Short answer: It's a pity.

The presentation is very nice (albeit the text is tiny and so are some buttons) and the writing is fine, and it seems very alluring to magical academy fans (Potterheads and otherwise), but it has one critical flaw.

NOTHING is explained.

You have no idea what you are doing. There is somewhat of a short manual in the form of a letter right at the beginning that gives you a brief rundown of what to expect, but it barely touches any mechanics at all. You raise random stats, explore the school grounds and discover random new places, lean Phemes (keywords that look like they are concepts needed for spells?) and set your schedule, but there is never a clear goal to work towards. You can't even befriend people without raising the necessary skill to even get the "befriend" action, and getting there takes several days of doing nothing else at all. Not that the game tells you this, nooo.

You get various events that give you several options how to deal with them. These are color coded to tell you their rough probabilities of succeeding, but those are never explained either (read about them in the wiki) and you never know how close or not you came to succeeding. The game rolls dice for you, but you have no idea what is actually happening, mechanics-wise.

You supposedly can find items and use them to unlock actions or bonuses (like reading a book to get a new action that is taught in it), but sometimes the item does not show up in the "use item" list even after identifying it.

Raising skills is a chore, you need to raise three different sub-skills for each of your six main skills, and each step takes several time slots. You can save schedules to recreate them quicker, but only the actions themselves are saved, not the details that you select from tiny drop down menus.

The game shows so much potential, but does everything wrong except the writing and the graphics. Yes, the interface has a nice appealing style, but that's the best one can say about it. Clearly, the makers are VERY creative, but don't know jack about how to make a game people want to play.

It hurts me to write this: Not worth the money, not even at a sale. Sorry.