The Witch's Yarn

[b]- Endora: Samantha, I will not stand here and be insulted by something which is 94 percent water. - Darrin Stephens: Oh, yeah! Well, what about something which is a hundred percent hot air? Bewitched (1964 - 1972)[/b] Well... This is the first of Mousechief's games that I've tried, and... I am bored out of my wits. First and foremost, the game doesn't deliver anything it says in the store description: no, it is not a delightful reading - the narrative is boorish and the humor is forced; it has nothing to do with any kind of theatre experience aside the usage of the word "cue", and as a game that claims to be a hybrid between a P&C adventure and a visual novel, it fails at both genres! Okay, let's begin with the story. Here we have a middle-aged witch who has foresworn magic to live happily with her chosen mortal. She gets married, has three kids and lives happily ever after until she loses her husband to cancer. Wednesday is now alone and apparently on a full-blown midlife crisis...

I wanted to like this game because it had such an interesting concept, but unfortunately. . . I thought it would be something akin to a visual novel, and it sort of is. The major flaw is that the story is just not that engaging--you're a witch opening a yarn store. Okay, so it says that in the game info, but I expected lots of humor, absurdity, etc. given the concept. Those aspects do not exist, and what story there is is very dry. The game is set up to play like you are creating a movie, but you're really not. Instead, as the other reviewer mentioned, you are just tediously clicking little icons of each character at the top of the screen. Then you wait for them to pop in at odd places in your yarn store, a cartoon-like bubble of their speech pops up, you read it, and then repeat. Over and over again. In the screen shots, it looks like you get different settings, but I never made it out of the yarn store before uninstalling.

Poorly written. Really wish I'd read the reviews prior. I don't mind visual novel games, rally, but this one just made no sense. People don't talk like this or act this way, so why am I being asked to believe they do? Don't bother with this one, true waste of money.

I was expecting something wholly different than what I got. So, I exited stage left and uninstalled it.

This game has a cool idea, but it's too slow and it's a bit hard to keep interested in it. Very story based, gameplay is almost non-existent , I know it's a visual novel- like game but even so I struggled to read all the dialogue. You basically gotta keep clicking on the options on your screen until you pick the right one and the story progresses. The repetitive song nearly drove me mad. Cool idea, but falls flat.