What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?

I got into Stardew Valley a month and change ago and woooooow it is exactly what I was looking for in a game. Nothing especially bad can happen, you get to grow things and raise animals and decorate your house and make friends with people. :D Low stakes high enjoyment fun (including actual puzzles!).

Been playing a lot of Diablo 4 and TotK. I've been enjoying the creative and open-worldness of TotK, while enjoying the overall art and general vibe of Diablo 4.

I think TotK is a more polished game at the moment, which I think is to be expected from games like Zelda where it's strictly single player.

My biggest gripe with Diablo 4 is that you're in this big open world with other players like a MMORPG but there literally "community feel" yet. I ask for help on the server I'm on when I get stuck but there is never any response to help, or communication in general.
I'm talking into the air, it feels like. lol

Final fantasy XV. Its not bad, I played through pocket edition a few years back. I like it but I'm on a stealth mission that's kicking my butt.

I started playing Spiritfarer the other day as a way of coping with the passing of my dog a few days ago, and also a divorce of a marriage of 19 years.

On the odd times, I've been playing Doom 2016 (I need to finish it to free some space on the HD), Spiderman (got it as a father's day gift last year and I've been putting it off, also need to free some space on HD), and I'm trying to improve my game on Tetris Effect.

Sorry for the edit, forgot to put some thoughts about the games.

I'm still early on Spiritfarer, but it's quite beautiful (both visually and thematically). I'm not big on managing games, but as far as it goes, it's very laid back, much like stardew valley, but more story oriented.

Doom 2016 I guess everybody knows. I enjoyed it until about halfway into the story, but I'm actually a bit jaded on it now, it's becoming a chore, and I just want to finish it more because I'm getting close to the end, and I'd feel terrible to just drop it at this point.

I'm enjoying Spiderman, minus some of the side missions / challenges, specially the taskmaster ones. But the story is good, actually makes me want to get into Miles Morales afterwards.

Tetris is something I just am always playing sometimes in whatever platform it's available. I discovered Tetris Effect a couple months ago and fell in love with its gimmicks. Too bad I suck at Tetris.

Picked up Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri recently and have been enjoying that quite a bit. Playing many of the older games really shows how much our UIs have improved over the years, but the core gameplay holds up very well!

I've been playing a lot of rimworld, but on the easiest difficulty lol. I enjoy the community building and trading aspect of it more than the combat and disasters. Might not be the right way to play, but I find it fun.

After a lot of time excited for the System Shock remake, I'm glad to report that it's turned out great. That is, except for this weird semi-game breaking bug I've run into in this single cyberspace section (Maintenance level) where the sounds suddenly stop working, then the framerate plummets, then the game simply crashes. It's an optional section, hence semi-game breaking, but just strange and frustrating that there's nothing I can do about it.

EDIT: It’s not an optional section, I don’t know why I thought it was. I sort of just kept trying until it worked.

HROT also got its official 1.0 release! I'm looking forward to getting to it once I'm through with Shock.

I hacked my 3DS following the shutdown of the eShop so I've downloaded a ton of games from series I've never played before. I've played a bit of Dragon Quest VIII and I'm quite enjoying it. The only JRPG I've played is Pokemon and I've been told this is a good next step at getting into the genre.

I've been getting back into SWTOR the last couple of months. Been actively enjoying the game more than I have in past years. I've been finding it fun diving back into the Star Wars universe and discovering new things in the game that I hadn't done before. It is nice to see that all these years later, they are still adding content to the game and trying to make improvements. My biggest concern is the economy and the massive inflation that exists in the game. I know BioWare is taking steps to try to combat the inflation, but I feel like it may be far too gone to fix. Regardless, it has been fun to get back into to kill some free time.

Not much of a video gamer, but when I do get into one it occupies all my idle time. Tears of the Kingdom is where I'm spending my cycles these days. I'm really enjoying the changed dynamic from the Breath of the Wild, and trying to break old habits and develop new ones as the new skills make for different solutions to problems.

I still find myself climbing things unnecessarily when I could use Ascend to just transport up through or even ride a fallen rock via Recall.

I was casually browsing the software centre on my linux laptop recently. I found and downloaded a game called AAAAXY just because its description looked interesting.

Basically, it's an open-source puzzle/platformer game based on "impossible" geometry. It was interesting enough to keep me busy for 24 or 48 hours, and it has a bunch of easter eggs. It's also speedrunable, which is something I'd consider to do in the future.

