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Song Of Witches

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The Song Of Witches

Stella Glow employs two visually distinct art styles for its character depictions. During the visual-novelesque story sections, each character enjoys a, though sparsely animated, detailed and expressive anime-style drawing. With Hilda and Dorothy's visuals immediately endearing themselves to me. Hilda with her modernized take on the classic witch in a pointy black hat and cape and Dorothy with her personality-revealing repurposed rabbit costume betraying her psychotic sensibilities. However, during the actual tactical skirmishes themselves, Imageepoch presents proceedings with chibified versions, cutesy models with disproportionately large heads, of the aforementioned character designs. While I suspect the chibi art style isn't as catch-all as the well-executed anime-styled one of the story sections, I feel Imageepoch has done a fine with job with the character design overall - although I tend to enjoy chibified designs of established characters. Each attack is accompanied by its own little movie detailing it in all its luster, and while certainly a cool feature initially, it didn't take long …show more content…

As has become the norm for RPGs on portable systems, story-essential exchanges are fully voiced by an excellent, and for Atlus fans easily reconigzable, cast consisting of, among others, Matthew Mercher (of Persona and Xenoblade Chronicles X fame) as Klaus, and Patrick Seitz (Mortal Kombat's Scorpion) as Archibald. The performances are of a high-quality across the board, with the aforementioned scene-stealing cast of villains being allowed to shine. In addition to the voice acting, Imageepoch calls upon a variety of sound effects in order to aid in immersion, to, more or less, great effect. You can, for example, expect the loud, distinctive, and almost unnaturally clear sound of a door opening and closing, followed by hasty footsteps in order to signal a new character joining the

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