There are plenty of things I really like about this game: the art and character design is adorable, it's fun to talk to and text all the different characters, the side quests are very charming, the setting is interesting and intriguing, and the writing in general is pretty solid.
But oh my god the match-3 combat is atrocious. It saps all the fun out of the game. It's not fun to do and there's kind of a lot of it, considering how short the game is. You get caught up on enemies, trying to move sigils around fizzles way too often, if you're too close to the end of a tile is the same as not being on the tile at all, it occasionally won't use all the sigils in a combo for no discernible reason. It's extremely frustrating to deal with. Luckily, there is an option in the menu to turn on invincibility; despite how much I love the other parts of the game I nearly quit playing over how un-fun the combat is.
But oh my god the match-3 combat is atrocious. It saps all the fun out of the game. It's not fun to do and there's kind of a lot of it, considering how short the game is. You get caught up on enemies, trying to move sigils around fizzles way too often, if you're too close to the end of a tile is the same as not being on the tile at all, it occasionally won't use all the sigils in a combo for no discernible reason. It's extremely frustrating to deal with. Luckily, there is an option in the menu to turn on invincibility; despite how much I love the other parts of the game I nearly quit playing over how un-fun the combat is.