Slight disclaimer that I have yet to play ADW so these are my thoughts on the experience going in blind! From my understanding this is a bit of a streamlined experience compared to ADW? I'm not sure how heavily it's recommended to play the ADW first, but I didn't have any trouble understanding anything and I really enjoyed it a LOT as a standalone experience!
I'm the kind of player to make a bee-line for/singularly focus on the character I'm interested in, so in my playthrough I think I managed to completely avoid playing toxic boyfriend simulator as Jeth was lovely LOL (at least for now-- I'm sure those dreams don't mean ANYTHING forboding at all! )
The battle mechanics were a lot of fun! I love seeing renpy being used for more advanced things and a whole dice battle system is really inspiring!
It took me a little while to understand the power of mono-colored teams and I was trying to play an overly complicated game of matching each unit in my team to their optimal counterpart which in some cases wasn't possible/contradicted other units (eg. (a certain) air rouge fighting against a team with an earth priest, but also a fire knight didn't always go so well) but the option to fail and try again gave me the room to experiment so it wasn't too stressful.
Highly recommended! I'll be waiting excitedly for the next update! And in the meantime I'll be making sure to play ADW and the other routes of VH! <333
