This is the old vista version ported to steam. There is a new version with 30% more new content in Japan, but they chose the old one for global market. I'm very disappointed to play the inferior version.

To be honest, I feel like visual novels that actually do focus on its story development often get drowned by all the dating sims. While I absolutely love romance visual novels, I have to say I found it quite refreshing to play one where the focus lies elsewhere. Although some romantic feelings get hinted here and there, Our World Is Ended feels more like a typical harem instead of including romance scenes. But at the same time, I think it was quite intentional as this visual novel seems to put all the clichés of anime together and sometimes it even comes off as a parody game, yet below the surface, there is much more hidden than it might seem at first.

Our World Is Ended opens with Reiji testing an Augmented Reality (AR) headset while getting accompanied by Yuno. You see, Reiji and Yuno belong to a game development team called Judgement 7. As the name already implies, there are seven members in total with Reiji being their part-time working director. Anyway, while wearing the AR headset, Reiji suddenly finds himself in the very same city Tokyo except that it’s empty and pretty much destroyed with his friends hanging on a building. This scenario, however, didn’t last for a long time and he finds himself back with Yuno being alive and quirky as ever. Without a lot of thought, he puts this incident off as a glitch and thus, Judgement 7 continues to work on their games.

Something I noticed immediately here is that comedy is one of the main genres in Our World Is Ended. As aforementioned, this visual novel seems to take cliché anime contents and even overdo them that much, that it’s just getting hilarious. Sexual jokes towards girls aren’t missing here but are, in fact, most of the dialogue between the characters here. I enjoyed that although the male characters are displayed as perverts, they still treat the girls with a lot of respect. I have to admit I found the sexual jokes quite entertaining, yet it takes up a very big part of the game so it’s impossible to play this game when you’re sensitive to this content. It’s important to say that it always happens in a jolly way and is not meant to be mischievous.

Not only comedy takes up a big part of this game but also slice-of-life. While Our World Is Ended is not supposed to be a slice-of-life game, it offers plenty of light-hearted scenes where you just read the characters going on dates, playing various games or simply just attend their meetings to discuss further plans with the game development. That being said, the story takes a lot of time to finally pick up, yet I honestly think these slice-of-life scenes are essential so the player gets to know each character better. While it might seem like these scenes are really unnecessary at first, they all greatly helped me to get attached to each character and I found myself rooting for them before I even knew what was going on.

A slow start with the story doesn’t mean it’s bad overall and I liked the premise that we had seven equal heroes here. While the player plays Our World Is Ended as Reiji, I had the impression that everyone could count as the main character and even if the perspective would be from another character, it wouldn’t make a difference to me. Thanks to the good character development here, I felt like I knew every character that well that I could have guessed what they are thinking in specific situations. I enjoyed that Our World Is Ended mixed so many genres and even includes sci-fi which I personally am a big fan of. And even in the sci-fi genre, this visual novel mashes up a lot of sub-categories such as time traveling, and loops, virtual reality and teleporting. This game just shows how successful an experient of different aspects could turn out.

Additionally, there are various decisions available in Our World Is Ended. I noticed that each choice is different from each other and therefore, I had the feeling that I was able to shape Reiji’s personality from a gentleman to another pervert. Choices are important here to get other endings although there are two different kinds of decisions. While the first one is a normal selection between different choices, there is a special mode which is called “Selection of Soul” (SoS) and takes place when Reiji gets flustered. In this mode, you’re deciding on an answer as well but the difference here is that it’s timed and the choices are sliding through the screen. When unable to select a choice, it will count as staying silent which has an impact as well. The thing I disliked here was that the choices aren’t popping up simultaneously so when I wanted to wait until I knew all the possible answers, the first one was already gone.

The story is quite linear in Our World Is Ended although there are multiple endings available for each character. When going through the first playthrough, the player is locked into the normal end and other endings might get pursued once you finish the game once. The branching of the story takes place very late so most of the time you’re getting the same content. Luckily, there is a skip-to-the-next-choice available here so that comes in handy for such a lengthy visual novel.

The artwork is gorgeous in Our World Is Ended with a lot of breathtaking CGs. Even the backgrounds were so detailed that you can see people or various objects even in normal scenes. Additionally, the animations available here are well made such as when the characters are hitting each other as well as the lip-synch. Overall, the colors are very vibrant and quirky, especially when the sprites are jumping up and down. Excellent voice acting isn’t missing here as well and a big plus here is that not only Reiji is voiced but he has his own sprite as well although he is not often visible. Ultimately, the game’s theme gets complimented by its cheerful and intense soundtracks.

