That awkward moment you start a very long game thinking it’d take no longer than 52 minutes to beat

The story, while being the usual “Kid has to save the world from an evil villain”, adds enough changes to keep it fresh. For example, the aforementioned kid behaves like well… a kid. He’s impulsive, rude and a bit bratty (though he’s not as annoying as one would expect).

Gameplay-wise I liked the inclusion of a system similar to the Materia system in FFVII. It makes it easier to either compensate for a character’s weakness or maximize their strengths. I also liked how, instead of learning skills as you level up, you obtain PP which you can later spend on learning skills, and you can unlock more skills if you learn certain skills and your level is high enough (I’d have loved if there was a short in-game tutorial that explains this though, because I spent about an hour unaware of its existence).

All in all Forever Home is a hidden gem everyone who likes JRPG should consider playing, it’s cheaper than a cup of coffee to boot!

Like many early access games this game has a few issues (imo it feels like it was released a tad too soon) but so far it’s a fine game. It’s nice to finally see a lewd jigsaw game that actually has some work behind and it’s not like any of those low-effort jigsaw H-games, even if story-wise it’s not as good as Huniepop (to put an example).