Other than that... I've been building some important parts of my (IRL) city in Minecraft survival mode recently. It takes a lot of time but it looks quite good.

I reopened pokemon go recently but it seems to be slowly dying as a game.

The past couple weeks I've put in ~65 hours apparently into Torchlight 2 on the Switch. Some may already be familiar with this game, which was originally released on PC in 2012. It was ported to some consoles a few years ago. It's not receiving any content updates since Runic Games went kaput a bunch of years back. Torchlight 2 kind of reminds me of Diablo 2 in some ways (not surprising considering some of the people from Blizzard North worked at Runic Games). It definitely feels simpler / more streamlined and does not approach the complexity of other ARPG's like Path of Exile.

I dunno exactly what it is about this game, but it really hooked me. I'd been playing a bunch of Path of Exile earlier this year and I guess I find it refreshing to get into an ARPG that I can actually understand and reasonably build a character myself. As well, the end game doesn't feel like it's trying to punish me at every turn like Path of Exile does. But content-wise, it's nowhere near Path of Exile, 'nor any other modern ARPG really.

Otherwise, been having some fun with yet another playthrough of Stardew Valley, my ultimate cozy comfort game that always seems to manage to put a smile on my face.

Ring Fit Adventure

After watching the thoroughly entertaining speedrun of the game at SGDQ, I ordered a copy and my husband and I have been playing it.

I highly recommend it. Neat game design, good exercises.

I'm sore, but the good kind of sore.

PUNCH FIT

I've been doing a lot of Beat Saber and Synth Riders for a while now as VR workouts, but I've played enough of them that they're getting a little same-y, and I'm on the market to diversify (which is part of why I'm currently liking Ring Fit).

I've tried out a couple of workout-esque games to varying degrees of enjoyment, but this is one that is going to have genuine sticking power. It's got floating outlines for the different types of punches you can do (jabs, hooks, etc.), and the workouts are essentially just Simon Says rounds with different patterns of punches.

I was surprised to discover that the game is fully free and doesn't have any microtransactions. It's very polished and satisfying to play. When I started playing the free version, I thought I was going to have to pay money to unlock the rest, and I was ready and willing. Turns out it's just sort of fully, completely free, which is awesome.

I currently play quite a lot of games. Terraria, Diablo 4, WH40K: Boltgun, Quake 2 Pro. All of these games are really good in my opinion, especially the nostalgia I get from playing Boltgun and Q2. Railing someone in the face has always been the best distraction for me. I would recommend playing all of them to be honest, even if I don't like to support Activision Blizzard with money, someone gifted me D4 so I felt like I really had not choice in playing it. I do like it quite a lot though.

I recently installed Sifu. I still have these urges to challenge myself in games and while I can still do a pretty good job, I notice that my patience has been wearing a bit thin at times. Having said that, Sifu has been pretty fun and it while it is difficult it does seem fair. It feels like the more time I put into it the better I get and I develop a better idea of the timing and the mechanics behind the game. I am hoping that I can play through all of it before getting too frustrated. I did a pretty good on the first level my first time playing, but the second level completely kicked my butt.

On a different note, I've been reading a bit about the roleplaying game Dialect - has anyone here played that and what are you thoughts on it? It looks fun as an exercise in roleplaying, but is it something that you can get multiple games out of or does it lose its charm?

Assetto Corsa Competizione

• one of the (if not) the best simracing titles for GT3/GT4 racing, my most played simracing title so far

Rimworld

• amazing colony builder, I've tried several others, but always go back to the Rimworld

Returnal

• enjoyable roguelike shooter with an intriguing story

I had been playing Cassette Beasts on my Steam Deck. I put 10 hours into it then lost interest. The character design is fantastic but it's not enough to carry the mediocre story.

I really fell in love again with EVE online again, which I played last like 10 years or so ago. I play with my partner who never played themselves and we got into a university style corporation and we've been having a blast. The game is so odd and slow, but when it clicks it's one of the best feeling games imo.

