This review is going to be pretty brief. In short, this game sucks.

The story itself is okay, because it mostly follows the first part of the manga series from when he sees the mysterious girl on the roof of the school to the first valentine day during his first year of high school (48 in the manga). It would have been nice if it was a new story, but I have no complaints that it tells me the story for the third time (first manga, second time is drama cds, third is this game, and fourth is when I get the DVDs).

Like the manga, this story is broken up into 48 chapters, each chapter taking about 10 minute to play. In total, I don't think I took more than 10 hours combined, but I started this game in April and only finished now. Haven't had much time to devote to it.

The main rant I have is the the game engine itself. Having played through a few of these romantic adventures, I expected more.

The only positive I have is that during dialog selection, it tries to mimick Junpei's indecisiveness by having a time limit. For example, you're given two choices, but if you don't choose any of the two, it gives an alternate response (almost like a third choice). The other unique part of the game is a "movie making" mini-game, but it's pretty lame. Now for the negative.

There are voices for all 4 girls with the same CV as the anime and drama CDs. But that's it. None of the other characters are voiced.

There's no history, so you can't scroll back to re-read text. For someone forgetful like me, it's not very convenient.

You can only save at the end of each chapter, rather than at any time. And they only give you 10 save slots on the memory card.

The story path I took ended up with getting chocolates from all 4 girls (yay!).

Rating: 1/4

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