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>>42331948
Pic. I tell you, the blondes.
>>42341501
Newrin.

>>20621256
It happens.

>>18906690
As for similar VNs, Daito is a little like charage rather than normal moege. You've probably realized the fairly low focus on romance/dates and fairly high focus on characters, the group, other relationships and such. That's a major thing. This isn't totally gone nowadays, but most moege don't bother to do more than the minimum. 10 years ago however that style was way way more standard. You won't get hours of dates, lovey dovey, kisses and whatnot, but instead a nice and big arc about.. well, something regarding the heroine.
Sometimes this goes out of what you may consider "moege" territory, but that's somewhat of a price you have to pay. Some route may for example include life and death drama. Or perhaps there's a little more of a special setting. Or something.

Done with Natsumegu.

Game started really bad for me. The main heroine especially seemed like the most boring and bland stuff you could find, even more than the protagonist which is an achievement. So I just skimmed to see all the heroines.

After that comes the random event system which is also pretty much bullshit. None of these events are "canon" as you may as well get other ones, meaning this "common route" part has no relevance later on.
And yet, after that in the routes it kinda gets a foothold.

Watanabe only wrote one route: Miri's. It was also the best route of the game, although heavily inconsistent with the rest. (though inconsistency is an issue anyway thanks to the "random" events)
It mostly depicts a love triangle with Miri and Yukako (the bland main-heroine). But guess what, Watanabe actually wrote Yukako well, so she ended up being the actual best girl... Crazy how that went.

Past that was nothing too special. Celes(blonde) route was normal, Hotori's (pink) route was very different than you'd assume but worked well until the epilogue which was pure bullshit.
And then Yukako's route. I didn't want to read this one, but even though I only ever chose pro Hotori and never anything for Yukako, the game probably just bugged out and gave me her route. (followed even the walkthrough..) I was so majorly confused, also thanks to the route having rejections and such. A rollercoaster experience for all the wrong reasons, but thanks to Watanabe saving that girl and this weird bug I really enjoyed this route.

All in all I had my fun in the end. But really, those first hours and the scrappy random event system... no.