[Flying Dagger]

Originally Posted by Mahou

I'm aware of it by now, thank you . I know from Tsumashibori that only the female cast is voiced, though (the only alicesoft VN I played before)
It seemed just strange that some scenes were voiced and some scenes unvoiced like you started chapter 1 voiced, click afterwards to the next important event on the city map and suddenly no voices. It made me think some voice files were missing a first. In the long run it's more like alicesoft decided to voice in Pastel Chime 3 the most important story scenes, battle voices + the level-up events on the character intermissions.

Be it as is is, I'm done with the first playthrough of Pastel Chime 3.

Spoiler for General impression:

I had my fun with the VN because the character were quite likable, the OST was nice and the story rather standard-ish with a few meh-points. Thanks to the prologue you had a protagonist, who wasn't the standard deal in VNs. Seeing that the VN has one general storyline and ending, all semi-romance and "personal" character progression was done in intermissions, also for deciding the girl-of-choice. While the system works overall fine, alicesoft failed at the romance part during those intermissions. You had a confession, but in Mari's case it followed only with generic stuff to lead to the next h-scene. As such, you had the MC calling her by family name throughout all the intermissions with rare exceptions like after the h-scenes when they "cooled down", even though he accepted her confession with using the first name. Yes, all of it had no influence on the main story, but it left me a bit dumbfounded.

Violetta's fate was sad and I really hoped she wouldn't switch sides. She would have made maybe a nice "true route heroine" choice. But, that's just the true-route-fanboy speaking in me .

Most of the boss battles were easy enough, just two battles left me with two characters alive . Most used party: Eiji, Liliam, Mari, Emily, Aoi, Shirley.

Let's see what to play next. Maybe Happymare or or "light" stuff like Love-ressive, which doesn't seem story-focused based on the summary. After reading a short impression about Koi no Hanashi to on vndb, I will put it on hold. Hetare + donkan portagonist isn't really a good selling point, especially as I.D's other protagonist was also rather bland.

Spoiler for PC3:

Did you take down Ikusa within the turn limits? As it unlocked "hard mode" which leads to a slightly altered ending.

I end up benching Liliam a lot: most magic AoE worth using cannot be casted after moving. Even with 7 mov and +3 range on spells I still find her too troublesome to use. She ends up being a buff bot+healer.

Running 2x area tension buffs feels rather broken.