The journey of an obsession that spun a decade, for both readers and the characters, ends here. This has an absolutely gorgeous watercolor-and-pencil art style, the best music in the trilogy and incredible payoffs. Actually more emotional than most of the first two games, with crazy parallels and thematic elements for the entire series. One of the most satisfying endings in the medium. For me, this is definitely the best KnS entry, despite some irrelevant investigations in the middle 40-50% and some odd follow-ups to some previous subplots (some things, like Masaki's and Yukari's storylines just get dropped and the Cartagra connections sort of become pointless??).

I also like how "pornless", for the lack of a better word, it is despite occasional sex scenes. They're more movie-like though. It is basically a "non-H eroge". There's no sign of how "porny" KnS2 or especially Cartagra and KnS1 felt.

It feels insane to be done with the main content of the final entry of this story, and with KnS3 as my first lengthy plotge VN in Japanese. I read for hours a day for nearly two months, but it was all worth it.

I gasped and started crying when the true end happened.

That aside though... I will be taking a break because for some reason, they decided to put additional side endings not before, but after the true endings. What an odd structure.