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16BitSensation is a completely wasted opportunity: starting strong with what seems to be a clear vision, before falling into a claptrap of formulaic nonsense that viewers have seen before, and seen done better.

What originally started as an interesting time travel adventure that presented the opportunity to glimpse/examine the Visual Novel industry in the 1990s and early 2000s, suddenly veered left and nosedived into an absolute mess involving aliens(?) and a nonsensical dystopian version of the present day, all of which is apparently to convey the absolutely groundbreaking message, "Humans can imagine things! And that's super!"

Apparently this plot of aliens and alternate dystopian realities is a ... huge deviation from the source material, and was perhaps done as an attempt to be more topical as it briefly, bizarrely, and confusedly touched upon A.I's place in the game industry.

The show's animation takes a huge hit in the later episodes, with a lot of static shots and crudely drawn background characters. The characters can be enjoyable, however the majority are barely two-dimensional and get little depth outside of protagonist Konoha and deuteragonist Mamoru, even if they seem like they're important to the cast.

I enjoyed the chemistry between Konoha and Mamoru, which was ultimately the only thing that brought me back to continue watching each week. It would have been amazzing to see more about the visual novels being released in the 90s/00s, and the otaku culture rising around it, but instead was incredibly disappointing to see such a cool premise ultimately fail to fulfill any expectations it had, even for itself, and ultimately ending like a prolonged fart noise.

4/10, and all 4 of those points are for the first few episodes. If you meet the character "Echo" you've gone too far and can stop watching.