Standard romance VN, where you’re an exchange student in Japan, befriending 3 girls whom you’ll get to know and maybe fall in love.

There’s absolutely nothing outstanding here although I was somewhat enjoying the ride until two things happened:

1- At a certain point you get to choose one of three destinations suggested by each girl for a school field trip. Fair enough. But come the time to choose and two of the three choices were greyed out including the destination I wanted. I thought the game had glitched. After a quick search it turns out that depending on your previous interactions not all options are available. Ok, but if that’s the case don’t offer me the choice! Obviously the designers want to entice you to replay to unlock all pathways but this is not how you do it. So that kinda miffed me.

2- That’s the final chapter. This game is really short. Just as you should be settling in on your quest for love the game is basically over and I had to walk that path I was forced to take that included some depressing medical drama I was trying to avoid.

I only completed the game because I knew I didn’t have further to go, otherwise I would have jumped ship.

VN absurdity.
On the surface- A floating talking cat guides you on a journey of a lifetime…Where you try to find a way to regain your body as you roam the house you live in, as a spirit - But take heed, any inadvertent sighting of panties from your roommates and the world shall be destroyed! Literally. The End Complete. So tread carefully my friend. And there’s a countdown to Doomsday with an asteroid hurtling towards Earth, cheered on by a terrorist organization wanting to annihilate humanity. What’s the connection? 7 billion people are at risk and you’re humanity’s only hope to try and figure it out to save us all.

That’s the game and if you can’t see how enjoyable that could be, we can’t be friends.

But wait! There’s more!

Just when you think the game is about to conclude, you realize that you’re only halfway there, and a whole time loop, body swapping story emerges. And after all the ludicrous insanity early on, it is slowly revealed that there’s an actual method behind this madness. There’s more than meets the eye here. Stupid and ridiculously funny at times but some dark undertones and some thought provoking philosophical ideas on existentialism are at its core concept.

As for “playing “, the first half consists of scaring your roommates so you can feed off their fear and be able to perform Trick Chains of cause and effect to achieve a specific goal to move the story forward. The second half is a fairly straightforward VN, with a series of narrative options to choose from. Although it appears there’s only one true path to victory, as a few choices I made destroyed the earth and ended the game. Reload and choose the other path to continue.

The game is presented in episodic format like the anime it’s based on and actually has full sequences of the anime imbedded within.

I had fun with it, but It’s definitely not for everyone. Proceed with caution. Now will somebody get that theme song out of my head!