Photonflowers was mostly good with some stinkers, and this is pretty much the opposite, a lot of it kinda sucks but there's some good shit buried in

They REALLY liked their horny boobs in your face humor when writing Adoration and Resurrection holy shit, there is so much of this stuff, like 60% of Resurrection is just a succession of it. And just like Confessions in photonflowers, this solidified to me that the main trilogy really wasn't doing much of that, despite literally being games with H scenes

But both of them actually pick up a lot near their respective endings, Adoration lets us see what the war in Europe looks like, and the MC, Ilfriede and Luna are really likable. Resurrection has a great start, and a good finale with everything they tell around the brain, and Yuuko showing her resolve is awesome, even if the villain was pretty bad. Bit of a shame that it didn't actually talk much about what religion is like in the Alt world though, that's an interesting topic that it just decides to drop

The biggest part is Altered Fable, and I'm really iffy on it, it's mostly fun to read, but you have to make the comparison to Extra, and you realize this is pretty much just Extra but without the character development, the progressing relationships and of course the meaning Extra had in the trilogy's overall narrative. It's just some brainless fun shenanigans and that's it, and again, it IS fun, but it feels kind of underwhelming? Especially considering it also has this awesome and really touching small Christmas arc where you're in Kasumi's point of view, which is really great to see after Alternative, feels like more of it should've been this good. Btw her and Sumika absolutely carry the thing, seeing them be like sisters is absolutely adorable (that window CG where they're both here cures my soul), Meiya and Yuuhi are even more aggressive than Meiya was in Extra and I thought it got kinda weird/annoying pretty often

The beach section has this super complex web of events, and I think the godawful Munakata/Kazama one (you know the one if you've seen it) legit lowered my opinion of the whole thing lmao what even was that

And the fake endings are just really weird, I also would've had a better opinion for sure if the game didn't just pull a psych and made it fake. Also I like Chizuru and she got an awful event like wow

The overarching narrative they try to set up in this with the 24 references is really, REALLY bad, and it ends the game on a super sour note with that terrible final arc, and on bad harem antics with no resolution as no one actually wins

It's honestly better to pretend that whole overarching stuff doesn't exist and that the game just ends on your chosen heroine's final event. As much as I don't like them all that much in here, Meiya and especially, especially Yuuhi actually got really good final events. RIP Chizuru fans though