It can be a slog at times, but every R07 work is like that to be honest. Ciconia in particular is the one of the longest things he ever wrote, so it can be noticeably slow - mainly in the first half.

Ciconia introduces its entire cast simultaneously really early on, and uses the first half to give everyone at least some surface level development. For what its worth I think every character ended up being pretty likeable by the end of it, but I'd hope that the next parts of Ciconia don't introduce too many new characters. Umineko took that route and a lot of them ended up lacking anything substantial. The second half helps to flesh out some characters a little more, but its mostly concentrated in the beginning.

The second half of Ciconia is a lot more action, and I liked it significantly more. It has a large focus on geopolitics and the global situation breaking down due to tensions and "natural" disasters. If you can make it through the slow beginning, this absolutely makes it worth it.

Probably my favorite part of Ciconia was just trying to piece together the lore and history of the globe, since only some scattered hints and pieces are given throughout it. I made a map in MS paint of the various alliances while I read to try to comprehend it a little better, and it honestly made the first half a lot more enjoyable for me.

Ciconia is also home to some of the best written scenes in the entire WTC series. Ciconia's ending is legitimately the best thing he has ever written and its not even close. It has the perfect combination of aesthetics, music, contrast, etc that it's impossible to put into words how great it is. There's a bunch of other fantastic scenes as well, such as the meat factory and restoring the planet's dignity, but the ending definitely takes the cake. I would argue Ciconia is worth reading for these scenes alone. The ending is a cliffhanger too, adding a lot more to its mysteries and opening up a ton more questions.

Upon finishing Ciconia, a bunch of bonus scenes are unlocked that are essentially slice of life scenes for the primary 6 characters. It's small but it honestly does a lot to make me like the main cast. Definitely worth reading, as it genuinely contains the most fun scenes in Ciconia.

Overall I think Ciconia set a great precedent despite it's slow start. I'd love to read the next chapter of it when he decides to finish it in a million years.

It essentially has the same exact gameplay loop as fnaf 2, but the fact that it's all audio cues makes it a lot more annoying to play since you need to focus more. I need to give it credit for at least being more reactive than 2, but at the end of the day you're still basically doing the exact same gameplay loop for 6 minutes again. I'd argue that the Fredbear sections are the most interesting since at least it has probably the most reactive gameplay. The cutscenes/minigames aren't as good as 3 either. Plushtrap is a stupid mechanic too. This game is honestly saved the most by having only a 6 minute timer, if it was as long as fnaf 1 or 2 then it'd easily be the worst.

It's alright. The voice acting is really good and the artstyle is cute + maintains Ryukishi's good expressions (which is definitely the best part of his own art). Aside from that though it's pretty unimpressive. The dichotomy of cutting between SoL scenes and people being executed is funny but it wears thin after the first 4 or 5 times (the game seems self aware of this, since it stops after around 6 or so). The character's motivations for hating each other are retarded and none of them are particularly great. Some of the lines are really funny though.

The anime version of this arc was really brutalized, the original VN version is significantly better. This is easily one of the slowest question arc though, and I think the SOL scenes are just alright considering how long they last here. I'd say the point where they start investigating Rika's house is where this arc gets really good, but until then it's definitely sluggish (though I still liked it). This is one of Keiichi's dumbest arcs as well, but I give him some leeway. The phonecall with Shion towards the end is the first really great WTC scene, imo, and it stays pretty strong throughout the rest of it. The ending is really interesting for theorizing if you know nothing about the series yet.