As you can see above, this isn't the first time I've played this game, and I had a reason for going back to it... a good one.  To be blunt, I thought I hadn't given it a fair review, as it seemed a lot better as the memories soaked into my backbrain than it seemed immediately after.  So, naturally, I decided to play it again after a year had passed (my minimum for replaying non-chuunige).

First, I should say that my view of the common route is pretty much the same as the first time I played it... except better.  While this game isn't a kamige (true kamige charage are almost unknown), the common route is pretty much the ideal of how a common route should be.  In it, you get to know the heroines, side-characters, and the protagonist to a degree that is strong enough for you to feel attachment to them as individuals, and the story is interesting enough in and of itself to keep you amused.  There are plenty of interesting characters in this game.  I'm going to go ahead and describe a few of them for you.

Kururu

The game's true heroine and a self-described God of Destruction... Her first impression is pretty strong, since she basically hits the protagonist's room like a comet, losing her memories in the process, save for the fact that her name is Kururu and that she is the God of Destruction? (question mark is deliberate, lol).  Her hobbies are deforestation (plucking weeds), calling down lightning (using a stun gun on various people), and eating ramen.  She is a fairly hilarious character and one of the two characters who provide the strongest comic relief throughout much of the game.  Her personality is shameless, greedy, and somewhat childlike. 

Solos

The protagonist's self-proclaimed miniature demon sidekick.  This guy provides about 40% of the game's laughs all on his own, with his endless perversion and evil thoughts (thankfully not backed up with the power to enforce his will).  He spends much of the game being punched, kicked, stabbed, or burned by various girls (and loving it the entire time).

Kei

The protagonist.  Despite his fundamentally kind nature, his looks and power tend to leave him isolated at the school.  His power is called Dummy-Maker, and it allows him to copy perfectly all abilities possessed by anyone else for a period of up to one hour, one at a time.  He used this ability to face off with Sophia on her first day of school, and as a result, she fell in love with him, he caused a magnitude 7 earthquake, and almost everyone at the school is afraid of him.  While he is very good at grasping other's worries and isn't particularly bothered by failure, most people don't see this side of him until the election for the student council begins.  His small circle of close acquaintances coincidentally *wink wink* includes the most powerful/influential members of each race in the student body, though he ends up facing most of them as opponents in the election.

Sophia

The daughter of the previous Maou (who apparently set out to conquer the world the second the worlds merged with a smile on his face), she is said to even surpass the power of her father, making her the single most powerful individual on the planet.  She can wield all four elements, can instantly recover from even mortal wounds, and can drain energy from others at a touch... not to mention she possesses the blood scythe that can erase the existence of anything it touches even peripherally.  She spent much of her youth building up a political power base in the Goumakai, suffering from innumerable assassination attempts, betrayals, and attempts to use her.  As a result, her relationships with most people are built on fear and awe, and she finds in Kei the first person who might be capable of understanding her.  She is actually very direct with her emotions, but Kei almost inevitably misunderstands her, causing her a great deal of hurt, though she never loses her smile.  Of the non-true paths, hers was the most interesting, on several levels.

Faura

A wolf-girl and the de-facto leader of the beast-people at the school.  Like most of her people, her personality is aggressive and straightforward in her likes and dislikes.  She took an interest in Kei because of his friendship with Ponko, and fell in love with his subtle kindness and forgiving nature once she got to know him, though she is terrible at expressing it due to her sub-race's customs on courting (the female waits for the male).  Her path is... hot.  Seriously.  If you want love-love to extreme levels with no complicated interplay, hers is an immensely fun romance to experience.  She is a natural leader but she has little interest in holding her power over others' heads.  Her path has the cutest ending, incidentally

Papheel

Puff, as she is known commonly, is the only angel student at the school, since her race rarely comes down from their floating island home.  She is a love-angel (meaning she gains power from others' romance and has powers suited to encouraging romance in others) and her dream is to become an archangel.  She fell in love with Kei after he scolded her for her judgmental attitude and helped her with her personal problems.  However, like Faura, she is terrible at expressing her emotions, being a pure tsundere.  She is generally kind-hearted and loving, but she has a temper, is overconfident, and tends to be unable to shake off an idea once she gets it in her head.  Her path has a pretty amusing/unexpected epilogue that is worth watching for giggles, though her path is somewhat weak.

Iori

Kei's little sister and a member of the Election Oversight Committee.  She is against her brother staying at the school (because she is worried about him getting hurt by others' reactions) and wants him to go back to the human realm (because she believes nothing but loneliness and pain exist for him at the school).  In fact, it is her call to their father that makes Kei rashly pledge to become Student Council President and starts the whole mess.  She is, like Puff, something of a tsundere.  She is the type of imouto that likes to say 'big brother can't live without me to take care of him' and means 'I want to keep oniichan all to myself), being deredere under the surface.  Her path is pretty interesting and takes a really unexpected turn about two-thirds of the way through when you discover an aspect of hers and the protagonist's past that even Kei didn't know about. 

 

Overall, this game didn't pale at all on a second playthrough, and I felt like I'd actually benefited by playing it a second time, an experience I find quite rare with charage in general.  For people who want a fantasy charage, this game is perfect.