Our World Is Ended focuses less on the game developing aspect but rather its main character happened to be game developers. After a short time I was already attached to each character, even though they were all so different, and just rooted for them to achieve their goals. It was interesting to get to know each character very detailed although that meant that a big part of the game solely had the purpose of introducing the characters properly. While the story gets a while to pick up, it managed to positively surprise me and the mash-up with sci-fi, comedy, and slice-of-life just fit so well to the game’s overall theme and intention. Although I have to say that the sexual jokes might be very exaggerated they don’t fail to entertain its reader, may it be just for getting reminded of hilarious anime scenes.

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Pros:
+Good Scifi Adventure story
+Utilizes a quick time event system to keep you on your toes
+Quirky characters
+Charming artstyle
+Multiple endings

Cons:
+/-A bit strong on having its more perverted moments
-Multiple dialogue options, but doesn’t offer too much of an effect on the story
-Minor translation errors here and there, frustrating but still easy to understand
-The VN crashed albeit rarely


+Story:
Our World is Ended (OWE for short from here on) features, without giving too much away, an interesting science fiction adventure story (closest well-known comparison being Steins;Gate considering how most visual novels tend to go the fantasy route) that tackles themes like deep diving virtual reality, augmented reality and artificial intelligence in a setting where the group of characters are creating a game. However, the game is much more focused on the quirky, though admittedly tropes, characters and their own development (character of focus shifts depending on who you wish to focus on). Development of said characters mostly being centered on their individual trials and problems, and how they go about facing them. There are several endings for the story depending on your decisions or how you did in the quick time events (although unlike most VNs, OWE has a vast majority of it’s story take place in the common route before decisions and endings become a factor).

+Gameplay:
Typically I would keep this section of the review exempt considering the general nature of VNs (Visual Novels), but OWE actually keeps you on your toes to some degree as there are quick time events where you need to choose a dialogue option. Unlike QTEs in more action oriented games, rather than losing HP due to a misinput, depending on the answer you select, it could change where the story is heading (of course if you’re looking to complete every route then you’ll inevitably try to test all of them). OWE doesn’t stick to just reading if you’re looking for a slightly more interactive experience as you’re reading although I could see this as a demerit depending on the person playing (granted these QTEs are relatively far spread out and give you a warning message that one is incoming).

+Graphics/Visuals:
Visually speaking the game is gorgeous in how everything is designed. The use of the VNs rather vibrant colors is a breath of fresh air and really sets itself apart from others in the same genre.

+/-Reading the mood:
You can honestly love or hate OWE for this but this is mostly due to OWE’s rather lighthearted nature so I don’t think it’s a factor to think too harshly on. Don’t get me wrong, the story was very enjoyable and certainly had its more serious moments. However, an incredibly large amount of the game had a focus of making some sort of perverted commentary when possible. Now I like fanservice as much as the next guy, but even I thought maybe these sorts of events were occurring a little too frequently. In the end I very much enjoyed my time reading through OWE, but the story was certainly less serious than I had anticipated and wish to give some warning to potential buyers. If you have absolutely zero problem with fanservice then there’s absolutely nothing wrong with this choice, needless to say if you’re the opposite then you likely won’t enjoy the VN nearly as much. This point is relatively subjective, so anyone who would fall into the middle would be very hard to speak for. That said, I’d say that if you’re looking for a relatively enjoyable read then this is certainly a title to consider.

On a side note of how the game handles its dialogue, there are also many times where a lot of unnecessary detail is given to explain concepts. For example, something that could’ve been explained in 3 to 5 minutes could take up to 10 to 15 minutes. It honestly reached the point where I started skipping new text when the story didn’t really feel like it would go anywhere. So an additional point is the occasional issue of pacing, especially in the earlier parts of the game.

-Lack of Diverging Routes:
You gain a fair amount of dialogue options throughout the game, however, many of these options usually only differ in a few lines of dialogue as far as I could tell. Each character has their own specific ending which is pretty standard, but the fact that many of the decisions you make don’t seem to come with any sort of significant impact is a bit upsetting (this was especially the case when I found out for myself that this was the case). Many of the choices must be specific to go on to particular routes, but failing to choose the correct option doesn’t negatively affect you too much. For example, there aren’t really any bad endings you can get as a result, you can at least get the normal ending consistently with ease (mostly due to the fact that like 90% of the game stays on the common route before splitting as a result of your actions).

