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Legitimately funny, honest, deep and entertaining with very fleshed-out characters. I love that the story switches the point of view between the four main characters. I played this all in one sitting and even laughed out loud a handful of times, credit to Akarsha hehe. Noelle is my favourite though, I found myself liking her more and more as time went on. Highly recommend to everyone, even if you are not Asian, which I am not. You will enjoy this.

I had the same problem, I feel like the characters are falling in love waaayyy too quickly and I honestly felt uncomfortable playing T_T but other than that it's a great game, like seriously!!

Edit 2023: I haven't played the game again but I did want to leave an update. I was harsh in this review because I was still in shock from how uncomfortable the game made me feel. I stand by what I said regarding the game as a whole: it is a very good game. It has good plot, good premise, and good characters. The game has thousands of positive reviews, don't let my one negative one ruin your experience. Play the game for yourself and decide. Blooming Panic is a good game, just not for me in particular. And I think that's okay.

Original review below:

I think I feel uncomfortable lol

You had me at the discord interface. Mwah. It's funny, it's clever, it works really well, and it makes sense to have a discord interface. The dialogue is ON POINT, like 100% how people speak in discord servers, and I felt myself become legitimately invested in this group of characters.

I haven't finished any route yet because the romance makes me uncomfortable. Or rather, the feeling of being forced into romance.
I think... I'm leading into Quest's route by accident?? I agreed with him in a couple of things and suddenly he's CLEARLY interested in me, which, cringe. The dialogue options don't help, since they feel like I'm saying the same thing either way. Like come on, I can say "wow you're my hero" or "I wish I could kiss you"?? I don't want to say either of those things!! Sir we met 3 days ago!!! WTF!!!

I like the story, but god, between the ex still being in love with me and now Quest being in love with me, I had to close the game.

Blooming Panic is correct in that there is Panic Blooming In Me every time Quest starts acting sus. Again, we met 3 days ago sir. I'm on this server to talk about my favourite book with people, not smooch the first person who makes me laugh. There is no chemistry, I don't feel it. I don't even know HOW I got stuck in Quest's route, the game doesn't let me choose much.

Everything else about this game, I adore. I wish there were a few more options, and more often. The characters are all nice and fleshed out, they all have their own opinions, I legitimately feel like I'm talking with a group of real people. I like the little voice clips every so often. Quest please stop being attracted to me <3 and also maybe stop going on discord while you're on the job???

I think I'll begrudgingly power through Quest's route (if my crawling skin doesn't kill me first) and then I'll TRY and see if I can go for nightowl's route. I want to give this game another chance after reading other comments but I don't know if I can recover from this.

Edit: reading through more comments, I should have read the game description more carefully because apparently each route lasts one week so that's why the characters fall in love so quickly :/ bit disappointing, but I mean, I just want more of this game! I want this game to be longer! So please take that as a compliment. This game truly is phenomenal but it just made me uncomfortable, personally.