Emotionally, this thing pays out like a slot machine, but I found a lot of the mechanical choices to be at odds with the thematic nature of the story.

Specifically, when you find a shrine to a god, I found the mechanics to that scrapbook entry to be a bit esoteric, and not in a fun way.

Maybe this is heresy, but I think I would've liked this more without the scrapbooking: just riding a bike around and talking to folks, which is already the best part of the game. When you help the lady pick things to take with her, the scrapbooking is basically an afterthought, and I thought that was the high point of the experience.