PAL is in most ways a traditional Japanese-style role-playing game. The player orders each character in battle, choosing attacks, items, and techniques. Equipment upgrades are represented as scrolls, and techniques can be upgraded as they are used. Kaoru's boyfriend, Yukito is also an excellent cook and can learn a wide variety of recipes to create recovery and assist items for use in and out of battle.
The game is a combination of the popular comic Azumanga Daioh and table top game "Donjara". The tiles are ready to use in battle with patterns of the characters faces. See polygon rendered deformed characters portray the happy action.
Sotsugyou Vacation is an adventure, and "gal get" (love simulation) game in the Sotugyou Graduation series of games. The goal of the game is to find a treasure on a southern island, and also become friends with the girls.
Sotsugyō M is an "otome game"; a romantic adventure game aimed at a female audience. It is based on the manga of the same title by Kei Arisugawa and Kyoko Nishiomi, which is itself a spinoff of the Graduation series set in a private all-boys high school. The player is cast as the younger sister of student council secretary Ryūnosuke Sugita; her brother has mysteriously disappeared, and after receiving a strange phone call, she goes to Seiryū High School to investigate, and meets an unlikely group of boys who help her out.