Colette, an apprentice to the beautiful alchemist Priscilla, lives a peaceful life with her mistress in the countryside. As an aspiring alchemist, Colette spends her days training rigorously, aiming to one day become as capable as her mistress.
One day, however, Priscilla is suddenly visited by a stranger and has to leave on a journey soon after for unexplained reasons. Before she leaves, Priscilla hands her workshop in the capital over to Colette, and tells her to “help everyone who needs you”.
Now on her own for the first time in her life, Colette follows the instructions of her mistress and begins to help people in need as part of her training to become a full-fledged alchemist. The path ahead will lead her onto a most peculiar journey with people from all walks of life, and behind all of these lies a sinister figure who intends to take the whole world into its grasp...
11/10 rating, everything's confusing until you get past the orc/ogre part, and started taking quests from the guild that things fall into place. The menu is a new, integrated touch; then you need a whole lot of s*men of different creatures (humans, beasts, etc) to synthesize alchemy, but once you get the hang of it, the whole system becomes just an integral part of the game.
Of course, there's grinding and levelling up, but no matter, I have no qualms, and am willing to invest time getting around with this whole system. Unlike Otome the Exorcist (bought it on Steam) where I wasted 7.8 hours of my life for something that was just a daft, half-baked, uninspired premise of a game, Colette is worth sitting in (and locking your room in), she's a vibrant, 3D-personality non-generic character, and her companions (Sylvia for example) also compliments to the gameplay.
All in all, there'd be shortcomings, like enemies, and the unorthodox way of defeating them, but it could be overlook. Brave Alchemist Colette is still top-notch, and worth the time, effort, and money to get grinding!