A bit of a slow start, but I wound up really enjoying this bizarre world the characters have found themselves in. At first, they're on a journey that appears dreamlike. Of course, it becomes obvious that it's the afterlife, but it's still a fun journey as the characters grow closer. The best part is at the ending though. All of them, actually. I always like to go through a VN multiple times to find all the endings, and this VN is no exception. I especially loved that one of the endings is apparently unlocked by knowing the protagonist's true name, which is only given to you at the end of the other routes. This decision ended up changing the VN pretty drastically, more than I expected. The other ending was also really trippy, playing with the medium itself to deliver a powerfully emotional ending. No matter what happens, they're doomed. It was really cool to see my choices make a tangible impact on the story, but I do have to wonder whether I happened to choose the right order of endings or whether it was already decided for me. Regardless, even though the writing is a touch purple prose-y for my tastes, this is still an incredible VN. Well done.
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Spoiler Alert!
For the ending choices, at earlier on in development it was planned to be to separate routes that you can choose at will, however for the ‘Love’ route, I received comments that everything was too fast for comfort. So I decided that I will lock said route until the second playthrough (So no, it’s just the illusion of choice…unless you somehow got the name of the MC before I revealed it). The postscript was also designed in that ending order to give timely info, so that’s that.
And thank you for playing <3