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I remember when I bought this, it was together with Meg's Monster in the Meg's Monster x Rakuen Bundle just because I thought, at that time, that Rakuen would be one of those typical light-hearted, chibi-lookin' adventure RPG Maker games. So, of course, I just went ahead and bought it just for the laughs and giggles… But, boy, was I wrong…
Story-wise, I like how I'm kinda getting Omori (Also a great game, btw) vibes with this but with "lesser" horror elements. Hell, even the climax beat is essentially the same with Omori if you've ever played that too lmao. And just like Omori, it literally has the same story beat where you kinda transport from one place to another where the other "realm" is just a cute-sy version that is reminiscent to the horrors of the sad reality. And speaking of sad, the story is also basically just a bunch of compilations of people's sad life stories and you, the player, trying to help them getting over it; so expect maybe some few "I'm not crying, my eyes is just sweating" moments. I also liked the slight twists here and there that this game has shown like how there's a twist of who actually is "the" main character that the story revolves around or who exactly is the thief in the hospital or who your "paralysis demon" really is. And even though I kinda knew where the ending of the game is gonna go, based from all the hints the game feeds you, not gonna lie, the ending still got me kicked down to the emotional ground as it hits a biiiit too close to home lmao.

Gameplay-wise, it is literally a fetch quest galore and the fact that you can't run at all makes it kinda annoying, me thinks. Though, the game does try to alleviate the "stale" fetch quests mechanism and "mashing your spacebar to go through dialogues" gameplay with other epic, fun minigames like a discount diner dash, Move the Block: Slide Puzzle game, avoiding literal ghosts sequences, and listening to a typical disney movie singing segment at the end of a chapter, to name a few. So, yea, I don't think you'll get bored of it throughout your time playing this game.
All in all, I think this is a really good story-driven game! If you're the type "gamer" who's into a glorified story book that has a bunch of sad stories that would highly likely make you emotional but also wants some anti-adhd minigames within said story book, then I would highly recommend for you to check this game out!