There are a lot of good and bad things to consider when reviewing this title. If you are a fan of visual novels with interesting gameplay mechanics, it would be worth picking up. At the time of this review, it's definitely worth it at $16.

Pros:
- Most of the game has voiced lines, with the internal monologue for scenes left silent
- Characters have a lot of unique qualities. Most of them fall into various tropes that any fans of anime will pick up on easily, which may annoy some.
- The branching paths have logical reasoning when reviewed in hind sight. I was only locked from a path twice in my playthrough
- When swapping paths, there are logs to help remind you of what occurred on a path you are returning to.
- The story kept me guessing on what was going on. As I have played a few visual novels from Spike Chunsoft, I felt a lot of curve balls being thrown that led me down the wrong path and kept me guessing about the real story.

Cons
- Some scenes require a lot of clicking around to exhaust all lines of dialogue before you can move on. This leaves some tedium when in a scene for too long.
- If you aren't a fan of anime or visual novels constantly throwing flashbacks at you, some scenes will drag on with a "we get it" vibe hanging over the scene
- The reuse of animations and sets can be tedious. (Watching Ota be spoonfed omelet rice wasn't fun the first time, let alone the other five.)
- Quick time events. These aren't as bad as they could be, but I still hate them.

I enjoyed the 20ish hours of time I spent with the game. It's nice to see a visual novel that allows you to explore multiple routes and has mechanics that give incentive to see everything along the way. The hard locks I hit were not clear on how to bypass them, but I only had to ask for help on one Somnium event.

There are a lot of good and bad things to consider when reviewing this title. If you are a fan of visual novels with interesting gameplay mechanics, it would be worth picking up. At the time of this review, it's definitely worth it at $16. Pros: - Most of the game has voiced lines, with the internal monologue for scenes left silent - Characters have a lot of unique qualities. Most of them fall into various tropes that any fans of anime will pick up on easily, which may annoy some. - The branching paths have logical reasoning when reviewed in hind sight. I was only locked from a path twice in my playthrough - When swapping paths, there are logs to help remind you of what occurred on a path you are returning to. - The story kept me guessing on what was going on. As I have played a few visual novels from Spike Chunsoft, I felt a lot of curve balls being thrown that led me down the wrong path and kept me guessing about the real story. Cons - Some scenes require a lot of clicking around to exhaust all lines of dialogue before you can move on. This leaves some tedium when in a scene for too long. - If you aren't a fan of anime or visual novels constantly throwing flashbacks at you, some scenes will drag on with a "we get it" vibe hanging over the scene - The reuse of animations and sets can be tedious. (Watching Ota be spoonfed omelet rice wasn't fun the first time, let alone the other five.) - Quick time events. These aren't as bad as they could be, but I still hate them. I enjoyed the 20ish hours of time I spent with the game. It's nice to see a visual novel that allows you to explore multiple routes and has mechanics that give incentive to see everything along the way. The hard locks I hit were not clear on how to bypass them, but I only had to ask for help on one Somnium event.