Review: (don't look at Italic text if you don't want spoilers.) Ah yes, one of the original games I spied on this genre of directive based text Yaoi. In short it was good but not cause for a great massive celebration, because in my view it was...Interesting but I thought the characters were not as thought out as what it would really seem. The non spoiler explanation is that the storyline is pretty baseline good, standard for games like it. However I find one glaring issue. And i'm sorry but this may be bias but I don't like the overcomplicated nature of the cutscenes, I had to look up a consistent guide to get the results I wanted with much annoyance to getting things wrong such as...*some* routes. I'll compare it to camp buddy in contrast, because that game had the same kind of positive negative direction of decisions you have to make, but I did misunderstand how certain scenes would be unlocked. Spoiler explaination: Hikaru (pink hair and glasses) was my first annoyance, to unlock his "bottom" scenes I hated the three chances thing of that whole cutscene (rock paper scissors), It was needlessly complicated for a playthrough while reading the 50 page essay on it in the word document (which was really handy), plus I personally didn't like the end story but that's personal taste and will not be effecting the scoring. the MC haato (white hair, blue T-shirt) was okay in past storyline to flesh him out but pretty copy and paste otherwise, you the lazy/dumb protagonist we've come to see each and every time in this genre. Shuu (dark hair, bath robes), was actually kind of fun despite myself, it was a good twist, an actual tether to the MC of you know, what he liked in hobbies concerned (this also can be seen in Hikaru with the singing confession cutscene in that convention which ties to the MCs hobbies if you choose not to confess to hikaru at first but keep interacting with him I believe but you can fact check that yourself.). Toshiyuki (blue hair, glasses) was okay, classic mom like behaviour and executed relatively well, nothing much more to be said. Shiba (brown hair hoodie)...pretty good but could've been more developed in my opinion, maybe instead of generically moving in, they co-sign something or marry, which rarely we see this these types of games but that's more a nit-pick. Toru (red hair and glare) was fresh in concept for it's time at least, pretty ineffective due to me finding the scenes with him clunky and I wanted more simply, the route is okay, but not to my tastes. And the most recent, Kaede and Kei...meh. I don't like Kaede as a character since..you know...loyalty is my stickler and it leaves a sour taste in my mouth. Kei, again a bit copy and paste, unrequited love, seen it a hundred times already. Now to my gripes with the After-stories: It felt like such a cash grab from promotion materials and it varied on quality, so leaving this out of my final grade of this game. I wouldn't go into the after-stories if you weren't committed to the games designs .Final thoughts: A pretty good starting off point for someone who has just peeked behind the curtains of exploration. The story is well put, but it's brought down with the dialogue just being okay, the voices were good in my opinion but needed more variation to not make me go insane. As well as my annoyances with missing certain auditions, but that's on my idiocy rather than design although that could've been improved. B Grade. 18/20 for Artwork. 12/20 for Consistency. 15/20 for Storyline. 19/20 for Characters. 14/20 for Game functionality and controls. 78% - Reviewed by Alfredo Alfonso the First of Anacrombious.