This was a nice and cute way to spend three hours on a weekend. It's... effectively your average VN in terms of gameplay — make choices that change the ensuing dialogue slightly and ultimately determine which of the two endings you get, but as a short game that works well enough and the presentation/artstyle is gorgeous enough to kinda make you forgive/forget the more simple design compared to Yangyang's previous efforts. The story's also nice — I really like the use of dual perspectives between friends-turned-enemies Marion and Audrey: it helps give both of them separate arcs and subplots and makes the issues/differences between them grey enough that you're rooting for the two to overcome them and get back together again. There's... small issues — the worldbuilding/magic system is wayyyyyyy too complex for what is a three hour game which left me with too little info about certain things (what's the stigma against healers? why specifically would it be a problem if Audrey wants to be a healer?) and some of the choices listed aren't exactly indicative of what they actually mean, but those are mostly small gripes. It's ultimately a really nice little coming-of-age story which while maybe not being enough to reach the level of something like The Letter is still absolutely worth your time if you ever happen to get it. 7/10.

Reviewed on Feb 03, 2023


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