Spoilers included, because seriously? Don't waste your time.
Writing/story
Kid and older brother are ostracized because they apparently have magic powers. A span of time passes, and some other kid comes to free the sister. Why? No freakin clue. That's what he was told to do, and by god, this kid takes his role as lacky seriously.
We know this kid is sent to free the girl from the tower (and why was a kid sent to free the princess in the tower, so to speak?), but aside from a vaguely worded throwaway comment from a throwaway character, there's no indication of their intentions whatsoever. Somewhere near the end, the boy quips that this monarchy, or whoever's employ he's under will have his head for what he'd done, but given that we know he was told to "Get her out of the tower," which he DID, the viewer is left wondering why he'd be wanted for capture after fulfilling his mission.
I also question using the older brother as the villain. I got more of a protective vibe from him in the beginning, which contrasted sharply with his presentation later. Shared none of the same traits, and for that, they might as well have used some ogre or something with no personality at all.
Rating:3
We got the bare bones, I guess. Pretty cookie-cutter.
Music
They recycled what felt like the same five tracks over and over again which would have been fine had the score held any merit of worth to begin with. In particular, one of the tracks sounded like it was ripped straight from a Final Fantasy battle sequence, which would have worked fine had it been in a video game to begin with, but it just felt out of place.
Score: 3
Music seemed design to annoy or elicit as many eye-rolling melodramatic moments as possible.
Art
Character designs weren't endearing, and the quality of the CG itself was low. The girl chooses one point in the story to summon a particularly demonic creature while she's moping around in her room, which struck me as odd, not to mention out of place considering the otherwise almost childish setting and characters.
Score: 3
Yeah, I'm sure it took a long time but dayum. Well.. The hair looked nice. And the characters did too, as long as they weren't talking.
Enjoyment
If you keep looking at the timer every thirty seconds, you're not enjoying yourself.
Score: Make it END, GOD
In the end, maybe it would have done fine as a video game, but otherwise I highly reccomend steering clear. I didn't enjoy it in the least.
Overall: 3, and that's being generous.
