Playing this directly after spending an hour on homework after I got back home from watching a 3 hour and 26 minute movie (and also drank 74 grams of sugars worth of soda) was NOT fun dude.

I LOVE the character designs in this and the graphics are really charming. I love the models and whatever but this has to be one of the most frustrating arcade games I've ever played... it's just not fun. My favorite thing about this game though is when you lose full health as Spike, his son? or brother? detaches from Spike's back and hops off and starts mimicking his punches and stuff-- it's just so cute. The OST honestly is pretty mid in this except for the first stage in the Opera thingy or whatever. I literally couldn't take it anymore after the 4th level I just couldn't put up with the boring beat em up move sets and fighting the ten trillionth boss that would kick my ass 3 rounds in a row. Maybe I'm just bad at this game who knows...

I'm not sure if I could trust anyone that actually likes this visual novel if I'm being real. I honestly only played this because I had "Saya's Song" stuck in my head for like a week and thought to myself at 1 AM today to finally give the stupid VN a go (knowing I wasn't going to like it). Anyways I did manage to play it through in like 3 sittings since it was short but Jesus Christ was it actually awful. I also got every ending so before any dudebro with nonce particles inside them gets rowdy thinking I only got one ending or something, CALM DOWN.

I liked certain concepts of the game such as Saya being a sort of "idol" to Fuminori, but I genuinely wished the game didn't try cramming down stupid unnecessary sex scenes down our throats like "heh... isn't this EVIL and DARKSIDED? take a glimpse at Urobuchi's DARK and TWISTED mind... heh". Like great, thanks Urobuchi I don't like you. Everyone and their grandma is like nnooo nooo these sexual scenes are supposed to cement how far gone Fuminori is and how he's losing his humanity and like it's to show how he and Saya are the only lonely people in each other's worlds and- BLAH BLAH BLAH I DONT CARE. IT SUCKS. If I'm being real the sex scenes with Fuminori feel like an excuse for men to find a way to feel aroused during these scenes because clearly they were trying to hit some sort of erotic points for the reader. There are so many things that could have been done better to still prove that Fuminori is a horrible human being without it resorting to sex. I had to keep skipping the h scenes and their dialogue because why would any sane person want to see a grown ass man doing all of that to someone who looks like a ten year old. If I had a nickel for how many times I saw the word manhood as a replacement for the word penis I'd have enough money to fly to Japan and drop an anvil on Urobuchi's head.

Anyways, I just don't appreciate how pessimistic and misanthropic this visual novel is, and I guess I'm glad I finally played through this myself so I can mentally throw rocks and strike people with psychic beams anytime I see someone praise this horrendous piece of slop.

There was a period of time where like for 3 weeks I was way too hooked with this game and it genuinely somehow ruined my sleep schedule WAY MORE than it already was. Like I couldn't make it passed 10 minutes every day without having the violent urge to check this game and collect whatever gold was waiting for me it was an actual nightmare

This was like last year though and I got over the addiction after realizing during week 3 of me being chained to this game that it was literally ruining my life so please clap and cheer for me guys