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I finished it too. It's slow paced, has a fair bit of filler dialog and still only clocked in at 1:14. The story is a little interesting, but the slow pacing hurts.
The game suffers from a poor automatic notes system. It only tracks character profiles and even that is lacking. For all the characters involved, only like half of them got an entry. Not even the freaking victim got an entry!
But despite this, the difficulty was easy. Not pathetically easy, but you were never required to make any logic leaps. Or logic deductions at all. It was just checks that you are paying attention. The instant gameover was unfair, but other than that you have plenty of margin for error.
A little disappointed that there was no 3D support, but it's not the first time a game from this publisher has neglected that.
As for the art, there was only two photos to examine. One is decent and the other poor. As for backgrounds and such, meh. So bland that I can't recall them.
The character art/models was okay. Nothing spectacular. Nothing that I will remember tomorrow. When it comes to the animations, they are very limited and sedated. It generally fits with teh slow pacing and tone, but it's still rather meh.
As for the overall plot it's nice. But again the slow pacing brings things down. It was a little tricky keeping things straight in my head when so many unfamiliar names were juggled around. Doesn't help that they were all transliterated Japanese.
In general, the game was a meh. Never did anything specifically wrong. Never did anything specifically right.