Let me start off by saying that I've started this game at least 5 times, and none of those times, could I even get past the first day. I'm a perfectionist, I need to have everything be perfect, optimal, pristine. That's something this game doesn't let you have though, and I'm grateful for it.

Despite not getting through that first day, this game left a taste in my mouth wanting more. The choices it forces you to make, the regrets you have for not doing something right the first time, the struggle to earn enough money to avert disaster. All of these things are a microchasm in just the first day alone that resonate throughout the entire story. Frankly, there's no lack of things to do either. Not once was I bored, and even in the stretch of the game where I decided to grind for money, I was working towards something. This game is not a journey of the hero, a simple romance, or typical RPG. In this game, you need to evaluate your own choices, and you reap the consequences of them accordingly. When I actually sat down and did my full playthrough of the game, and I recommend to everyone you do not use a guide on the first playthrough, just let it happen and do what you see fit (IT MAKES IT SO REAL DUDE), I could not stop playing until I reached the symbolic epilogue. This is a game not with a story for you to just experience, but a story for you to write yourself. Everything ends up mattering, everything will hurt someone, somewhere. And while the game teaches you that we cannot always be good, we are in fact, always sometimes monsters.