About This Game A darker fairy tale: this time, the setting is much darker than in previous games.GAME FEATURESWith over 35 CGs and pin-up images, one of the biggest Winter Wolves games yet!Play as the dark elf Amber in a dating/crafting simulation in a dark/gothic worldThree otome romances (Daniel, Bernard & Lair), one yuri romance (Ruby)And for the first time, two poly romances (Cosmina and Lynn)Shop builder minigame: build your own "magic shop"!Amber, a dark elf, was abandoned as baby in the woods south of Icesilia. She was found and raised by Vin, a witch, who decided she should become an alchemist. When Amber turned sixteen, Vin sent her to Icesilia as apprentice to the legendary mage Haros.In the big town of Icesilia, she'll train and once she reachs adult age, become a master alchemist running her own shop, and along the way also meet interesting characters who might become something more than just friends:Daniel, Haros' son, who wants to be a mage like his father but also trains in alchemy. In competition with Amber since young age, he'll need to be careful to not be consumed by his pride.Bernard, a brave young man who wants to become a famous adventurer. Paranoid and ill-tempered, he'll need to learn to control himself to avoid doing things he might regret.Lair, the son of the influent noble elf Arnor. Naïve but with good heart, suffers the bad influence of his arrogant father Arnor.Ruby, a seductive young woman who turned vampire just recently, struggling to not lose the humanity still left in her.Cosa and Anders, two mysterious silver-haired adventurers who will ask Amber's help, and might reveal themselves to be something more than they look.Lynn, a cute elf who runs the herbalist shop with her mother. A marriage with a noble has been arranged for her, but she's not sure if she really wants it.The game can be played as a dating sim and offers an optional crafting/simulation game. Each choice will change Amber's (and her friends/love interests) alignment: there's Dark and Light. But be careful: dark and light doesn't mean wrong or right. There are no right or wrong choices in this game, though some endings are more sad and cruel than others!The game features 4 different endings for each love interest, with some dark events/scenes never seen before in a Winterwolves' game. Play the game at your own risk! Unlock all the endings of a specific character to discover bonus pin-up images. 7aa9394dea Title: Amber's Magic ShopGenre: Adventure, SimulationDeveloper:Winter WolvesPublisher:Winter WolvesRelease Date: 8 Jun, 2017 Amber's Magic Shop Download Utorrent Windows 10 Hey, this is my first review of a game so it would not be perfect but I'll try. The Gameplay Amber's Magic Shop is first and foremost a crafting game with dating sim aspects. However, if you're more of a reader then you can skip the gameplay entirely and focus more on the storytelling. At first, I was confused by the crafting system but after some practice, I got used to it and enjoyed it. The crafting does get a little tedious over time but I still found it unique and enjoyable. As for the dating sim part, the choices for the romances you're pursuing are very different from a usual dating sim. The choices you make will affect your alignment with the romances instead of your relationships with them. I'll be elaborating more on the romances further down the review. The Storytelling The story here is about Amber, a dark elf, who is trying to be a master alchemist. Due to her race, she experiences discrimination from the other races. Despite that, she does meet open-minded and generally good people. There are 2 phases of her story: Young and Adult Phases. The Young Phase concentrates mostly on Amber's apprenticeship and her interactions with the new environment she is in and the people living there. The Adult Phase is generally about Amber managing her own shop and embarking on interesting quests. I find that showing the 2 phases of Amber's life to be unique and different from other visual novels. Although I feel the Adult Phase is kind of shorter than the Young Phase, I am overall satisfied with the storytelling. The Artwork I love the style of the art and the artworks for the endings really capture the feel of the story. The background artworks are also appropriate and easy on the eyes. I find the artworks for the ingredients to be rather cute and pretty to look at. The Soundtracks The soundtracks are excellent and fit with most of the storytelling of Amber's Magic Shop. I love the main menu theme because you can feel Amber is going to achieve many great feats as an alchemist. My only complaint is that during the crafting, there is no music. This does make the crafting rather dull to play so it will be great to have some interesting soundtracks while crafting. The Romances There are 6 romances: 3 otome, 1 yuri and 2 poly. As I mentioned above, you can make certain choices which make affect your alignment with the romances. There are 4 different alignments: Light+, Light, Dark and Dark+. Each alignment leads to different endings of the romances that you have pursued. Do note that some of the endings can be unexpected. The interaction between Amber and her pursued love interests are all different from the rest. I personally love 2 of the routes: Bernard and Cosmina. For Bernard, I love how Amber first met and interacted with him. As they interact more further down the storyline, I feel it is very obvious that they have grown to care for each other in their own ways. As for Cosmina, I like the way how the poly romance is handled and I love the storyline for this route the most. Overall, I like most of the endings but some of the endings are rather short and abrupt.All in all, Amber's Magic Shop is a rather interesting game and is, like every other games, not without flaws. I had fun playing this and I would recommend this to any crafting lovers and visual novel readers. If you're still not sure, you can always try the demo out.. Interesting world and story, but characters fall flat or outside my tastes. The store\/skill raising gets old kinda fast, and a good portion of the scenes feel disconnected and random. 