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Me likey the overall VN-like vibes and I think you've managed to achieve that aspect! It feels like I'm playing an old-school VN, almost like a retro feel like the other comments have said.

One criticism though, which admittedly is very subjective and heavily based on preference, is I think the mix feels a bit too washed out, could be because of the reverb and overall instruments levelling. Based on the story context, it's supposed to be an intimate and emotional story which usually needs an element of intimacy and nearness. To create those feelings, in my personal opinion I think it's better to focus on just a few instruments and let them really shine. Take for instance in "Come With Me", the drums, pad, and piano to me all feel like they're trying to overtake each other therefore it feels a bit "washed out", I think it would be much better if say you pick the piano as the main focus and really play with the melody to maximize the emotional impact.

A trick to make instruments feel "closer" to your ears is by playing around with its transient. Generally louder transient will make a sound feel closer and vice versa. Although this method works better with instruments with little-to-no sustain and fast attack, like plucks or drums/percs.

However again, it's all subjective matter and really dependent on the vision itself. If the core feeling that you want to achieve is an ephemeral feeling instead of nearness, then never mind what I've just said because I think this "washed out" type of mix would work really well!

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Deeply appreciate the thought you put into this one, thank you so much <3

Truthfully I feel like there could be space for both with that sound because summer and the passing of the seasons is an ephemeral thing, but also it's the thought of "finding the possibly long-term / eternal in things that are necessarily ephemeral;" summer ain't gonna last forever basically. I can't speak to what the Frutiger-core sound is meant to represent (that, I would leave to @snugglybunne and those who have done music like this to speak to) -- all I know is that there is a strong amount of nostalgia and social reimagining associated with the bringing back of old aesthetics in digifu circles. Basically to say that the 2000s had their own kind of optimism and beauty and brightness and hope, but they were also proper toxic -- and it's worth we revisit and reimagine those years, and especially through the aesthetics used by that period.

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Yeah, the VN feeling in my solo tracks was intentional since I really like stuff like the music from a lot of KEY visual novels like Clannad, AIR and Kanon. 

Thanks for the kind words, and yeah mixing hard... I'm still trying to learn how to handle that sort of thing and feedback like that helps a lot