In a niche genre that’s been getting a bit oversaturated I believe that Our World is Ended stands out as a rather strong pick, in recent time, despite some of its flaws. Recommended for any looking for a generally good VN to get into, though I’m inclined to say that this is better as a second or third VN rather than your first considering how the story flows.

This product was reviewed with a key provided by the Developers/Publishers.

Insufferable characters. Initially, it looks like this might be a discount scifi adventure cast, but that couldn't be further away from the truth. The usual uninteresting spineless protagonist feels even more worthless due to how abusive the rest of the cast is towards him.

All the tired cliche humor you will see in any cardboard cutout slice of life anime. Girl hits boy because he thought/did/looked like he did something perverted. This will be the main gag and focus of every scene. Hope you like it.

Poor configuration options when compared to most modern visual novels.

Decent artwork.

The premise is interesting, but there are much much better options.

In the beginning of the game I thought that plot is going to be some Sci-Fi story about unique main characters trying to fix the situation that went wrong because of their actions. I mean, I imagined this game would be a rip-off of Steins;Gate with fancy character design. And it better would be because in reality it is way worse.
The characters have issues in one way or another and I understand that they are made this way on purpose but how the ♥♥♥♥ should readers empathize emotionally unstable pedo girl, perverted 30-year old coder or delusional, screaming, obese psycho? And it's the better half of the cast that is not too cliche because light-novel MC, goth-tsundere, clever loli and dumber version of Mayuri are not even annoying, they are just boring and their backstory doesn't bring anything to the table. I literally facepalmed when Tanichka Alexandrovna told the truth about her being adopted by Yuriy. I mean, ofc you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ are, your patronymic is "Alexandrovna" and not "Yuryevna" ffs! Genius girl my ass.
Ok, but there is still the story itself, right? It can be something interesting, right? No, I'm sorry but it isn't. The main focus of the story is about main cast and how amazing they are in one way or another. The whole purpose of this novel is to make you feel a part of the amazing gamedev studio that ends up saving Tokyo and it doesn't include some intriguing plot twists or interesting concepts in scenario. The most touching part of the story is about this gamedev studio literally spending ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ weeks to get the feeling of unity AFTER their unity was praised million times by narration, by side characters, by themselves and almost every living and dead person featured in this game. I wonder, does this bond between them even worth mentioning at all if they spent weeks to get the feel of it?
I honestly completed this game to find anything good about it besides art, but alas, I had no luck with that. Also I must mention that translation includes lots of typos and even quotes mark is most of the time separated from the text on the next line of textbox. Those are common issues but it makes me even more frustrated.

I'm having a blast with this game. Although I'm not finished yet (looks like 30% of the game in 15 hours), however I felt that I'm ready to say that I really like the game. I'll probably update review after I finish the game.

First of all, this game has a lot of sexual jokes. Like a lot. Call it fanservice or ecchi, I like it. It's fun, it's silly and it's hilarious. So if you don't stand ecchi anime and sexual jokes literally every 3-4 sentences, you should probably leave this game as it is.

So as I said, I really like it. It's funny and silly, graphics are really cool, visuals are glorious for a visual novel, music is nice. S.O.S. choices make me laugh every time.

Story has somewhat steinsgate-ish flavor, which is nice and intriguing.

Also Asano is best grill.

Before anything, I'd like to state that one of my friends warned me against playing this game, but I got lured in by how good it looked – like a moth to a flame. While I don't 100% regret it, I do have some reservations.


⦁ The UI and design elements are undeniably striking, akin to premium artwork.

⦁ The BGM is decent, though not particularly memorable. Personally, I enjoyed "Playtime's Over," Sekai, Yuno, and Tatiana's themes.

⦁ Voice acting shines brilliantly with a star-studded cast perfectly tailored to their characters. Familiar voices include Gintoki, Iroha/Yotsuba, Sora/Soma, Ai Hayasaka, and others.

⦁ The story, while not groundbreaking, keeps you engaged, and the ending is satisfactory.

It's evident that this visual novel is a high-budget production, and a lot of effort was put into it, which makes me even more frustrated because of the wasted potential.


⦁ Some mistranslations and typos can be spotted here and there, but nothing too bad.

