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As a concept it's interesting. The first play through is interesting. Everything after that is a drag and unnecessary. But this message doesn't hit well as a game. The levels are beyond irritating. Its esoteric idiosyncrasies are lost in needing to do the same levels over and over again with only the last line of dialog changing. That's it. That's all the replay value.

This game is like if you combined Ib and Corpse Party- and I'm not mad about it.

Points that could be improved on:
-The cut scenes were extremely chippy and pixelated, I think something happened in translation but they are glitchy.
-The chase sequences are brutally long. It was frustrating how many times I had to repeat the same scenes.
-The story bits about Ann are irrelevant? It seemed like those were going to go somewhere, but it fell a little flat. I get wanting to create backstory for the main character, but all that was succeeded here was a sickly "oh, that sucks" feeling.

Despite that, I am recommending it because it is very nostalgic with it's Ib + Corpse Party mixed elements- but it's a new spin on it. It's cute, and despite my frustration with the long chase sequences, I enjoyed it. It's also free, who could say no to that?

The game asks you for your social security number and your credit card information to prove your age.
I am 25 years old. The game glitched when I was putting my age in and at the time of posting this, the game thinks I am 3 months old. Customer service won't help.
This game used to be great, then they did this ♥♥♥♥.

What an adorable game! Overall a short and pleasant read. (Take about 1h off my play time because I was also chatting on Discord lol.) The art is nice to look at, no exaggerated anatomy and simple yet effective detail. Despite the characters having certain tropes, I liked how they were a liiittle more than their stereotype- enough to keep the paths interesting. They're written well. The optional other romances are adorable as well! (Kiyomi and Nanami really get around lol).
My only quips about the game is the repetitive music and the forced swearing. There could have been a little more diversity with the track, especially when going the route of the music student. The game gave way to some swearing, which I wouldn't mind- however it felt very forced, and only happened in the after-credit scenes of whichever girl you started dating. I felt it was unnecessary and excessive. It's okay to have the characters swear, but maybe sprinkle it through the story instead of forcing them at the end.
All in all a cute game. It's only a couple hours of game play and it's free, so you really have nothing to lose 8]

This game certainly took me by surprise. The things you think you see coming are so astronomically beyond what you initially think they are. It throws a lot of surprises at you, keeps you on your toes, and it involves you so much more than any other game I've seen in this game style.

If you're a fan of suspense, psychological horror and surprise then I highly recommend this game. Normally one would expect games of this quality to be a hefty price, but as of right now it is free- so there is no excuse for you not to at least try it out!

I got this game on sale and I still wouldn't recommend it. Sorry.

There's a lot of things that irk me about this game already and I haven't even gotten passed world 4 yet.
This game promises a certain level of "character creation" by asking what your gender and "preference" is. It asks what type of girls/guys your into and there's an option where you can make the character gay. Even though the game gives you this option, it doesn't like that you chose that, so instead says "fine then she/he's just your friend"
Then the game blatantly ignores any and all choices you've made and throws you into the bolted down script of a lovesick hothead while all the "villains" do what any other flat villain would do: tell him to give up, she's a lost cause, ect. But He'll never give up, because he's ~*~in love~*~ with her.
Then there's team picking. Picking your team is tedious and confusing unless you look up a walkthrough to figure out who to pick. None of the characters you can pick from are explained, the game sort of expects you to figure it out on your own?
But the biggest pet peeve of mine is this game's save system. It claims to save your progress every 5 fights or so but that's another blatant lie. The save stations are few and far between, and it expects you to dedicate hours of gameplay just to get to the next save station.

Short version: this game offers a lot of things it can't keep up with. You're better off spending your money elsewhere.

There is only one thing I have to complain about:
The translations. While it was just enough to understand, there were a lot of noticable grammar mistakes that almost make you reread the text a few times. It wouldn't bother me if it was every once in a while, but this was an issue in every cut scene.

Otherwise? I throughly enjoyed this game's play style. It's not absurdly difficult. It presented enough of a challenge where it was fun but not extremely tedious and rage-enducing. Even the bits of level-grinding, though a tad repetative can get pretty fun because they like to mix it up a bit.
This is a game I think many will enjoy. It's got stuff for the completionists to focus on, content for the story lovers and some stuff for the puzzle-lovers. It's a casual RPG
Plus, it's free! There's nothing to lose by giving this game a try.

Got it for like $0.16 from a friend. This game had a great and startling beginning, then develed into satanic garbage, which is not exactly horror.
The puzzles are weird, they don't give you clear objective as to how to beat them or what to do. The game went from scary to lame the moment it went to the grave-pentagram puzzle.
This game in my opinion is so bad I wouldn't even recommend it on sale.
Maybe if you're absolutely bored and it's free then go for it. But I wouldn't spend actual money on this.

I recommend this game if you like those "pick your own path" type games. It's interesting, despite a few irk-some things about it.

Pros:
+In-Depth, unique and descriptive supernatural elements. Can't really describe this without spoiling though.
+Likeable characters, if you look beyond the stereotypes.
+It's free
+You can be a lesbian for free

Cons:
-Art is cringe worthy and unproportioned 20-40% of the time. (The teacher's face proportions in the beginning made me a little angry)
-Voice acting's either a hit or miss. Some people did their jobs well and have very fitting voices, others seemed to struggle with dialouge.
-Stereotypical beginning, key story elements and some stereotypical characters. Key word "some" because the characters all seem to portray some stereotype but in the story they have a few quirks that break said stereotype.
-VERY repetative when trying to land one of the demon boys. Dialouge shows no change, minus the name is replaced.

I don't know how much I can actually explain without spoiling, but I hope this review is found useful to some.

WOW THIS GAME.
Got it for $5 in the Indie Megabooth Gold Pack, specifically for this game. So worth it.
It's so frustrating, but so amusing. Gravity works about 65% of the time, but only to tick the player off ever more.

10/10 would glub again