WitchSpring3 Re:Fine – The Story of Eirudy –

I truly enjoyed this game for the characters and story that unfolded in an anime feeling manner. This is not a difficult game at all, and with no difficulty adjusting settings it was very easy to become an overpowered player just by exploring, fighting and crafting regularly. But that was the charm of it as well. I wasn't playing this game for a challenge, but to explore, collect, craft, and enjoy a cute and emotional story at my own pace. I would say this game accomplished exactly that perfectly!

It was pretty good. If you liked Witch Spring R, this has the same cozy but dark witch vibe. It's in the same world. This seems be more of a port of the mobile game than a full remake the way Witch Spring R is. It doesn't have the same amount of polish, QOL improvements etc. I thought it was easier. The story isn't bad, but I think Witch Spring R's story arch was much better.

Great game. I got into the series by first playing Witch Spring R. It was beautiful and is one of my most favourite games ever as I love the 3D art style and it has a great story with fun turn based combat. I do recommend everyone to first play that game and if they like it, to give this one a try next as this is meant to be a sequel story wise. This game had a fun and memorable story with decent turn based combat that can seem too easy if you maxed out your mag stats early on in the game like me but the story was beautiful and worth the play-through. The post game content does have challenging bosses for people who like a bit more challenge but as I was playing this game more for the story, I didn't mind the lower difficulty. Also, as others have already stated, it does feel a bit less glamorous than Witch Spring R as this was Kiwi Walk's first PC game but still very good for an indie studio that was only known for making mobile games. It's amazing to see how far they progressed with WitchSpring R.

witchspring 3 refine kind of sits in a weird spot. while coming out (way) before the remake of the first game, at its core this is an upgraded version of a mobile game. you can absolutely feel everything that made it a mobile game. yet as i said it exists in a world where the remake exists (and is quite good), which is a way more finely-tuned version of everything on offer here, from the systems to the controls to the presentation. this can kind of make this game feel a bit lesser. especially since the localization isn't very good.
if you played the remake first, this game will immediately be familiar to you in its systems. if you haven't, witchspring is a little weird because it doesn't work like a traditional rpg in terms of leveling - your rewards are direct stats. which is cool but also very funny because the game is tuned in such a way that it's very easy to outgrind the game. it coulf be an issue but i feel like it isn't, because if you are looking for a difficult RPG i can recommend you dozens of them, and this is not what the witchspring series is about.
so even all of that considered, is witchspring 3 still up your alley? well if you are considering it, it probably already is. there is still some jank present (controls sometimes are a bit finnicky and there's weird things like your character walking a bit forward after letting go, you cannot mash through dialogue, things are highlighted very much like a mobile game) but to me most of that is made up by the fact that the team behind these games loves doing it. and i find myself terribly endeared by the series and its characters to the point i am willing to overlook or work through the flaws.
if you aren't looking for the next massive rpg series that will blow up and are entirely fine with something restrained, especially at its lower price point, this will probably be up your alley. if you played the remake of 1 before this are considering this, you are in for a familiar experience - the training, the crafting, how the world functions... there is some clunkiness attached to it, but with a lot of the spirit that makes the series special.
i can only hope one day the other games in the series will at least be available on steam, if not get remakes on par with the first game. there's something a little special here and i like it a lot.

WS 3 Re:Fine fut une très bonne surprise après WS R qui était juste parfait.
On reçoit un coup de nostalgie dans la gueule au niveau du graphisme et du QoL mais on s'y habitue plutôt rapidement!
L'histoire était tout aussi intéressant. Des personnages attachants et des situations surprenantes.
Il y a 3 différentes routes dont 2 principales. True, Light et Dark paths. On est amené à faire des choix évenementiels et de dialogues pouvant nous amener à la "bonne" fin ou la "mauvaise".
Uhm... musicalement parlant très redondant mais pas dérangeant, quelques petits trucs à régler comme le fait de CLIQUER sur un ennemi et ca le déselectionne parce que la hitbox est trop petite ou pas assez répondante...
L'histoire est rapide mais j'ai "perdu" beaucoup de temps à grind à mort pour les quêtes secondaires, avoir tout les spells du jeu, toutes les dolls, les achievements, le 100% etc... n'oubliez pas de faire des saves séparés juste avant le point de non retour lors du chapitre 3/4. Suivez un guide si besoin pour les différentes routes.

