It pulls enough of our own pop-culture into the story to be more relatable, while also retaining the very clear Japanese nuance that will always be present with a Japanese visual novel. I was especially happy with the way the dialogue was written. They aren’t funny, they don’t move the story forward and they don’t develop any of the characters. Though I read the more ‘family-friendly’ version available on Steam, I can’t imagine having naughty scenes added would add much context to these strangely placed lines. The other issue is that there are very misplaced perverted lines that seem shoehorned in merely as fan service. In fact, the story is extremely linear once you make your choice of love interest. The most prominent issue is that, with the concept of time travel and changing decisions being the underlying theme of the story, there aren’t any points during the story that you are given the opportunity to make branching decisions outside of choosing routes for whichever character you are planning on wooing. This leads to the two biggest flaws of the visual novel for me. As I said, it’s a romance, plain and simple. When it boils down to it, this is a visual novel about a guy at school who has never had a girlfriend, and is trying to find love.
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