Wicked Willow

I really enjoyed this, received it to stream, ended up loving it.

Its a cute warm fuzzy game like life is strange. Its corny but its in good fun. I have a tear down my face with one play through and I want to play more.

I had fun going through all the story branches!

Great art, Good voice acting, and mulyiple LGBTQ+characters with 8 enjoyable endings, it is a visual novel it is mostly here to tell a story and for you to follow along and enjoy. I really enjoyed the writing and the moral questions it kind of makes you ask yourself. I got it at $10.66 (this was tax included) To support the company buy it at full price but wish listing it for a sale will also be enjoyable

Transparency: I received this product for free in order to review it and play through it. I've never played through any visual novels before in my life, but being as I'm Wiccan and Trans/Pansexual, this one really spoke to me when the Author offered it for review. My one gripe would be that it's simply to short, I would have loved to spend more time with the characters and to have had longer endings, but that's it. Simply, I would have liked more :) Outside that singular gripe, I can whole heartedly recommend this to anyone in the LGBT+ space and even outside it, that is a fan of visual novels. Also, as someone whose never taken to visual novels before? I can recommend it even still, try something new, you might be happily surprised.

I got an offer to play this from the developer, this is a great game. Fully voice acted which helps if you end up reading stuff outloud for hours. The voices are wonderful, the art is charming and it's honestly just a great game. If it hadn't been gifted to me, then I would have brought it for the premise and art alone.

Decent yuri visual novel, with some good voice acting and multiple endings. I admit on my first playthrough I felt the story was all over the place, but the game's many endings reveal [spoiler] Willow is living in a Ground Hog day situation, living the same few days over and over. False endings usually result in a closest lesbian anti-Witch blowing up the world because she's angry at it, and Willow resetting the timeline. [/spoiler] I got multiple false ending on my first few playthoughs, and I think getting these a few times at start helped me appreciate the [spoiler] time travel [/spoiler] plot more than if I had stumbled into a actual ending [ie the ones with an achievement and credits] on first go and learned about the [spoiler] time travelling[/spoiler] via narration, or the epilogue, and not experienced it directly. On multiple playthroughs, the story and the characters and their motivations start to make more sense. I'm not saying its all good, I felt at times the tone felt it like it was several stories merged into one - at times taking itself very seriously with its political overtones on gay rights, capitalism etc, before veering off into goofball silliness. For example, on the theme about gays rights, in one playthrough there was a deadly serious scene of one character being [spoiler]tortured at a gay conversion therapy camp [/spoiler], while in another you get warped into another reality based on a D&D campaign, and meet an over-the-top not-at-all-serious lesbian succubus, whose origin was that [spoiler] she was a nun who decided to come out of the closet on her deathbed [/spoiler]. It just felt a little jarring going from a scene of a girl being [spoiler] tortured because of her sexuality [/spoiler], to whimsical demon sex-jokes in a d&d fantasy land. However, it's the playthroughs where I got the more serious elements, and characterisation about Lydia I felt the story was at its strongest. While the revelation that she is a [spoiler] self-hating lesbian, trained by the Christian illuminati to be an anti-witch assassin, but usually blows up the world at the end of the week when her self-loathing gets too much to bare [/spoiler] was rather over the top, I really enjoyed the scenes when she actually comes out of the closest, and admits to who she is rather than what her religion/family expects her to be. Which is also why I liked the ending where she and Willow end up together the most, although I did feel their romantic relationship was very sudden - seriously it essentially goes from "I hate you" for the majority of it, to [spoiler] "Yes, I'm gay, and I've always loved you willow, but the church tortured me, both to "cure me" and turn me into a witch-hunter, so I've being trying to kill you for the last few days" to either ending a) "stuff the world, if I can't be a lesbian I'll just destroy it" (timeline reset) or b) "wait, Hawaii has gay marriage now? Screw the illuminati - Willow, quick lets get on a plane and go get married!" [/spoiler] It's not the most forced relationship I've seen in a VN, but it's certainly not the most developed either. Overall, I prefer yuri stories that focus more on the romance/relationship building, and the sillier elements weren't my thing, however I did enjoy this for the few hours it takes to complete and think its worth picking up for those looking for a new yuri NV - especially given its well voice acted, which its always a plus for immersion.