Puella Magi Madoka Magica Portable is a Japanese roguelike role-playing game with visual novel elements. It is based on the Puella Magi Madoka Magica anime franchise. The game allows players to take many routes, changing the fate of the original storyline.
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it just makes me sad that the madoka dungeon crawler is such a terribly designed pile. the universe of that show is so ripe for psychological surrealism fuckery, and honestly some of the monsters and biomes in this game are pretty great but christ is it unfun to play. it's like one of the only dungeon crawlers i had to drop out of frustration.
the game itself is episodic, with 6 routes that you unlock as you go. within each route is essentially a mini VN where you can choose to visit different locations on the maps with the characters 4 times a day. usually the routes take the span of an entire month, which makes for a ton of VN-like interchange. the choices you make talking to the girls (as kyubey) will effect their karmic and emotional values which will affect the dungeon crawling portions of the route as well as potential endings.
at the end of the route you will always go to the same place, warupurugi's night, and try to fight the ultimate witch. whether you win or lose there, you can then carry over any of the accumulated spell books and emotional energy (scales damage, but makes you more prone to turning into a witch) into future runs or another route.
but herein lies the problem, the game is fucking hard. that, and you're going to need to be running these routes many many times if you want to get enough spellbooks and energy to scale your party members to actually slay warupurugi night. but not even that, if you don't grind enough you might just get filtered in the second or third route even.
it just simply isn't worth the grind, as much as i impressed with the amount of voice work story-building put into this game. i really should have just played this game on emulator so i could un-throttle my way through all the animations and text spamming because it just wasn't fast enough.
the game itself is episodic, with 6 routes that you unlock as you go. within each route is essentially a mini VN where you can choose to visit different locations on the maps with the characters 4 times a day. usually the routes take the span of an entire month, which makes for a ton of VN-like interchange. the choices you make talking to the girls (as kyubey) will effect their karmic and emotional values which will affect the dungeon crawling portions of the route as well as potential endings.
at the end of the route you will always go to the same place, warupurugi's night, and try to fight the ultimate witch. whether you win or lose there, you can then carry over any of the accumulated spell books and emotional energy (scales damage, but makes you more prone to turning into a witch) into future runs or another route.
but herein lies the problem, the game is fucking hard. that, and you're going to need to be running these routes many many times if you want to get enough spellbooks and energy to scale your party members to actually slay warupurugi night. but not even that, if you don't grind enough you might just get filtered in the second or third route even.
it just simply isn't worth the grind, as much as i impressed with the amount of voice work story-building put into this game. i really should have just played this game on emulator so i could un-throttle my way through all the animations and text spamming because it just wasn't fast enough.