Generally fun game even if it takes a fair bit to click and give you enough options to actually get around to messing with its systems, and surprisingly for the more open-ended games without proper time limits in the series, the general story and event progression is very natural. Sadly the endgame is bogged down by the rumor mechanic. While not much, some key materials (and recipes that are unlocked by gathering those materials) are locked behind getting specific rumors to trigger in the café, leading to situations in which you can basically spend 4 hours just fishing for a rumor to gain access to a material that would let you finish specific event chains. The idea for purchasing rumors being tied to actually spawning what they're about instead of just nudging the player in the direction of a nice secret in general feels completely wrong. Thankfully the postgame is its entire own thing, so you can ignore having to deal with that.

On a more positive note, this game has some of the best tracks in the series, and considering how good the music in GUST games tends to be, that's saying something.

Truly the monkey's paw of open LGBT relationships in japanese media

Excellent game with a very unique and mostly interesting story, sadly dragged down by delving too much into torture porn with certain scenes (the "..." scene and both dead ends that follow, specifically) and an extremely unconvincing ending sequence that goes against the core themes of at least 2 of the most important characters in the narrative.

At least the dungeon for the true ending goes hard