5\/10 Maybe buy on sale but not one of my favorite WW games.. I loved this game, I found it delightful and interesting. As the synopsis suggests, you are Amber, and having grown up in the woods being raised by your adoptive mother, you\u2019re sent to the big city to become an apprentice alchemist. You spend the first portion of the game at this stage, where you get to know your new love-interests\/friends, and make decisions that shape how your personality develops (i.e. do you want a light or dark alignment, are you selfish or selfless, etc\u2026). Later you progress to the \u2018adult\u2019 stage (complete with a change of appearance for you and the other characters), having (hopefully) passed your exams you start your own business, a \u2018magic shop\u2019. It\u2019s slightly weird that none of this game seems to focus on actually RUNNING the titular magic shop. You gain \u2018jobs\u2019 elsewhere (and occasionally a customer will come in with a special order), craft the required objects and gain money\/xp\/loot\/reputation (depending on what reward you wanted). You can upgrade your shop to give yourself various bonuses, like more daily cash (never enough to do much with, but it\u2019s something), or allows crafting more advanced items. The \u2018alignment\u2019 system is a tad weird, sometimes the choices you make that gain you light or dark points don\u2019t really seem to fit (an important decision that nets you a whopping 5 light points requires you to publicly humiliate yourself for someone else\u2019s benefit, something he never really appreciates or apologises for). The crafting system I really enjoyed (though you can skip it entirely with the visual novel mode), even if the one ingredient I needed most was NEVER in stock\u2026 It was a nice change of pace, instead of a combat system, you gain xp by crafting. The main story is nicely engaging, and most of the love-interest specific stories are interesting too. I was delighted to see yuri and poly options for romance, the game also features a gay character and a trans character (yay!). Interestingly there is no jealousy mechanic, Amber just openly dates multiple people, periodically breaking up with them until she\u2019s only dating one. I like this, but it can lead to some weird moments such as the character who\u2019s arch largely revolves around him becoming paranoid and self-centred, seems perfectly fine with you dating other people at the same time (though will assume the worst if\/when you break up with him). The worst I can say is that some of the love-interest stories seem a bit shallow and could have done with more fleshing out. Essentially my key criticism of the game is I want MORE. More detail, more story, more places to visit and things to craft. More little side-stories. I of course understand there\u2019s only so much a developer can feasibly fit in a game, and honestly if the worst I can say about a game is \u2018It left me wanting more\u2019 then I dare say that makes it a pretty decent game. It took me about 30 hours to get ALL achievements and see everything, so I\u2019m happy it was money well spent. If you ONLY played it through on visual novel mode, you might feel otherwise, I don\u2019t know.. I loved this game, I found it delightful and interesting. As the synopsis suggests, you are Amber, and having grown up in the woods being raised by your adoptive mother, you\u2019re sent to the big city to become an apprentice alchemist. You spend the first portion of the game at this stage, where you get to know your new love-interests\/friends, and make decisions that shape how your personality develops (i.e. do you want a light or dark alignment, are you selfish or selfless, etc\u2026). Later you progress to the \u2018adult\u2019 stage (complete with a change of appearance for you and the other characters), having (hopefully) passed your exams you start your own business, a \u2018magic shop\u2019. It\u2019s slightly weird that none of this game seems to focus on actually RUNNING the titular magic shop. You gain \u2018jobs\u2019 elsewhere (and occasionally a customer will come in with a special order), craft the required objects and gain money\/xp\/loot\/reputation (depending on what reward you wanted). You can upgrade your shop to give yourself various bonuses, like more daily cash (never enough to do much with, but it\u2019s something), or allows crafting more advanced items. The \u2018alignment\u2019 system is a tad weird, sometimes the choices you make that gain you light or dark points don\u2019t really seem to fit (an important decision that nets you a whopping 5 light points requires you to publicly humiliate yourself for someone