Speaking in detail, the NPC´s reaction in pink town for when the pink colour came back was excellent. Because they were not one-sidedly happy about it. They actually wondered if it was for the best... and though about getting usued to it again after a long time. That is very realistic. Because in real life there are, often, not a good choice and a bad choice. Just different choices. After all, pink colour back also involved saying goodbye to the pink shard guardian, who hence died or became a spirit. So here we have quite a reality setting. I offer my praises.

Yellow town was okay too. Even Blue-Green town offered some sort of that feeling (when bunny says "you did this to yourself") and shut ups afterward. And when there´s no solution for green and blue´s shard spirits.

But the thing is, the reality (different choices) becames trivialized after passing the red town in my opinion, and the game ends in the typical good-bad choice (well, more like good ending because there is one at the moment of this review). This is because:

-Paletta needs to kill the red spirit´s father; she dirtied her hands by killing another being. The game frames that guy and makes you think that killing him is at the very least a necessary thing. But we don´t know anything about his motives. Maybe he had a plan in mind? maybe he was under the shard influence and and he was doing things out of rage? maybe he had a mental illnes, or indeed, he was just a bad guy? We don´t know, we don´t care. We just need to kill him to get the shard back. I was hoping we would tie him down or knock him instead.

How many bad guys is the colourful world´s worth killing? They are doing bad things, so should we just kill them all? I was sincerely disappointed with the fiction treatment this had in the game, ignoring these questions that are part of a reality setting.




-So the princess stole the shard because...because she broke it? And she was just crying all this time by herself while the world lost all her colour?? And Paletta and guys are just like, ok, this is fine, become the princess again!! Even though she does not have a shred of determination, or has matured, reflected on her past actions? This poses various problems for the reality setting that impressed me, and again goes back to the fantasy setting when everything is right just because you´re sorry about it. Not being perfect, failing and maturing is a reality-based concept.

-I though the shard´s spirits stopped being human, many NPC´s said "it´s the end for you" but it seems they keep living happily ever after. I though accepting a shard meant burdening yourself with the responsability for your loved ones and people, accepting parting from this world. They interacting freely with the princess, not with palette, diminishes their death´s significance I believe.

I´m not saying it´s a bad game. The game does great for it´s announced purposes. But by giving depth to the characters and story, it could be better and harder to predict (like the typical series when the good guys always win)

The art style conveys the cuteness and tenderness that Paletta represents as a newborn in that world, and as the daughter of the Moon.

I think this is a bug