⦁ Inconsistencies like Iruka's fingers looking weirdly bent and some CG-like art differences, mostly noticeable on one Yuno CG.

⦁ Some later chapters feel out of place and could have been better utilized earlier in the narrative.

However, all of those mentioned above are just minor flaws you could overlook. The reason why I'm disappointed by this game is THE CHARACTERS. Yes, the characters are the major flaw of this visual novel, and besides the story, they are the most important aspect of a game like this.


The potential for greatness is wasted as they are stereotyped (maybe a little too much) into classic anime personas. While (probably) not inherently bad for those unfamiliar with these archetypes, the characters may disappoint seasoned anime viewers who've seen these tropes repeatedly. Iruka's incessant screaming further detracts from the experience, making him a character to truly despise. Some characters, like Owari, could have been great if not for an excessive display of perviness.

Despite these issues, some interactions between characters manage to be enjoyable, and a few characters have redeeming qualities that make them likable on a basic level. However, the game takes an extra step with certain stereotypes, ruining the potential for a more diverse and engaging cast.


Our World is Ended is a mixed bag – a visual novel with wasted potential due to stereotyped characters. If you're new to it or can overlook repetitive, excessive character archetypes, you might find enjoyment here. However, for seasoned anime fans and VN players, be prepared for induced stupidity, plot holes, and some cringe-worthy moments. Approach with caution, and you might find some fun moments amid the letdowns.

On a macro level, this VN is a mess. The plot technically exists, but feels like it was written chapter-by-chapter without any actual plans for the future - events flow into other events usually with at least some thread of logic, but the pacing is all over the place and it rarely feels like it's actually building to anything in particular (there were, like, three points where I thought it was over and then more plot suddenly appeared).

However, on a micro - moment-to-moment - level, this VN is fantastic. The art is good, the interface is stylish, the music is fine (if not the most memorable), and the jokes work pretty reliably. I don't remember the last time I laughed this much during a visual novel. I enjoyed pretty much my entire time reading this, even if now that I've finished it I think I'd have a hard time describing what it was actually about in any concrete terms. If you think you'd be OK with that, buy this as soon as it goes on sale.

There is one thing I regret about Our World Is Ended – that I did not play it earlier, when I just received it last summer. I think I just needed to be in the right mood for it, and thanks God it finally happened last week. To say that I am enjoying the game right now is to say nothing. There are so many amazing things about it!

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❤️️Story

The first two chapter are full to the brim with the lighthearted fanservice. Here we have a girl in a school uniform and a swimming suit, an elf with huge…chest, a tentacle monster that melts clothes away, banana in cream and a dubious sword, erotic phantasies of two complete perverts and one seemingly normal guy, and etc. and etc. Later on, the fanservice still raises its head quite often – just look at Tatiana, the walking-lolicon-fetish. However, it starts getting more focus and more dark undertones the further you read. During mindless adventures of our seven characters, I could not but feel that something was off. Maybe because of the warning at the very beginning of the game (remember that mysterious girl in the devastated city?) or maybe because the whole concept of a virtual world can never be harmless. I do not trust anything that tries messing with my head.

I think I should warn you right away that the first playthrough will always have the Normal ending. It does not matter at all which choices you made. And only after the Normal ending do you get new routes – to the hearts of your friends, no less. There are a lot of possible outcomes, even though you will need quite some time to get to them.

💙Writing

Here I have two important points to mention. First, the story flow is quite natural and easy to follow. Yes, there are lots of light-hearted moments that have already become tropes thanks to countless anime series. Yes, sometimes they take a bit too much time. But! I feel that all of them were actually necessary. To build the atmosphere, to give characters and their relationships some development, as well as to trick us into believing that everything is normal, that there is nothing hiding in the darkness waiting to bite you on your rear side. At the same time, there is a lot of good comedy and no less of cheesy one; I honestly laughed hard during the sword summoning ritual in the second chapter. Gosh, that was hilarious! Stupid, but hilarious as heck. My only complaint is that there were really too many jokes about chest-size at times. I am no stranger to this type of humor – even one of my favorite series (Slayers) has it, - but the pure concentration of this topic in the second chapter alone was overwhelming. If this kind of humor is not your cup of tea, then you should probably skip Our World Is Ended completely.

In addition to the funny parts mentioned above, there is also a good dose of other genres. The most obvious one is sci-fi, and it is implemented in various really curious ways. There are several plot twists that were presented just at the right moments. If it is not good writing with enough foreshadowing and revelations, then I do not know what it is! There were also a lot of touching moment that made my heart ache.

