To be honest, it’s actually good! I would like to put it out there that the loading screen is amazing, the trailer was sick and I really liked it. It was so action packed, however, do not be fooled as the entire vibe of the game changes once you play it. It doesn’t necessarily give the same eerie vibes of Madoka Magica, it gives more of a “slice of life” and “adventure” tale, similar to the Elaina the Wandering Witch or Maquia but without Maquia’s child. The story telling felt a bit rushed, it was 90% tutorial, 10% actual storytelling, but this was only about 30 minutes into the game. It gets better, I guess? Maybe? But it gets less progressive between here and there. My biggest issue has to be the animations though. I get that it IS hard to make smooth 3D animations, but I think they’re just a “little” choppy. Since the team isn’t too experienced within 3D animations, however, then I’d say that it’s pretty well done. Would’ve preferred if they had better animators, or at least had more experience to smoothen out everything. The VFX that comes along with the animation too… that’s just all over the place. There are some character ultimates that are solid; the characters have smooth-ish animations and the VFX is timed perfectly well. However, within the batch come some that are very… hard to watch. Yachiyo is a prime example of this “hard to watch” batch. The beginning gives a lot of promise, but then the follow-up upwards becomes choppy and messy, and following the entire ult… it ends with a mess. The VFX are everywhere, the final explosion is timed too early or misplaced, and the VFX look like preset blender “wind explosion” effects. Would’ve given it 5* if not for the batch though. Hoping this game sooner or later evolves out of the 2016-ish quality and grows though. Looking forward to what’s to come.

I downloaded Magica Exedra with high hopes, but I can’t even get past the title screen due to a persistent “network error.” No matter what I try—switching Wi-Fi, using mobile data, reinstalling the app—it won’t connect. After doing some research, I realized this isn’t just a random bug. Players from Puerto Rico, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and several other Latin American countries are all reporting the same problem. The game installs just fine, but once opened, it becomes completely unplayable due to region-based server restrictions.What makes this even more frustrating is that I’m in Puerto Rico, which is part of the United States. The game is available for download in both the U.S. App Store and Google Play here, so it’s confusing and misleading that it shows up as available but won’t actually work. If the game isn’t supported in a region, it shouldn’t be listed as accessible—or at the very least, the developers should provide a clear explanation or notice.I’m genuinely a huge fan of Madoka Magica, and I was really excited for this release. This is the only active Madoka Magica game that’s officially available, and it genuinely interested me. So it’s extremely disappointing to finally see a global release, only to be completely locked out without any communication or support. I hope this issue gets fixed, or at least addressed, because fans from places like Puerto Rico deserve to enjoy the game just like everyone else.

I absolutely love madoka magica and have for over a decade now, and magia record used to be one of my favorite games. After playing other similar games over the years and this game releasing, i have definitely noticed an issue with this game specifically that was also in magia record. The three star characters and monetization. The three stars are completely useless and do not even have ultimate abilities, hindering you in combat. The drop rates for the 5 star characters you actually want are WAYYY too low. .075% to get what I actually want? Lets break this down real quick. $17 is 3,000 gems, so about 10 pulls. Just to possibly get one character you want, you are looking at spending $170-$250 to “get lucky” and hope you get what you are wanting. I actually spend way too much money on microtransactions in videogames and usually can defend most microtransactions but this is incredibly aggressive and ridiculous. Oh, and dont forget you actually are supposed to collect each character 5 times to “ascend” them so they are stronger. So really like, $1,200 for a maxed out character in this game? Just your rent payment lol. Not to mention that the characters are only in shop until April 9th? Then the boosted rates to get them are just gone for good? Horrible monetization and again this is coming from someone who has probably spent $500 on overwatch skins over the years and already like $200+ on tcg pocket. I cant validate this though at all. Way too expensive and not rewarding whatsoever. And i LOVE madoka magica. But you guys lost me here.

This ain’t it. I was really hoping for some more crazy stories about magical girls, but this barely has anything. I played for about 15 hours straight on the day of release, and I’m maybe two thirds of the way through the first major arc, which is 95% just a recap of the anime. There’s a tangential story about a blank player character who’s lost their memories, but it’s barely gone anywhere. It could be going somewhere interesting, but I hate slogging through a massive mire of content. It might as well just not be there. Also, the gacha is absurdly stingy. I mentioned 15 hours of grinding. In that period of time, I got enough currency for 50 pulls. I don’t know how much total main story content is available right now, but I’m guessing that I’ve gotten through about half of it. I’m also at the point where progression is pretty much a wall. There’s a weekly consecutive login reward, and the total it gives you is 250 gems. One pull is 300 gems. For a point of reference, FGO, a game that is slightly on the stingy side of things, gives you two pulls a week, more than twice as much. The pity system also doesn’t cross over between banners, which is less than ideal but not exactly uncommon. Worst of all, some of the pull currencies you can get have an expiration date. That part is insane, and I feel like it’s indicative of the attitude of the entire game. Stick around and grind or else. Well, I’m not convinced there’s anything here worth grinding for. If there is, I haven’t seen it.