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Finished 天使の羽根を踏まないでっ. Frankly put many parts were in my opinion really boring and I considered dropping the game on few occasions. Sun school and its main drama were kind of crap, with convenient literal deus ex machina solutions, though I can understand that the Sun school part was intentionally supposed to be different from the rest. I just wonder why they decided to show scenes' from the villains' perspective, watering down any sort of mystery and tension it could have had.

Moon school wasn't that interesting from the get-go either and especially Tsumire being a massive retard and her group's students enduring daily extreme bullying and even rape felt extremely contrived. Despite this in my opinion the game never went to the proper extent of making the 三竦み war actually grimdark or even a high-stakes situation since no one dies. Ayame spending much of the common part getting footjobbed rather than doing anything meaningful served to lower the tension even more. Made the rapey parts feel like just a flimsy excuse of throwing in more H-scenes (though the bullying did eventually serve a plot point in Toro's magic). Considering the moon school part was supposed to be entirely different I kind of wished Shumon would've just ditched the lighter parts and instead gone all the way with constant action, since I loved shit like the descriptions of the magic or nomad fighting style. Ikoi's route was really abrupt, and even though it had some further foreshadowing for the scales thing I'd recommend people to just skip it since apparently playing it isn't one of the true route unlock requirements, and Hanene's route has roughly the same events, plot reveals plus more.

Hanene and true route redeemed the game for me, and especially the latter got proper goosebumbs out of me even though some parts felt a bit too cliche, and the plot developments the true route had were crammed into the very, very end. While there was no actual cliffhanger or anything like that, the game could easily use a sequel considering how it ended with both magic and miracles being released upon the world and the implication of other angels realizing God is dead. I don't think they really explained why Metatron was able to become God in the first place either.

Also a pet peeve, but I think it would've been better if Sora was actually a boy so the cutie protagonist had an excuse to take it up the ass. In general I don't understand why they decided to have Ayame actively voiced in H-scenes, but apart from maybe two HCG that don't even have insertion involved pretty much none of them show his face or otherwise hide it like is the case with most eroge. Music was a mix of tracks that I got sick of hearing a long time ago and also some good ones as well. Overall it wasn't that bad in the end, though definitely much weaker than Asairo or Itsusora.