This was just beautiful. There is obviously a lot of beautifully evocative art in this project, but what really elevated it for me was the writing and the music.

I realize I tend not to comment enough on the music when I review VNs: unless the music makes itself really stand out (in a good or bad way), I tend not to think about it when I finish a game, even though it was definitely an important part of the experience. This was one of those rare cases where the music really stood out: there such a coherent style through the VN that I was never really sure when a music track had began or ended. It felt like one large music score.

And the writing was just beatiful, poetic when I needed to be, and it sold the drama and the melancholy perfectly. I am not one to cry because of FVNs, and more often than not FVNs designed to make you cry leave me unscathed. But for this one, I was fighting back tears at the end of the experience.