When it's just a standard RPG, it's a great adventure! I enjoyed every aspect of the combat system, the diverse locations, the silly characters, and overall humor! What's really mixing my feelings up though, is that almost none of that has any sort of stake in the actual plot of the game, and while I get that the RPG stuff is just Sunny's dreamscape, 80% of the game has no cohesive ties to any of the game's themes or lessons. For a great example of what this game could've been: Well, it's Deltarune, obviously. Deltarune so far has accomplished a very similar story that instead ties every event, big or small, to the overall narrative. It just adds so much cohesion to the experience, and OMORI has wound up feeling like two very different games stuck together with a glue-stick by comparison. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the whole game from start to finish, but can I say it's revolutionary, or extremely compelling in what it sets out to do with its story? No. It's a good, fun game, with enjoyable characters, and a really fun Earthbound-inspired core. Play it at your convenience.

This game is unbelievably scuffed! The cutscenes are terrifyingly void and lifeless, the gameplay is unpolished and way too slow-paced to have fun, the music doesn’t exist 70% of the time making it feel like I’m play-testing a game that hasn’t come out yet, the bosses are ridiculously hard due to the unreasonably quick draining stamina meter, and the story… well the story would be perfectly serviceable if all of the other elements weren’t as awful as they are. I’m shocked its this bad, but I should’ve spotted the developer’s laziness when I saw the box art for the first time.