This is a game where I liked pretty much all of its individual parts, but man! I don’t really know what to say when it comes to… how it wanted me to play it properly, I suppose. I guess I’m not super used to time management games? I also played this game over a long time so I genuinely don’t know if this game has a really punishing difficulty curve when it comes to expecting you to understand its systems. Or maybe I’m just dumb. I am probably just dumb because it took me so long to actually use items in fights… at the same time, it does kind of feel like it’s pretty easy to coast through and then suddenly slam into a wall where you’re just barely keeping your head above water, you know?

Anyway, aside from that, I did genuinely enjoy my time with the game. The characters were pretty fun and charming with maybe one exception, and while the game felt a little janky I can’t say it was unforgivably janky. I’d definitely like to revisit a new game plus kind of thing after playing other games in the trilogy and getting a better handle on things.

With that said, I feel like Astrid fell really flat for me as a character and I’m not sure what messed her up for me. Like I was kind of expecting her to be worse based on some impressions friends gave me, but I feel like she’s just Weird enough at Rorona to make me not particularly like her. Which is a shame because I like the rest of the cast a lot and I wish she pulled through! But unfortunately nah.