Also Street Fighter 6 came out and we've been playing that a bunch, really fun. I just which they had added more customization with having to pay or play the story mode. I'm really just interested in 1v1 :s

Well I've been playing WoW since the new patch dropped (well I've been playing on and off since 2005 but you know), and I've been really enjoying it. I feel like I'm more or less running out of new content though, so aside from a reputation grind or two I'm not sure how long I'll stay subscribed for - yesterday, I got the achievement for 90 Exalted Reputations, but I don't know just yet if I'll stick around to be trying for 100. It seems very far away

I've been putting serious time into The Outlast Trials. Such a fun game with friends and even with randoms it hasn't been that bad!

Found a unit in Arma 3 a little bit ago and have been really loving that when I get a chance to play in their ops. That and League of Legends have taken my time for the past few months now.

Oscillating between TotK and Splatoon 3, as usual, but in about 40 minutes the first of three “Too Many Trizookas” rotations is about to begin. While this is the second “Challenge” released it’s really the first that uses truly unique rules (the first was just Turf War on the new stages and no secondary abilities, so not really that much of a challenge), so I’m looking forward to it and the chaos of all Trizooka weapons with an auto-filling special gauge.

I've been playing through some old Dreamcast games, having never owned the system myself. It's been interesting! A couple of standouts are Giga Wing 1 and 2, particularly the second one. They're not masterpieces, but they are pretty fun shooters with nutso plots. The shield mechanic is a bit clunky in the first game, but I like the laser version in the sequel. I also appreciate the infinite continues allowed by both games, since I'm not particularly good at the game.

I've been kind of intentionally avoiding the bigger titles, so I haven't played too many others that I've enjoyed. The biggest exception is ChuChu Rocket!, which is really fun! I wish I had more of a chance to really get into the multiplayer, since it's absolutely nuts.

I've been splitting my time between The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and No Man's Sky.

I shared some of my thoughts about TotK earlier but I really enjoy the expansive world along with the new sandbox elements. For the first week or two I had the game I was trying to make progress towards finishing the story but now I'm distracted just exploring the world. Even though its the same basic world as BotW, there's quite a lot different with this new world that I'm having a ton of fun exploring areas I've already seen. The Sky Islands and the Depths are also both pretty fun to explore around.

I got back into No Man's Sky following the recent Apple Silicon release. I preordered the game and remember being massively let down on release day. It was amazing just how far they were from the game they promised back in 2016. However, they've worked relentlessly to bring so many free updates. I gave the game another shot in 2020 when I got at trial for Xbox Game Pass and really enjoyed it. The Apple Silicon release brought the game back to my attention so I bought it on Steam and have been playing it on and off. Really enjoying the relaxed game mode that simplifies a lot of the tedium and grinding involved in regular NMS gameplay and just lets me zoom around in my spaceship and explore solar systems.

League of Legends.

My account is currently sitting at a 48% winrate across roughly 900 Unranked Draft games throughout its history. Put it this way, my MMR is currently so low that I'm basically elohelled and being matched with players who are either smurfing or brand-new to the game. At the moment I am trying to improve my matchmaking rating as an ADC. so I can finally get some good practice in.

The other day I had a chain of very easy wins where I carried as Tristana and Quinn. Today though, it's just been shitty teammates actively throwing my matches.

I've recently picked up Trackmania again. I'm very rusty and it's tough, but it really is the perfect game to play while watching something.
Besides that, I've been playing modded Minecraft with a friend, on a modpack called "Stoneblock". I hadn't played Minecraft in a while, and these new mods are pretty cool. Especially one called "Create".
I really want to play FF14 again too. I haven't had enough time to play to justify paying a subscription these past few months.

Final Fantasy II - The Pixel Remaster. I'm playing them all in order before XVI's PC release. The game is good. I wouldn't say better than FFI however. FFI didn't have that deep of a story and focused primarily on the gameplay...which was innovative at the time. I feel like FFII took a similar gameplay formula, added a couple tweaks, but then fired out a crazy fucking story to go along with it. I'm more than halfway through and I'm honestly confused as to who is what and what is who. At this point I'm just following the prompts haha

I installed Emudeck on my Steam Deck recently. I recently finished the "Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney" original trilogy (Steam) and now I want to replay the rest of the main series. So I found a Nintendo DS ROM for "Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney." I'm in the second case at the moment. I can't remember which specific DS emulator I'm using, but it works amazingly well with the Steam Deck right outta the box. Didn't have to mess around with control schemes for the most part; it just worked.

