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Done with Golden Hour. Really feels like a lot of wasted potential.

The "not true route" routes are mostly pointless and full of holes.
-Blondie: Why did you have to go through a lot of "the same" twice? If it's in the route, the main-arc doesn't need it. I wasn't a fan of this arc in general either.
-Idol: Why prepare a rival who "warns" about certain things, but the route pretty much doesn't use it at all? The girl is even dissed and considered officially unimportant later on, so I guess this route was added last minute...
-Ex: I really liked her, but there was so much missing, like the development to her new self and some details of how she took the year the protag was in Europe and whatnot. Also 80% of the route is literally "nobody talks with each other".
-Natsumi: She lacks a character, and her route isn't really about her either.

The true route is a little longer and, funny enough, features less ero than the other routes as well. Yep, true heroine has the least hcg of all main heroines, 9 instead of 12 to be exact. It also gives Natsumi more of a character, which is probably too late, unless you want to play her route later for whatever reason. But yeah, this was the most fleshed out, and yet it still wasted time with stuff just to throw it away later on and felt lacking in a couple of ways.
One letdown was the ending. Yuki lacks a character. If it had progressed the other way around, the protag could've become a pro player again and dedicate a goal to her in the epilogue. That way the whole "started to play soccer again" thing would've had some use as well. Or if she had an actual life outside of the protag, and the music part of her would've been a little more fleshed out, one could've used that to show, she does something great with her life and she does well.
There was nothing. So it didn't feel emotional. Honestly, for how great the cast was in some ways, the story makes this whole thing quite forgettable. Though that's in part because the main things have definitely been done better in other VNs.

Finally, the technical side. Zooms in on sprites and shit so much that it looks ugly as fuck. Hope you enjoy all the kiss scenes.
Very limited OST and weirdly used at times. Happy music when Natsuki sold her soul? Really?
Random sprite errors. I had a Yuki hanging in the air behind Natsuki once for a second, clothes random change back and forth and other.. interesting things.
Voice repeat function cuts voice instead of repeating.
Killed my gpu driver once every 2 hours or so. (which recovers automatically, but still.. wtf)