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Reviews for "Arcane Maiden"

Dope.

btw not open able on android browser, it works perfectly on the Mozilla Firefox browser on PC

game does nothing but time out every time i try to play.

Awesome game! Finished it all the way to the end and it was great! Good load of medals too! :)

Very simple mini-RPG, with a pretty engaging central mechanic. The biggest problem I had was that the game would frequently register my taps as holds, and occasionally vise versa; this obviously makes actual strategy pretty difficult to pull off.
Also, there are plenty of situations where it's tricky to control which level of ability you use. The upgraded Spirit Strike is the worst offender—I usually want to follow it up with a physical attack, but that's basically impossible, and if I try to sneak in an attack I'll almost always end up healing myself instead. Spirit limits are almost as bad.

If the controls worked more consistently, there would still be problems. The big one is that the game is kinda grindy, which can easily get repetitive. This is exacerbated by the control issues (if I could be more confident I'd use Delay Strike or Smelting Aura when I needed it I wouldn't need such big numbers), but you can't reach the recommended levels for each area without grinding previous areas a bit. Grinding isn't always a bad thing, but in this game it mostly amounts to figuring out the sequence of skills that lets you kill a bunch of mildly challenging mobs as efficiently as possible and then waiting to input those skills. And early grinding gets drowned in the greater XP costs of later levels (and XP rewards on later monsters), so you need to re-grind in every new field.

It's a neat idea, but it feels a bit rough. Almost like it's a jam game or something...

awesome game