It was alright. I don't regret my time with it, but I also don't feel motivated enough to do a second run of things (I know that's a major point). I feel like there are games out there with much better stories, and also games that do a better job of conveying them through gameplay. I did enjoy the card battling aspects, though it became kind of irrelevant about halfway through.

Dunno - I'd give it a neutral if I could, but I read so many glowing reviews etc. convincing me to buy it that I feel like I have to land on the negative side.

虽然我对这个游戏的感情线评价很不好：攻略喜欢一个人不会走向只有两个人的he，会分手，可能会有第三者出现等等等等（我比较习惯于传统的喜欢角色-攻略角色-走向he/ne/be），但我时隔几个月，再次听到类似dys听过的歌前奏时又想起了在这个世界的点点滴滴，不禁让人有些想要落泪，于是我也听着歌敲下了这段
我和dys的电波很能对得上，这里糟糕透了，一起逃离吧。过剧情时数次觉得我和他的想法完全一致，我完全能理解他，对抗世界唯一的方式只能是愤怒，为了逃避麻木。真的很幸福啊，城墙上相隔的距离，一起躺在草地上听歌，看着他逃离这里并拒绝我的跟随，一起谈论对于这个世界的看法……最喜欢两个人一起成为园丁的结局了，人类的事情记忆早已离我们远去，仅仅只有彼此——和这个世界！
说了这么多真的很偏题，但这个游戏很好的一点就是让我真的觉得在这里度过了一生，结识了这么多有个性的朋友，推荐！

The game play is unique for this kind of game and is engaging enough to hold my attention. The story is fine. I enjoyed it. The idea of the gardeners and humanity struggling to find a place in a new world not meant for them is interesting. I found many of the characters to be endearing, though there were some that were quirky in a way that I find nauseating or were actually just nauseating like Vance. All this was enough to hold my attention for two playthroughs and for me to try to get the "perfect" ending. My main complaint comes from the implications of the values presented in this game.

I understand that the point of this group leaving earth is because they wanted to try and live in a different way. It an experiment to see if they could live in a totally liberating way on a new planet, free from the social, political, economic, and religious constraints of earth, but what they replaced it with is not better. I think that earth was right to ostracize a group that genetically alters their children in ways that affect their humanity. Lets take Marz for instance. At first, I thought that she was simply full of herself, but no, her fathers removed her ability to feel shame! Removing someone's ability to feel shame is not good. You have basically created a psychopath because you don't like the idea that someone might make her feel bad because they don't approve of your actions. And Marz, the psychopath, is pursuing leadership!

Tangent continually refers to the human body as a prison. I understand that there are many with dysphoria that feel this way. But the ability to alter a persons genome and make them whatever they desire is not liberating, it's terrifying. Remember, every technological advancement is not distributed evenly and equitably. We can see this in the modern day with AI. AI is being pushed and used in a way that mostly benefits a powerful few. The rest of us do benefit some from it, but it may be costing us more than we gain. Now, lets take that idea and apply it to eugenics. The ability to change humanity in the ways shown here would lead to the abolition of mankind as we know it. Is that a good thing? What is good? That would be up to those who hold this technology to decide and shape mankind in that image. In a way, such technology is liberating, but in a way that makes almost nothing about the human experience objectively true, noble, or good. It's liberates humanity like cutting the string on a kite liberates the kite.

Clearly, I am overthinking things, but I enjoy thinking this way and this game made me ask questions. Even though I disagree with the philosophy, morality, theology, and ideology presented, I still found enjoyment in it.

There are other minor things that irk me like, Cal being a vegan pacifist in a world where there is clearly a need for the opposite of both of those things. Also, Dys has the common faulty belief that the 'other' is inherently more trustworthy than your own people. This is a purely emotional response and leads to evil out of empathy.