i dislike endings where everyone gets amnesia and returns to their lives with no problems, nightmares, or trauma despite years of constant life and death struggles so I was disappointed when the author pulled that out towards the end. The MC regaining his memory kind of redeemed it as did the things that happened with the ML. They meet a few people in the extras that they knew in the game and while those people thought they looked familiar there was no sudden return of memories.
the game introduced in the last extra makes the story a little open-ended. Is it the same game? Will the people who play the beta suddenly remember? Ending the story with the three getting ready to play was a b*tch move since we will never know if it was a new version of the game they knew or just something with the same name. Is it still a HE if they get sucked into the game again?