This work is a modern pure love story with magical elements, telling the love story of the protagonist Xi Mingguang and the otherworldly visitor Lilu.
The core of the story revolves around a sacrificial seal of the curse of the gods handed down from ancient times, but it unfolds in a tactful way, as the story progresses, the image of an Okinawan outlying island: the island at night is constantly fleshed out, showing the player a Ōsato family with the status of "nobles" on the island, and laying a lot of foreshadowing for the sacrifice ceremony through the details of each chapter.
Most of the content is relatively daily, the rhythm is cheerful and warm, plain and sweet, but as the saying goes, there is a hidden price behind all happiness, and when the calm is broken, it is naturally the knife carefully prepared by the author, and in the fourth chapter, the heroine becomes a container for sealing the curse of the gods, detonating all the foreshadowing.
Of course, according to the author, this is a story that begins with a romantic comedy and ends with moving, boy meets girl, which is cleverly controlled between funny and serious, and finally brings the reader to be moved and Happy End.
Multi-angle storytelling
The plot of the game is divided into four units: prologue, bright chapter, insurance salesman chapter, and Lilu chapter.
The same is the end of the world, it is better to meet each other than to get together
The beginning of the story originated when the male protagonist moved to Okinawa alone. However, he found that his grandfather had emigrated overseas half a year ago, and the transfer application was missing, everything confirmed the male protagonist's long-standing speculation, his aunt's family absconded in debt, and he was abandoned. Taking the opportunity of the male mainstream taking the street and occupying the sugar cane house built by the female protagonist, Lilu, a mysterious girl with exotic clothes, was officially introduced. At the insistence of the male protagonist, the mysterious girl who went to the island informally reached an agreement with the male protagonist to help each other, and used unconventional means to live in her grandfather's house and began to live together between the two.
During the period, due to the treatment of dogs with difficult births, the male protagonist came into contact with the special identity of the female protagonist for the first time: the witch. And on the pretext of making money, he set up a "magic miscellaneous shop". And received a letter beyond time and space (mistakenly, it was a grocery store)
I like all the characters
The plot of this work is very cleverly unfolded, the detailed life paves the plot, there are no particularly violent disputes and conflicts, and the relaxed story makes people feel happy, but when the plot becomes serious, it can't help but make people worry and tense about the characters.
In the narrative process, the game has repeatedly switched perspectives, using the first-person perspective of different characters to unfold the story, so not only the narrative from the protagonist's perspective, but also part of the content through the perspective of other characters, more intuitively showing the inner fluctuations or hesitations of the characters.
Each character in it is flesh and blood, including the Ōsato family, who has been the biggest villain in the whole story, and also makes a remarkable performance after the protagonist destroys the seal and the sun disappears. In addition to the male and female protagonists, the remaining main characters are Chi Ji Ming, Hi Jia Suo, Kanjojo, and Concubine Riko of the Xuncha Palace.
Akatsuaki
Aka Akira is a very cheerful and lively girl, a childhood plum forgotten by the protagonist, and can be said to be the biggest atmosphere group in the entire story.
The cute scissor hands and the joyful spit across the fourth wall create a lighthearted, humorous and humorous atmosphere of the story, and also show the hero and heroine of the cohabitation of an old husband and wife through the perspective of gossip.
The "bright chapter" of the story is the story of "Magic Miscellaneous Shop" that helps Akira Akaku realize his dream of becoming a voice actor. From the beginning of this as the second story, it is not difficult to find that the author's ability to bury the foreshadowing is very deep.
Akajiaki first appears in the prologue, helping the male protagonist find the location of his grandfather's house and accepting a thousand yen as a hard fee for a beautiful girl, and this thousand yen is also mentioned here again.
Because her parents did not support her dream, her plan was to secretly go to Tokyo to participate in the audition, first chop and then play, and cook raw rice to mature rice, but she had no money, all her expenses were limited to shopping coupons that could only be used on the island, and the hiring of male and female protagonists was also paid with 100,000 yen shopping coupons, and that 1,000 yen was also a step in her efforts for her voice actress dream.
Of course, when the male protagonist complained that the thousand yen made his wandering worse, Chi Jieming was also very cute, returning the crumpled thousand yen to the male protagonist. This is also one of my favorite characters, Scissorhands is very cute!
Concubine Riko of the Tea Palace
Concubine Riko of the Tea Hall is a blonde curly girl who is very proud of her hair care, but because she became a blessing girl, she was shaved into a bald head. Although she claims to be Chi Jiming's old enemy, the relationship between the two is undoubtedly a close friend,
My impression of her is that she is mature, although she first appeared in a very hilarious RAP duel with Akira Akaku, and the image of a shaved head is also funny. But whether it is noticing that Chi Jieming wants to become a voice actress and help her complete her dreams, or matching the male and female protagonists in the Lilu chapter, her attitude towards the family's request is very calm and mature.
