Embers of Magic

A beautiful artwork visual novel game but sadly, the good story comes short. Still, it's enjoyable, like reading a short story. The dialogues are well written, the voice acting is above average and importantly, the ending is okay. Since this game is free, there's nothing to complain about. In fact, I'm glad I played this game. So yeah, it's good. ( 6 / 10 )

Free visual novel with more aesthetic than substance. Feels like the first chapter, but then it just.... stops? The art style is great, but there's just not enough here to provide a compelling experience.

It's an intro to the artstyle, and the world, of the authors' games. It's nice, it's pretty, and it does what it says. Also thank you for the easy & fast way to go back and check the other two "options" of the one, entirely cosmetic choice we get to make; I was curious but it would have been annoying to have to read through the story three times in a row just for the completion urge! :'-)

Pretty neat little story with colorful characters and art. 8/10

I played Brilliant Shadows a long time ago, but I remember really liking it. this was quite the opposite. The narrative text was quite nice, though it had some grammatical errors, but the dialogue was just so... bad. unrealistic. you can really tell where the writer's strengths lie. This also was to the detriment of the voice acting, which was even worse. The voice actors definitely weren't professionals, and the way in which they acted was very... well, OVERacted. Like in bad english anime dubs, you know the ones, though perhaps not as bad. Except Anne. Oh boy, I just could not take anything he said seriously, that accent did not fit with the game at all. And the sound design? The music is nice, but the sound effects are so loud and intrusive. The mud squelching had me visibly contort my face in disgust, and the owl's chirps annoyed me to no end. Never in my life have i heard an owl sound like that. nor seen one look like that. There are also some baby lizard characters which seem to be there solely to piss me off with their obnoxious sounds, and one of them sounds straight up like a worse version of Stitch from Lilo & Stitch. The only redeeming quality of this game is that it was free.

What a cute little game I can't wait for the next installment of my spooky necromancer waifu

Short ~30 to 45 minutes; but really cute and fun; with a very colorful different art style