The more gameplay-focused eroge tend to suffer on the gameplay side, but Baldr Sky is one of the few that actually had a sick loop. Reading the story made me want to fight guys more, and fighting guys made me want to read the story more--both parts are in harmony in a way. I wish I was good at the game tho.

Not to mention, the story on display here is just wonderful. Its fairly hard scifi with a military stint to it, but it never manages to lose the compassion and sentimentality, the human element is always at the center even when characters are talking in paragraphs exclusively comprised of technobabble.

The way it tackles its Big Ideas like AI, the connection of our net personas and our real selves, what it means to be human and all that jazz that has been done so many times before also manages to come off as novel and unique, with perspectives so very rarely really seen in the genre.

Just a wonderful game, really.