(!Spoilers below!)
Before I start my thoughts I just want to preface by saying that, given how autobiographical the story is clearly intended to be, I genuinely hope it doesn't come across as a personal attack to say that I did not like the protagonist one bit.
Granted I'll admit that in part it's because I have a naturally low tolerance for FVN protagonists whose main vibe is "Quirky Relatable™️ bottom with unspecified anxiety/depression issues that squirts his pants if a man so much as looks at him with bedroom eyes", but throughout the VN I mostly just felt myself getting annoyed by how shallow he felt to me. The most "human" (if you'll forgive the phrasing) we ever really see him was the scene where he talks about getting into the furry fandom through VR Chat during the pandemic, which was an actually nice moment but also pretty much the only time I was genuinely interested in anything he had to say.
Which is not a great thing to feel about the central protagonist of a work to begin with, but even worse coming off the heels of something like Since November where every character (including the protagonist, who while being presented as mostly low-key nonetheless acted as a good springboard for OTHER characters, unlike the protagonist of this game) felt so much more like actually realised people.
Trying to put my full thoughts into why I didn't like this VN is a bit hard considering my criticisms cover pretty much everything about the story as a whole, so let me just stick to a couple main points starting with the end - for one thing, I don't believe that the ending felt earned at all.
Throughout the story we constantly have this idea built up that the protagonist feels as though furry conventions are the only place where he can be "him", and yet nothing in the story actually reflects this in practice; hell, the story barely seems interested in the 'furry convention' aspect at all outside of a few token scenes that feel more like reading the author's travel blog than a story that actually wanted to say something meaningful or interesting about furry spaces.
In contrast, the "real meat" of the story - the protagonists epic quest to finally score - is just one miserable experience after another that only leaves him utterly drained and depressed before the con even finishes, and yet somehow we're expected to believe that the prospect of attending another convention with a guy they talked to for a few hours on a stranded plane is enough to make the protagonist excited again? Especially considering that not only was the mere idea of being in a social situation where he'd be stuck with one guy he kind-of knows and the strangers that make up their friend group enough to make the protagonist freak out earlier in the story, but he'd already had such a terrible experience this time with a group of people he did know & presumably liked (although I frankly can't imagine for a second why).
It feels as though the final part is meant to be a ray of hope within an otherwise miserable ending... but since the narrative just expects us to take for granted that furry conventions are a wonderful queer haven from the drudgery and bigotry of "normal" life, without ever actually showing us anything truly positive about the furry con experience that resonates with the protagonist, it frankly just fell completely flat to me outside of being happy to see Fossy* again.
(*my GOAT**!)
(**fossa)
Another big criticism I have of the story would definitely have to be the protagonist's main """"friends"""""; most of the minor characters of the story at least serve their narrative purpose well enough (I want to give props for having the protagonist's encounter with Diesel play directly into why he initially goes along with Hammer's protest, and especially how it was presented visually; I liked that!) but much like my feelings on the protagonist I couldn't stand either of the supposed friends that the protagonist went to the con with, albeit for different reasons.
For starters, Blake is just... insufferable. Which was kind of a shock to me considering they're a character archetype I usually enjoy, but in this story they came across as a huge asshole who ditches their socially-awkward friend at a rave after agreeing to go to together - which, considering who the protagonist ended up passing out with, could have ended up HORRIBLY if Diesel had decided to get violent or... otherwise - something they don't show the slightest concern for when they hear about it the next morning. (Like, I'm assuming that the protagonist didn't leave out the fact that his main introduction to Diesel came right after falling unconscious, and considering what we learn about the guy's true personality does Blake just... not give a shit that them choosing to neglect their friend put him in an extremely vulnerable position with someone like that who was much physically stronger??) And that's not even getting into Blake's only real character trait being constantly bragging about how much sex they're having mere seconds after the same friend has just finished telling them about his own sex life being in the pits. I understand that it's entirely possible to have a friend whose main method of interaction is gentle bullying, but when coupled with the fact that Blake is nowhere to be seen in the aftermath of the Osgood scene - the one moment where Blake by all rights SHOULD be present in the story, if only to give a proper rebuttal to Osgood's perspective if not establish that they genuinely do care about the protagonist's well-being at the end of the - we're basically just left with the impression of them as nothing more than a self-centred flighty jackass who doesn't care about their so-called friends and came to the con exclusively just to get laid on hookup apps.
And as for Osgood himself, I'd say I like him slightly more than Blake (if only because at least he actually has a reason to be in the story at all instead of just disappearing towards the end with no payoff) but I feel like the story kind of shafts him compared to everyone else. Like, why is Osgood suddenly so obsessed with the protagonist, to the extent of begging him to come live with him so Osgood can be his sugar daddy, when by the protagonist's own admission they're mostly a third wheel in he & Blake's "friendship"? I can't help but feel that considering the emphasis placed on Osgood embodying basically everything about the stifling sex-negative assimilationist "real" world that the protagonist is trying to escape from, he should've had the most emphasis placed on his relationship with the protagonist rather than the least.
All things considered, the fact that nothing in the story really seems to be approaching any kind of positive themes or observations about furry conventions and culture besides occasionally dipping into "gee golly it sure is nice that there's a lot of openly queer people here! :) hey look at that Amicus dildo-" then if it wasn't for the fact that Osgood is pretty firmly portrayed as a sad little Pick-Me weirdo (and if I didn't already know the author's existing viewpoints on the subject) I'd be half tempted to believe that the narrative actually expected me to agree with him and that the point of the story really was just meant to be something like "furry conventions are awful places filled with lonely gays who only care about hookups and are incapable of forming any real social connection with anyone else" because that's pretty much the only thing the story ever gets to be about.
I hope this doesn't come across as me hating the story for shallow reasons like being "too much about sex" or NOT being another Since November, because as much as I'm criticising the overemphasis on the cast's sex lives and comparing it negatively to Since November, it's only due to the fact that unlike the latter nothing in the story really feels like it means anything. It feels like the game wants to be about the intertwining of the furry fandom with gay culture, but despite scenes like the Pulse Nightclub crossing protest clearly being written from a place of genuine emotion and feeling it never felt any of it actually came together to form anything substantial or thought-provoking. And frankly the disappointingly shallow main trio soured me on the cast as a whole too much to really say that I actually liked any of them either (except Fossy, natch).
I really, really, want to have SOMETHING good to say about this VN that doesn't come across as damning it with faint praise like "I genuinely liked a couple moments of it here and there" or "my favourite character was the guy who had about 4 lines total", because I can tell that if nothing else it was at least made with genuine passion about a subject that the author truly cares about, but in the end it kind of just felt like nothing more than just A Bunch Of Stuff That Happened rather than actually being a story that was about anything.
Much like it's protagonist, it's just a hole sir.