(played with OCR & my rudimentary knowledge of japanese making up for some of its mistakes. only enough to get one ending so with all of that consider this more of a skimming than anything)

this thing absolutely wallows in its own darkness (affectionate-ish). with the dark, hazy blues, greens, oranges it overlays on its backgrounds, the grainy shading on the wonderful character art, it feels like stumbling across some decades-old small town story only told through whispers and tabloids. Maybe it was just the OCR, but nagase describes a character as having "lagoon eyes" and that always sticks in my head. The game has a bit of, tonal confusion? It wants to be a dark and foreboding mystery but the mystery isn't too involved and its mostly just h scenes if you look past that. Tsukishima is definitely the standout character. She is the true blueprint for "visual novel weird girl who hangs out on roofs". luv her
also helping is that the music (esp. her theme!) BANGS. I hear theres a version with voice acting but I didnt find that out until I was 2 hours in and honestly if it doesnt have the swamp-filter over the art or the music I dont want it