The best part of this kind of game is that you can commit very little time to it here and there if you want to keep things progressing before BED TIME when you get to throw 2-3 hours in.
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I knew absolutely nothing about this game going into it, other than it was a brainpunk visual novel. I'm glad I did because the tone of the game/ANIME-ASS SHIT the refuses not to be horny or make dad-jokes about how japanese pronunciations of certain words sound like different things.
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I tend to go as hard as I can on speech-related character options in the RPG's that allow for it, so I've found that this "lower level of interaction" in visual novels is not dissimilar to how I engage with games that give me the choice to play them that way.
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Something is wrong with my brain because I saw this on game pass and said "nice, i can try one of these newer more interesting visual novels for free" - then a few months later after never playing it, I saw that it was $9 on switch. Knowing how much better of an experience this kind of game is for me on switch, I just went for it.
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About 6 hours in the same problematic part of my brain got 13 Sentinels overnighted to my house. I didn't choose to expedite the shipping that way, but I needed more of this kind of game in my life.
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Didn't even realize a sequel just came out.