I did start Live A Live (Steam) last week. This is a remaster of an old SNES JRPG that was never released in the West. It plays like Octopath Traveler, in that there are several main characters and that you play through each of their stories. Except with Live A Live, they take place at different times in history. So far, I've done the story for a character that lived in Prehistoric times. I also did one that took place in "modern times" (which, given the age of the game, is more like the early 90s). Now I'm working on the story for the "Near Future," which feels like the actual modern day, but with some tech that we don't quite have yet. The game has things that remind me of both Earthbound and Chrono Trigger. Which is great, since those are two of my most favorite JRPGs.

Otherwise, still playing Eve and FFXIV. Finally moving through the post-Stormblood content in FFXIV, after taking my sweet time (like 4 months) gaining access to and learning the optional dungeons and raids. Roped another friend into trying FFXIV. Oh, I also visited a player-owned "club" called "Femboy Hooters." It was an experience, to say the least.

Has anyone else been playing Humanity? I've heard other people say it's a lot like a modern lemmings but I never played that (did anyone play pit-droids back in the day? It's similar as well). It's a fantastic puzzle game and I've really been enjoying it. The overall theme is engaging if not a little weird in a fun way, and I am chasing 100% since getting the extra objectives unlocks lots of fun skins for the mob of people you control.

I’ve been playing strictly fortnite with the little guy lately, I started when it had first came out and then fell out of love with it about 2 years in, until the implementation of zero builds. Other than that, I have enjoyed the more popular games, Call of duty, both MP and Zombies, Forza horizon, Mlb the show when it came to Xbox game pass. Lately if I’m not playing fortnite with the little guy I’ve been into mobile games, Subway surfers is my current guilty pleasure phone game.

I've been playing the Strawberry Jam mod for Celeste, which came out a few months ago. It's an incredible mod, with fun levels, beautiful art, and great music. I had held off on getting into modded Celeste for a while, but its such a simple process with Everest, and I'm glad I started.

Been playing a lot of MW2, but I'm starting to give up, I swear theres at least 2 hackers in every single lobby, it's pretty ridiculous. Besides that FFXIV and Tower of Fantasy have my heart.

I beat Horizon Forbidden West and its DLC, Burning Shores, a couple weeks ago. The main game is a big step up from Zero Dawn but the open world is far less interesting to me and lacks a lot of spectacle. Both of those were rectified in Burning Shores though, and safe to say I'm excited for the inevitable Horizon 3.

I've also been replaying Spider-Man PS4 (the PS5 remaster anyway) in preparation for Spider-Man 2 this year and, yeah, I still like this game. I'm doing NG+ converted from my PS4 save. Spider-Man is one of the few open world games I feel can justify having an open world since the web swinging is so fun.

Dwarf Fortress - I picked it up when the Steam version came out and have fallen in love with it, even though I generally prefer pretty graphics in games, the depth of the DF experience won me over very quickly. Only downside is it has killed my interest in most other colony sims as they feel so shallow in comparison.

Satisfactory - I have had it for about 3 years, played it a bit when I bought it, but then put it on the virtual shelf to play when it got out of Early Access. A couple of weeks back I got a hankering for a good factory game and loaded Satisfactory back up and am really enjoying it. I love the relaxed vibe of the game where you progress at your own pace, you aren't forced to make optimal setups unless you want to, it will just take longer to achive the in game goals. It is a beatiful game world to explore.

Elden Ring.

It's a good game I'm sure but I kind of hate it. I hate getting killed and doing corpse runs. I hate the dragons that you can't lock on to their feet. I hate the summon necessity.

It's just not for me. I'm excited to play Uncharted 4(?) for the first time next.

I'm playing Divinity: Original Sin on Steam Deck. My opinion is that the game is loooooong. But I knew that :-) And while the game is great, and I really mean that, I'm looking forward to finishing it.

I play one big game at a time, so this one kinda blocks.me from playing another. And because it is so good, I don't want to abandon it.

You will do alot of reading anddecision making if you want to play it. Also some battles can be challenging especially if you didn't master the mechanics of the game.

DoomRL and Cogmind. They're both roguelikes.

DoomRL I like because it's not as complex as many roguelikes but still has a good few character"builds" you could make for different types of gameplay. It has Crafting better guns, etc too.

Cogmind I've just started but seems more complex. Your character is a robot you can add parts to and you get stronger based on parts, not from levelling and experience.

