Schlocky but fun haunted house story that punches above its weight with limited visuals and stellar sound design. I felt the tension and spookiness hard the first couple of times, but successive playthroughs unlock goofier dialogue options that kinda highlight just how little most of the choices matter. Hard to tell how many choices actually determine your route/ending without any English guides at time of writing, but most of them seem to only exist for the player to RP as the protagonist. That’s fine on its own, but quite a few dialogue options didn’t even get a unique response from the game/characters in the moment.

I get why it’s considered a classic, and I’m really glad I played it, even if it didn’t blow me away. Definitely worth a look for its historical value if you love the genre. I can see the influence it had on so many other VN’s I love.