Goodbye Eternity - is a visually pleasing game where you take on the roll as a young adult, given the chance to right the wrongs of the past. You're thrown into a chaotic time where the drama is just starting to unfold and it's up to you to decide who to engage with. Form new relationships and take advantage of your opportunity by gaining someone's trust in more than one way. Or don't. You can ignore them and watch their persona transform into something else.
The art - is beautiful and perfectly reflects Japan. It has a lot or bights and darks to properly differentiate each location whether it's daytime or night time. The characters pop in any location they're in and their facial animations show what they're feeling during conversations with the protagonist. Apart from being visually pleasing, it also feature a wide array of native art and objects that makes locations appear realistic and down to earth.
The characters - have depth and wits about them. While most appear cute and friendly, some of them also have a dark side as well. You'll learn rather fast which ones you should stay away from, and which ones deserve saving. Each characters is unique and prefer doing different things to one another. Whomever you choose, you'll be more than busy to learn more about them.
The dialogue - is the only way to get to know yourself and those around you, and it does a wonderful job of giving you just enough, despite wanting more. Engage with everyone you see and learn things about them as they gain trust for you gradually. During some dialogue choices you can choose to go left, right or forward, for a lack of better words without spoiling the game. Meaning that you create the scenarios which you'd like to see. It's clear what each choice does when you hover over them.
The intimacy options - aren't thrown in your face and you're not forced to engage with them 24/7. They're there, they happen during the story. Apart from that they're visually pleasing and indicates what I'd consider vanilla. While passionate, they're rather short, having barely 5 screens and being over rather fast. But one can choose to engage with them but clicking on various characters at specific points in the game, or start them in your bedroom directly from the bed.
The main menu features - in the game offers a Gallery where you can view the music, characters, backgrounds and animations used within the game. By default, it will be empty, but one can download a persistant.sav file to complete the gallery without playing. Do keep in mind that it contains spoilers for those who have not yet touched the game. I highly recommend playing through it properly. Several playthroughs (different dialogue choices as well) are needed to fully unlock the gallery without third party downloads.
The playtime - varies depending on if you read everything carefully, or if you speed through it just to unlock the spicy scenes. I finished the latest version in about 12 hours, which seems rather long, but I was heavily engaged in the game, wanting to see everything I could and take my time without rushing it.
The story - is somewhat of a sad story. You feel as if you want to fix everyone's problems, and by doing so, you put yourself into uncomfortable situations. But despite that you come back for more, trying to find out what's happening around you and those you care about. It has humour, sorrow and complete chaos if ones choices lead to that.
Goodbye Eternity - is a game that will pull at your heartstring. I found myself feeling sorry for people in the game, being unable to help them right away, despite wanting to. Days after I still feel low, reflecting over the game. During my playthrough I chose to support and love those around me. I managed to achieve what I set out to do, longing for the next update to see how it unfolds.