Reviewed v0.42
Have had such a blast with this game. If petrification is your thing, this is worth the effort to get into. I have found almost 50 seperate death states for the different characters in various Petrification states (Stone, Chocolate, Slime, Ice, Gold, Webbing...and others? Animations and sprites of it all happening for each party member?! Good stuff!). These depend on your HP and/or what phase of a fight you are in. The later bosses actually have specific kill animations and non-standard game overs for several of the separate phases?! Fantastic. Be warned there is some Soft Vore in the later end of the game, but they still finish with petrification.
Gameplay wise, this is a mostly linear Metroidvania, with a rather high difficulty spike at the first boss (A show of things to come, only gets harder). These bosses are very much Dark Souls style bosses: Learn attack patterns, everything is possible to dodge or deal with if you are patient and/or have a plan. Most enemies have a weaknesses you can exploit, but the bosses are definetly long fights, so take your time. Level Grinding is not required at all... unless playing through on Hard (Specifically to have the shield for the 2nd boss. Damn she is evil as hell). Even then, the grinding didn't take me very long, like 5-10 minutes in a spot full of enemies, which was nice.
You can save freely out of combat... do so OFTEN (Esc to save, F5 to reset). Like every screen kinda often. I eventually cleared the game on Hard (After I had beaten Normal), but it definetly took me several attempts on the tougher fights (Looking at you 2nd boss!). Even on Easy, the game can be pretty tough, but your hitbox is surprsingly small... so take advantage of it. You can dodge quite alot of the Danmaku style attacks even though it looks like it should hit you. Ah. Danmaku. Yea, there is alot of bullets or stuff on screen to dodge sometimes. Not to the level of Touhou (Which the game does clearly love considering the cameo's), but be ready to dodge with careful and precise movements sometimes.
The difficulty can be adjusted with Backspace (Easy, Normal, Hard). No extra content on higher difficulties, just tougher fights, so play as you like.
Mobility and attacking sucks at the start. It honestly took me until I cleared the first boss to really start to enjoy the game, as once you get into the Party system it starts to click. You eventually get better tools, like a double jump, a triple jump and some truely chaotic air combat with chain dive kicks letting you basically fly around by bouncing off enemies. By the end of the game I was pressing Up / Down to throw out damage and heal, while dodging attacks and trying to shoot stuff at the same time with a variety of spells....and a gun. Very fun for myself, but if that kinda "press lots of buttons" action isn't your thing, you probably wont enjoy this game.
Story is cute and funny. (From what I can understand of it, thanks machine translations!). Certainly doesn't take itself too seriously, but it does drop hints that something else is going on.
Overall, highly recommended to Petrification lovers.
So a couple of notes.
First of all this game is quite interesting
Second if you want us to know any form of humor from that game it needs an english translation. I doubt lots of japanese reading people on this site.
Third This game is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY to hard for a sexy game title.
There is no way that i am going to get through the first boss its SO FREAKIN HARD.
Darksouls or Monster hunter is like pipsqueek easy comparied to this.
AND THATS ON EASY MODE!!!
I dont even get how there is a hard mode for that.
I dont get passed the first boss idk how much healt it has.
The game feels like a bullet hell but then you have barely any movement capabilities to move around
The only decent way to move around is with the slide feature since you can spam the shit out of that
And even with that i cant get through the boss and i shot far over 50 damage in her after clearing the healers.
Game is busted beyond difficult
It looks extraordinary. I really wish I could read it, it also seems quite funny
sounds fun....wish it was in english