More than a matter of numbers, it is a simple absolute yes from me. As a native Spanish speaker, reading Carmilla in its another language felt kinda like hell, but precisely that's how it felt reading it for the first time. Knowing all too well what was going to happen, yet seeing people just wash any answers away as if there was absolutely nothing strange about the whole situation, it does bring that warmth feeling. Be it frustration, be it cozy, be it strange romance.

I love the designs for this visual novel, plus the music, as many have said, is just so precise and works so well that I don't really care (as if I ever did) if it is royalty free, as the moment those flutes, with the woods looming in the screen, began flowing so slow and gentle, no familiarity could describe how comfy and absorbing it felt.

I just now began seeing how people say the story itself isn't greatly written, just like this "review", but for me it has always been about the idea rather than the writing. And, as far as I can tell, I felt the same thumping heart disease while reading this, given how I wanted Laura to have a friend to heal her solitude, but also knowing such friend was murdering her through their friendship, for the romance is always in doubt, and I loved how it all was portrayed. Plus those small changes are such quality of life details that they deserve some attention too.

Also, the notes. Me like it. I am not one to investigate much directly into science or spiritual themes, for I've always been afraid of being fed some, you know, extreme kind of perspective. Grew up making my own conjectures on stuff rather than eating away at someone else's, but these notes are interesting to read (despite my brain having a mild aneurysm because I ain't no native English reader) and motivate me to explore some more information outside there that could provide some useful ideas. So, despite them having not the greatest point with the story itself, I see in them the motif behind investigating anything beyond a first read: delving into related topics, and to grow new knowledge. After all, reading does that to you, more often than not.

So, uh, trying to not write a short story here, I'll leave it at that. Nice visuals, clearly so much love behind the sources, and a even the comments below have bloomed with some interesting insight. If that's not a piece of art, one to move and motivate us to discover and explore the bizarre worlds that each one of us is, then I sure as all hell don't care what is truly to be called art, because I insist:

'Tis a nice piece of Gothic literature, visual elements and humbly chosen sounds. Try it, before you fall in love with anagrams.