Wicked Willow

It took me a while to decide what to write here as I wanted to make sure that what I wrote truly gave my real feelings on this VN. In short, T.F. Wright is a genius. I only have played through to one ending as of now (although I am going to be playing through until I get all of them!) but that one ending had me going through so many different emotions, and learning about myself and others as well. In long, this VN is a true work of art in every way. The writing feels real and believable. The art is immaculate and truly shows each character how they should be. The choices you make feel like they have a real impact on the story (I truly believe even cosmetic choices would feel that way with how amazing the writing is). This next part is going to be a little spoilery so please don't read it unless you have played through it yourself. You really should experience this the first time through the VN and not through a review. [spoiler] I started this game not really having a plan of who I was planning on ending up with in the story. I also quickly decided that I HATED Lydia. She was everything I hate about a person. Funny story, I ended up with her at the end (kind of). I went from hating her, to learning about her, to feeling for her, to loving her both in game and out. [/spoiler] To me, the fact that happened, all within a 2 hour period at that, shows how good the writing truly is.

So I did this entire game in one run, it was very fun trying to find all the different avenues for each and the artwork was really good. I do think you can overlook some of the plot-holes, just because of how well this entire story was woven together, like I am in love with the skill used to meld everything together despite it all happening in alternate timelines. Cannot say that Willow is a very likable character and I feel she honestly didn't deserve Tanya/Avery in the end. I could see her believably with Lydia/Xarsi and will fully admit Shadow's entire storyline as a love interest disturbed me. XD Tanya's was probably my FAVORITE story line out of them all, when you play you'll see why like she just... girl she's PATIENCE personified and I will love her to the end of time. All in all I would rec this game to anyone who is into visual novels/dating sims/choose your own adventure games. ^-^

I really enjoyed this <3 Queer Witches is definitely one of my favourite type of games :)

Decent yuri visual novel, with some good voice acting and multiple endings. I admit on my first playthrough I felt the story was all over the place, but the game's many endings reveal [spoiler] Willow is living in a Ground Hog day situation, living the same few days over and over. False endings usually result in a closest lesbian anti-Witch blowing up the world because she's angry at it, and Willow resetting the timeline. [/spoiler] I got multiple false ending on my first few playthoughs, and I think getting these a few times at start helped me appreciate the [spoiler] time travel [/spoiler] plot more than if I had stumbled into a actual ending [ie the ones with an achievement and credits] on first go and learned about the [spoiler] time travelling[/spoiler] via narration, or the epilogue, and not experienced it directly. On multiple playthroughs, the story and the characters and their motivations start to make more sense. I'm not saying its all good, I felt at times the tone felt it like it was several stories merged into one - at times taking itself very seriously with its political overtones on gay rights, capitalism etc, before veering off into goofball silliness. For example, on the theme about gays rights, in one playthrough there was a deadly serious scene of one character being [spoiler]tortured at a gay conversion therapy camp [/spoiler], while in another you get warped into another reality based on a D&D campaign, and meet an over-the-top not-at-all-serious lesbian succubus, whose origin was that [spoiler] she was a nun who decided to come out of the closet on her deathbed [/spoiler]. It just felt a little jarring going from a scene of a girl being [spoiler] tortured because of her sexuality [/spoiler], to whimsical demon sex-jokes in a d&d fantasy land. However, it's the playthroughs where I got the more serious elements, and characterisation about Lydia I felt the story was at its strongest. While the revelation that she is a [spoiler] self-hating lesbian, trained by the Christian illuminati to be an anti-witch assassin, but usually blows up the world at the end of the week when her self-loathing gets too much to bare [/spoiler] was rather over the top, I really enjoyed the scenes when she actually comes out of the closest, and admits to who she is rather than what her religion/family expects her to be. Which is also why I liked the ending where she and Willow end up together the most, although I did feel their romantic relationship was very sudden - seriously it essentially goes from "I hate you" for the majority of it, to [spoiler] "Yes, I'm gay, and I've always loved you willow, but the church tortured me, both to "cure me" and turn me into a witch-hunter, so I've being trying to kill you for the last few days" to either ending a) "stuff the world, if I can't be a lesbian I'll just destroy it" (timeline reset) or b) "wait, Hawaii has gay marriage now? Screw the illuminati - Willow, quick lets get on a plane and go get married!" [/spoiler] It's not the most forced relationship I've seen in a VN, but it's certainly not the most developed either. Overall, I prefer yuri stories that focus more on the romance/relationship building, and the sillier elements weren't my thing, however I did enjoy this for the few hours it takes to complete and think its worth picking up for those looking for a new yuri NV - especially given its well voice acted, which its always a plus for immersion.

Overall, game is a positive if you like Visual Novels. Characters are well developed with different storylines and branches, and you get to experience it from each of their perspectives. The dev and writing was mostly done solo, so another plus there. I hope the best for your future T.F.

Everything else about this Visual Novel saves it from the EXECUTION of its story. The ideas are there, the characters are okay, the plot has enough twists (even if somewhat predictable) to keep one hooked, the voice acting is good and the art is great. Said execution of the story does take away from it somewhat. The consequences of power use were new to me and I found them neat, but they tend to limit character growth, a little of which is necessary even in a short title. The romances felt rushed, if quite wholesome. Lastly, it doesn't nuance its ideas or introduce them slowly, but rather bashes the reader over the head with them. Overall, it remains a decent title in a lot of ways, so if the things mentioned above are not deal-breakers for you, get casting!

While I love the plot twist of the story with one of the romance options and it had my tears- You will have to painfully deal with MC cussing and yelling very constantly at the start. Wasn't very pleasant to the ears, I must say. However I do like the checkpoint thing so you don't have to go all over the gameplay and the hassle to save + reload to check out the outcome of other options. The plot is okay, though the option seemingly abit too hasty. Like literally 1 option is needed for you to jumpship. Otherwise, the overall game is alright to me for the price. Was a good few hour to sit through.

Great art, Good voice acting, and mulyiple LGBTQ+characters with 8 enjoyable endings, it is a visual novel it is mostly here to tell a story and for you to follow along and enjoy. I really enjoyed the writing and the moral questions it kind of makes you ask yourself. I got it at $10.66 (this was tax included) To support the company buy it at full price but wish listing it for a sale will also be enjoyable

I got an offer to play this from the developer, this is a great game. Fully voice acted which helps if you end up reading stuff outloud for hours. The voices are wonderful, the art is charming and it's honestly just a great game. If it hadn't been gifted to me, then I would have brought it for the premise and art alone.

I had fun going through all the story branches!