Our protagonist, Valerie, in her Diamond Heart form
"The Shining Crystal of Love and Hope, Magical Warrior Diamond Heart!"
Magical Warrior Diamond Heart, or MWDH for short, is an in progress Visual Novel created by Pyonkotchi. The common route, which has the first fourteen chapters, can be found here
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The crystal Kingdom of Chalcedonia was once a beautiful place, under the rule of the Princess Rosalia, they lived happy peaceful lives. Until one day, monsters called Nightmares destroyed the kingdom. Princess Rosalia and her fairy knight Diana hid deep in the castle, praying that their last hope, the magical Rose Crystal Mirror would produce a miracle, and save their home, however, they were attacked by the leader of the Nightmare Agency, Druzy. Diana fought helplessly before finding herself transported to Earth, but her Princess was no where to be seen.
Unfortunately the nightmares began to attack this new world too. Valerie Amaranth, an ordinary 16 year old, has her world changed forever when she receives the powers of the Legendary Crystal Warrior Diamond Heart. Now with the help of Diana, she must find her allies, defeat the Nightmares, and rescue the missing princess Rosalia.
You can visit the official website here and the tumblr page, where progress (and fanwork!) is constantly posted, is here. Official Kickstarter page here, with all of the goals unlocked.
Magical Warrior Diamond Heart contains examples of:
- All in the Manual: The official Tumblr blog has lots of trivia about the characters that isn't mentioned in the game, such as their favorite and least favorite foods, heights and weights, etc
- April Fools' Day: An additional episode was released on April Fools of 2018, featuring Liam going to snail church to atone for his sins. It received a remaster in 2023.
- Beautiful Dreamer: Liam's introduction scene shows him asleep in the student council room while Valerie admires his beauty.
- Bedmate Reveal: The beginning of episode 2, Val wakes up to find Diana in human form sleeping in her bed. She promptly kicks her off.
- Big Bad: Druzy, the head of the Nightmare Agency who leads the monster attacks on the kingdom and wants to awaken the Princess of Darkness.
- Cast Full of Gay: Valerie is pansexual, Clover is a bisexual trans girl, Zacharie is nonbinary and bisexual, Sophie is a lesbian, Liam is bisexual, Alex is bisexual, and Ethan is a bisexual trans boy. And these are just the main characters!
- Cherry Blossoms: Liam's nature powers have a heavy cherry blossom motif.
- Cool Big Sis: Clover's sister, Lotus.
- Crash-Into Hello: This is how Valerie meets Zacharie and Chandra.
- Crossover: A crossover with the magical girl game Nova Girls was announced in 2017, but no details have been given yet.
- Crystal Prison: When the Nightmare Agency turns/creates monsters, the victims' bodies are trapped in one of these.
- Dark Magical Girl: Luna, one of the members of the Nightmare Agency, wears a black magical girl outfit and is supposed to be Valerie's evil counterpart.
- Debut Queue: Played straight up until episode 5. Alex and Amber gain their powers offscreen and appear at the same time and Liam is revealed to have not gotten his powers at all in the following episode.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Amber appears at the end of Episode 4 but isn't formally introduced until episode 6.
- Everything's Better with Sparkles: Glitter and sparkles are everywhere. Valerie comments after transforming that even her hair is sparkly.
- Excited Title! Two-Part Episode Name!: The game's chapters are supposed to mimic typical magical girl episodes, and the episodes' names reflect this.
- Gay Option: Clover, Sophie, Chandra and Diana all have romance routes.
- Gemstone Assault: The Crystal Warriors' attacks are all named for the gem they represent, and their weapons tend to feature the gem somewhere on it.
- Genki Girl: Valerie, who is always full of energy and cheerfulness.
- Guide Dang It!: In order to avoid a bad ending in Episode 7, you first need to persist in staying and talking to Liam despite his attitude so he'll show up in the battle later, and during the battle you need to pick "How horrible" rather than "I'm sorry" so Valerie doesn't fall into self-loathing and de-transform.
- In a Single Bound: Valerie when she transforms for the first time.
- Interclass Friendship: Clover, who is rich, and Valerie, who is middle-class. This causes a little bit of tension at times, as Clover just doesn't get how the other half lives, but it's only ever Played for Laughs.
