I'm sitting here as I slowly watch my recorded playthrough of this game export out the software, as I let my brain wander as I process it all.
When you're familiar with a lot of the moving pieces going on in this story, you relate to it more, and the more you relate to it, the more raw and real it all feels, despite the things it pulls from being Sonic The Hedgehog, which is more than just Sonic, but the media and the community consumed that existed at the time.
From smaller things such as Tails Doll rumors, thinking too long about why Sally Acorn was like that, being into weird gorey Sonic animations that you can't really explain to those around you, to other topics such as being in online groups or being in-contact with people way older than you, the inability to express oneself to the point of shutting everyone and everything out, devoting your heart to one person until the devotion is suddenly gone and replaced by nothing.
Raw, unfiltered emotions was felt behind this VN, where instead of pulling punches, it jabbed the knife in over and over until it broke through to the other side.
I feel. The want and desire to go back to a younger, possibly happier time in your life, but when that time is filled with nothing but sorrow, regret, trauma, the sunshine in your life meant to make you happy, just feels backwards.