✓ Same family of action JRPGs: deep RPG systems, JRPG narrative and systems and adventure storytelling
≠ Its own twist: puzzle design, strong narrative focus and dark, oppressive atmosphere, while skipping deep simulation
Dr. Rosalene and Dr. Watts have peculiar jobs: They give people another chance to live, all the way from the very beginning... but only in their patients' heads.
Due to the severity of the operation, the new life becomes the last thing the patients remember before drawing their last breath.
Where it drifts furthest from Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time: setting and visuals.
It predates Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time by 8 years, with what that implies technically.