Genuinely took some kind of possession of me for the past week until I beat it, could not stop thinking about it even while doing literally anything else.

It doesn't even feel particularly like this has been my "gateway drug" to visual novels or anything since I have gone through a couple other acclaimed ones, something about this one just really struck a chord somewhere.
I think a lot of it really just comes down to how well it maintains its tone, every protagonist ostensibly gets their own genre determined by their situation until they all merge in one way or another, it's a very Yakuza/Like a Dragon balance of themes and tones though mostly carried by the crime drama nature of the main mystery.

And again like Yakuza it's not satisfied letting minor characters go without getting some proper development, joke characters and villains do get legit really moving moments and it all drives home how much this game truly does believe in humanity despite their irrevocably chaotic nature.

Most of the issues really just come to the fundamental problems that come with the multiple potential timelines, it was never really a problem for me until the last chapter when it stops giving you hints and my reason getting stuck was just that one of the characters just assumed the wrong thing about someone's intentions lol. It felt pretty silly and didn't make a lot of sense but with a game that's scattered with this many potential bad endings, it kind of comes with the territory.

Feels unfortunate this seems to be one of a very scant few live-action VNs, playing this on a daily basis really did feel like I was just tuning into another episode of a really good J-drama book, thing. Maybe I do really 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 like VNs more than I thought...