Recent reviews by banny

Disclaimer: I'm on the fence on recommending this game right now. It is extremely charming, cute, the art is amazing, and the game play loop and various features are so much fun if the player just had the time to actually explore them.

The artwork and characters are all super well done and charming, but the game demands too much of you on too tight of a timeline. I was most looking forward to getting to know each character, building relationships with them and earning their cards, and gradually building up my potions shop into a thriving business. Unfortunately, it feels like there's hardly any time to even touch half of the mechanics in the game and I feel like I can maybe invest in one or two character's relationships; with only ten days between each competition, there's zero room to breathe.

It feels constantly stressful. I would like to be able to take the time to explore the many wonderful features of the game and build character relationships, but instead I feel pressured into attempting to balance making mana and health potions for adventures to gather ingredients, but also brewing separate potions to sell to make money to buy ingredients and much-needed upgrades, and having a slew of custom orders that I'm having difficulty completing because I still need to make the potions for the competition in a few days that I'm barely up to par to be able to make. I think all of this is just exacerbated by how intensely stressful the limited amount of time to do anything is...

I feel that 20-30 days would be much better than 10, or a week after each competition to breathe for a bit, gather ingredients, do hang outs, etc. I just want to interact with the cast of characters that drew me into this game in the first place, lol.

I'm not at end game yet but I've heard that the game just kind of ... ends once you finish the third competition, which seems strange to me. There's so much potential for an endless mode where you can just make potions and grow your shop.