The writing in this game is so cute. It gave such a nice flavor to the cozy game town interactions. The lore behind all the items feels so real, I'm almost convinced TMGEBTDL is a real series.
The first time I played, I missed the existence of the inventory until I'd found almost everything, and there was a bug where most of the items that I'd already collected weren't showing up. I haven't been able to replicate it. At first I thought maybe it was because on my first play I didn't talk to my Aunt and unlock the item count until I'd already collected everything I could without money, so maybe I'd done things out of order and the inventory reset, but when I tried it that way again everything did show up, so I don't know. Maybe the game just didn't load properly.
I played again after seeing the comments about the inventory, and was able to see all the beautiful art and get that satisfying feeling of completing my collection!