STARDUST: Wish of Witch

Great game. You can pretty much immediately tell where a good chunk of budget went. Full, fun voice acting, and beautiful pixel graphics with a lot of frames of animation to them. I found the moment to moment gameplay to be fun, and I rather enjoyed the story, but this game isn't without its own set of issues. First off: I found that combat had just way too many enemies. While wiping out hordes of enemies can add to a power fantasy, sometimes it makes the game a slog. Especially when enemies spawn halfway across the map so you have to trek over to them. Nice of the devs to not have their ai activate until you're in range, so you're not being swarmed from the get-go, but it's also kinda annoying. Second: Resources. Crafting accessories costs money and monster drops. If you want to gear up your team, you're going to have to revisit missions multiple times to farm the cash and the drops, which when combined with the hordes of enemies, can really slow down the game. This is the reason it took me 40 hours to complete a game people complained was too short. Third: Speaking of Accessories, the system can feel a bit restrictive. At first they're rather bland and unimpactful, but as you start ranking them up and getting access to higher tier gear, they quickly become extremely relevant. And while 3 slots seems good at first for a variety, there's only an illusion of choice. One slot is dedicated to mana, because everybody uses mana and you want to start off fights faster, else you fall behind in defeating the enemies and just lose. Second is a relic dedicated to your most relevant damage stat, cause of a lack of reliable healing mechanics in the game, the best way to survive is to quickly dispatch foes, and increasing your scaling stat is a great way to boost your usefulness across the board. Then that leaves you with a whopping 1 slot to play around with, and that's only if you don't need something to "fix," your character like a cooldown reduction or movement speed relic. Sure there are a few character buffs that can help, but taking up a valuable skill slot and turn to buff can be a risk of its own. Fourth: Some characters just felt way more useful than others. There's a character introduced later that's based on a flat damage DoT. But groups of low max hp enemies are better disposed of by Yu and his high base damage aoe spells, and high max hp bosses are better dps'd down by the character introduced after, who has % max HP dots. And Charlotte, despite being my favorite design, just fell short. If I wanted a beefy physical character I'd just go with Leon. He hits harder with attack artifacts, has team buffs, and his defense passive can be used more than once in a blue moon. If I wanted aoe damage, I'd just keep Yu and Star. Even the free DLC character didn't really feel like she had a place on the team, other than cheesing out the postgame exploration quests by hitting the whole map at once. Speaking of hitting the whole map, Chizu as a whole felt a tad disappointing cause her gimmick is not attacking for a turn and then using her whole kit at once You need to build a team around her or she's just a brick for a whole turn. Even then, her turns that I had quickdraw, her passive on, and a ton of mana didn't even output enough damage to make it worth using over anybody else. Lastly: As some other reviews have mentioned, none of the town npcs ever really change dialogue. It's a bit of a shame to have all these neat looking characters but have them just say the same line every time, never updating with the changing world. Overall despite these issues I still had a great time. I'd still fully recommend it, Even at full price. Although there's a lot of text up there, these are small gripes in the grand scheme of things, but things that can be improved on nonetheless.

So far its quite easy IMO, but it is cute and charming. It's a trade off I guess.

相当老派的日式战棋回合制，并非贬义，只是思绪一下给我干回小二十年的风色幻想。 游戏美术表现相当出色，而游戏性上就是老派SRPG的标准。 特别是难度上，老派到仿佛回到十几二十年前日韩网游照顾新手的水平，反正游戏难度算低。 但有个缺点，对话有时候不能快进，主要原因貌似是由于剧情进展时的即时演算导致。 像是譬如人物走动或做动作时，对话就无法加速，必须演完说完才行，这其实挺难受的。 搞得有兴趣看剧情的得有耐心，而没耐心的那就狠狠心直接跳过剧情，导致啥代入感没有的同时还疯狂战斗。 这个地方真希望重视起来并修正，挺影响情绪的。 女主声优虽然说的韩语，但有时候有一股地道的钉宫味儿，可以考虑改为傲娇红发无路赛圣体。

😭👍

Enjoyable tactial game with amazing pixel art graphics and okay story.

Fun game. The characters and art style are very cute. The combat is interesting, but somewhat lacks variation. Character abilities are a little too front loaded, as in you get most of them early, which makes the later level ups less exciting. Also, sometimes it has some targeting errors when dealing with opponents at different heights, but this will probably get patched soon. Sand reconfiguration is pretty busted though. Most counters have some work around or at least don't hurt you, but sand configuration has no distance or height limit, does damage to you, cancels your skill, and increases their defense and resistance for the ridiculously low cost of 1 mana. crazy work.

재밌게 해서 더욱 아쉽다. 기본 틀은 잡아놓았는데 그 이상을 만들지 못해서 가볍게 즐기고 끝나버렸다. 그리고 이 게임은 데모가 절단기다. 데모 구간이 가장 지루하고 재미없는 구간인데 거기만 넘기면 그때부터 재밌어진다. 세계관 풀어놓기만 하고 끝나버렸는데 DLC로 풀어줄 거죠? 믿을게요