Was obsessed with this as a kid when it blew up. This game was such an enormous part of my childhood, I have so much love for it. I think it deserves that love, too, it's really amazing.

Honestly such a beautiful and charming story with such fun characters. I also really like the way battles work, the bullet hell style of gameplay is so fun. I remember being so amazed with how different the alternate routes are and how much it adds to the story, and I still don't think I've seen much like it since. Of course, the meta aspect of it was really fascinating at the time, so gotta give it props for that, too, and its interesting twist on the RPG genre.