Concurrently Jojo
[Men and women are the same, the capture is over], [Less nonsense, there is no darker existence in this world than me], [Indulge in my dark love], Kanjojo debuted as the leader of a gangster, hired by the Akatsuki family to block Akatakei's plan to win the championship, and then hired by Concubine Riko to help Akatakeaki go to Tokyo.
He is a senior otaku who likes animation and can shout out the animated lines of shame as a move to cheer.
In addition to being a funny service and intelligence service, his biggest highlight is to discover the entanglement of the female protagonist's choice between going home and the male protagonist, and the scene where a person breaks into the home of Ōsato, hoping to make the male protagonist and Lilu meet again, and burst into emotions. Of course, the voice acting of the characters is undoubtedly one of the reasons why I think the characters are great.
Higa Tsumugi
Hija is also a character who uses daily joyful performances to promote the plot, and his personality is mostly natural and weak, but there are also times when negative emotions break out, characterized by big chests, drunkenness over a drink, and fooling around after getting drunk. And her identity and amnesia are also a foreshadowing of the author.
I also like this role, but how to say it, the worst thing that made me feel at the beginning of the whole story was the "Insurance Salesman Chapter", probably because the previous atmosphere was too daily and joyful, and the plot of this new character made me feel full of depressing and irritable atmosphere, just like a relaxed and casual daily fan, suddenly appeared a protagonist and his father, who was thoughtful, self-pitying, and needed the protagonist's help to pay back 80 million.
(This is fraud!) You look like you have an H, you have a problem with your chest! ）
New character: Higa-san appears as an insurance salesman, and then loses his job and turns to the protagonist and Akira Akaku. I have been using too serious attitude, doing things that have run into trouble again and again. The biggest knot in Higazao's heart is that he blames himself for failing the hope given by his grandmother, being deceived by others when he wanders alone, and failing to see his grandmother for the last time, and all the words encouraging people to live actively and work his account have instead become curses bound to Bijiasuo.
I'm not saying that this plot setting is a failure or bizarre, on the contrary, there is some reality, a feeling of wanting to enlighten a person who has been frightened, but can't be persuaded, a little sympathy and stomach pain, and for me it is more irritability.
(PS: In terms of the trouble, using brightener to clean the glass and banging the surfboard with his fist is somewhat funny.) ）
Lilu
Lilu is undoubtedly the most important part of the storyline, after all, it is the only designated route and the only designated heroine. This chapter is about as long as the previous three combined.
Lilu is the part where the male and female protagonists gradually face up to each other's feelings, this part is not too much spoiler, which can be mainly divided into the female protagonist's uneasiness and confusion, to the male protagonist's timidity, and then the separation of the two, and the emotional outburst.
In this process, the protagonist Hikaru shows a lot of deficiencies because he is unable to make decisions and is afraid to show his heart. However, after Hikari and Lilu are trapped, the scene of finally breaking down the barrier and confessing to the heroine is awesome!
After all, what can save the world is always love, right?
After all the stories are completed, the game's EXTRA will unlock "TRUTH" to explain the background and truth of the story, and it is still interesting to read to explore the origin of the gods and worship customs from the perspective of red picking.
Among them, what I want to know the most is "why the protagonist broke the seal of the curse, but the black hand Mo only took the sun for ten days as punishment", of course, because it is not God's perspective, the player gets not a positive answer, but a romantic guess: after all, it is always love that can save the world, right?
Love saves the world, to be honest, is a very old-fashioned bridge, maybe it will make people feel earthy, maybe it is very old-fashioned, but it is still a classic, and it can move people again and again.
Fine dubbing, CG is underfunded
The game's music and character voice acting are very attractive, and you can see that the plot is really very careful, but in terms of art, it is a little unsatisfactory.
I like the style of character standing painting, but the number of differences is only reasonable; The background pictures in the game are basically real shooting scenes + "ink outline" filters, which is a somewhat lazy way, of course, framing and processing are well done, and can also show the local local style, so it is also reasonable.
(This work is all-age-oriented, so it is not some place where benefits should be issued, either a black screen or a code)
But CG is indeed too little, there are only ten CGs in the whole article! Even if it weren't for Seikei Production's initiative to cast an olive branch, the game initially had no dubbing plan, and it can be seen that most of the work was spent on the script.
summary
"The Witch of Legend" is the second work under Fragaria, which is an all-age youth love story, telling the love story of the protagonist Xi Mingguang and the otherworldly visitor Lilu, with certain magical elements and sacrificial customs.
The pace of the story is fantastic! It shows the cheerful warmth of the daily system, plain and sweet, but also through foreshadowing and twists and turns, it creates a touching plot with a degree of relaxation. The picture is soft, the music and dubbing quality are great, a rare masterpiece, highly recommended!