Gets a bit too repetitive as you near the end.

Very clearly unfinished but I enjoyed it when I was younger.

Played a lot of this as a kid. It's probably terrible

A 4X game with a compelling story. How?!

I never knew how to do any of the moves as a child

It doesn't stick the ending in any of the routes unfortunately.

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I have abandoned because I never got that Golden Ending. I played through all the other ones and knew how to get it but I just stopped.
Maybe the updated release gives some of the endings more oomph but in the original they're all comically bad. The nature of the mystery and even the genre changes depending on which ending you get but it only affects the last chapter of 10 in every run. So there's big tone changes whenever you get to the final chapter and most of the endings aren't properly built up to and just fizzle out.
The best ending you can get on a first run is hilariously anti-climatic. It basically amounts to "There wasn't a mystery. She kind of just didn't want to talk to you that much and everyone is very stubborn about not telling you."

I just wanted to play Mahjong on the Steam Deck! Don't look at me like that!!

And you know what they call a quarter pounder in France? Rhythm Paradise.

I remember there were one or two minigames where the controls just did not work

I could never finish this one as a kid. It was way harder than the sequels