UK digital release played on a PlayStation Vita OLED model.
For a visual novel to be a viable and engaging game to me, it has to both have an interesting story and a decent amount of interactive content. My Aunt Is A Witch unfortunately has neither of those, with up to a whole hour's worth of non-interactive dialogue at a time between what can range between one to ten minutes' worth of gameplay, and that dialogue being largely stale and unengaging, driving a plot that I just gave up on trying to follow fairly early in.
It's a shame, because someone very clearly wanted to make this game with an involved narrative, a fairly solid art style and imaginative puzzle sections. But the uninteresting dialogue between characters combined with the graphical glitches of backgrounds and character art disappearing between scenes if you play too long and the game just completely crashing when you want to save that the Vita release adds to the mix, I did not enjoy my time with this game whatsoever.
For a visual novel to be a viable and engaging game to me, it has to both have an interesting story and a decent amount of interactive content. My Aunt Is A Witch unfortunately has neither of those, with up to a whole hour's worth of non-interactive dialogue at a time between what can range between one to ten minutes' worth of gameplay, and that dialogue being largely stale and unengaging, driving a plot that I just gave up on trying to follow fairly early in.
It's a shame, because someone very clearly wanted to make this game with an involved narrative, a fairly solid art style and imaginative puzzle sections. But the uninteresting dialogue between characters combined with the graphical glitches of backgrounds and character art disappearing between scenes if you play too long and the game just completely crashing when you want to save that the Vita release adds to the mix, I did not enjoy my time with this game whatsoever.