else\u2019s benefit, something he never really appreciates or apologises for). The crafting system I really enjoyed (though you can skip it entirely with the visual novel mode), even if the one ingredient I needed most was NEVER in stock\u2026 It was a nice change of pace, instead of a combat system, you gain xp by crafting. The main story is nicely engaging, and most of the love-interest specific stories are interesting too. I was delighted to see yuri and poly options for romance, the game also features a gay character and a trans character (yay!). Interestingly there is no jealousy mechanic, Amber just openly dates multiple people, periodically breaking up with them until she\u2019s only dating one. I like this, but it can lead to some weird moments such as the character who\u2019s arch largely revolves around him becoming paranoid and self-centred, seems perfectly fine with you dating other people at the same time (though will assume the worst if\/when you break up with him). The worst I can say is that some of the love-interest stories seem a bit shallow and could have done with more fleshing out. Essentially my key criticism of the game is I want MORE. More detail, more story, more places to visit and things to craft. More little side-stories. I of course understand there\u2019s only so much a developer can feasibly fit in a game, and honestly if the worst I can say about a game is \u2018It left me wanting more\u2019 then I dare say that makes it a pretty decent game. It took me about 30 hours to get ALL achievements and see everything, so I\u2019m happy it was money well spent. If you ONLY played it through on visual novel mode, you might feel otherwise, I don\u2019t know.. I can without a doubt say that this game is not worth buying. Not at it's current price, or any price. The game sells itself as a visual with an Alchemy crafting system, to help tell the story and to fill the space between the visual novel sections. However, what the game is in reality is 95% Alchemy and 5% visual novel. That's way to much filler if you ask me.But thats not the end of it. The Alchemy system is a barebones as it can be, with the player simply choosing a recipe, selecting what items to use and then crafting the item, only to then sell whatever item they have made for money. That's it. The only reason the 'Alchemy' mechanic is in the game is to serve as filler to make the game seem longer than it is. It's not fleshed out, or interesting. It's purely there to make the game seem longer so that the developers can justify a higher price.The visual novel side of things is also terrrible. The characters are bland. The interactions are lifeless. And the player made choices are so... bizare in how they affect the characters (Which they dont really do.) The game tries to sell the player an 'alignment' system to make the visual novel side of things more interesting. But again, similar to the Alchemy system, is purely there the pad out the game. It doesn't make the characters more interesting. It doesn't make the choices anymore meaningful. It is again, a mechanic that was only added to help justify a larger price tag. The developers care so little about this game that they didn't even add a proper ending. The game just... ends. No credits, no nothing. Not even an epilogue for the character you chose to romance. It's just a cash grab and you're not missing out on anything by avoiding it. In fact, you're better off if that's what you choose to do.. I can without a doubt say that this game is not worth buying. Not at it's current price, or any price. The game sells itself as a visual with an Alchemy crafting system, to help tell the story and to fill the space between the visual novel sections. However, what the game is in reality is 95% Alchemy and 5% visual novel. That's way to much filler if you ask me.But thats not the end of it. The Alchemy system is a barebones as it can be, with the player simply choosing a recipe, selecting what items to use and then crafting the item, only to then sell whatever item they have made for money. That's it. The only reason the 'Alchemy' mechanic is in the game is to serve as filler to make the game seem longer than it is. It's not fleshed out, or interesting. It's purely there to make the game seem longer so that the developers can justify a higher price.The visual novel side of things is also terrrible. The characters are bland. The interactions are lifeless. And the player made choices are so... bizare in how they affect the characters (Which they dont really do.) The game tries to sell the player an 'alignment' system to make the visual novel side of things more interesting. But again, similar to the Alchemy system, is purely there the pad out the game. It doesn't make the characters more interesting. It doesn't make the choices anymore meaningful. It is again, a mechanic that was only added to help justify a larger price tag. The developers care so little about this game that they didn't even add a proper ending. The game just... ends. No credits, no nothing. Not even an epilogue for the character you chose to romance. It's just a cash grab and you're not missing out on anything by avoiding it. In fact, you're better off if that's what you choose to do.
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Amber's Magic Shop Download Utorrent Windows 10
Updated: Mar 28, 2020
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