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>>21508872
Are you talking about Requiem or Fata? I haven't played Requiem, as Fata was a disappointment for me. It could be that Requiem is an excellent VN for all I know, though I wouldn't bet on it.

Fata Morgana has some excellent ideas, almost always related to metatextual plays with the UI. By instance, the fourth story is a lie, and you can only discover it is a lie by using the textscroll history, which is heavily corrupted and contain the thoughts of both the MC and the witch. It is fascinating. Or a decision is time-dependent (as in, you must take the decision in one second), or it locks you into a bad end.

Those are some very interesting ideas, especially the fourth story.

Unfortunately, narratively speaking, Fata Morgana is subpar. Most reveals are painfully obvious, many characters are weak, it can be absurdly slow-paced, the prose isn't particularly good (but then it's a translation), and the historical setting (France, etc) is simply left unused. Its meta nature, when the VN doesn't use the interface in bizarre way, is very poor.