Cardcaptor Sakura：Memory Key

This game is pretty cute and I love collecting the different chibis. I love the variety of things you can do on this app, including the mini games and club house. I didn’t give this 5 stars because of how many times I’ve had to uninstall and reinstall just to get it to work normal again. I see they are constantly updating things, as some of the text doesn’t get chopped off anymore and some of the wording as been changed. However, just today I had to uninstall and reinstall again because the confirm button wouldn’t work upon opening the game. Asked to proceed to downloading the new version and it wouldn’t work. There were no updates either so I was just sitting in that screen for a good chunk of time seeing if anything would happen. If I hit cancel, it’d close out the app. So uninstall and reinstall it goes. When the app first came out, I was having trouble staying logged in and had to do this same thing. Also, the app ONLY works on my home wifi and absolutely no where else. That’s okay with me, as I am pretty busy and this has become a nice little game to play before bed, but if I’m waiting on an order at the coffee shop or something, I sometimes wanted to check the game and couldn’t. Or when I’m on the city bus going from point a to point b. But it wouldn’t open. 🤷‍♀️

Honestly, I don’t know why everyone is complaining since I’ve only experienced great gameplay. I loved collecting my figures and thinking of different strategies to defeat bosses, though there are a few problems. The events are too short and people who don’t pay for in-app purchases don’t really have a chance at getting the special event rewards. Players should be able to do some sort of minigame or something to earn tickets for the event gatcha. But what im really having a problem with is that it keeps logging me out. Every time I get onto the game I have to sign back in which is a bother and the reason why im even writing this review right now is because I can’t sign back in anymore. Everything has restarted for me and all my progress is gone. Everything I have worked hard for and played weeks for is gone and im very upset. Unfortunately I won’t be playing anymore until I get my account back. It was fun playing while it lasted.

I have been free to play playing since launch a week ago. I have unlocked most features (I am almost to stage 14). Yes this is a new English launch but it has been out over a year overseas, it shouldn’t look this sloppy. Text cuts off everywhere and looks lazy, animation story scenes cut off abruptly, and the game doesn’t tell you how to play it when new features unlock (I don’t understand still how “Sakura’s Trip” works.) No character voices cept reused clips for Sakura, Kero, Li, and Tomoyo. No character models cept tiny portrait art for any side characters - like they have extensive scenes with her dad, he couldn’t have a 3D model? It just feels lazy. Besides this there also isn’t much to do. The battle system is a joke. The dress up option, which I was excited for, is also a joke. It makes me sad cause I love Cardcaptor Sakura but I wouldn’t recommend this, especially for a kid cause it is mostly pushing gatcha collecting. I can’t even enjoy the cute story scenes cause they look so lazy and janky. Actual good things is the many new still image arts made for this game are VERY pretty, but you can look those up online, and the clow card battle models and animations are polished. And the Sakura outfit models ARE cute. If everything had this level of polish it might least be an enjoyable game despite not much to do.