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Cant tell how sincere this is but lol
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Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
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4 still has fun stuff around it. The characters are enjoyable, even if anime-tropey, the setting is really well executed and the villain of most of the game is great. The clear conservative bias of the writers, the times when it strays too far into anime-bullshit territory, and the pretty awkward connection of the plot of most of the game to the obligatory mythological megaten-style plot are big minuses though.
I wasn't especially under the charm of the characters, it's a game that I finished at a time when I saw it as a duty to finish what I bought, and certainly wouldn't do that today. However, I found Ai Ebihara (not sure about the name) interesting narratively as well as in gameplay (I appreciated being "punished", so to speak, for being the hypocrite expected in every other social links), and an excellent personification of the central theme.
We'll agree completely on the villain, there's something "real" about them; I totally can see someone acting the same way, given the possibility. Don't know if Hashino is responsible for this character, but if it's the case, I'll praise him without any reluctance.
Didn't work at all on me. Never could shake off the impression that it was as artificial as the 5 corridors that constitute Inaba... And yet I love the Japanese countryside as a setting, notably in Miyazaki's movies or the Boku no Natsuyasumi series.