This game was a gift from a friend, but it's sadly a disappointment.

The story is very sedate and the couple chapters I've seen are very short. There isn't much to the gameplay as it is a regular turn-based RPG with some mild exploration and the most you can really do is push enemies back from acting. Since every girl has at least one such skill, it makes battles kind of a joke because you also begin every battle fully healed - presumably to make up for your inability to use items in combat.
In chapter 1 you don't even get to explore much of anything - certainly not the much more visually interesting "Common" - and fight in a single boss battle. In chapter 2, there isn't much to fight either.
Mostly the game progresses in very drawn-out cut scenes where characters talk, but even that isn't usually all that interesting.

The visuals are middle of the road; the environments are pretty, but the character models are not stylised enough to be anime yet also not realistic enough to look like real people, resulting in a kind of doll-ish look that is just very uncanny valley, especially with their mismatched lip movements and poor facial expressions. They also glitch quite a bit and clipping issues are naturally present as well.

Some of the voicework doesn't quite fit the characters, so I'm not sure why the producers decided on this assignment since these voices just feel swapped. The music is... okay, but really not amazing.

Honestly it feels like this was a side project because I heard Gust generally make amazing games, but this just ain't it. It's also telling that a lot more work went into the DLC outfits, some of which are legitimately pretty... but every girl can also just wear a regular or school-themed bikini, or a literal bath towel if you're so inclined. Doing that of course takes away any and all seriousness the game might have left.

In short, there are better anime-style/Magical Girl genre games, so I sadly can't recommend this one.

IF, they erased all the repetitive side missions or at least decreased them by a lot it would be perfect.
Although I recommended it (on a discounted price), please note that you will have to face this on your run:
1. Repetitive time-consuming side mission with no real benefit imo.
2. Too much fan service scene with once again no benefit and a waste of loading time.
3. Confusing "social link", with minimal backstory except for a few last scenes in that raising friendship event and once again it takes time to max out all 12 girls' friendship levels.
4, No info on skill strength, the damage output and it's not arranged well (it confused me), you just have to try it out in battle and in the end find 1 or 2 skills that do the most damage or debuff or knockback whatever. Good luck min-maxing in this game.
5. There are HP thresholds in the boss battle, YOU CAN'T 1 HIT KILL THE BOSS. All the damage you deal after that threshold is negated.

OK, if you are fine with those things, consider trying this game, it has:
1. Magical Girls.
2. The easiest see-through uniform Japan schools ever make.
3. Good enough light story about friendship and fighting depression.
4. Magical Skill!

Have a nice day folks!