Really disappointed to have reached the point of having lost all motivation to continue further at this point after about 9 hours considering this was among my most anticipated games for the longest time.

This is probably the most beautiful sprite art I have ever seen in a game and the world oozes with life. Everything feels great to interact with, but there is just a lack of substance that really breaks my heart. It has tons of quirky characters that I stopped interacting with because the writing was just too bland to care. There are so many weird pacing decisions that grind the game to an absolute halt for 1-2 hours at a time sending you across town to fetch arbitrary things without any meaningful payoff.

I will probably finish this at some point, I just can't bother at the moment. The world and art are just too beautiful to not see it through, I just wish they would have narrowed down a narrative core instead of spreading themselves so paper thin.

Played some 7 hours of it. Gameplay is a bit meh, but you're mostly around for the story, the characters and the vibe. It is very charming, but so incredibly slow that I just lost interest and cannot be bothered to pick it back up. I do love the characters, but a loop of having 2 min of dialogue followed by 5 min of going from point A to B with nothing interesting happening in between kinda gets old. It's really a shame because again it is very charming, and if the same characters in the same art style were in a slice-of-life show or something like that I would love it.