Trigger Witch DEMO (Xbox One) Review

This demo was a pleasant surprise and got me to buy the full game right after playing it. The story follows a young woman named Colette, who is about to graduate from “The Stock”, an academy for witchcraft and triggery. She lives in a world where magic has been around along time and has been mostly forgotten in the modern age, seemingly due to a new rift that appeared in the forest, giving magic guns to whomever it deems worthy. The demo will take you through the introductory story where you get to explore your house and hometown, meet several characters and then go on to your big graduation trial which serves as the game’s tutorial before the demo ends. The graphics and music are lovely with lots of detail and the characters are all likable. The game has a set of difficulty options you can choose form, but it also has the neat feature of letting you adjust individual parts of the difficulty to fine tune it(though the parts are only represented by images, which left me just having to guess at what they represented). Once you get into combat of the tutorial mode it flows quite smoothly. I started getting back into the mindset of playing Hotline Miami due to the top-down shoot em up game-play, although Trigger Witch is definitely a more merciful game as it allows you to take multiple hits and also heal during combat (as long as you have enough health energy in stock from defeating enemies). As you progress through the training area, you’ll also learn how to solve puzzles and use some of the still-known magic spells, such as your dash spell which lets you move quickly and dodge threats. All-together, this makes for a nice mix of adventure gameplay and challenging shooter action all wrapped up in a interesting game world.

So in short:

Female protagonist that isn’t just another walking boob-factory?

Positive, heroic representation of Witches?

Cute Zelda-style graphics and music?

Badass magic guns?

Customizable difficulty settings to make the game super accessible?

AND you can pet dogs?

Hell yeah, I recommend trying the demo, and if the full game is just as good, that too!

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