It’s… fine I guess. This has become a game that I play to space out for a bit after work and I think I’m near the end of what’s released so far but I’m just tired of how tedious the grind has become in this last part. I think the gameplay itself is fun if you don’t expect too much from it, being a free gacha game and all. The story has been whatever so far but I like the characters. It’s nice to look at too. Everything else is ughhh why did this have to be a gacha, it’s so held back because of that in so many ways

I really want to like this game more but I’ll probably drop it once I get Miyabi, it can be dumb mindless fun but I just can’t understand how Mihoyo fans don’t get even slightly burned out from constantly playing these games

GAME… START

One of those things where the more I read, the more I found to love about it. The Little Busters themselves are my favourite main VN cast, each character felt so loveable all with their own stories that I enjoyed a lot. When it comes to my favourite casts in general, that’s something I still need to think about, but they would 100% be up there in my favourites. And then there’s Refrain… it’s been on my mind since finishing it and it’s easily up there in one of my favourite final chapters in general. It isn’t something you can talk about with spoiling but damn it really changes the way you see the VN and made me appreciate even more than I already did. Not to go too much into it but there were already parts of the character routes that hit pretty personally, but then Refrain comes along and increases that by 100. It almost felt like Maeda was after me specifically with this
It’s a long one for sure (I was literally just under 100 hours by the end of Refrain), but if you want a long VN with a ton of enjoyment then I can’t recommend this enough. There’s also fun minigames, like baseball and apparently a dungeon crawler that I haven’t seen yet. Even after all that time, I’m going through the EX routes and don’t even feel slightly burned out

Riki is our hero 🫡

Editing and adding this on since I’ve finished EX now and this was just perfect. These three new character routes were my favourite non-Refrain routes. It gave me more of two characters that I wanted to see more of (Kanata and Sasami) and also introduced a new character who had my favourite character route (Saya). Not only were these great routes on their own, but even added more onto the main VN and Refrain. This really brought me appreciation up even higher, and I can easily now call this one of my favourite VNs. This wasn’t my first introduction to Key (Planetarian was one of my first VNs and I watched Angel Beats/the Kanon anime maaaany years ago) but this was my first big VN by them. And I can definitely say that I’ll be checking the rest out