This game is really neat! The story is compelling and fun, the art style is unique, and the puzzles are interesting. I know this is a visual novel and with that comes a somewhat slower pace than other things, but sometimes I became impatient watching the character animations, I just wanted to be able to move around. But it's not a major problem by any means, and the cartoony animations give the game a lot of its charm so I'm not sure I would change that aspect even if I could. Anyway, it's a fun time, glad to have finally gotten around to playing it

The story and the plan the villains have is like, really really far-fetched and impractical, but that's okay. Some incredible moments happen in this game, the sort of main story "date" you have in particular is truly well done, in the upper echelon of "cinematic" video game cut scenes, which maybe isn't saying too much. Ryuji was a really great villain, the cutscenes around the last fight with him rules, the fight was a bit of a joke with weapons/heat actions but that's okay because the fighting in these games is just serviceable to me anyway, not really the main reason I play them. Anyway I'm excited to play Infinite Wealth in 5 years when I catch up to it