Scarlet Weather Rhapsody. Hmm, how should I say this. It feels like a work-in-progress. The game’s fun, it feels somewhat tuned, and it has a decent cast of 15 characters. I think we’ll all be following SWR and it’ll mature over the next few months to year or so.

The weather system feels tacked-on and silly. It’s an okay concept, but Tasofro executed it incorrectly. Tournament play with the weather system, combined with variable spell cards, is going to be ridiculously dumb. I hope it gets fixed up.

Iku Nagae (one of the two new boss characters, a Kanako/Remilia ripoff) feels like a SF character and doesn’t fit in the game. I still think the cast is lacking some staples like Mokou, Flandre, Kanako, and a bunch of others. I was hoping for a 30-something size MvC-style cast.

The game could still use some balancing, though I haven’t really gotten a feel for all the characters yet. Reisen’s entertaining with her eye lasers of doom and the other new boss character, Tenshi Hinanai, seems like Tasofro put some good work into her. Too bad Iku is uninspired.

I really do like some of the new remixed music like Aya’s theme. Really nice stuff here.