A very good VN I don't have that much to say about, but don't mistake it for a criticism. It's all just competent work to the degree that even the omissions and the ambiguities feel calculated not to produce uncertainty but rather to simply say what the story has to say; the game is a good exercise in (arguably) subtle storytelling resulting in something with a powerful clarity. The structure is fragmentary on paper, but you rarely feel it as the writing puts a lot of work into smoothing over the jumps and making sure the information we get always leads back to the present moment. The VN feels like a remarkably cohesive and well-paced read as a result, absolutely devoid of fluff.
The expertly managed scope bears fruit on the presentation side of things as well. At first, I was a bit worried about how well the game would pull its almost-spriteless look, but there's thankfully a generous amount of illustrations, and the snappy pacing means that you never linger in a scene long enough for the visuals to start feeling too static. The interplay of light & shadow and the use of color are fantastic – you know stylization is paying off when the color blue comes off as a startling, affecting surprise – and the style is in general built on many nice contrasts; I love how simple and unremarkable the (furry) characters look against the detailed backgrounds. It does a lot to convey the impression that these are ultimately normal people dealing with normal problems even while the protagonist's boyfriend is a robot and there's a Cronenberg-esque corporate thriller going on.
The story impresses me so much with not only what it does but also what it doesn't do: the way it wields its genre elements, never feeling an ounce of obligation towards them, radiates confidence. As a romance it's subversive both in content and form, starting with a seemingly happy relationship that gets torn down on two separate timescales, and said thriller & science fiction elements lead into a perfectly inconclusive ending I can imagine some genre adherents struggling with. In every way, the VN is the kind of stuff you comb through game jam submissions hoping to find.