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Just restarted DALK外伝 the other day.
It has one of my favorite casts of any Alicesoft game, everyone feels so colorful and alive. The combat is simple but satisfying and there's more depth than your average JRPG.
I like that the story is in a seperate section from the gameplay entirely, so you're free to read it whenever you want. 戦国ランス is one of my top games of all time but there can be times where you'd get an hour of story all at once or go ten turns with no story. Giving the reader control over the pacing works really well here.
My main issue with the game, and the one that made me drop it originally, is the class change system. It's a huge part of the game, and one of the most interesting and unique things in the game, but it is very unintuitive and the game never properly explains how it works. There are very few games I would recommend playing with a guide, but this is one of them. I tried playing with no outside information and got stressed out worrying that I was going to permanently mess up a character (which can happen). I really think it would be better if every character just had a fun unique progression like in ランスVI.
Despite that, I'd still recommend it to anyone who likes both JRPGs and VNs. The girls are cute and it's fun in that simple "bashing two action figures together" way.