I watched this on Waldorf's stream last night, and it looked super good so I had to try it myself! First of all, gorgeous arts, I looove the character designs of the secretaries and Lake (I feel like the secretaries you get are random? Since I didn't get Pillows, I got Bucket List instead lol) the soft colors were very pleasant to the eyes. Also, I heard you made all the arts and music yourself, so mad respect for that! The music had a chill atmospheric tone to them. The maps looked super good too! <3
I have a few nitpicks! It’d be nice to have state tooltips, I think there’s a plugin for hovering over state icons in battle, which would help since there are a lot of states here. Also noticed a bug where some skills don’t show damage numbers on enemies. That beautiful forest map could use some background sounds too, like rustling trees, birds, or waterfall sounds. Lastly, those charset sprites are super pretty, but a bit tiny. You could try scaling them x2 in Photoshop using “nearest neighbor” to keep the pixels crisp (I think Time Fantasy did this too). xD
Overall, the game has a lot of beautiful aesthetics that inspired me in a lot of ways artistically. You really captured that very well in the visuals, especially with the environments. The gameplay was a simple turn-based battle and I can see the implementation of elemental states, and they do have a potential to become deeper. With more polishing in the gameplay, this game would be golden. Great job on this entry, Mutation! <3