without mods this game would be nowhere near my favourite games of all time. with mods i return to skyrim every year with a fresh load order and let todd howard take me the fuck away. its hard to give a rating to something that i demolish and rebuild every playthrough, but the sheer amount of hours of roleplaying delight i get from this game makes it very special

its the video game equivalent of a big bowl of soup with some crusty bread

its cute but it lacks in the combat aspect (very easy, no point to combos when mashing is more effective, only two dungeons) and the visual novel aspect (the writing never gets very deep, its missing essential vn features like a conversation log, quicksave/quickload etc.)

would love more depth to the writing as the characters are already likeable, more complexity and variation to the combat which is already fun, and overall just more length. it could really do with looking at typical features of its genres and taking a bit more from them (new game plus? a skill tree? bad/normal/true endings?)

overall its half baked, but the ingredients are tasty.

(HAVING SAID THIS lets be real its a dating game where everybody is hot and into you and doesnt care about gender so if you wanna live in that world its still a good time would recommend)

playing this game as an 8 year old girl was like being handed a bisexual pill