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This is a very good spectacle fighter that doesn't always play to its strengths. The combat is the real deal, with excellent controls, crisp inputs, and a solid amount of combos. It's hard to go wrong with the fighting. The levels are a bit boring, though, as they often don't have enough combat until later. Instead there's a fair amount of just decent platforming and a story that's better than it had to be but still not enough to remotely compete with the fighting. Sadly, there's only one weapon. After you beat the fifth level, the game mostly runs out of new stuff and sends you back through pieces of all five, plus has you fight the same bosses a second time. If you don't mind this, you'll likely consider this money well spent, as the game takes ten or eleven hours. There sadly doesn't seem to be a new game plus, as beating the game just lets you walk around your base and talk to people, but this bugged for me after I went in the dojo.

Great game with some minor issues, if you want to try a 10-12hr Anime ARPG with some of bullet hell mechanics then this is for you.

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+ Flashy fast paced combat which requires you to engage with enemy mechanics.
+ The boss fights are definitely deserving of the spectacle fighter tag.
+ Fun bosses and enemies that have varied attack patterns.
+ Dodges and parries feel great to do.
+ Decent amount of skills to vary your combos.
+ When the platforming segments are done well, it feels nice to zoom through.
+ The illustrated cutscenes are well done.
+ For the dialogue that are voiced, the voice actors performed well.
+ Decent cel-shaded anime designs and good environments.
+ The music and ambient sounds fit
+ Used Dualshock4 Controller, game detected it just fine and works great with the correct glyphs.

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- The story is nothing spectacular. While I thought it was okay, people who are not into anime plots will not like it.
- If you're playing strictly for the gameplay and don't care about the story, you'll be continually interrupted.
- When there's a lot of enemies with some that have barriers, it's more difficult to focus target them to break it.
- For the last 1/3 of the game you're doing the same bosses and levels with just a few new mechanics.
- The platforming can be a bit annoying to do at certain points.

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- FPS drops at certain parts, but not to the point of unplayable. Check your specs before buying. (I have a 2070 super/Ryzen 7 5800x/32GB Ram)
- Audio/Sound/BGM cutting off at random times, notably started occurring after the 2nd stage and then later.
- At 2 points of the game I glitched Homura to be invisible and a death or cutscene trigger fixed it.
- There are a few typos in the script, notably once during a serious moment and another at the post game letter in the temple.
- Pretty sure they'll fix it or did it already, but some of the Steam Achievements are bugged because I definitely did them like the parry ones.

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+ Hype Ass anime fight with vocal track during the final boss.

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I've waited for a long time since the reveal trailer for this game. As someone who likes weeb games and has a tolerance for some jank, this game was great and I really wish it either continues with DLC or a sequel because they have a great baseline for combat and it'd be a shame for it to end here. Homura Hime while having some jank/polish issues is still a great time, and I look forward to what the devs will do next.

p.s. This is my first review so sorry if it's bad.

I bought this game out of spite, why you may ask?

Trend-hopping low effort Survivors, Balatro and Ball X Spit-likes will gain 100x more while pure, unadulterated artistry such as this, obvious indie GOTY will not get as much as a mention at the Game Awards.

I will proceed to force gift this to a friend of mine who won't even play it, and make fun of me for it.

Fights are fun , gameplay is smooth , music is enjoyable, girls are cute.