GrimGrimoire, from the infamous Vanillaware Ltd. crew.
It's a real-time strategy game set in a wizarding school, starring noob witch Lillet. In the fifth day of school, the in-universe equivalent of The Greatest Evil Wizard Ever is released, killing everyone in not-Hogwarts and sending Lillet into a time loop, five days before the massacre. Gameplay takes place over and over those five days, as Lillet tries to figure out just what the hell went wrong. Every chapter consists of a single day, during which Lillet uses her accumulating knowledge of summons to best battles against newbies and condescending teachers. Every fifth day time is reset, though the plot keeps moving forward (every time warp is scripted as well; there're a total of 5 cycles, spanning 25 days overall).
It's a fun game. The story and its characters are fun to follow. Gameplay is quaint as hell though, and the screen turns to get crowded with your units and enemy units. Clicking, selecting and dragging is weird using a PS2 controller, though maybe that's just because of how I educated my thumbs. It also gets hard as hell nearing the end. Battles can go all the way up to 40, 50, 60 minutes, and there's no saving during them. So Game Overs usually carry hours of waste with them. Unless you swallow up and lower the difficulty, which you can do any time during the game.
I've been a fan of Vanillware since
Odin Sphere and
GrimGrimoire. I like the gameplay - I think Odin's is as good as fighty side-scrollers get - and I adore the gorgeously hand-drawn 2D graphics with layered depth and little pulsating animations that breathe a little extra life to the game, even as background and foreground elements. I must roll my eyes at the attention
Dragon's Crown is getting for its depiction of a gainaxing sorceress, when insofar every Vanillaware game has cast one busty female amongst into the story. The lady to the right is Opalneria, a teacher of necromancy in Grimoire. Yes, her boobs heave with every breath during cutscenes. And do google "Odin Sphere Odette", who was Queen of the Dead in that game and was even more buxom than Opalneria or the new sorceress.
This has derailed from a "recommend me a time loop game" to a staunch defense of Dragon's Crown. My point being, Vanillaware has been casting buxom necro-femmes (the sorceress does raise as well) in their games since at least 2007. It's what they do. It's practically a cheeky in-joke, a recurring gag everybody always agreed with. Nothing to be annoyed about, I think.