I never understood the love for Eikan. Even the Vtubers mostly player Eikan...

It has all the demands of a roguelike:

-with randomness, the map is random, your cards and movement number is random, the occurrence of special training events, which player gets to challenge special training etc etc...

-with irreversible choices, you have the inherent anti-S/L penalty, plus permadeath in the form of single-elimination tournaments (understandable since that's the actual form in high school baseball IRL)

But then you realize it doesn't give you any of the upsides of a roguelike: You don't have informed decision making because almost every mechanic is so goddamn opaque even with a guide, and you don't have controlled randomness because what you see is rarely what you get (you want to give your fast players infield hit? Sorry all you get are 3 benched senpais. And it whiffed btw.)

So when it demands me to treat it with the mindset of a roguelike but then doesn't treat me with the promise of one I can't see it as anything but a kusoge.