Kanon
Time period covered: The last ~3 weeks of January 1999
More decent comedy/romance/slice-of-life seen from the perspective of the new guy in town--or at least the guy who hasn't been to the town since a dimly remembered childhood.
Too damn cute: characters with trademark whines like "uguu~" or "auu~".
I enjoy it quite a bit, but
Bad points:
- Deus ex machina endings
- Text skip mode is nice and FAST, but too nondiscriminatory. I liked that the equivalent in Katawa Shoujo had the option to stop skipping when new text was reached. Â So if you're playing and taking different choices here, you might accidentally skip over something new while trying to quickly get past the old.
- Main character Yuichi gets TOO DEEP into romance too quick. Â The story doesn't give a lot of time, but it's pretty awkward when after knowing someone for, say, a week's worth of afternoons he's ready to say he wants to spend his entire life with them.
My order of route completion: Mai, Shiori, Ayu, Makoto, Nayuki