LOVE this game! i don’t often participate in these monthly clubs but this one can be done in a sitting or two in an afternoon or evening so i probably will go for it again. here’s what i said about it earlier here in 2023, slightly edited for clarity/minor spoilerity, about how i love that the game is …
i also went into the whole nostalgia thing in that post where i rambled (a lot!) about how it really hit me emotionally for that time period, despite not having experienced that era of japan directly. i was a kid growing up in the pnw in the late 20th century tho, and had a decent amount of japanese/east asian culture around me just circumstantially (and took japanese language classes in high school, and went to japan for a wee lil bit in the '90s) so even though the game isn’t “about” me exactly, i was still able to intuit quite a bit. feeling nostalgia for something i didn’t experience first-hand was another cool bit of sleight-of-hand the game does.
i dunno man it’s a great lil nug of a game and it’s so cool they released it in english!! doing the 3ds hack is hella easy and it’s an obvious must-play on the system for me! i’m gonna charge my 3ds right now so i can jump in again!