I can see why some people consider this visual novel as a masterpiece, and I kind of agree that it has a really well crafted narrative structure, but I could also see some flaws on it that didn't allow me to fully enjoy it.

First (and the most obvious one I'd say), the immense amount of gruesome nsfw scenes that were threatening to take me out of the story in some of the chapters. Using topics like rape and bullying as character development feels kinda cheap to me.

Second, the philosophical facts. The story acquires a lot of depth due to referencing and entwinning multiple philosophical works which I admire and enjoyed finding out, but at the same time it feels like sometimes there's too much philosophical 'gibberish' that isn't really fully justified by the story, as if the author was sometimes dropping some random facts that are completely unrelated using the story as excuse (it's only my impression only the author knows about its real meaning).

Third, the End Sky II ending and the final dialogue. I truly liked that the full narrative of this visual novel is very open to different interpretations in both structure and philosophical meaning and this ending killed that mysterious vibe for me a bit. In my opinion, it wasn't fully necessary in this case to end up explaining the structure of the chapters and the general picture so much to the reader. I'm more a fan of letting people figure out things by themselves, which the final dialogue tries to do but ends up over-explaining too many things.

Besides these points, I think it can be an enjoyable visual novel for some people and I would agree with who labels it as a classic in its sub-genre (denpa?), but I fail to see how this work is better than some other visual novels I've read before that explore similar subjects. Writing is important when creating visual novels, not only the story structure, and I think this novel focuses too much on the latter and neglects the writing quite a lot.

jabberwocky 1 singlehandedly made me drop this for about a year. from the beginning to looking glass insects i really enjoyed this - it's so controversial and taboo, but it all feels exceptionally interesting and beautiful to me. a total paranoid psychosexual surrender that's really rare. i fond its unsubtle, and kinda clunky, references to foundational philosophy and literature super charming too; i actually read cyrano de bergerac midway through playing this. it creates this strange conversation between the player and the characters - i love getting book recommendations from anime boys. but with the climactic focus of its "true" protagonist i found myself exceptionally disappointed. i get it, you have to explain your central premise/mystery at some point, but like, i already (at least in my mind) understood it - and i didn't even like the way the game seemed to explain itself. i think in some ways its physics may be "bigger" than i'm giving it credit, but i just feel like it whittled itself into something so dry, so boring, and so rejecting of the ambiguity it had built up to that point. plus the "choose your own ending" idea just kinda feels like a lazy way to avoid having to fully deny its ambiguity by declaring a "true" reality. even unreality has to be realized; if every ending is real and none of them are real, make it feel that way. and all this is in service of the most banal, cliche quotev adjacent optimism. the conclusive messaging of this game is actually offensive to me in how dull and empty it is following the story. for something so set up as subversive, unrestricted, corrupted, and forward-thinking a straightforward "living is good, actually" felt like such a slap in the face. i honestly would have preferred it telling me to end everything