Little Witch in the Woods Offers a Witch Who Mixes Potions Instead of Fighting
Little Witch in the Woods, from Korea's SUNNY SIDE UP, casts the player as apprentice witch Ellie, who is tasked with saving the thorn-covered village of Wisteria.
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Why it matters
The game's pitch is a witch whose job is errands and potions rather than combat, and its no-deadline structure is the specific thing being sold to players worn down by efficiency-driven games.
Key Facts
- Little Witch in the Woods is developed by Korea's SUNNY SIDE UP.
- The player controls Ellie, an apprentice witch fresh out of Lucilinot Magic School.
- Ellie arrives in Wisteria, a village covered in magical thorns that cannot be cut, burned, or removed.
- Ellie can act from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m., and the game sets no deadlines apart from weekly delivery quests.
- The article is based on play of the Nintendo Switch version.
Witches in this world work as apothecaries, mixing potions rather than casting combat magic. Ellie can act from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m., and apart from weekly delivery quests the game sets no deadlines. The Switch version is the basis for the piece.
Ellie is a fresh graduate of Lucilinot Magic School, bound by train for three years of training at a witch's house in Highlion. A white cat, an emergency stop, and a chase into the forest put her in Wisteria instead, a village wrapped in magical thorns that cannot be cut, burned, or removed.
Her partner is Virgil, a talking hat who minds her, and the back-and-forth between the two carries the game's comic tone. The work itself is apothecary work: squishing bouncy creatures, rubbing the belly of a lizard sleeping on its back, mixing potions for residents. Fast travel is available, and residents tell an overeager Ellie she could take things more slowly.
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