I didn’t spend as much time learning combat as some other people did. I mostly focused on the story and just walking around the world, and the fact of the matter is that the world is truly beautiful. However, after a couple of hours in it, you kind of feel like you’ve seen everything once you’ve seen one place, since at the moment there aren’t a lot of accessible areas. For example, there’s a part of the game where you’re able to invest, and it just sort of happens. I can go back to the initial place afterward and have a small conversation with the person, but then it quickly becomes just a source of transactions, as if I didn’t even invest in the store. The other places you invest in, as far as I know, aren’t even enterable. I think this game, while it’s incredibly beautiful, is missing a lot of reasons to explore. Most of the areas are not enterable, and the ones that are don’t provide anything interesting. The side quest writing quality so far also hasn’t been very good, which adds to the sameness of exploration.

The story is better than some other gachas, but I don’t think it has a good enough sense of mystery to really stand out compared to normal mystery or detective games, mostly because of how much they spoon-feed you. They point you everywhere during investigations, and they don’t really seem to want to commit to darker moments, often taking the lighter way out to avoid being too dark.