Okay then! I didn’t like ABZÛ due to its lack of direction; no directions or only image-based directions are easily my #1 pet peeve. It’s the reason I still haven’t gone back to complete Journey (which is often talked about next to ABZÛ, because they play identically, just in a different setting).

And then there’s Our Life - a romance VN so customizable that it ends up having no flavor. It’s almost like the more choices you get to make something fit your preferences, the less that thing actually matters in the grand scheme of things (you get to choose from 10 or so food flavors/types at a few points during the story, and then it’s not even acknowledged in any way). And then there’s the LI (love interest), who has no personality of his own. People who loved the game obviously loved him as well, and I even saw some say he seems neurodivergent, and I can’t help but take offense to that a bit. To be fair, I played this one before I would have looked at him through that lens, but I just remember him being so painfully bland… and it’s not even possible to date anyone else but him unless you pay for DLC. I absolutely don’t understand that approach, they gave you a half-finished game that looks like a nice bowl of oatmeal, garnished with fruits and all, but the moment you pick up the spoon, all the tasty additions just disappear and after digging in, it’s all bland and cold.
(Something I found oddly hilarious was, after the credits roll, instead of going back to the main menu, the game just started the introduction to the after story… which is not available unless you own the paid DLC for it, so then it just returned an error xD)