"There's no room for logic in the realm of dreams, Professor."

I like it when a game is just consistent enough to make you stay up at night thinking about how it could be better, and that's basically what happened with this game. It's a great time if you want stories that you don't think about too hard (which I did want. I literally only played this because I thought 'oh, Hikari is going to hit every single overdone trope that I love so much in RPGs', and then his story did exactly that and I clapped and cheered).

Other than the storytelling (which starts out generally surprisingly strong, and then has most of the individual stories end very predictably, if not straight up fall apart into nonsense), the game delivers in almost every other aspect. It looks great, sounds fantastic (the voice acting feels awkward sometimes even by my low standards, especially a few sections where the recordings were clearly poorly mixed and the volume didn't match the rest of the game; but when it's good, it's good), and the battle system is a joy to figure out and break in half.

I feel like I will have more agonizing thoughts about this game than I probably should. Now to pray that one day there's a third game that refines things even further...