ne coute vraiment pas cher non plus.

Pour conclure, The Legend of Dark Witch est un jeu sympathique qui bien que parfois un peu frustrant et un peu simpliste, remplis son rôle de petit jeu . Un parfait encas entre deux gros projets.

The Legend Of Dark Witch Renovation Finished! both in the story of Zizou and Riva, both have different gameplay from each other, the game is a remake of the 3DS game, it was a special 5th anniversary of the franchise with gameplay and visual improvements, abandoning pixel art for hand-drawn sprites, the songs receive new arrangements, all the girls have new art, of course the bosses have new attack moveset, it's a short game, if you play without worrying about the collectibles on average you can complete it in 1 to 2 hours, and what made me have more hours went into making the upgrades, which is very expensive, the first game is very simple, it uses the Megaman formula a lot without getting stuck and it, it's a beautiful and challenging game, the studio is very small, I think it's incredible that it manages to release beautiful and well-animated games , its sequel is even more superior with much more mechanics and stages. This remake is on eshop BR for 29 reais for the content it offers and even having voices dubbed in Japanese was a good investment and of course I've been a fan of the series since the 3DS.