So there's an intermittent bug where advancing a line of dialog causes the screen to go black irreversibly. The only way to fix it is to quit out. And because maps are long and time-consuming and you can't really save during them, this sucks immensely.

Also, the maps are designed around a) you playing perfectly, and b) surprises, and this is a pretty bad combination. You'll sometimes have to reload due to information you couldn't really have guessed at, and this is obnoxious.

These are my only two complaints.

Midnight Sun is a damn well designed game overall, and a heck of a swing for a team that was originally making a Fire Emblem hack. It's pretty close to 40% voiced, the art is solid and Live 2D animated, the writing is in a spot just between serviceable and genuinely compelling, and the game mechanics reward very cautious risk taking and small gambits.

It reminds me of Yggdra Union more than anything else, but with big jrpg style squad battles and a movement system built around a clock. There's also some clever sub-mechanics with food consumption, sanity, and MP charging that you can cash out for skill points at combat end.

The tone is sometimes dark and grounded, and sometimes light and whimsical, and it swings back and forth between the two extremes at a speed that stops just short of giving you whiplash, but the game's characters are fun and some of its worldbuilding is clever.

Overall, even with the screen just blacking out sometimes and erasing a half hour of progress, I'm having a blast. This is a dang fine game, an interesting Fire Emblem successor, and a nice experiment on the line between jrpg and srpg.