A fairly cozy RPG experience despite its seemingly dark premise, one that in its small town setting, does a lot to make the character interactions between its many basic yet distinct personalities play off each other well as a unit in a way not seen in most RPGs, where party characters are solely defined by their goals and hardly if ever personally interact outside of that for basic happenings of life. The game’s antagonist is a highlight, and works perfectly for what it’s suggesting about the state of the world at that time.

On that note, people who get incredibly angry at this game for having 2008 Japanese societal awareness and not 2022 western world societal awareness are the same people who would unironically shame fans of this game for not having enough media literacy.