Since I was away from home the last few days I've been playing Shattered Pixel Dungeon, it's a very good traditional roguelike, it has a good mobile UI, simple but dynamic classes, completely free as well... Probably the best one I've played on mobile, it's just *chef's kiss*.

Now that I have my PC with me I've been meaning to give Slayers X a try, I watched a stream of it a couple days ago and that game looks like a Duke Nukem shitpost, it's beautiful to say the least.

Alright, two games I haven't seen mentioned yet are Age of Wonders 4 and Overwatch 2. AoW4 has honestly been a blast. I've been looking for a game which scratches the Civ itch, but has some complexity around customization of the civilization (in this case, race) that you build. It has magic! The combat system is awesome! The game really needs some improvements around multiplayer, but I've put a crazy number of hours into the game. There's actually a campaign, too.

Not a lot of FPS gamers in the Tildes community, I see... And with the way Blizzard has been going, especially with regards to OW2, I don't have much hope left for OW2. They killed PvE, and seem to be taking the route of prioritizing monetization of cosmetics, versus focusing on improving gameplay. That said, it remains a pretty enjoyable FPS game to play with friends.

I've been hitting the Switch hard lately. In addition to TotK, I finally picked up Mario Kart 8, Mario Maker 2 (after watching the amazing relay race at SGDQ), and Metroid Dread. I'm also playing a bit of Super Mario Bros 3, as I've never played any NES or SNES Mario games besides Super Mario Bros.

Oh, I also beat Haiku, the Robot yesterday. It's a very cute, but tight metroidvania. It was only about 7 hours, but I personally find that a pretty good length for some metroidvania games. It's part of one of Humble's bundles right now, so I recommend picking that up! This is, of course, on top of my weekly Destiny 2 hours that I put in. The new dungeon has been great.

Marvel's Spider-Man and Hades. I've played both before, but I'm preparing for their sequels and am very excited for them. I know I'll be sobbing tomorrow over SM's ending though lol. Still need to play Miles Morales, and hoping it goes on sale during Steam's Summer Sale whenever that is.

Definitely love both games, extremely well written. Hades, I had already heard its reputation, but was still extremely impressed with. Basically the only roguelike that has held my attention for dozens of hours.

With SM, I was very surprised with just how great its story was. Yes, the MJ/Miles forced stealth missions are tedious in comparison with the rest of the game, but I'm hoping the sequel doesn't completely abandon the storytelling from them and instead tries to build upon the last two MJ missions which were far more fun to play rather than omit them entirely.

Also need to play the DLC for SM as well, but I'm thinking of starting a gaming project that's less action oriented. Maybe the Pathfinder games next.

Not exactly original, but I've been playing Street Fighter 6. It's stellar. The game modes are great, the base gameplay is very well thought out for every skill level, the cast feels balanced right now.

I do wish the UI was better and the monetization was a bit less aggressive, but I'm quite happy.

DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE?!

Warframe's circuit steel path needs some improvement. The grind from tiers 1-5 is manageable, but I did 5-10 last week and it was positively miserable grind (public sessions). Wish I had a semi dedicated Warframe group!

Most recently I've been playing Harvest Moon: Skytree Village. I grabbed it from the hshop with low expectations and blitzed through the first spring, and... Well, my expectations were right. It's a pretty "empty" game, the village is very lackluster and the characters are mostly flat. The story is just the standard "revive the town" formula and, well, very child-like. I mostly just mash the A button to get through the text dumps.

That said, there's a lot of depth to the farming mechanics compared to the other games. You can terraform the farm, and they use that to the full extent. There's all sorts of crop mutations that can be impacted by the season, soil quality, elevation, and fertilizer. I have no clue how many fertilizers exist beyond "a lot", I swear there's a fertilizer made with every crop. Meanwhile animals apparently have skills, and also traits or personalities which can be inherited by breeding using different potions...?

Basically, it feels like they put all their effort into the farming mechanics. It's disappointing because the rest of the game is just so lacking, there's no real motivation to fully explore the mechanics unless you're a completionist-type player. Maybe if it wasn't under the Harvest Moon brand it could be successful as a focused farming sim, but the mechanics just feel wasted.

Pokemon Unbound romhack which is based off FireRed. I'm enjoying it a ton as the GBA pokemon games were some of my favorites. Lots of QoL improvements, deep story, and huge amounts of Pokemon to catch. It's the first romhack I've played and I'm super impressed with the quality.

