This is going to be a long review so anyone reading *bewaaare*
So funny enough I actually played Arches before Echo. While i've had knowledge of Echo, I never played it knowing that the game was known to be pretty intense and scary. As someone who gets wayyy too emotionally into the media I like and has issues with getting "too into it", ive been waiting till im in a good headspace to play it. So I think I can say that when I went into Arches blind not knowing what I was in for would be an UNDERSTATEMENT. With that being said, I LOVE and I mean LOVE this game. The writing, the characters, the settings. It was scary but it was good scary. There were so many moments where I was on the edge of my bed holding myself reading as fast as I could to keep the story moving. At the end, like many, I cried. Hard. It hit me in so many personal spots I didn't know needed to be hit. I wont say much, but I think this vn has given me a new perspective. Seeing how the characters were so resilient to what they went through; I think I want to be resilient too. Thank you Howly, thank you painted fox, thank you to the whole team for this. I understand this was a personal vn to create to them, and you can feel it in every scene. I wont forget this visual novel.