Well on something like day 11 (8 hours?), enough for a review anyways. So here goes.

Graphics: Has a look/feel like it was made for the SNES or Sega Genesis. Graphically it's about as demanding, or less so (so far). Characters, images, icons, splash screens, intro, all look good and clean. Some characters are even more animated outside of them talking.

Music is nice, very nice actually. No complaints. Synthy and new age.

Characters feel like people. They are written with more than 1-2 notes, and instead drift in a variety of emotions. Actually going with writing, there's a lot of serious stuff that is covered. Loss, emotional stress, poetic cryptic requests, underage kids trying to get drinks, social/group interactions, worry, recovering. Okay maybe it's not all serious, but they feel like real situations and real people.

Mechanics: It's a visual novel. Pretty straight forward. This means often the most used key is my space bar while reading text and getting a little semi-bored, and yet riveted at the same time. Otherwise there's mixing drinks for 1-2 people, and a money management mini-game where you have to manage funds from getting paid and paying rent or electricity, or buying stuff so Jill can concentrate, stuff for her. Although money management does kinda feel shoed in.

On the side there's also reading news articles for recent events, or forums of people bantering over said topic be it camo underwear or if they suspect alice_rabbit to be hacking the banks. It looks pretty natural and not shoed in.

Regardless. TL;DR: Superb writing and music, Visual novel.

Music/Sound: 4/5 - Great
Writing: 10/10 - Superb!
Graphics: 3/5 - Sufficient
Mechanics: 3/5 - sufficient

Total: 20/25

Finished it. Oh god so much text...

Apparently there's like 6 endings, which I can't be bothered with to re-read to get perfect scores on everything.

But not much else to comment on. I'm ready for something else to do...



edit: Guess I should add the game has a NG+ mode. This means you can play again. The biggest difference in NG+ mode is you keep what you already bought or what you already collected, but still have to pay the 2-3 events that come up (electricity and rent and... what else?), this might make it easier to get the other endings, but each ending as hinted in NG+ they tell you what you need to do. Servings the one girl the drinks she expects, figuring out all the proper answers for Mr Viretro, etc.

All in all I can't stand doing it again.

This is interesting. Watching some backlogs of Jim Sterlings videos, and came across.... Virgillio... I didn't know he was a reference to a Skit Jim does, but that look and question mark on his forehead really makes it obvious.

Guess no one is playing this game here...

I just finished it for the first time last night and got an ending. Then as you saw I saw there was a NG+ which indicated there were more.

Upon more research, Steam forums mention some triggers to get some of the other endings but... I'm not sure I understand how the game works, because in my first playthrough, I managed to hit the criteria for multiple endings, but only received one.

The better you do the more endings you unlock. I've read a bit of how to get the other endings, and a lot of it is listening/reading and remembering. What one person says they really want 3 days previously that you serve them for example.

The 'endings' are a wrong way to put it, it's actually cutscenes of how things unfold in certain times and events. Since they all have different dates it's like one day in January where you go out for a date, and what's his name is watching your boss's apartment, but they are all on different days. More closure than different endings.

I'd say if you played it, just watch all the endings done on YouTube.