Possibly the most charming game ever. I love everything about the way characters look in this game. It's one of my favorite kinds of games that involve learning all about an eccentric cast of characters, their wants and needs, their daily routine, all to eventually find out how to kiss them. This is also one of those games where you can just feel it's love for the world and all the odd people in it. The dialogue in this game is genuinely very funny and well written, and the game manages to get in some commentary on becoming an adult, what it means to truly love someone, adult cynicism vs child optimism, and the different kinds of love that exist in the world.

Unfortunately, the biggest problem with this game is the fact that it is nearly impossible without a guide. In fact, the NA release of this game had a manual that also served as a strategy guide, which makes sense because so much of this game asks you to do things you wouldn't think to ever do on your own. I tried to do as much as possible on my own, which involved me keeping a page of notes, something I love in games, but it can't be avoided. Also, the part of this game that takes place in the Funny Bone Factory is incredibly unforgiving and involves rewatching several long cutscenes and doing the same thing again and again just to have another attempt at a kiss, and if you fail you have to do the whole thing again. These are also some of the hardest kisses in the game, and it's the kind of thing to make me stop playing, or at least stop trying to kiss every character.

Despite some pretty big flaws, I think everyone should at least see this game if they're not going to play it. It really is something special, I loved my time with it even when it made me want to pull my hair out.