- Interspecies Romance: Valerie can form one with either Diana or Opal.
- Lonely Rich Kid: Clover, who before meeting Valerie has never had a real friend besides her sister.
- Magical Girl: Well, of course! It's the bread and butter of this game!
- Magical Girl Warrior: It's right there in the title.
- Magical Land: The fairies come from the magical, far-off kingdom of Chalcedonia, ruled by Princess Rosalia.
- Modesty Shorts: Diamond Heart's outfit has this. Sapphire Heart's are much less noticeable.
- Mood Whiplash: In Chapter 4, Zacherie's first transformation into Citrine Heart goes from marvelling at their newfound Frills of Justice to panicking about having to fight the Nightmare that already overpowered Valerie and Clover.
- Multiple Endings: There are good and bad ends for each route.
- New Transfer Student: Clover, after her introduction episode.
- Non-Human Sidekick: The fairies are all animal-like.
- Cute Kitten: Diana is a pink cat.
- Precious Puppy: Amber is an orange dog.
- Cartoon Penguin: Marina is a blue and white juvenile penguin.
- Odd Friendship: Between Liam, the cold and sleepy student council president, and Alex, who's passionate and friendly.
- Our Fairies Are Different: Both Diana and Amber look like animals rather than fairies.
- Pink Heroine: Valerie, the protagonist, transforms into a pink magical girl.
- The Power of Friendship: One of the game's main themes.
- The Power of Love: Represented by Valerie. It's also the foundation of the warriors' powers.
- Power Makes Your Hair Grow: Every single Crystal Warrior, including the boys, gains long hair after transforming.
- Psychosomatic Superpower Outage: The Crystal Warrior's powers are linked to their mental state and they can lose the ability to transform altogether if they're not in the right mindset. In episode 6 Liam is shown to be unable to transform because of this, and Amber states that because of his insecurity Ethan will never transform, either.
- Recruit Teenagers with Attitude: Diana when she tells Valerie to transform.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Valerie is the hyper, energetic red oni to Sophie's rational, collected blue, and Alex is the passionate red to Liam's cold unfriendly blue.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: Diana and Amber, the fairy mascots of the game.
- Romance Game: There are several romance routes in the game. Originally only had seven (three for the free to play version and seven for the deluxe game), but thanks to a successful Kickstarter, nine romances are now available (four for free to play and all nine for the deluxe version). To be specific, according to the website's About section, the free to play version will allow you to romance either Sophie, Ethan, Zacharie, or Opal, and the deluxe version will have those four and also allow you to romance either Alex, Liam, Clover, Chandra, or Diana.
- Secret Identity: All of the magical warriors have one.
- Shout-Out:
- In the demo for the game, two pictures of Hajime and Togami from Danganronpa are present at the café.
- In the latest demo, Val mentions a franchise called ‘’Glitter Friends’’ (Glitter Force) and Ethan says he will cosplay a magical girl series like “the one with the space princess” (Sailor Moon). Valerie herself also performs the iconic Ultraman pose.
- Slumber Party: Clover throws one for Zacharie's 17th birthday in episode 12.
- Student Council President: Liam. Sophie's the vice president.
- Terrible Trio: Opal, Onyx and Labra are always causing trouble and sometimes even arguing with each other.
- Transformation Trinket: The Crystal Warriors use cellphones to transform.
- Undying Loyalty: Diana, who always protected and cared for Rosalia regardless of the kingdom's opinion of her.
- Video Game Cruelty Potential: After Valerie and Sophie leave Ethan alone in the café to fight a Nightmare, you have the option to get angry at him instead of apologizing. If you try to hug him in the next episode he'll snap at you.
- Video Game Cruelty Punishment: Be mean to Ethan enough times and you're locked out of both his AND Sophie's romance routes, according to
Word of God. - Voluntary Shapeshifting: Diana and Amber can transform into humans.
- Wham Episode: After some rather lighthearted episodes, episode six ends with Ethan kidnapped and locked in a crystal, six of the seven Crystal Warriors depowered and defeated, and Liam—who hasn't transformed yet—trying DESPERATELY to help. The screen goes black. "But nothing happened."
