Aside the weird voice acting, but the scoring system, multiplayer, and the Shooting them up goodness make up for it.
The Plot on Story
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Well aside from the funny voice acting, like someone saying 'Ausome', the hunt against Amalgam and search for the Draupnir shards for something desirable seems interesting. So I'm pretty solid with this so far, and the Irish bird is epic IMO.
The Design and Sound
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It looks lovely and pretty colorful, and I love the little guys that shoot at you with their faces. And the 3-Dimensional background also gives me a good feeling about each stage. And the characters look all pretty, so you have plenty to choose if you happen to stumble upon one you don't like, which seems pretty unlikely. I especially like Bella though, she's like a combination of these two characters from another game I like, but I won't go into that here. And the music is also pretty to hear, kind of fits in with the colorful surroundings, no? But the voice acting for the English sounds a bit weird, kind of funny, and gives a happy feeling in-game, and I kind of like it.
The Multiplayer
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The Multiplayer isn't all that bad, pretty much the same as Single, but almost twice the firepower, protection, and fun. It's like testing out some combinations of teamwork and competition. And the lobbies seem also a little fun to look at, telling what you want in your match, and what-not. Although it can be a small pain sometimes, like for instance, someone having you kicked out of the Pumpkin Girl Shop at the start of the Stage, making it stressful, having to conserve your current Spell Cards.
The Gameplay
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Finally to the best part of the review, the Gameplay is pretty good, and really enjoyable if you like Scrolling Shooters especially. The coin system of letting go of the trigger to have them come to you seems like a very good idea, especially if you're the type to try to get as much points as possible. The Spell Cards, are really useful tool in this game, they can protect you in a pinch, do serious damage, rack up a lot of points, and lots of other interesting things, as well be good in certain situations, like Roll being a complete barrier while being an offensive weapon. The MP Barrier thingy is also a really fun tool in this game. It can slow down those pesky attacks for a narrow passage, or it can be used for racking up more points, which it is mainly used for, all within a little time using up your MP, which can be increased by the Pumpkin Girl Shop, which is really useful, seeing how your MP regenerates to full when visiting the Shop, but gets more expensive with each more you buy with the coins you get. Well, the Boss Challenge Mode is a really fun mode if you're looking for Boss Practice, as well as trying to go high on the leaderboard, with them getting stronger everytime you encounter them another time. And the best part, the shooting them up part, with different characters their with different shooting styles for your playing style, like I, who play as Sakurako, with a decent spread and power, being the highest overall character in terms of stats, besides the downloadable Luca, who is really up their on stats. But back to the shooting them up part, it is really easy fun to blast all the enemies back to smithereans, or however it's spelled, and the Bosses' attacks are really eyecatching. The attacks flying at you aren't too hard to dodge, as for me, I'm kind of used to the complex patterned barrages, so this was easy, but even it is too hard for the people with not so good hand-eye coordination, the game has infinite continues, so it can be played by practically anyone, with almost no fail of not completing any mode beside the Boss Challenge Mode, but the only problem is that if you can't beat Single Player mode without using Continues, you can't play that oh so interesting Heart Pounding Mode.
Well all-in-all, it is very fun to play, and is worth the $10 worth of Microsoft Points if you like the whole scrolling shoot em' ups, and the all-girl cast (besides Malcom) should also be an interest to lots of people if they are into that kind of stuff. Well, I'm not that good in summarizing in the whole review thing, but the above statements should be good enough. So yea, that's all I got.