Code provided, with many thanks to Popagenda PR.
Mirage Miracle Quest is a cute, magical-girl (well, “magicat-girl”) narrative turn-based strategy game.
As a young feline exorcist, Mirage is sent on a journey to figure out the origin of an evil creature attacking her village. Along the way, she’ll learn that maybe, just maybe, her family, her legacy, have more to do with the attack than what she initially thought. As Mirage, you’re here to save the world, one swift wand at a time.
The look and feel of Mirage Miracle Quest
Mirage Miracle Quest starts with a cinematic setting. A young Mirage is visiting what seems to be a temple or museum of some sort, with a grandmother sharing with her the story of their world and the place of their bloodline in it. After that, we jump to the present. The developers advised playing with a controller to enjoy all the game’s capabilities.
Once back into the present, you find yourself in an adorable little town, with a lot of houses, stores and inhabitants to talk to.
Sometimes, some of them will give you side quests to conquer. Whether you’re following the main story or taking on side quests, you’ll get a chance to test your fighting skills.
Here, each time a fight starts, you will have to pick a card and choose whether to attack, defend or heal yourself.
Between battles, you can change your wand (which offers different combat characteristics), the special card that you must always keep in your deck, … You can also upgrade all of your equipment.
All of it is pretty intuitive to use, but you also get temporary tooltips and descriptive panels to guide you.
The Pros of Mirage Miracle Quest
First of all, I bet you’ll feel the same way. Mirage Miracle Quest’s art style is enticing. It’s colorful, round, retro and simply pleasant to look at.
I loved that there was always something to find if we took the time to search every corner. The magical girl element of it all is obviously just there to steal my heart! The characters have very specific personality traits. I’m actually intrigued to discover more about the characters that are clearly either hostile or dismissive towards Mirage.
The combat is interesting and easy to follow. The fact that the option to “escape” is available during some fights is great. I didn’t get the full extent of the customization of the combat equipment, but the few bits that I’ve experienced suggest to me that it could be a strong component of this gaming experience.
In the settings, you have the ability to adjust the volume of music, sound effects, ambient noise, but also the brightness (a feature I deeply appreciate), the resolution and the screen mode (windowed or full screen). It’s important to add that there is also a feature that allows you to customize the text’s speed (there are 3 different speeds available).
The Cons of Mirage Miracle Quest
Cons? That it was too short? No, more seriously. I wish that the mapping system were a bit more precise. It works fine in the first village, but I’m not certain that I could travel around that easily if the available areas grew larger. I also wish that the side quests log in the journal would be a bit clearer about what’s expected.
That’s about it for me.
Final Thoughts
I really enjoyed Mirage Miracle Quest‘s first chapter, and I bet the full game will be even better. To all the newbies to the turn-based type of game, like myself, this game seems to truly be a good entry level.
The narration, the colorful and magical girl type of aesthetics, the fleshed out characters, … Mirage Miracle Quest is definitely on my radar, and I’m the first one surprised about how much I enjoy it.
Congratulations to the small, independent French team who are bringing it to life. Go ahead and try it for yourself. Don’t hesitate to come back and tell me what you think of it!
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