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It's good in itself (I liked the characters, the choices, the story, the art, the romance, the endings and after stories... almost everything really!), but there's too many annoying details around it. I only managed to truly enjoy it by the third route I played. Just in the UI alone: The prologue has like 3 chapters (each with an announcement slide, of course). The custom cursor isn't intuitive so each click takes longer than usual. The main menu has "Load" in a totally random place instead of being right under "start". The glossary is unnecessary and makes the game even more crowded. All details, but it adds up. And then there's in-game stuff, like Astra's "talk" sprite which shows so much teeth it's distracting, or explaining that the town has 7 blocks and she lives in block 3 but Felix in block 4 and - who cares? It doesn't even add to the worldbuilding, just adds boring lines. Felix's and Albion's pov segments are pointless (it's like ten lines of nothing) and it's weird to have them in 3rd person when Astra's always in 1st. Story-wise, a few things that are perfectly forgivable but they annoyed me a bit: Felix's big issue is [spoiler]that he's scared of passion and dreams because... his girlfriend died [i]in the equivalent of a car accident[/i], while barely even actively pursuing her passion besides "leaving town".[/spoiler] It just feels too soft. Cal [spoiler]grew up with his girlfriend's mother and no one addresses how awkward that might be? Not even a passing mention?[/spoiler] It would've been so easy to avoid, it's only in the after story so it's not like it would have changed much... (Albion's route is perfect - maybe because by then I was used to everything so I was able to only focus on the good - and so is Qwynn's! And I really liked Cal's too, except the aforementioned little issue)

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i do absolutely love it and wish there were more games like this!

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