Crystalline Reviews

This story is fairly cookie cutter fantasy which I expected going into this, however the voice acting is great, the characters were well written, and the animations were pretty good too. It's a nice 10 to 14-ish hour adventure. I got the true ending and 2 out of the 4(?) other endings but I'm not invested enough to replay and experiment to figure out how to get the others. This is definitely worth a read.

As the other reviews have said: You've seen the plot of this VN before. It's an isekai where your typical bland protag is sent to a medieval world to kill the Big Bad. That just about sums the whole thing up. So in that case, why buy? It has good music and animated character sprites, yes, but that isn't the game's main selling point. No, the selling point is the character banter. If you've ever played the Tales series, you may know about the skits games from that franchise have. Crystalline is basically Tales skits expanded into a whole game. I also approve of there being only one love interest for the MC. Otherwise, the game would have the issue of Trails - every female character is waiting on whether the MC will lock in on choosing them, and that could take the whole game. Instead, you have one LI, and the other female characters are free to choose what they want to do romantically. Oh, and I should mention that this is a "feel good" game. As a PixelFade VN, any "horror", if you can call it that, would be suitable for scaring small children. This is a VN where things are great for nearly everyone, and the good times will continue.