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Okay, finally done with Olympia Soiree.
Long ass game, 35-40 hours. That said, it was a mostly great game, extremely focused on developing its plot and setting over romance and other things (the level of romantic development varies from route to route depending on how tied it's to the plot of said route).
The game is basically split in two, the first four routes are overall world building and developing different aspects of the setting while the later two are more focused on the actual "plot" of the game.
If there's something I can give to the writing of this game, it's that it bothers to be nuanced. It's so easy to write stories like this in a really black and white fashion, but in this game the writing actually makes you understand that the values of the characters in it are actually different, by necessity, so some of the more fucked up stuff that happens in it has to be that way, at least to a degree. As in, they don't agree with death penalty for X sin but they agree that there needs to be some kind of punishment because of colors, same with the caste system, which most people don't agree with but its existence is justified by almost everyone in the game.
That kind of writing also extends to the actual cast, since the villains of one route get expanded on and explored from a different angle in others (most of them at least), so everyone is at least grey, even if really fucking dark at times.
Route wise, I actually enjoyed all routes barring Tokisada's because I think the author couldn't manage to write a more political/rebellion focused thing and it falls kinda flat. His individual scenes with the MC and the ones about god are still great though.
Favourite LI was Yosuga surprisingly, his route had actually a lot of meat to it and was romantic and interesting from the beginning to the end. Didn't think I'd even like him.
Biggest disappointment was probably Akaza's. The route is still good, but it's good IN SPITE of him, he's basically a prop in it, he's not particularly interesting or fun and his interactions with the MC are so dull the writer amps her tsundere act a lot to make something entertaining about it.
So route wise my enjoyment goes Himuka>Yosuga>Akaza>Rikuu>Kuroba>Tokisada
And LI Yosuga>Himuka>Kuroba>Rikuu>Akaza>Tokisada
Himuka's route has a ton of plot and it's actually really interesting to read since a lot of stuff falls into place and it's my favourite one since, while Akaza is the main end, his route could have been done by literally any other character and the resolution is super handwaved a completely justified deus ex machina, but still
All in all, great game but it had some issues I'm knda willing to overlook because getting a setting developed so thoroughly is always a treat.