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女儿真可爱awwwww 话说这代的男主竟然还能接受，玩过2、3本来已经做好了男主渣男的准备，结果这代竟然是女儿看上男主的脸了主动调戏男主，甚至是强制爱，怎么讲，反正女儿没吃亏，男主也没伤害女儿，可以的，对于这个系列的剧情来说，已经算满意了

This became one of my favourite games of all time! Such a fun experience, great story and gameplay.

Good gameplay that is held far back by baffling design decisions, lack of quality of life, tediousness and a atrocious story. I would have given it a mixed review if that was possible because it had the potential to be a great game. I think I kept everything spoiler free. How the game works: Defeat always visible enemy groups that respawn at the same location and drop the same loot to get equipment or craft potions, new spells or stat increases. A group only gives exp the first time you defeat it and thougher enemies take longer to respawn. By defeating enemies you also fill a bar that you can use to train your character to get further stat increases (increased by performing well in the minigames). Certain enemies can be mind controlled, in future fights you can summon them and use their normal/special ability to assist in battle (up to four summons per fight later on). What makes the game tedious: The story interrupts gameplay way too often, instead of one longer story scene you instead get multiple smaller ones. Enter a cave -> cutscene -> walk 5 meters to a hole in a wall -> cutscene -> defeat two enemies -> pre boss cutscene -> boss fight -> after boss cutscene -> need to walk outside the cave -> cutscene -> report back that you killed the boss -> cutscene -> let your friend know you are alright -> cutscene, ... Alot of times there arent even enemies to fight so there is no reason to not automatically teleport me back or whatever and make it one longer cutscene. Story quests are legit worse then fetch quest because atleast in fetch quest you have to get something beforehand and not travel between places for nothing. More tediousness/lack of qol: You unmount after every fight or cutscene. Turtle unreasonably slow on land. Mind control can miss but ofc the monster can die from it. Do annoying minigames multiple times or spend extra time to farm more. There is only a teleport back home button, you can teleport to other circles but you have to open the map first and the animation ports you back home first. Game should start you off each battle withc max hp and mana because you have more than enough to refill after every fight anyway. Bad game design and balancing: 90% of the staffs you get in the second half of the game before that you will have way more swords than staffs. Missible content or obscure ways to get it (or both for the best spell in the game) Magic shield spell being weapon dependent. You will reach lvl 5 (max lvl) in the first quarter of the game. Weapon specific and blessing attacks are weaker than most of your normal Spells. Sword skills aka attack the same single opponent 1/2/3/4/5/6 times. Superbosses HP scales with your damage stats. Your counterattack after a dodge screws you over more often (killing captureable monsters) than it helps in a real fight. Only the highest difficulty is what I consider a normal difficulty that requires you to redo a few bosses (never grinded or had to gain more stats outside of epilogue bosses and a few normal monsters that are terribly balanced). Temples are too tiny and kind of a joke. Alot of summons are just worse despite you getting them later. You get ice magic too late and the spell effect of all spells could afford more variability. Fire spell burn scales with the initial damage so multihit fire spells are pretty useless (they also remove slow effect and thus are terrible later on). Forced allied summones that remove slow effects which results in a altered turn order and harder fights. Some normal enemy groups (plants in swamp as an example) will outspeed and oneshot you despite being a normal enemy without any special loot for that area (no choice but to come back later). Other enemies you encounter, have stats you would expext in the first hour but they appear in hour 10/20/30 or so. In the epilogue you even have to fight a boss battle against three bandits with 300 health only to get a boss battle against 3 200k health golems right afterwards. Agility and slowing through ice spells is too unbalanced but also required later. It is the difference between the enemy getting two attacks for every turn you do and you getting two turns for every turn the enemy does is insane. Especially because certain skills and summons allow you to get even more turns in and all special abilities having turn based cooldown. Self harming skills are broken, they increase by 36% multiplicatively (100/136/185/252/... damage) and they scale even if they are different self harming skills. The horrendous story: The premise of the story is fine: Mc is a witch, the pope had a war against deities and witches, won, deities are gone and the remaining witches are hunted. There are plenty of story twists too. The problem is that the premise clashes with the presentation, almost nobody dies, everyone is forgiven and there are no consequences for both sides rather you are the idiot that gets backstabbed a third time or you are the backstabber. Ofc there is no blood or injury and the presentation is purely with the ingame models. There is also a romance between the mc, a ten year old girl and a 15-20 year old warrior that tried to kill her multiple times but it is fine because she is a simp and he is "handsome". MC magically gets her appearance aged to 15 later on which for some reason also completely alters her personality (they didnt bother to redo voice lines so you still get her previous voice style when you hunt rabbits or so) The story slowly gets bad with more and more plot holes until you reach chapter 7. Chapter 7 is one gigantic plot hole after another and even the few "explanations" trying to explain something make no sense and just open up more plot holes before ending in the equivalent of flipping your boardgame over. I was genuinely enraged over how bad the story in chapter 7 and the epilogue was.

遊戲本身不錯，但劇情也太爛了吧...... 男主的塑造很失敗，感情線也很失敗...... 50%折扣入手，還行 不推薦原價購買

I like this game.

If you are on the fence on playing this game because the tags include the pedo dogwhistle "cute"+"funny", you'll be glad to hear there is no gross sexualization of any kind in the game! This is just a fantastic indie JRPG that plays like an Atelier game more focused on combat than crafting. It is a little bit janky since this is essentially a remake of an old mobile game but the devs managed to iron out most of the "cheapness" away. Just make sure you play on hard difficulty if you want to face any sort of challenges.

This is unironically one of my new favorite video games. The story is surprisingly well written for being so unassuming and full of heart. I hope I get to play more from this series.