This is one of those games that, when my younger self saw it being announced on Youtube, I just went "oh cool, these reviewers I watch are in a dating sim" and moved on from there.
Fast forward years later to graduating college, I settle down, get ready to relax for a while, and head to bed after the ceremony. As I drift to sleep and into dreams, old memories of all I had done in my life before college come back to me. But when one particular memory comes back, I suddenly jolt awake in a cold sweat. I notice that an hour has passed and the world outside remains pitch black in the dead of night. In this darkness and silence, I utter the words:


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