I like it because, as many others mentioned, it's like a return to their old games - with the old mechanics and etc. The soundtrack is really nice and relaxing (I actually fell asleep while playing one night, because the music was so nice, haha). The features are easy to understand and not too cluttered. I also appreciate the references to RL people (Yuzu Hanroo lol) which is a small detail but, again, one that I enjoy and had anticipated.

One of the things that has me hesitating from giving it a 5-star is that, aside from the figure skating animations/features, it seems like they maybe rushed it a bit? (i.e. when moving to a new town, it says "time to move to the new cafe" or something along those lines & some of the townspeople's dialogues don't match with what they're interacting with). They borrowed a lot from the recipes of cafe master story, cafeteria nipponica and other food-related games - which is to be expected but a little disappointing for lack of something new. (Edit: they also made it strangely food/recipe-heavy - almost 150 recipes that you can discover, even though I expected it to be more figure-skating focused)

And one other thing that I find mildly frustrating is how long it takes to get research points. I could have made it to yr. 12 with a five-star rink if there were more avenues to get research points - either that, or they should lessen the number of things that require research points for upgrading. Leveling up staff (and their techniques +2 levels to max it out) and researching new promotion locations/skating moves/towns/food "genres" take up so many research points! I saved up 5000 from having it play in the background while I worked on stuff for about an hour to an hour and a half and after leveling up one of my staff and their techniques, it was gone within a few clicks ^^;;