Vivid World

Even for someone that not accustomed to auto-battler the gameplay is very simple to understand, it's not revolutionnary but is addictive. The chara design may be a reference to the manga Soul Eater. The characters are very cute we'll be fond of them easily. Each run may be a bit too long, especially for the one with 7 or 9 floors, but it's fun to have the ressources and time to make a big team with synergies that are powerful. There is a lot of synergies possible, even more with the union skill system. It's may be a bit too easy to beat the game with this much of ressources but the post game add a bit more difficulties to the run. The story is very basic but with these cute characters it's okay, I'm not playing this kind of game to have a lot of lore, it doesn't bother me at all. I played with Steam Deck, and it was playable without any problem. However even on pc there is some bugs, like there sometimes when there is some colors or attribute that are counted when we move some gems, even if the gem has been selled it still counted as I have it. It's not a big deal but well the game still need some improvment. So yes, it was a big surprise, it was recommended by steam and did not expect too like that much.

Catfishing as what could've been a great game. Disappointingly formulaic. You'd think with the Soul Eater-inspired artwork, character summoning and equipment collecting mechanics that there would be effort put into the content itself, but that's very much not the case. Each run plays out nearly identical to the last one, every battle feels like a waste of time and is turn based despite almost no player agency (battle consists of clicking a skill icon, just one, and then waiting until the next turn with virtually no strategy), and the skills themselves are also quite limited. Map layout is painfully repetitive/ limited and has no unexpected content. I occasionally skimmed the story. The way it was written, and the incessant noises as opposed to speech during dialog windows, meant that I didn't care enough to actually read whatever translated storyline there was. Maybe I'm being too hard on it. But this game just sucks. And it sucks especially because there are elements that I like, or that could've been good, but here they are just meh. Because the core of this game is meh, and they're just piled on top. How many arrows to click, skills to click, dialog to skip before you just uninstall? Missed my 2 hour mark unfortunately.