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The amount of achievements related to deaths, losses, and imperfection overall is absolutely insane. Having to practically pause buffer my way through the first level just to make sure I didn't get cheated into having a target on my back is, contrary to what some self-esteemlets might say, not fun at all.

Bland as cardboard.

A walking simulator with graffiti tagging is still a walking simulator.

An incredibly klutzy game. The controls tend to be somewhat awkward, the humor is meh tier fast, and from what I've seen of gameplay videos and streams, the game tracks your deaths even if you close the game, but it doesn't track your checkpoint. Yeah, nah. ♥♥♥♥ right off.

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It really is as miserable to play as everyone says. Plus, you can't play it without installing Java, so if that's a concern for you, save your money. Save your money either way, this is genuinely soul-crushing to play.

Project Moon used to be a company with sky-high potential. Lobotomy Corporation was clumsy but okay, and Library of Ruina was a masterpiece. It was looking incredibly promising for them, but then they decided to make gacha. Yes, they explicitly said it was to get money for their next project, and I appreciate the transparency. But you're still reducing yourself to making live service ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

So, let's start years ago when it first launched. Very conveniently, I somehow am denied the initial huge batches of Lunacy for the rocky launch. Okay, great. So they single me out because I dared to be doing other ♥♥♥♥. Totally not shady as ♥♥♥♥. I then play it anyway and get sick of it and drop it.

The story should have ended there. But then, I pick it up again, and I have to struggle with a downright unreasonable resource deficit because I made the wise decision to drop this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Because how dare I do things other than play mobile ♥♥♥♥. And let me tell you, it's a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ SLOG. Mirror Dungeons are absolute AIDS and I'm constantly having to juggle whether or not what dailies I have to sacrifice, or go set a gorillion timers for the most efficient Enkephalin module gathering. I should not have to do this for a mobile game ported to PC, let alone any game. It's completely unreasonable how many hoops I'm expected to jump through.

The worst part is that if this game fails, Project Moon fails. So if we want their actual games, we have to be paypigs for this godawful game. This is the worst part of mobage: if it bombs, it takes the actual video games with it. Every other game PM planned? Well, if you aren't paypigging, it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ gone. I get they wanted to make some money, but there was another way to do that that clearly worked just as well: making an actual damn game.

Still, one good thing came out of this: The Reverb Ensemble going to their offices to get an artist fired(can't make this ♥♥♥♥ up) proved that showing up to a company's headquarters to make demands can actually get you surprisingly effective results. Imagine how much the industry would be improved if we had the balls to do the same to the likes of Bethesda, Valve, and what have you.

In short: Just go do household chores or run errands instead of subjecting yourself to this. It's about the same, minus the FOMO ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Or better yet, play an ACTUAL game by Project Moon instead of this stain on their career.

I'm genuinely surprised by this game being, well, a game. Not just in terms of being more than a kinetic novel, but in terms of actually ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ existing. See, Sad Panda Studios has been more or less going "I'M WORKIN' ON IT" in regards to the promised Crush Crush Hard Mode that was, well, promised years ago, because I can only imagine how stressful it is for them to actually develop a clicker game instead of grifting with LTEs to make a Vtuber model. I can just feel myself needing to crash into slumber by proxy.

Now, the fact that they make a dating sim(traditional kind, with stat-building and such) that, in addition to having solid writing, enjoyable characters(even if at least one of them is used goods, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ you had one job), and H-scenes on par with the most patrician of degenerate VNs? Yeah. I'm pleasantly surprised that they actually ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ did it.

That being said, there's some homophiliac content in this game. Not just yuricuck ♥♥♥♥, but. Well, you have buttsex with a guy. And I'm 99% sure that you need to do it to get the perfect playthrough. Or at the very least, have enough money for it. Yes, you might have to be gay for pay. I don't know.

While that alone makes it a hard No from me, I really wish I could view the sex scenes without saving and loading right before the parts where they start. It's a little tedious to sort through saves to find which one's closest to which, but thankfully it was easy enough for me to backtrack through my saves to find both Bonnibel scenes, and hers are the absolute best. Still, it'd be nice to have, you know?

I can't recommend this game in good faith, but I don't entirely regret pledging to the Kickstarter. SPS is down yet another excuse to not finish Hard Mode, after all. Surely, they'll actually do their ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ jobs, right?

Yeah, of course not.

Decent civilization builder, decent frog-based fraction simulator. I can imagine some would say it's a bit steep for the price, but if you're buying this game, you know what you're getting into.

The amount of bots present in matchmaking is completely unreasonable. There is no reason for 4/6 players in a lobby to be bots with unique player names and avatars to make it look populated. If the game isn't dead, there's no reason for this dishonesty. Besides, no matter how much teabagging they do, they're obviously bots and just as easy to body as a result.

That being said, a few tips for anyone wanting to waste a few hours on this:
1. If a killcam randomly pops up, it's been triggered by a cheater. It never happens otherwise, anyone claiming otherwise is making excuses.
2. Play something else.

I'm still going to boot this up and leave it on the menu to show I will never uninstall it, but that's for the sole purpose of making this one literal kid rage. I'm done playing this. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate that I can be lied to by scummy devs for free, as opposed to the purse-cutting of AAA devs. However, I'd rather play a game that doesn't feel the need for any of this cloak-and-dagger(wrong term?) nonsense.