Blessings for the Chosen

Editorial Has potential

Blessings for the Chosen is an ambitious RPG Maker H-game with custom art, strategic elemental combat, and branching character routes that has genuine fans who praise its challenge and character design. However, the current build is in rough shape: players consistently report softlocks (stuck after boss transitions, frozen dialogue, black screens during story beats), crashes at specific encounters (goblin battle, spider boss escape), and progression blockers that force save reloads. The combat itself is divisive—some players love the puzzle-like depth of elemental synergies and team composition, while many others hit a skill wall on early bosses (fox, werewolf, first dungeon) and feel the difficulty is punishing rather than fair, especially when poor item choices early on compound into unwinnable states. The writing and art are solid, outfits are thematically clever, and exploration/puzzle design shows promise, but unfinished music/sound, vague UI (gender choice during intro), incomplete features (gallery promised), and a pattern of narrative bugs (dialogue not progressing, characters frozen mid-cutscene) make this feel very much mid-development. For players who enjoy brutal tactical RPGs and are willing to tolerate bugs and iterate saves, there's a good game buried here; for everyone else, wait for a more polished release.