It's very easy to get lost in this game - there's lots to do and other than battles, everything takes about 30 seconds, so it's easy to get lost in the checklist. Due to the amount that you're "accomplishing" with such speed it's easy to forget that no individual task is really that satisfying and that your progress is mostly incremental. If you're playing strictly for the strategy elements, you're going to have a bad time - this is an otome game with the trappings of a strategy game.

This isn't to say I'm not enjoying myself - I've found myself surprised by how quickly time is flying by when I'm playing - but I'm able to recognize it as a turn-your-brain-off kind of fun. I'm not thinking that hard, I'm not doing anything mechanically intense - I'm talking to characters that are seemingly written specifically to avoid having a second personality trait.

Ultimately, regardless of how fun this game ends up being when I complete it, Nintendo wins. Not only do they have my money, but they have tricked me in to caring deeply about at least 2 of these one-note characters. If anything happens to Marianne I'm airmailing my Switch across the street.