Games discourse anticipated a lot of contemporary turns in pop psychology by representing dating and bishoujo games as simulations of emotional manipulation, and the extended guilt-tripping sequence in this game almost feels like a parody based on this sentiment. It's most interesting, I think, as a relic of the sort of low-budget PC-style game development the FC Disk System briefly brought to the Japanese mainstream: it's a game that could have never justified cartridge production, a predecessor of the promotional Flash tie-in. The goon trio was also kind of cunty.

Reviewed on Aug 01, 2023


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