Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle

The artwork is gorgeous in a remarkably unique way, the story has a lot of depth and mystery to it. Basiscape provides a beautiful soundtrack as always. The game does a great job making you want keep turning the page to see what happens next. I did have a minor interface issues, there aren't any window settings. The game opened in a full HD window but was offset so the top of the screen was cut off. Used Alt+Enter to fullscreen the game and that worked fine. Don't let that deter you from enjoying a truly unique gem of a game.

+ Good fantasy genre music, catchy battle bgm, thanks Basiscape + Art is good, love the Vanillaware aesthetic + If you're into short game, it's a short one, probably 5-6 hours for one playthrough + I think the story is good. I don't mind the simple plot. The pacing is fine. At least I'm not bored, there are many interesting stuff that keeps it going.

This choose your own adventure book with a tabletop RPG system combined with the wonderful artwork of Yoshio Nishimura makes for a great time RNG can definitely kick your ass sometimes but with easy access to saves, it can be as punishing as you want it to be. A bit of a bummer that there's no classic Rogue playable character to complete the classic RPG trio with the already available Warrior and Mage characters, oh well.

A superb and richly detailed love letter to choose your own adventure books plussed up with the advantages of being a real video game allowing for fairly extensive inventory management to supplement the multiple choice exploration. We need more indie devs to move to the mountains and make passion projects.

Great game. Needs some work on the interface to bring it up to par to similar VN. Badly needs the ability to look at the inventory when you're on the map screen

If I could throw more money at this game I would.

I grew up with the Fighting Fantasy series, and this game brought back all the memories of playing through one of these stories. Should I fight this monster? Should I use a health potion now or save it for later? Do I trust this person? It was also great to see and hear all the little details that made Vanillaware games so immersive. Well worth buying for the price.