Concept de poupées intéressant. On ne capture plus mais on infuse de l'énergie vitale dans des poupées pour les faire bouger et monter de niveau. Chacune donne des stats différents, des boosts ou autres. Inutile de grind un max pour le end game, c'est franchement simple et rapide.

Je n'attends qu'un port du 4 sur pc et peut etre des nouvelles du 5 et 6 annoncés en production mais sans dates... Très bientôt nous aurons le DLC de qq heures pour WS R donc j'ai très hâte. Voilà. Merci !

A fantastic story I love the 3 paths u can take, characters were nice nothing too grand doh the main couple was cute, gameplay was def better then witchspring R especially with mounts, no need to remount after every battle thank god, great ending and looking forward to the 4th game hopefuly it gets on steam, a lot of english translation errors and some sentences repeat themself. 7/10

To preface this I want to start that this was originally a mobile phone game, I say this because I typically have a dislike for them, usually they are gacha filled messes or basic puzzle games with a huge RNG shoved in so you buy stuff to help, so I was wary of it and yet a trusted friend told me it was a good game and I was very pleasantly surprised at a really solid game, with a curious story to it, it's not like absolutely amazing but to me if phone games were like that I would have certainly bought my fair share in the past dood.

Okay onto the full review, to start this story revolves around a nameless witch living alone in a misty forest name...the misty forest! Lol she has the ability to infuse lifeless puppets with life energy and make them move for her, all in an attempt to get one that can talk for her and so her adventure begins dood!

The game UI is pretty easy to use, so menu's are easy to traverse and combat options are easy enough to choose too, even on controller in fact, you have a list of choices most of which aren't available quite yet ranging from attack, magic, items and more as time goes on and the reward for combat? Sweet sweet EX-juuust kidding! Items! Yep no exp here in this game, combat in fact only gives you enemy drops, quite curious no dood?

So to go from the last paragraph, rather than your traditional levelling you have three things that will make combat easier, first off equipment, you get a weapon and one accessory slot to equip a variety of items to, both weapons and accessories have a variety of effects to them to make combat more interesting, secondly you have training! Now this is interesting, training let's you choose 4 of 8 training types, some of which after you hit a certain stat threshold will upgrade certain things, we'll talk about that soon and finally we have crafting! This will always be the best way to get stats, which is not to say training is useless, it all adds up, especially when your stats get higher but 1-3% based on what you choose isn't all that much until you get higher numbers, potions and items you create and find off of monster will give some fantastic straight up buffs and the sky is quite literally the limit in how far you can raise stats! That said training is limited amount only until you do so many actions or side quests dood.

So of course I mentioned crafting and stat thresholds upgrading stuff, upping your stats increases your ability to create more items, magic and even just straight up attack more (at the cost of health) in battle, you even get the ability to defend in this and I must say it's quite handy dood.

Puppets are interesting, you can summon up to three in battle and there are two types, rideable which let you mount them for various stat boosts along with faster movement in the field and then there are pure combat types, each of which have their own effects, spells or attack patterns, making for some interesting combat dood.

The game suffers for not having a NG+ I managed not to get the true ending, not that it feels all that clear how to get it and starting over is...I'm not 1000% against it but I am a heavy grinder XD doing it again wears my patience out lol but more than that, you unlock costumes, which is great!! If there were more to do post game or I could start again with it all, sadly no such luck so I'm done which is a darn shame, I'd love to see the true end and play the apparent extra content after it that you don't get in the "Good" ending dood

And that's it really, I'm sure a lot of players would easily be able to beat it a good 6 hours before me but that's still 20 hours of a decently fun game, it could certainly have used a few more things to craft but overall the monster designs were cool, the characters were likeable and I had a good time going through it and it's really nice soundtrack, I'm not gonna say spend the big bucks on this but if ya find it on a good offer? I think it deserves some love, thank you for reading and if you do buy this I hope you enjoy it dood! ^-^7