If the game has a flaw, it is that its early hours require a significant amount of patience. Players expecting immediate hooks or traditional action may find the initial slice-of-life pacing a bit too sluggish. Furthermore, some of the more abstract psychological sequences in the later routes can occasionally border on the opaque, requiring the player to connect dots that the narrative intentionally leaves obscured.
If you are reading this in a dark hour of your own life β grieving, exhausted, invisible β consider this your permission to bloom. Not tomorrow morning. Not when things get better. But now, in the profound midnight of your existence. himawari wa yoru ni saku
