I had to play it on VBA as a tween. Picked it randomly from a list of ROMs. Went with Kyosuke because he had the cooler portrait. Even after beating it didn't bother going for the other protagonist. When I started I had no idea what I was doing or what was going on. I spent a good portion of the game clueless about the story/plot and most of the mechanics, including those about customization. It was indeed very text heavy with little in the way of visual support, so I tuned out and ignored what was being said most of the time, just skipping furiously through trying to get to the next gameplay segment. I had decent fun with it as a kid despite these challenges. I was unaware that this was a whole series and never ended up playing any more of its games. It was okay for what it was but it ultimately didn't hook me.
I had to play it on VBA as a tween. Picked it randomly from a list of ROMs.
Went with Kyosuke because he had the cooler portrait. Even after beating it didn't bother going for the other protagonist.
When I started I had no idea what I was doing or what was going on. I spent a good portion of the game clueless about the story/plot and most of the mechanics, including those about customization.
It was indeed very text heavy with little in the way of visual support, so I tuned out and ignored what was being said most of the time, just skipping furiously through trying to get to the next gameplay segment.
I had decent fun with it as a kid despite these challenges. I was unaware that this was a whole series and never ended up playing any more of its games. It was okay for what it was but it ultimately didn't hook me.