Tales of John the Wizard by IoloNight (PaintedNecroz)

 

The issues that a lot of scenarios experience are the lack of editing and rushed pacing, scenario authors end up writing things rapidly without giving themselves space for proofreading or animation testing and this can end up in static animations without transitions that can make a scenario feel unnatural and even create recurrent reading issues like lack of periods (even beyond the grammar limits that can still happen to writers with English as a secondary language like us).

Unfortunately, Tales of John the Wizard is one of those scenarios, and its amount of ideas doesn't actually compensate for the lack of editing either way.

After a fun self-conscious introduction from John and Sandra, the story starts with John discovering his powers and trying to decide who is the best person he can talk about it, the player is given to chose between 3 options, visiting either Brad, Katrina, or Kiyoshi.

The Katrina route ends up in John morphing himself into his girl version to prove to her about the existence of magic, after some teasing from Katrina, the route ends in a placeholder.

With Brad, John decides not to morph himself because he doesn't feel comfortable as a girl (even when he did change himself in the Katrina route without issues), and Brad volunteers to be the subject of the spell instead. Apparently Zoey comes in and reveals she was listening them all along, after seeing Brad as her little sister, she takes him to try her clothes upstairs.

This is a fun idea I haven't seen explored in other scenarios yet, Zoey seeing Brad becoming a small girl like her, and even taking the initiative instead of obeying him in anything he says since he is "the big bro", PaintedNecroz also has a fun take on Zoey, who thinks John used magic on Kiyoshi to make him go away every time she approaches him.

All of these things would have made for a fun route, but this route also ends right there on a placeholder.

The last route is the most interesting of the three, after meeting up with Kiyoshi in his house to reveal him he has magic, Kiyoshi tells him he has something to reveal as well; while some people might think Kiyoshi has gotten the remote, what actually Kiyoshi got was the company of an alien bunny girl that was exiled from the moon and has to stay with Kiyoshi from now on, making both of them require the help of John's magic abilities.

The scenario ends up there in all three routes without any actual development from them. PaintedNecroz mentioned making the 21-minute scenario in no less than 1 hour and a half counting reading the guide and so forth, and it hasn't been updated ever since.

While even short scenarios are still recommended due to the small ideas they propose, there are no ideas that actually stand out aside from the Kiyoshi route, making the scenario in general completely skippable for any readers in most of the cases.