I think that the art in this game is genuinely incredible and does a flawless job painting the world and locations that the player will see as they play the game. The music is subtle but greatly contributes to the atmosphere and brings some life to a VN which can easy become boring if too silent. I also think that the story told within can be deeply impactful to the right person and bring them joy, comfort, or a deep sense of longing.

I, however, do not like this game. Art and music are not things I am well educated on so I don't wish to criticize them and I do feel that they work incredibly well for this story, but it is the story that I greatly dislike. 

Like many visual novels the goal is that you take the role of the protagonist and in this one that holds true as it places you in the role of a student visiting Rome for a time before you are kidnapped by a bara space wolf and shenanigans ensue.

I do not like any of these characters, least of all the main one. Amicus is agonizing to deal with as he slowly pushes past barriers set by the main character until he is doing the very thing he promised he wouldn't. The rest all have their own flaws and issues that you'd best play the game to fully understand.

The main character, default name Marco, is an idiot. For being a history student I've never seen anyone so doomed to make idiotic mistakes. His real flaw, though, is being too much of a person. This is present too in the fact that you can really only make about three choices in the game. Marco being his own person means that I cannot play the protagonist unless I choose to play Marco. I am not a history student, I do not enjoy being kidnapped and forced against my will to act in degrading ways, I least of all would be as weak willed as Marco to play along and rather fight tooth and nail for everything.

In that way the game loses me. I am not like Marco and so I cannot be him, least of all am I the kind of person to actually think like him and so my disconnect in the game grew.

This culminated at the end where god descends from the heavens and tells Marco that he and Amicus are a fated pair and that together they can stop the evil darkness from conquering their galaxy. You can, of course, refuse, but the game pouts and tells you that you die and how tragic if only you had done as you are told, in truth Marco is not the kind of person to resist so it makes sense. If you say yes and let the gods make the choices for you, you get the happily ever after that I'm sure many people wish they could have in their own lives.

I'm not that kind of person as I've stated so I am most dissatisfied with these events and further still I strongly dislike Amicus. For breaking every promise, for pushing every boundary, for being a pitiful fool who thinks that one can rule a kingdom on strength alone. In a way the story is exceptional as it writes a person I can dislike into existence.

You might wonder, if you've read this far, why I'd rate a game I dislike so strongly, so highly. Simple, because I think that while I dislike the characters, I dislike the story, I dislike how it ends, it made me dislike it. It did so fairly and on it's own merit, it pulled no punches and did not try to appeal to me. In that way I know this game is not for me, it is for others.

I have colored the game as I saw it when I played it, I imagine it is likely that when you play it it will be much different, but play it. I don't think it was a waste of my time, The devs had something to say and they said it. I don't like it, but that doesn't mean it will be that way for everyone. I might play more Echo Project games in the future, hopefully I like them more, but regardless I imagine they will be as well made as this one.