For whatever reason the story just isn't hooking me, I guess it's kinda front loaded with a lot of exposition, I can tell there's a lot of effort to cut down on that and the dialogue itself is good, but might just be my ADHD brain just not liking the way things are paced despite all that idk.

Also that the characters are just... dandy? Idk how else to describe it, the characters seem a bit too prepared for a cosmic horror invasion and there doesn't feel to be anything at stake even though there technically is one written in. I have no doubt that Alicia will find Dottie, not that the story should pivot the entire thing on that but I have nothing else to latch onto or wonder about. Maybe I didn't get far enough.

The gameplay's fine but it does feel run of the mill. The biggest compliment I can give it is that it doesn't fall into any of the pitfalls that most RPGs fall into which can ruin an entire game (usually really small annoying things). The meter(?) battles are kind of funny since that's also my go-to replacement for straight up random battles (though now that I think about it, the generated encounters themselves are random, just that the initiation of them is more player controlled. Anyway those def prevent the game from being too annoying and the weakness system prevents stale "best move spam". I've seen a lot of VX rm games do this and I certainly think this is the more polished of the bunch. However I do think flipping between 6-7 icons and the enemy icons is mostly what it boils down to and that aspect isn't too elegant.

Graphics are good themselves but I dislike the proportions, or rather the space between things. You know, typical VX stuff. I think there's just a VX bias I have that taints my opinion a bit. It's just not my preference. I do think the menu art and the UI clashes with the pixel art, as in I kind of expect a pixel art game with boopy boops to be consistent with the ui as well. But this goes into extreme nitpick territory and isn't like an actual deal breaker.

Yeah idk the game is well made/crafted, I just don't think it's my kind of game. I felt obligated to give my thoughts anyway since I wanted to give most of the top misao games a shot especially if requested.