I really liked this game. It’s an Earthbound style rpg with some horror elements, and if you dig games like Undertale or LISA, or even Yume Nikki to a certain extent, you’ll probably like this one too. The music and the visuals are so good in this, and the Earthbound-esque writing is perfectly fun and silly, while the horror elements are suitably creepy, and the story will take you to some high highs, and some low lows. I don’t have a whole lot to say about this other than it’s a really well done game in that style.

The only thing that I wasn't really a fan of is that there is a twist towards the end which I have issues with. For the vast majority of the game you're under the impression that a character has committed suicide, and the narrative deals with this really well. The suicide has caused your friend group to break up as everyone has their own methods of coping, but in the end they come together and deal with it in a very well written way. But then a plot twist reveals that it was actually the protagonist who killed this character in an accident, and then he and another character framed it as a suicide to cover up his guilt. It just felt like a gross way to engage with that topic to me, especially since it was handled so well before that point. I just wish that between the suicide story, and the dealing with guilt story, they chose one or the other rather than combining them in this kind of gross way.

If they wanted to do the guilt story, they could have kept everything the same but simply not gone the extra step of having the characters frame the death as a suicide, and rather just had the protagonist lie about how the death happened. But even with all that said, it still does some cool stuff with its ending that I really liked, and it’s definitely earned its spot as a top tier game in my opinion.