Half baked combat mechanics, middling cast of characters, meaningless and nonsensical story, bland level design and aesthetics, shockingly light dating elements considering how much of a selling point they were- this game disappoints on all fronts. The dialogue can be pretty funny sometimes, albeit severely lacking in taste. The game is also short enough that I was able to power through the simple combat encounters that make up the vast majority of the gameplay. Either way, just go play Persona instead. Hell, I heard Tokyo Xanadu is basically this but better.

enjoyable persona ripoff with queer romance options... shame it's kinda mid.

I haven't researched the team or this games development but it kinda feels like what went wrong was budget/experience related. It feels kinda like an amateur project with some experienced leads.

I'd be interested to see where this studio goes after this, I'd love to have competent persona-like action JRPGs with queer romance options be more readily available, as it stands, this isn't the best.

If you aren't looking specifically for queer romance options in a game like this I'd say you're better off just playing persona. But if the representation is important to you, give this a spin.