However, sadly, there is also a fly in the ointment. A small but pretty annoying insect - typos. You will notice them from the very beginning: missed letters, a bit misspelled words, and some other small things. They are not that annoying or frequent, but still obvious. And yes, I do understand that Yuno’s words were written wrongly on purpose (I am talking about vowels), so I do not count them. At the same time, I did not notice any major grammar or vocabulary mistakes, so the overall translation is good.

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🧡Characters

Oh boy! There is a whole collection of stereotypical anime freaks: a careless school girl with big…chest, a true pervert, a neckbeard supreme who is actually a great guy (he even has a fedora!), a goth tsundere, a flat-chested tsundere, a cute loli, and a simple college student. Oh, and even a yaoi-loving scientists (*evil laughter intensifies*). Not also add side characters such as a typical game NPC for boys (read: a perverted elf woman with huge, huge breasts and a bunch of fetishes), a café waitress, several notorious villains, and even a scary robo-bear. And many others. To cut a long story short, Our World Is Ended has a very colorful collection of people that you can usually find in a common anime. The main question here is quite simple, though: does the game use this great potential well or just drop into yet another harem-comedy-slice-of-life-fanservice abyss? Well, my answer is also simple – yes, it presents every person perfectly and gives them just enough development to flash out interesting personalities. Even the most stereotypical characters do not feel flat and work well with the story. I honestly enjoyed interactions between main guys and gals: their jokes were unique for each of them, and romantic bits were really sweet. We will also find out more about Judgment 7 members’ backgrounds and lives in later chapters.

💚Interactive features

In addition to the common choices that we often see in visual novels, Our World Is Ended has an interesting system called S.O.S. - Selection of Soul. You will see lines of text flying across your screen, and your task is to choose one of them – a bit similar to Danganronp. But be careful – only one variant is correct and can help your improve relationships with particular characters. Unfortunately, all choices are present only once, so you cannot just wait until the end of the scene and select the option you liked most. My advice here is to save before every S.O.S. scene, read all lines, and only then go for one of them.

The story itself is very, very long – it took me about 21 hours to complete the game just once. Or I read really slowly, who knows. If you have already started worrying “oh gosh, it will take me too long to see all ending at this rate!”, then I have a good solution for you. It is called Scene Jump. Thanks to this handy feature, you can just skip to the next choice right away. Or even to the beginning of the new chapter.

💛Overall presentation

This is also a very important part of any visual novel – hence the name, duh. What can I say about it? Splendid, outstanding, delightful, and drop-dead gorgeous. In addition to the impressive animations – from simple blinking eyes to whole scenes, - the artwork itself is just an eye-candy in each and every aspect! Lots of beautiful CGs, neatly drawn backgrounds, creative User Interface, bright colors and fancy effects everywhere. All characters have their own special style, too.

What about music and voice acting? Also a huge A+ to people who did them. All tracks were really good and different – so there was not a single scene without a proper sound effect. Characters’ voices worked perfectly with their personalities and had a good specter of emotions. All in all, great work, developers!

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To sum up, Our World Is Ended boasts a diverse story line that takes its sweet time to get to something more serious. However, once it does, you will not be disappointed, trust me. If you also do not mind anime-specific humor and lots of cliché moments (khm-khm-harem-khm-khm), then hours spent with this visual novel will bring you a lot of enjoyment. It is very colorful, emotional, hilarious, touching, and absurd at the same time.

So, let us Change The World together!

This game had great potential, but that potential is ruined by insufferable characters and comedy that is over-reliant on jokes relating to something perverted or misunderstandings. I wanted to recommend this game so much whenever I experienced a flash of brilliance, but it wasn't reasonable to do so with all the flaws so blatantly in my face. Don't waste your time on this visual novel, as it will just leave you with a bad taste in your mouth. Please play a more fulfilling visual novel. Please.



This game really disappoints me. The art is excellent, and there are also other good factors; however, the shortcomings of this visual novel make me unable to recommend it to anyone. I'll go into a few reasons as to why I feel this way.

