Recommended if you don't have money or if you're new to otome games. If you already used to commercial otome games, it's inferior in all regards so I wouldn't really recommend it unless you don't have the money to get new games to play of course. I'm interested in knowing if the story gets better in the FD though so I'll probably play. Basically the problem of the story is wanting to swallow more than it can chew, everything falls flat and dumb because the themes are heavy but are dealt with in an unlogical and unidimensional manner, but it doesn't look like it was written purposefully like so, and it leaves a bad after taste.

I am obsessed with this game. I played through almost all of the paths, both bad and good. I loved how each path took you through a unique storyline that revealed a new part of the entire story that you don't know by completing other paths. Waltz path is by far the best one, and ties up almost everything you have questions about but I am so glad that the path was locked at the beginning because going through the other paths first really added to that storyline. This was literally all I did for hours on end. You will love it. (Side note, I cannot believe such a good game is free!!?!?!?)