Whimel Steam Charts & Stats

Very cute game! About halfway through and enjoying it quite a lot so far.

Edit: fixed spoiler text Things I really liked: I like the vibes/setting/atmosphere, of course. It's a very cozy and interesting setting and the art is very beautiful. I liked the characters and their various personalities- they definitely have defining characteristics, but they don't feel like cardboard cutouts. The way they interact with each-other is entertaining. I really liked that it didn't feel like Harry Potter, I know that's where a lot of people's minds go if you say mage school but it definitely feels like it's own thing. I liked the unique outfits, both for characters and in shops for the player, and fact that you can play with your cat. [spoiler] Lumi [/spoiler] is very dear to my autistic heart, [spoiler] the petty rivalry between Ida and Cyrus [/spoiler] will always make me smile, and [spoiler] Theo and Daisy are very sweet [/spoiler] and I liked hanging out with them. On the whole it's a very charming game. Some things I feel like could maybe be changed: I experienced a glitch in which, when looking at people's friendship profiles, the text overlapped with the icon images instead of pulling up it's own page thing. This made it somewhat hard to read. I feel like the way your attributes affect your dialogue choices could be changed up a bit. I like the idea in theory, but in practice it can be frustrating when you are forced to say something lackluster or that you'd rather not say just because you lack a trait. This was a while back so it may have been changed but I remember having a conversation with [spoiler] Theodore about how he was going to make a potion that would tell a person the color of their essence or something, but when the time finally came around, [/spoiler] due to not having the right traits my character was forced to [spoiler] tell him they weren't interested in the potion and walk off. [/spoiler] I also think it would be nice if your dialogue affected the conversation more, the person you're talking to will respond to what you say but then just come to the same conclusion/finish their sentence the same way no matter what option you pick. I also experienced some slightly confusing dialogue from[spoiler] Idaline and Daisy, in which Ida introduced me to Daisy even though I already knew her and neither my character nor Daisy pointed this out. Then, after talking with Ida and seeing her and Daisy hang out multiple times, I later talked to Daisy and she was telling me that she planned on introducing herself to Ida later. [/spoiler] I think it would be nice if at least the cosmetic items like furniture and clothes were a bit cheaper. It's hard to afford them, especially if you're also buying potion ingredients or stuff like that. It would be very difficult to have the decked-out rooms shown in the preview thingy. Food also feels rather overpriced at times, especially early on when you make very little money per money-gaining action. I think it would be cool if we could see/learn more about the magical animals mentioned I am not trying to say that any of these things make it a bad game- it's a very nice game and I'm very fond of it. If these things don't get changed it will still be a good game, but I'm just mentioning these since I think I heard that the creator wants to have feedback on their game.

This game is my perfect idea of a cozy evening. The art and music are so warm and lovely, the story is deliciously well written, and the characters are delightful. I'll be playing this one over and over again, for sure.