Friday, May 9, 2025

Witch Spring 2

  • Genre: RPG
  • Spoiler Free Review: Pretty much.
  • Time Played: 23 Hours, I probably wasted a good bit of time though.
  • Too Short/Long: Taking into account I was wasting time forgetting some aspects of progression between gaps in play, I think overall it was just about right in playtime. Probably closed to 15 for a less completionist and consistent playthough.
  • Soundtrack: It's fine, it's more or less just little melodies you expect for a casual mobile rpg, most of the time the volume was off though.
  • Why I played: Witch Spring is becoming one of my favorite series, both Witch Spring 3 and Witch Spring R were among my favorites in recent years.
  • Did I cry: It definitely choked me up a few times here and there.
  • Jank: Witch Spring 2 can be pretty janky. Little bugs that occur here and there, control freezing, models left on screen during cutscenes that shouldn't be there, etc. It's all relatively minor, but I did have to force close the game several times. At least it boots up pretty quickly and auto-saves every time you do pretty much anything.
  • Difficulty: It is not difficult, not really at all. There are a couple optional bosses that require a little more grinding than others, but you can easily over power most things with enough effort.
  • Recommend to others: I like it but I would definitely recommend Witch Spring R over it. It's kind of a story repeat from a different perspective, and far more archaic. It might be an improvement over the original version of the first Witch Spring, but R is leagues ahead of it in every aspect. I just wanted to play as Luna.
I went a bit out of my way to play Witch Spring 2. It's a mobile game, but it doesn't work on my current phone, but I have an older phone it does work on. That phone felt "on it's last leg" when I last upgraded, but after factory resetting it and removing all the apps that run in the background, it functions well enough to play a game. Witch Spring 2, despite being a mobile game, is more like mobile games of old. Before monetization and service games. It's just like a 5 dollar game you buy and play. No different from most indie titles for other platforms. I know some of these kinds of titles aren't unheard of on mobile platforms, but usually when you say "mobile game", it's not what immediately comes to mind.

It's more of the same though. You go around collect pets, friends, and materials for making new spells and weapons. 3, and R are both improvements upon this one, but I've come to enjoy the series so much I went out of my way for it. Those two are the only ones available on PC/console. I haven't seen any word of 4 leaving mobile, so I may just have to play that on my old phone as well if I am motivated to do so.

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