Dark Witch Connect!

Dark Witch Connect! (魔神少女コネクト！, Majin Shoujo Connect!) is an action puzzle game slated for release on mobile platforms in 2020. As of July 23rd 2022, Dark Witch Connect! is currently available for iOS on the App Store, and for Android on Google Play. It is currently only in Japanese, but if it does well in Japan, it will get English translations.

Basic Gameplay
Gameplay-wise, Dark Witch Connect functions very similarly to other match-three type games such as Candy Crush or Bejeweled. The game will start off with multiple portraits of Dark Witch characters randomly placed in a 6 x 6 grid. Connecting three or more of these character portraits will cause them to disappear. You can connect characters horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Connecting these character portraits in quick succession will allow you to maintain a combo, which will net the player more points. Boing Boings will appear too, which will remove characters in a 3 x 3 grid around them.

At the bottom left of the screen, there is a button that will allow you to use your selected character's Revenge Magic. Your selected character starts off as Zizou, but getting Tres will allow you the chance to get more characters to choose from. Removing a certain amount of your selected character's portrait will slowly fill up your Revenge Magic meter, and once it is full, you can press it to gain a certain effect based on the character, such as spawning more of a certain character, removing blocks in a certain formation, or spawning Boing Boings throughout the screen. A reset button is also at the bottom right of the screen which will re-randomize the placements of the characters.

After Gameplay
The game ends once the 60 second timer at the top left of the screen has run out. Once that happens, the game will take you to a character select screen showing you which of your characters have leveled up. Because the game allows all of the characters to be possible to be randomized, the characters you don't have will not gain any experience. The experience gained depends on how many of that character you erased in that session. After that it will take you to a screen showing your high score and the amount of experience the player gained during that gameplay session, which depends on how many points you earned. The game will then take you to a screen of which Playing Levels you completed. Dark Witch Connect has a set amount of playing levels to complete that the game gives you. This includes tasks like getting a 100-combo or using the reset button at least once. Once these playing levels are completed, the game will bring you to a credits screen, after which, the game will start giving you daily playing levels.

Menu
As soon as you start up the game, you are taken to a menu with your player and character level and four buttons at the bottom of the screen. The top left button brings you to the credits after you beat the game, otherwise, it does nothing. The bottom left button will start the basic gameplay. The top right button will show you your current playing levels, and the bottom right will take you to another menu showing the characters you own and their levels. From here, the buttons do different things.

Tapping a character and pressing the top left button afterwards will set them as your main character. They will be guaranteed to show up on your next gameplay session and their Revenge Magic will be the one used when pressing the Revenge button. Pressing the top right button over a character, however, will bring you to their profile; which shows what their Revenge Magic does, which games they've appeared in, what experience they need to level up, and a bio if you press the yellow button. These bios are in Japanese only. Pressing the bottom left button will simply take you back to the starting menu, but pressing the bottom right button will allow you the opportunity to roll for another character, similar to the gacha elements of other mobile games. The game gives you an option of a normal roll for 10000 tres, or a special roll for 30000 tres which will reward you with rarer characters.

Trivia

 * All of the characters in The Legend of Dark Witch: Chronicle 2D Act that appear in this game use their stage themes from the first game when you select them. The only exception of this is Al, who uses her stage theme from The Legend of Dark Witch 3 as opposed to her theme in the first game.
 * Verri's profile in this game states that she has only appear in the first game, although she has technically appeared in The Legend of Dark Witch 2 as a part of Riva's "Knight" slot.
 * This is the first game to give Revenge Attacks to the side characters Lugli, Hiroto, and Aoi.
 * So far, Dark Witch Connect is the only Dark Witch game to not be given an English translation in any way.
 * Dark Witch Connect is the first Dark Witch game to have a ton of concept designs, which most never came into fruition. This is the title screen, and it has gotten a bunch of redesigns until they gave it the one that it has now.