I really like the concepts and ideas in this game. It's not like "retired magical girls have to come together again to meet the threat" hasn't been done before, but I like that kind of plotline. I'm not sure what this game would be classified as- a visual novel plus? a story driven adventure?- but I really like this type of game, too.
The actual execution, though, is extremely rough.
The writing is just okay. This is at its core a narrative game and the writing isn't quite strong enough to carry it. It doesn't have a lot of wit or edge, some of the dialogue is clunky, it's missing backstory and the characters get over their issues way too quickly.
I wasn't expecting a ton of gameplay, but even still, it felt thin. You run around and talk to people and eventually the plot resolves. I wish there was some kind of puzzle to solve, even if that was just tracking down a character through a dialogue chain or getting some important item in an inventory cycle puzzle. I think there was an attempt at this, with finding the three things for the concert, but I was able to do the concert after talking to random people, only one of which was maybe an audience and none of whom gave me a stage.
If there's audio, it didn't work for me, and given that one of the characters is a singer and music is mentioned explicitly, that's a big disappointment.
"Recommend playing in full screen for best experience." The game is tiny and several screens are cut off in windowed mode; full screen is basically needed.
The graphics are pretty, and you can interact with more than I expected, but I just wish there was more life to the town.
The dialogue system works, but I found myself wishing you could hold to advance or skip faster at times. Having actually implemented this, though, I can understand why that feature isn't there.
The ending really didn't hit the right notes for me. It's supposed to be humorous, but it went too far over the line given the relatively serious tone of the rest of the game. It almost felt like, yeah, we didn't know how to end it, here's something memeable.
Still, it's cute and didn't bog down into something drawn out or tedious, so not a bad little game overall.