A nice short sci-fi story introducing a scientist cum magician working on a time traveling project. The mystery behind the idea isn't fully revealed in this version but I can expect a good story out of this if there is continued development. The original character art and choice of personality fits perfectly with the idea of the story.
Magical Girl Concept: The main protagonist, Nulla is a Magical Girl that is able to manipulate time. However her character design could have looked the part of a magical girl with fancier clothes design rather than the plain turtle neck. Since her companions Primus and Tertia dresses a lot like characters in a sci-fi fantasy setting, the main protag design should be emphasizes and be able to out shine the side characters design. (Spoiler Alert! Start) The concept of Magical girl is fully utilized as it is mention in dialog that she used her time reversal magic to clean up the mess made by the two side characters (Spoiler Alert! End).
Mechanics: The game does not have any additional mechanics besides the stock Ren'py mechanics.
Visual: I really like the character design and color choice used in the game as it matches well with the genre as well as with the modern science/magic society. The process applied to the stock photography was done really well and gives it that nice visual novel feel to it. Locations of each background selected is relevant with where the story took place. The subtle facial expressions and animation added a ton of quality to the visual aspect of the game. A lot of consideration has been put into making the character feel alive with the animations and it clearly does bring out the liveliness of each character.
UI: The title screen and menus are superbly design with its own color scheme which immediately rings a sci-fi genre. It also has its own layout and there were additional dialog box UI used in the game. The main dialog box served its purpose at displaying the text with good clarity and color. It was pleasing to read each and every word in the game.
Audio: The music tracks used is composed really well and they match with the background scene or situation taking place in the game. The music loops really smoothly without issues. One thing I would note is that the audio volume could have been adjusted a little better for the living room track since it was louder compared to the two other scenes. Besides that, the single sound effect that was used in the game gave a good impression of what is happening with its impact and intensity.
Theme: The game does feel like it utilizes the Magical Girl theme and as I pointed out the main character could have been dressed a lot like one. The side themes picked are Spacetime Curvature/Time Dilation/Length Contraction/Relativity. I think time is the main focus among all the themes stated since the story is relevant with time travel. (Spoiler Alert! Start) The story kind of got cut short before any actual time traveling happened but the story build up at the start is pointing towards a decent time travel plot with magic involved (Spoiler Alert! End).
Challenge / Engagement: The game did not present any challenge. As for engagement, the story by far is very engaging, tickling my imagination of what Nulla is up to with the science experiments and the quirky dialogs between Primus and Tertia gave it a good boost to the comedic value of the story.(Spoiler Alert! Start) Introducing Secunda added an air of mystery about the current outlook of the current science magic society of the story world before the game cuts to an abrupt end(Spoiler Alert! End). I think there are many directions this story can go and I hope there is focus on the use of magic on science experiments as mentioned in the early dialogs logs.
Originality / Creativity: The story is original since its about a group/team of scientist/magic users conducting time travel experiments in a modern/future society where magic and science coexist. The story is well written with creative means of revealing each piece of information about Nulla's work and the interaction between side characters.
Story: The story has a good amount of mix between a sci-fi and magic fantasy and is integrated naturally in the entire story. The dialogs were written really well with good amounts of science terms used and it was flawless with no typos or grammatical errors. I would say the story is at a good start and more can be done to make the story compelling depending on how it would be directed. Currently, it feels more of a mystery since only a few clues have been revealed about the setting of the game and what entails further has been subtly highlighted in Nulla's logs at the start.
Overall: The game has a good solid start with the initial introductory story. Its currently short but enough to get the imagination juices flowing. I would love a good time travel story especially one where characters are involved in studying the effects of time travel. It might be a difficult undertaking since, the concept is pretty much open to interpretation especially on the understanding of time traveling and its paradoxes.