woah. ok, first off, FUCKING amazing. I went through Vin's route, though, so i haven't seen the rest yet. (its not a kink, okay wanted to see what would happen. and, oh BOY did shit go down) What I really liked abt this was that it's not like, just focused on one respective field. It's not just a "romance", or just a decision-based game, or anything like that. It's all of them put together into a beautifully crafted abomination (pun intended, iykyk) that I could never regret playing. It's very complex, actually, and things are rarely ever set in stone, particularly regarding relationships. or maybe that's just vin and crux, honestly, idk. the morality is also OVERWHELMINGLY questionable, not in a bad or good way (pun not intended this time, i swear) You're unsure who to trust at all.
MASSIVE Spoilers incoming, so don't read this if you haven't played yet. It'll ruin everything.
Vin, for example, who is pretty much the obvious scapegoat for this. At first, (if you enter his route) you are literally a fucking pet he can do with as he pleases, or that's what it seems like, and it carries on into the first... "date", if you can call it that. it's like he's trying to get to "know" you, but in the extremes. no small talk. no favorite color. just straight for the jugular (pun only half-intended.) i feel, if he were to speak of it, he would definitely romanticize it somehow. that everyone dresses it up and shit, and he doesn't care enough to be polite, for his own eldritch reasons. but despite this, he still seems to care about you, eventually, in his own weird way??? idk how to put it. you can't tell. or, yk, maybe i'm just stupid. but all throughout, he tends to maintain some sense of humanity??? very lowerd standard here, but he's not just an antagonist. he wants comfort, he comforted you, when he caused your trauma... i don't know.
so , yeah, definitely an eccentric character, and that's only one. he's the only route i've done so far, and i still haven't even finished.
I love the complexity of each and every one though. Crux is, well, a whole other lane, and Black seems like the most constant straightman.
TL;DR AMAZING GAME. very realistic, despite a lot of fantastical properties. There's a mix of relationship, duty, morality, and mortality that makes every choice bleed into the other fields. really liked it, if that's not obvious already. It's definitely more questions than answers at the end, but that's to be expected.
so yeah around 2 hours from now, give or take??