The characters. They are the main thing that I dislike about this game. You play as a spineless college student who works part-time at this hellhole of a game development company. You basically have an airhead, a perverted genius, a delusional psycho, an a**hole, another a**hole, and a literal little kid. The two a**hole characters constantly berate or actually physically harm the main character for either no reason or slight misunderstandings that the game believes to be comedy. As for the perverted genius and delusional psycho, their purpose is to add to the "comedy" by being quirky and wacky. Later in the story, they become much more tolerable and even admirable, but for the most part, they are annoying to listen to. The airhead and little kid are the only main characters that I can actually imagine myself enjoying being around in real life. They actually act like normal humans and don't constantly abuse or annoy the main character. Yuno, the airhead, provides you with solace amidst the pain of the rest of the cast. Tatiana, the literal little kid, brings along the vibes of having a daughter of your own, even if she has the annoying downsides that all little kids have. However, despite how pleasant these characters are in comparison to others, it is hard to enjoy them when you're surrounded by the rest of the cast. I can't go into more without spoiling various story points, but just know that a majority of these characters are individuals that you would be hard-pressed to want to be around in person. Hell, some of them I would outright ignore the existence of entirely or report them to the police if I could. I can absolutely see why the majority of the cast basically have no friends outside of their game development company. But why the visual novel chose to include characters this insufferable, I genuinely don't know. The game is actively aware that this cast of characters is insufferable based on a variety of statements throughout the visual novel, so it just makes me wonder, "Why include them then?" They eventually become more likable, and there is this one point in the story where all their positive qualities are being displayed, but my opinion of these characters already was so low at this point that it had a minimal effect on changing my opinion of them. I honestly was bewildered that the developers would make such insufferable characters that I had to put up with for hours upon hours just to have a story point saying, "They aren't as bad as they seem!" This was genuinely one of the points of the game that solidified my stance on the characters of this game. Every character had some potential to be great, but the developers just decided to completely take a big, stinky dump all over a majority of them. I'll stop myself here, as I have much more to say about each individual character, but this section is already long enough as it is. If you can tell, I really find the characters to be a major factor in why I dislike this game.

The "comedy." It mainly consists of your main character thinking something perverted, causing a misunderstanding/issue with the abusive characters, and then getting hit or verbally berated. That is what they consider to be comedy in this game. If you have watched any generic seasonal romcom anime from the 2000s-2010s, then you can probably understand what the comedy consists of here. It is genuinely so bad and ill-placed at times. However, despite my annoyance with the overly abundant usage of perverted jokes, I found the comedy that didn't include the previously mentioned things to be quite funny. It's a shame that these great moments are overshadowed by the low points in this game's comedy. It genuinely pains me how much potential the comedy had.

The story. By itself, the concept is interesting and engaging; however, the developers ruined yet another potential point of interest in this visual novel. The story feels like it doesn't know when to be serious or not. Along with this, characters make decisions that are downright idiotic just for the sake of a "wacky" moment in the plot. Seeing this happen multiple times is infuriating. There is also a consistency issue between chapters, as the main story the visual novel is trying to convey gets either thrown to the wayside, hard focused on, or just vaguely mentioned. As another review said, it just feels like the developers had a bunch of ideas and just haphazardly stitched them together with the guise of an overarching story. Most of the story just feels like a slog, and this isn't helped by the whole S.O.S. system, which is pretty barebones in its "branching paths." Also, in the later chapters, there were many translation errors. Everything was still perfectly understandable, but it is just jarring to see so many translation errors in an official release on Steam. I liked the concept of the story, but it just let me down with its lost potential.

The user interface. Everything is so cluttered and muddled with unnecessary colors and patterns. I genuinely didn't even notice my autosaves until around 2 hours into the game after deciding to specifically look for it. I understand why they wanted to construct the user interface this way aesthetically, but it just isn't functional. I prefer functionality over looking quirky. Being able to change the F key options would have been nice too, as I would rather fully save a game instead of quick saving. There are also rampant translation and English syntax/grammar errors near the middle/later portions of the game, but they aren't major. Also, managing route prioritization gets really annoying after a while, but those are the complaints of an achievement hunter, so alas.

Overall, the main problem with this game would be the insufferable characters you need to interact with throughout the entirety of the game, paired with the most juvenile and generic romcom/slice-of-life/school anime jokes shoved down your throat whenever they think it is "appropriate" to do so. Yuno/Tatiana, the showings of potential, the actually good humor, the interesting/unique story points (at times), the excellent voice acting, and the nice artwork allowed me to trudge through this slog of a game; however, that doesn't mean I will ever recommend this game to another human being. This game is a massive piece of wasted potential, and I advise everyone to stay away and play something else.