For the past I don't even know how long I've been playing a very limited number of games: Demon's Souls (DeS), RDR2, Psychonauts, Days Gone, Mad Max. I get new stuff, and I just go back to the same ones.

-Demon's Souls
DeS is so gorgeous and desolate. I tend to get tired near end game when I get very far into world tendency and just start over again.

-RDR2
Honestly I think this may be the greatest game ever made, and I've been playing since the only computer game was Trek (played on a printer). It's just so deep and wonderfully written. The only thing I don't like is that it switches characters midway. It arguably breaks a narrative rule regarding main characters that game devs haven't learned yet from fiction. Still, I understand why they did it. And they had a much better reason than Naughty Dog did in TLoU2. They easily could've let us play Arthur until the end, and then brought in John. Anyway, it's a great great game.

-Psychonauts
I have loved Psychonauts since that opening scene. I've played this so many times. It's so sweet and funny and inventive. And filled with so much heart.

-Days Gone/Mad Max
I love both of these games, but they're not that deep. The criticism about Days Gone is warranted, and the main character honestly is kind of a caricature. Plus, his relationship with his scientist girlfriend is trite--the kind of relationship a high school kid might write. Still, riding around on a motorcycle during a zombie apocalypse is kind of irresistible.

Mad Max's mechanics are fabulous, and I love the setting. And, let's face it, blowing up cars is great fun. And the explosions! Ah. But it runs a little long and, like I said, isn't that deep.

Currently flip-flopping between New Pokemon Snap and Splatoon 3. I very much want to purchase Tears of the Kingdom, but I never got around to playing Breath of the Wild and I want to do that first. New Pokemon Snap is so relaxing for me and Splatoon 3 makes me so competitive. I saw Stardew Valley mentioned upthread and while I love Stardew Valley, I put in so many hours that I'm now at the point where it is more stressful for me to play than relaxing because I try to cram in so many activities/farm improvements in one day. The same sort of happened to me with Animal Crossing: New Horizons. :(

I want to also start Factorio after another person described it to me (they were currently addicted to playing it) and I somehow missed the news that Tales of Symphonia was remastered for the Switch!?

With the Nintendo Online subscription plus the availability of virtual titles, I am seriously considering downsizing my physical gaming collection to just Switch and PS4 titles.

Currently playing dragon's dogma, was on a steep sale on steam (probably due to the squal coming out soon.) Never played it before, but man is it difficult. I haven't played to many old school rpgs in a while so I've forgoten how unforgiving the difficulty curve is. Think I've died at least once every hour but been enjoying regardless.

I finally am giving the new rebooted Saints Row a try. I've been a fan since the first, original Saints Row and have everything up until Agents of Mayhem. Was skittish when they announced the new reboot, and the trailer to it broke the SaintsRow sub. Only recently did I decide to give it a shot when it was on sale for $30 (which a week later a different friend let me know it was on sale for $5 at best buy)

Overall, what people said about it at release were right. It feels like a game whose mechanics game straight out of a 2012 game. Nothing new, nothing refreshing, even very janky for a 2022 game.

But, there is still some of the SR spirit in there with a lot of the usual absurdities found in SR titles. The minigames are very hit or miss, collectables are a bit iffy and still seemingly a bit buggy this far after released. There are a lot of pop culture easter eggs that seem a little forced or out of nowhere. If you're a fan of the Saints Row serious or like generally casual gaming you might enjoy it as a time killer. Otherwise it's a pretty forgettable game.

Started up Everspace 2, and it's quite good, as it turns out.

Less than an hour in and I already feel like I'm navigating the UI like I've been playing it for days. Love games that get you comfortable right away. I've been so hungry for good space games, and I think I'm going to really like this one. Glad I'm playing it now before I get into Starfield, too, as from the looks of it, I'm going to get sucked into that one.

Finished 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim a few days ago. Liked the stories for some characters (Natsuno, Tsukasa), really didn't like others (Juro, Iori). I normally don't mind the high school settings ubiquitous in Japanese media, but I got sick of it here. I don't know if my story selection made it worse by front-loading it all, but it definitely soured me on the game a bit. Great story and music otherwise. Hitoshi Sakimoto doesn't miss, as far as I'm concerned.