What looks like a fun anime game on the surface with cute friends to help you along the way lures you in with a soundtrack that is worthy of listening to even outside of the game - it's that good! It plays like a movie, perfectly timing soft, calm, relaxing music with heavy hitting fast-paced action music that will get your heart pumping. The enemies are DIFFICULT and the combat is challenging, especially if you pick the wrong difficulty level - be warned, it will tear you a new one. The puzzles are also challenging and memorable all throughout, providing challenge after challenge, think Portal-esque. This game is worth every penny on sale or not and for me was a sleeper game I found by accident thinking it can't be 'that' good...it is. I've logged over 70 hours playing it twice on two different difficulty levels and would play it over again. Do yourself a favor and try it - it's much more than what it appears on the surface!!

Good game but not without it's flaws. To start with the good, the visuals are very beautiful. The scenery and all the colours just pop. The gameplay is very simple, mostly you are in small areas with puzzles to solve and things to collect. Everything is directed with markers so you are never really lost.

Combat is a mixed bag. On one hand when it works, it is really fun. The parry mechanic requires precise timing and when you pull it off is very satisfying. The main combat revolves around wacking things with the staff using a mix of light and heavy attacks or fighting from afar using the bow/bombs. The camera tho has a mind of it's own and can get really annoying when it decides to focus on something else for whatever reason mid combat. Also idk why the devs did this but 90% of the fights just have mob spam. Bunch of little minions just swarming the already cramped arena and just getting in the way.

Final Rating: B-

This game brought tears to my eyes, not because of the story- but the game play itself. It is one of the most soul-crushing, devastating, mentally-draining experiences I've ever had. The story is nice and the game play mechanics are fun (the mobs and bosses are not).

--> Highly recommend <--