my inclination when faced with writing about this thing is to shovel hyperlinks of images, gifs, and cutscenes into a giant mound and call it a day. I can't think of a more brevitous or appropriate solution to the impossible problem of translating its astonishing presentation into words, and if that doesn't convince folks nothing will. they are men and women of unflinching granite; golems or homunculi or some unfeeling other. it is not my problem if they remain unphased by true beauty, they can blame themselves or god

in a medium where Best Looking discussions often come down to how many pores you can see on a gruff white dude's nose or how many subdermal triangles he has beneath it, this shit is transcendent; one of those reminders like okami or killer7 that going for SSS style ranks is what it's all about. I don't care about horse testicles shrinking in cold weather, I don't care about HairWorks, I don't care about RTX bullshit — I want this

I want goofy minigames, I want somber paintings, I want cute chibi spritework, and seedy VHS filters. this thing looks amazing, and not a single menu, loading screen, animation, or scene transition shows its face without some unique detail or stylistic divergence. there are AMV interludes, buddy — everyone else needs to pack it up and hit the showers, it's OVER

rarely are visuals this striking leveraged with this much grace and consideration; rarely do aesthetics slither and shapeshift so confidently in aid of such varied goals and tones. that it looks incredible is one thing, but that it's elevated so substantially by its employment is another thing entirely. it takes great pains to bring a work that's equal parts German Folk Horror, Lesbian Dating Sim, Resource Management Plate Spinner, and RPG Maker Adventure to life, and it does so to fabulous results

a fable of desire and longing fittingly made as sumptuous as possible