Oh, we went for a similar type of gameplay of VN with a bit of walking around. The lack of any sound needs to be remedied, but I'd say you are on the right track.

This is a short but sweet (pun intended) magical girl story. The ice cream based characters was a fun idea! The story and central conflict was good, if a bit fast. It's somewhat akin to a visual novel, since the gameplay is mostly talking to characters. I guess I did expect a little more for the ending, but it worked well enough.

I did encounter one bug that forced me to restart. After talking to Chocolate, I went and talked to Mark again, and got stuck. I could keep repeating the same dialogue with him, but the movement keys no longer responded. I avoided talking to him here on my second run.

Aha, I expected a full mini-game for the ending, but I suppose that works too!

The story is simple but clear. The dialogues flow well although the initial monologue is a bit long (but you can see how she’s explaining the situation, objectives and means to the player). The sprites do the job too (maybe the road toward the mountain wasn’t clear as there are trees blocking the road, but the dialogue showed clearly it was the way to go at the end).

There is some imbalance between time spent with Chocolate vs Strawberry so we don’t get to explore much of Strawberry.

The thing that surprised me the most is the sudden change of mind of the main character (and Strawberry, but that was to be expected since we were approaching the end), but I suppose there’s not much to do about this when the story is very short.

UX issues:

• as invadererik said, it would be nice if the dialogue was skippable. The long dialogue with Chocolate is repeated if you talk to her again, so it was very tedious to go through. It’s weird that Vanilla would apologize twice, so she should have a new line like “I’m in, just seek Strawberry” when you talk to her again. This was the only big issue I had.

Sprite issues:

• character sprite appears below Strawberry’s house roof (layer issue)

Bugs:

• I could enter Strawberry’s house the first time, but when leaving I triggered a dialogue saying she’s absent…

Great work!

I like the character interaction with each other and want to know more about their backgrounds and stories.

The characters were all super unique and so creatively written! The writing/character design were very clever and I can tell a lot of effort was put into this project. Great work!

We thought the idea of ice cream themed Magical girls was neat!

The character design allowed the player to easily identify the girls and recall their names - connecting narrative/visual elements to something already known is a clever move for that. And we much prefer seeing new takes on it as opposed to the more classical fire, water, wind, etc setup.

We would have loved to know more about their individual ice cream powers!