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*SPOILERS in the comment below. avert your eyes if you do not wish to be spoiled! * 

oof. i have many words to express about this game, all of which different in their own ways. whether it be the overwhelming emotion i'm feeling right now after just completing another run of this wonderous novel, or something else entirely. i think it isn't the latter, lol. nevertheless, this game has had alot of impacts on me, whether it be emotionally, maturely, or understanding new concepts entirely. the inclusivity this game strives for, the queer-embracive flow this game carries is such a refreshing sight. 

but, that is far from my favorite part of this game. i'd love to gawk about sea boy and my mc all day, but nevertheless, as a teen who is about to finally take that next step in life and apply for colleges, and the like, i've always felt really scared about it. change was different, and to me (primarily still) it's an incredibly difficult thing to wrap my head around at times. but, experiencing this game, an mc who was as equally scared as i was, take that next step, finally; inspired me to submit a college application in which i'd been holding off for for nearly a month prior, and was nearing the deadline towards. 

especially the growth of maturity spotted in MC. however you play them, you /get/ to see them grow in some way or another. from (in my case) a terribly reserved preteen who struggles with simply comprehending the subject of romance, to a still social-anxiety plagued adult, but now is brave enough to be up forward in their words, and stand for what they believe in, especially a growing relationship with cove. 

i don't wanna make this terribly long (it already is) but in short, the past two years that i've played this game, it's amazing. hard to word rationally when it is so absolutely easy to get so invested in this game emotionally. i try my best every summer to do a playthrough of the entire game, and it's one of the things i look forward most to with every passing summer. thank you, wonderful devs, for this equally amazing vn. was the first one i picked up, and is still by far my favorite <3 have a great day/night! thank u for reading haha

gosh this is so good words cannot describe how much fun i had playing through ray's story line :D i love like how subtly scary but loveable he is haha?

props to the team for this masterpiece of a project and the hard work that was done to make BSH happen! <3

THIS GAME IS AGAIN SO GOOD RAHHHHH

writing is phenomenal, voice acting is phenomenal, the art is phenomenal, the story is phenomenal, can you tell i'm going insane 

misaki and ronin r literally likE AHHHHHHHHH i love them bro 

this game made me giggle i love how silly it iss omg !! so well done :3 (especially julian he was really cool)

what the SIGMA

holy balls this was so cool and crazy and weird (in a good way) 

this reminds me of a friend i was once had. a friend where we argued so much, we never recovered from eachother. leaving them was one of the hardest desicions of my life, yet - here i am now. 

although we didn't turn out to be like auggie and winnie, i think that just goes to show how we became our own people now.

i wasn't emotionally mature enough back then to realize our differences. i thought everything was their fault - and often blamed myself for even more things. 

but, just maybe we were both our own auggies. we lacked an emotionally thoughtful mind. - 

growing from that experience know has taught me quite a bit, as much as i've taught myself.

in general this game is an amazing piece of a character on the brink of their own self-destruction, yet oblivious to it all at the same time. bravo game devs!

i don't think i've ever cried more to a game than this one. sure there are exceptions to that fact, but atleast on here i haven't. 

we as the player are firstly introduced to this boy, who i don't know the name of, but will call him boy. from the look of his room we are able to tell boy is in an overwhelming mental state, the room is lit darkly, there are clothes along his bed, etc. it sets the mood for a dark experience, but that isn't what we get. from the moment boy picks up the phone to talk to cam, we are able to see a lit candle essentially within his life, which then allows boy to pick up miscellaneous items along the room which have been kept untouched. recalling several memories, the call derives into boy, having known cam, to confide within cam in his troubles. this is the bit that i feel most stuck with me at first. every little detail of being tired, but tired of what? tired of the mere point of existence? nontheless we drive into his troubles, and upon further conversing, we learn cam isn't alive at all. boy has been talking to himself essentially, hithering every essence that was once what cam was. but gone he is, as his candle burnt out. 

this game is so honest and so well at portraying each bit of mental struggles, what grief does to the human mind, and so on. i haven't played all of the endings at this point, but i don't think i need too. already i'm crying writing this LOL but just wanted to say, phenomenal job to the makers of this piece of work. it was greatly executed and definitely derives from a personal perspective of mental struggles. 

this comment barely scratches this surface of how impactful this game really is but i hope this provided a basic understanding for those who didn't get it initally. 

ok im yapping but again great job and will b replaying later <3