feature multiple buildings and routes to explore, encouraging the player with exploring them in order to find items hidden in treasure chests such as fruit and leaf that restores health and magic respectively, keys, among other beneficial items, while players can also collect other useful items that are randomly dropped by enemies after defeating them. Rilule and the other playable characters can shoot projectiles and unleash powerful magic spells representative of their ability against enemies and one of the dark witch's creations that act as a boss at the end of the each stage, which must be fought in order to progress further through the game, which is mostly linear as well compared with the stages. After defeating a boss, one of the captured playable characters is rescued and recruited to the party, which up to three can be taken alongside before starting any stage but only one can be used during gameplay, while every character on the currently selected party members shares the same HP and MP meters between each other. Controlling the characters is done with a directional pad, which moves the player character in eight directions, as well as both an attack and a jump button. Charging a powerful magic spell attack is done by holding the attack button down that depletes MPs. Pressing either both action buttons or the shift key on a keyboard allows access to the inventory screen to choose a character or item. Once a stage is completed, players can save or load their current progress as well as return to the title screen before entering any stage. If the HP meter is completely depleted by enemy attacks, the game is over. Prior to starting a playthrough, players have access to the options menu at the title screen of the game, where various settings can be adjusted. Synopsis Étoile Princesse takes place in the fantasy world of Fail Land, a set of floating land masses above the skies where a self-centered and careless young princess named Rilule, who is capable of controlling the power of the stars, resides peacefully in the room of her castle alongside her elder mentor, who enters and warns Rilule about demons that have suddenly appeared all over the country and began terrorizing its inhabitants, as well as sealing female magicians like her in order to minimize powerful opposition against them but believing is not an important matter, she