I'm not great at writing reviews, but as everyone else has stated and from even the trailer & preview images, this VN takes a strong inspiration from Gundam; from the aesthetic, character personality, character design + naming conventions, the mechs, and the story itself. It makes me want to know more about this fictional universe and I really want another entry that's a complete stand alone.

This game is worth full price and I still have yet to get all the achievements and experience all of the other dialogs

I really liked this!

It's a kind of strange combination. The art and aesthetic are very obviously inspired by 80s sci-fi anime, especially Gunbuster, Gundam, the more military ones. But the writing is clearly western. The dissonance is kinda bizarre--not bad, just very weird. The converse would be like watching Terminator 2 except everyone is using japanese honorifics and talking like it's an anime translation.

One nice thing is that the characters don't fall as hard into anime archetypes as I was expecting from the art. Even the quirky genki girl is played in a less heightened way than you'd expect from a japanese script. None of them are super deep, but there's a little more to them than it seems at first glance. The overall vibe felt very old-school sci-fi, kinda Heinlein-esque. The characters have lots of anxiety about technology and space.

The story is good, and pretty well-paced, but when I got to a certain point I started having the bad feeling that the game was going to end up feeling like chapter 1 of a much bigger story. And that's kind of the case. The ending I got was sort of a cliffhanger in the grand scheme of the plot, but it was an actual ending for all the characters. Less "half a story" and more "the threat isn't over..."

I will say that I didn't get the impression that most of my choices mattered all that much, although it shows you a chart near the end that had quite a few decision trees I didn't even touch, so maybe it was more tuned than I thought.

Overall, feeling pretty positive on it, although if your tolerance for ambiguous endings is low you might be frustrated at the end.

This game's a real gem. Perhaps not everyone will get it, but this is a fresh throwback to classic anime and gaming. So many times I have asked myself "where HAVE all the giant robots gone?"