Really really cool game. The aesthetic and soundtrack are fantastic and really help build an incredible atmosphere that warps you right back to the 90s. The adventure gameplay is remarkably robust with the freedom to go all kinds of places and pick up tons of extra dialogue at almost any time, but the annoying instances of "investigate this part 20 times and this part 10 times then the first part 10 times again to proceed" and the like dissuaded me from playing without a walkthrough. The jewel save and map system had me confused for a bit but it's pretty neat and straightforward once you get the hang of it and it's really cool seeing the map fill out and diverge as you progress. I found the characters to all be pretty likable and intriguing with their diverse conflicts and the ways they each build on the overarching mystery. While a lot of the dialogue and interactions were just goofy, I was surprised at the kinds of relationships presented in YU-NO that you just never really see in anime. Takuya's complex feelings toward his deceased dad, his difficulty dealing with his oedipus complex, his broken-off relationship with Mitsuki in which they licked each-other's wounds, his evasive attitude toward Mio due to her seeing him and Mitsuki having a good time in the classroom, his coping with Kanna's secret past, and various other dynamics gave YU-NO a distinct air from any other japanese media I've consumed in years. The characters generally took a back-seat to the mystery though which had me very invested throughout the whole story. I did, however, lose some interest in the last route with the huge shift to the fantasy setting. It was interesting in its own way but I vastly preferred the atmosphere and adventure gameplay of the other routes and I didn't find the characters from that section to be nearly as appealing as those in the others. Incest doesn't really gross me out or anything in media but I really don't think they had to have Takuya bang his daughter at the end as it really diminishes the parental vibe that fit with him maturing and becoming more like his dad. It also makes his love to sayless seem a lot less genuine when he's having sex with literally every woman he finds in the other world at the drop of a hat including their daughter. All that being said though, I did thoroughly enjoy the ending as it brought back the sci-fi aspect and connected back to the rest of the game but I wish it would've called back to the other heroines by showing them in the credits or something at least. Closing thought: YU-NO has the best "item found" sound in a video game.