This Kinetic novel was quite the experience. As stated in the game's description, the creators went for a more cinematic presentation, and boy does it show! With loads of event CGs, sprites with many expressions and poses, blinking eyes, voice acting (complete with lipsync), you'll almost forget this is a digital novel and feel like you're watching an anime unfold! The plot in itself is intriguing, but the whole end of the world thing by the second half serves more of a backdrop, and the focus is really on our two mains, Sion and Ryou. And really, the characters are what is this VN's strong point. You will become attached to them, become emotionally invested, witness what I feel was fairly good character development, and overall pray for a happy ending despite the circumstance. I certainly cried several times throughout this VN, it's that beautifully orchestrated. Now of course it's not a perfect story, by all means, and I did have some minor problems with it. Some may find trouble getting through some of the slower paced points (though I personally didn't mind), I also found one particular character that shows up later unneeded in the beginning but came to like her and found she did serve a purpose. And the ending I have mixed feelings about, namely as I had an idea of how I think it could've ended and the way it ended has me half thinking how beautiful, bittersweet, and well orchestrated it was, to also feeling left a little wanting and thinking of an alternative way it could've ended. Regardless though, I enjoyed the entire story, albeit it very emotional, and aside from shedding tears, you'll also feel rather warm too.
