this game is making me loose it a little bit because i am playing it 10 years to late and there is no one to talk to about this damn game.
that said! an interesting relic of its time. maybe a bit too long, but overall very satisfying with how innocuous many "silly" details felt at first in the dating sim half (nageki being a ghost, kazuaki smelling of bleach) were actually perfectly incorporated by the end. the game really presented you with this "superficial" first half that wound up just being the set-up for the core of the game + wonderful pay-off in the second half. ("superficial" because still fun an enjoyable!) honestly i was really ready for it to end but by the time the doctor gave revealed his insane homoerotic backstory i was incredibly hooked, and by the time the bonus epilogue finished i was like wow ok yes i care about these stupid characters! it's really meticulously structured where most characters exist for a very specific narrative reason despite initially presenting as fulfilling some archetypal checklist for dating sims. gaming!